I’ve been skating since 1986. The first time someone asked me if I was too old for it was in 1987. That question is really only in the eye of the beholder.
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bstix@feddit.dkto News@lemmy.world•The Tesla Cybertruck is no longer America's best-selling electric pickup17·1 day agoNews on car sales are always presented as monthly or by quarter.
That way, everyone gets a participation trophy by breaking the records in the period that they actually deliver a new model to the tarmac.
I don’t blame the news outlets. Reporting on record car sales is kind of boring when the 1966 Toyota Corolla is still the most sold car.
I have no doubt that Tesla actually managed to peak for a while in the category “American sales of electric pick-ups trucks”.
bstix@feddit.dkto Unpopular Opinion@lemmy.world•Taking Caffeine pills make more sense in every way possible than drinking Coffee.English11·1 day agoI’m downvoting because it’s not an unpopular opinion. It isn’t even an opinion.
ok… 3 out of 7 is still pretty good.
(You also fucked up the first two letters)
Driving manual is not difficult, but unlike the opposite scenario, it’s not something you can learn with only short instructions.
It does take time to develop the motor skills in order do it without thinking about it. The practice wlll take maybe an afternoon or two if you do nothing else. I’d advise you to do it over more than one day to allow yourself to sleep on it and come back at it
Once you’ve learned it, you’ll never think about it again though.
bstix@feddit.dkto politics @lemmy.world•Huge cost of military parade on Trump’s birthday is revealed11·2 days agoAll military parades are ridiculously embarrassing.
I remember when they used to air the annual Scottish tattoo on tv.
I mean, it’s probably fun for anyone who participates or has a hard on for bagpipes, but for the rest of the world, it’s a ridiculous event where an audience shows up to watch men in uniform walk in beat and show their rifles in sync. It’s like square dancing, but only for men, and longer guns.
Good thing that I can switch channels, so I can watch syncronized swimming from the Olympics instead. I like their uniforms better.
bstix@feddit.dkto A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•We poisoned the whole planet so our eggs wouldn't stick to the pan 🙃81·2 days agoFor anyone who can’t be bothered to watch the entire 1 hour episode: It’s not really about frying pans.
The PFAs are everywhere by now. Butter on a pan will do jack shit to save you. It’s really fucked up. You should watch the video.
Ftfy:
I:
- talk
- write
- rewrite
in points.
bstix@feddit.dkto World News@lemmy.world•Denmark rethinking 40-year nuclear power ban amid Europe-wide shiftEnglish1·3 days agoSure thing. This post is about Denmark though, where the nuclear power has been banned by hippies in the 80s, and the same old idiots now decline expanding solar power because they prefer to look at fields of manure instead of solar panels.
bstix@feddit.dkto World News@lemmy.world•Denmark rethinking 40-year nuclear power ban amid Europe-wide shiftEnglish7·3 days agoMoney isn’t the issue.
Nimby’ism is preventing the expansion of solar and wind. Nimby’ism will also prevent the building of a large nuclear plant.
I hope the change of law will enable more research on modern nuclear power.
bstix@feddit.dkto World News@lemmy.world•Denmark rethinking 40-year nuclear power ban amid Europe-wide shiftEnglish4·3 days agoThey closed down all, about 1400 small farms, in 2020.
The ban was removed in 2023. 6 larger farms have reopened since then, comparable to 15 of the previous farms.
It was a total shit show, but at least the clean up forced all the skeletons out of the closet.
bstix@feddit.dktoNyheder@feddit.dk•Regn inden for to uger er afgørende: 'Det er en rimelig langsomt kørende katastrofe'3·3 days agoDet lyder som en god ide at få mere diversitet, at sprede investeringen. Jeg forstår ikke helt hvorfor det ikke kan sælges? Hvis der er mangel på de sædvanlige afgrøder, så må der da være et marked for det som kan gro?
En anden ting er etablering af vandreservoir. Er det realistisk? : https://www.landbrugsinfo.dk/public/f/8/c/vanding_draning_overskudsnedbor_markvanding_vandreservoir
bstix@feddit.dktoNyheder@feddit.dk•Regn inden for to uger er afgørende: 'Det er en rimelig langsomt kørende katastrofe'3·4 days agoDet er interessant.
Jeg så noget af det samme i en nyhed on køkkenhaver om metoden no-dig gardening . Ideerne må vel også kunne omsættes til større landbrug.
bstix@feddit.dkto TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•Title/caption this in comments2·4 days agoStampa med Leroy
The lines don’t matter as long as you don’t cut it.
Place it, then cut it. The cut will be correct if you cut it where you want it cut, not where you think in advance that you want it cut.
bstix@feddit.dktoNyheder@feddit.dk•Regn inden for to uger er afgørende: 'Det er en rimelig langsomt kørende katastrofe'6·4 days agoDet er ikke helt uden udfordringer.
Vertikalt landbrug har (så vidt jeg ved) et ret begrænset udvalg af afgrøder. Primært salater, urter og og andre småting.
Væksthuse I Danmark har også en klimamæssig belastning som f.eks. gør at det er bedre at transportere tomater fra Spanien end det er at opvarme drivhuset i Danmark om vinteren. Det vil også gælde andre planter.
Jeg er helt enig i at det kan og skal udvikles med støtte. Måske kan stordrift gøre det bedre end de nuværende forsøg, men jeg tvivler på at vi kan lave en 1:1 produktion af det nuværende landbrug i vertikalt landbrug. Det er nok bedst at erkende at de store marker trives bedst under andre forhold og så fokusere på de ting som vi kan lave her.
bstix@feddit.dktoNyheder@feddit.dk•[Debat] Vi lod de sociale medier og big tech løbe løbsk. Nu er vi ved at begå samme fejl med AI8·4 days agoJeg tror at AI apps er populære fordi de indtil videre giver et konkret svar, som endnu ikke er blevet smadret totalt af markedsføring.
På sigt tror jeg det vil blive enshittified, enten direkte af økonomiske interesser eller simpelthen fordi grundlaget som benyttes til træning er blevet det.
Derfor er jeg også forbeholden for at tage det i brug til seriøse ting, og virksomheder burde også være påpasselige med at gøre sig afhængige af det i sin nuværende form. Der er ingen garanti for at AI kan præstere på samme niveau om få år.
bstix@feddit.dktoNyheder@feddit.dk•Regn inden for to uger er afgørende: 'Det er en rimelig langsomt kørende katastrofe'9·4 days agoNyt år, samme historie.
Er der nogen landmænd som har en plan for hvordan de vil håndtere den “langsomt kørende katastrofe”? De kan vel ikke bare gå og håbe på at løsningen i bogstaveligste forstand kommer ned fra himlen?
Et moderne landbrug må da have nogle taktiske overvejelser om hvordan de kan forberede sig på noget der er så forudsigeligt.
bstix@feddit.dkto Chat@beehaw.org•Now that *V for Vendetta* and *Idiocracy* have essentially become documentaries, what other movies do you place in that camp?English1·5 days agoClockwork orange.
Send away. Yeah. Send away. Just fucking send it.