Actually, Canada is a leader in high speed rail studies.

I can’t tell for BlueSky because I have not joined yet, but I did create a Mastodon account months ago and I’m not sure what to do with it or how to interact with others. I find it confusing.

On Twitter I was mostly following a bunch of like minded people, liking their stuff, and I could see what they liked too. But on Mastodon there’s uuh, boosts and favorites?! I’m not sure of how it works or what I’m doing. I can’t just “like” posts? I have to boost them?! I found the people I liked that were on Twitter, but on Mastodon I feel like there’s nothing I can do aside from seeing posts and it’s just not attractive.

I can’t stand ads. It’s even worse on TV when they yell them at you. So I actually stopped watching TV in 2009 because I couldn’t stop the ads, and I was tired to have the TV trying to convince me to buy a car every 15 minutes.

If I want to watch something that was on TV, I download it from… * the internet *.

My parents still watch TV and just let the ads blast in the background, and we need to yell over them to talk. I hate it. Then they’re like “oh it’s just like in the ad”. I don’t know how they can tolerate this. I did when I was younger but when I realized that the TV was trying to sell me twice a car in 15 minutes, or about 8 times an hour, I couldn’t help but notice and it’s just really annoying.

It’s obviously not “full self driving” because I don’t have a driving license and cannot use a Tesla to drive me where I need to go. Same for people that can’t drive, like the blind.

If they were truly autonomous cars, people wouldn’t need a driving license to use FSD.

I’m not American and will do the same. The amount of artificial and inflated drama is just unbearable. Not for another four years.

“Trump said this unacceptable thing!!!1!” followed by a few days of outrage, nothing changes, then he says another stupider shit a few days layer and the cycle continues.

In a way I’m sure the media are very happy for that Trump win. They’re gonna have some drama every fucking day.

Then you can stay on forums that needs to be refreshed, or uuuh… isn’t there a proprietary IRC like thing for young people, something like Disco? Or Discom. Or Discord? Apparently it’s much like IRC but without the freedom.

I use TheLounge which saves and display history for me.

Convos also does that.

I am still on IRC, have my own server, and use TheLounge as a client. We can paste mp3s, mp4s and images on the channels. It just works fine for us.

What? It’s hard to hear anything with all that noise.

IRC still exists. There’s nothing stopping anyone from joining a server and a few channels.

Nice tool to help oppress minorities. They’ll be faster on the scene to help fellow officers strangle an innocent person, or kill one of the 10 000 dogs they kill every year. Dangerous weed dealers have no chance!

I’ve been burned once. You open up to someone that says they want to help but then you learn that they use Windows and “don’t care about which OS people use”.

Meanwhile I’ve always been the one that takes the smallest possible meal at McDonald’s, and would think that 5 nuggets with fries and drinks is just enough. In fact I hate going to restaurants in general because portions are always much too big for me. I can’t usually take doggy bags, and I feel like I’m wasting most of what I’m served. I can’t recall even finishing a plate in a (real) restaurant; there’s always too much. I’m always like “oh it was really tasty but I can’t eat much more!”

Why do you see it as targeting Trump voters? I’m in Canada and we also have people driving giant SUVs in McMansions whining about gas and energy prices. It’s fair and legitimate to bitch about the price of food, however it’s also easy to see that the average North American car is now more like a tank, and that people whining about gas prices don’t seem to be able to look into a mirror.

Yes, most of the people owning monster trucks will also vote Conservative here, or for a conservative party, I guess it’s a political statement on its own. But it’s also very easy to find liberals (as in neo-liberals, not “the left”) with gas guzzlers bitch about gas prices.

Am I getting this right? People protest against their regional politicians and managers because a flash flood warning was not issued soon enough?

Let those people resign. I am sure that the next ones on charge will be better at issuing warning for flash floods. Advanced warnings… that’s the solution to making sure people are safe from extreme weather and climate change events. If we get warned enough in advance the floods will be fine.

I understand they are angry but it seems weird to me to blame the people in charge for failing to warn sufficiently in advance about flash floods, instead blaming them for doing nothing about climate change.

Or 71 stone.

No it’s not. Not in my country. Here it’s independent courriers like “Apple Express”. Last time it was something called “eMile”.

The regular post has access to my mailbox, knocks on my door for bigger packages, and leaves notes asking me to go get it at the post office if I’m not home. This is what happens with eBay. But every time I ordered from AliExpress, it was sent by some random “logistics company” and my packages end up “delivered” in places where I can’t find them,. It’s absolutely not the regular post for what I have ordered from them in the past.

Fuck off with your assumptions! You seem to think I’m blaming ThE ChiNeSE HaLF a WoRLd AwAy. I mentioned I’m also buying from eBay and the packages are delivered to me, and I can find them! I’m “blaming” AliExpress’ weird delivery system, not a whole country nor ethnicity. Again, if AliExpress sent my orders via normal post, I would be able to find them. But because they send them via multiple weird courrier companies that just end up dumping packages on the floor of a high rise lobby and mark it as delivered, it’s just pointless for me to order from them. If there’s one person to blame, it’s me for ordering from them when I know it’s a huge gamble.

I’m glad if it’s working well for people living in houses and for others, but for me, ordering from AliExpress doesn’t work most of the time. It’s not the fault of people HaLf A WoRlD AwAy, it’s just not working out for me where I live. Stop putting words in my mouth.

Hey, that’s me. More or less.

I have been living paycheck to paycheck for about two decades but things changed during the pandemic. I got a substantial raise, stopped smoking, and kept the same micro apartment in a high rise for years. I also live alone, refuse to pay for a car, and don’t have any children.

So I was able to put some money aside in the last years and now, I take extended vacations (I took 8 weeks this year), I travel, and treat myself with what I want.

My sister wonders how I can afford to take that much time off work to go to different countries and think that I just recently found interest in traveling but really, it’s just because I can afford it now.

Doesn’t really matter. In the end, I should know that ordering from AliExpress where I live just ends up as packages being “delivered” and me not finding most of them.

The slow death of the American empire. It may push the rest of the world to a geopolitical realignment that excludes the US. This could allow international organizations to proceed without having the US veto human rights, actions against climate change, or things like that.