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  • Derail any conversation by mentioning "microwaving your water" rule

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  • Magnetrons are a lot less efficient than magnetic induction (which most modern electric kettles use). Magnetic induction is about 90% efficient at converting electricity to heat in the vessel, whereas the most efficient microwaves are about 60% efficient at converting electricity to microwaves.

  • Canadian city calls for emergency help following record high traffic fatalities. Last year, pedestrian deaths increased by 225 per cent

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  • Lol at the picture of that baby speed hump on a 40' wide road.

    That'll do it.

  • Germany's "rearmament" debate expands to include Mandatory Military Service - PlatformNews

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  • Would make authentic GATs way easier to find.

  • YouTube relaxes moderation rules to allow more controversial content

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  • Violence (or the threat of it) is the only means of influence that the people have ever had. As you've correctly identified, when other avenues of enacting their will are stymied, violence results, but that threat of violence must be what sits behind every vote, or the vote would have no power.

    To put it succinctly, "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."

  • YouTube relaxes moderation rules to allow more controversial content

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  • My ideological opponents are already silencing speech. I gain nothing by ceding that tool solely to them.

    As long as fascists exist they must be silenced. When they seize power, they will not do you the courtesy of allowing you to speak just because you let them. It's naive to think otherwise.

  • University of New Mexico study finds protected bike lanes significantly increase bicycle commuting

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  • Not asking you to dox yourself, but that number outside of context means very little.

  • University of New Mexico study finds protected bike lanes significantly increase bicycle commuting

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  • If I'm remembering a book I read (either Human Transit by Walker or Street Fight by Sadik-Khan, I forget), with protected bike lanes the gender disparity between cyclists also starts to disappear.

  • University of New Mexico study finds protected bike lanes significantly increase bicycle commuting

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  • The investment costs for protecting a bike lane are almost nothing for any competent city, though. There's a reason it's possible for guerrilla urbanists to do it overnight with no money.

  • YouTube relaxes moderation rules to allow more controversial content

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  • Censorship of speech is a powerful tool. Why, if you have the true conviction of your beliefs, would you fight with one hand behind your back?

    Moreover, I've seen no evidence in my lifetime that letting my ideological opponents speak leads to positive results.

  • Capitalism is killing us

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  • The US has slave labor and all they do is pick cotton and staff call centers. If I'm living in a state with slave labor either way I'd probably take the one with the trains.

  • Capitalism is killing us

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  • Well we've got all that in the US already, so can we just do the version where we get trains in addition to the other stuff, instead of just the other stuff?

  • Car-brains: Bike lanes and public transportation is too expensive. Also Car-brains:

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  • I went to an onsen (hot spring) town in Japan. They have hot spring water, so on a lot of the streets business owners just turn the hose on and point it downhill. Worked pretty well for keeping the streets clear of snow, but requires a lot of existing geographical conditions.

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  • The outer Richmond and outer Sunset are incredibly reactionary, car-brained NIMBYs. Only reason this went through is because it got put to a citywide vote. Left to the Board of Supervisors there's no way it would have gotten through. I think the Sunset dipshits are already trying to recall their supe for letting it happen.

  • Pasadena Grapples With Rising Road Paving Costs Amid Declining Gas Tax Revenue

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  • I'd be interested to know whether the majority of those cost increases came from labor or materials. Or, possibly, just additional graft off the top by the contractors if Pasadena doesn't use in-house crews for their paving.

    But cities like Pasadena have some of the easiest conditions possible for maintaining roads since they never (or only very rarely) get below freezing.

  • rideshare rule

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  • That rideshare driver's name? Albert Einstein.

  • After Canada, Australia now too boots their conservative leader to the curb

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  • Our people? It's the Democrats that need to wake up. They lost (and will continue to lose) as long as they propose merely to fiddle on the margins while the promise of a future crumbles.

  • After Canada, Australia now too boots their conservative leader to the curb

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  • They're largely losing because of Trump.

  • Encinitas (CA) nixes "very dangerous" bike lane

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  • If you go look at street view of this street and the proposed alternative Liverpool Drive, you can see a few things:

    1. Eastbound Birmingham is already so wide that drivers are leaving enough room for bikes anyway.
    2. Liverpool has street parking where Birmingham does not, so obviously any reuse of that roadway for bikes would face vociferous opposition.
    3. The street is steep for bikes, but there aren't really alternatives to the grade up from the ocean.

    So yeah, obviously classic bad faith socal nimbyism. All of that could be solved by the American local government's worst enemy: physical separators.

  • Oxford Professor: Cycling is 10 times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities

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  • Just going to point out that it's kind of an unreasonable expectation that people will not be sweaty when it's that hot outside.

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.ml
    regul @lemm.ee

    Why America Has So Much Road Safety Research, But So Little Actual Safety — Streetsblog USA

    usa.streetsblog.org /2024/10/24/why-america-has-so-much-road-safety-research-but-so-little-actual-safety
  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
    regul @lemm.ee

    Why America Has So Much Road Safety Research, But So Little Actual Safety — Streetsblog USA

    usa.streetsblog.org /2024/10/24/why-america-has-so-much-road-safety-research-but-so-little-actual-safety