I had some lessons and found it completely terrifying too. I'm too easily overwhelmed and don't have the reaction times to feel safe while controlling a vehicle. Like, I can drive, and in zen mode I'm even pretty good at it- but all it takes is some flashing lights and/or sudden loud noise and I'm unable to continue driving as my brain's filled with static.
Luckily I've always enjoyed walking and lived in places with public transport options.
Isreal trained a lot if SA private security forces. This feels like propaganda against SA by isreal considering the timing and SA's efforts to stop the genocide of Palestinians.
A warm start to the winter season has left the Great Lakes virtually ice-free and with their lowest ice cover to kick off a new year in at least 50 years....
At this point climate collapse and resource depletion is going to take care of us all by the end of the century so imo damage mitigation is our best option.
Don't have kids. Go vegan. Reduce your consumption of items produced by slavery and sweatshops as much as possible.
Basically just do as much as you can to lower the amount of suffering you create by existing.
Killing people in the name of left wing politics is going to make things worse for everyone.
Despite Star Trek: Discovery's critical success, it was far from a fan-favorite. Though all four seasons boast an average 85 percent critical score, the audience score is at a dismal 37 percent. Since audience scores are more strongly correlated to overall viewership, Discovery simply wasn't pulling the numbers to make it a...
The trek boards on reddit were seething when disco came out because 'how dare a black woman be in a leading role in trek' and 'I can't relate to the show any more now' and 'why are there so many females on the bridge'.
There was a lot of very bitter 'it's just not trek' from folk with poor reasonings as to why too.
But fuck them klingons in Disco though, that was the wrong culture and way of thinking to explore. They can't change klingons like that, klingons are static unchanging aliens in trek, they never changed once before disco and it didn't make sense.
BANGKOK (AP) — Airstrikes by Myanmar’s military on a village under the control of the pro-democracy resistance in the country’s northwest have killed at least 17 civilians, including nine children, local residents and a human rights group said Sunday.
Everyday I learn about more mass scale atrocities happening all over the world and it's beyond insane to comprehend that our species lives like this and does this to itself.
We are beyond redemption when every single generation has uncountable made made horrors it repeatedly inflicts upon itself like this. We can't protest away or reform the human nature to inflict suffering and mass murder, if this was something we were capable of as a species, we would have done it by now.
Complete climate collpase cannot come soon enough, we need to die off.
We have been trying to make a better world since we evolved into humans and yet we're still like this.
If anything we've gotten worse as technological advancements have increased and that made enslaving, colonising, genociding, wars, mass murders and all the other horrible shit people do to each other, easier; maximising the suffering caused.
Telling people to kill themselves for being upset with the status quo, because you're trying to make the world "better", is hilarious.
I'm not wishing for it, it's happening. Humans are polluting themselves into extinction by choice.
And all these wars are only going to increase as climate refugees try to migrate and we run out of resources. By 2030 we're going to be 40% over capacity globally on fresh water.
Maybe you haven't done enough yet today to make the world a better place. Try telling me to kill myself again. Or better yet, go run the taps for no reason and leave them like that.
That will show me for thinking the water will run out.
Weird title. It's a beautiful project and photo but that yarn looks (and very likely is) acrylic, and while warm elephants and community fibre arts are good things, all I can think about when I see stuff like this is microplastics.
Yeah but the Borg would be breaking into houses to force convert folk.
Then again those xtian door knocking religions are often very fond of 'mission trips' to forcibly convert folk for the cost of the 'humanitarian aid' they provide, which isn't unlike the Borg at all.
Just like taxes, laundry is a core but exasperating task we all must face so long as we are alive. Everything becomes meaningless social constructs when you do your laundry – time, reality, even states of being. I learned this the last time I did my laundry, and after putting it in the dryer for what seemed like a whole phase...
For me the worst is pillowcases, as I use several on each pillow and I remove one every few days so my face is always on a clean fabric.
Climbing into bed only to be greeted with the smell of mildew when your head hits the pillow, is incredibly depressing.
I know the solution is to only use one pillow case at a time, but after over a decade with this stacked method, I really like the routine of knowing to do a load of laundry when my pillows all feel too flimsy to sleep on comfortably, and it saves on storage space if all my pillowcases are either on the pillows or in the laundry bag at any given point.
I’ve always been curious as to what “normal” people think programming is like. The wildest theory I’ve heard is “typing ones and zeroes” (I’m a software engineer)
*(Also in case you weren't being a bigot and were instead referring to what it's really like to work in tech: I do know industry isn't entierly cat girls in coding socks but most of the computers for career people I've known have been, so I choose to believe.)
In early December, images circulated worldwide showing dozens of Palestinian men in the city of Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, who were stripped to their underwear, kneeling or sitting hunched over, then blindfolded and put into the back of Israeli military trucks like cattle. The vast majority of these detainees were...
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Anyone drive? How do you find it? I am absolutely terrified after my first lesson
Sorry in advance for the wall of text! Some background…...
It's a misdemeanor until you get to six (sh.itjust.works)
As police lose the war on crime in South Africa, private security companies step in (apnews.com)
Where is the ice? Great Lakes ice cover is nearly non-existent and reaches 50-year record low (www.cnn.com)
A warm start to the winter season has left the Great Lakes virtually ice-free and with their lowest ice cover to kick off a new year in at least 50 years....
Star Trek: Discovery Cancellation Gets Even Worse (www.giantfreakinrobot.com)
Despite Star Trek: Discovery's critical success, it was far from a fan-favorite. Though all four seasons boast an average 85 percent critical score, the audience score is at a dismal 37 percent. Since audience scores are more strongly correlated to overall viewership, Discovery simply wasn't pulling the numbers to make it a...
An air attack in Myanmar kills 17, including children, but the military has denied responsibility (apnews.com)
BANGKOK (AP) — Airstrikes by Myanmar’s military on a village under the control of the pro-democracy resistance in the country’s northwest have killed at least 17 civilians, including nine children, local residents and a human rights group said Sunday.
Eating Meat Is Bad for Climate Change, and Here Are All the Studies That Prove It (sentientmedia.org)
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Woman Art (lemy.lol)
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If the borg were a religion (lemmy.world)
I LIVED IT: I Couldn't Tell if My Laundry Was Wet or Just Cold (reductress.com)
Just like taxes, laundry is a core but exasperating task we all must face so long as we are alive. Everything becomes meaningless social constructs when you do your laundry – time, reality, even states of being. I learned this the last time I did my laundry, and after putting it in the dryer for what seemed like a whole phase...
Anger as oil and gas industry veteran chosen to lead next COP climate talks (www.independent.co.uk)
To those not in the IT industry, what do you think programming is like?
I’ve always been curious as to what “normal” people think programming is like. The wildest theory I’ve heard is “typing ones and zeroes” (I’m a software engineer)
Inside Israel’s torture camp for Gaza detainees (www.972mag.com)
In early December, images circulated worldwide showing dozens of Palestinian men in the city of Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, who were stripped to their underwear, kneeling or sitting hunched over, then blindfolded and put into the back of Israeli military trucks like cattle. The vast majority of these detainees were...
Cop29 will be led by Azerbaijan’s ecology minister who is oil industry veteran (www.theguardian.com)