Welcome again to everybody! Make yourself at hotel. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is our weekly discussion thread.
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After nearly having a breakdown after moving a closet into my home, I decided it is time to go and take a grass touching break for a while. Life has been giving me some mental warning signs for a few weeks now and I should probably listen to it.
Until later my comrades.
There’s a thread about the DPRK playing their first match in four years on r/soccer and it’s… somewhat positive? Like, some people are calling out the blatant idiotic statements even. What is happening?
Outrage machine is more focused on Russia at the moment, libs can only really believe bullshit when its being blasted at them non stop every day
That is one of the things that makes me a little hopeful tbh. They can only really focus on the “villain of the week” and so kind of forget that they are supposed to be hateful to other nations as well unless they are constantly reminded. Once that propaganda tap is shut off, the people will stop blindly hating so much, hopefully.
It doesn’t really exist for most people. I think the majority have moved on from Russia if they were really paying attention at all and only those who have the free time and luxury to be online for close to 12 hours a day give a shit.
Lol that subreddit is something else. I remember it going full masks off during the world cup, when Argentina beat croatia and france.
Wow that’s so weird. How does that happen? Normally such an extreme reactionary place.
Got invited to carting on the weekend. Can’t stop thinking that it would be one of the things to go in the case of the worldwide socialist revolution. Due to pollution and all
They can be redesigned to be less ecologically harming, I’m not an expert on go karts or pollution, but I think the issues can be in the tracks and how much space they take for an entertainement, which could perhaps be fixed by making the track a park when it’s not being used, modifying the vehicles and the road surface, like by looking at the image here there’s a lot of unnecessary stuff
That seems rather efficient in terms of space. Making race tracks of any kind multi use is tricky. At least with full size tracks (think 5km road length or so) park area can definitely be made in and around, but cart tracks are pretty compact. In that image I don’t see anything that can be cut out while maintaining safety and functionality. Some races also use temporary road circuits but that brings in other issues from the massive effort required to set up and take down for just one event per year.
I think the primary pollutants from car racing in general are exhaust and micro-plastics (rubber from the tyres wears off on the road and gets into the environment). Both can certainly be mitigated.
Even so, I wonder to what extent we’ll allow polluting activity on a small scale for hobbies and entertainment. Of course polluting just for fun isn’t necessary (fireworks for example) but amateur/hobby sports definitely have a place in a socialist society.
They could also develop electric go-karts as well. They don’t need to be powered by fossil fuels. My local go-kart place is just inside a big warehouse and they just move tires around to make differently shaped tracks, that could certainly be an option for it rather than building a whole dedicated racetrack.
If we banned cars and introduced free public transport, go-karters could have the roads practically to themselves without needing bespoke racing tracks that only have one use. There might be pedestrians and cyclists but the cyclists are used to it because of cars and pedestrians are slow, so easily avoided.
They’d have to be ground effect based or something as well, because of the tires and flooring
Nah, f1 can hit the bricks. A little put put engine that runs on a thimble of high test fuel but still feels like you are wrestling a cheetah is perfect. Picture one of those little beasts with a tiny electric motor several of your drunkest comrades. That is what Stalin fought for.
Yooo, my teacher complimented the Mao background on my computer. He also uses sayings in daily speech such as “it’s joever” and “based.”
PS: how do I get emojis to work? I can only get undefined and maybe “::” that doesn’t work.
If you type :xi- you should get two emoji suggestions (at least in the web UI), select one of them and it’ll autocomplete. On other clients, there should presumably be an emoji picker
I hope you all have a nice week :D
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