Oy, here I thought that a "fuck car" was the motor vehicle analogue of a fuck boy.
It's not insane, even if it's an unfamiliar concept. @invalid_name@lemm.ee is advocating for what is basically the legal concept known as strict liability. It means that a person is held liable for the consequences of an action, even in the absence of negligence or intent. American courts have applied it to things like crop dusting, or use of explosives, but this exact scenario is the law in the Netherlands. A driver hitting a bicyclist there is strictly liable for at least half of the damages in all unintentional crashes. (That is, when the driver can't prove that bicyclist was trying to get hit.)
Those dead-eyed monstrosities stare deep into my soul and give me a case of the howling fantods, so yes, agree.
Here in the U.S., (and I'm assuming it's the same elsewhere, but just explaining for simplicity), cars used to have a simple headlight switch, which also lit up the instrument cluster on the dashboard. It was an easy heuristic: If you can't see the gauges because it's dark, turn on the headlights.
Now, every car has a marketing-gimmick dashboard lit up all the time with all sorts of multi-color lights. In the cars I've been in, the headlight indicator just a small, green light in the corner. Drivers accustomed to the old way think that their headlights are on because the dashboard is lit up. The Toyota Prius was notorious for this when it was new; I used to joke that they didn't come with headlights as a way to save fuel.
It's not as bad now, but people just forget o sometimes. It's worse when cars have day-time running lights, because then the drivers see light coming from the front of the car and think all the marker lights are on.
Is he gonna pardon the persecutors whom Bondi plans to prosecute?
This is the recent election in a nutshell: Choose between the party that thinks about deporting you, and the party that wants to imprison you.
Remember, when you scare people, their reaction is one of the three F's: Fight, flight, or freeze. It's impossible (for most of us) to flee, and Democrats won't fight, so...
If we don't change our lifestyle, new companies would spring up to replace them. But yeah, that's my point, no matter how it happens, our lifestyle has to change if we want a sustainable society. Production and consumption are two sides of the same coin.
As Yeats famously wrote:
The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
Seems it's happening again.
I feel like this perspective needs a bigger audience, since it explains a whole lot about the incel/alpha backlash, and the gender divide in U.S. politics.
It's kind of like asking whether the vital piece of a table is the tabletop or the legs, when you don't have a functional table without either one. We don't have a functional market system without supply and demand.
In a weird way, blaming the corporations is philosophically aligned with supply-side dogma, where the corporations ("job creators") have an intrinsic motivation to produce. As if they just churn stuff out all day long, because that's what they do when the government doesn't get in their way, and it's the duty of people to consume so the output doesn't all just pile up in some great heap outside the factory.
There's a reason some call that "voodoo economics." Whatever their influence today, all corporations producing things evolved in a symbiotic relationship with consumer demand. We could guillotine all of the CEOs, and revoke every corporate charter, but it'd do jack for the environment, unless unless we also all change our lifestyle.
Blaming the corporations makes as much sense as them blaming us. It's time to move past who's to blame, and instead start fixing things.
Literally, no. Cassettes were still around, yes, but the next era of technology had already arrived. Earlier home computers used audio cassettes for data storage, but Amiga never did. It was part of the post-cassette technological wave. The hard drive inside that expansion is even the same mechanism and form-factor as spinning disks used today, and the SCSI command set is still used in SAS drives.
Posting it here makes sense from an aesthetic POV, since the case design fits reflects the cassette futurism look, before all computers turned black.
What? The DEA is needlessly cruel, while also corrupt and ineffective. The new administration might increase its funding.
The cruelty is the point.
Somebody on Lemmy a while back asked about the phrase, "the cruelty is the point," and whether it was true and fair. Well, here's the evidence: The point is not a net gain on fare collections.
The fact that the numbers are public and they keep doing it proves it: The cruelty is the point.
First thing I thought of was the "Elementary School Musical" episode of South Park.
Yeah, except for the cnidarians, which are weird in more than just name. Oral vs. anal? No difference for them!
Where this analogy falls apart is in the implicit assumption that this is just a one-off situation. (I mean, most people only have two parents.)
