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For what it’s worth this is a very enjoyable game with a pretty rough start. It’s a slow tutorial. And then you’re very underpowered at first. But when you git gud, the game opens out and it’s such a good time.

The UK government acts in the interests of oil companies and the industries and financial institutions that support and profit off oil, not the interests of its people.

Wow and I thought where I lived was overpriced

What a fantastic election… You’d struggle to get a rizla between the gaps in their policy positions and both parties are supporting genocide in Gaza. Which means in this election your choice is: you get to pick the colour of tie of the guy who uses your taxes to support the massacre of civilians. Red or blue.

Great. Democracy in action. What an opportunity to steer the nation. I’m so motivated to go vote.

As well as private leases there is a massive corporate market for company cars (at least in my country). Cars are offered as a benefit to employees and used as pool cars etc. The company leases them for 6 / 12 / 18 months then they are returned back to the lease company (often the oem themselves) and either re-leased to other individuals or sold on. It’s a huge amount of cars that have that ‘sales’ model. I think almost 80% of BMWs are leased to begin with.

I was reading about a small EV startup company (read: multi billion dollar Saudi oil diversification project) that is planning on never selling cars but instead perpetually leasing cars, and reconditioning the returned car for ‘like new’ leases of the same vehicle again and again and again.

Cars companies aren’t really a manufacturing businesses any more, they’re banks; all of their real products are financial products, loans and leases etc with a car just as the vehicle (pun slightly intended) to sell those financial services.

I’m going to guess that they think at least one of those women is trans, and that because they are idiots they would think that would be bad.

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Hakan Gider will fall off his chair when he sees that his absolute minimum effort stock photo has been used on an article. Can’t imagine stock photos that terrible get many license sales. Hope he gets paid.

No plumbing on the island but plenty of brass buckets

IQ is a dumb measure and has historically been used to justify some heinous things, but on curiosity what has the word Quotient got to do with why it’s bad? It means the result of a division. I.e. the test score divided by an expected standard score to give a ratio of the result to that standard. I don’t think that the part that makes the scores fall in a 50-150 range is the evil part. I think it’s use as a tool to separate people often by racial and class differences with plausible deniability is the evil part.

If real keyboards on a phone were such a good idea, why does nobody still make them and why does everyone that tries get 0 sales.

If you enjoy this stuff, or if there is an accessibility angle, then go with my blessing. Otherwise the touchscreen keyboard is better for most people. If you must type on a real keyboard use a full sized Bluetooth keyboard, which will be better in every way.

Stoicism at its most reductive is the goal of improving what things you can influence, and relieving yourself from the emotional burden of the things you can’t influence.

Now that can be a useful tool and for a lot of people there are lessons to learn from it. If for instance you get road rage at another driver, stoicism would tell you, that you cannot influence that other drivers behaviour or driving ability, so you should release the anger you hold towards them, and instead work on what you can influence I.e. your own driving technique to drive leaving a bigger gap, better anticipate other road users etc to avoid the situation in the future. That would be great advice, it will improve your state of mind, mood and your driving.

There you are, I’ve saved you reading the book lol.

However stoicism is good for maintaining the status quo, because it concentrates on acceptance of external events which can lead to political apathy. Rather than challenging the systems that create your material conditions that are the cause of your ails. It doesn’t have to be that way, but a lot of modern stoicism is right wing rugged individualism accept the status quo and don’t get so upset about the world (and its injustices). “We’re destroying the planet and doing genocide, but you personally can’t change that so why are you so emotional?” That’s my main beef with it. I think it’s a practical way of dealing with everyday annoyances, but not good for tackling systemic issues as it can promote a tragedy of the commons.

Though I will say it could be considered a good call to action. Stop whinging on the internet about problems (I.e. having emotions about something you aren’t influencing), go out and do something about it! (I.e. Actually influence the thing)

Masterdon is a thing. I don’t use it either, but it’s there alright.