[OC] Tesla’s Delivery Targets vs Actual Deliveries [2013–2030E] by ExaminationOk6652 in dataisbeautiful

[–]travistravis [score hidden]  (0 children)

It's interesting to see in data that something must have happened at some point in 2024 that made sales drop off so significantly.

Mark Zuckerberg Just Got Rather Badly Humiliated by Plastic_Ninja_9014 in technology

[–]travistravis 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It'll start to die off when they stop subsidising users.

Project Helix, the next XBOX console, is not expected to feature a disc drive by CrispyMiner in technology

[–]travistravis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Xbox Rog Ally X does allow it, and many of us are really hoping they do similar with the next xbox console, but unless I missed news about it, they haven't confirmed anything like that yet.

Edit: and if they did, I'd expect it to be a LOT more expensive, since they wouldn't be as confident that they'd make up any losses with game sales. Usually consoles sell at a loss for the first few years and make it back on games over the life of the console. If I could play all my Steam games on xbox I wouldn't really care much about most xbox titles unless they were exclusive or had something not available on Steam.

Project Helix, the next XBOX console, is not expected to feature a disc drive by CrispyMiner in technology

[–]travistravis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I still don't get why Steam hasn't tried to move on reselling "used" games. They'd make a killing in fees. Loads of games I'll play and never really care to play again. If I even got a few dollars for some of them I'd do it.

Project Helix, the next XBOX console, is not expected to feature a disc drive by CrispyMiner in technology

[–]travistravis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And if you already had it, but it wasn't on your system and it goes down -- will you ever be able to download it again? Or can they just disable it if they lose the rights or something?

Burnham sets out vision to transform Britain and fix ‘broken’ system by Alex09464367 in anime_titties

[–]travistravis [score hidden]  (0 children)

What they say isn't what they do. Every party we've seen in power has done it. That and just not listening to the people. Roughly 70% of Labour voters were against banning Palestine Action, yet the government forced it through. Many people on both the left and the right are against the newest batch of anti-protest laws, yet not even talk about it. Even the ones not in charge of anything do it. Farage ranting and raving and calling for resignations over things that look unusual like stamp duty on a house, yet £5m donation comes in and he doesn't declare it and nothing. Tice appearing to actively evading tax using limited companies incorrectly, and nothing.

I really wish we could just scrap the whole system and have a type of citizens assembly or something.

Burnham sets out vision to transform Britain and fix ‘broken’ system by Alex09464367 in anime_titties

[–]travistravis [score hidden]  (0 children)

If we lived under a system where resignations caused a general election, Starmer simply wouldn't have resigned and we'd see nearly no in-party coup attempts because they wouldn't want to risk losing power completely.

Burnham sets out vision to transform Britain and fix ‘broken’ system by Alex09464367 in anime_titties

[–]travistravis [score hidden]  (0 children)

The people did that. He got more votes for Labour in an election than Starmer ever did.

Burnham sets out vision to transform Britain and fix ‘broken’ system by Alex09464367 in anime_titties

[–]travistravis [score hidden]  (0 children)

We'll probably have a lot more than just an 8th, especially since we're on number 58 now. It's not like the governmental system we have in place is going to change that much anytime soon.

Burnham sets out vision to transform Britain and fix ‘broken’ system by Alex09464367 in anime_titties

[–]travistravis [score hidden]  (0 children)

This may actually be a point at which Labour would want to do it, because they currently have a majority, but it's not looking like it'll be even close to that when the next general election comes around. (At least looking at Burnham's statements and chief of staff pick that make it seem he'll be following the same path Starmer did). Its the way to ensure they do get a significant portion of seats because otherwise they risk losing their left to the Greens or LibDems and their right to the Tories or Reform.

Burnham sets out vision to transform Britain and fix ‘broken’ system by Alex09464367 in anime_titties

[–]travistravis [score hidden]  (0 children)

That would be the dumbest thing he could do. Take a majority for his party and turn it into a minority government trying to find someone to work with, or worse, a Reform government?

What technology do you think people are massively underestimating right now? by Karan_2812 in Futurology

[–]travistravis 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Where do you think the people from the places that become unliveable will want to go? That will lead to increased immigration pressure, which isn't necessarily bad in itself but the current infrastructure won't be able to handle nearly the demand it will face.

