Similar story for bikes and foot traffic, vs cars IIRC. You can have a staggering number of bikes and foot traffic with very light wear.
Look, this guy is obviously a monster, but castrating someone doesn't undo the harm. That's just barbaric. Hard labor making license plates all day? Sure. Long sentence? I could see that.
We gotta have some moral minimums, though. Stuff like execution and castration is too far. What if they have the wrong guy? Even if it was him, mutilating their bodies is not what we should be doing on this continent.
I agree. Onion article (below) about this made me laugh but also gives an aftertaste of dread if people stay home, and we end up with a dictator for a day who overstays his welcome by a decade or two.
Pick and choose your battles, but don't be a single issue voter or you bone everyone- left and right. A lot of rural communities depend on the social safetynet programs that urban places put in place, even if the rural places tend to try and curtail them. This election will be one of the most important since the civil war; We get to decide whether or not we still want the privilege of being a republic.
American 18-year-olds stoked to vote in last presidential election - The Beaverton https://www.thebeaverton.com/2024/04/american-18-year-olds-stoked-to-vote-in-last-presidential-election/
At first, I thought it was 'Zepherillis', which sounds like some terrible STD.
We played 1,000 hours of Elite Dangerous together during the duration of the pandemic. Turns out he's a great skier and a hell of a good cook, too. We are in the process of getting engaged after dating for two years :)
Chill HOAs for stuff like rusted wrecks on the front lawn, totally understandable. But the HOAs around here have $500-$1,000 a month fees, which seems excessive to say the least.
Probably for spare parts and then used as dummy aircraft after that, all for Ukraine. For less than 20k per plane, that's pretty damn good. And Ukraine could certainly use the parts. Though I hope we also donate a considerable amount of our aging out planes and tanks. They'd serve Ukraine well and get second, well-deserved life overseas.
Elon Musk vs. Twitter, lol (timestamped)
I think Nintendo will probably try to hit a great pricepoint for parents instead of high performance. The last powerful Nintendo console that I'm aware of was the Gamecube.
But who will buy their $70 Wii U/Wii ports? :p
The sick leave is insidious because sick employees come in vs wasting coveted PTO. It's a self-fulfilling problem as more and more workers fall ill.
Does anyone know if this will be released to the US/US theaters?
They already have Spot dogs that can do fire supression. But they need the mechanical arm that the newer revisions introduced.
Wouldn't even do this even if there was a lambo given as compensation. This sounds absolutely terrible.
After living in left and right states for many years, there is a stupid amount of common ground over stuff like solar, right to repair, rent control and housing, railway infrastructure, healthcare costs, quality careers and compensation, education costs and more.
We might see something like solar for different reasons (climate change vs. energy independence), but there's ways of rephrasing a solution to have it both ways.
The only thing that really seems to get in the way are petty online disagreements that then snowball into stuff like accusing people of shitting in litterboxes, hypothesising that gender diverse people started an international war or accusing people of genocide because their underwear was just revealed to be made in a super repressive country. That's the noise that prevents us from getting shit like bullet trains in or healthcare costs drawn down.
We had to choose 12 [overgrown bike paths] just as a good round number, I reckon there's probably 15 to 20 that you could probably make into really decent routes today.”
Exactly how many more bike lanes lie dormant under grass verges is unknown, but by comparing various accounts, Reid has concluded that around 500 miles (805km) of bicycle tracks were built. So far, he has found 190 miles (306km), partly by checking satellite imagery on 1930s-era roads, and partly by delving into newspaper records and highways meeting minutes. One road at a time, he is uncovering this network of cycle tracks.
This is super cool!! I hope they uncover all of them.
This reminds me a lot of Seattle's old streetcar network from the early 1910s which can still be seen today by a number of oddly wide roads. If your city has strangely wide, gently curving roads, there's a decent chance it used to be part of an old trolley system. Many of those rails are still there, buried under decades of asphalt and concrete.
Ironically, some are just now beginning to have streetcars again or a mix of protected bike lanes and streetcars (and cars, unfortunately).
Glad they are doing this. I don't mind seasons too much, but I start to feel kinda exhausted if the station or maps are just completely overwhelmed by seasonal changes and not just the base game stuff.
I do hope they add more mission types eventually. Would like to see kinda...L4D2-style "Get from PT A to B safehouse" before completing a major objective deeper in with limited supplies. Deep dives feel too much like standard missions in this regard, to me. I'd like to see more variety, at least.
Underground lakes, rivers, and water sounds that affect navigation or gameplay could be interesting, too. Pondskater enemies, diving sections, etc.
