magiccupcake

No it's not the same.

People taking down speed limits signs cause they want to go faster does not warrant the same response as people complaining that an intersection is unsafe and trying to improve it, and only because the city is basically ignoring them.

Nah, this road is a fucking textbook example of a bad neighborhood intersection.

Wide straight road with a hill on one side leads to unsafe driving speeds. Combined with parking at the intersection making visibility low for anyone crossing the intersection (cars, pedestrians, and bikes all included!)

This intersection needs intervention, and a stop sign is a bare minimum solution. Speed bumps and daylighting would also be justified.

We know we build unsafe intersections, we don't need a traffic study to confirm it, especially if you have a large number of residents with the same complaint.

If 50 people sign a petition, you don't need to do a study. Just put in the fucking stop sign.

For those who might rather read

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-industry-is-lying-to-you/

You probably are, and even worse is drying polyester is a huge source of micro plastic pollution

Wearing natural fabrics helps a lot too. They can absorb and make moisture unavailable so the bacteria aren't able to produce as much of a scent.

Wool is fantastic at this, but other fabrics can too like cotton and linen. Polyester in the other hand does not absorb water at all, it just sits in the surface of the fabric letting the bacteria have their feast and producing smells.

Something that has taken me far to long to realize is that for me at least, I stink far far far less when wearing natural fabrics.

A polyester t-shirt can have me reek if I sweat the slightest bit in like an hour. But 100% natural fabrics like cotton, wool, or linen are way better for making me not stink.

Yeah that's kind of ridiculous.

But if we're being honest, most Americans don't even have access to a corner store.

My newest grocery store is a 2 mile bike ride away. It's not awful, but it's also not that great. And my friends in apartments I've visited are even worse. I am at least lucky that the main road I have has a multi-use path that makes it tolerable.

In many places in the us, apartments are built in such a way where they come with all the negatives, but also without many of the upsides that apartments should have.

I know several people who live in apartments, but there still isn't anywhere to walk to anyways!

Sure you might be able to, but if it requires crossing 80m of asphalt just to cross a street no one is going to do it.

It's bad wording, but I interpret the headline as "escalation of Iran war". Not blaming Iran for escalating.

I love this bit especially

Insurers, he said, are already lobbying state-level insurance regulators to win a carve-out in business insurance liability policies so they are not obligated to cover AI-related workflows. "That kills the whole system," Deeks said. Smiley added: "The question here is if it's all so great, why are the insurance underwriters going to great lengths to prohibit coverage for these things? They're generally pretty good at risk profiling."

It matters to me because the sheer number of these morons who are being exploited by the rich are actively making my life and the lives the people I care about worse. To do nothing about it is to admit defeat and accept this as the way of the world. I don't want to do that, I'd rather at least try something, even knowing the likelyhood is low.

And I don't think pure doomerism is helpful either. By encouraging against any kind of deprogramming, you tacitly make it easier for the morons to spread without resistance.