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  • Is Ernest still here?

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  • It would be more likely to be critically hit by an SUV or pick-up, just saying.

  • Alabama IVF ruling divides devout Christians: 'Fewer children will be born'

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    • Dancing.
    • Tattoos.
    • Foreskins.
    • Shrimp buffets.
    • ...

  • Levels of ambient air pollution according to mode of transport: a systematic review

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  • InterpretationProximity to traffic and high air interchange increased the exposure to air pollution of commuters using motorised transport. Larger inhalation rates and commuting time increased inhaled dose among active commuters. Benefits of active commuting from physical activity are larger than the risk from an increased inhaled dose of fine particles.

    I've often wondered about the net effect. Interesting.

  • News @kbin.social
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    FAA Adopts Carbon Limits For Airliners

    www.avweb.com /aviation-news/faa-adopts-carbon-limits-for-airliners/

  • Twitter front-end Nitter dies as Musk wins war against third-party services

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  • Recently our county sheriff put out an Amber Alert (a forced alert on all mobile devices) but the obfuscated link resolved to Twitter.

    I wonder what portion of the public saw the Twitter login page and just closed the tab, never to see the details of the child abduction.

  • TIL about "Patch Hop" dances, when young women in the '40s and '50s would claim a boy for a school dance by sewing their patch onto their clothes

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  • Reggie immediately chooses violence and Betty is so ready to conspire.

  • Shooting at Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl victory rally in downtown Kansas City

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  • Probably all crisis actors. /s

  • What's some common knowledge that you just found out recently?

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  • Maybe this more of a misheard lyrics thing, but for a long time I thought "noxious gas" had to do with nitrogen oxides (NOx), and then spread to other metaphorical applications like "noxious weeds" and so on.

  • Removed

    When someone says "kiss my ass" does it refer to the hole or the cheek?

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  • Removed

    When someone says "kiss my ass" does it refer to the hole or the cheek?

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  • Just don't make it weird.

  • Finland’s successful approach to ending homelessness catches eye of Quebec City

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  • I think homelessness and despair cause mental illness and substance abuse. If we can prevent "normal" people from losing their homes, I think they would be more stable and able to take care of themselves long term.

    Allowing homelessness is far more costly to everyone else than preventing it.

  • Palworld embroiled in AI and Pokémon ‘plagiarism’ controversy

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  • Setting aside the topic of generative AI, isn't it about time that Pokemon goes to the public domain?

    It's been a long time since I read Lawrence Lessig, but I think we would undo Disney's mods to copyright laws and allow more cultural remixing after a reasonable time. Like maybe 20 years instead of a century?

  • Apple asks its San Diego Siri quality control team to relocate to Texas

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  • Hertz 180: Rental giant to sell 20,000 EVs and replace them with gas-powered vehicles

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  • I rented a Bolt EV from Hertz once. The car was fine, but the charging stations in the area were mostly broken, or they required downloading an app and giving personal information to charge.

    I got the feeling the charging networks are all about collecting government incentives and the sale of private information from subscribers, and not at all about service.

    My new preferred rental car is no rental car at all.

  • Hertz 180: Rental giant to sell 20,000 EVs and replace them with gas-powered vehicles

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  • Ohm my god, right‽

  • Microsoft Office “connected experiences” are now opted in by default. Check your settings.

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  • What does "connected experiences" mean?

  • See the massive rogue wave that crashed into Ventura, California, sending 8 people to the hospital

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  • How Big is YouTube?

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  • We Aren’t Posting on Social Media as Much Anymore. Will We Ever?

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  • I think commercial social media does a lot of subtle things to "drive engagement" that I don't think fediverse instances are doing. Like a sort of gamification of getting likes and followers and of course the algorithms that show us things that provoke our emotions.

    Reading and participating here is a lot more relaxed feeling than I've had on profit-driven social media sites.

  • [serious] What are your most important boundaries you've learned to enforce?

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  • I enjoyed the humor, but the OP did set a boundary of [serious].

    So I guess what we are learning here is that setting boundaries is always going to provoke some people to break those boundaries out of spite.

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.ml
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    Calvin Calming

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    L.A. Metro Shifts Funds for Transit to Expand Highway Lanes

    www.planetizen.com /news/2023/06/123989-la-metro-pushes-more-freeway-expansion-funds
  • Programmer Humor @lemmy.ml
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    Debugging in Production

    www.instagram.com /reel/CudVKvkNkBI/
  • Science @kbin.social
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    Searching for Signs of Intelligent Life: Technosignatures

    exoplanets.nasa.gov /news/1765/searching-for-signs-of-intelligent-life-technosignatures/
  • Science @kbin.social
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    Polynesians steering by the stars met Native Americans long before Europeans arrived

    www.science.org /content/article/polynesians-steering-stars-met-native-americans-long-europeans-arrived
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    Muometric navigation system - GPS alternative that penetrates underground, indoors, and underwater

    www.nature.com /articles/s41598-022-13280-4
  • Technology @kbin.social
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    eVTOL companies Archer and Joby get FAA approval for flight testing air taxis

    www.npr.org /2023/07/01/1185060325/joby-electric-flying-taxi
  • Science @kbin.social
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    The Myth of Man the Hunter: Women’s contribution to the hunt across ethnographic contexts

    journals.plos.org /plosone/article
  • Technology @kbin.social
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    Electric aircraft X-57 will close down without flying (Media Briefing)

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    NASA Uses New Air Taxi Ride Simulator to Test Passenger Comfort

    www.nasa.gov /feature/nasa-uses-new-air-taxi-ride-simulator-to-test-passenger-comfort
  • Antiwork @lemmy.ml
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    Is this satire?