Safe space? I’m an OG internet troll. You suck at this.

Not really. I don’t engage with maga edgelords.

And also Instagram and whatever other Zuck products are in your life. I’m happy they wasted so many billions of dollars setting of virtual Mii meetings lmao…

Nobody cares. Go back to 4chan.

Japan is honorary Western.

(So is Korea.)

You could do some OG lithography (the litho in lithography means “stone”) by masking the white or block parts of the QR code and painting on an etchant. I don’t know what the best etchants for stone are, but I imagine HF-containing glass etch would do the trick. (Be very, very careful with HF.)

Instead of making the QR code point to something, you could encode the information directly. A short blurb about a person would fit.

I didn’t say you lived in a metro area. I said those distances and travel times are only realistic in the parts of the US people consider very densely populated.

That’s how the US is in certain metro areas. In the boonies there are hundreds of miles of rural back roads where people drive 60mph during rush hour.

Are photovoltaics an option for you? I can buy a pallet of 32 of them for about $5k and from what I understand, this is despite hefty tariffs. They’re approaching impulse buy territory. That said, I’m capable of installing them myself, which is a big part of the cost for most installations.

Psshh you won’t trick me. They weigh the same.

the corner shop 500m away

A lot of Americans live 30 minutes from the nearest real grocery store.

But yeah they still don’t need a lifted truck to go there. It’s not like the cashiers at the Wal Mart Super Center are going to be impressed by their Carolina Squat lifted white pavement princess, but that’s what they insist on driving.

There should be a carbon tax, but whoever signs it will be the least popular president in history. One of the flaws of democracy is that sometimes the thing that really needs to happen is unpopular with the moronic citizenry that can’t understand why it needs to happen.

I work at a factory that makes components for electric vehicles, and also sells some stuff to defense contractors on the side. Two years ago, the Trump Administration completely fucked over my company by threatening previously-guaranteed CHIPS money and magically deleting Inflation Reduction Act measures intended to encourage adoption of EVs. Our demand dropped like a rock, we laid off 80% of our workforce, raises got frozen, equity turned to dust, etc. Then the US did Israel’s bidding and started this asinine war with Iran. For a month there was nothing. Then the defense orders came trickling in. Then we couldn’t keep those tools running fast enough. Finally, two months later, the EV stuff showed up like a flash flood in the Grand Canyon. Insane we were almost bankrupted by his stupidity, then saved by it. For my part, I’m going to try to upgrade my gas furnace to a heat pump before it gets cold.

A crossover is a station wagon but the entire thing is raised up for no reason. It’s funny how averse the public is to driving a minivan. I drove one as a rental for a week and it was snappy, convenient, comfortable, and could hold a ton of stuff or people.

But I like being able to see over everyone else

• everyone

At this point I’m planning to see under everyone else.

And your Western-made car doesn’t? Ha!

That or this is an elaborate form of advertisement. “Oh wooow guys our product is soo powerful it’s dangerous!”

Also notable:

The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised

• Brannigan 3:5

You dropped this \