Will you fuck off with this shit?

You car fuckers impose your stupid driving-only life on more or less the entire country, then pretend everyone in America likes it that way, despite the fact most Americans who have visited Europe or NYC (thus experiencing a real city) suddenly realize how great walkable cities are, and then you have the audacity to pretend those arguing in favor of building more walkable cities are somehow forcing you to sell your home and live in city.

No, you can continue to live in your bland personalityless suburban HOA home for as long as you want. You can shag your car's exhaust pipe every morning, we don't care. You can pretend you live in the "Country" because there's a few fields of cows between your ugly neighborhood and the office where you work. Knock yourself out.

We just want to be able to live in a real city, rather than that. Because we don't like it. Nobody sane who's lived in a real city does.

Motorola's are inexpensive, have very few changes to Android, and most still come with headphone jacks.

No, but those cities are at least car centric, so it'll be less of a problem.

Waymo's cars were infamous in SF, which is mixed use for the most part. In one notorious incident, it drove through a street party only for the people who had been having a great time until Waymo's fucked up car decided to plow through it promptly smashed the car to pieces. The people who design these things are unable to comprehend the concept of cities and communities not built exclusively around cars.

The three cities mentioned are, however, built exclusively around cars (well, downtown Detroit is its own thing, but unlikely to attract a lot of traffic anyway, and people generally don't live there.) So it won't be a problem.

> Copium in spades, for not being able to get a driver's license (or maybe have the money to afford a car?). I bet you a chunk of cash you actually could afford one, but it's your fear of actually becoming independent on the bus (or some other equally poor*** dependent transit means) that renders you disabled to operate as a Western adult in a real sense.

What the fuck is wrong with you car nuts?

I've lived in both the UK and US. The UK is nicer to live in, period, because you don't have to drive everywhere. For people who don't have their penis semi-permanently fucking their exhaust pipe as they fantasize about the Porsche they'll afford one day, driving fucking sucks. It's minutes and sometimes hours of having to focus on moving a huge metal object between two white lines without killing anyone. It's boring, it's uncomfortable, it's just shitty in every way possible.

My experience is also most Americans, having visited the UK - or even New York City - and ridden on buses and trains, come back to the US feeling the same way.

What is it about you carfuckers that makes you think everyone is like you?

Why do business schedules need to change with the season? And wouldn't it depend on the business anyway?

I'm curious to know what businesses you're even thinking of. I know farmers hate the time changes. I know office workers hate the time changes. I can't think of any reason a factory would need to open earlier during the warmer months than the colder months.

Who actually wants it?

(Also I can't believe I agree with TFG about something. Urgh. I need to shower.)

...this seems like flawed proof. A 27" screen seems a tad small. True, 25" TVs were popular in living rooms in the CRT era, but LCDs generally start in the high forties for a living room (and are priced well below what that 25" TV used to cost.)

And programme makers are generally taking advantage of the large sizes too. It's blindingly obvious watching HD content from the 2000s when it was designed to be simulcast in 4:3 for legacy TVs and watching TV even from the following decade that they've changed the way they frame shots, include smaller subjects, etc.

Do I think 2K is high enough? Probably! My 50" Plasma is a 720P and I'm not seeing any improvement in quality when I visit Best Buy. But it needs to be proven with normal TV standards.

No it doesn't. It disconnects at random, and autoplay still happens even if you disable it in both Android Auto and whatever app you use to play music and in the bluetooth settings. Yeah, three fucking settings for autoplay, and all of them are ignored, and the first thing that happens when you turn your car on is something you didn't ask for starts blaring out the fucking speaker.

I'm done with Android Auto for anything but GPS. It's shit, the programmers behind it are morons, it's yet another case of Google ramming their shit preferences down everyone else's throat.

Good luck to GM, hope you can make yours work at least.

> There has been no study that the current rule does anything. They just made it up. For all we know, the current rule CAUSES more accidents than it prevents. This is not medically tested science, but just someone that said '4 paces', and then later clarified that to mean 3 meters/10 ft.

