Can’t park there mate.

I’m wondering if they’ve had the timing belt or clutch replaced.

Not quite sure what the human equivalent of those would be.

Welcome! Weather’s a bit shite at the moment and monsoon season (February to May) is just around the corner, but it’ll brighten up for 2 weeks in June and for the last 2 weeks of August.

Drop me a DM if you’re heading up Manchester way and I’d happily give you a tour and you’re more than welcome to come over to my family’s place for a Sunday Roast.

The new McDonald’s McBoot™

Ba Dup Bup Ba, I’m licking it!

Yes you did, because you’re morally obligated to join in and cave the fucker’s face in.

“Does anyone know where I can report this?”

Yeah love, go your local police station and report it there. Allowing them to laugh at your pearl-clutching would really brighten their day.

Oh no, I wish death on him. As an engineer over the years I’ve had WAY too many non engineer friends and family asking me about Elon and I’d just wish the engineer-LARPer would catch a stray and therefore stop fucking around with things.

Space X will work just fine with Gwyne Shotwell not having to employ a whole c-suite and managers who’s only job is to make Musk feel like he contributed something.

Maybe Tesla can build a functional car again when they don’t have to try and make his napkin scrawls a reality.

And Twitter can finally be laid to rest and let Bluesky take over the corpo media gap left by it and fediverse can fill the rest.

I pray for the day Musk, Zuck, and Bezos all get killed then we can throw their bodies into the ground, erect a temporary community toilet above the pit, then cover it over and plant some seeds to grow food or trees so they can finally be useful to society as ROTTING CORPSES!

But it’s a roll of the dice and what are the odds on killing Luigi triggering civil unrest that spirals out of control?

If they think the odds are low enough they’ll do it.

The Americans should make it clear that killing Luigi will result in mass riots and the killing of more CEOs.

Shh! c/Linux will hear and try to install Linux on you.

Or jumper cables.

Say what? Bacon reader still works?!

Once again, UK investment and implementation of infrastructure is shite not the concept of smart meters.

For an example of a proper smart meter implementation nationwide, look at Estonia.

100% coverage. Works brilliantly.

In fact it works so well there’s companies that use the data generated by the smart meters to predict faults on the grid on the Low Voltage (LV = less than 2000 - 1000V in the electricity transmission world). That is unheard-of elsewhere because you’d normally have to install LV monitors for a few months on a location where faults have occurred to try and find it.

Fucking Tories, fucking Westminster, fucking civil service, fucking national grid, and the fucking utility companies all dragging their heels over this because the entire energy grid is privatised whereas anywhere else sensible, the national electricity backbone is nationalised with local networks semi or fully private.

Source: I work in th power industry.

So hypothetically, if an Israeli gets depression, is experiencing a lot of negative self-worth, and is having suicidal thoughts, and keeps telling themselves they “don’t want exist anymore, I don’t deserve to live, etc.”…

Does that make them antisemitic?

Agreed. Perhaps the best implementation is a highly integrated mix of Mastodon and Lemmy where Mastodon is used for general discussion and news and Lemmy is used for organising communities around subjects like politics and religion.

Completely unrelated question: how hard does one have to rattle a sabre before it snaps the blade?

I like this idea.

Twitter was supposed to be the “online town hall”. And online public spaces are not publicly owned, they’re run by private companies that can ban you at their own whims.

With each country having their own federated platforms, they can truly act as online public spaces where the usual laws apply as they would do offline.

You’d need to employ thousands of moderators though if everyone was online but honestly I think it’s worth it.

But don’t be handing out prison sentences for posting stupid shit. Online harassment and calls for violence can still be legally handled the same way they are offline, but jailing people for offensive jokes and stupid hot takes is just idiotic.

Best way is temporary bans increasing exponentially in length, then small percentage of income fines again increasing exponentially.

Also, and I’d argue we already need this, a court system for online crimes. This means the regular court system doesn’t get more workload added on to it and specialist judges and lawyers can be appointed.

“Please use legal paid services” yeah I would if

1. They actually had the content I’d like to buy available for purchase
2. I actually get a copy to keep and not rent for an indefinite period of time until the rights holder and / or vendor forgets to renew and it gets automatically removed.

I think this humanoid robot will be Elon’s 'Sinclair C5" moment.

Herb and spice drawer?