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  • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.worldtoNot The Onion@lemmy.world•UK’s Starmer calls for return of Gaza ‘sausages’ in verbal gaffeEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Gaza hostages said fast in an accent to me would easily come out sounding like sausages. “Oy, you ‘eard abou’ those Gaza ‘osages today mate?”

    This is just based on the headline because I’ve yet to dig in and see why this is even being reported and to who’s motives.

    Edit: oh yeah no. I stand by the accent thing, but he said sausages.

    “I call again for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza. The return of the sausages. The hostages. And a re-commitment to the two-state solution, a recognized Palestinian state alongside a safe and secure Israel.”

  • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•To Americans: How far apart is everything in the US?
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    3 days ago

    Canadian here but this is pretty much the sentiment I wanted to add. If I was answering for the last city I lived in (400k ish, moderate city for here) it would be a very different answer (<30 minute walk generally anywhere in the “metro” area) than for where I live now (rural, 15 minute drive for grocery in three possible directions, pass at least three cannabis dispensaries on the way to any of them and two liquor stores. Public transit is available but is quasi-regional transit too). So grocery is at 15 minutes, and like in your case a mall is an hour, as is a major market like a Walmart, mega grocer thing, Costco…

  • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•EVs are cleaner than gas cars, but a growing share of Americans don't believe it
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    4 days ago

    North American auto has lost its mind and handed over any chance at being top-tier in the future. Seems game over to me. Canada is joining in on the 100% tariff game and I’m furious that my government will, this late in the game, try and protect an industry that gambled with the oil and gas industry and lost (not to mention their compete fall into profiteering in five to six digit major life purchases) by passing costs of avoiding Elon and subpar selection onto consumers.

    I hope the industry wakes up and goes hard for competitiveness in EVs and stops waiting for elections to decide if climate change is real or if the economy will be affected by their decisions. To stop waiting for elections to decide if people want EVs. To allow manufacturing to flourish regardless of who’s fighting for the rights to our money while we briefly have it.

    And to your point yeah - just like Asimov said:

    There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

  • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.worldtoInteresting Shares@lemmy.zip•Nuclear blast could save Earth from large asteroid, scientists sayEnglish
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    4 days ago

    … The European Space Agency’s Hera mission, due to launch next month, should help by surveying the aftermath of Dart’s impact on Dimorphos.

    Prof Gareth Collins, a planetary scientist at Imperial College, called Moore’s experiments “spectacular”. “I still have a strong preference for non-nuclear options, particularly single or multiple kinetic impactors, as we know they are technologically achievable,” he said. “But for a very large asteroid or a short warning time this type of approach may be our only option.”

    I wish these weren’t the last two paragraphs. It would have prevented a lot of internal “yeah but whatabout” while reading.

    Edit: Italics are cool but so is bold.