Nothing makes you hate cars more than living on a busy street, forced to listen to their din day in and day out. >:(
Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud — Not Just Bikes
Urban noise is a common problem, and the vast majority of it is created by motor vehicles. Noise is far too often dismissed as a minor nuisance, rather than the legitimate health issue that it is.The book "Curbing Traffic" has a chapter about the health impacts of noise pollution. I explore the research in the book, and visit Delft, the city that is highlighted in the book as being a shining example of what can happen when noise pollution is taken seriously.
This video explores the problem that farting cars, farting motorcycles, and farting mopeds create in our cities.
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There is no 'free' market, and there never has been. The 'free' market is predicated on the belief that all players will act honestly, and make informed choices based on available information. This is a completely false assumption, and has been proven so time after time.It completely ignores human nature whereby someone will always lie, cheat, and steal to achieve their own ends -- this is what we see here.
Industry players will always form cartels and collude in anti-consumer behavior -- price fixing being the prime example.
Without someone to keep corporations in line, the market would steadily skew to all of the power being in the hands of a few.
There is no such thing as a 'free' market, and there simply never has been. It's a utopian myth which can never be true.
People who go around spouting about the 'free' market are either naive, self deluded, or actively lying.
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damn, so we've had 11 years of this very thing getting worse.
when will people get it?! people keep voting for these pro corporate parties and it's depressing
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well, the same is happening here in the Netherlands. people have been voting the neoliberals into power for decades, despite things going to shit, and other parties being available here.
it's the propaganda that's working; most people still believe that free market capitalism is great, and it will take a lot more downfall before they understand it's shit.
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@bazkie about 10 years ago when I had learned just enough Dutch to read sites where younger folk hung out (and chat to them) I learned a fair few thought all the bicycles, good public transport (which folk in UK often envy!) and the high cost of learning to drive (which is same as UK) was imposed by "big government/EU" and they wanted to have cars just like young people in UK, enjoyed watching Top Gear and thought folk in UK and USA had more "freedom" (and those youths would be 30-40+ by now, many with families of their own)
At least you are highly unlikely to get Nexit as everyone can see the mess the UK is now in 5 years later..
@vfrmedia UK has been a lovely warning sign for us indeed!
..tho people have been voting far right the past few years despite Trump, so maybe most people don't really understand warning signs 😅
and about that dutch youth; keep in mind we've had neoliberal rule for decades now, so the whole "free market good, nationalization bad" has been really hammered in.
not sure if we'll get rid of it in my lifetime tbh. but most of the lovely social policies we have left stem from the more progressive governing we had before I was born 😅
btw why did you learn dutch? (maybe I asked before)
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I love pirate radio!
I don't know if it's actually a pirate station, here's an FM broadcaster near Quinault Lake here that plays all kinds of odds and ends with weird stuff in between. It might fall under LPFM, but I doubt the FCC would hassle them anyway since it's in the middle of nowhere and low power.
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@vfrmedia what's LPFM?
I wonder if maybe the FCC is a bit more relaxed these days since people listen to FM radio less (or well, I imagine that they do)
the "free market" is to economics what the frictionless spherical cow is to high school physics.
The very existence of corporations means there is no free market. Corporations are a legal construct of governments that grants a business (and later even a mere collection of assets) status as a district entity separated to some degree from the owners and workers within.
As such, there is no choice between "government vs corporations" because they are *two sides of the same coin*...it is all one big hegemony.
We have all been thoroughly conditioned to think otherwise for a couple of centuries now. It is thoroughly ingrained the minds of everyone in the "free world" that corporations are the capitalist free market and government is the socialist planned economy but that is pure BS.
The biggest economies in the world have arrived in the same place from two different directions...the US being a corporatocratic regime and China practising state capitalism.
As such deregulation just means re-regulation.
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If you're the person who spunked £500 down and properly outbid me on the CSI / CSA Transputer Education Kit on Ebay UK a few weeks ago, I have just one question...
... can I please have a copy of the software disks, and some photos of the ISA card?
If you can't do mastodon, my email address is on https://www.philpem.me.uk/contact .
Boosts appreciated, feel free to share this post with non-Fedi friends!
#digipres #transputer #inmos #electronics #retrocomputing
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Contact me You can get in touch with me by: * Mastodon/Fediverse -- * Github -- * Email -- * philpem at philpem.me.uk * philpem at gmail.com The following are still active, but not checked regularly: * Twitter -- @philpemPhil Pemberton (philpem.me.uk - Phil Pemberton's website)
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“We’re not at the point of trying to stop global warming; it’s too late for that. We’re trying to keep it from becoming a complete and utter calamity.”
Bill McKibben
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I can't wait to see how the Dems will hand victory to the GOP over the Epstein Files...
#Uspol #USPolitics #GOP #Dems #EpsteinFiles #Epstein
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“We have built a greenhouse, a human greenhouse, where once there bloomed a sweet and wild garden.”
