AA5B

@ AA5B @lemmy.world

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6m ago

Global oil prices are skyrocketing 🛢️📈. This week, people in Alexandria, Virginia, are protesting against bike lanes
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AA5B @lemmy.world 6m ago

As someone who used to live in places with very limited places to park, that shouldn’t be a deal breaker. Some do have driveways and there are side streets. It’s not the end of the world to have to park around the corner. (Assuming the side streets are less crowded than downtown Boston)

10m ago

Global oil prices are skyrocketing 🛢️📈. This week, people in Alexandria, Virginia, are protesting against bike lanes

You don’t have to be religious to support people who are, just like you don’t have to cycle to support people who do. Both are community needs

12m ago

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Reports Better Bike Lanes Led to Surge In Bike Traffic

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AA5B @lemmy.world 12m ago

That’s unfortunate. When bus lanes were new I saw them mostly honored despite huge backups from losing lanes. I used to goto Cambridge daily but admittedly haven’t been there in a few years

4h ago

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Reports Better Bike Lanes Led to Surge In Bike Traffic

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AA5B @lemmy.world 4h ago

In this case I doubt it

14h ago

What's your opinion on utilizing our resources to further our ability to travel in space?

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AA5B @lemmy.world 14h ago

One of the interesting things I found in the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson was the first mars settlers trying to create a new type of society without many of the problems the left behind.

14h ago

What's your opinion on utilizing our resources to further our ability to travel in space?

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AA5B @lemmy.world 14h ago

Those earth-like exoplanets are many light years away. They’re not just a hop past mars and we may never be able to reach them (cue people jumping in talking generation ships that we don’t know if we will ever be able to build ).

There are other possible places in our solar system though, depending on how many problems we’re able to solve, notably large water moons of the gas giants

So yeah, systematic, gradually reach farther, moon—>mars—>space stations—> water moons, over a few centuries. I’m sure each step will be harder than the last but we can dream we can grow we can meet challenges …. Until we cant

14h ago

What's your opinion on utilizing our resources to further our ability to travel in space?

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AA5B @lemmy.world 14h ago

Yes and no. I don’t really see how robots in space is usually an end goal. Sure, we need satellites, probes, telescopes like we already do.

But mining is a great example where there’s no point . Of course robots can do it cheaper than humans but there are extremely few, if any, resources valuable enough to be worth mining in space and bringing back. Maybe helium-3 if we ever get fusion working.

Where it is worth machines mining in space is to support human space activities. Being able to, for example, build habitats or at least radiation shielding from simple local rock saves huge amounts over bringing that weight from earth. The reason people are excited about craters near the South Pole of the moon is the prospect mining water, oxygen, even rocket fuel for use to make human space activities radically cheaper. At that point you’ve drastically cut the weight of things needing to be lifted from earth, radically cut costs, while making life in space generally safer and easier.

14h ago

What's your opinion on utilizing our resources to further our ability to travel in space?

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AA5B @lemmy.world 14h ago

While it’s easy to agree with your priorities, taking resources away from our future will make next to no difference. Most of these issues are not budget issues and the space program is a miniscule budget comparatively.

For example most of these places where overuse of water is ruining ecosystems can’t really be helped with money. Maybe more intelligent allocation helps in some cases but we really need to face that some places can’t support the number of people there

14h ago

What's your opinion on utilizing our resources to further our ability to travel in space?

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AA5B @lemmy.world 14h ago

“Disperse the population” is still way out in the future and we don’t even know yet if we’ll be able to.

But there are so many steps we should be taking. Life shouldn’t just be a drudge, a life worth living has hopes and dreams, visions of a better future, in addition to challenges driving innovation. Yes we need to invest more in our people, but investing in our dreams has far less money but can return larger value

I know I’ll never live long enough to see a colony but the space program has been a true inspiration from the beginning watch Apollo landings on the family black and white tv. We had a bit of a lull but developments around space are coming faster and more exciting than ever.

