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“I tried nothing, and I’m all out of ideas! *cocks gun*” - Kristi Noem

The party of States’ Rights™ going outside of their states’ jurisdiction to enforce state-level laws. All this work, and for what? To make a handful of people miserable, who found help at this particular hospital? For the legal precedent to make more people miserable?

The world must know of my skills.

The year is 2024, and we’re all Frank Grimes now: https://youtu.be/axHoy0hnQy8

Not gonna lie: When I started reading your comment, I was fairly sure this was gonna be some kind of Simpsons joke.

Boromir, Theoden, Denethor all die. They may each have weaknesses and personal struggles, but none of them are evil.

Also Bilbo and Frodo leaving for the Undying Lands always felt like they died to me, leaving everything they knew behind without ever being able to see it again. Same with the Elves “fading” and slowly departing from Middle Earth, which I also interpret as an allegory of death (this being the closest they come to it from a mortal perspective).

Reading LotR always felt profoundly bittersweet to me, and that’s one of the main reasons I love these books.

The way I see it, when you’re a sports executive, you have two options in this situation: 1) exclude the girls’ team because “dem’s the rules” or 2) let them play because seeking out the boys’ competition will help them develop into a stronger team.

Personally, I think 1) is a weak choice, especially when arguments like “someone could get hurt” are both ripe with misogynistic sentiment and refuted by the games played without incident.

“Block hexbear” is to browsing Lemmy as “use an ad blocker” is to browsing the internet.

Who could’ve foreseen that restricting reproductive rights could go both ways?

The Legend of Vox Machina

This comment has not aged well.

Prepare for the next headline saying that “Gen Z is killing the car industry”.

It’s related to SugON.

The main source is battery production and related to the mining and refinement of their raw materials (source, source). The exact emissions are hard to quantify. That being said, the lifetime emissions of battery EVs are still significantly lower, so it’s still a net benefit. For a bigger picture, you can check the references here and here.

The 5 year figure is from a German study and is based on the German energy mix (which is indeed quite dirty). So yeah, that number will hopefully decrease. But even with that, the “up-front” emissions in EV production are a major issue that is tough to solve and rarely made transparent by EV manufacturers.

Solution to what though? Emissions are reduced but not eliminated: when accounting for greenhouse gases emitted during production, EVs start outperforming traditional cars only after 5+ years of use (depending on the type of car). And other factors like tyre dust and road maintenance (due to EVs’ higher weight) or resources needed to replace/recycle old batteries are not even included in that balance.

EVs might still be a net positive when compared with traditional cars, but both pale in comparison to public transport and infrastructure oriented towards bikes and pedestrians.

I think the similarity comes from the literal meaning of the two but doesn’t extend beyond that. “Memento Mori” carries a distinctly humble meaning related to the concept of “vanitas”, the idea that death is inevitable, even for the rich and powerful, and that earthly pleasures are vain and meaningless. That’s really in the opposite direction of YOLO.

I usually go with Fira Sans for sans serif, if the document I’m writing isn’t super formal. Mixes well with Inconsolata for code and Latin Modern (or other serif stuff) for math.