The Babylon 5 series is such a masterpiece. I watched it several times before finding out more of something said in the first season that’s referred and having an impact later. There’s still holes and threads that are not going anywhere, but the overall is very coherent and well pieced together.

Even the unpredicted events about production have been worked around.

I thoroughly enjoy watching reactions of people watching the show for the first time. The faces they make when they realize something from multiple episodes ago is having an impact, or is being revealed, is priceless.

Unfortunately, aside from the pilot, which is admittedly a bit different, but still mostly explained, I never really got interested in Crusades, and the other movies, so I can’t say for them. But the pilot and the series, mmm, chef’s kiss.

Now that you mention it, I have been doing tech support for multiple years and yeah, sometimes I just have to read them the message on the screen.

And let’s not even mention the oppression of culture. We never got to choose our native language.

Maybe. It depends if you have an exit strategy.

I once was a customer advocate for a big hosting company. Most of my supervisors were fine but one kept telling the employees to find ways to reduce claims, even if the customer was right and we didn’t respect our SLAs. I pushed the issue a bit but he ended up replying with the French expression “tu ne vivras pas d’amour et d’eau fraîche” (you will not subsist on love and water), meaning that I needed money, a job, and that I should do what he’s telling me to do.

So I went on my lunch break, composed a resignation letter and sent it. When I came back from lunch, that supervisor was incredulous. “You’re not serious, are you?” It was indeed not a good financial decision for me, but I simply went back to my previous employer, whom I left in good terms.

Now it’s a decadeater, I have another job with a big company that’s trying to force everyone back to the office, even if your doing desk work. I don’t have to deal with this, am overqualified, and my supervisors know that I will probably find something else before being forced into useless commuting.

All this to say, I’d avoid it if possible, but if they are really that short handed, and I keep in mind that this may/will not last, I might also try for a while. It really depends on how much trouble all this would be personally for me.

And then get in a car without thinking about it.

Road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death for children and young adults aged 5–29 years.

Then if we exclude the million of deaths and additional millions injured every year, those things contribute to air pollution, noise pollution, microplastics, heat islands, and stress.

People will gladly stop smoking ‘for their children’, but then jump in their oversized pickup truck or SUV to move them around, while complaining about gas prices.

EDIT: I guess what I’m trying to say is that eating better and exercice more is one thing, but if we continue to consume, pollute, and trash the planet at this pace, we will all live longer just to see a planet that slowly becomes uninhabitable because of droughts and floods.

Poutine is indeed comfort food that is most tasty when you are shitfaced (or hangover). However a poutine will never contain cottage cheese. The original ingredients are fries/chips, poutine gravy, and cheddar curds. I repeat, cheddar curds. They have to be fresh and make a skweek skweek sound when you bite them, and be a bit melted by the hot gravy. Pieces of mild cheddar are also acceptable if no curds are available.

I have no car and will not get one. Those things are horrible for the environment and humanity. Driver or not. Cars sucks. Fuck cars.

EDIT: If I have to choose those around me, I want them driven by humans. A human will learn (some) when you yell at them that they are in a bike lane. I trust humans much more than I trust, say, a Tesla, coming from behind while I’m cycling.

A car nearly ran onto me recently while I was stationary at a traffic light. I suspect the driver was battling against his “auto-pilot” system as the car kept trying to drive on me in the bike lane, and the driver kept trying to correct it. It seemed like the computer thought the bike path was a car lane. Fuck the cyclists in it.

Plus, we have proper winters where I live and I’d like to see them self-driving during snowfall and snow storms.

EDIT2: A car is a multi ton vehicle that can easily kill other people. I want humans to have responsibility over this. A death caused by a car can’t be easily dismissed, just because some kid or a deer didn’t follow what the programming intended them to do. There should be less individual cars and more buses, trains, trams, driven by responsible people, professionals, that are accountable. The only sort of acceptable automation/self-driving are trains if they have a dedicated right of way.

Yes. Québécois here. I remember his name and know he’s a signer, but couldn’t remember what he sang. I had to look it up, and I only heard of him because of Millennium.

