SreudianFlip

joined 7 months ago
[–] SreudianFlip 1 points 2 days ago

In Ministry for the Future, the opposition to this garbage is successful by bringing down a few choice flights with drone swarms, then announcing more will come to those who dare.

[–] SreudianFlip 1 points 2 days ago

Who TF subscribes to the Star?!

[–] SreudianFlip 0 points 2 days ago

My very compact SparkEV is a retrofit, so the same body as the ICE version: the battery is tiny at 19kwh but it's still like having an extra passenger and then some. You can feel the weight and stiffened suspension when driving.

[–] SreudianFlip 3 points 3 days ago

Um, one thing that helps is reading the entire message, including disclaimers...

Also, please don't try to reduce media literacy to fact checking, you'll just get hung up on authenticity.

[–] SreudianFlip 2 points 3 days ago

lol does throwing chickens back over the fence count?

[–] SreudianFlip 2 points 3 days ago

I used to own a W124 series Benz (bought used for 5% of sticker price, I ain't no fauntelroy). Nearly everything on it was redundant or excessively skookum.

When systems that weren't as rugged started going down, like the vacuum controllers for doors or the 4matic computer etc, the car still worked safely with reduced convenience. A few minor design flaws like the wiring harness but that's it. Room to work under the hood, too.

It was built in '93 when the engineers still ran the company.

Current main driver is the super reliable '03 CRV.

[–] SreudianFlip 6 points 3 days ago

One of our cars is a 2016 GM and I just unscrewed the cell antenna instead of ripping out the cell module. Tracking disabled, or at least unreliable. The subscription nav is useless and easy to ignore. I would like to figure out how to prevent the siriusxm ads built into the infotainment system, still.

I look forward to better infotainment hacks down the road.

[–] SreudianFlip 3 points 3 days ago (5 children)

This is true for nearly everyone!

However, I have been immunized by media literacy studies, digital literacy practice, reading history, having a healthy respect for the scientific method and a basic understanding of political economy.

You know--what in some jurisdictions is called schooling.

[someconditionsmayapply, immunization does not confer immunity, merely resistance, consult your local poets]

[–] SreudianFlip 1 points 1 week ago

Propaganda conflates industrialization with capitalism continually, obscuring the possibility of any other economic system.

[–] SreudianFlip 10 points 1 week ago

You're right, and he probably thought he was saying Argentina.

[–] SreudianFlip 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's not just medieval. Sargon of Akkad started instituting that shit millennia ago. It is embedded in the region and has infected a good chunk of the world. Islam is just one vector; ancient greeks passed the same patriarchal idea of women's behaviour determining male honour into christianity too.

[–] SreudianFlip -1 points 3 weeks ago

Oh, Indonesians have some, ahem, concerning stories for you.

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