My partner has been learning a tiny bit of Welsh on Duolingo so this got a giggle out of her 🙂

You think the US has trains and trams that reach most neighborhoods? Not by a long shot.

No this is definitely looks like a last mile delivery vehicle to me.

Are these things going to be clogging up bike lanes

You must not be from the US. Bike lanes here are empty, mostly treated as extra shoulder for cars. I’m not concerned about this one bit.

making biking more dangerous for people that aren’t working for Amazon

No, I feel confident that fewer motorized vehicles does not mean more danger for cyclists.

Are they going to have their “drivers” risking their lives on the roads with real cars? Are they going to be out there peddling hundreds of pounds of packages for 8 hour shifts in 90 degree weather?

Except for the peddaling that sounds suspiciously similar to current conditions. That needs to be addressed too, but I don’t think vehicle type alone is sufficient.

Yep I would say you’re nailing the “criticize Amazon’s treatment of workers” part. That obviously is in severe need of fixing too.

Would you prefer if that got addressed but they stayed purely on combustion engine vehicles? I appreciate the idealism and in a perfect world we’d have both, but actually expecting both outcomes at once is sadly a tall order…

I can never read “popemobile” without giggling like a child 😆 I believe I recently called one something like a wheeled pontifical ape exhibit…

Cover himself with leaves just like our ancestors, duh. Or maybe cardboard as the modern equivalent I guess.

THC beverages are a thing, so why not do the opposite?

Wait. What are we talking about again?

Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. These have to be far quieter and don’t pollute like cars. That’s progress!

By all means, do criticise Amazon’s treatment of workers and horrible policies in general. And yeah batteries are better than fossil fuels but still aren’t the greenest. But IMO anything that brings the US closer to bicycle culture can’t be all bad. Let’s accept a win when we see it and keep pushing, yeah?

The posts about Berlin and Finland are inspiring, let’s get others there too.

The new SC is definitely a clear upgrade from both the old one and a standard 360 pad. I’d say it’s almost on par with the Elite 2 (as it should be for the price) so if you don’t have one of those you’ll probably be quite happy. Cheers.

I was lucky and got one in the initial round. But if you have a Deck, it’s just the same controls in a smaller package so it’s not going to blow your mind. Unless you badly need those trackpads and gyro, it’s probably not going to change your gaming habits much versus an Xbox controller. In other words I love mine, but the novelty wore off fast, now it’s mostly just another solid gamepad with extra customization for Steam native titles.

Used to maybe, but as I understand now tons of the articles are written by AI. The same garbage that these data centers are for.

Heh,I learned this one the hard way. Thought I was safe because I cooperated and provided them all kinds of info, and I was rising up through management. But nope, they didn’t give a damn about loyalty or anything, they just wanted a fresh slate and cut all kinds of people.

This is entirely reasonable and I hope this understanding catches on in courts worldwide.

If I go make my own summary/parody/spinoff/reaction video based on someone else’s content, I’m responsible for the media I created. Simple as that. Same should apply to companies.

Probably a teacher-specific things too. I passed AP chem and didn’t have to memorize it.

So it’s like a mystical artifact of the computational Big Bang? You deref a pointer to the very beginning of Unix time and bam, suddenly you’re styling like Richard Stallman?

It wasn’t many men either. Plate armor was incredibly expensive (it had to be custom made so the joins fit you correctly) and only the wealthiest nobles had it. There weren’t entire armies of knights in armor, that’s just fantasy.

Oops, right – Pluto and Charon are in the Kuiper Belt, not the Oort Cloud. I really shouldn’t mix those up.

I thought Haumea, Eris, and Makemake were solidly considered dwarf planets. But we don’t have good images of those, do we?

The placement of the labels is a bit sloppy but I think it tracks. The character in the middle (int*) is pointing at int, then the one on the left (int**) is pointing at the middle one (int*), etc

What I want to know: what is that shirt and where do I get it?

Cool! I would have guessed it was a decorative ceiling or something.

Did you ever have to memorize the periodic table? This would be a walk in the park by comparison, at least using the current dwarf planet definition.