@chakan2@lemmy.world

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This, unfortunately, makes hit and run the most viable strategy in Texas.

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His job is to stop and detain that person. It’s not really a choice.

I don’t know how you can remotely justify driving off when asked to get out of the vehicle. It’s an insane position.

She escalated from simple shoplifting to assault…if we want to talk about suicides…that’s a way to do it I guess.

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I was one of the downvotes. Clusivity, as described in your article does not apply to y’all. It’s You All…it will never include the speaker.

It’d have to be something like w’all to apply.

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The important question there is why are there so many failed men in the first place.

You have to be utterly desperate and broken to look up to a slug like Tate.

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I wouldn’t call it extremist…it’s usually reasonable policy protecting people’s privacy. It’s only extreme because it would severely cut into big tech’s profits and the USs surveillance capacity.

Lemmy probably feels like Reddit when it first started, all warm cuddly and friendly to newcomers eager to discuss and collaborate around central topics.

I joined reddit on the tailwind, so it was all echo chamber, we hate newcomers, gatekeeping, automod frenzy, too many rulebreakers, too many rules, etc I could be wrong, but thats what I imagine it used to be like.

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No…not really. It’s just as polarized here as the rest of the internet.

Women working in Antarctica say they were left to fend for themselves against sexual harassers (apnews.com)

The National Science Foundation, the federal agency that oversees the U.S. Antarctic Program, published a report in 2022 in which 59% of women said they’d experienced harassment or assault while on the ice, and 72% of women said such behavior was a problem in Antarctica....

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I have a feeling people picked for those types of missions will be vetted harder than “Hey, want to see some snow”

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The conclusions in the article are bizarre. The widening worked, and as the population increased, the congestion increased in those areas.

The solution is stop upping population density in population dense areas.

You just can’t pack that many people in per square mile and make it work, regardless of if we are using cars or not.

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No…no it doesn’t…where does your eutopia actually exist? Does it have a growing population center?

This is where someone says the Nordic countries usually…the problem with that example is the US is what…20-50x bigger.

You’re not biking across your state…more or less the whole of the US. You also might want to take a harder look at their cultures and see how they deal with no homogeneous populations…it’s not pretty.

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Think about this…ever been to a large sporting event in a huge arena? Think of a sold out NFL game. The stadiums are designed to get people in and out quickly. Lots of people in a out quickly.

It’s a fucking disaster, every game, every time.

Now imagine doing that daily just to get to work. That’s what you’re proposing here.

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Good luck with that municipal planning.

Also, did everyone just forget about the pandemic we just went through? Haven’t we decided as a society stuffing lots of people in a small space is bad for our health?

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Micro mobility is great if you plan on never leaving a 5 or 10 square mile area. The problem with that is the majority of Americas have at least 1 trip a month that’s 30+ miles.

No one is making that kind of trip with a micro mobility solution. Especially not in the heat and cold extremes we have now.

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In other words, you’ve never left a 10 mile square radius.

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Might go something like this: Say you live in one of the suburbs of Buffalo. You might bike to a local train station, get off at the main terminal and transfer for an intercity train to New York, get off at Grand Central Terminal, transfer for the subway, get off, and bike to your destination. A transit system that integrates microbobility will let you bring your bike on the train.

So you just turned a 45 minute trip into at least a 3 to 4 hour one with layovers. Worse, you’re going to be exposed to the elements for a big leg of it.

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This is likely bullshit, your milage may vary…but I though they used encrypted black berries. Its on a private network/vpn separate from civilian traffic.

It seems like Trump threw a fit about it at one time.

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We had a pair of those in my area. They were famous for “affordable housing”.

End up the pair was worth 12 mil from cashing in on all their “goodwill.”

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Yes, there was a news story about these people. It was 4 or 5 years ago. They were tying to get grants from our local government so they could continue to rent their properties so cheap.

They were playing themsleves off as a mom and pop that just wanted to help the community.

Ends up they owned something like 8 houses and 2 24 unit rental properties and were taking in profit on the rise in real estate all while getting grants for their good will.

The point is, landlords, by their nature, are not good Samaritans.

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Using W11 today, that’s my first thought too…It’s just ad after ad for Microsoft services. You will fucking install O365 or Microsoft will kill a kitten.

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Side note as an ex-Windows user (from Windows 3.1 - W10) - Go with OSX and all the Windows-ification plugins you can find.

Apple out windows Windows.

If I didn’t game so much, I’d go to all Linux and OSX devices.

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I see the legbeards have migrated as well.

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Unfortunately, the centrist viewpoints are the ones you get when you sort by controversial on Reddit. But they’re there and oddly, they’ve usually got a few up votes these days.

Lemmy, or at least lemmy.world is ultra liberal. I’m liberal leaning, but if you disagree here you are smashed into oblivion.