I don’t like cars. I consider them dangerous and addictive, and I’m willing to cycle a few hundred km just to avoid using one. Mostly because of environmental reasons, but also because I’m probably nerodivergent. Cars are constantly reminding me of the wasted energy, the pollution, and the possibility to kill someone else, or an animal. I’m often distracted and impatient, so I just consider it better for everyone if I avoid them.

And that’s usually a surprise to most people that meet me, as the vast majority of people will reply they could never live without their car. Most people love cars, but to me, seeing an endless stream of them on the horizon makes me sad.

Mainstream news publications and online newspapers.

In Canada and Québec specifically, the tabloid Journal de Montréal has always had the most ridiculously detached comments of any other platform I know.

It’s closely followed by the comments on some CBC news articles.

It depends on your type of job. I have been working remotely on and off for a bit more than a decade, and video calls are a thing. Virtual meetings are a thing. I can call my coworkers, see them, talk to them. Even if I’m not in front of them. We can organize just fine without the needs to smell each others farts.

And as an introvert, I prefer it that way. We’re not all extroverts that want to waste multiple hours of our life, unpaid, stuck in traffic, just so others can “interact face to face” with us.

In fact, you kind of sound like my manager that wants me to go back to the office a few days a week for “team spirit”. My team is all remote and we’ve been working like this for years. But now, suddenly, it’s not good enough. She wants to see our faces to foster team spirit. And to be quite honest, I will quit before being forced to needlessly spend energy to go to the office.

I know a lot of other people in that situation. In my country, federal workers that could do their job remotely were given that right during the pandemic. And now, after a few years, apparently, they really really need to be in an office and supervised for their job to be done.

To me, again, depending on your type of work, the organization “problem” is made up BS just so managers can surveil and monitor “their” employees.

It’s one of the most disappointing legacy of the pandemic for me. The people.

The environment got better. Some people were not forced to commute any longer. We had an opportunity to start freeing ourselves from capitalism and move into a post-capitalist society.

But no. We doubled down on capitalism and even went into tribalism. I read so many comments of people saying they were missing their time lone from their family while stuck in traffic, and were eager to go back to the office. Now a few years later, those that could still work from home or remotely are demanded to go back to their office. Even if it’s not necessary. For team spirit!

I didn’t have high hopes about climate change and our policies before the pandemic. And now I’m entirely cynical and convinced we will not do anything. We will not reach any goals to avoid climate change. We will go head first into it. Because fuck you, I’m not letting go of my car and my lifestyle! I want cheap gas! Give me cheap gas!

Using Windows for me is a cumulation of annoying little things that becomes too big to ignore. Another thing you can add on that list is fiddling with keyboard layouts if you don’t use the default US one. And be sure to delete them all except the one you want to use, even the sub layouts, because accidentally hitting a key combo could switch it back to the default US one.

It’s a specific pet peeve that I have against Windows. I’ve had so many calls (I do tech support) from people that had their computer suddenly not making the characters they wanted, sometimes only in specific programs, just to discover that they reverted to the default layout by hitting Win + spacebar at some point.

We just need to get some more ice on a nearby comet or something, thus solving the problem once and for all.

So, when do we drop a giant ice cube in the ocean?

It will all be under water in a few decades anyway.

The man who would be the first climate change refugee

Climate Change and Forced Migration: A Focus on Kiribati

All those poor Tamagochis

So far after about three years, it’s mixed for me. I had positive interactions on communities that I’m here for, like bike packing, bike touring, or one of the numerous fuck cars communities. The bird pictures community is nice.

But I’ve also been told I should commit suicide, or that my comments are not worth posting. So it’s mixed, and sometimes I refrain from posting comments on memes and or controversial stuff because I don’t want those replies. I’m typing this and I’m thinking about deleting it before posting.

More positive than negative overall, but lately I’ve been thinking about commenting less on Lemmy because of those few negative interactions.

This list is missing the most important Gul of all.

Mild guess. The dev(s) don’t know about navigation buttons. Gestures have been “standard” for a while now so maybe someone forgot about this as a possibility?