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…is the most cursed thing I’ve seen all day. Especially so when you realize that when you convert it to a decimal of 1.25, the sentence is completely correct. Bravo. 😅👏

Idk, I think that depends on the context in which the rainbow is viewed.

I like to say “cooking with magnets” because 1) it sounds cooler and 2) when people look at me weird I can immediately launch into my spiel about how induction heating is superior to gas in every way.

Okay cool, but what about reconsidering streets from a pedestrian’s perspective?

Wouldn’t it be nice if they were narrower, had raised crosswalks, a rough surface that’s uncomfortable to drive on too quickly, and lines of trees/bollards/gargoyles/^(trees carved to look like gargoyles holding bollards) between the road and the sidewalk to protect pedestrians and provide a better speed reference for drivers?

…come to think of it, the pedestrians (a.k.a. voting taxpayers) would probably rather not pay the taxes needed to finance all these upgrades, and would prefer the much cheaper solution of simply disallowing private automobiles on any street where that is possible. Though, more trees are always welcome. Just about everyone prefers more trees. (As long as the city plants trees of both sexes! Squirrels and allergy sufferers ^(including gargoyles) will thank you!)

I mean, aliases do exist. For example, with my typical alias schema I might shorten it to sudo syc lsu-s. But yeah, on foreign systems (e.g. random VPS’s) I can see your point.

Not even a contest, leaf sheep sea slug.

I don’t know what kind of kids show you could do with that. Maybe teach kids about the importance of conservation; it doesn’t really matter because JUST LOOK AT IT, EEEEEEE!!! (⋆❛ ہ ❛⋆) ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝

Not the case here, but just as a “fun” fact. Drunk drivers have a higher survival rate in crashes because their severely impaired reaction time means they’re usually still limp at impact.

At least it’s your own brain exploiting you instead of some shadowy cabal of advertising execs and astroturf campaign strategists?

My vote is for a name that I just made up, Aarana. It’s the female form of Aaron, with all a’s. 😄

Probably a result of the tariffs, naturally.

While focusing on fatalities can certainly be impactful for human interest stories, pragmatically speaking I think overall casualties and/or monetary damages are more useful metrics for putting into perspective the immense chilling effect auto-oriented development puts on society and the economy—the latter being the biggest motivator for those with the power to make the biggest changes.

Further reading from Strong Towns that I found very informative:

• Is a street an asset?
• The Hidden Cost of America’s Infrastructure Spending Habits
• How Modern America Is Optimized for Loneliness, Misery and Poor Health
• How Places Form People: The Moral Pedagogy of Urban Design
• Where Do Infrastructure Projects Come From?

And like yeah, both the wonderful (and foss!) .json5 and Microsoft’s semi-proprietary(?) .jsonc exist, but most projects just use their language’s default JSON parser that doesn’t recognize them. What I would personally love to see is .json5 support baked into the default JSON parsing libraries of Python, Go, etc. (Enabled by a flag, likely.) It’s a superset of regular JSON and fully ES2019 compatible, so there shouldn’t be any issues.

I have a relevant meme!

Heck, let’s even make it fair and compare them on the basis of units of mass transported per unit of distance traveled. I’m sure car still wins (in the negative sense, as per usual).

I’m leaning more towards psychopath. Zero conscience whatsoever.

I would add PairDrop to your list to have bookmarked. It’s completely web-based so no download required and thus fully cross-platform. It also works across different networks (i.e. over the internet) by pairing devices or creating a room. Basically Apple AirDrop, but universal and on steroids.

I wouldn’t think this would cause any data loss either, it just wouldn’t find your media or it would throw an error. Very alarmist indeed.

Much more tragic on average per occurrence, of course. But, I’d be willing to bet that the chance of falling down that slope is way higher than being hit, and thus the “average damage over time” is far greater for falls than collisions. People are really bad at comprehending risk. (See: dying from a shark attack or lightning strike being more common fears than dying from falling down the stairs.)

It feels wrong to reduce human lives to a numbers game, but that’s what traffic engineering is. If there’s a budget, it has to be a numbers game at some level.

At first I interpreted that title to mean that WA’s toll road rates are determined in part by how many people have died on them within a certain time window, and I thought to myself “Damn, that’s a really morbid strategy. But, perhaps also strangely… effective?? Or at least one would think, but apparently not.”

Seems more accurate anyway, it’s not like the concept of recycling even exists digitally. I understand why Windows did it way back when to raise awareness of recycling, but nowadays it’s just a bit silly.