Really? Everything I’ve heard about pedestrian safety suggests that its better to go onto the hood rather than be pushed down and go under the wheels.

It seems like this design would do exactly that, in addition to creating a blind spot directly in front of the vehicle. Though I suppose these trucks are so tall you’re likely to go under anyway.

No? This is a bunch of Tolkien tropes + Conan the Barbarian + a bunch of shuffled around real world cultures.

The Last Airbender continent was mostly China, with the fire nation being steampunk imperial Japan. At the poles there were the Inuit-inspired water benders and the Air Benders were Tibetan monks except spread around all over the place on mountaintops.

There weren’t any Egyptian pyramids or nomadic steppe peoples that I can remember being portrayed in Avatar, and there certainly weren’t any elves, orcs, dwarves, wizards, or barbarians from the icy north.

Reminds me of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_farm

Is there a German compound word for ‘wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube man’?

There was a time in the 2010s where some fairly large games had native Linux versions:

• Alien: Isolation
• Ark: Survival Evolved
• BioShock: Infinite
• Borderlands 2 and the Pre-Sequel (albeit with broken multiplayer caused by mismatched game versions)
• Cities: Skylines
• Dead Island
• Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
• Europa Universalis IV
• Hearts of Iron IV
• Hitman (2016)
• Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
• Shadow Warrior (2013) (notable for inspiring Doom 2016 and being a precursor to the current wave of boomer shooters)
• War Thunder
• XCOM: Enemy Unknown, and XCOM 2

That, along with Valve games (and by extension a lot of mods and custom server content) and basically every indie game you’d get from the Humble Bundle or itch.io having a native Linux version made it possible to be a Linux gamer before Proton was even a twinkle in Gabe’s eye. That was especially the case for me, since the types of games that tended to run on Linux were the sort of games I wanted to play anyway.

Fast forward to today and even Valve can’t be arsed to make a native Linux version of Deadlock. All of Frictional’s games from 2007 to 2020 had a Linux version, until 2023 when Amnesia: The Bunker didn’t have one.

I’m glad we have Proton: it runs Arx Fatalis better than modern windows does, let’s me play Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, Fallout: New Vegas, and a slew of other games. It also opens Linux gaming up to a wider audience and removes a lot of the anxiety someone might have about switching over from wondering if they’ll be able to play everything they’re interested in. But in exchange for that we’re definitely paying the price in actual native games, and to some degree further entrenching Windows as the standard.

It appears that the Civilization series is one notable exception to this trend, with V (2010), VI (2016) and VII (2025) all having Linux versions.

I’d like for that to happen as well, but this seems like a very optimistic outlook.

Where does Dillo fit into this?

Its got cookies disabled by default, no support for JavaScript, and only partial support for CSS. Just as god intended.

When you pick up an apple, do you consent to the pesticides used on them?

THAT’S the example you choose?

There are no informed here, only pitchfork wielders.

Absolutely stunning. You actually unironically do not understand what consent is. You need to take an ethics class.

I’ll give you the really basic version:

#1: People are allowed to say no to you for any reason or no reason at all. It doesn’t matter if you think their reasons are invalid or misinformed. No means no.

#2: A lack of a “no” does not mean “yes”. If a person cannot say “no” to what you are doing because they have no idea you’re doing it in the first place then that, in some ways, is even worse than disregarding a “no”. At least in that case they know something has been done to them.

That, by the way, is what the “informed” in “informed consent” means. It doesn’t mean “a person needs to know what they’re talking about in order for their ‘no’ to be valid”, like you seem to think it means.

Doctors used to routinely retain tissue samples for experimentation without informing their patients they were doing this. The reasoning went that this didn’t harm the patient at all, the origin of the tissue was anonymized, the patient wouldn’t understand why tissue samples were needed anyway, and it might save lives. That’s a much better justification than trying to develop a web browser, and yet today that practice is widely considered to be deplorable, almost akin to rape.

The concept of informed consent continues to evade tech bros. It makes me wonder how many other areas of your life you apply this line of reasoning to.

Imagine if the 5th season was just a sitcom about the daily lives of the characters after the conflicts were resolved.

Reminds me of this

I’m not “claiming” anything. You can look at the statistics and see what percentage of the population uses Chicago’s transit system.

~77% of people in Chicago choose to commute by car, despite having to drive in traffic and pay costs associated with owning a vehicle, probably because for them driving is faster or transit isn’t an option at all.

TBH I think a lot of this disagreement comes down to you defining a good city as “a place where its possible to have a good quality of life” whereas I define it as “a place where a majority of the population has a good quality of life”.

Some trains now use lasers to clean leaf residue off the rails.

If you look at the modal share for journeys to work of major cities you will see that NYC is the only US city to have a level of transit usage that’s comparable to European cities, and that East Asian cities are on another level again in terms of non-car modal share.

Of course journeys to work are not the only kind of journey to matter, and the stats listed in that article are very fuzzy for many reasons, but for such large differences I think it is illustrative.

Its not the evil Madoka cat.

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I mean, top 20 out of 172 cities is top 11% (actually closer to 12%).

Which seems pretty reasonable for “one of the best in the world” IMO.

You could certainly do a lot worse, but Chicago doesn’t even crack the top 20 on any of the major city quality of life indices.

If someone were to visit Vermont is there anywhere you’d recommend they go?

Out of curiosity, how does it work and what do you like about it?