Volkswagen has ended talks with Renault to launch an affordable EV, according to sources. However, a low-cost Volkswagen electric car is still in the plans....
Citing a family emergency in Florida, third party presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. arrived four hours late for a Nashville campaign fundraising event on Wednesday....
Another truck with a flat hood that hides anyone shorter than 5 feet tall? Thanks, I hate it. No wonder we have so many road deaths in America when manufactures are allowed to make vehicles with such poor visibility.
I think anyone who thinks otherwise either curated it to be awful or didn’t really use it at all.
. . . or was targeted by harassment campaigns that the company did a poor job of protecting against. Plenty of celebrities and political actors realized they could weaponize their fanbases to go after critics, and Twitter never did much to stop it. For public officials or organizations, twitter too often was a cesspool of abuse that they couldn’t afford to leave, and that was messed up. (I think the balance has shifted now, that they can afford to leave and have a moral obligation to do so, but many haven’t.)
I always enjoyed my twitter experiences, because like you, I curated a nice feed to follow (and used a browser to keep on chronological timeline). But I was just a follower, mostly, and was never targeted by the really nasty stuff. But I’m not so myopic as to declare that what worked for me wasn’t awful for many other folks.
There’s a wonderful history of GC riders doing things GC riders shouldn’t do. Go back to the 2016 Tour de France, for example, where the tail end of an otherwise processional stage from Carcassonne to Montpelier saw the wind kick up. Echelons formed, collapsed, and formed again, and when things finally shook out it wasn’t...
Those are some tough and somewhat disparate goals for a single bike. Small/foldable is doable. Trails and sand are doable. Something that does both well enough to be worthwhile is a tall order. Maybe something like the Lectric XP 3.0 could manage it, but I don’t know.
First rest day of the Giro d’Italia, what’s on your mind and what have you been watching? It doesn’t have to be Giro-related, Itzulia Women and Tour de Hongrie just wrapped up too. Heck, if you want to talk gravel or MTB, that’s cool, I hear Lucinda Brand is tearing it up on gravel, and the MTB World Cup is still going...
Visma’s injury luck is pretty lousy this year, with WVA out on injury prior to the Giro, and now his replacement, Christophe Laporte, withdrawing after that bad crash on Stage 5. I know it’s weird to think of Visma as an underdog in anything, but I was glad for Olav Kooij yesterday, good for him and it’s nice to see the young talent stepping up. Also, Cian Uijtdebroeks in the white jersey and sitting in 5th is pretty solid. I hope he can prove himself as they get deeper into the mountains.
Yeah, I can’t even begrudge Pogi for his dominance, he’s out there gleefully riding his bike and mixing it up.
Quintana does not look good. Unless he’s got some unannounced illness or will settle in, I don’t have a lot of hope for his stage-hunting prospects. Plenty of competition there, I’d probably bet on one of the young guns over him at this point.
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When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...
I really wish there was a better alternative to push my friends to. I do use Bandcamp, so at least I know more of my $$$ are going to the artists and I can take the music with me, but I’m not sure about the platform long-term.
I invested heavily in the Amazon Music ecosystem, I bought hundreds of albums on there, and the platform is now very nearly unusuable. I cannot even listen to the songs that I paid for without also having to listen to ads. And the Android app now hides the downloads in some hidden folder so I can’t even download them and listen to them on another player. It makes me furious.
I’ve actually gone back to CDs, if you can believe it. It’s kind of nice sometimes, especially for full album plays, but I do miss a nice big playlist of my favorite songs from all artists.
I don’t hate the sprint teams, and I like Jonathan Milan quite a bit, but I love the scrappy underdogs, and I always cheer for the breakaway, unless some GC dynamics are in play.
I bought a laptop yesterday, it came pre-installed with Windows 11. I hate win 11 so I switched it down to Windows 10, but then started considering using Linux for total control over the laptop, but here’s the thing: I keep seeing memes about how complicated or fucky wucky Linux is to install and run. I love the idea of open...
I definitely found Linux Mint the easiest version to switch to, coming from Windows. All the menus and icons were basically where I expected to find them. I couldn’t have cared less about Wayland support, I just wanted to do basic tasks and for my printer to work, and Mint did that out of the box.
Finally got around to Talos Principle (the first one) and it’s as good as people said.
I also started playing some space battles in Empire at War on “Star Wars Day” (May the Fourth) and find that level of not-very-challenging RTS kind of soothing, so I’m back to playing that for a bit.
Volkswagen to go solo on affordable EVs after ending talks with Renault (electrek.co)
Volkswagen has ended talks with Renault to launch an affordable EV, according to sources. However, a low-cost Volkswagen electric car is still in the plans....
RFK Jr. did an event at the Ryman last night. He was 4 hours late, took the stage at 11pm, and only stayed for 15 minutes. (tennesseelookout.com)
Citing a family emergency in Florida, third party presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. arrived four hours late for a Nashville campaign fundraising event on Wednesday....
Kia is testing an electric pickup in the US that looks like a Ford F-150 Lightning (electrek.co)
Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter (www.eurogamer.net)
Though the way the leaker describes it makes it sound more like a 3rd person MOBA than a hero shooter....
Twitter is officially X.com now (www.theverge.com)
Recognizing when you're living in your best years (lemmy.world)
Tadej Pogačar, Prince of Why The Hell Not (escapecollective.com)
There’s a wonderful history of GC riders doing things GC riders shouldn’t do. Go back to the 2016 Tour de France, for example, where the tail end of an otherwise processional stage from Carcassonne to Montpelier saw the wind kick up. Echelons formed, collapsed, and formed again, and when things finally shook out it wasn’t...
I know nothing about e-bikes. Which should I get?
I’d like to start looking for an e-bike. The primary goal is something off-road capable. I’m thinking simple trails and sand....
Giro Rest Day thread (lemmy.world)
First rest day of the Giro d’Italia, what’s on your mind and what have you been watching? It doesn’t have to be Giro-related, Itzulia Women and Tour de Hongrie just wrapped up too. Heck, if you want to talk gravel or MTB, that’s cool, I hear Lucinda Brand is tearing it up on gravel, and the MTB World Cup is still going...
Eurovision loses almost a quarter of UK viewers compared with 2023 (www.theguardian.com)
Saturday night’s final was watched by average of 7.64m as Britain’s entry, Olly Alexander, finished in 18th place...
"I have the sunshine on the other line" (lemmy.world)
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After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year (www.billboard.com)
When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...
Lynn Williams breaks NWSL goal contributions record in Gotham FC win (justwomenssports.com)
Lynn Williams cannot be stopped....
The sprinters are going to want that one back [Giro Stage 5] (escapecollective.com)
It was somewhere in the roundabouts on the outskirts of Lucca that despair began to take hold....
Freddie Mercury riding Darth Vader (lemmy.world)
Freddie Mercury, comes out for an encore riding on the shoulders of Darth Vader. Houston, August 10, 1980
I don't know anything about Linux and the idea of installing it frightens me. Where do I start?
I bought a laptop yesterday, it came pre-installed with Windows 11. I hate win 11 so I switched it down to Windows 10, but then started considering using Linux for total control over the laptop, but here’s the thing: I keep seeing memes about how complicated or fucky wucky Linux is to install and run. I love the idea of open...
NWSL Film Study - North Carolina Courage vs Utah Royals - 2024 Week Two (www.youtube.com)
This YouTube channel does really good film study of games, someone shared it on Mastodon and I’ve enjoyed it.
Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing?