I drive a stick-shift in a city and it's not so bad. You get used to it.

While I do like manual transmission cars, the one I own now is probably the last one I'll own because I expect my next car will be an EV. Or even if it's internal combustion, it's likely going to be hard/impossible to find one with a manual transmission.

The time change is the biggest problem. But being offset from the Sun by an hour is still a problem.

For properly-drawn time zones, you'd only be offset from the Sun by +/- 30 minutes either way, not by a whole hour or 90 minutes.

All the evidence suggests that it's better for our health to stay on Standard Time rather than Daylight Saving time, and sleep experts agree.

But I guess scientific evidence hasn't meant anything to politicians for quite some time now.

Paint the walls yellow, put down yellow carpeting, and fill the place with flickering, humming fluorescent lights. Nobody will venture through.

While I understand that Cuba is currently under the thumb of an oppressive communist dictatorship, it seems to me the USA is unnecessarily picking on it, seeing as it doesn't pick on equally despicable dictatorships (Saudi Arabia; China) that are just as bad as Cuba but more powerful.

I guess when Trump needs a distraction from Iran, he'll do a special military operation against Cuba.

Meta also materially contributed to a genocide in Myanmar, though. And the other damage it has done to society in terms of promoting conspiracy theories and divisiveness, not to mention damaging democracy via schemes like the Cambridge Analytica one has yet to be tallied.

"A sanction of that size has no analog in the history of consumer protection enforcement,"

The incredible harms done worldwide by Meta's business model also have no analog in the history of shitty company behavior. Next up: Go after their copycats like TikTok and other toxic social media platforms.

Great, so we're going to consume 71% of an Edmonton in electricity to create... 300 long-term jobs as reported in the Globe and Mail (Which is BS anyway; I bet there will be around 100 people needed long-term for the data centre.)

What I'd be interested in seeing is the tax breaks and bribes the government will be expected to give Meta to build the DC there. I suspect it'll be like FIFA: Lots of splash and drama and a net negative in terms of revenue for Canada.

Er zit altijd wel een Nederlander in de reacties, toch?

Woah, cool. I think Japanese would intimidate me because it's so different from Indo-European languages. Same with Tagalog.

My native language is English, and because I live in Canada, I took French all the way through to first year university. In the last couple of years, I've started learning Dutch. Dutch is not a particularly useful language because it only has about 25-30M speakers, but I love The Netherlands and its culture.

Only problem is, Dutch is starting to push some French words out of my head!

Just pass a "net 1kg/year" rule.

Seems like we're circling back to The Feeling of Power.

Late to the party, but Not Just Bikes has a great video on this topic.

If there are no ads, how do you pay for it?

Not my problem. If people aren't willing to pay subscription fees, then that's fine; social media platforms can die off.

I would note that Mastodon follows all of my suggestions except the subscription fee part, and it seems to be doing OK.