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  • My parents are constantly pushing me to own a car.

    I have a license because it is a convenient all-in-one piece of ID. I abstain from car ownership because cars fucking suck. They're expensive to buy, expensive to insure, expensive to maintain, expensive to run, expensive to drive, and you can't even use your phone* while going places. Car ownership is just overall a bad deal. I'm much happier taking public transit, even if it sucks ass and is twice as slow to get anywhere.

    *If you unironically counter this point you should be prevented from ever getting behind a wheel for the rest of your life. Fuck you for putting my and other people's lives in danger for your own convenience.

  • I believe in the death penalty as a security measure, but not as punishment, at least in theory.

    In practice, the cost to society to ensure absolute certainty in guilt almost always far outweighs the security gain, so it doesn't make sense. Maybe once a century.

  • And thus we see why UBI will never be a solution. You need an overwhelming political movement by the people outside the electoral system. And if you can force through UBI, why would you, when the people could actually take the reins.

  • "If you swallowed or inhaled this battery you'd be exposed to significant amounts of radiation."

    It's beta radiation, which can be stopped by a layer of tin foil, I think. So yeah if you ate the source itself that would be bad, but if you eat the battery with the casing, probably much less bad?

  • As explained, aerosol pollution has a cooling effect, and so the reduction of all pollution means a reduction in aerosol and thus a reduction in the cooling effect short term.

    One of the many absurd geoengineering proposals for climate change was to increase aerosol pollution in ways that don't increase CO2.

  • What motivates me is I'm already pissing 11 hours of my day (including commute) to my boss. If I don't do something productive yet fun that i want to do then I've just more than doubled the waste to 24 hours. Life is too short to waste 5 entire days out of every 7 until you die.

    You always have time, you just need to find it. The 30 minutes here and there are enough to do many things.

  • Android @lemmy.world
    Xavienth @lemmygrad.ml

    Jerboa navigation has too much friction

    I don't mean this in a nebulous sense, like that it's hard to find where things are.

    But like, i find scrolling just has too much friction, especially with my small thumbs where i do a lot of flicking rather than sliding.

    Anyone else find this?