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azimir

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  • Night trains from Switzerland to Sweden planned for 2026

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  • It's great to see the old night train/sleeper car routes coming back. I'll happily take a sleeper with a small bed across a continent. Arriving at your destination in the morning is a wonderful approach to travel.

  • Mother of 7 arrested for allegedly telling man he could sexually assault baby for $400

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  • Ah, so hired to a mid level government position unless he's rich enough and then straight to ambassadorship.

  • Everything you know is wrong.

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  • Trump Kept Gold Club World Cup Trophy for Himself So FIFA Had to Give the Winners a Replica

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  • He's the biggest baby in history. Someone else getting anything makes him angry, so he steals it. He's the ultimate child who blows out someone else's birthday candles.

    His cult worships a petulant child and it's all projection.

  • Trump posts message of support for Bondi amid Epstein probe fallout

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  • Look at that, he sided with the deep state to cover up Democrats' relationships with Epstein.

  • Sad but true

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  • The height of the impact point also matters The higher the front grill/bumper, the more lethal the impact. The current fad for high vehicles with flat front grills has significantly increased pedestrian deaths.

    These vehicles are unacceptable large for public spaces. The threshold for CDL style licensing needs to be lowered to make modern trucks/SUVs require the training their design deserves. Also tax the bajesus out of them when they're in city spaces. Either they're in the neighborhood for business reasons or get out.

  • Halfway to My Weight Loss Goal This Morning!

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  • Amazing work. I've been on the same kind of path this year. Down -29 with another 15 to go. It's hard and needs to maintained almost every day. Changing those eating and exercise habits is really tough. You're doing great.

  • With LLMs, censoring internet at the router level has become trivial

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  • They may or may not be used here. You could use LLMs to parse the content of sites being visited by web clients on your network. Then, ask the LLM whether the content includes certain topics or is work related. Based on the results of that, you add/remove the site from a blacklist.

    Is this better than just string matching? I would say likely so, though more stochastic in the results. It would let the LLM provide summaries/context of the pages, and not by just confined to specific strings in a list. It might be better ramble to handle context and complexity of the desired outcomes.

    For example, there was a paleontology conference at a hotel once that was stuck behind a firewall blacklisting all sites with the string 'bone' in them. Completely ridiculous. The string 'bone' has different meanings based upon context, which simple string matching cannot provide, but an LLM might be better and identifying and acting accordingly.

  • Trump threatens Brazil with 50% tariff and demands Jair Bolsonaro's trial end

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  • It's a mob style government elected by a mob of angry, hateful people. Unfortunately for the rest of the world, the US was allowed to grow too big and now it's being weilded against you.

  • Dallas City Leaders Approve Landmark Ordinance to Support Missing Middle Housing

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  • Dallas is making some progress at densification. It's not letting real 5+1 buildings, but even this is much better than merely single family homes and sprawling roads endlessly forever. The line cannot go up forever.

  • Brussels sees uptick in public transport use, decline in car ownership

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  • Thank you for the detailed info about Belgium and Brussels.

    I have been to Brussels for a few days. The transit in the core was great (says the American whose city is a wreck for transit). We used the metro and trains. We headed out by hopping the train to London.

    It sounds like the wider situation outside of Brussels and the policies regarding car use need some serious work. If the taxes make it beneficial to drive, people will. A budget is a statement of an organizations values. The same goes for how taxes are balanced in a nation.

    Hopefully the leadership in Belgium can find a way to roll back those highways. Removing freeways through cities is a fast way to improve the city as a place for people to live.

  • London’s low-traffic zones ‘cut deaths and injuries by more than a third’

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  • The data keeps rolling in: every time we remove cars from an area, the quality of human life goes up, local stores usually do better, and lives are saved.

  • Brussels sees uptick in public transport use, decline in car ownership

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  • Great work out of Brussels! Their ridership per capita is 60x my city's in the US. Out city continually scores very high for mid sized US city public transit and it's barely a blip on how well Brussels is doing.

  • If americans come to germany and act like german public Transport is the best, how frickin bad is american public Transport?

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  • America is owned and operated by rich people. They couldn't make money running passenger trains so once we were ordered to invest in car-only infrastructure the trains were mostly disbanded and shut down. There's a ghost of a system left with just a few corridors that could be considered bare minimum service in a developed nation.

    How many kilometers of high speed rail does the US have? Zero. We have some that gets close, but not really.

    My mid-sized city has two trains per day, one each direction, and they both leave between 1am and 2am. In Germany you would have 30+ trains per day in a city this size, likely a notable S-Bahn network, and also some trams and/or U-Bahns in the city to compliment busses. I've got busses in town, but they operated about every 30-45 minutes each, with evening service being every 60 minutes. Here's the fun part: our busses are the most used public transit system for a mid-sized city in the US right now and it's still pathetic when compared to even basic services in Europe.

    DB needs to keep getting investment. Germany must get to a dedicated passenger rail network to separate out the freight trains. DB should also be re-nationalized and operated as a national service, not a for profit system that will inevitably fail as a commercial venture, leading to yet more terrible service. Here's hoping the latest German Parliament follows through on investment money that they pushed through at the start of the year! Also, keep the Deutschland Karte! That's such a great resource for everyone.

  • If americans come to germany and act like german public Transport is the best, how frickin bad is american public Transport?

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  • My city has two trains per day: one each way. They leave at 1am and 2am. The US train system is hilariously bad.

    I know that DB in Germany is horrible compared to the rest of Europe, but at least it has trains that run during daylight hours!

  • ‘I want my vote back’: Trump-voting family stunned after Canadian mother detained over immigration status

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  • Her husband voted for (R). There is no evidence that she voted.

    Her husband is on record saying that despite his wife being taken away by ICE, he still supports the (R) agenda.

  • ‘I want my vote back’: Trump-voting family stunned after Canadian mother detained over immigration status

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  • She lost her green card as a youth for stealing something under $200. She then kept going to immigration court and was told "you're fine" by the authorities for 25 years.

    The US immigration system has been a tragedy for many decades. It doesn't work well, efficiently,not clearly. It's basically designed to allow in people who fit certain profiles, but any weirdness in your situation puts you in indefinite limbo and at the whims of various officials. It makes an underclass of grey zone residents. This was generally fine, but openly set up conditions for a racist regime to start snatching people out of their homes. People who played by the rules for decades.

    The US immigration system today: When Kafka meets Hitler.

  • Canada Day traffic jam raises questions on if Toronto should have more pedestrian-only roads

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  • I loved seeing the Tram move though the crowd. Trams integrate very well with pedestrian areas in a way that busses or cars never can. The crowds were making way as the tram trundled along because the rails tell everyone exactly where to move to clear the way.

    That kind of movement through crowds happens every day in major cities in crowded tourist areas. The big benefit is that when there's no tram on the tracks, people can walk there and use the space. This isn't true for car/bus streets where the space needs to be kept clear at all times for safety from the erratic vehicles on rubber tires. Rails FTW.

  • GOP Budget Bill Would Make ICE “Largest Federal Law Enforcement Agency” in U.S. History

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  • One of the various conservative thoughts is to make large swathes of US territory governed by corporations and billionaires. Basically, non-state zones subject to rules set by non-state systems.

    Surprise! They're trying to make feudal / monarchy systems. Welcome to bring peasants again, fellow peasants.

    The underlying foundation of conservative thoughts was, and is, to uphold a hierarchy that supports a monarchy. It has been from day 1. The American Revolution was a war against conservatism.