Biking connects you to your city. You feel the sun, move your body, and actually experience your neighborhood.
Cars do the exact opposite. They wall you off from the world, make streets dangerous, and shrink your entire community down to just point A and point B.
people understand that this is intended to target EVs, right? It gets rid of the gas tax, which only affects internal combustion vehicles, and replaces it with one that disproportionately hits EVs, which are much, much heavier for a given body size. That is why GM and Toyota are promoting it.
We could just scrap TSA and go back to having airports & airlines be responsible for their own security. We wouldn’t have this chaos when there’s a government funding gap, and as a nice perk we’d ditch a lot of time-consuming theater that adds little meaningful security benefit.
I get a lot more outta the post office than the defense department
see?
here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared
Same, tbh. Although full disclosure: I am not a cat.
I could not find individual text posts with that information on your account, nor could I find an audio version of the text presented in the video.
Also, if someone comes across that video alone, there was no text equivalent, and the video itself is inaccessible.
Is there going to be a text version of the announcement, or an audio-described version of the video available, please?
Consumer Reports is petitioning for stronger state regulating of self-driving car safety consumer.quorum.us/campaign/157...
Thank you for posting this. Your art is just so soothing somehow.
Official Team GB Paralympic photo, with the the crests and everything, and a professional headshot, but it's for "Pickle, A Very Good Girl", who is a black labrador, with a hi-viz harness and a red collar.
Some of you like dogs, in which case you may appreciate that guide dogs of Team GB for the Paralympics get official photos
Which reminds me I need to call and get one of these dogs in for her Lyme booster, and while we're all enduring that, I'd like her to get a lump looked at. And sampled. And tested.
I'm so sorry you lost Viola. And I totally agree: drown me in tests. Clothe me in tests. Have me chew my way out from inside the mountain of test results. I'll do all these things happily just to Make Sure.
It's so refreshing to set this as a baseline with a vet practice. Like, I didn't go to school for this. If the vet says she needs a kneecap flubalometer test with full-twist into a step-out walkover, ffs let her do that. What am I going to tell this person of note except "he's a good boy".
The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan.
darksky.org/news/two-sat...
*extreme metal voice echoes off the ice*
LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOO ROD STEWARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT
Yes please!
I want universal basic income, universal health care, buses and trains and livable wages and affordable rent, and I want my tax dollars to go towards that instead of billionaire-hosted rape festivals. Everyone does. That's not radical. It's survival.
Americans want to survive. Fucking help us.
Screenshot from iMovie showing how the new MacOS Tahoe cursor completely occludes the percentage level label for an audio track. Thanks, I hate it.
In addition to adding Liquid Glass, which sucks, the MacOS Tahoe update solves that age-old problem of being able to see the volume level in a video project. Thanks, Apple!
This is a fantastic thread to help us new watchers get on board with how the Olympics choices work. Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge.
David Lynch sitting in a naturally lit room and wearing sunglasses: “I’m wearing dark glasses today, because I’m seeing the future and the future is looking very bright.”
David Lynch passed a year ago today. I hope we all can absorb just a little bit of the energy he put out in his lifetime.
recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best. It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.
it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI
Here's the adult vaccination recommendations as of Nov 2024. Why did I save these? Because I knew someone was going to try to stomp on this, and not today, Satan. Not today. #CDC #vax #vaccines #getvaxxed
I really enjoy all the tiny map fragments you post on here. Thank you for sharing them!
Many soles lost at sea
Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
GenAI allows these guys to do what they do when drunk and ganked up at office Christmas parties, at a mass scale.
We're *all* there cringing while they lean in and excitedly slur their messed up shit at us while we're uncomfortably unable to disengage.
GenAI being fundamentally based on a rejection of consent is obvious, but it's not as obvious that it destroys the inhibitions of the people who already reject consent.
It makes them act in public the way they used to only act when cornering their employees by the punch bowl or in their office
Zohran Mamdani explains that thousands and thousands of New Yorkers are already eligible for free and reduce public transportation, but because of the bureaucratic hurdles they never get enrolled in the program.
That's why he wants to just make the bus free.
