But it’s got electrolytes! It’s what plants crave.

It a major reason I’m currently flying back from multiple interviews in Europe. I’m tired of having to drive everywhere when I can find a city that won’t require it the same way.

I also want my kids to grow up somewhere that has a government who protects them more than the US does. Our whole “rugged individualism” attitude is just an extension of Capitalist oligarchy telling us to sit down and take it while they exploit us for money.

Yes, the US has radicalized me and so I’m working to change my situation and my children’s future situations.

My US city’s downtown area is 35% open air parking lot. Another 25% is road surface.

Our city council keeps bemoaning the decay of the downtown area. We keep sending them letters, speaking at council meetings, and advocating for something other than building more car shit.

What was their big “look at how amazing our city is!” thing recently? That’s right! Freeway expansion so people can get downtown faster. I’m sure that’ll fix it.

I bought a 386 motherboard that needed a patch. Not software, but by soldering a wire between two pads. You just basically figure it out and went from there with a soldering iron.

Build the computer from parts? Sure. Soldered it like it came as discrete components? Also sure.

Tech savvy is often in context of when you were learning in your teens to early twenties and then what of that skill set is still applicable today.

One last drop of humanity before the 20th…

Great work, Seoul! Keep taking space back for people. We need it to live, cars don’t need it.

If my city (not a big one) could reclaim one of the four lanes we have going through our dying downtown, it would be a Herculean effort to even do that much.

They’re also building mass transit with trams and metro lines like crazy. Paris is knocking it out of the park as a developed city should be.

The rate we can be building electricy-based transit infrastructure and biking infrastructure should be turned up big time alongside any other research projects. A well paced metro line takes many thousands of cars off the road and we know it works.

My city is getting a $500 million freeway interchange, but we’re also barely able to setup a single fast bus route. Our civilizations priorities are completely out of whack.

We had a similar issue back in 2004 or so. Downloading a browser (Mozilla) was a bout 40MB. Normally it took about 30 seconds to pull it down on our University Internet. Then one day we were setting up systems and every time we clicked the download button nothing seemed to happen.

Further inspection showed that it had many successful download in under 1 second each. Our IT network team got us linked up to Internet2. It was able to download so fast that the bottleneck was the IDE bus of about 40MB/s. The file was coming from Intel over I2 so we couldn’t even see it download before it was done.

I had a three year bender with OpenBSD back in 2001-2003 or so. I even started building my own kernels and doing a tiny bit of hacking on the code. There’s all kinds of interesting tools and systems out there if you start exploring.

Yes, and sorta no.

Statistically, US children’s non-health related mortality causes are sitting with firearm deaths at #1 and vehicle related deaths at #2. That said, it’s not just school shootings for the firearm deaths, so they’re more likely to die in a car crash to and from school, but firearms overall throughout their lives.

Both of these categories are climbing year to year, with firearms growing faster than car deaths.

Overall, cars are the third highest reason US adults die after cancer and heart issues.

All of this sucks hard.

I’ve been pondering a very similar design. I feel that if I can fix a mirror down and it completely blinds the car behind me using their own lumens, then that’s their problem.

… For now. It won’t be long, though. I have friends who will have their marriages annulled by these fascists all too soon.

Derp. The firehouse of shit coming down my US feed got me not catching this one is in India.

I’d just read a prior one about cases moving the US to strike our marriage equality rulings. That’ll be coming by for us very soon.

That’s a key component of the thought that stymies progress in the US.

That is strangely going to the relatives of the oversight committee, what what can you do, eh?

Make sure the tugging device is called a group leader for the cars acting as “pods”.

But given how cars steer, we’ll need some kind of automatic guidance system to keep them in line. Maybe with AI?

https://apnews.com/article/trump-greenland-norway-panama-canal-canada-a52858e3075f9b5ad95e78753293fc1f

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/23/trump-buying-greenland-ownership

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgzl19n9eko

The hierarchy concept is exactly the framework the conservative mindset is based upon. The original idea was for it to be about fighting (war, duels, etc), but as civilization progressed they had to settle for money as a scoreboard.

There’s a great video series on this from Innuendo Studios: https://youtu.be/agzNANfNlTs

It’s about power. Some people only want power and to exercise it. It’s not about making things better, only the feeling of how they decide what happens, regardless of the outcomes, so the goal becomes more power for themselves, even if it hurts someone else.

They can surge all they like. Our family just stopped buying from them (and most fast food places).

It’s not a time saver to sit in a drive thru instead of making something for meals at home.