I’m brushing off my account over there—I just really got out of the habit of “microblogging” and wasn’t able to get my head back into it. I haven’t been able to post today because it looks like the new traffic is a bit much, but I’d be really happy if this does in fact become the primary Twitter alternative. I think the biggest problem has been getting a critical mass of people to make the move (artistic livelihoods, it’s tough), but now Muskworld is just untenable. It took a week and a governmental meme appointment, but people have finally had it.
As much as people like Mastodon, I went over there and could not figure it out. Possibly because I didn’t know what server(s) to go to and if I’d be welcome when I parachuted in. Which is fine; I feel like Mastodon probably doesn’t want to be the town square where anyone and everyone can sign up and there are uniform safety measures across the entire service. We basically need “Twitter before it went to shit ten years ago and also a little bit better.”
The irony of doing deforestation in a land that already has nearly no forests, only to place some giant bird-killing things there in the name of “green energy.” Don’t let me even get started about how much harmful manufacturing processes need to take place to make wind turbines.
>the trees that were cut down were a commercial crop that would have been cut down regardless
>this was over a 20 year period that they planted 272 million more trees
>That 14 million is less than 1% of the total woodland area in scotland
Also, scottlands peat bogs are excellent at carbon sequestration, and misguided attempts at “"reforesting”“ the peat bogs back in the 80s and 90s resulted in hundreds of thousands of failed trees and destroyed the actual natural habitat of peat and heath.
Assume that anyone posting a screenshot of an article headline with no link to the actual source is pushing an agenda. Pause. Think. What is the purpose of the posting? Why isn’t there a way to verify what the post is saying or makes you assume? What information could be in the article that they are hiding by not providing?
Now search for the article by the headline and author and read it yourself
If you’re having a bad day, just remember that it’s going to be winter soon and imagine what will happen to all the Cybertrucks ❤️
Salt-rusted unprotected steel panels…
Meltwater getting into poorly constructed and poorly isolated electronics…
Stuck in snowdrifts that a real truck would have been able to deal with…
Oh, those are indeed happy images. Yes indeed…
It’s winter in the US is anything happening to all the cybertrucks
No snow here yet. Lots of Cybertrucks in my area, so I’ll keep an eye out.
Keep us updated I am so curious to see how they handle Normal Weather
There should be Cybertruck Winter, like Fat Bear Week. Where we see which cybertrucks fall first and which ones make it to the end in usable condition.
Dispatch from the far northern hemisphere and have witnessed a Cybertruck in the winter wilds.
We’re early enough into the snow season in that the damage isn’t obvious. My guess is that exposure to road salts are really going to destroy these ambulatory dumpsters, but we won’t start to see that until spring. Road salt is difficult to impossible to get off in a regular car wash, and we know that Cybertruck can’t handle even that.
On the one I saw, any metallic shine that the Cybertruck had was completely lost in a combination of cold winter temps, light street grunge, and lower ambient sunlight. It was the same color as my friend’s early 2000s silver pickup truck. One of the big draws, imo, is that stainless steel panelling and to see it turn into the same shade of grey as one of the most popular truck colors twenty years ago would be disappointing to me. It’s not special anymore.
Local Cybertruck enthusiasts who are salty dogs at winter driving have started vinyl wrapping their automotive basket cases. The trend seems to be to go from the door windows down, which gives them a beach cooler vibe that is similarly underwhelming.
They’re already having issues! The head lights are sunken in for some reason. This means there is a shelf to hold snow in front of the lights and block them.
Now, every car has to have the snow cleared off the headlights before you drive, but this is way worse. That shelf collects snow as you drive. People have to pull over and clear the snow off mid-drive because they lose their headlights.
The move has been described as ‘chilling’ by activists and rights groups as arrests mount over dress code breaches
The Iranian state has said that it plans to open a treatment clinic for women who defy the mandatory hijab laws that require women to cover their heads in public.
The opening of a “hijab removal treatment clinic” was announced by Mehri Talebi Darestani, the head of the Women and Family Department of the Tehran Headquarters for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. She said the clinic will offer “scientific and psychological treatment for hijab removal”.
Iranian women and human rights groups have expressed outrage at the announcement.
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