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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • Coincidentally I just started playing Earthbound (Maternalbound Redux ROM hack) this month. I’m just past the monkey cave. It’s charming, simple, fun. It’s great for my dad brain as right now I’m doing a lot of parenting and my brain isn’t able to handle something more complex.

    I love the humor and the adult jokes.







  • The article doesn’t whiff on this, it lays out why it’s too expensive.

    1. The strategy was to replace gas cars with EV 1-to-1 to solve the climate crisis and save the car industry.
    2. Gas cars have gotten bigger over the years because of marketing, bravado, “safety”, and regulation-skirting.
    3. EV-makers have largely bought into that and made all these huge EVs.
    4. Huge EVs require bigger batteries which are more expensive in raw materials and manufacturing.
    5. Huge batteries are heavy and dangerous.
    6. Range anxiety has encouraged even more oversized batteries on already oversized cars.
    7. Huge batteries are the main source of cost, meaning EVs end up being a luxury.

    So, yes–they are too damn expensive, however a vehicle that meets our actual needs wouldn’t be, if it existed in North America.



  • I’ve had it at my job for a year and a half, it started after the Great Resignation took like half of our good staff.

    The main problem is that it’s used as a scapegoat against any other improvement, e.g. hiring more folks, paying more wages, better benefits. Granted, I’d choose 4dww above a lot of those things, but it doesn’t feel nice that there’s a threat to lose it.







  • Inaction against intolerance is a form of action, is it not? “Bee kind” is not just a call to not be mean, it’s a call to act in kindness.

    I believe the poster is probably right in that it stirs more toward fostering acceptance rather than simply ignoring hate.

    It’s not compelled speech, per se—Beehaw users need to have an active role in order to make it the kind of place people want to bee.