It’s all fun & games windmilling it around until … wait, I don’t remember any Don Quixote references in ST, nvm, y’all are all safe, no knight from the holodeck will attack you!

Ofc not, don’t be silly.

Nuts have nipples (where do you think almond milk comes from? Kids today have prob never seen an almond on a farm & think almond milk grows in the stores!).

And if the seeds on the strawberries really are “nuts”, then we should be able to milk them.
I see no flaw in my logic.

So what this nerd is saying is that we can milk a strawberry??

Before the tech gets there, let’s commission some “art” on that subject?

(For real, the seeds being nuts is a stretch)

Zomg, birb watching perk!

Yeah, the logic overwhelmingly tells you it doesn’t make sense and won’t work, the past experience empirically proves it doesn’t help the vast majority of the people, the politicians can’t really explain why would that work for the people, we absolutely know who pushes this agenda (the rich that are about to get richer, investing in lobbyists and marketing/propaganda) … yet here we are, listening to how this will be great, this time.

Nooo :'(
Majula atmosphere rules!

(I do actually much prefer the atmosphere and lore of DS2, it’s just that extra bit hopeless, everything and everyone further gone, personal stories somehow even more depressing, … also best cats, best my little ponies, best hub, best babes, etc :))

On your left you can see adult cherubs that gang-bang you, on the right there are two dead brothers that bang-bang you, below them are hot wax priests that gang-bang you after dripping hot wax on you, lower in the pic there are dragon-butterflies that gang-bang you with their juicy meatballs, in front of the structure on the left there are two sick dragons that gang-bang you (lazily, total bottoms).

Overall friendly folk.

Ok, amazing, but the shitty Logitech speakers make it weird.

At 3 jizz all of the (several diffident bodily) fluids get splattered away from me … it’s when the forces equal out a bit more that you really get the shitshow, but by then you gooned anyways.

Yes, prolonging the status quo is one of the most common lobby tactics, and the most successful.

That’s why we have petrol based plastic recycling instead of naturally degradable plastics.

Completely agree - I was on about the (growing) front height of the vehicles and that the trend is clear.

Yeah, I know that, eg different laws about tires too apply, I’m just not sure about road-worthiness since it’s usually tied to car registration (a bit) and that is an EU thing.
Dunno.

Can confirm, we don’t have a category for whatever this is either:

But neither did the USAnians, marketing just forced it over the decades, culturally linking it to being alpha-macho or whatever.

Tho its notable that pickups and larger SUVs sold in Europe (Amarok, Hilux, GLS) are all over 5m (over 5.2?) making them about the size of the average USA SUV (not average pickups tho, that is still 0.5m short of the latest F-150 series).

Here is one driving through Copenhagen:

It’s not really practically true, I’m pointing it out for the fun of it, but it still happened:
autoevolution.com/news/why-is-the-tesla-cybertruck-driving-in-europe-if-it-is-not-allowed-to

But wait, if those other trucks cybers are registered in other EU countries, can’t they just drive through Denmark?
They have the 3mm rubber padding on the edges, lmao.

What??
(This sounds like something someone who has never been to Europe would say.)

Europe is being absolutely flooded with SUVs and even pickups (supply/marketing pressure + ego imho, bcs such cars are more profitable for manufacturers even when they are lower quality). And yes, we have a couple of Cybertrucks too.

Also most the poshest SUVs sold in USA are European models.

The dumpsters from at least two EU countries:

Additionally, here are new car registrations in 2024 - most of the cars (50.7%, 7 million cars) were some sort of SUVs (so the front part of the car is higher than it needs to be):

I almost always do.

Car regulation isn’t an area I’m particularity proud of tho, but it isn’t stagnant.

Imho EU does a really good job on preparing regulations, get every stakeholders groups opinion, think through the reporting (which is ofc always a chore, but otherwise laws are useless/unenforceable/unchecked, and you miss out on major decision-making market data, or early warnings), and then constantly gathering info & holding meetings on how to evolve the legislation for the next iteration (once you have data you can see what was over- and under-kill, or what was missed & what new things/outside changes affect the market).

These sort of decisions, like with phasing out petrol products, could have been made on much shorter timelines.
Like, everyone would survive if starting tomorrow you couldn’t buy an SUV or a pickup any more, or a car longer than 5m or whatever.

Industries are overall more expensive for everyone if you give them 10 year timelines to limit something that is killing people & destroying the environment (which is just 10 years of lobbying anyway). It also helps concentrate wealth even more on the count of public safety & wellbeing.

Countless industries have to adapt to sudden changes all the time. Only the truly powerful industries/megacorps don’t have to bcs lobby magic.

One is a joy stick, the other makes the plane do things.