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How do SSDs and HDDs compare to optical disks in terms of stability in storage? SSD bits can lose charge over time until a lot of 1s read as 0s, right?

I gave up years ago. Security fatigue permeates my entire life.

It could, if cheap, light, efficient EVs become legal and popular in Europe.

I personally want something that would never be legal; A 4-wheeled, beefed up, 100+ km/h electric velomobile with something like CanAm Spyder tires (and track width) and a proper comfortable seat. A bit like the LCC rocket, but fully enclosed and possibly lighter.

I could get something more dangerous, like a motorcycle. While this would be in an illegal limbo between car and motorcycle.

The Renault Twizy is a too tall, simply ugly, and thoroughly nerfed version of a simile of what I wish for, and Europe will continue just vaguely trying (and complacently falling) to make speed-limited microcars for cities of type L6e and L7e the “green option” looking for adoption, but that will never reach any kind of tipping point and we all know it. Not quite designed to fail, but definitely not designed for mass adoption.

The legal limbo of what I think would be more appealing is due to both the public and the governing bodies being entirely unwilling to tolerate what safety-wise amounts to a motorcycle with a car’s stability, without reducing speed. They’d never expect to successfully lock motorcycles down to “max 45 km/h”, but the category of “motorcycle” is uniquely privileged as a traditionally recognized transport device permitted to trade away safety for other benefits. Presumably because the trade is explicit enough, as there’s no mistaking it for a car.

Anyways…

The conclusion is that no, “it” doesn’t include vehicles, and won’t any time soon. The only desirable electric cars will remain massive and heavy and expensive (but thoroughly armored), so adoption will continue to be fairly slow, and they’ll be a big drain on the grid.

I’ll end on the note that motorcycles not being popular is a huge part of why western bureaucrats (barely) tolerate them. If this was to become popular among young guys who want a cheap fast car, it’d be extremely problematic for them, and not at all worth the accelerated energy transition.

Last note, Sierra Echo is also one I’ve been keeping my eye on, but since it’s fast and light, it’s also open-air like all these things apparently have to be. Oh, and it’s also not cheap.

…will be met regretfully by executing one of the captives…

We regret this decision but…

Idk if the translation is just wrong, but they’re using the word “regret” weirdly here. Almost seems like a slip of the tongue, betraying their actual regret to have done something so stupid and easily condemnable to such a degree that the international community has a very easy time holding back and not applying much leverage at all in trying to hold Israel back from absolutely obliterating them.

But frankly, I think they’re too zealous to actually regret it at all. They’ll probably live out the rest of their shortened lives in ignorant blissful fervor.

What I don’t see is why smoking should be the main nicotine delivery device when it can easily be done without the cancerous smoke.

Isolated nicotine is apparently not cancerous. We just choose to enforce the continued coupling of nicotine and cancer, and refuse to permit alternatives that decouple if from cancer if their dosage isn’t pitiful.

“Either get the weak alternatives, or the cancerous ones.”

The moderate non-cancerous alternatives are illegal.

Doesn’t work that well when most of your Chinese cousins also act mad for this disgraceful and disrespectful act.

We have offline translation tools?

I might end up reading a book again when ebooks get the library treatment for real, but at least I saved a link to it in my bookmark folder for books? So that’s something. Sits there along with Herodotus’ Histories now, and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. The first one of those has been free to read since I added it, so my first sentence might be a bit bullshit. Or maybe old free books tend to be difficult reads too, and I really could get into reading something. Maybe one of Hank Green’s books.

Is it weird that I get disheartened by the concept “You can read this book for free, but only if we physically send it to your library where you can retrieve it. We legally can’t send you the ebook because that’s not part of the deal. You’d have to get that one from Amazon or something.”?

It feels like I’m in a library-limbo where I’m waiting for reason to catch up to reality.

Maybe I’ll read it eventually, probably not. I’m about to try to go to space with Chris Roberts (new patch, maybe not broken?), then to sleep, and then forget about this whole interchange. Oh and I also had this thought that while I haven’t read any of those books, neither Herodotus nor Plato have spent hours looking at Earth in VR, so that’s a perspective they don’t have. I see the disease that gives us good reason for nihilistic joy in our final centuries. Got em. So yeah I wasn’t gonna include that part, but in the spirit of misunderstood new sincerity I’ll include it. Have fun doing what you’re doing, whoever you are.

Ok so I read some more and I can’t claim to understand your goals, Mr./Ms. “Can’t get canceled for saying dumb things on the Internet if I’m not verified.”

I feel absolutely silly for continuing to read posts and comments, the IMDB page, and googling and finding little snippets of rumors about ADHD, DIY interest, apparently hosting some scientific & technical awards, not a trace on Twitter or Insta, except fan pages…? And a thing for letters?

Is this… plausible? Are you Among Us?

Surely not. Right? No.

Would a copycat write about New Sincerity? Who even knows about that? I’ve never heard it in normal internet discourse. It strikes me that this confused comment I’m writing seems to be quite aligned with the concept, unless I misunderstood it.

I’ll let you be mate, I’m confused about your goals and your commitment. I’m still settling on this being a novelty account by some weird, uncharacteristically funny nerd and impersonator. Maybe with the primary intention of promoting Lemmy activity and prompting comment activity, you seem to be a fairly popular account.

“ASUS is apparently killing the ability to root present and future Zenfones … there goes our hope for the Zenfone 10.”

Margot Robbie, August 2023.

Why not.

What’s it like pretending to be Margot Robbie on the internet?

Weird is nothing compared to what we’re headed for.

Lockdown was nothing for me.

It was normal, no change.

Tortured for the rest of their life, not just sitting in a shitty room.

Caffeine soda.

An effort for good ethics that the Russians would never tolerate. I wouldn’t say the US military is particularly ethical, but at least they tolerate and cooperate with some ethical initiatives.

The world is changing, the golden decades of our parents’ post-war reality are over, the sun is setting once again on European soil.

I don’t know exactly what kinds of nightmares await us in the darkness, but I do know that the bloodlust of the European populace will not be sated easily.

Expect extraordinary efforts to subdue, abuse and eventually exterminate people once again. The European populace will not be a bastion of humanitarian ideology in the face of climate migration. It will instead declare war on them, and brutalize them.

A vampire hunter*

Since he likes garlic.

I don’t know, but to me “suicide” and “kill” seem like the words that would’ve been banned. Not “dead”.