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[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Billy Joel walked through it alone.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Some people hate driving but still can't see anything wrong with this excessive car culture.

To support your point:

According to this, that might be as high as almost 1/3 of drivers. To be fair I guessed it would be higher before I looked it up, but that's still a lot.

And most importantly, it's a much higher percentage than the percentage of the population the zoning code allows to live in multifamily housing (which can be as low as 10% in some metro areas), which I'm using as a proxy for walkable communities even though they don't necessarily line up perfectly.

Point is, in a lot of cases the law requires constructing the built environment in a way that forces people to drive even when they don't want to.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

The key point to remember is that 80% of the US population is urban. The other 20% are totally justified in having a car-centric lifestyle, but they're also a relatively negligible percentage and thus not part of the problem to begin with.

It's all the folks in the suburbs who like to pretend they're rural when they're not who are the bulk of the problem.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Idaho stop is great—all jurisdictions ought to have it—but until yours does, doing it still counts as a violation. 😕

[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

Considering the kinds of questions OP was asking, which group does it sound like he falls into?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 14 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Quit resigning and start disobeying, you cowards!

[–] grue@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I'd love to see more about how the rebellion came together, especially how it almost didn't.

I feel like it's weird your comment didn't mention Rebels. Don't ignore it just because it's a cartoon.

 
[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

With computer stuff, you can do even better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming

TL;DR: your documentation and your shell script (sequence of console commands you run to accomplish the task) can be the same file.

(Dunno what kind of chemistry you do, but you may have already come across this concept in the form of Jupyter notebooks or something like that.)

While I'm at it, I'd also like to mention Ansible and Git, for when you really want to keep good records and have a reproducible setup. Don't worry about them immediately as it's probably too overwhelming to learn all at once, but keep 'em in the back of your mind for later.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Remember the part where it took basically ecoterrorism to get the point across?

 
[–] grue@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

How far back do you have to go to find whales with fingernails/claws?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Honestly, I don't think it's possible to get by just trusting any particular guide without developing at least some actual understanding of the concepts underlying what you're doing. The field is just too wide and rapidly changing for any source of info to be authoritative (and stay authoritative indefinitely after the guide is written), so it's super important to develop the skill of looking up multiple different and possibly conflicting approaches to the task, thinking critically about them, and then synthesizing your own approach that works for your specific situation.

 
 

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/23117884

Tone (2025-07-06)

http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/tone

Alt textReally, any noise other than hatred or complete lack of interest should not be allowed.

Bonus panelBonus panel

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32367927

Tire wear particles enter rivers and lakes primarily via wind and rain. These particles account for 50% to 90% of all microplastics that run off roads during rainfall. Furthermore, scientific extrapolations suggest that nearly half (45%) of the microplastics found in soil and water come from tire abrasion.

The concentration of tire wear particles in water bodies can vary by several orders of magnitude, ranging from 0,00001 to 10.000 milligrams per liter.

The particles contain a complex mixture of different compounds, including toxic substances: heavy metals such as cadmium and zinc and organic substances such as the ozone protection or antioxidant 6-PPD. If the tire wear particles end up in freshwater ecosystems, the pollutants are leached out there.

 

cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/217784

Signposts on the Vancouver street bear the English name below the official Musqueam name, which is written in the North American Phonetic Alphabet.


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