What happens when it's an iterative phenomenon? (Politics is an ongoing thing.) Then, the situation in the analogy turns into the classic "negotiating with terrorists" scenario. The received wisdom is that one should never negotiate with terrorists, because once they learn that terrorism works they'll do it again.
Maybe make it cousins. Do you choose the option whereby two cousins die, or just one. What if choosing just one now increases the danger of more dying later?
Perhaps a better, real-world example is that this moral calculus says that the Democrats should abandon trans people and trans issues. The logic is inescapable: Trans issues turn away a lot of voters, and it's a really strong talking point for the other party. If they win, the Democrats could protect the LGB community, and women's rights.
Surely it's better to protect the LGB community and women's rights, but not trans people, than to protect none of them, right?
(NB: This is rhetorical. I don't believe it.)
Uncovered forum posts by Tim Walz could shake up race
A forensic analysis of comments on HotOrNotDish.net.
CNN and ProPublica found that Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz is the owner of an active account on the website HotOrNotDish.net, where he posts under the anonymous username DarthTater, according to an investigative analysis of comments on the forum. The user DarthTater has for more than a decade offered compliments (sometimes accompanied by a flame emoji) under every single photo uploaded to the site for hot dish appreciators.
The account also mentioned the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in one post, in which it wished other HotOrNotDish.net users a “happy MLK weekend!” and hoped they would get to “spend it with family, eating hot dish.”
Walz appears to have been active under the same username for years on a variety of HotOrNotDish.net’s subforums for other hot dish-related issues, including once posting 24 times in a thread dedicated to the question of “Is hot dish casserole?” DarthTater ultimately concluded, “Sorry, friends. I’ve got to hit the hay. A lot of good points. Food for thought (almost as delicious as hot dish).”
Posts going back years include statements such as “That hot dish looks delicious” and “My only note? Try it with Schell’s beer. But what you have going looks good too!” and “Hope you’re enjoying that delicious dish with your beautiful family! Cherish your family! I know I cherish mine!”
DarthTater also expressed some viewpoints that matched with Walz’s public persona. In one instance, the user wrote, “National Coming Out Day is around the corner and I need to be on my A-game with snacks (I’m a GSA club sponsor). Any suggestions, hot dish friends?” adding, “Goes without saying, but, just in case, I disapprove of slavery.”
DarthTater was also the name Walz appears to have used on Quora, where that user often posted detailed replies to queries about the best snow tires to purchase.
Walz admitted that the account might be his, adding that he hoped he had not said anything that would offend anyone. “Those hot dishes all looked delicious,” he noted. “I wouldn’t want anyone to think that their hot dish didn’t pass muster.”
Another HotOrNotDish.net user, MarkRobinsonIsMyLegalNameAndThisIsMyRealEmailPleaseAskMeAboutNazismIAmForIt, complained about DarthTater’s posts being dragged into the news. “Why is it fair to bring in the things that people post anonymously on forums in their spare time?” the mystery poster asked. “Especially if, frankly, they’re not all that surprising.” (On the record, the legally named Mark Robinson denied engaging in any such behavior.)
MarkRobinsonIsMyLegalName was a less active HotOrNotDish.net poster, having left only one comment, “some folks need killing,” under a picture of a hot dish that had used cream of mushroom soup as its base.
Housing experts say there just aren't enough homes in the U.S.
I saw Madison in this article immediately. I hear a lot of local residents try to deny the fact that we have an acute housing shortage, opposing new construction projects on the grounds that they require tearing down dilapidated dumps"affordable housing," which displaces lower-income residents, as if building new market-rate apartments causes wealthier people to move here. Here's the reality:
>Alex Horowitz: We're short on all homes. Full stop. There just aren't enough of them. And that means that existing homes are getting bid up because we see high income households competing with low income households for the same residences since just not enough are getting built.
We're a growing city with a healthy economy. People keep moving here, and as they do, housing is like a game of musical chairs, except seats go to those with more money. The Common Council and mayor are trying to do something about it.
>Horowitz: So restrictive zoning is the primary culprit. It's made it hard to build homes in the areas where there are jobs. And so that has created an immense housing shortage. And each home is getting bid up, whether it's a rental or whether it's a home to buy.
