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Suggestions for Merino Wool Tshirts?
  • Decathlon? They used to carry somewhat decent wool shirts. The ones I got from there still hold up.

  • Fetterman calls rush to blame Israel for hospital blast ‘disturbing’
  • Not sure of the 20 hospitals, but here’s the wire service article about the school being bombed this week.

    https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/least-6-people-killed-israeli-air-strike-unrwa-school-gaza-2023-10-17/

  • Half of Americans can’t install solar panels. Community solar is how they can plug into the sun.
  • The "half of americans" in the headline is those that live in apartment buildings.

    No roof, no solar power.
    That has been the dispiriting equation shutting out roughly half of all Americans from plugging into the sun.

    While community solar is indeed awesome, we need to have apartment and commercial buildings install solar as well.

  • Modern transport for short distance
  • The concept is good. A DIY alternative would be to build a foam+fiberglass shell around an e-trike for most of the same benefits.

  • Modern transport for short distance
  • The concept is good. A DIY alternative would be to build a foam+fiberglass shell around an e-trike for most of the same benefits.

  • What are the essential services you need in your local neighborhood?
  • Taking a look at most city maps I’m surprised how many areas, even older suburbs, fit the definition of 15 min cities already.

    The issue is breaking the monopoly of the car on planning and actually making them bike and pedestrian friendly.

    I encourage everyone to figure out the 15 minute bike radius around themselves and marvel at just how complete a life one can live in it.

  • Raspberry PI 4, best usecases
  • It’s easy to set it up as a mobile “off-grid” wifi access point to host a calibre library of banned books.
    https://github.com/hydroponictrash/Tiny-Banned-Book-Library

  • Stanford researchers find Mastodon has a massive child abuse material problem
  • Far-right instances Gab and TruthSocial are also technically mastodon. By this metric mastodon also has a nazi problem.

    Any software that allows people to communicate over the internet will be used by horrible people to do horrible things.

  • the anti-15-minute-city backlash is ridiculous
  • For thousands of years humans have lived in "15 min villages" where almost everything has been nearby.

    And most 15 min city definitions I've seen includes some sort of bike option.

    I encourage everyone who lives in a city (or suburb) to look up routes from their home to groceries/pharmacies/schools/etc on google maps. I just did for myself and I'm already in a 15 minute city.

    What's lacking is the infrastructure for people to safely get to these places without a car.

  • Reddit's API protest just got even more NSFW
  • Not just incompetent, but also just plain mean.
    After making an incompetent decision (super high api costs) he didn’t reassess the situation, he just started lashing out.

    First at the app devs, then at the mods, now at the users.