I hate that they decided to have Morpheus hold up a battery instead of a processor because some empty suit thought audiences were too stupid to get it.

What’s relevant is that the commenter I replied to suggested that it’s Spotify’s “prerogative” whether to comply with the law or not. It isn’t.

This issue here is people spouting dangerous late-stage-capitalist nonsense, not the content of the ADA rule. Your demand is actually just a derailment tactic.

I never said it was. I said that the requirement is the same whether it’s a free account or a paid one. It’s either always required or it’s never required, but it sure as Hell is not “their prerogative” based on how much they get paid.

Think about it for a second: what the parent commenter is suggesting is that it’s somehow okay for a company to use compliance with legal requirements as an upselling opportunity! You do see the problem with that line of thinking, right?!

But seeing as it’s a free account, it’s their prerogative

Oh, so not charging money magically exempts companies from meeting ADA accessibility requirements for their public accommodations?

Edit: what I’m taking issue with is the notion that being on the free tier of service changes anything. Maybe Spotifiy has an obligation or maybe it doesn’t, but either way, it’s the same regardless of how much or little the customer pays. Being a second-class customer does not make you a second-class citizen who doesn’t get equal protection under the law!

That and (in America at least) closing neighborhood schools to consolidate them into larger ones further away. They’re allegedly better because they can offer more variety of classes and amenities, but losing local schools, which serve as a focus of the community, can destroy neighborhoods. (Example: English Avenue School closing in 1995, and the surrounding neighborhood suffering a huge increase in crime shortly thereafter.)

Russia’s high tech side of their military industrial complex is incredibly weak compared to the old USSR days

They’ve been screwed since like the '60s because of the gap in microprocessor tech.

There’s a quote that came from ICQ’s heyday that I had in mind when I wrote that:

“The Internet: where men are men, women are men, and little girls are FBI agents.”

10/f/935 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington DC, 20535

1. Trump doesn’t need that threat held over his head; he’s a Putin fanboi and true believer.

2. Trump has zero shame. If there were such a tape and it were actually effective at blackmailing him, I’m willing to bet it it’s because it’s a “CP” tape, not just a “pee” tape.

whereas Biden remaining in office drastically favors WWIII.

LOL, nah. Biden vs. Trump is basically a wash in that respect.

and fucking Looney Tunes.

That’s not even slightly true! There are plenty of WWII-era Looney Tunes shorts that show it to be explicitly antifascist.

At this point, I wish Looney Tunes was an option!

This, but not ironically. (Please stop subsidizing gasoline!)

My man Sully making ‘em scream.

Is he? Or is he making them laugh?

(Or is he laughing at them? Or is he the one screaming? Do monster sounds in the human world generate power to begin with?)

Nah, just make the alternatives cheaper

Or make the animal stuff more expensive; same difference.

When they decide to tax the rest of us they just do it. When they decide to tax billionaires, they hem and haw forever over feasibility studies first.

You have unrealistic expectations on someone who is vastly in the minority with commutes like this.

If you admit you’re vastly in the minority, then why did you feel the need to chime in in the first place? If you actually aren’t a reactionary concern troll, you need to realize that making the perfect the enemy of the good like that adds nothing to the conversation and only discourages people from embracing alternatives.

And if I’m angry, by the way, it’s because the sort of shit you just did happens every single goddamn time and is THE major impediment to actually getting shit changed. It’s not some small-but-loud minority of coal-roller (or “Chelsea tractor” in your case, I guess) blatant right-wing assholes who are stopping improvements from happening; it’s all the allegedly-well-meaning moderates quibbling everything to death for not being perfect who are the real problem!

Considering that the vast majority of hydrogen isn’t even “green hydrogen” (produced from electrolysis) but rather “grey” or “blue” (produced from cracking hydrocarbons), I don’t think it was anything more than a straight-up greenwashing scam in the first place. Even the niches where people claim hydrogen is suitable (long-haul trips without battery charging infrastructure) would be better off just burning the damn hydrocarbon as-is to begin with!

Even in the best-case scenario – “green hydrogen” produced from electrolysis – I think it would be better to immediately (at the point of production) combine it with CO₂ pulled from the atmosphere to make synthetic gasoline and then handle that with our existing ICE vehicles and infrastructure. It’s just so impractical to store hydrogen (since it’s so small it leaks through everything, yet so low-density that it requires either extremely high pressures or cryogenic temperatures to fit enough of it in a reasonable amount of space) that it’s simply not worth the effort.

You can moan at my boss for not allowing fully WFH.

IDGAF about your boss. If I were gonna moan about something, it’d be about the shitty state of British Rail or some other macro/policy issue, not anything specific to your situation.

That said, I live in fucking Atlanta – the poster child of terrible American sprawl and traffic – and have figured out how to make cycling for most trips work. I have no doubt that you can do better. Get yourself a damn Brompton (so you can easily take it on the train) and turn that 40 minutes of walking + 35 minutes of Metrolink into however many minutes of biking, for example.

I live in Manchester. Which is an amazing city for public transport. I work in Cheshire which isn’t. … Perhaps when I’m more experienced I can find a job closer to home or more remote, but for now this is all I can do.

Nothing you could say will convince me that there isn’t even a single suitable job for you right now in Manchester. Or that there isn’t a single suitable residence for you right now in whichever town in Cheshire you work in, for that matter.

Bike tires suffer similar problems.

But at a much smaller scale, since the tires are made out of so much less material each.

And my bikes go through tires fairly quick.

Quit doing whip skid stops all the time, ya hoodlum!