Bill McKibben
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Radio Apocalypse: Survivable Low-Frequency Communication System
#news #eam #emp #lf #lowfrequency #missile #radio #radioapocalypse #slfcs #verylowfrequency #vlf #hackaday
posted by pod_feeder_v2Radio Apocalypse: Survivable Low-Frequency Communication System
In the global game of nuclear brinksmanship, secrets are the coin of the realm. This was especially true during the Cold War, when each side fielded armies of spies to ferret out what the other guy…Hackaday
“We’ve been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.”
Bill McKibben
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Trump’s white supremacist loyalists are rewriting history, erasing Black heroes, and purging diversity, and the politicians who stay silent are complicit in that treason…
https://hartmannreport.com/p/call-them-what-they-are-lickspittles-383
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House Democrats dropped a political bombshell...
https://hartmannreport.com/p/no-war-no-distraction-no-flag-waving
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Inside a Southeast Portland bar bathroom, one veteran Portland police officer said he stumbled on a sandwich bag of cocaine and began using the drug “off and on” for months before the Police Bureau found out.Another veteran officer deleted nearly 3,000 files from a police server after her supervisors tried to transfer her to patrol, an investigation found.
The former officers – Mark Ellison and Michele Vergara – are among the 11 who have left the Portland Police Bureau since the beginning of 2024 while facing termination. The bureau allows officers to resign or retire before it issues discipline, although it sends any investigation to the state’s police certification agency anyway.
#ppb #ppa #portlandpolice #portlandpolicebureau #portland #pdx #oregon #portlandoregon #orpol #pnw #publicdefense
Cocaine use, deletion of thousands of police files leads to ouster of 2 Portland officers
The Portland Police Bureau initially declined to release records related to one case.Zaeem Shaikh | The Oregonian/OregonLive (oregonlive)
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#PDX
Hahahaha! Good luck with this.
Ballot Initiative Will Seek to Reroute 25% of Climate Tax Revenues to Hiring Police
A citizen ballot initiative backed by the Portland Police Association will seek to reroute 25% of revenues from the Portland Clean Energy Fund tax to fund the hiring of 400 additional police officers.Willamette Week
Which Countries Have Stopped Sharing Intelligence With U.S.? - EUROPE SAYS
The Trump Administration has authorized a series of missile strikes on vessels in the Caribbean, alleged to be carrying drug shipments. 76 people have beenEUROPE SAYS
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TERFs taking the side of the Paedo is it?
#NancyMace #TERFs #Trump #EpsteinFiles #Epstein #TransRightsAreHumanRights #USPOL #USPOLITICS
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Maduro activates national defense command
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has signed a law activating a new comprehensive national defense command, integrating military, civilian, and popular forces to respond to threats and reinforce state control.
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TIL of Jarrett Adams, a man falsely imprisoned for 10 years who spent most of his time at the library to study law and prove his innocence, and then became a lawyer to help free people wrongly convicted
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna788886
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ouwz1p/til_of_jarrett_adams_a_man_falsely_imprisoned_for/
From Defendant to Defender: One Wrongfully Convicted Man Frees Another
Jarrett Adams recently won his first case as a defense attorney — in the same Wisconsin courthouse that, years ago, sentenced him for a crime he did not commit.Elizabeth Chuck (NBC News)
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Texas prison official 'sick' of being Ghislaine Maxwell's 'b-h' - EUROPE SAYS
https://www.chron.com/culture/article/ghislaine-maxwell-texas-prison-emails-21162299.php?mrfhud=trueEUROPE SAYS
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UAE is committing genocide in Sudan.
UAE is committing genocide in Sudan.
UAE is committing genocide in Sudan.
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Starmer's government implodes in five, four, three...
#ukpol
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Starmer allies issue warning to PM’s rivals as fears grow over leadership challenge
No 10 said to be in ‘full bunker mode’ over fears of attempt to oust him after budget or May local electionsPippa Crerar (The Guardian)
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The battle to whiten our #media is growing. First Condé Nast folds Teen Vogue, a progressive, youth-led publication, into Vogue firing all of the diverse and queer staff.
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/04/nx-s1-5598290/teen-vogue-layoffs
Now questioning is banned. Conde Nast fires 4 for questioning racist firings.
Plus #NBCNews and so many other media and news rooms gutting diverse talent.
This is called the Orbanization of institutions. #MAGA is following an old and global playbook. #fascism
https://deadline.com/2025/11/conde-nast-fires-staffers-teen-vogue-1236609695/
Condé Nast Fires Four Employees After Incident With HR Executive
The News Guild of New York called the terminations "illegal."Ted Johnson (Deadline)
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The Museum of Vancouver has an exhibition called Living with #LongCOVID which runs from Oct 4, 2025 to March 22, 2026. This exhibition "invites visitors into the often-invisible world of those living with the life-altering effects of a COVID-19 infection”
https://museumofvancouver.ca/living-with-long-covid
@longcovid
#PwLC #PostCovidSyndrome #LC #PASC #postcovid
#CovidBrain
@covid19@fedigroups.social #COVIDー19 #COVID19 #COVID #COVID_19 #SARSCoV2 @novid #novid #CovidIsNotOver #auscovid19
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It has often been noted that it seems dictators are following a Dictator’s Handbook. I’ve found it! 😄🤪
The Prince - Nicololo Machiavelli.
