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  • This is Why Cycling is Dangerous in America [1:35:30]

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  • Yes. When deciding on any option, it first needs to be an option. As in, something you can actually do.

    But what you said about riding on the side of the road and trying to not die, is most of his system. A lot of roads don't have any shoulder to ride on, so you're just as far right in the lane as you can be.

  • This is Why Cycling is Dangerous in America [1:35:30]

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  • It's not all his fault.Cycling in the US was bad before he showed up too.

    And if you're forced to ride on roads without any cycling infrastructure, his way is the best option. Best option, other than not doing that at all.

    But why he thinks building good cycling infrastructure is a bad thing I'll never understand. That's just nuts.

  • What would happen to a werewolf in space?

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  • Among other things

  • A faster heart for F-Droid. Our new server is here!

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  • Me neither.Just setup an annual donation so I don't have to remember.

  • Anyone dealing with similar?

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  • I don't know where this is, but I know both Coke and Pepsi don't like to allow venders to sell both. They have special terms and pricing for exclusive contracts.

  • I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret

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  • It depends on what you change more often.

    If you change your provider more often, than eSIMs are fine. You don't have to wait for anything in the mail, or go to a store.

    If you (me) keep your provider for a couple decades, a physical SIM card can be moved to any new phone at any time, without even needing to talk to your provider. Never mind asking them to approve your new niche little phone they've never heard of, and don't know will work (it will)

  • Chinese electric buses receive warm welcome in Southeast Asia

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  • I'm frequently of when Albuquerque tried to switch to electric busses several years ago now.

    The city ordered a bunch from BYD. The first testing units failed miserably. They wouldn't last a whole shift, doors wouldn't open, or open when they shouldn't (while moving), there were a number of problems. After a month or so of testing and trying to work with BYD, they gave up on the order and went with some kind of ethanol busses instead.

    That was a bunch of years ago now. I wonder if they're any better.

  • Peter Thiel and Larry Page are preparing to flee California in case the state passes a billionaire wealth tax, report says

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  • Taxes don't have to care where you live. If done properly, all that matters is where the assets are. You want to do more than $1B(or whatever number makes sense) of buisness in California? You need to create a California based subsidiary to handle it all. And share holders of that buisness pay tax on the value of those shares. Then it doesn't matter where Alphabet or Google or their CEOs are located.

  • Human drivers break laws all the time. So now corporations that make self-driving cars want to be allowed to program their cars to do the same

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  • Exactly!I'm glad someone saw it. I thought it was a little obvious while writing it. Then after peoples responses, I was worried it was too veiled. Thank you.

  • How Can we Imagine a Positive Future for Ourselves and the Climate?

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  • That's how imagination works. You can imagine something having nothing to do with reality.Maybe I don't understand the question.

  • Human drivers break laws all the time. So now corporations that make self-driving cars want to be allowed to program their cars to do the same

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  • Isn't that what full self driving vehicles are?They only barley work in small local areas, needing frequent human interventions when anything unexpected happens. There's no real reason to believe they'll every work in our lifetimes, the way we imagine they will.

  • Human drivers break laws all the time. So now corporations that make self-driving cars want to be allowed to program their cars to do the same

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  • First, nothing is "safe" in absolute terms. Literally everything a question of relative safety in comparison to something else.

    Second I think you're still imagining something like the current road and street systems we have today. Replaceing and outlawing human driving will be at least a century away. By then the transit network will look very different.

    The local "last mile" surface streets would have to be mostly bus like systems with very low speeds. In cities at least. In rural areas people at all wouldn't be allowed to walk or cycle on roads for vehicles. There would be seperate routes for that.

    Highways will exclusively kind of psudo-road-trains, of buses and cargo trucks. Maybe the wealthy will have their own personal vehicles. Probably not most people.

    Of course you and I won't see anything beyond the early stages of this transition.

  • Human drivers break laws all the time. So now corporations that make self-driving cars want to be allowed to program their cars to do the same

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  • Maybe when it's illegal for humans to drive on public roads, and all the self-driving cars have a local mesh network to coordinate and negotiate actions, we can get rid of human road rules.

    But yah, until then, no.

  • Human drivers break laws all the time. So now corporations that make self-driving cars want to be allowed to program their cars to do the same

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  • Isn't it the whole point, that they'll be better drivers than humans?Or will they be so good they don't need to follow the rules?

  • Chemtrails Aren’t Real. So Why Are Politicians Passing Laws About Them? Banning chemtrails is “like banning unicorns or banning Bigfoot,” says one weather expert

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  • They're preemptive, CYA kinds of laws.Like the law against whale hunting in Utah.

  • I didn't realize my LG TV was spying on me until I turned off this setting

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  • They do tend to be more expensive. But not extremely so. Maybe 20-40% more than a consumer equivalent.

  • Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else?

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  • November 6th 1988Nothing special about they day really. It's just happened to be the day when the Legrand Poumpaugh themselves decreed as such. Glory be their nostrals.

  • I didn't realize my LG TV was spying on me until I turned off this setting

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  • I've decided my next TV will be a Digital Sinage Display.

  • China Bans Retractable EV Door Handles Over Safety Concerns

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  • Why the limit of 3.5 tons?

  • Join the 2025 Proton Lifetime account fundraiser for online freedom | Proton

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  • It's hard to he be wrong twice in one sentenceCongrats

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Why do we use the term Ban when it's temporary? Why not the more accurate, Suspension?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"?

  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
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    Cards Against Humanity sues SpaceX, alleges “invasion” of land on US/Mexico border

    arstechnica.com /tech-policy/2024/09/cards-against-humanity-sues-spacex-alleges-invasion-of-land-on-us-mexico-border/