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azimir

@ azimir @lemmy.ml

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  • Should cars be limited in Berlin ? With elections approaching, Germans are divided and candidates are sparring

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  • Yeah, they only got to around 130k signatures and needed about 170k to make the ballot.

    This was after years of legal fights where the major parties backed everything, including poster campaigns against the signature gathering effort itself, to halt the citizens referendum. Eventually the courts had to rule the referendum constitutional.

    It's insane how hard the mainline parties fight making cities better for people. It's all for the rich to be richer.

  • Kallas: EU-Mexico deal is 'geopolitical statement'

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  • Ecuador is pretty pale. I thought it was off the map too and I didn't know why we should have a beef with Ecuador of all places. I just had to zoom in a bit to catch a coastline.

  • Do you use vim?

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  • Started on vi, stayed in whatever has vi/vim bindings available.

    The more I can stay on home row keys the better editing text is.

  • Ukraine has successfully tested using balloons to launch Hornet strike and reconnaissance drones.

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  • Ukraine has successfully tested using balloons to launch Hornet strike and reconnaissance drones.

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  • This is brilliant. The ability to float long distances before changing to powered flight makes the system have a notably different behavior profile than a standard drone.

    Slava Ukraini

  • What's your greatest regret? Be as cryptic as possible

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  • Been there. Multiple times.

  • What's your greatest regret? Be as cryptic as possible

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  • Panicked at the wrong moment.

  • I try to be open minded but it's just wrong

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  • Sock > sock > shoe > shoe > tie one > tie two

    Do you put on the shoe and tie it before doing the second one?

  • Greece to Pay Off €6.9 Billion in June, Ending Its Run as Eurozone's Most Indebted Nation

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  • It was either that, or be booted from the Euro. Governments will usually start acting right when their money spigot is threatened.

  • French judge opens inquiry into Khashoggi killing

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  • France showing the US up (again).

  • As Trump Heads to Beijing, China Is ‘Locked and Loaded’ for a Fight

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  • They showed up on China and no one bothered to meet them. Instead, many of the Chinese leaders were meeting with Iran and securing modern military tech.

    Watch the video of the Orange Furher wobbling down the stairs from the airplane. The US needs leaders, not oligarchs, but the oligarchs have won the class war for the moment, so here we are.

  • Trump has a better understanding of the Bible than Pope Leo, says conservative Christian pastor

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  • One variation of the definition goes:

    "In a cult, the guy at the top knows it's a con. In a religion that guy is dead."

  • Trump has a better understanding of the Bible than Pope Leo, says conservative Christian pastor

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  • it’s just a bunch of mythology invented by dudes in the bronze age, and nothing more

    Also known as "The Sheepherder's Guide to the Galaxy".

  • Trump has a better understanding of the Bible than Pope Leo, says conservative Christian pastor

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  • The cult must cult.

  • LA streets face ‘dire future,’ according to a new report, and the long-term solution will be costly

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  • It's rated as one of the best (sometimes the best) public transit system for a small->medium sized US city. That doesn't stop the city council from continuing to annex every stupid exurb they can be bribed into taking on.

    One of the exurbs they pulled in recently has 10m (32ft) wide roads! That's in a neighborhood of houses. It's not some freeway. In fact, it's around a 3 lane freeway wide. Roads designed for people to drive 60mph, three semi trucks wide are about how wide the residential streets are. The sheer amount of pavement that introduces to take care of for a handful of houses is crazy.

    A quick measurement that it has a total of 1.6km of linear road. That's just over 4 acres of asphalt to maintain. All of that for a mere 76 houses. That's 1/10 of an acre per house. The road maintenance alone will eat up about 30% of the property tax revenue from these homes. There's no way the neighborhood will be a net zero on revenue for the city. It'll be a huge revenue sink for now and forever more.

  • Berlin car free? Plan for referendum leads to fierce resistance

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  • Even if they do the get the signatures, it will be a huge uphill fight in the public vote. The strange part is that the public are more open to the idea than you'd think. Within the S-Bahn ring (the area proposed to turn into a pedestrianized zone), only about 10% of all trips are taken via private car. It's an astonishingly low number for a modern city. A very large portion of the populace truly do live here without using a car for the majority of trips.