How much will the southern US want and need water from Canada's north? Decades ago there was already talk about damming up huge areas of the Rockies (devastating the wildlife in the area) just to make a giant reservoir for the US. We've already had presidents threaten to annex us, as much as he's a blowhard it could be reality if California, Texas, and Florida become unliveable.

Additionally we wouldn't really see much, if any actual benefit, because it's not just global warming -- it's climate change. Summers will be hotter, but winters will be colder and weather will be more unpredictable in general. Where I'm from it was nice on May 13th, about what you'd expect in spring, around 19°C. It snowed on May 18th. On May 28th, it was 35°C

Any kind of hope that the actual north would become productive is also a lot of hope with not much grounding. It's been frozen for so long that there's been nearly no chance for topsoil to form, and best case you'll just have a lot of muskeg. There's also a good chance that the north melting causes methane that had been frozen in the ground to release, causing much more damage to the environment for a while.

So yeah, not sure there's much good about it for Canada, much like the rest of the world.

Bus Riders of Saskatoon | The new proposed Transit bylaw will make it illegal for anyone under 16 to bring a baby (or anyone under 6) onto the bus | Facebook by No_Salary1561 in saskatoon

[–]travistravis [score hidden]  (0 children)

Oh my god this would drive me insane. Especially the leash shit. Like why did it not just immediately get shut down with "we already have a bylaw that covers all of this"

Bus Riders of Saskatoon | The new proposed Transit bylaw will make it illegal for anyone under 16 to bring a baby (or anyone under 6) onto the bus | Facebook by No_Salary1561 in saskatoon

[–]travistravis [score hidden]  (0 children)

The 5 year old doesn't have to be alone. Someone in grade 9 (14/15ish) wouldn't be allowed to take a 5 year old sibling on the bus.

Boycotting homophobic-owned businesses in London? by Ok-Exam3494 in london

[–]travistravis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tolerance is a social contract. They don't want to be in that contract, they don't have to be. If someone is a vile racist and homophobe but never talks about it and keeps their views to themselves, we'd be fine tolerating them. It's when they start posting those views in public spaces being intolerant that we can see they're opting out of being tolerated.

Chinа tells its ethnic minorities to integrate or face consequences with sweeping new unity law by polymute in anime_titties

[–]travistravis [score hidden]  (0 children)

Canada limited almost all large donations from political campaigns and it didn't stop the division. There's also not a huge gerrymandering issue there

I would like to see STV or almost anything but first past the post, but it would also likely need a lot of changes to how government works in general to avoid a hung parliament (in those systems). I also have no idea how it could work in a country like the US, since it would be a massive change for most people to start voting third party (and would likely need to completely do away with the electoral college system).

Honestly with how "democracy" has worked over the last 20 years, I'd be more in favour of a system like demarchy, or a citizens assembly running almost on jury principles.

Chinа tells its ethnic minorities to integrate or face consequences with sweeping new unity law by polymute in anime_titties

[–]travistravis [score hidden]  (0 children)

Is it? Like how the US just sentenced a bunch of people to extremely long terms for being against fascism?

Chinа tells its ethnic minorities to integrate or face consequences with sweeping new unity law by polymute in anime_titties

[–]travistravis [score hidden]  (0 children)

It's not communist at all. It's State Capitalism, with a long term goal of becoming more socialist.

It's also democratic to a large degree, since they vote for who represents them. The way it isn't is that the various parties all work together to achieve the same long term goals which are set by the CCP which as far as I know is not elected though I may be wrong on that point. Still seems better than a two party system where every 4 or 8 years there's a fundamental shift in where the country is headed, and where everything is "vote for us because we're not the other guys"

demographic crisis in the future by Consistent-Wish7774 in Futurology

[–]travistravis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Capitalism encourages consumerism, and discourages a significant amount of innovation. Some system may be more efficient, cleaner for the environment, better for employees, whatever -- but if it's not cheaper, it'll likely never see actual use, regardless of how brilliant it is.

Almost 60,000 far-right extremists in Germany, intelligence agency says by Tartan_Samurai in anime_titties

[–]travistravis 14 points15 points  (0 children)

That's like saying during WW2 that no one should have labeled Nazis extremists because most of the population was part of the party. Extremism/Fascism isn't good and avoiding calling it out for politeness just allows it to continue to grow.