Saddam gripping with his feet.

If the comic doesnt describe you, then it isnt talking about you.

Unless you happen to draw cartoons or try to beat videogames quickly. Then it is talking about you.

Japan actually does very little in the way of pedestrian or bicycle friendly road design compared to most European countries (there are a few things worth learning from IMO, just not as many as, say, the Netherlands).

It works as well as it does because of the narrow streets and how little car traffic they have (even less than the Netherlands, which does way more to try and reign in cars but has way more of them). They have so little car traffic because you have to prove you have a permanent parking space in order to buy a car, there’s no on-street parking, and the public transit network is very extensive. That and the aforementioned narrow streets just make driving inconvenient compared to the other options.

Considering how common back problems are I think school gym classes should focus on teaching safe lifting techniques (for moving furniture, appliances, etc) and doing exercises that strengthen back muscles.

Cardio is good too of course, but I think people would see more benefit in the long run from a strong back and good lifting technique.

You’d probably have to have more stringent requirements for gym teachers if you did this though.

Horsepower is just a fake number derived from torque.

I don’t really disagree with your earlier comment, and I agree that the shape of the torque curve matters a lot when it comes to the practicalities and experience of driving a vehicle, but, uhh, what you said here is just completely wrong.

Force and speed (torque and RPM) are both components of power (horsepower is torque * RPM / 5253). Saying that the RPM, or time component, of that equation doesn’t matter is the same as saying it wouldn’t matter if it takes 10 seconds or 10 years for a crane to lift a load at a construction site, since its lifting the same weight either way.

To put it another way, with a long enough lever I can exert enough force to start a passenger train rolling down the tracks with just my own arms (and in fact, people do something similar using compound levers). But what that doesn’t let me do is move a passenger train at 200 MPH like high speed rail lines do. There is no arrangement of gears or mechanical linkages that will let a single human being power a high speed rail line like that, the human body does not have enough power output.

The conservative mind can’t understand that if you add up a bunch of little things it can become a big thing.

One person throwing one piece of trash on the ground doesn’t do that much, but if dozens of people do it then the area starts to look like shit. Take a conservative and show them such an area and they’ll agree it looks like shit. Ask them if they want the place they live to look like that and they’ll say no. But try to explain that’s why they shouldn’t litter and it doesn’t click.

That’s not to say “oh, they’re actually super nice and its just this one mental hitch that’s causing them to act like shitheads”. No, they’re extremely selfish, mean spirited, and immature. Its just that they’re also very stupid and will act against their own interests because they can’t comprehend this concept.

See: wearing masks during covid / trying to limit the spread, and herd immunity from vaccines. Or believing in “micro evolution” while thinking that “macro evolution” is impossible. Or global warming. Or even the idea that animals can go extinct. Or the idea that oil or coal could run out some day. You’d think, conceptually, a person could understand that if there’s demonstrably a finite amount of something (oil fields have dried up, mines run dry, and there are only so many of these things on the earth) and you keep taking chunks out of that thing then eventually it’ll run out. But somehow that chain of logic just doesn’t work. And things like nonlinearities, tipping points, or emergent effects and its just impossible.

The only way stuff like that somewhat gets through their minds is by conceptualizing it as some kind of nefarious ‘plan’ by an enemy. Which is why conspiracy theories are so common on the right. Why do you see more gay people in media now than you used to? Well, in the conservative mind it can’t be because of complicated societal changes that took place over decades which eventually hit a tipping point in acceptance. No, obviously its some social engineering plan by some kind of powerful and shadowy elite.

This is the Christian worldview too. Is the world the way it is because of a bunch of complicated interacting emergent processes? No, its Gods’s good plan vs Satan’s evil plan.

EDIT: the thought process for the specific thing you’re talking about is that if capitalism does anything bad to you its because of a plot by crony capitalism / the illuminatii / the jews. The idea that capitalism as a system inevitability concentrates power into the hands of a tiny elite, and both selects for and incentivizes bastard behavior, relies on the mental ability to conceptualize a bunch of small things adding up into a big thing. Add in the idea that capitalism is just “human nature” / “the way things have always worked” and if there’s any problems its not the system’s fault, its the fault of one specific person or group.

Dang, I could’ve swore there was something about “he wants social democracy not democratic socialism”, but I guess that was other people describing him.

What you’re describing is dirigism at best. They have billionaires bro. They’re capitalist.

Bernie Sanders is more economically left wing than that and he doesn’t even describe himself as a socialist.

You can buy big bottles of pure limonene online sold as a cleaner.

Its way cheaper per unit than those tiny bottles of essential oils, which shows how inflated the price is for a lot of them.

Very nice

You’re describing a parent that thinks they own their children’s souls and bodies, and thinks they can do whatever he wants to them, up to and including torturing them with fire.

That sort of thing ought to make any decent person sick to their stomach, but christians will tell you its love. It should be no wonder that there are so many pedophile priests and christian fascists that want to tell you what you can do with your own body.

I know religion isn’t exactly the most popular topic on Lemmy

Then you should go back to the hole you crawled out of.

Its an edit of this comic:

I was suspicious of the version in the post because the Kelly character wouldn’t know who any of the people in the top right are.

Original image:

By the American government’s own definition most of it legally cannot be called cheese. Instead its “IMITATION PASTEURIZED PROCESS CHEESE FOOD” or something similar.

Even the stuff that can be labeled cheese only has to be 51% cheese, and 49% can be something else.

I agree with the premise of this post, that car infrastructure is generally ugly and unpleasant, but I have to point out that this is doing the same thing that people do with every picture of an urban area that they want the viewer to dislike, which is make sure its taken on the most humid overcast day possible. To its credit though this isn’t during the fall, so at least there’s leaves on the trees.

This is why I like kuudere characters.

They’re not exactly perfect autism representation, but they’re autism coded, and having difficulty expressing emotions is relatable.

apparently only male reindeers have antlers?

This is the case with every other kind of deer. Reindeer are notably the only ones that can have antlered females.

I think some people were saying something about antler shedding times maybe supporting that theory? But idk enough about that to say anything about it.

There is no point in playing nice to attract customers if they can’t pay, so businesses are stealing from the poor (mostly data in the case of MS) and selling only to the rich (higher valuation).

Do you remember when CEOs would make announcements at conferences they’d be trying to convince consumers about how good their product is? Pretty frequently they were lying, but now they’re not even talking to us, when they speak they’re addressing stock holders and other companies.

They were the most hated company in the 2000s and pivoted to one of the good guys by the end of 2010s.

I want an apology letter from all the “stop hating on Microsoft, its not 1999 anymore and they have a new CEO :) :) :)” people.

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I didn’t know Priuses had jake brakes.