LED headlights can be many times brighter than incandescent bulbs with no significant impact to life expectancy. Physically, incandescent bulbs produce light by heating up an element which decays relatively quickly. LEDs directly convert electricity to light.

In the US, there ARE regulations limiting how bright headlights can be, but aftermarket LEDs can be bought which exceed the limit. I’ve heard the EU and Asia already widely use adaptive headlight technology so it’s a uniquely american car problem

they use proprietary file formats (MOV and HEIC) that need to be converted to a universal format like jpg or MP4 to be viewed on android (I think this can be changed in iPhone settings), and the conversion looks like shit

I thought it was common knowledge that the dams deliberately destroyed their way of life, every museum with exhibits on pre-columbian cultures I’ve been to in the PNW acknowledged this

If they weren’t libs they’d do reparations

I slept in this town once when I was temporarily homeless. I was lucky enough to not be harassed by cops. Letting people sleep in public spaces doesn’t harm anyone except landlords, the housing market, and the hotel/airbnb industry. How the fuck is an unemployed unhoused person supposed to eventually afford rent if they’re fined for existing outside?

so many people are saying this

divinity??

US Strengthens Its Internet Controls in Critical Year for Biden

Facing a fraught but uncontested election this week and fallout from John Barnett’s death and the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, the US has intensified online censorship using techniques pioneered by Nazi Germany.

South Africa, famously a place that doesn’t need land reform

oh they mention it

Almost all children’ need mental health support Crickx also said the mental health of children in Gaza was being severely affected by the offensive, and that a million children in the Gaza Strip require mental health support.

Children in Gaza “present symptoms like extremely high levels of persistent anxiety, loss of appetite, they can’t sleep, they have emotional outbursts or panic every time they hear the bombings,” he explained.

Before the assault erupted, UNICEF estimated that more than 500,000 children in Gaza needed mental health and psycho-social support.

More than one million children in the besieged Gaza Strip now require mental health support

that’s the entire child population of Gaza

Wow, a new class hasn’t been developed since 1987 due to the lack of a profit motive. That’s somewhat nice

I feel like a reasonable but controversial answer to this is cows

draft offices have been forced to call up ever older personnel, raising the average age of a soldier in Ukraine to around 43 years.

fuuuuuck that’s old

fuck it I’m announcing my candidacy

Apartheid south africa had nukes but never used them, even while losing a war against Angola, Namibia, Cuba, and the ANC. Israel won’t necessarily use nukes against its neighbors if the zionists are given some sort of deal where they won’t be completely wiped out (ie allowed to leave to Europe/the US)

harm reduction

trump must become speaker

it appears the leading opposition party is a russophilic communist party, so hopefully the voters switch to them

I don’t get it, wikipedia says it’s a conservative party yet this is it’s platform

Party’s 2019 programme introduced the following points:[43]

Free universal health care.

Free education including higher education.

Increasing the size and scope of disability benefits, maternity benefits and retirement pensions.

The creation of modernised collective farms to work alongside the private sector. A Active state intervention in the spheres of infrastructure, transport, energy, communications, housing, pharmaceuticals, etc.

The nationalization of foreign-owned energy companies.

A commitment to law and order including both reinstating the death penalty for particularly dangerous criminals and addressing the underlying socioeconomic issues that may cause crime.

A commitment to Moldovan independence and military neutrality.

The opening paragraphs of the party’s 2008 election programme stated that it viewed the average person’s quality of life as superior under the Soviet Union when compared to modern times. It further stated that it viewed Moldova’s alleged socio-economic problems as relating to Moldova’s negative relationship with the Russian Federation.[44]