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Yes, yes, we should all dump on the poor Hampton Jitney riders, but messenger aside: private Intercity & regional buses should not be forced to pay to congestion charge.
Doesn't seem like a sane policy decision: these services get cars *off* the road.
https://www.societyforasianart.org/sites/default/files/manifesto_futurista.pdf
I just read the Manifesto of Futurism and loved the writing style, so wanted to share. It's only four pages long, well worth a read.
Futurism is an art movement characterized by "celebration of speed, machinery, violence, youth, and industry." But see this very cute Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash
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Taylor Swift adopted one of Elon Musk's worst moves: launching lawyers at a student who's doing a totally legal (and useful) thing: tracking of her highly polluting private jet. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/02/06/taylor-swift-jet-tracking-legal-threat/
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Whenever the "free fare transit" conversation comes up in US circles, I am always peeved with the big problem of transit in the US: whether from the left or the right, *everyone* agrees "buses are for poor people", so it doesn't get proper funding so anyone using transit ends up waiting an hour at bus stops with no seating or shade next to 6 lanes or traffic and changing three lines to get where they need to, because "poor people's time is cheap and they don't care about quality".
@capntransit I mean, it's less net CO2 than natural gas, right? The carbon in that wood was never going to be permanently sequestered in the way that carbon in petrochemicals should be
@shortridge isn't the "no victim blaming" point the thinking that leads to everything requiring 2FA? Sure, some users will come up with bad passwords and get their accounts stolen. I'd rather blame them than require that every time I log into my github account, I also have to pull out my phone in case some hacker wants to... star some repositories?
@ifixcoinops I toast a lot of bread and I've never had an issue with a toaster or toaster in the US. Did you make sure the settings on yours are what they should be and not it's not in "warm" mode? If so then I think you just have a bum toaster
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New study: bees species that survive in urbanized environments have larger brains.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2023.0296
@futurebird Allow me to play devil's advocate: it's fiiiiiine. We've got stomach acid. We've been doing this for ages. It's fiiiiiiiine
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On Marketplace, I explained why those who believe in capitalism should support regulating car bloat:
"For decades, people who buy enormous, heavy cars have been creating societal costs that they aren’t paying for. That’s what’s called a market failure."
https://www.marketplace.org/2024/01/04/the-hefty-costs-of-heavier-cars/
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Inside a leaf nest of Polyrhachis robsoni rattle ants. The big one's the queen.
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Arthropod Photo of the Week: January 3, 2024
Ant tending treehopper nymphs
Ectatomma tuberculatum
Hymenoptera: Formicidae
By Tom Myers, Kentucky, USA
#arthropodPOTW
#entomology #insects #photography
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From the archives: How To Bike Through a New England Winter
https://mass.streetsblog.org/2022/12/05/how-to-bike-through-a-boston-winter
@alexwild I get that some instances of plagiarism are less malicious or intentional, but I feel like calling any of it run-of-the-mill isn't the best choice of words. We don't want to normalize carelessness or dishonesty
@DaveMWilburn @futurebird I've read (somewhere, who knows when) it's the latter. I'm surprised that excavating falls to the older workers, though. Maybe digging is more dangerous than I'd have thought?
@GatekeepKen @w7voa and that makes it right to supply Russia so they can keep bombing Ukraine? Dumb fuck
@gwensnyder I thought he died of ligma
@w7voa I'd love to see the aid for Israel decoupled from the rest
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