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Progress: the Katy Freeway in Houston, Texas, spans across 26 lanes making it the worlds widest. The freeway is broken down in to 12 main lanes (six in each direction), eight feeder lanes.
  • Most people will think traffic behave like water that you need to send through a network of pipes. It is not, traffic is made of humans and humans reactions will make traffic behave wildly differently than waters in pipes.

    • Some people and businesses will move next to the new highway for its supposed ease of access, creating traffic
    • some people might change their habits and go shopping to this place instead of that place, or getting a job far away from their home (or a home far away from home)

    The exact reasons for the increase in traffic is complex and my example could be totally off. But we don't need to know the exact reason for the increase in traffic, we know it happens because it has been observed on every road enlargement projects in the last decades.

  • How heterosexual couples met in the US
  • It's a survey, so it relies on the surveyed to tell accurately the date they meet and how, so I won't be surprised that the line here is incorrect.

    Or maybe they refer to using classified ads in the newspaper or over of those "romantic meeting agency" (I don't know the name in English, in French it is agence de rencontre) that existed back in the day

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    Trump Declares It Will Be a ‘Bloodbath’ for America if He’s Not Elected
  • Read the article. He said it will be a blood bath ... for the auto industry.

    Where is the line between a clickbait-y title and just bad journalism ? Because that article crossed it like a champ.

  • Is the feared gang boss ‘Barbecue’ now the most powerful man in Haiti?
  • Basically all i kno about haiti is: only country to successfully throw off colonizers

    Not exactly. Other countries have done that (the US for example). What sets Haiti apart is that they are the first and only successful slave revolt. Slaves gained their freedom through revolt, which terrified every nations that used slaves (basically every Western powers and their colonies at the time).

  • Steam Hardware survey for January 2024
  • There are many windows machines that never run any game (corporate issued work laptop for example). What this says is that Linux machines are more likely to be personal machines in which you can play games.

  • As Someone Learning German, I Know This Pain
  • In French, we have different synonyms for that :

    • "machine à laver", which is female
    • "lave-linge", which is male
    • "laveuse" (Québec only), which is female

    Why do they have different gender for the same thing ? Because, insert your favorite expletive word, that's why !

  • Lol
  • Louis is the "same name" as Clovis. I mean by that it is how the name evolved as the dynasties changed their language from Frankish to Latin to then French.

    Clovis was the first king unifying all Franks, so many Frank kings are named Clovis ... and later ones are named Louis.

  • Very useful tip
  • Come on, it is super fun. Just install VirtualBox and set up a virtual machine, make sure there is no funky mount point that touches your host machine, and go nuke that VM !

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