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  • How cities can stem the tide of pedestrian deaths from large cars and SUVs – Ars Technica

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  • Maybe make the fines scale with the mass instead of linear size.

  • Suburbanites Baffled By Person Outdoors Who Isn’t Delivering Something (The Onion)

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  • "Hi!" the automation greeted the man on the sidewalk. "You are being recorded!"

  • Donald Trump’s trial in Georgia will be livestreamed on YouTube

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  • Wait comma did you dictate this comment?

  • Donald Trump’s trial in Georgia will be livestreamed on YouTube

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  • Please join the livestream comments for deep insights and civil discourse.

  • Relationship between vehicle characteristics and injury severity

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  • If there was only some governing entity that would prioritize the good of the whole community instead of selfish interests.

  • What are your opinions on this Not Just Bikes comments on "fixing" North America?

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  • It's probably 10 miles to Walmart, and many other daily or weekly destinations are spread out in your town.

    If folks need a car for just a few basic things, then they are much more likely to use that car for all of the things.

  • Houston ISD to eliminate librarians and convert libraries into disciplinary centers at NES schools

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  • They probably get to save money because detention areas need not be air conditioned in Texas.

  • Debugging in Production

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  • Sorry, I tried! It took me several tries to find a way to download the vid, and when I tried posting I saw this:

    We are working on resolving the issues

    Over the next few days, there will be a change in server infrastructure. Temporary problems with the website's functionality may occur during this time.

  • Activist Group Is Protesting Driverless Cars by Disabling Them With Traffic Cones

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  • If you don't have a cone available, maybe a bit of tape on a sensor window?

    I haven't tested this.

  • The climate of Mars changed dramatically 400,000 years ago, Chinese rover finds

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  • Sad that the rover hasn't woken up yet this season. I hope it does.

  • MIT develops a motion and task planning system for home robots

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  • No manufacturers can make a dishwasher that lasts 18 months anymore. And they don't make replacement parts. I'm not in any hurry to add another hunk of electronic junk to my home.

  • Flowers are really plants waving their genitals at us.

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  • Deep in both noseholes you say?

  • Russia is on the edge of civil war, Ukraine spy chief claims

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  • Only two pieces?

  • Alot of people wants the old internet to return but cannot even handle when looking at its UI

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  • Southern US Reaches Dangerous "Wet Bulb Temperature". Here's What That Means

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  • When I work at military facilities in the US, they use wet bulb globe temperature (WBGT) which adds the heating effect of direct sunlight.

    We use it to prevent heat stroke. DoD has a system of colored flags that index to the WBGT. Red and black flags indicate that folks working outside need to take breaks at some increased frequency.

    WBGT

  • Amazon deforestation dropped 34 percent, reversing trend

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  • Good news!

    Thank you Brazil.

  • How many people here have actually used XMPP?

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  • VAX.

    (pun for "facts")

  • How many people here have actually used XMPP?

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  • I think it's a different thing. For me, my expectation is that Threads/Meta connecting to Fediverse is more like when AOL connected to IRC (specifically EFnet) in the 90s. I wasn't really into Usenet, but Eternal September was pretty much the same wave. AOL pushed hard in advertising and recruiting users, and IRC and Usenet were originally populated with people who got into it more organically.

    I don't remember Jabber or XMPP having any kind of discovery system. I only ever talked to people who knew already. So when Google connected Talk, it was just added convenience. I wasn't bombarded with rude idiots like the AOL invasion of IRC. When Google ended XMPP support, I was disappointed, but I continued using XMPP with my friends.

    I think Meta is spending a ton on promoting Threads, and it's going to bring in a lot of people with different values. It's going to be unpleasant for me, but I think that's just the self-similar fractal that is the Internet.

  • How many people here have actually used XMPP?

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  • I knew XMPP as Jabber, and I remember being delighted when I tested messages between my Jabber accounts and my Gmail account.