Somewhat tangential, but USB-C docking stations, as useful as it is to have everything in one cable, it can also be annoying.

At the office, I often just want to charge my laptop with them, but they also give me a wired internet connection, which, thanks to corporate networking shitfuckery, doesn’t work. So, every time I plug in, I have to disable that wired connection.

Also, recently a colleague had problems getting her headset working when she was plugged into certain docks, ultimately due to a bug in the OS.
Like, alright, that should be fixed in the OS, but that USB-C dock doesn’t even have a speaker attached to it. It’s completely useless that it shows up as an audio device.
And even after we found a workaround to fix her headset, she will now have to switch over her audio device every time she plugs into a dock.

So, basically it’s now one step to plug in the cable, but potentially multiple steps to undo half of what you unwillingly plugged in…

Yeah, and at least those are their pets and they don’t, like, violently kidnap wild Pokémon to force those into fights.

Ah, you mean that because diesel cars have more torque, you can do things like starting uphill with just the clutch.

I was wondering, because I certainly didn’t opt for a handbrake start for the fun of it. My car’s engine simply died, if I lifted the clutch too far without accelerating and ‘too far’ was far below getting enough torque to not roll downhill.

Or you find out everyone gets this ‘rare’ item in the tutorial.

Using your third foot…?

The others already pointed out that there’s a global, rising trend of climate disasters. I would like to qualify:

• This year did exceed everyone’s expectations. It’s the first year of El Niño after years of increasing temperatures, so while it didn’t come as a complete surprise, it could still be an anomaly.

• If you ask climate scientists, they’ll tell you lots of climate change effects that could contribute to these wildfires, but yeah, ultimately, they’ll say they won’t know for sure until they’ve seen the following years.

However, these are raging wildfires all around the globe, in regions that don’t normally have them and that aren’t linked to each other. At some point, it stops being “a wildfire somewhere” and starts to become a statistic.

Surface-level ocean temperatures are significantly higher this year, globally, than in previous years. We can’t explain such a global increase without climate change. And obviously, warm water evaporates differently, leading to unusual weather patterns, leading to droughts, which increases the likelihood of wildfires.

So, yeah, while the snowball is simply irrelevant to the topic, the wildfire statistic correlates with all our other statistics. You’d have to ignore a ton of evidence to not attribute the wildfires to climate change until proven differently.

I mean, lots of those strangers on the interwebs come from Europe and such, who may very well be aware of Georgia…

Yesterday, I took a bus to a shop in the next city over and got lucky to come out of the shop just a few minutes before the bus went back the other way. The bus driver gave me a look, too, like, didn’t I just drop you off right here 45 minutes ago? Certainly had the feeling of a personal bus…

I mean, I feel like this year in particular illustrates quite well that there are already very real impacts of climate change in rich countries, with Canada, Greece, Hawaii etc. burning. Which makes it worth to delay climate change as much as possible, even if we can’t or don’t want to stop it at livable levels.

Yeah, these days, many people become vegan to combat climate change and are opposed to fossil fuels even before that…

In German, we use “Prosit” as “Cheers” when drinking in a group. 🙃

I’m absolutely no expert and don’t care to defend this unsourced graphic, but one big difference I could imagine is that global warming is happening so rapidly. Plants and the whole ecosystem surrounding them won’t have time to evolve/adapt.

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(I’m dead serious. No fun allowed here.)

Höchste Tierqual,
höchstes Wohlität

Why is it writing German words with “ae” instead of the umlaut (ä)? That makes sense, if you’re typing on a keyboard, but ChatGPT should be capable of outputting umlauts and it shouldn’t be difficult either, to make that 3D printer place two dots above an “a”…

Klingt direkt wie eine Beleidigung. 🙃

Der Kollege heißt “Giuseppe Verdi”.

“Giuseppe” ist quasi das italienische “Joseph”.
Und “Verdi” ist italienisch für “Grün”.

Die Memes in dem Screenshot sind wirklich nicht die Frischesten, aber dass die Dame sich deswegen direkt übergeben muss, ich weiß ja nicht…

Bohnensaft, Nusssaft, Reissaft, Getreidesaft, Hanfsaft, Erbsensaft und selbst die Liste ist wahrscheinlich nicht vollständig.

Im Schnitt schneiden alle veganen Milchalternativen deutlich besser bei den Klimaauswirkungen ab als Kuhmilch, siehe z.B.: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/environmental-footprint-milks

Liegt insbesondere daran, dass Kühe hohe Mengen Methan ausstoßen, selbst wenn sie CO2-neutral auf der Almwiese gefüttert werden sollten.