I guess it’s good there’s not a general karma system here.

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It’s only going to get worse. 20% of the US is illiterate. 50% can’t read above a 6th grade level.

Read that again.

1 in 2 people can not read above a 6th grade level.

That is a fucking insane statistic.

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Top hit on google: www.crossrivertherapy.com/…/literacy-statistics#:….

Forbes: forbes.com/…/low-literacy-levels-among-us-adults-…

Snopes: www.snopes.com/news/2022/08/02/us-literacy-rate/

There’s a bunch of other studies out there that back that number…It’s always generally 20% can’t read at all…50% can’t do critical analysis of text.

It’s really ugly…Those people all vote, and I think it helps explain how the most vile ridiculous demons the R’s put out there get 30%+ of the vote. It’s extremely hard to refute lies when the person consuming and believing the lie can’t read.

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I’ll take the average immigrant’s reading level over the average conservative’s reading level.

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the separated from the toilet kind.

I don’t understand how those work at all…seems like that would be a recipe for poop tracks from the toilet.

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That may have been sarcastic, but I appreciated the info. It beats having to take a shower.

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In Soviet Russia, moon land on YOU!

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Upper middle class is the top 10%…So yea, 9 out of 10 people aren’t doing so great.

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You’re reading that article completely wrong…the numbers you posted are medians for upper income earners. The median US worker does not have 6 years of higher ed. I think only 20-30% even have a bachelor’s.

The median income in the US is 50k as of 2022. The 90th percentile is 120k-130k.

Those are disgustingly low for not having universal health or any social safety net like the rest of the industrialized world.

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Eh, grab a big fur and a metal rod of some sort…you get static electricity that way.

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All this to say, I think there’s weird cultism around the android ecosystem that is, to me, offputting.

As someone that has lived through the wax and wane of the iCult…I find that statement hilarious.

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It’s fun for a minute…then…well…it’s kind of where “don’t stick your dick in crazy” came from.

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Give me a new El Camino EV with a 400 mile range and I’m in.

All my road trips are around 150 miles and there may or may not be a charger at the destination.

The article says range isn’t important…if you’ve ever looked at a map of the US, you’ll see why that’s a misguided statement.

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That’s all fun and games until weather happens…and weather is going to happen a lot going forward.

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You live in a democracy lol

That hasn’t been true since the 80s.

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Just city to city is typically at least 150mi one way. Maybe on the southern coasts, if I was really a homebody, could I get away with something under 150mi range.

There’s no way anyone in Texas is going anywhere in a standard range EV for example.

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That’s a terrible statistic…of course most of my travel happens around where I live.

If anything…that actually reveals long trips are more common than you think…For every 19 times you go to work or the store the 20th trip is significant…

In other words, if your number I right…Once to Twice a month the average person would likely require an extended range EV.

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A 2 liter a day is still miles away from the amount you’d need to drink to reach unsafe levels.

I think you’d have to drink 3+ a day before you’re at unsafe levels if you’re 150lbs (and…well…if we are shitting on eating habits, 150 is a very light American).

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The soda acid thing is also a myth. The PH level of your stomach acid is much higher than soda.

Edit: Yes, had that backwards…but my point stands…stomach acid is more acidic than soda. It’s not an issue.

Yes…I concur, it’s terrible for your teeth.

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Sigh…come back after highschool chemistry.

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CEO regrets her firm was sued…not the fact that she traumatized roughly 300 people clockwork orange style.

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Lol…wtf is this trash article…Netflix is struggling to survive. Bullshit, they made 12B profit last year.

The article makes it out like all the big players are at a loss…they’re not…they brining in Bs in profit.

The price hikes are greed, and of course the consumers will pay it.

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Yes…it’s a dumb comment…but it’s kind of interesting too. Are we seeing the rise of the Right in the US because short form video became popular?

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I’m just going to go with it’s really fucking weird to see a heard of kids around the furries at Pride.

I’m not anti-furry, but some self awareness would be nice.

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Stop sexualizing everyone because of what you see on the Internet. They aren’t fucking in public.

The fuck…I was there. The furries in bondage gear playing with a couple of toddlers is seared in my head. HAVE SOME SELF AWARENESS…that’s all I’m asking.

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others need a bit of distraction like a ping pong table.

That is never the answer. If your business isn’t retaining people because the party culture isn’t party enough…you’ve got way bigger problems…and it’s probably leadership.

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I shrug…I like WFH…it’s me vs the machine and that’s that. I hated the forced corporate fun when I was still in that environment. It’s “collaborative”…no…no it’s not.

Sure…having Little John spin the company party was a neat story…getting paid 50k more and working in quiet peace is a better one.

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A ping pong table is cheaper and less effort.

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