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Catoblepas

@ Catoblepas @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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  • When I started getting more fluent in Spanish I found I was overestimating how much Spanish vocab my husband had, just because part of me kind of assumes I’m late to the party on everything and everyone else already knows this. Nope!

    And as always, there is a relevant xkcd:

  • Live facial recognition cameras may become ‘commonplace’ as police use soars

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  • People will say it doesn’t make a difference, but it apparently made enough of a difference that they still can’t find the guy that was putting pipe bombs around the US capitol. I think at least a portion of the “they can still identify you under your mask with computers” claims are based on very niche situations (high quality footage of someone wearing a thin, fabric mask) and exaggeration or allowing people to incorrectly draw their own conclusions.

  • Since George Floyd’s Murder, Police Killings Keep Rising, Not Falling

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  • Why? It’s just going to be COVID and car wrecks being the main killers, like it is every year.

  • Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Court Dates.

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  • Did you have a point? Data shows it’s safer to cyclists to yield and not stop at both.

  • Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Court Dates.

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  • Where are motorcycles limited to 25 kph, the way bicycles (including e-bikes) are? There is also an inherent weight difference between a motorcycle and a bike, even an e-bike, which changes how dangerous they are.

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  • It is at first, but it makes sense when you consider that bikes take longer to come up to speed than cars do, and have a much more limited capacity to get out of the way when they’re not at speed. So if you make bikes lose and regain that speed many times while riding, multiplied by many bikers, eventually one of them is going to wind up encountering a driver that’s not paying attention while they’re leaving a stop sign.

    I’m sure that’s not the only reason, but I’d be surprised if it wasn’t a reason.

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  • Damn, that sounds a lot more annoying than slamming into a pedestrian with a two ton vehicle and killing them.

  • Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Court Dates.

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  • It should be, because it’s actually less safe for bikes to come to a full stop at red lights and stop signs.

  • 2000s internet

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  • Gonna be honest, I somehow missed all the dates on this post because I zeroed in on freecupholder.exe, lmao. Late 90s was when I saw it first, but it’s totally believable to me that people were doing this in 2006.

  • Black Mirror AI

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  • Funny that they’re calling them AI haters when they’re specifically poisoning AI that ignores the do not enter sign. FAFO.

  • 2000s internet

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  • It was a more innocent time. I was introduced to cupholder.exe from my mom, who got it from a coworker’s chain email, as all things spread in those days. I think it might have specifically been called a coke can holder in the email because we were in the south, lol.

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  • I was weird beforehand! Now excuse me while I let my cat lick my armpit, she gets very upset if she’s not allowed to.

  • Batterypunk

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  • Anyone who understands batteries want to tell me if this will eventually explode or something?

  • Math

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  • Base 10 means when you count it goes: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Base 4 means when you count it goes: 1 2 3 10. 10 would still be equivalent to 4, 11 would be 5, 12 would be 6, and 20 would be 8.

    To an alien that counted in base 4, base 4 would be base 10, because 4 is where they start adding 0s to numbers and they don’t have a concept of what 4 is. Probably not really if they were a mathematician alien, but it made me laugh.

  • Electric cars are to save the auto industry, not the environment.

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  • It would be miserable to bike with kids where you are right now because of who your local government decided public space belongs to and how they should get to use it (ie, people in cars and they should use it by driving around). It doesn’t have to be that way and it’s absolutely possible to live perfectly happily without a car when communities choose to prioritize public space being for things other than cars.

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  • A cargo bike would probably be better for you, then, or just a cargo attachment to a bike. E-bikes are strong enough for hauling and getting around that I see a parent and 1-2 kids being hauled around by them all the time, and I doubt your groceries outweigh that.

    If you haul furniture for work or are constantly doing free deliveries for friends or something then yeah, you’re going to need transport that accommodates that. But that’s an edge case and doesn’t really negate the societal need for communities to be built around human beings and not cars. If you lived where I do you would be eligible for door to door service from the disabled transit to take you to and from the grocery store. There’s not a reason for you or anyone else to need to spend (tens of) thousands of dollars on a car, insurance, gas, and maintenance to access food or your job when we could just be doing mass transit and improving pedestrian/cyclist access.

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  • But what was really interesting, and took me much longer to figure out, was that the hawk always attacked when the car queue was long enough to provide cover all the way to the small tree, and that only happened after someone had pressed the pedestrian crossing button. As soon as the sound signal was activated, the raptor would fly from somewhere into the small tree, wait for the cars to line up, and then strike.

    That meant that the hawk understood the connection between the sound and the eventual car queue length. The bird also had to have a good mental map of the place, because when the car queue reached its tree, the raptor could no longer see the place where its prey was and had to get there by memory.

    It was an immature bird. Cooper’s hawks rarely nest in cities in our area but are common winter visitors. So the bird I was watching was almost certainly a migrant, having moved to the city just a few weeks earlier. And it had already figured out how to use traffic signals and patterns. To me it seemed very impressive.

    Emphasis mine. That’s wild!

  • That's one way to explain it.

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  • Putting the ‘strange’ in ‘getting some strange.’

  • Electric cars are to save the auto industry, not the environment.

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  • I do groceries for 2 people once a week with a bus and my legs. With an e-bike and a cargo trailer it would be trivial.

  • U.S. reports cases of new COVID variant NB.1.8.1 behind surge in China

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  • Don’t forget it’s never too late to start masking.

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    The rule is still present in your time, as it was in ours

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