I’m a slow driver, at or slightly below the speed limit. My tips for not pissing people off:

1. Use your cruise control/maintain speed. People can get used to whatever speed you’re at, but if you keep changing your speed, they’ll keep accelerating into it and slamming on the brakes.

2. When the road opens up nice and straight with clear visibility, for fucks sake, DO NOT SPEED UP (see: 1), even though it feels natural to do so. There’s a line of cars behind you that have been waiting for the dotted yellow line to pass you–and where you feel like it’s safe to go faster is usually where they put those dotted lines.

You just eliminated a traffic hazard

… by creating a traffic hazard.

I’ve been taking the bus to work some days and the emotional difference between riding bumpers for 30 minutes and being on the bus listening to tunes and reading for 50 is noticeable. I miss days when I take the car in.

Insurance actuaries agree: men are worse drivers.

What if they decide to just keep their rare earth metals for themselves and control the entire market?

I was a terminal redditors for over a decade and that last year or two I was getting site-wide bans at an accelerating rate. I’m off there to avoid a permaban and I’ll only post there if I need a question answered no other way.

I’ve been on Lemmy for 19 days so far and feel like it scratches whatever pseudo-social itch Reddit scratched before; even though the communities aren’t as niche, the community and moderation isn’t so consistently obnoxious.

You know, god bless the bots because they’re probably soaking up at least some surveillance watts.

Take all that “Driving Drunk is Bad, guys” advertising space and use it for something that people don’t already know…

Until the update that bricks the car unless it can consistently recognize a face.

Buying a new car in 2026 is a risky proposition with no horizon.

Cell phones in Japan must have an audible shutter sound. Pretty sure turning down the volume isn’t enough to silence it.

**Puergin Islico

I’d say they probably pick up on non-verbal communication much more than verbal. And you can point to exceptional cases, but there’s a pretty wide variation of every kind among dogs, and I’m guessing most dogs aren’t going to have the vocabulary of a marquee herding dog.

My dog would probably pick “stay” out of this and maybe “out”, though when I say “out,” I usually inflect it up, like I do for all my questions.

My favorite little language thing with my dog is, when I see a point of interest, like a squirrel or a another dog, is ask him “Who is it?” and he’ll start looking around. The weird thing is I didn’t teach him this, so either someone else taught him, or “hey look around there’s something you need to see” is just a really easy thing to trigger in dogs.

Having a good family and social circle is basically the most important part of being ready to have kids

Well, bad news for you there, too: since we’re all busy working and commuting and moving states for jobs and our third places are disappearing for various reasons, because our connections have moved globally online instead of locally offline, we are all further away from our families of origin and have smaller social circles to help support our physical lives.

It is kind of amusing how, “You guys are knee jerking your reactions instead of looking at the issue carefully” gets the knee jerk upvotes here.

Anyone got any suggestions for how to convince people not to bury their dead in a way that will spread Ebola?

Voyager doesn’t let me select text 😭Back to the browser.

thanks. just tried Cross posting on that community via voyager. though now if this post gets deleted here, that’ll be a dead link? hm.

Sadly also not a support forum either.

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Surprised nobody’s volunteered to write the English caption yet.

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