Rebuilding a collapsed society does require a lot of work.

My niece just traded her burgundy Alfa Romeo Giulietta for her brand new Geely EX2.

She did want the dusty pink one (she is a 19 year old girl who works very hard and purchased her cars herself), but decided on the mint green one because it would have better resale value. They also have a tan one, but the boring grey one is the hottest seller!

Vibrant pigments usually rely on heavy metals. Lead was common in Red and green paints, arsenic was in greens and chromium was in blue. When they were replaced with organic pigments. They either lost their vibrancy or degraded and faded very quickly.

Also, paint is spread very thinly on cars compared to in the old days. This is partially due to higher quality steel, partially due to more plastic panels and mainly due to weight and cost reduction. This means that doing a cut-and-polish to liven up faded paintwork is liable to expose undercoat.

Most car dealerships only stock black, white, silver or grey.

I walked into our showroom the other day and it was very reminiscent of Henry Fords “any colour, as long as it’s black”. There were also two silver cars and one dark blue car hidden in the back, as if it was ashamed of itself.

I drive a tan car. My niece drives a mint green car. There are two jungle green Zeekr’s in our street but every single other car is monochrome.

This is by design. They don’t want anyone to restrict access so they have their desired option; A) on the RH side (to conform to the western idiom that right is forward, based on the flow of text). B) less text, this is also why “OK” is shorter than “Cancel”

You will also notice that there are no icons. Several OS’s HIGs recommend a ✅ for “confirm” and a ❌ for “reject” because they are easier to interpret quickly. Nowadays human interface design is all about forcing the user to conform, rather than allowing them make a decision that isn’t preferable to the developer.

This is the whole underpinning of Neo-Liberalism, give the users multiple irrelevant choices, but don’t give them any meaningful choice.

There is nothing “regular” about the current unregulated capitalism going on in the US at the moment.

Datacentres run on diesel generators when the grid cannot provide enough power.

This is why diesel is so expensive.

Thank you for that clarification.

If you ask China, Nepal is already annexed, just like Taiwan.

If you are planning on creating legal backups of physical media, you may be restricted in what drives are suitable.

BluRay drives may have copy protection that is not able to be bypassed without custom firmware, specialist software and decryption codes.

Some DVDs are also obfuscated so they can’t be read by a computer; to the point where they can’t even play on some DVD players.

You will probably find most people in Lemmy are Atheist or agnostic, IMO, but you do need to find your own belief system.

While having your own belief system is unusual in our conformist society, it is not weird. What is weird is that so many people blindly follow someone else’s belief system.

I reckon that is one of the reasons. Lemmy’s (and the entire ActivityPub/Fediverse ecosystem/graph) attracts people with a positive, progressive attitude.

Advertising is based on passive attitude and thrives on negative attitudes.

There was a lot of negative being accepted (and sometimes actively pushed) on some instances, but most other instances defederated from them.

Not the only case of this happening; Corporate Social Media providers do not want the Fediverse to succeed at all.

Instagram (and Fascbook, and WhatsApp, and Threads) all censor references to PixelFed.

If you cross post, it is best to watermark your photos with your PixelFed address.

Our local Street Racing in the 1970s also included an entrant provided by the Local Police. They also provided road closures and crowd control and usually won, reinforcing the idea that if you took part in illegal street racing, you were likely to get caught.

There has been a huge crackdown on Street Racing in the last 50 years and we no longer locally manufacture Muscle Cars.

The former Street Racers have turned to 4WDing and have been tearing up 4WD tracks and Firebreaks since.

This makes it difficult for Hikers, Horseriders, Mountain Bikers, campers and recreational touring 4WDers, as well as park rangers and firefighters.

HP are already doing that with the policy on bootleg ink and toner.

I’m not going to listen to it but apparently it isn’t a dis track, it is a load of wank about how rich he is that he can afford a Cybertruck.

Apparently the author also declined to listen to it, but they are a Journalist; it is their job to listen to it.

Repetition with sincerity.

Just keep telling them that they are beautiful.

Someone with body issues of any sort just need to have their self-esteem reinforced.

Targetting their specific issue can seam insincere. Just telling them that they are beautiful is enough.

I am inferring a difference between an algorithm that is based on simple rules, and an algorithm that is constantly being dishonestly modified for commercial, political and financial benefit.

The fact that comments are prioritised by simple rules, an not by some sort of monolithic ALGORITHM, keeps the discussion dynamic.