sunbytes

I look forward to carrying a wrench-bearing dog-robot into my crawlspace. Or hearing: “You’re absolutely right to push back on that, i did connect the water main to the fusebox”

“Nobody mention the GIMP”

L'Nux

No, but if it’s not the one in the meme that sort of defeats the point of the comparison. Same as if you compared the breakfast in this meme to a scene where he’s just eating the banana.

Isn’t one a feast and one a breakfast?

Yeah there’s plenty he does wrong without pretending he’s still got enough core strength to lean forward quickly and not fall over. The most he can do is poke Zelenskyy’s arm over and over when he wants him to stop talking.

Meat-ddleware

I worked at a company that helped people find the best loans for their situation. Basically a price comparison site. No sponsored content or anything. One day I was asked about setting up a payday loans option for the site and just said no. I'd listened to some podcast about just how predatory the industry was, and even though our national regulations meant it couldn't get as bad as some places, it was still unacceptably predatory. I showed the manager stats for repayment, interest and average income of a customer and said if he went forward with this I would not be participating. And if he was going to ask me to participate regardless, I would hand him my notice on the spot. They never did anything with payday loans after that. I think most people were pretty happy about it.

I both love and loathe the increasing and evolving repulsiveness of the wojacks.

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if the councillor did it themselves to demonize the anti-data-center people

There's still books I need to read

It's weird that he stopped there. He is after all the busiest man in the world.

I don't know about fastest. Don't Japan hold that title? I'm just talking about the scale of them, and the average speed that they can manage (very important when looking at the scale of distances to travel).

Super weird. I didn't know about that. Probably the state invested so heavily in the sector that they created a bit of a bubble. Then to have them slow down suddenly would pop it. I think it's wasteful but not as bad as having not enough houses for everyone and a housing market that's sucking most of the populace dry. With a bit of innovation, maybe the market will find a use for all the apartments.

Do you have a source for the housing thing? In terms of the rail having air resistance that feels a bit of a Fox News point. It's not perfect so why bother with anything but loads of big cars? The sheer amount of rail rolled out in the last 10 years dwarfs anything any other country is doing.

I have two switches. One on the wall by the door, and one on the floor side table. Because of the exact same situation.

I think the influence of their billionaires is strongly curtailed. There's no powerful car lobby blocking train production for example. When it comes down to it, the state can slap down any corporation or private citizen trying to strongarm it. This has its own set of problems, for sure though.

The housing situation is notably better though. They've got some good ideas (also the high speed rail). All (or a lot of) the apartments in cities are leased from the government for 99 years. And so the prices are incredibly reasonable for an average living space. No greedy layers of middlemen trying to suck passive income out of you. I'm sure there's examples of where it's bad, but from what I've seen, their housing situation is pretty enviable.

Yeah he’d be better off naming them after vegetables.

Dell-ee-siooze But with a lot of energy

So you’re telling me… He’s been here the whole time?

Meat-ddleware

It may be just how normalised it is for English speakers to hear people speaking English imperfectly. There’s no shame or judgement in it. But when you find whimsy, oh boy. I still say “delicious” in the way my Greek coworker did almost a decade ago, because it sounds better And my dog trainer called my dog’s arse his anoos one time and now that’s all we call it. Talking about mine? Arse. The dog’s? Anoos.