Whale meat isn’t even that popular. Boomers just like it and like “pissing off the libs”. Younger generations don’t like it.

Something people don’t consider is that lighter cars can have better ranges with smaller batteries. That also means it doesn’t take as long to charge the batteries when you stop somewhere for lunch. The Aptera is the only EV that’s light enough to get away with pure solar charging for most use cases. An aluminum beetle with solar covering the roof might be close as well.

The US could have more hot drink vending machines, but I think the sort of clientele that wants a hot coffee wants it to be highly customized like the shit you get at Star Bucks. Highly customized, burnt coffee.

Japan loves wrapping everything in plastic. They and the US were the only ones not to sign a promise reduce plastic usage. For all the appearances of Japan being eco conscious, they have this one big issue.

It’s not very good, but does the job. I mainly used the Mac version before jumping ship entirely. I was surprised that they made a Mac version, but no lINUX version. If you ever wanted to know true pain though, the Mac version of the Epic launch was true trash. Nothing worth playing on that anyway though since they discontinued Unreal Tournament.

Heroic launch has been pretty good for any of the modern games I’ve tried it it. Eventually, I want to get some of the old Star Wars games running though.

I think people just prefer Steam to Epic or EA’s store fronts. Whenever GoG gets brought up, the only major complaint is is that there’s no official Linux launcher, even when there are Linux binaries for the games.

Restart the Beetle plant and make an EV version of the original.

(with the release of skyrim)

Oblivion. It was Oblivion with the stupid horse armor.

Lots of good, new stuff in the boomer shooters. If you want to try something like Duke 3D, check out Ion Fury, which was made in a fork of the original Build engine. Seleco and Hedon for modern GZDoom stuff.

Considering the economies of areas with clean, modern hygiene vs a lack of hygiene, I’d say yes, yes it is.

This is more stubborn, cultural issues. Russia has poor areas because the wealthy don’t feel rich without poor people to look down on and poor people in those areas view themselves as more rugged and strong without modern conveniences(although once a rural Russian tries some modern living while in school, they don’t go home). Similar circumstances with rural Americans.

Yeah, which is why I’ve never owned an iPhone. Hell, I was pretty big into Apple a while ago, but I never bought into the iOS. The OS convergence is why I completely jumped ship.

Well, yes, but in both cases, it’s manufactured poverty. It’s really not hard to make basic cesspit and keep it away from water sources. This is a solved problem.

You know, there’s a hook worm epidemic in the southern US that’s effecting children’s mental development is being cause by a lack of proper waste management. Explains a lot of things about both communities.

You’re not forced to use their phones.

From how understand it, they have toilets in the sticks, but they don’t automatically fill themselves. They have a bucket of water that they pour into the toilet to flush it. It’s also not so much that they don’t have automatic toilets, but that they didn’t even know they exist. The poor, wilderness communities that Putin is pulling from are that isolated from the rest of the word. The American equivalent would be the Appalachian people.

Here’s a clip of Zelenskyy referencing the toilet situation.

There were reports of Russian soldiers in Ukraine not knowing what an “Automatic Toilet” was. They’re grabbing people from so far in the boonies, that they bring in buckets of water to flush their toilets. That also means that either Russian barracks don’t have toilets or they’re shipping their forces to the front lines without any training.

I completely understood. No one is going to IA as their first stop. They’re only going there if they want to see a history change or if the original site is gone.

Not to mention that I’m losing advertising revenue if someone views the site in an archive.

No one is using Internet Archive to bypass ads. Anyone who would think of doing that already has ad blockers on.

I’m explaining their rational for the theater. Not mine.

Lol. All this is performance anyway. If Harris voiced her disagreement with Biden, the right wing media would have a field day with how disorganized the Dems are and how they can’t be trusted to lead.