I’m excited to progress toward a permanently manned moon base, to answer more questions about whether we’ll ever be able to live in space, develop ever more technology to approach that possibility.

15h ago

Trump Declares Iran War Nearly Over: ‘The War is Very Complete, Pretty Much’

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AA5B @lemmy.world 15h ago

Bs, not more “both sides same”

15h ago

Global oil prices are skyrocketing 🛢️📈. This week, people in Alexandria, Virginia, are protesting against bike lanes

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AA5B @lemmy.world 15h ago

I was actually going to jump on their side: that area is still very car centric and you need to be able to handle that while taking steps toward safe cycling and walkability. …… then the video was showing a mostly empty street where many of the houses had driveways, so no. They can suck it up and park in their driveway or around the corner like the rest of us

Or heck, that street is really wide. We have narrower streets with both a protected bike lane and parking

The church should have accomodations though, even if it means closing part of the bike lane sundays

15h ago

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Reports Better Bike Lanes Led to Surge In Bike Traffic

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AA5B @lemmy.world 15h ago

Cambridge is like 30 years ahead of this. They are a model for the rest of us

15h ago

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Reports Better Bike Lanes Led to Surge In Bike Traffic

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AA5B @lemmy.world 15h ago

This is not just a matter of adding protected bike lanes. Cambridge is a geographically tiny but high population density city that has been consistently working in this direction for decades. What would be a huge accomplishment anywhere is just another step

It’s fantastic they’ve been able to accomplish so much toward car-free living and I wish I could afford to live there.

One of the things people should take from my response is that protected bike lanes are a great step but not sufficient by themselves. All the other steps Cambridge has taken to increase walkability, bus, and subway access, to curtail cars, to encourage walking, to adding protected bus lanes, to remapping their street grid to form an oasis helped make this possible

1d ago

F.D.A. Opens Door to More Flavored E-Cigarettes

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AA5B @lemmy.world 1d ago

Some children will. But the argument is that if candy flavored vapes didn’t exist, if vape sellers couldn’t target children with marketing and selling, then a lot fewer would be tempted, or not until they’re older.

No one expects such a thing to be absolute: it’s a stats game

1d ago

I want to move already

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AA5B @lemmy.world 1d ago

Are you planning to goto college? It’s tough to make such a huge change at your age, but perhaps there are smaller changes that would help, while also building toward more ability to change countries, should you prefer that.

for full time college, many people live at school, away from unwanted relatives
many colleges are more liberal
many colleges are in more liberal parts of the us
college can help set you up for a job that lets you afford things like moving to another country
maybe you can apply to a college in a different country

I don’t know anything specific about Norway, but I’m sure they have colleges and most countries are more welcoming to people with college degrees

As a teenager, it may be more achievable to apply to full time colleges in a liberal state, or in a different country

1d ago

Did you drink alcohol when you were younger than me?

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AA5B @lemmy.world 1d ago

My younger wine is at college and doesn’t drink (good for him). Since the drinking age here is 21, most college kids can’t legally drink. Of course they do anyway, and I can’t be too judgemental since I did at that age as well.

However my son abandoned his initial group of friends because that’s all they wanted to do, socially. There’s a game, and students get free tickets: nope, I’d be late to the frat parties. There’s this cool trail: nope, the parties are then. Let’s go to this movie: I’ll be drinking then.

I realize I’m only hearing half the story, but it really seems like not just excessive drinking but drinking as a problem, interfering with normal life.

2d ago

This chili oil is apparently very Calorie dense

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AA5B @lemmy.world 2d ago

That sodium is pretty obscene too

2d ago

How do you intake caffeine and how much?

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AA5B @lemmy.world 2d ago

2 mugs of 10 oz dark coffee, black, extra strong. I’m currently moderating, trying to stick to that.

I’ve found that k-cups have a similar advantage to soda cans when you want to moderate. You can’t fill up a super-mug and there is no pot/2L bottle to finish. Portion control is crucial