PrimeMinisterKeyes

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[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

For those who didn't read the article or aren't following EU politics, Euro 7, passed in April, explicitly addresses the need for reining in pollution from brakes and tires. Some more information here:

The position adopted by the European Parliament improves the European Commission's proposal by extending the scope of tyre abrasion limits to all tyres and not just those fitted on Euro 7 vehicles. It also directly links Euro 7 to the work that is being done in the UNECE World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations (WP. 29), which will set global rules regarding a test method and limits for tyre abrasion.

There's a new Euro standard "major version" every 5.8 years on average, so here's hoping that my outdoor furniture will soon not become completely blackened within a year after the last cleaning.

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

From the legendary Used Kids Records store, maybe?

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

They just started shooting "Tenet 2." Proof: Look at the last few frames, the wheels of the car are rotating backwards.

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

In tech, is there really a need, though? All of this year's new hires I've met communicate exclusively in English. No-one cares.

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The housing crisis is prevalent everywhere in Europe, though. But it's not like droves of people have to sleep rough. Yes, rents keep going up, but they are still only a fraction of what you would pay in the US.
And you can actually still buy houses. Really cheap, even. Far off the highways, but some people opt in to exactly that.

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (4 children)

As you might remember, it used to be called "information superhighway." As it turns out, not only does it make information flow faster from A to B, it also divides people that lie to either side of the road, in a metaphorical sense.
Required reading See especially figure 3b. TLDR: Increased information access and increased connections lead to more echo chambers.

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Excerpts from a short piece, called "Back to the Wall," by a famous writer; abridged:

The individual soul is under attack...
Ten years ago it may have been inconceivable that the great sweet "cassaba melon" as it was called of "American Century" prosperity was really a great psychic hoax a mirage of electronic mass-hypnosis...
The choice given - or CHOSEN? by us between an oldfashioned politician..., which is to say conservative, and an outright Authoritarian rightwinger? We never had a choice between middle and left, we were always stuck between middle and right. Finally it becomes too much to fight. But the stakes are too great to lose...
To live in a country which supposedly dominates the entire planet and to be responsible for the outrages of ones Own country! Woe to the Germans silent under Hitler woe to the Americans silent now.
Not a matter of Policy, rational discourse etc.
Things no longer merely out of proportion, things are UNREAL. Manipulating the unreal from centers of power - how can the soul endure?
Movie blather, news broadcast blather ... social blather of a totally maladjusted tribe engaged in struggle to retain power-dominance and control over an entire planet (nay an entire solar system!)

He also mentions a "synchronistic putch." The writer is called Allen Ginsberg and this piece was published 1966.
Which is to say, the Overton window has been shifting for a long time and Nazism has never been truly defeated, only forced to hibernate. And certainly not just in the US. At least that's my pessimistic conclusion at this point.

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Empower the White, Christian, Sexually Aggressive/Frustrated Misogynists.

Only as much and for as long as he deems necessary. Should they become a liability after getting him ~~elected~~ into power, they'd be dealt with swiftly. Remember Henry Hill in "GoodFellas"?

If you're part of a crew, nobody ever tells you that they're going to kill you, doesn't happen that way. There weren't any arguments or curses like in the movies. See, your murderers come with smiles, they come as your friends, the people who've cared for you all of your life. And they always seem to come at a time that you're at your weakest and most in need of their help.

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