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The fines don't make sense to me. If the cars are supposed to meet some specific standard but don't a fine will make it a business problem to hey to pass the cost of the fine along to the consumer. Consider the pickup trucks in the US: typically worse emissions per passenger compared to a "commuter vehicle".
If something doesn't pass regulation, why should it be allowed to be sold at all?
My dad said, "I'll see you later".
Can you elaborate on your last sentence? Is the US more or less trustworthy than alternatives?
I'm so old that I can watch reruns of a series that I've already watched and laugh at the same jokes because I forgot the episode.
Also, it's not the healthiest habit, but TV numbs the mind so that I can forget about my problems long enough to fall asleep.
I'm turning into my dad. I remember waking up early to get to school and seeing my dad sleeping in his recliner with sportsline on very low volume. Now I use TV to get to sleep, too.
This doesn't speak directly to your question, but in the appendix of the Neal Stevenson book, Cryptonomicron, there are instructions on how to use a deck of cards (technically 2) as a one time pad for encrypting and decrypting messages. This could serve as the foundation for secret messaging using other media than paper.
This type of thing happened to me twice. I stopped giving directly and now only donate to charities which vet the recipient and distribute. I'm not paying for someone's drug or alcohol addiction. I also donate my time.
I do wonder what would happen if instances continue to fragment. Will we end up with islands of instances, separated from each other by exclude lists? It sort of says something about humanity if that happens.
I assume you left Reddit for Lemmy for a reason and the beauty of Lemmy (and any federated platform) is that it's not under the control of a single entity. If you don't like what's happening in one instance, you can pick up and go to another instance much easier than it was to switch from Reddit to Lemmy.
Long ago, I read an article of how propoganda was used heavily in WW2 by Germany against its citizens to help unify the country behind an authoritarian regieme and how the rise of a national trusted news source, decouoled from government and private interests was created to reduce polarization.
Archived, non paywall version: https://web.archive.org/web/20210810211957/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/07/what-germany-can-teach-america-about-polarization/619582/
It's working as designed. The sac is the mud flap, right?
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It's actually a little less happy. He was late stage cancer and either the chemo or cancer was affecting his thought. He was bend transferred to a hospice care facility, but only understood that he was leaving the hospital. We were on the phone and I had purchased a plane ticket and he was saying how I shouldn't have because it's much nicer to visit in the summer, but that he was getting out of the hospital and maybe we'd go to this new golf course that he had just discovered and then his favorite restaurant. I agreed and we said goodbye and he said, "I'll see you later."
When Mom got back on the phone, she said that he was confused and that he was actually going to hospice care. It didn't really register because he seemed so normal. He had fallen into a coma shortly after getting transferred to the hospice facility and passed by the time I got there.
He was firmly atheist, so I chuckle to think that maybe he knew something when he said those last words. I guess we'll see.