Whether rightly or wrongly, without a body on frame construction they were never really trying to sell that to traditional truck consumers.

It’s super frustrating because if you talk to anyone in a blue collar or rural area they all tell you they wish they still made small trucks. The manufacturers keep upping the size and cost adding shit nobody even asked for.

How do you get to that conclusion? I clearly state I believe it to be a major factor. I just don’t get why this place is so vehemently against confounding variables. It reads the same as US propaganda but opposite. Yeah, trucks bad, US bad. It’s just clearly not so simple. The US is huge and a rural town and major city have little in common. The trend is everywhere.

You can believe what you want but data from the ETSC (European Transport Safety Council) and ERSO (European Road Safety Observatory) is pretty clear. Reducing it to little cars is really slighting what Europe has accomplished. Car size is important but there has been so much more done. Little things like moving money from heavy vehicle corridors to raised sidewalks have both immediate (like visibility of pedestrians) and emergent effects (like driving culture changes).

This place is getting worse than Reddit.

So many other variables though. European cities are designed so much better for pedestrians and cyclists. I’d argue that the driving standards are also higher in a lot of areas. Speeds often slower too since infrastructure is designed for mixed use. In North America the actual design of most roads is almost hostile to pedestrians. It’s clearly a mix a factors.

Road speed has definitely increased since then. Cars are more powerful than ever and easier to drive blindly.

Road conditions have also changed. Europe has invested heavily in well designed infrastructure with a clearly stated goal of reducing road deaths.

Large vehicles in North America are clearly a major part of the problem but trying to be this reductionist seems pretty weird.

Much like how Facebook includes non-users in their social graph.

Yeah the panel editing could use some work. Lots of weird size and space issues still too. I rather like how Cosmic is developing their panel. Still customizable but so much easier to understand. With the great changes recently to application themes the panel sort of seems the least polished part now.

Yep, not just audio either. There is a reason the tech companies are pushing into glasses with cameras and it isn’t to make people’s lives better.

By bribing lobbying local politicians. As always, laws are only real when they’re enforced.

This. It’s shocking how many people in tech circles still see Google as anything other than a data harvester for ads.

You are wrong. Who is on a platform is almost irrelevant now, the algorithm will push what it is tuned to anyway. Not to mention the increasing percentage of AI slop masquerading as real people. The platforms only have power if everyone continues to use them. Hence why it’s hard to get people on alternatives when everyone they want to talk to isn’t there.

You keep saying shit without backing any of it up. The “left” isn’t only what you see on your niche platforms like Lemmy.

Kinda sounds like you just spend too much of your time on Facebook reading posts from lunatics. They can’t be saved dude. They’re not even arguing in good faith. They know. You wasting your time is literally the goal.

provably

People are naive to think there aren’t also thousands of bots here in the Fediverse.

Nah you just have innovation bias. Newer does not automatically mean better. That’s a wild take in 2026 since all of these companies have been marching towards enshitification for a decade.

Plenty of research showing that use of AI is just offloading your cognitive function. We know enough about neuroplasticity to clearly see this will impair those who use it for everything. It’s important to be challenged sometimes, the illusion of intelligence does nothing for us.

Google is an advertising company. Everything they do is about collecting data to feed their advertising arms.

They also know not to spend trillions making the product.

The full quote gives a different impression.

"You've said that Canada will not participate in US military action in Iran. So can you definitively say that will remain the case, even if hostilities broaden, escalate or are prolonged?"

"You've asked a fundamental hypothetical in a conflict that can spread very broadly, todays events or recent events point to that, so one can never categorically rule out participation, we will stand by our allies when it makes sense. There's a distinction between the offensive actions that were taken and are being taken by the United States and Israel, that were taken by them without consultation with Canada or with other allies, and we are not party to those actions. But we will always defend Canadians, we will always defend and stand by our allies when called upon"

It’s rare enough for politicians to even give context to their statements and then when they do it gets clipped and simplified into a different meaning. Aljazeera should know better which is pretty disappointing.

Also, most of you just read headlines which doesn’t do you any favours. There are real things to criticize about Carney, these sort of qualified statements shouldn’t be one of them. If all we do is look for binary no-context answers from our representatives, we’re already doomed.

If I steal someone else’s song and put my name on it nobody reasonable would say I made it.

This whole AI-art fucktrain is entirely propped up by people who never made art before suddenly thinking they know something.

Even better if the think tanks had to state their funding sources by human name in the title.