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  • This is the pedestrian walkway along the €11m Gokhale Bridge in Mumbai, India. The bridge has been open to the public for two months now.

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  • My government doesn't give a flying fuck about "good marketing", they only care about money and power, which their corporate overlords are more than happy to provide in exchange for...(lots of) money and (real) power. We've been agitating for better pedestrian access in the city for years now and this is the bare minimum we got. We're still raising hell about it

  • This is the pedestrian walkway along the €11m Gokhale Bridge in Mumbai, India. The bridge has been open to the public for two months now.

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  • No. Settling for half-assed bullshit like this is exactly how this country got to where it is. The powers that be realized we'd settle for anything and they could skim as much as they liked off the top of our taxes while distracting us with inane bullshit.

  • This is the pedestrian walkway along the €11m Gokhale Bridge in Mumbai, India. The bridge has been open to the public for two months now.

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  • It's to stop people from jumping and landing on the train tracks under the bridge. They don't care if you jump anywhere else, just not on the tracks

  • In The City of London, Bicycles Now Outnumber Cars

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  • City of London, as mentioned in the video description. But it's getting better in the rest of Greater London too

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    Grok 4 has been so badly neutered that it's now programmed to see what Elon says about the topic at hand and blindly parrot that line.

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  • I mean, a few days ago there was a brief window where Elon tweaked Grok to reply literally as him (in first person.) Jury's still out on whether that was actually him replying to people via Grok but it's pretty close to certain he was in very close proximity

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    Grok 4 has been so badly neutered that it's now programmed to see what Elon says about the topic at hand and blindly parrot that line.

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  • Not my screenshot. I don't use genAI

  • Transit Apartheid: How class shapes the NYC subway | Maybe not 100% on topic but still interesting to consider

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  • I changed it to a more accessible host. Enjoy!

  • ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show | ICE agents can now ID anyone by just pointing a smartphone in their face.

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  • ... for now.

  • As of 30 minutes ago at the time of posting, the NYPD has detained two young Black men after they refused their demands to show ID without explanation or cause.

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  • There are no good cops.

    There are outright bad cops, and there are cops that are somewhat competent at following procedure -- but that doesn't make them good cops. A lot of the time it's the doing of the job itself that makes them bad cops.

  • This is a lovely gesture, but also it's pretty sad (and very North American?) that if your car dies at the store you can't get home without relying on the tenuous kindness of strangers

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  • Mumbai, India. Six grocery stores, five pharmacies, two clinics, and multiple cafes and restaurants within a 3-minute bike ride from where I live. A full-fledged mall, a hospital, a 7-Eleven convenience store, and an upcoming metro station 5 minutes away, a major discount department store, a shopping complex, and the train station 10min away (by bike).

    That's on top of the fact that there are multiple Instacart-style app-based delivery services that'll bring groceries to you, so you don't even have to get out of the house if you don't want to. (I steer clear of those because they grossly underpay their low-level employees, but they're there if you really need something in a pinch)

    I live a solid 25-30 km outside the city center. Not once have I felt the need for a car in my eight years living here, even for longer distances.

  • This is a lovely gesture, but also it's pretty sad (and very North American?) that if your car dies at the store you can't get home without relying on the tenuous kindness of strangers

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  • Sure, provided they show they want to make changes to the way they do things -- at the very least by not actively fighting tooth and nail against systemic measures that could free them of that addiction.

  • This is a lovely gesture, but also it's pretty sad (and very North American?) that if your car dies at the store you can't get home without relying on the tenuous kindness of strangers

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  • If you don’t have the money for it then thats fine. Times can be tough, I get it.

    Is that the entire extent of your consideration, or do you have an actual suggestion for a systemic solution for poor people who find themselves in this situation?

  • This is a lovely gesture, but also it's pretty sad (and very North American?) that if your car dies at the store you can't get home without relying on the tenuous kindness of strangers

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  • Japan has accessible grocery stores and department stores just about everywhere. That makes it a lot easier to just get what you need and take it home because of how easy it to get to and from the store. If the load is something you can't carry by yourself most stores offer a delivery service.

  • This is a lovely gesture, but also it's pretty sad (and very North American?) that if your car dies at the store you can't get home without relying on the tenuous kindness of strangers

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  • This situation happened at a high-density gathering point (a grocery store) in a major city (Columbus, Ohio.) The people in the story didn't break down by the side of some lonely highway passing through the desert with no signs of civilization for a hundred kilometers either way. I am therefore speaking of systemic failures in major cities that render people in major cities stuck like this.

    That said, I've been to (and briefly lived in) multiple tiny rural farming villages in the middle of nowhere in India that still had a bus stop and/or a train station within walking distance. When that isn't the case there are minivans or even livestock carts that get people to where they need to be going (those count as public transport too.) Public transit is literally how people (and their groceries) get around in the heartland. Y'all bring up this point of how not everyone lives in cities every single time -- we know. Americans aren't the only ones who live on farms or out of the way. We do, too, and we get by just fine without cars.

  • As of 30 minutes ago at the time of posting, the NYPD has detained two young Black men after they refused their demands to show ID without explanation or cause.

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  • Luckily the cops realized that was an idiot 13 year old white kid

    Luckily you were white. If you'd been anything else they would've been all over the car, maybe even planted something, and been like "well, we had to take the kid seriously just in case".

  • As of 30 minutes ago at the time of posting, the NYPD has detained two young Black men after they refused their demands to show ID without explanation or cause.

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  • There are no good cops.

  • San Francisco’s new speed cameras caught nearly 100K violators in May

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  • None of that nonsense. Implementing actual, physical traffic-calming infrastructure is where it's at. And bollards. Lots of bollards.

  • As of 30 minutes ago at the time of posting, the NYPD has detained two young Black men after they refused their demands to show ID without explanation or cause.

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  • Considering a lot of the NYPD straight up said they'd resign if he became mayor, I think he's got a pretty good chance of bringing change if he really wants to

  • Summer's well on its way in the Northern Hemisphere. Here's a visual representation of how incredibly important tree cover is, especially in cities.

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  • Asphalt has less heat retention capability than sidewalk bricks. The asphalt is venting more of its heat into the surroundings than the bricks are, which is why it's cooler.

    There's also very little traffic on his side of the street -- you'll notice there are almost no cars on that side, so it's more than likely he had ample time to get a temperature read on the asphalt before a car came along