Selling the power to other regions is alright, but what I'd really like to see is pumped storage. Even just two grey water reservoirs- massive, probably underground. "Spend" all that free electricity during the solar day. Release that energy as hydropower during the mornings and evenings to reduce surge pricing and demand on the grid. Sell additional power as needed, but don't let solar go to waste.
Batteries are...okay... but lithium ion cells will last 10 or 15 years before needing to be replaced, which seems wasteful when we have perfectly reusable options like pumped storage, which involves a few pumps, a hydroelectric turbine, and two cement or dirt reservoirs, one higher than the other.
I'm sure whatever we do, it will fix itself in time. I just hope CA doesn't permanently cut incentives over this "problem", haha.
YouTube goes for the jugular as it begins cracking down on third-party apps
I'm sure they are working on a youtube messaging app behind the scenes.
A rarely used technique to upgrade old power lines could play a big role in fixing one of the largest obstacles facing clean energy, two reports found.
A lot of our grid is actually comprised of various smaller entities. Advanced Reconductoring could help, as building new lines takes ages due to permitting and localized red tape. We don't have a central authority to coordinate building new lines, so upgrading existing lines to better technology could allow us to get closer to bridging the gap.
However, one of the downsides is that it will still be difficult to connect new solar and wind farms in remote areas, due to the need to build virgin powerlines spanning urban-rural areas. This is one tool we can do in the present - near future in order to improve our grid. Another is advanced monitoring sensors so we can transfer more electricity without accidently overloading transmission lines. Both are relatively low-cost alternatives to building new lines.
Scientists may have discovered a major flaw in their understanding of that mysterious cosmic force. That could be good news for the fate of the universe.
The more data we collect, the more we realize our assumptions about the universe may be incorrect. This is the first year data of a multi-year study on mapping the position of galaxies.
The Alabama senator used a story about sex trafficking to criticize the Biden administration’s border policies. But the events appear to have occurred in Mexico years ago.
The woman was from Mexico, still lives there, and never set foot in the US. Her kidnapping and rape was from 2002 - 2006 and took place in Mexico City.
Calling themselves investigators, activists are using new data tools and disputed legal theories to urge officials to drop voters from the rolls.
In a letter, Joseph Ladapo said parents at an elementary school with confirmed measles cases can decide whether their children should attend school.
The Greek parliament has passed a law legalizing same-sex marriage, in a landmark victory for human rights in Greece and making it the first majority Orthodox Christian country to establish marriage equality for all.
The Greek parliament has passed a law legalizing same-sex marriage, in a landmark victory for human rights in Greece and making it the first majority Orthodox Christian country to establish marriage equality for all.
Trans and queer people and their supporters suffer ‘systemic persecution’ as country pushes increasingly conservative values
How a Ukrainian soldier escaped from the embattled Azovstal steel complex in Mariupol and sneaked 125 miles to Ukrainian territory.
Once he got back to Ukraine, he signed back up for military service.
Against the odds, facing the encroaching Sahara, he built a forest in Burkina Faso, becoming “a national hero” and winning acclaim abroad for his innovations.
He took barren and dry lands and turned them into incredible forests. People thought he was insane as they fled dying villiages. They burned his forests. He replanted his forests and tripled his crop yields, becoming a hero to farmers all over.
Even the SC didn't want to put up with his nonsense.
The reported raids come a day after the country's Supreme Court outlawed the "LGBT movement".
A London gay club is set to close, as the owner cites increased attacks on staff and customers and building works as the reason for closure.
Queering the Map is a community generated counter-mapping platform for digitally archiving LGBTQ2IA+ experience in relation to physical space.
A Japanese family court has ruled that the country’s requirement that transgender people be surgically sterilized to change their legal gender is unconstitutional. The ruling is the first of its kind in Japan, and comes as the Supreme Court considers a separate case about the same issue.
For decades, spending on the future put the nation ahead of all others. What would it take to revive that spirit?
Why the US is falling behind- a lack of R&D, particularly around computers, emerging technologies, and education. And how we are starting to reinvest in critical R&D again for things like vaccines and chips.
This article discusses the history of American research and technology and how it lifted tons of other countries up by investing in R&D and modernizing education for everyone.
The Supreme Court of Mauritius has struck out a colonial-era law criminalising same-sex relations, bucking a trend elsewhere in Africa where a string of countries have passed or proposed anti-LGBT legislation.
Researchers hope the tool will help mitigate 'sexually transmitted infections, sexual risk behaviors, violence exposures and other health outcomes.'