    Would a more moderate plan likely do better? I'm not sure. Germany is heavily burdened by an older voting population pulling Boomer-like approaches to "don't change anything, I liked how it was in the 1970's" kinds of policies. I'd almost rather have a big vision be put forth instead of a weak center right one. Most of the polls show that once you put forward strong leftist/socialist ideals there's more support available than you think, but it's got to be big enough to get the younger populace to actually think you're on their side for once.

  • The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02.22 to 07.05.26

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  • Zero tanks? Russia must be seriously running low on armor.

  • Berlin car free? Plan for referendum leads to fierce resistance

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  • This isn't even a vote yet. The political parties are campaigning against a signature drive to get the referendum on the ballot for a vote later this year.

    The referendum process is now happening after an initial city council discussion (they voted no), an initial signature drive (sued by establishment right wingers which went all the way to a supreme court style challenge, ruled constitutional so could proceed), so the city council was forced to look at it a second time (votes no), so now it's a second larger signature drive to force a public vote.

    Car drivers. Car culture. Established wealthy people. They're all fighting the autofrei group tooth and nail, which means it's likely worth fighting for.

  • LA streets face ‘dire future,’ according to a new report, and the long-term solution will be costly

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  • Or, hear me out, what if you also had fewer square miles of roads to maintain? Maybe, just maybe, if you didn't have as many lanes and narrower lanes you'd have a whole lots less to maintain the first place! I think it's a crazy idea, but if the sarcasm hasn't set in yet, here's your final clue: holy fuck stop having so much asphalt you idiots!

    My old US city only has about 180k population and it's a usual US design. It has over 8 square miles of road to maintain! It's crazy what we keep doing.

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.ml
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    Traffic jams are bleeding the Romanian economy dry

    english.elpais.com /international/2026-02-21/traffic-jams-are-bleeding-the-romanian-economy-dry.html
  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    Spain to launch €60 monthly nationwide public transport pass

    www.theguardian.com /world/2025/dec/15/spain-to-launch-60-monthly-nationwide-public-transport-pass
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    Animation showing impact of the urban freeway on Rochester NY's neighborhoods 1951 to 2002.

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    Driving Lesson

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    Public bus ridership hits record high despite capacity strains (Macau)

    macaudailytimes.com.mo /public-bus-ridership-hits-record-high-despite-capacity-strains.html
  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.ml
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    "Every bike could be another car making congestion worse": Cyclists fight to save cycle lanes facing removal due to looming deadline to make temporary bollards permanent

    road.cc /content/news/cyclists-fight-save-cycle-lanes-facing-removal-315715
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    France shows strong interest in Vietnam’s metro and high-speed railway projects

    vietnamnet.vn /en/france-shows-strong-interest-in-vietnam-s-metro-and-high-speed-railway-projects-2421796.html
  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.ml
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    An Ode to the Miniature Fire Truck — Streetsblog USA

    usa.streetsblog.org /2021/05/04/an-ode-to-the-miniature-fire-truck
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    Mayor of London to move ahead with Oxford Street traffic ban

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/cy5e555g5qro
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    New York Declares War on Traffic (A Congestion Pricing Story)

  • Washington State Community @lemmy.ml
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    Idaho moving to stop physician training partnership with UW.

    www.spokesman.com /stories/2025/feb/18/idaho-considers-end-to-50-year-physician-training-/
  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.ml
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    The cost of maintaining roads is astronomical

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    Your neighborly services have arrived

    imgur.com /gallery/oh-yeah-mNKbp7P
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    Paris votes on SUVs: voters back proposal to triple parking fees for SUV drivers

    www.lemonde.fr /en/france/article/2024/02/04/paris-votes-on-suvs-voters-back-proposal-to-triple-parking-fees-for-suv-drivers_6493516_7.html
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    How Commute Culture Made American Cities Lifeless -- Yet There's Hope

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    Hoboken, NJ reduces annual traffic deaths to zero

    www.bloomberg.com /news/features/2023-11-20/this-new-jersey-mayor-ended-traffic-deaths-with-a-vision-zero-plan
  • Books @lemmy.ml
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    A great novel for June - Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett

    www.nypl.org /research/research-catalog/bib/b22151398