Zadkine

joined 1 year ago
[–] Zadkine 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

These are showing up all over the place in The Netherlands, a country that is not built to accommodate these Emotional Support Trucks. Most are bought by business owners who would be served far better by vans. Even a small van has more usable cargo space than these behemoths, and will actually fit in parking spaces, but for some stupid reason these can be had for cheap by companies because of tax rules (that’s what 20 years of right-wing government does for you). It really is beyond infuriating.

[–] Zadkine 1 points 1 year ago

Disclaimer: ik heb zelf geen auto. Maar ik vind dit in principe een prima plan, mits er geen vlak tarief is, maar er ook wordt gekeken naar gewicht en uitstoot. Het kan niet zo zijn dat een Dodge Ram evenveel betaalt als een Kia Picanto.

[–] Zadkine 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would like to see those polls.

[–] Zadkine 54 points 1 year ago (5 children)

What if you pay them 20 million dollars? ;-)

[–] Zadkine 2 points 1 year ago

Looks really good, will be keeping an eye on this.

[–] Zadkine 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love it! The Lemmy web interface was acting a bit wonky at times, this is a great improvement.

[–] Zadkine 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it’s really nice :-). I really like the progress I’m seeing on this platform since joining 2 weeks ago.

[–] Zadkine 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that also why more ‘interesting’ side, with more features such as lunar maria, is pointed at us? The far side of the moon looks pretty boring compared to the near side. Or is that just a coincidence?

[–] Zadkine 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The first four words in the title crawl are literally ‘a long time ago’ ;-)

But on a more serious note, it’s kind of a mix of both sci-fi and fantasy. There are fantasy tropes such as magic (the force), good and evil wizards (the Jedi and the Sith), swords and dueling (light sabers) etc. In many ways it is more like LOTR than Star Trek: Obi Wan is like Gandalf, Luke is like Frodo etc. Also none of the technology is ever explained, there is no techno-babble.

On the other hand there are lots of sci-fi elements such as spaceships, aliens, technology etc. So on the surface it seems like science fiction, but it borrows lots of stuff from fantasy.

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