Also they weren’t singled out, other American companies producing small cars/fire traps did get sued. Ford caught actual criminal charges not because they had money but for the elements above when they came to light.

Their victory (bought with famous lawyers) helped set a precedent that ensured American corporations are an effective shield against liability and real consequences even in truly horrendous deliberate, documented harms.

It wasn’t unique in small American cars in those couple decades (notable for rushed designs with an indifference to safety across the board) but the numbers were a bit worse. They stood out for Ford’s extensive crash tests, and well-documented knowledge of the lethal design flaw, their early decision to pay out for deaths rather than make a quite inexpensive design change, and recall, and for the decade of expensive legal battles and PR campaigns where they lobbied against federal rear-end collision safety requirements which would have saved lives and identified the problem. They were happy to throw money at every aspect of the problem except for the part that kept burning their customers alive.

Also it wasn’t just the gas tank design but flaws with the frame and (essentially cosmetic bumper) which jammed every door even in minor rear end collisions.

This was half the problem with the Ford Pinto - the big name in burning people alive after minor collisions.

I stopped once to move a big snapper but he wasn’t having it. A guy in a truck stopped around the same time and approached with a snow shovel with this sort of weary confidence, like he’d done this a thousand times.

He tapped it gently on the shell, then put the shovel in front of its face. The turtle chomped right on and he pulled it off the road. I don’t know if that was the right way to move it but it worked - mostly I was impressed he had a turtle-moving protocol (and shovel) ready to go.

This is very cool and I like that it uses a lot of existing infrastructure (maintaining the existing steam tunnels etc, just changing out the heat source).

I’m curious if this will have any effect on the river good or bad - I’ve read articles about how outflows from human communities can warm nearby water bodies. Curious if this will have a similar impact or could reduce the harm or if it won’t make any real difference

Retvrn to steam

That’s fair, but it’s also worth noting that some of the absolute classics like the original Ghost in the Shell also forgo that one.

Over the last couple decades cyberpunk kinda infiltrated mainstream science fiction - it’s hard to find scifi without at least a few cyberpunk elements these days. To the point that making something that checks all the boxes or avoids them all both seem to be a very deliberate choice now. It can make drawing a line around the genre kinda difficult.

Megazone23 is the reason I’m not allowed to choose movies/shows for TV and takeout night with friends anymore. What a weird, stupid, amazing mess. 100% worth it.

Not sure if Aniline wood dyes are all that different but they also work really well!

I’d definitely recommend adding Space Sweepers for something fun and upbeat (for cyberpunk).

For a scifi horror with more cyberpunk elements than you might expect, I’d suggest Morgan (2016).

Soldier (1998) might be too much of a stretch but it’s got a lot of the elements (minus an evil corporation) and it’s a solid film.

Edit: I forgot Outland! It’s great, plot is basic but works, actors are fun (it’s got Sean Connery) and the aesthetics/sets are prime Alien/Aliens territory. I think of it as being set in the Aliens universe.

I think I’d heard of this previously but I might actually have access to a supported device now! I’ll have to try it out.

I’d love to see more apps and especially replacement ROMs that let you use phones for a simpler task. Replacement OSs appeal to me because they could scale back the device’s capabilities, which could reduce its attack surface (a good thing if the manufacturer has dropped security updates).

This is a great fit, thank you!

Thanks! I found them over on the subreddit and have started digging through their articles. Good to know about any bias.

People already have hardware access to their own cars and make stupid modifications all the time. That’s what vehicle inspections are for. Heck, I know police aren’t generally popular on this instance but stopping vehicles with unsafe modifications they spot on the roads falls under their purview too. I’m from a state with inspections but have a friend who wasn’t and her stories about the beater cars they drove (missing floorboards, reach out the window and push on a metal rod to use the brake) tell me the system basically works. At least as well as it can while transportation infrastructure is arranged so cars are a basic necessity for huge swaths of the country.

Thanks! I’ll take a look and see what I can find

If the image database goes kaput do we lose all images on the site from before the transition? Does that include movim and the wiki? If so, I should start backing up some of my lemmy and movim posts as I’m not sure I have another copy of those images or could rebuild them to look the same.

Thanks, I’ll try to find a copy (or just read the internet archive copy) - it sounds like it’s long enough and covers enough that there should be something on rural areas

I’ll take a look! I’m aiming to have more sections on library economics so it might tie into that too

Seconding [email protected] but in general I’d associate folk and punk rock because of their protest roots.