Pro-tip: a bicycle would never

How about we tax billionaires enough so that the government can train thousands of people to be heat pump technicians and potentially own their own trades business, and then also pay to buy and install them?

Today was not about determining consequences / repercussions. It was only about deciding yes or no on the monopoly issue. The next step in the legal process is determining repercussions for Alphabet, and it seems like there are some pretty dramatic options on the table.

Why not both?

Ah, capitalism

Jesus fucking Christ the court system is just hammering away at my faith in the survivability of humanity under our current system over the past few days. I feel like curling up into a ball and crying at how hopeless this all feels.

JFC that’s dark.

Thanks, friend! I appreciate the reply! Randonneuring is definitely the goal that I have been working towards. Finishing a 200km ride this year is my peak goal, as that would qualify me as a legit randonneur!

I think that perhaps I will pump the breaks on the 157km ride, since it’s on Canada Day and I think my spouse would appreciate me being available for childcare, but I think I’ll find a better training plan for completing the 200km in September.

Having known a few Germans, I can blindly extrapolate that they love cars even more than Americans do. Although, they love cars because of the science and mechanics of how cars work. Americans, on the other hand, love cars because they are lazy and homicidal people who will literally burn the world to ashes as long as they can get to Costco 15 minutes faster.

Flipboards been fucking crushing their platform rollouts

Aaaaand its dead https://9to5google.com/2023/12/09/apple-beeper-mini-imessage/

I dont know much about the primary developers of Lemmy, but from what I can tell this is a part time labor of love project for them. Its unreasonable to ask people to push beyond their boundaries or capacity so that their pet project can become a 1:1 replacement for an incredibly mature platform like Reddit overnight