Sean just stood down there and did fuck all, so I guess being honoured is already more than he could expect.

Fair enough.

• i actually think that if pickups had lower hoods, they would be more moral, yes, because they would be less dangerous. (see above)

Fair point. I agree.

I always assumed that the bonnet height was one of the reasons why you couldn’t really drive one of those in Europe anyway. But if that’s not the case then yes, adjusting that should be done.

(Also I drive a van and I think it’s cool since obviously I’m cool and so my car kinda has to be, too, so I’m not sure if I agree with your first point.)

But isn’t that already part of regulations 78/2009 and 2019/2144?

I mean, I’m all for it, but if it’s just that it seems the goal is to get more detailed regulations for the bonnet then that’s great, but I fail to see how that would get rid of SUVs or other larger cars.

Also don’t misunderstand me there… Reducing bonnet height to protect pedestrians on impact is a good thing and should be done. I just don’t think it’d reduce car weight or size, so if that’s the goal then it won’t help.

You just have to have so much money that the money makes you more money than you need in castle upkeep.

We’ve had station wagons for a very long time now. A big Ford Mondeo we had was a relatively low car, without an enormous bonnet.

Cars continue to get wider, longer and higher off the ground (there’s this Kia that looks like you’re driving around in a fridge), whilst the stuff we move within them isn’t exactly increasing. it’s just bigger for the sake of being bigger, and that’s causing issues in the streets.

You are missing my point. To turn this into a law, there need to be clear rules of what is or isn’t allowed.

The Kia you’re talking about is this one I guess? The EV5?

Unfortunately, the size comparison site I used doesn’t have that, but it is apparently similar to their “Sportage” SUV, so I took the long wheel base version of that one to compare it against your old Mondeo…

… which is longer than the SUV…

… and only 5cm less wide …

whilst the stuff we move within them isn’t exactly increasing

… and has much less cargo volume.

So, what kind of rules do you come up with to get rid of the one but not the other? Height? Then what about the vans? And how is height making a car more or less unethical?

So far, the 3.5 ton weight limit seems to have worked well for keeping the most ridiculous American cars off European streets. But it seems that’s not enough, so what other rules could be used to define which cars shouldn’t be allowed to drive around? It’s obviously not weight because we already have that. It’s apparently not the size because despite most arguments, SUVs aren’t always much bigger than other cars that are usually perceived as fine. So what is it??

I hate how this needs to be read right-to-left. First thought that the ui took up less and less space.

Hm. Don’t know.

This one?

Yeah, can be banned.

But this one?

Don’t know. While it’s a fair bit shorter than an f150, it’s still a big-ass car. But is it an unethical car? It fits a lot of stuff or a lot of people or a fair amount of both, but I guess the same thing is true for the f150. Visibility is much better I guess, but would pick ups be more moral if they had a lower hood?

Like, yeah, I hate pick ups, too, but what’s their defining aspect? What’s the law that gets rid of large SUVs but keeps station wagons? Or is the law just going to get rid of all larger cars?

I’m not trying to argue against the idea of banning dick comparison cars, this is a genuine question.

Nearly every respectable major news outlet that has commentary tries to invite commentary from multiple sides.

Maybe that’s part of the issue though?

If Jimmy Allred says it’s raining, and W. Lee O’Daniel says it isn’t raining, Texas newspapermen quote them both, and don’t look out the window to see which is lying, and to tell the readers what the truth is at the moment.

I only started to look at it and am already pissed. So I stopped because it would probably only make me exen more angry. What a lying piece of dirt.

I’d even say that this illustrates the success even more…

• lemm.ee shuts down, iirc, because it took too much time and effort to run the instance. Not really a sign of inactivity.
• the platform keeps going! The whole idea of a federated network works, as a single instance going down doesn’t impact other ones. As it happened before, see e.g. feddit.de.

So Lemmy as a whole is alive and healthy - and successful.

… and an earring dangling from his non-existent glasses.

Could this be related to climate scientists excluding models that predict higher temperatures?

It was an opinion piece by a guest columnist.

That an editor then chose to publish. What’s your point?

Don Bluth at his worst

Clearly, they haven’t seen Titan AE.

I don’t know. Maybe he still has a chance to become private jet guy’s third wife?

Hindsight is always 20/20

Love that bike

Oder noch praktischer… Mach zwei Geräte draus! Ein Gerät für den Zwischenspeicher und eins eben die Maus. Dann könnte man den Speicher von a nach b tragen ohne immer eine Maus mitnehmen zu müssen.

Oder noch wilder… Nicht nur ein Zwischenspeicher, sondern so ein richtiges Dateisystem! Damit man mehr als eine Sache drauf speichern kann!

Thanks for the explanation. It kind of makes sense, but I’ll still try to play devil’s advocate… If people only get slightly more than 60 percent of the value they create, is the rest really only there to make the rich people richer or is it being used to pay off a loan the company might have gotten to pay for a large machine or something? With the bank receiving, obviously, the excess money, which they then use to pay their employees and buildings etc? These numbers seem to suggest that all money that isn’t paid to employees directly feeds the greedy ruling class, but it isn’t mentioned explicitly and maybe the excess money goes somewhere else as well? Not trying to say it has to be like that, just trying to get a better understanding.