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NigelFrobisher,

I’m not wearing any clothes.

NigelFrobisher,

I hope they’ve been working on a really good new fight that I have have a thousand times over.

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Whoopsie! Sydney's road planners just discovered induced demand is a thing, after opening a new motorway.

For those outside Sydney, the New South Wales state government recently opened a new spaghetti intersection just west of Sydney's Central Business District.

It was supposed to solve traffic. Instead, it's turned into a giant car park:

"For the third straight day, motorists and bus passengers endured bumper-to-bumper traffic on the City West Link and Victoria Road. A trip from Haberfield to the Anzac Bridge on the City West Link averaged an agonising 44 minutes in the morning peak on Wednesday.

"Several months ago, Transport for NSW’s modelling had suggested traffic from the interchange would add only five to 10 minutes to trips on Victoria Road through Drummoyne and over the Iron Cove Bridge during morning peaks.

"Those travel delays have now blown out."

So what do motorists say when their shiny new road that was supposed to solve traffic instead turns into a massive traffic jam?

'Dude! Just one more lane!'

From the article:

"[Roads Minister John] Graham and his Transport boss Josh Murray appear reluctant to do what many motorists reckon is the obvious solution.

"That is, add lanes or make changes at the pinch-points that are causing the pain. A three-lane to one merge point from Victoria Road onto the Anzac Bridge, along with two lanes merging into one on the City West Link, are proving to be painful bottlenecks."

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/how-planners-got-rozelle-traffic-modelling-horribly-wrong-20231129-p5ensa.html

#roads #traffic #cars @fuck_cars @sydneytrains @urbanism #urbanism #UrbanPlanning #motorways #fuckcars

NigelFrobisher,

Why don’t they just move people’s houses closer to where they work, or vice versa?

NigelFrobisher,

Yeah, but how about down to 0% so we don’t all die?

NigelFrobisher,

I still can’t bring myself to forgive Freidrich for being unable to go anywhere in nature without some twat standing in a yoga pose or sitting in a lotus position on every rock for a photo, as far as the eye can see.

NigelFrobisher,

The retooled Joust game I never get around to working on.

NigelFrobisher,

Scots ghost called “Ronin” moment.

NigelFrobisher,

It didn’t even make sense, because the point of Google was never to make money anyway. The point of Google was to make investors believe it was worth billions of dollars.

NigelFrobisher,

Aw, let her have it.

NigelFrobisher,

Did they just take the extra year to make these videos to apologise for making a live service loot shooter and utterly bottling on the massive expectations they’d generated in the wake of the Arkham games?

NigelFrobisher,

Always felt like it was kind of rude that Susan Sarandon kept this guy’s name long after they were married, and got way more famous with it. Worth it for the alliteration.

NigelFrobisher,

Maybe they can go to work in the coal mines.

NigelFrobisher,

One year they confused feet and inches and moved the Timezone by a whole day.

NigelFrobisher,

Here I go killin’ again!

NigelFrobisher,

Funny how the press banged on for months about Gordon Brown being unelected and having no mandate, whereas this out-of-touch sack of shit billionaire human-impersonator gets a free pass.

NigelFrobisher,

Pretty sure the first Assassin who ever existed was The Old Man Of The Mountain, and he used hashish to indoctrinate young man as assassins so he could send them out into the Middle East to go up towers to uncover the map and then collect all the icons.

NigelFrobisher,

This is the reason why ChatGPT keeps asking people where the nuclear codes are kept.

NigelFrobisher,

Remember we’re all an alien somewhere.

NigelFrobisher,

I found out who’s been shredding cardboard boxes in my house into confetti.

NigelFrobisher,

Now imagining the CEO of a major entertainment company staying up all night to see if his post gets more upvotes than the original.

The AI Politicians Would Like to Speak With You Now - Politicians are using AI doppelgängers to reach voters. It’s a trend that’s about to explode. (gizmodo.com)

Over the last month, some Spanish-speaking New Yorkers got a recorded phone call from Mayor Eric Adams speaking their native language. “Hola, soy el alcalde Eric Adams,” the mayor says in a monotone but flawless accent, before launching into a pitch for jobs with the city government. The truth is Adams isn’t multilingual,...

NigelFrobisher,

I could see these being much more convincingly human than a real politician.

NigelFrobisher,

Mine won’t shut up, even when we are sleeping.

NigelFrobisher,

Ok, but he has to do the Scouse accent this time.

NigelFrobisher,

/r/tvtoohigh was a tragic loss to humanity the day Reddit died.

NigelFrobisher,

The Arch-Magus of the Extreme Court.

NigelFrobisher,

Typo - it’s meant to say “the least safe country to be online”.

NigelFrobisher,

Fire up the Quattro!

NigelFrobisher,

If Matrix was here, he’d laugh too.

NigelFrobisher,

They need to add a new Codec conversation where Snake and Otacon discuss the limitations of the cartridge format vs digital optical media at length.

NigelFrobisher,

I always want to pronounce the American versions of these words phonetically when I see them.

And what the heck is going on with the US pronunciation of “buoy”? None of those syllables are in that word.

NigelFrobisher,

NASA will land a probe on the surface on planet 9 only to find that the entire thing is made of unsold carts of the Atari 2600 E.T. game.

NigelFrobisher,

Should be that grey blue paint colour that means your neighbourhood is being gentrified.

NigelFrobisher,

So you’re astronauts on some kind of Star Wars?

NigelFrobisher,

The Tories were always about handing out public money to mates and it’s insane that people still don’t see it. Why else would you go into public life instead of working at your dad’s firm?

NigelFrobisher,

GaaS really helped me slim down my game purchases to just one or two a year with no online play.

NigelFrobisher,

You basically hide in the kitchen with the other kitchen hiding people until the party ends, particularly when someone in the living room picks up an acoustic guitar.

NigelFrobisher,

He didn’t say he’d kick you out for coming out as Bi though. Legal loophole.

Did you find Tear of the Kingdom difficult?

I played BotW a lot, and really loved it. I feel like the beginning of the game was relatively easy compared to TotK, I died a few times trying out things, discovering the game and possibilities ; in TotK I died a lot and still do even with good gear and armour (1*-2* armors, 30-40+ damage weapons). You could say it’s skill...

NigelFrobisher,

This is why the pros are paid the big money.

NigelFrobisher,

I get free lunch at work. Absolute game-changer.

NigelFrobisher,

Dressing up as a skydiver and dying on a lawn would be a brilliant prank to play if you knew Miss Marple was coming to town.

NigelFrobisher, (edited )

Just put milk and sugar into your virgin black tea to turn it into the chad builder’s tea.

NigelFrobisher,

Ice cream!

Children’s picture book flagged at Alabama library because author’s last name is ‘Gay’ (www.al.com)

Madison County Public Library administrators were asked to go over a list of potentially "sexually explicit" books to be moved from the children's and young adult section to the adult section. The majority of these books were about the LGBTQ community. At least one was added to the list because the author's last name is Gay.

NigelFrobisher,

Also gloriously resulting in sporting news stories being auto-censored to be about “rugby prostitutes” in the US.

NigelFrobisher,

Protocol in this situation is to go forward with the book burning in earnest.

NigelFrobisher,

Enlightenment is creating an army of Frankensteins.

NigelFrobisher,

It works on my machine.

NigelFrobisher,

Peace for our time.

NigelFrobisher,

My undergrad project was a scraper - there just wasn’t a name for it yet,

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