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  • Your reaction is perfectly valid. Come, join us at fuckcars

  • Coventry in the UK is trialing a tiny battery-electric single-car tram it calls the Very Light Rail

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  • It won't get stuck in car traffic, for one, and it's reversible so its operational footprint is smaller than that of a bus network. Also predictable because it's on rails so people outside the tram know exactly where it's going. Also lower operational and maintenance costs because less wear and smoother ride

  • Peak American design: a vehicle that is 6 meters long, weighs over 4 tonnes, and can only carry six or seven people (but will usually carry one person most of the time.)

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  • F-150 SuperCrew with an 8-foot bed is 244 inches long, just over 20 feet. But that's a truck with an 8-foot bed, it might actually do something useful sometimes. This is a three-row pavement princess SUV.

  • Peak American design: a vehicle that is 6 meters long, weighs over 4 tonnes, and can only carry six or seven people (but will usually carry one person most of the time.)

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  • Expect a lot of dinged doors and door dinging.

    ...which will then lead to wider parking spaces and even more space stolen from pedestrians and cyclists.

  • Florida sheriff warns protesters ahead of nationwide rallies: ‘We will kill you dead’

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  • With how cops are, it's tantamount to the same thing -- it's tacit approval for them to straight up murder protesters regardless of provocation. They can always make that shit up later and get off without consequences.

  • Ron DeSantis says Floridians have right to hit protesters with cars

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  • And I'm sure no one is ever going to misuse that and claim the protester calmly standing in front of the car was "threatening them!!!1!!!1"

  • Peak American design: a vehicle that is 6 meters long, weighs over 4 tonnes, and can only carry six or seven people (but will usually carry one person most of the time.)

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  • As a car enthusiast I'm incredibly conflicted because muscle cars are cool -- but I can't for the life of me tell you why. They're loud, heavy, inefficient, and much clumsier and slower than other sports cars (which is why I prefer sports cars anyway). They have incredible amounts of power but they can't even use it properly except on a prepped drag surface, maybe.

    You're right, they really are dumb as fuck.

  • Florida sheriff warns protesters ahead of nationwide rallies: ‘We will kill you dead’

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  • None of those things automatically give you the right to murder someone. Due process exists for a reason.

  • Shooting an unarmed woman who was just trying to walk home: just LAPD things

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  • This does happen regularly in the US.

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    Taekwondo player alleges gang-rape by priest, others inside Kanpur ashram. A national-level Taekwondo player has alleged that she was gang-raped inside an ashram located right next to a police station

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  • No you won't. It's significantly higher in the subcontinent, and those are the 10% that actually make it to the news. We tend to cling pretty hard to the "women are property" idea around these parts, unfortunately

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    Taekwondo player alleges gang-rape by priest, others inside Kanpur ashram. A national-level Taekwondo player has alleged that she was gang-raped inside an ashram located right next to a police station

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  • Uttar Pradesh is India's analogue to the US' deep south. Take the worst stereotypes you'd associate with that, turn them up 11x, and that about covers what it's like.

  • Based.

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  • Waymo uses Jaguar I-Pace CUVs that are built primarily out of aluminum and powered by lithium ion batteries. Aluminum melts at about 660°C, and Li-ion battery fires can easily reach 1000°C

  • Based.

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  • Tom Morello was at the protest, hopefully he's had the same thought

  • Based.

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  • The Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation.

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  • Channel 9 reported it as her being "caught in the crossfire", as if she got hit in a gun battle between protesters and cops or something

  • The Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation.

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  • They're two separate statements. I acknowledge that it's beyond shitty for cops to be shooting anyone (especially journalists).

    But also the news outlet in question is known to have shitty politics and therefore while this specific article is more or less accurate (and backed up by other sources) , they are far from a reliable source.

  • Los Angeles Pigs' Department thugs straight up mugged a protester in broad daylight

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  • The Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation.

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  • Okay but also, fuck LBC, they're a rightwing (and Zionist) mouthpiece

  • TIL a single 25kg bag of flour now costs $1000 in Gaza.

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  • Gaza is extremely short on physical cash, which is ironically why merchants only accept physical cash. This has given rise to a middleman industry where Gazans have to wirelessly transfer money via the Bank of Palestine app to a "money exchanger" office who will give them physical cash in exchange, while taking a (now 45%) cut for themselves to be able to pay the rich businessmen who are hoarding the cash