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I’m so fucking confused, man. I’m a tech guy. I’ve spent my whole life getting good with computers, I know very little about cars, and I just can’t keep up. I’ve heard that yeah ethanol is bad but put in your tank what the manual says because if your engine isn’t designed for “high-octane” fuel (???) you’ll damage your car with the pure stuff? But I know how ethanol dries out rubber, which I’m quite sure is what my fuel lines are made of, but my manual says to use 85. So should I be using 87 and avoiding 85? Or…?

I just want an electric car. “Plug it in”, I get.

Edit: Thank you to everyone who responded! It was salient as I was actually driving at the time and saw the comments before my next stop; I ended up getting the right gas thanks to you all. My car immediately started running better. I’m a lot less confused now, I’ll be using 87 gas from now on. Thankfully my car seems to have survived my mistake(s) without any immediately negative consequences >.>

Aw, I understand, you’ve had your warm milk and now it’s nap time. Kiddos need their sleep!

The protests have grown by a million people with every event, give or take. They show the people who have a problem with this shit that they’re not alone, and more and more people have a problem with all this. The protests show the people in power right now that we are not going to lay down and take it, like you lot want to keep saying we are.

And, what does protesting actually accomplish? In Nazi Germany, it got 1,800 Jewish prisoners released: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenstrasse_protest

So if you really want these fuckers gone as badly as the rest of us, how about you take your defeatist crap and keep it at home with you? It’s not helping anyone except the fascists.

Or you could stop doing the work of the fascists, but I think you like the kool-aid too much for that. Feels good talking down to people being killed for resisting, does it? You’re as bad as the people you claim to hate, you just can’t see it.

Don’t worry, most people grow into empathy eventually, we all develop at different rates.

Yes, collateral damage is to be expected when a superpower gets destabilised. Why are you ignoring the fact that there was documented election interference on a massive scale? Why are you ignoring the total takeover of our government by hostile actors? Are you trying to paper over all of that for some particular purpose?

Moreover, you’re mostly addressing the victims of the fascists here. We’re not actually in charge of the country right now.

Very, very interesting that you’re advocating for civil war. I wonder whose interests that could possibly serve.

Earth Day, 1970, 20 million. Latest No Kings was 8 million. But still, No Kings accounts for 3 of the top 4.

As to starting earlier, you said yourself it’s a logistical nightmare. I would argue people got organised PDQ, all things considered.

Right, lay down. That’s what some of the largest protests in united states’ history are. Protests that are getting larger by the month. “Laying down”.

You aren’t in any position to criticise, keyboard warrior.

“Both” is also acceptable.

I am not patronising and that was not my intent. Read whatever you want into it of course, I can’t stop you.

Well, sure, and I appreciate your sanguinity haha! I just main support, and felt your question deserves a proper answer.

I am planning on answering when I’m at a computer, as well, because I actually do have a matrix server set up with Synapse and MAS. Quick question though, when you ask how it works, do you mean the actual backend, or are you asking if the performance/user experience is good?

Don’t get me wrong, suggestions are appreciated, but you’re answer is absolutely typical of a Stack overflow “huhuh well don’t do it wrong then” comment. You could have, for example, said you don’t use Synapse but this is why you like Continuwuity. (edit: not prescribing speech, giving an example of how your comment could have read better)

As well, I take issue with the idea that people can only ask for help in sanctioned forums. This is a self-hosting community, after all; I am here not only to learn but to share what I learn, which I thought was the whole point.

Polanski is a populist helmet saying what do-gooders want to hear

If that’s true, then there’s really no hope. I’d try to fix it myself but I don’t live in the UK anymore. I did try to convince some of my family but they want to be a researcher and a nurse, respectively, so they dismissed the idea of getting into politics 😅 Best I can do is hope for a miracle, I suppose.

That, I wasn’t aware of. Appreciated! I do hope it manages to turn around. I fear the alternative, we’ve already seen how that goes in the US.

Sounds like you think reform are going to win the general too, so I’m not sure how you’re not agreeing with me, but okay. Like, you think the country isn’t totally buggered in the event Reform wins? Because they’ve already shown how bad they are at governing, in the localities they’ve won seats in. Or, are you saying you think people are smart enough to see the smear campaign against Polanski for what it is? Because I’ve worked in IT too long to believe that myself.

What is this, StackOverflow? You didn’t answer their question and instead just told them to use a different solution.

I’m aware. I don’t see anyone but Reform getting elected in the coming general. The only real candidate in my view is Polanski and you’ve seen what the media are doing to him; It worked with Corbyn and as a result I don’t believe my former countrymen are smart enough to see through it this time either.

I reiterate, the country is fucking doomed. Downvote away, I would love to be wrong, but I’m not.

Well, good game Britain. I thought there was some hope after getting the Tories out, but Starmer was the best the “left” could do and now the country is fucking doomed.

The people need to know! The people also need pictures. I’ll go first:

We are in emergency mode and fascists kicking in your door without a warrant and disappearing you should be met with due force.

Due force is exactly what you ridiculed the other guy for saying he’d use, and if you won’t meet a home invader with what you call due force then your “should” here loses a lot of weight. The rest of your comment is answering something I didn’t say; your limits are your own.

But yes, it’s bananapants fuckballs insane that this is relevant conversation in America right now.