If you’re into early 20th century pulp fantasy, I highly recommend Edgar Rice Burroughs’s John Carter of Mars and Robert E. Howard’s Conan.

Lars? Lars Ulrich of Metallica fame? Why would he get mad over fans liking music? When did this happen? The Napster case, while bullshit, at least had something of a leg to stand on but this is just absurd.

Fires that entrap passengers are a well-documented and recurring problem with every model in Tesla’s lineup of vehicles, but Cybertrucks appear to have a disproportionate number of known deaths. Safety experts have told the Guardian that the truck’s unique design amplifies the deadly issue. The vehicles come with high-density laminated windows that are harder to break than regular car windows, making escape and rescue difficult when doors won’t unlock. And the trucks are built with materials not commonly used in the industry, like stainless steel, which can complicate the work of emergency responders. The Cybertruck is also the first Tesla model to entirely eliminate door handles on the outside of the vehicle.

First, “unique” design? It’s an ugly callback to the wedge-shaped cars of the 80s. It looks like a DeLorean model that refused to render properly, and the dev just went with it.

Second, the decision to exclude door handles is fucking mental. It’s a mundane feature that cars have had since the Model T. If they wanted to make a pickup, its handles should resemble those found on a typical pickup. If it’s “aesthetics” they’re after (which shouldn’t matter when it comes to a pickup), some of the best looking cars have had no problem including door handles into its design.

Speaking as a cishet man, the only time any two people can have unprotected sex is when both parties know the STD status of each other. He has to understand that IUDs are for pregnancy prevention, not STD prevention. If you wish to continue with this guy and at some point you want to start having unprotected sex with him, go get STD tested together. In the meantime, he has to wear the condom. If that bothers him, dump him. Don’t put your body and your life at risk.

Wait, they have to weigh the option of having their rivers poisoned? How about just rejecting it out right?

I forget what state this was in but they allowed pork farmers to dump pig effluent into the local rivers. This killed many fish and local wildlife. Why a state’s local EPA chapter would allow such blatant environmental hazards to happen is beyond me.

Sort of unrelated but what is Quebec like to live in? I ask because my wife and I may take refuge there in couple of months with the way things are going here in the states. I don’t speak French and the only language that I speak, besides English, is Spanish.

It’s bound to cause some destabilization in the region. Israel is all too happy that Daddy America help attack a long time rival and the Saudis are celebrating that their planet-destroying endeavors oil interests are protected. People will say that Iranians are celebrating his death. The ayatollah was a brutal religious tyrant but that doesn’t change the fact the US and Israel didn’t do this to save the Iranian people; they did this for their own geopolitical endgames.

I’d argue that an armed uprising would have a greater effect than a smaller internet-based boycott but I’m just some random guy on some niche internet forum so… who’s to say?

Ironic considering the MAGA crowd complained about 15-minute cities. Don’t want little Bobby having a school, library, park and stores within walking and cycling distance from Mommy and Daddy’s two-story, HOA-approved house.

Napalm Death though the current line-up has been the same since their third album with sad exemption of Jesse Pintado who passed away in 2006.

Here’s some tips:

1. Sticking to this community’s name, ditch the automobile all together and adopt a hybrid approach of cycling and public transit. Buy and/or build a good bike or e-bike and learn the local bus route and/or routes of any other public transit.

2. For those of us still stick in Der Orangenführer’s fascist regime, stick to cars made before 2012. Some cars were going to high tech before this but it’s bond to be outdated but check if it’s still used.

It’s a bit wonky in some parts but the ending ties the whole thing together. Definitely give it a read.

Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons. Some of best science-fiction literature ever penned.

However, the author, while a superb writer, is an asshole.

Good to know that I’m not the only one. I don’t see plane guys and submarine guys using those as their daily drivers. I do have to ask though: am I a hypocrite if I want walkable cities but also want to embrace van life? I would love to get my hands on an old Soviet UAZ-452 and travel around Lake Superior and Lake Tahoe in it.

The idea wasn’t about cleaning your PC but rather cooling it. The idea was that since mineral oil hydrophilic (is that the right word?), it could do a better job than air or water cooling. However, as other have pointed out, it was a massive hassle with marginal benefits.

I would highly advise against this! That would be a health and fire hazard waiting to happen. Isopropyl is good for cleaning your electronics but I wouldn’t bathe them in it.

If you still want to try submerging your PC in some kind of liquid, you can try mineral oil. This was a trend in PC building back in the early-mid 2010s but seems to have lost momentum around 2017/2018. I’ve never done this myself so research thoroughly. Other than that, stick to water-cooling.

Also, at the risk of sounding like an asshole, I would advise quitting smoking.

Same. Had to read that headline twice just to be sure.

The decentralized model gives it a good head start against financial interest and populist mass adoption.

Thomas Sankara would like to know your location

Refused

Cro-Mags

Napalm Death

Power Trip

Iron Reagan

Exodus

Non-metal suggestions:

Thievery Corporation

Skinny Puppy

Massive Attack