Then why does the rule exist? You think someone just came up with an arbitrary rule for no reason?

Reminder: virtually all safety regulations are WRITTEN IN BLOOD. Ignore them, and you'll die in the comfort of your own plastic submarine. And good riddance to you, but it's a shame you inevitably crush to death innocents with you.

Or just idiots, there's quite an overlap.

Musk becoming so prominent and popular and insisting on not shutting up about anything had one positive benefit: we saw that the establishment in this country is largely made up of rich psychopaths who neither care about the impact of their policies on normal people, nor understand the impact or even understand how self defeating it ultimately is. And often are just nasty not because they think it's necessary or helpful, but because they can, and they get pleasure out of making other people's lives a misery.

Oh sure, we all suspected, but Musk spoke the quiet part out loud. And he crapped on various groups in public until inevitably he crapped on one you or I was a member of, and we saw what a load of bullshit it all was.

If we survive the next few years and ever get a government that cares about people in again, even to the ludicrously low level that Democrats did (hey, at least they made a half-assed attempt to get us all healthcare), one of the first things on the priority list has to be strengthening the rights of employees and reforming how much businesses prioritize profit compared to their employees and customers. The focus, profit wise, should be on long term sustainability, not on shareholders.

> I mostly use F-Droid on Android, not Google Play. It just works, apps have permissions that are easy to control, and other than sometimes saying an app is too old for my version of Android, it all just works.

So you're actually using an even more complex set up than "The way Android does it". But it still doesn't appear to have any obvious advantages. Apt "just works", it was the original "Just works". So is Flatpak and Snap.

> On Windows I mostly use winget for apps, again few issues with compatibility.

Again this isn't Windows you're using, but an app you're installing under Windows that seems to work for you. And that's great, but it's not exactly a ringing endorsement of "The way Windows does it" that you have to install a third party application 99% of Windows users have never heard of to make installing third party applications work.

> On Linux I often find that software from repos is broken and flatpaks don't work. A lot of stuff comes as a Docker container now, but those can be hit and miss as well. The Docker Compose configuration file format seems to be designed to cause maximum pain and suffering.

That's a lot of vague stuff, and Docker isn't really what we're talking about here as that's not for desktop applications. But let's be honest: if it's broken in a Flatpak, that's on the app creator, it has nothing to do with whether GNU/Linux's package management is good or not. I've lost count of the amount of stuff I've tried to install under Windows and had problems with. Hell, I've installed games from Steam and they haven't worked (and have worked fine under GNU/Linux's version of Steam, go figure...) Applications are sometimes broken.

In the end, if we're looking at what comes with the operating system (neither F-Droid nor winget do, and the former is something Google ultimately wants to cripple), the mainstream Linuxes are far and a way better in terms of finding a decent compromise between security and availability.

> I tend to agree, the way Android and Windows do it are both superior.

OK, let's examine this and tell me why you think they're superior.

Android: You have to install via the Play Store. You kinda have an option of installing directly, but Google is doing everything they can to make that hard and they're even implementing infrastructure that bans you from installing software where the devs haven't conformed to Google's T&C's. The Play Store is vetted primarily for software that might bypass Google's payment systems, not for security issues. So you have to install only what Google allows you to install, it may be insecure, and the aim is maximum profit for Google. And this is good because...?

Windows: You have two choices. You can install via the Windows Store, where there is some vetting, or you can install directly, where there's none. People are actively encouraged to install via the second means despite it being completely insecure, involving downloading binaries from a third party website. For most people, both options are "too hard" and a sizable proportion of the population needs the help of "nerds" to actually, say, install a word processor that isn't Word. This is good because...?

