Are we all fucked?

[Hellyeah]

As a race, most are getting Dumber imo. Take the above for example all modern ford cars and vans have a quick clear windscreen. On the worst of mornings 30/60 secs will clear it. For the last 3 years I've watched my neighbour out with the kettle to his 17 reg mondeo. I'd tell him but he's a stupid c#nt.
The amount of cracked windscreens ive seen over the years from the above, but people just don't get it.

[astfgyl]

As a race, most are getting Dumber imo. Take the above for example all modern ford cars and vans have a quick clear windscreen. On the worst of mornings 30/60 secs will clear it. For the last 3 years I've watched my neighbour out with the kettle to his 17 reg mondeo. I'd tell him but he's a stupid c#nt.
The amount of cracked windscreens ive seen over the years from the above, but people just don't get it.

No they're mostly thick as something that even shit would be ashamed of. I'm not from this world for the most part and thank fucking god

[Hellyeah]

Agreed 👍👍

[Caomhaoin]

A lot of lads can drive the car to work and back or across town to the in-laws or the Chinese take away. Unfamiliar routes or a fogged up rear windscreen or, god forbid, a flat tyre will induce panic and terror. Maybe it's different now but when I learned to drive, you could fail for crossing your arms whilst turning the steering wheel, but the most rudimentary elements of car maintenance or knowledge of the electrics etc? Ha ha, don't worry about that! Just stretch your neck so John next to you knows you're looking in your mirrors long enough.

[jobrok1]

Sure you don't even need to change a tyre these days. Most new cars Don't even come with a spare, only that expanding foam stuff so you can get the to the tyre centre.

[Trev]

I had a brand new rental car while when my own was being fixed and fucking hated it. Three types of handbrake settings and ten buttons for adjusting the seat, had to get a youtube video to figure out how to move it back. What was wrong with a couple of simple levers?

All the temperature settings, sound, everything was controlled by a touch screen console in the middle so you have to take your eyes off the road to change anything instead of just feeling for the switches. Over engineered bollocks....

[Caomhaoin]

My car has one of those little flick handbrakes but the light on the display panel to tell you it's off doesn't come on until you push the accelerator. In the mornings it's easy forget whether you've clicked it off or not.

And don't get me started with the Bluetooth for choons. I'd get a CD player installed if the installation didn't cost two mortgage payments.

[astfgyl]

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00799-3

Paywall on it but the opening paragraph is an interesting idea. I assume the same goes for journalism of all kinds?

[The Butcher]

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00799-3

Paywall on it but the opening paragraph is an interesting idea. I assume the same goes for journalism of all kinds?

Politics is too polarizing for people so anything it touches will garner that type of feedback.

Content creation will change completely in the next few years ->

https://twitter.com/stopsatgreen/status/1636042802168578058

Sure that seems basic enough but as we've seen with the likes of photoshop since the late 90s, these things improve fast enough.

[astfgyl]

Yep that's why I think as many things as possible should stay apolitical and why I am dead set against things like the kneeling in soccer or even the Ukraine stuff getting everywhere. Not because they may or may not be good causes but just because apolitical things should stay apolitical

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Individuals should be allowed a margin of freedom to express their views where and how they see fit. The reaction to Kaepernick's original gesture was a far louder statement of institutional politics than was his act as an individual. The subsequent generalization of taking the knee was a response to that reaction.

Same in science; any scientist should be allowed a margin of freedom to express their political views, but I also agree it's not proper for a scientific journal to do so, and loads of us said at the time that it could only serve to entrench science deniers of all stripes. That said, science is not and never has been apolitical. Follow where most of the great names of the scientific revolutions got their funding from, and why, and that quickly becomes clear. Not to mention expressions we now take for granted, like "survival of the fittest", which is not a Darwin original, but was added only in the last edition of the Origin under the insistence of one Herbert Spencer, who wished to make his personal interpretation of Darwin's theory of evolution the basis for social and economic policy. And so on and so on and so on, with examples ad infinitum both classic and contemporary. If people accepted the reality of it, when it comes to individuals, rather than throwing up their hands every time it happens in a manner that doesn't suit them, it would be less of a big deal.

[astfgyl]

Sure that's a fair point that it has always been some way political but as little as possible would be the way.

I still think sports professionals should be forbidden from making political statements on the pitch or whatever but they should definitely be allowed to air their views on interviews etc in the interests of free speech.

Maybe the same for a science journal, so what if several of the contributors or editors have strong political views just still don't publish it in the bloody journal

[astfgyl]

https://t.co/VCu0vRqp0M

Here's some interesting reading I came across. Might have posted it before but it's the UK plan for the green future.

Will it work?

[astfgyl]

https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/4095390986

Reckon it's real? I'm skeptical enough myself but as far as just looking at the link (found on Twitter) it looks realistic enough.

Would you take the 20k and the citizenship if it was going? There would hardly be many takers for a thing like that.

Has to be shit anyway the more I'm thinking about it surely anyone could put the ad in as long as they paid for it.

If it's real would you reckon there's going to be many applying?

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Different kind of fucked here. Mate just sent me this daft ad for what looks like a portacabin, looks about an hour outside Cork City, middle of nowhere, €1200 a month. Just looking at the pictures makes me want a prozac:
https://www.daft.ie/for-rent/apartment-lackabane-donoughmore-co-cork/5187365