Show newer

The combined news about Andretti and Hamilton has brought out both the racists and the anti-European bigots in the fanbase. America has a long way to go.

@enobacon I would have thought the people thhat live in the areas prefer it. They do here. Streets that serve as conduits for traffic attract all the usual problems for the people that actually live on them. I'd be interested to know who did that; sometimes the answers are surprising.

Waiting for someone to clear a left turn today, not one, but two people took to a right turn only lane to go past me. Then on my highway exit somebody swerved across three lanes to beat me to the ramp. I was listening to Sigur Ros' The Art of Meditation. Sometimes the universe is hilarious.

Jim boosted

@Flick Here some of the big places set up food banks...for their own staff.

@Flick I just thought everything would be really small.

@alienghic I had some bad symptoms back in November but kept testing negative. Doctor things it was Covid, I really beat me up for a while.

@alienghic Can you order some fresh test kits? Down here I think there's still a scheme to get them.

very minor health stuff 

@checkervest I think that's the common kind, hopefully you can get it all sorted out.

very minor health stuff 

@checkervest RSI can be very nasty. I hope you can find the correct one. Was it one of the elastic ones with a metal strut, or the plastic moulded kind?

very minor health stuff 

@checkervest What was the brace for? Can you get another one?

Jim boosted

"Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta combined more than doubled their energy consumption between 2017 and 2021."

And they will double their energy and water and material demand again by 2026.

Is anyone anywhere in government paying the least bit of attention to the environmental catastrophe that Big Tech is massively accelerating? Or have all our politicians been bought off by Big Tech?

techzine.eu/news/infrastructur

Jim boosted

Today in 1911, 113 years ago: The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy 16 kilometres (10 mi) from Havana, Cuba.

#OnThisDay

@nixCraft I find people's obsession with the new and shiny to be frequently totally unjustified.

Show older
Mastodon

The social network of the future: No ads, no corporate surveillance, ethical design, and decentralization! Own your data with Mastodon!