I remember exploring the Road Rash files as a kid and each bike sound was a single short click that just repeated rapidly. Times have changed.

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The Spectres

The vibraphone wants a word. Lionel Hampton is spinning in his grave.

Lust month would be wild.

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Kavanaugh should have a foam dome connected to his asshole. Boofing beers with the boys!

Why not?

Porsche Unleashed! That game taught me how to do real life 180s and 360s and that may favourite car colour is deep green. Great race replays too.

What are the bad faith laws in the US like? In my province (BC) here in Canada the courts would publicly flay you for such blatant bad faith coverage. When I worked in insurance we had regular seminars with the lawyers on bad faith; the punitive damages can be (intentionally) ruinous to insurers.

There are more compatible people for you out there, life is too short to waste on someone with whom you have this many issues after only 1 date.

Donkey Konga was amazing.

This goes back to Thatcher’s implementation of Reaganomics. Cut services and taxes, turn the economy into the lawless wild west, blame government for the resulting shitty life for workers as justification to further cut services asnd taxes. 2008 was just feul for the fire.

Disabled people dying means a smaller tax burden. That boon can be turned into corporate subsidies or tax cuts.

Here in BC, wine is one of our biggest industries. Winter killed off 99% of our vines. They have been given money to replant and survive, but we might be looking at the end of a major industry if these cold snaps are going to be an annual thing. And it’s not like you can just replant and go on as normal, this will take multiple growing seasons to recover. These are some of the best spots for summer seasonal work and a big part of BC tourism, it could all evaporate.

California power is awesome. Until recently, it was almost all nuclear. Those reactors take 6 hours to spin up and wind down. As demand went up for the day, they’d supplement their systems by buying power from BC. As the demand went down at night faster than the nuclear could wind down, they would pay BC to take their excess. You need to use you excess load or you blow up your grid. So BC was making money providing AND taking power at different points throughout the day.

Now, thanks largely to solar, California is generating so much power they have to pay people to take the excess during peak hours. Such an incredibly fast transformation. They still buy a bit at night, but California is quickly freeing itself from dependence on other systems.

So while they still import a bit of Hydro power, they’ll be fully autonomously renewable really soon.

Wind and solar. They have downsides, like they all do, you’re right, but they don’t obliterate sensitive ecosystems of threatened species. The downsides to nature are significantly reduced with wind and solar. Tidal looks good too, but I don’t know enough about it to give it the official "Some Random Guy on Lemmy Stamp of Approval ".

Generation methods that destroy key ecosystems of threatened and endangered species is not what I’d call “clean”. We can do so much better than dams, getting rid of them in place of actual green power would be an incredible, healing boon to these major rivers and the ecosystems they support.

Like the one I see regularly? Or every single one I’ve seen before them, or the psychology researchers from the study I was in, or my friends in the field, or the hundreds of scientific articles deliniating exactly that and the physiology and psychology behind it? You actually have to look for something before you publicly declare it’s not there.

https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=introversion+and+extraversion

If you aren’t a practiticing psychology researcher, this whole post is pop psychology nonsense. Might as well ask random strangers about dark matter, it’s just as valuable an opinion.