I’m serious. He calls what’sgoing on tight now to the tee. Including deluding the ignorant masses with religion. 😳🤪🙄
https://archive.org/download/ThePrinceByNicoloMachiavelli/ThePrince.pdf
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Key World Leaders Skip Talks Before COP30 as 1.5C Goal Slips Away
Lackluster attendance mars the high-level gathering ahead of the UN climate summit in Belém, Brazil
Left in its place is a gnawing sense of urgency and the hard reality of implementing some climate promises, especially as the accord’s most ambitious goal —to keep warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels— moves further out of grasp
#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #pollution #environment #climate
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From turbines to tradeoffs: Offshore wind’s latest moves in technology, policy and finance - EUROPE SAYS
The joint venture between ORLEN Group and Northland Power has installed two offshore substations for the Baltic Power offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea,EUROPE SAYS
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I worked on a videogame for the past few months, helping otherwise solo dev Alex Johansson with launch production, and it's out now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1976860/MORSE/
Play it enough, and you'll know Morse code. The game also works with actual Morse keys, so it's technically backwards compatible with hardware all the way to 1844
Save 20% on MORSE on Steam
Vanquish the Kaiser's Imperial Fleet using timing, tactics and telegraphy in MORSE, a minimalist strategy game that teaches you the lost language of Morse code. Can you change the world with the push of a button?store.steampowered.com
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Content warning: Posting some of the most common fascist symbols to inform people on the Fediverse
Content warning: Posting some of the most common fascist symbols to inform people on the Fediverse
How the Trump regime is protecting Ghislaine Maxwell and buying her silence through special treatment and VIP luxuries in prison. Her latest bid for clemency is part of a broader strategy to protect the Epstein rape network. #OpDeathEaters #EndImpunity spookyconnections.com/2025/11/11/t...
Trump Protecting Ghislaine Max...
Trump Protecting Ghislaine Maxwell: From Clemency To Impunity - Spooky Connections
Ghislaine Maxwell’s clemency bid reveals Trump protection racket for members of the the Epstein network.Anon (Spooky Connections)
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[1/2] https://inequality.org/article/tax-policy-fuels-obscene-wealth-accumulation/
*How Billionaire Tax Avoidance Works - America’s tax on capital gain income remains a steeply regressive tax.* This is true, but other parts of the US tax code also contribute to the problem - for instance the trusts that allow rich people to pass on their wealth to descendants, bypassing inheritance tax. Rather than singling out just one of these tax dodges as "the" cause of the problem, we should demand to
A Textbook Case of How Tax Policy Fuels Obscene Wealth Accumulation - Inequality.org
Jeff Bezos is paying only peanuts in tax on all the profits he’s making selling off his Amazon shares.Inequality.org
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Watch now on #CLTV
Hey, Mike Johnson, Your Pants Are On Fire Again
Let's see those "notebooks full of ideas" on healthcare, you insufferable twat.Conover Kennard (Crooks and Liars)
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so um
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/11/softbank-sells-its-entire-stake-in-nvidia-for-5point83-billion.html
SoftBank sells its entire stake in Nvidia for $5.83 billion
SoftBank is looking to capitalize on its "all in" bet on ChatGPT maker OpenAI.April Roach (CNBC)
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"The UK is no longer sharing intel with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes & believes the attacks are illegal..."
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/politics/uk-suspends-caribbean-intelligence-sharing-us
Good. Don't be complicit in murder:
https://www.internationalaffairsfornormalpeople.eu/trumps-marine-murders/
Trump’s Marine Murders
We don’t need courts. We don’t need trials. The government should simply decide who is guilty and execute them immediately. That is the Trump regime’s policy towards people it accuses of drug smuggling at sea.Andrew Stroehlein (International Affairs for Normal People)
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Chicago Parents Denounce ICE For Violently Detaining Beloved Daycare Teacher in Front of Toddlers
http://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/11/ice_arrest_of_chicago_daycare_teacher
Chicago Parents Denounce ICE For Violently Detaining Beloved Daycare Teacher in Front of Toddlers
Last week, at the Spanish-immersion daycare center Rayito del Sol in Chicago, employee Diana Santillana was violently abducted and detained by immigration agents in front of parents and young children.Democracy Now!
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I just saw a YouTube video titled “How White Supremacy Hijacked Christianity.”
And without even watching it, I already disagree.
White supremacy didn’t hijack Christianity.
Christianity, as practiced in the United States, is white supremacy.
From its inception on this land, Christian doctrine has served as the moral scaffolding for genocide, enslavement, colonization, and systemic control. It didn’t just accompany those atrocities…it justified them.
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Christian doctrine was the weapon used to rationalize the annihilation of Indigenous peoples. It was the tool used to sanctify the enslavement of Africans.
It convinced generations of Black people that the suffering, violence, and exploitation we endured were “tests of faith.” The price we had to pay for a promised Heaven that would finally make sense of our earthly torment.
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Most car exhausts, anyway. Not the M3 that my neighbour across the road drives.
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