Restrictive zoning. It makes building new housing illegal in most of the city. The West Area Plan is an incremental step forward on this issue, but of course, change is scary enough to turn people into bullies, literally shouting abuse at city staffers in public meetings. Let's hope that they're tough enough, and wise enough, to keep pushing it forward, because:
>Horowitz: [...] And we certainly see some local elected officials and some residents concerned about changes in their community, even though the evidence suggests that allowing more homes is mostly beneficial by improving affordability and reducing homelessness.
Look at what's tucked into this NPR interview about housing...
>Kelly: Is there a downside? I'm thinking of people trying to find a parking place, for starters.
>Horowitz: So we see that in places that have actually eliminated parking minimums, that we see fewer people driving at all and having cars and we see vehicle miles traveled decrease because people can get around via other mechanisms.
Well, now, would you look at that?! If we change the incentives, if we stop incentivizing driving by law, people change their behavior. In this case, they can save a ton of money by not needing a car.
Honor Among Thieves - Technical Jelly (Halloween '97)
Madison's Honor Among Thieves, live at The Harmony Bar and Grill. Recorded by Steve Gotcher for the 105.5 radio show "Mad City Live" Halloween 199. Some of the tunes were on the band's 1998 album, "Pr
Madison, WI's Honor Among Thieves, live at The Harmony Bar and Grill. Recorded by Steve Gotcher for the 105.5 radio show "Mad City Live" Halloween 1997. Some of the tunes were on the band's 1998 album, "Primordial Soup du Jour", but not this wild and crazy one.
long stick lifting boat pillows
A crane lifts pads for the hands-free mooring system at the Welland Canal locks into place. Credit: Michel Gosselin. Video and more photos here.
Has Windows startup repair or a troubleshooter ever fixed your issue even once?
Yeah, basically that. I'm back at work in Windows land on a Monday morning, and pondering what sadist at Microsoft included these features. It's not hyperbole to say that the startup repair, and the troubleshooters in settings, have never fixed an issue I've encountered with Windows. Not even once. Is this typical?
ETA: I've learned from reading the responses that the Windows troubleshooters primarily look for missing or broken drivers, and sometimes fix things just by restarting a service, so they're useful if you have troublesome hardware.
Comments not propagating to other instances.
In the past several days, I've noticed that comments that I make on this instance to cross-instance communities started to take up to several hours to propagate to the community's home instance, and now do not seem to propagate at all.
I've noticed the issue on lemmy.world, lemmynsfw.com, and lemmy.ml. Several comments I made today in a programming.dev community went through more or less instantly, though.
Has anyone else noticed this?
UW-Madison Arboretum
It's just a photo from a budget phone, but I figured I'd share this Sunday afternoon scene from the middle of Madison.
FITCHBURG, Wis. -- Dane County prosecutors have decided not to file criminal charges against a driver who hit and killed a Madison-area educator earlier this year.
They say that if you want to get away with murder, use a car as the weapon. By the way, Wisconsin has no jaywalking law, so they're letting a killer off the hook for, like, reasons?
(Vox) How cars ruin wild animals’ lives
"There’s probably nothing that we do that causes more suffering to wild animals than driving."
Just North American Things
I believe the expression you’re searching for is “WTF?!?” 1. Majority (perhaps almost all) bikes are going straight. And, ya know, in the street. See, this is a “bicycle boulevard.” 2. “Let’s make...
Lost cause or not, this is still typical of the traffic infrastructure we're building. Notice, this is a designated "bicycle boulevard."
Michigan Attorney General Charges Fake Electors
Sixteen people forged documents and claimed to be "duly elected and qualified electors" for the state of Michigan, Attorney General Dana Nessel said.
You paying attention, Josh Kaul? Let's go, already.
Door Peninsula Astronomical Society
With the possibility of aurora borealis again later this week, this seems like a good time to share a link to the DPAS. If there's a big coronal mass ejection (CME) event, they'll know about it. They have a filtered telescope for observation of sunspots. If there's no CME, it's still worth checking out their open house nights at the observatory in Sturgeon Bay.