In a song from RBO in the 90ies:

On a une police qui tapoche sur tous les noirs qui ont l'air croches, pis quand les noirs se sont tous sauvés, les policiers se vengent sur les gais.

It didn't change in 30 years and won't change any time soon, because ACAB.

Android? I'm know I'm old but the only time download managers were useful was when we used dial-up and unreliable internet connections. And Android was not around then.

I used GetRight at the end of the 90ies but it stopped being necessary when I got DSL. I never even used one on Android because it wasn't needed.

Spoiler ahead for B5: And then Icarus will discover a strange dark ship.

If I had a son and he wanted to drive a car, I'd drink too. Cars suck. Every 30 seconds, a human is killed by a car.

Unfortunately yes. It's kind of a reverse "big city" problem here. In towns and small cities a lot of stores are demanding people to leave their backpack at the front counter and grab it back when they leave. I grew up in a town of ~7000 people and everyone has a car, just like in the US. Everyone is dependent on a car. So stores don't want backpacks because they're associated with mischievous students. Why don't you just leave your backpack in your car? In fact, why don't you have a car? Why the fuck do you need a backpack?! Are you a kid or something?!

I moved to Montréal nearly two decades ago and I'm happy to be car free. But every time I go back to my hometown, I get reminded that adults walking around with a backpack is not the norm in that part of the world. In bigger cities and dense areas, there's enough people without a car to just walk everywhere with a backpack and it becomes impossible to demand everyone to leave them at the counter. And people might protest it anyway. It's one thing to demand teenagers to leave a backpack with a random store employee, but it's another to demand office workers to leave their backpack containing a corporate laptop with a random store employee.

Whenever I encounter this practise, I get a bit insulted and usually refuse to play their game if I have a backpack with me.

US problem. I live in Montréal and locked items in pharmacies is generally not a thing here. We can even walk in most stores with our backpacks.

There's nuance in that too. In the US, some farmers are subsidized to grow corn that is then turned into ethanol and burned as a fuel for cars.

Apparently, about a third of the corn grown in the US is for cars.

Another example. My province has a huge cranberry industry. The biggest in Canada. One can see the cranberry fields from satellite pictures. We don't eat that many cranberries. The vast majority is exported. We don't survive off them. Yet, this industry may deplete some rivers in central Quebec.

I don't want to seem like I'm defending the use of water by datacenters for stupid AI prompts. I'm just adding that we're also using lots of water to grow corn that's gonna be burned by a car.

🎵 Demain sur les bords du Nil Que mangeront les crocodiles? DES GAU-LOIIIIIIS! 🎵

This looks like a shadow vessel from B5.