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[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Lower Decks doesn't need validation from live action Trek to be canon!

 
[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

Sadly, in the ensuing fracas his invention of plywood would be lost, and not reinvented for thousands of years.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago

It's not justice if they die before they rat out their coconspirators.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

You need to have the right infrastructure for them, and places that have it are the rare exception (example: Peachtree City, GA).

[–] grue@lemmy.world 15 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (3 children)

Stealing intellectual property is...

... a nonsense loaded phrase made up by the copyright cartel in order to dishonestly frame the debate.

In reality, copyright is not 'property' and cannot be 'stolen' to begin with.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html

[–] grue@lemmy.world 12 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not sure you appreciate how literally technically correct you are.

The harder you brake in the front, the more the weight shifts forward. At the point you start to do a stoppie -- when the front brakes are applying maximum force to the road -- the weight on the rear wheel drops to zero and thus the stopping force it's applying drops to zero as well.

In other words, the rear brake gets less useful the harder you try to brake.

For maximum deceleration, the main thing you need to do isn't to try to use the rear brake more, but instead get out of the saddle and stick your butt as far back as you can, shifting the weight back and making it as hard to get to that point of rear wheel liftoff as possible.

See also: https://bike.bikegremlin.com/813/bicycle-braking-technique/

[–] grue@lemmy.world 15 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

TL;DR: Of the four candidates mentioned (including the incumbent), the only candidate quoted as saying the right things (a ring road won't actually solve congestion; the money needs to go to transit instead) is Jeff Leiper.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I don't know about the third one (I haven't even seen it), but the second one made huge advances in rendering water (among other things). There's a pretty interesting Corridor Crew video about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4Gd0bR2kb4

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

If you think his movies aren't all about the tech you need to think again.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Okay, but it's not as if installing stuff on poles has meaningful public oversight even when it requires hard-wiring. It might make such deployments ever so slightly more likely by reducing the labor costs a little bit, but is otherwise entirely irrelevant.

If there's ever public input into that sort of stuff at all, it doesn't come at the putting-hardware-on-poles phase; it comes at the budgeting or procurement phase. And even then, that's only if there's a specific project with a specific budget line-item: at the political level of "we're proposing to spend $X million on a contract with Y vendor to provide Z service," no politician knows or cares whether the shit is hard-wired or plugged into a socket, or whether that changes over the course of the contract! It's nothing but a minor implementation detail.

...Actually, speaking of which, I should correct myself: complaining about it may not damage your credibility after all. But that's because most politicians' eyes are just gonna glaze over before they even understand what the fuck you're talking about well enough to nitpick.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

So this could threaten air travel for a huge region.

Also known as just "travel" because we're talking about places with literally no way in or out except by plane. (Okay, and maybe hiking, dogsled in winter, or something like that. Point is, no roads.) That's why somebody was apparently going grocery shopping by plane in the first place.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago

If I break just one strand of pasta to summon Sal on purpose, will he at least give me the deli meat after he beats me with it? If so, worth it.

 
 

cross-posted from: https://pawb.social/post/46852721

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Tuesday that his department would redirect $1.73 billion in Biden-era grants away from establishing “DEI bike lanes” to build roads and bridges instead.

So, what exactly is a “DEI bike lane?”

The Daily Wire pointed to former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s claim that a series of 2021 grants funding bike lanes would serve to “improve infrastructure, strengthen supply chains, make us safer, advance equity, and combat climate change.”

Upon hearing “equity,” President Donald Trump’s goons can’t help but get triggered into attacking any federal spending that won’t benefit them directly. In reality, those Biden-era grants directed funds to build a new transit center in North Carolina, replace bridges in New Mexico, extend streets in New Hampshire, install traffic lights and crosswalks in Missouri, and install bike lanes in Seattle, among other projects. Now the financial status of these projects is unclear.

 

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/61209

A new big-data analysis of the U.S. pinpoints how urban design aids the health of city residents—especially when cities provide walking opportunities, greenery and mixed-use streets with a blend of commercial and residential activity.


From Earth News - Earth Science News, Earth Science, Climate Change via This RSS Feed.

 

cross-posted from: https://yall.theatl.social/post/10923091

From the Atlanta Community Press Collective

Cop City-related charges become the second case brought that explicitly mentions the controversial Trump administration initiative, NSPM-7, targeting left-leaning movements. You can support stories like these at https://atlpresscollective.com/support-us.

#Atlanta #AtlantaPressCollective

 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/50143863

 
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46763057

Hopefully my neighbors will rejoice as I no longer have to cut and drill steel.

My next goal is to find another junk trailer so I can get the wheels more centered and have better handling and keep the rear of the trailer from scraping when going up and down driveways.

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