Yet.

There’s been civil wars in nations all over the world. I think they’re poking fun at which is the civil war? I’m guessing it’s the Spanish one.

Living up to your username I see!

What country are you from? I don’t see any fascist comments in your profile, but you do seem extremely pissed off that Ukraine is defending itself from Russia.

And the other 10%?

This must have flown right by me, but what was Reddit’s attitude?

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-63972640

I don’t think they are, they’re more akin to forums.

In my mind, social media is where you follow people and people broadcast their lives. That’s the social aspect of it.

With Reddit and Lemmy we follow communities on topics we’re interested in.

I do get the arguments for it to be social media but that just makes the category way too broad, as you could argue any site with a comment section is social media.

I’ve been watching a lot of car reviews lately and yeah, I think you’re right on all points. I watched a review of the new BMW 7 series and even the air control vents are capacitive sensors refer than little levers and it just seems unnecessary. What was hilarious was that the door release is right by the air vent control, so the review I watched saw the reviewer accidentally open the door when they were trying to control the air vent.

There’s way way way too much reliance on touch screens in cars. I’m not even sure if you’d legally be allowed to use them in some countries, I feel like you’d have to pull over to just change the HVAC settings! You’d swear it was designed by someone that’s never driven a car. They’re decisions that are probably coming right from the top and the actual interior designers are pulling their hair out.

There’s also a common theme across manufacturers where settings for features are lost when the car is switched off. So you have to go into the settings and change them back every single time you get into the car.

If I were in the market for a car (specifically electric), I’d probably go for Kia. The ev6 and ev9 look really nice. I’ve seen a couple of EV9s on the road recently and I was surprised at how much smaller they actually seem than on videos.

Like you though we’re going to keep our car (Nissan Quashqai) as long as possible. There’s no bullshit and it’s practical and comfortable.

On a slightly unrelated note, the Mercedes EQ class are really ugly, both internally and externally.

The human does it out of self preservation, but the car doesn’t need to feel too preserve itself.

By getting the in the car, the passengers should be aware of the risks and that if there is an accident, the car will protect pedestrians over the occupants. The pedestrians had no choice but the passengers have a choice of not getting in the vehicle.

I feel like car manufacturers are going to favour protecting the passengers as a safety feature, and then governments will eventually legislate it to go the other way after a series of high profile deaths of child pedestrians.

I had no it was illegal in Germany, I just assumed it was legal up to a term limit. Do German women go across to a neighbouring country?

Steak and ale pies on the left and gravy in the right.

I don’t think they can see this post with it being on lemmy.world.

What’s Cuba like? How are things domestically there?

Not sure if theyre technically cartoons, but Thunderbirds and Stingray.

What are your other contacts using? They can’t be stuck sending SMS and paying per message surely?

SMS was free when I started using WhatsApp, but MMS wasn’t, so I think that was part of why it took off in the UK. You could finally send pictures and videos and have read receipts and typing indicators and group chats. Plus it was instant and reliable where SMS always felt slow and unreliable.

Also it worked on WiFi so you could still use it at home where you might not have had the best phone signal.

It became popular when you had to pay for it. It was a one off fee on iPhone or an annual recurring fee on Android, that’s how much people wanted to get away from SMS.

Probably worth noting that BBM was very popular at that time too but it was exclusive to BlackBerry phones so the concept wasn’t new, but everyone that started moving to iPhone and Android after blackberry wanted the same messaging experience, and WhatsApp provided that.

I’ll never really understand why the north American market didn’t make the jump like everyone else did, because WhatsApp provided so much more, it wasn’t just about cost of messaging.

This comment is so ridiculous it has to be some sort of bait.

Who do you think is responsible?