GNU/Linux: Most GNU/Linuxes divide software into three types:

• Software directly supported by the operating system vendor, who uses apt or RPM or a similar package management system to install it. A GUI is usually provided for newcomers though very often the software is pre-installed. Install a Debian desktop for example and you'll get LibreOffice, Firefox, and so on pre-installed.
• Desktop software that isn't directly supported by the vendor is available via Flatpaks or, in Ubunu's case, snaps. The end user can install them from a GUI, and both include a central registry of applications. You can run both if you want, or one or the other. In both cases because the OS vendor can't speak for the security of the applications concerned, they're run in sandboxes with only partial access to your system.
• Third party software can also be downloaded in various packaging formats and directly installed, just like Windows, but unlike Windows, you're strongly discouraged from doing this. Except by the idiots who wrote Rust who think curl h t tp: // h4x0r. ru/0wnm3.sh | sudo curl is a fine way to install things. But that's a Rust problem, not a GNU/Linux issue

So... first party software that's been vetted can be easily installed in an efficient way, third party software that hasn't been vetted can be installed in a slightly inefficient way, and you can always bypass both if you know what you're doing.

But you think Android is better? Really?

Even pretending Google is a good company these days (spoiler: they're one of the most rotten corporations in America right now), that makes no sense.

The left didn't "deliberately" conflate anything. They legitimately saw the two as being the same, because in Britain it was an open secret that the Nuclear power program was more about generating materials for nuclear weapons than it was a good faith power generation scheme. Harwell and Sellafield/Windscale were specifically built for Britain's atomic bomb project. That's what funded it. They were built to provide nuclear weapon materials.

The environmental left though was also very bothered about it given Britain had had its own mini-Chernobyl and were pretty bothered by the risks as a result.

The Americans don't see nuclear power in the same terms because most nuclear power plants are private entities created by power companies, not the military built on what were at the time airforce bases.

Given the context, you can't really blame Brits for being suspicious.

I don't recall Maggie saying anything about global warming. In the 1980s it was still uncommon to hear much about AGW.

Thatcher's big environmental thing was the ozone layer. That was a significant event she was able to rally the world to fight. Not a fan of the woman, but she got it right that time.

I think if you look at his wider point, it's not stupid at all. Currently, as has happened before, Republicans run all three branches. Republicans have run SCOTUS for as long as I remember, but the majority wasn't high enough to pull off the extremism that the current bunch are involved in. Republicans have had the Presidency for most of the last 24 years. The Senate and House have flipped a lot, but in both cases Republicans have had majorities most of the last 24 years.

And when libs HAVE had majorities good enough to pass legislation, which, from memory, was two years at the beginning of the Obama administration, they spent their time performing the evil, evil, agenda of *checks notes* trying to get everyone to have healthcare coverage. Which they did badly, that's fair, but they were, also be fair, trying to get the Republicans on board by passing the Republicans own health plan, which gives you some idea of how far the overton window has shifted to the right.

Yet somehow those dastardly libs are responsible for everything that goes wrong and are somehow promoting global warming to... make money? Meanwhile Trump is openly taking bribes for everything and his staff running companies profiting from his own policies without anyone making these claims about dastardly libs being unhappy about it.

But that's the Republican way. Do things, and pretend the opposition is the one doing them. See also: Pedophilia.

When has that worked before?

After Gulf War II, gas prices have hovered around $4/gallon pretty much consistently except immediately after the 2008 recession started, and during the height of COVID. Did this significantly reduce gas usage compared to, say, the 1990s where gas rarely went over a dollar and change?

No, it didn't. People have not switched to more energy efficient cars, indeed, they've gotten bigger and less fuel efficient. Compare a pick-up truck, which was still an uncommon vehicle to buy in the early 2000s with one today, and you'll see the latter is bigger, heavier, and more fuel thirsty. Sedans continue to take a back seat to increasingly absurdly sized SUVs. The latter have gotten so big that the base Explorer now has as much interior space as an average mini-van despite being the "small" SUV in Ford's line.

What good is pricing coal power at a higher rate going to have, leaving aside the fact coal is inherently (directly) cheaper than the alternatives, so requiring a huge tax levy to make more expensive than, say, natural gas? Nobody will change their habits, not even in this economy.