What if #Seattle just ran the City Center Connector #streetcar line down Third, maybe with a branch up to Lower Queen Anne/Uptown? Then the #RapidRide D Line could skip Belltown and LQA entirely to improve its speed and timetable reliability. Maybe even run the streetcar in center lanes shared with buses since it's a #transit corridor already. :3c
(Yes, I know about the trolley wire issue. I'm sure something could be figured out.)
#streetcars #tram #trams
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How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it)
Safe Street Rebel - Not without a fight
https://www.safestreetrebel.com/Person dies after 2 driverless cars block ambulance on way to hospital
https://www.scrippsnews.com/us-news/person-dies-after-2-driverless-cars-block-ambulance-on-way-to-hospitalExplore: See the 55 reports — so far — of robot cars interfering with SF fire dept.
https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/cruise-waymo-autonomous-vehicle-robot-taxi-driverless-car-reports-san-francisco/What is Vision Zero?
https://visionzeronetwork.org/about/what-is-vision-zero/Uber Takes Us for a Ride
https://www.powerswitchaction.org/resources/uber-takes-us-for-a-ride/Robotaxis Won’t Get Us There, So Let’s Stop Being Used to Sell a Future that Doesn’t Serve Us
https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2023/12/02/robotaxis-wont-get-us-there-so-lets-stop-being-used-to-sell-a-future-that-doesnt-serve-us/Segregation by Design
https://www.segregationbydesign.com/
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You know how companies are "reshaping" LLMs in response to them producing results they don't like (termed "hallucinations" for marketing purposes), even though the data they trained the LLMs on included at least chunks of whatever resulted in said "bad" results?
Imagine getting a lobotomy every time you said something people didn't like. 0_0
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Map.prototype.forEach() expects the function passed to it to have the arguments in value, key order. :/dieter_wilhelm likes this.
It's the 30th anniversary of the classic game Transport Tycoon!
To celebrate I'll be playing a multiplayer game of OpenTTD with Master Hellish and his friends.
Come join the livestream (right now!) to celebrate!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swBlZbeZeqU
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♲ @kennychaffin@diasp.org:If you haven’t been car shopping in a while, brace yourself
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An 18 lane freeway, 100 meters wide, moves less people than a busy subway line.
The Brooklyn bridge used to move 420,000 people per day.
In the 1950s, trolleys were removed, and since then it has never moved more than 180,000 people per day.
Cars 👏 destroy 👏 cities.
Info from @notjustbikes
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All of my references are in the description, as always.
That number come from an NYC advocate called Mark Gorton:
Mark Gorton and the 'American streets renaissance'
Livable streets activist Mark Gorton stands near the protected bike lane on Columbus Ave., just a few blocks from his home on Manhattan's Upper West Side. (Photos © J.BikePortland
Thanks! I'll try to remember to check the description next time.
I really appreciate your exposition and advocacy, and I want to make sure I have the original sources available for figures like this when making a case myself.
They are milking their customers for all they're worth. Just like Harley, they're charging more for more-or-less the same product to prop up their earnings. >:(
Even worse is that Americans have been made captive consumers due to land use policies influenced by the automakers over the past century. D:<
Why American Cars Are So Expensive
Cars once promised independence and transportation for all Americans. Now, they are a luxury product that cost about $50,000, nearly 30% higher than just a few years ago. Affordable vehicles, especially those below the price of $20,000, have nearly disappeared. And while Automakers pulled in record profits in 2023, slim margins combined with deep investments into EV batteries, software and other technology is making it hard to produce cars much cheaper. Chinese automakers can, but they're impeded by tariffs and rules. Insiders say that is just a bandage - automakers need to compete.
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On the other hand, a cheap and defined toolset covers all types of square taper bb, while modern bb's seem to have 20 different tools needed and they all cost $30 or more.
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Are self-driving cars a fanciful pipe-dream or are they the future of transportation?
I don't know, but there's one thing I am sure of though: they're currently on track to fundamentally destroy the fabric of our cities.
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Attached: 1 video Another unconventional solution for traffic savety.Infosec Exchange
"Say it with me: People don’t regret buying a house, they regret moving to the suburbs"
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https://redd.it/1gsq3t1
#fuckcars
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The big reason why I haven't put more consideration into moving to a drier climate for more days of outdoor fun per year is that I am worried about future water scarcity.
I also don't complain about rainy days here as much anymore because I know that the rain is what keeps our water supply in a good state.
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The biggest argument against "Intelligent Design" is how stupidly built parts of our body are. Some examples:
- The "funny bone"
- Charliehorses
- The bone structure of our feet
- The structure of our knees
- How our retinae are behind the blood vessels network instead of in front
- Vestigial organs in general
Nobody "intelligent" would design something like this. :/
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*The polished prisons of the tech giants. #PostInternet
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-internet-is-shrinking/
The Internet is Shrinking
The internet used to be limitless, open to anyone with an idea. Now, it’s a polished prison run by tech giants. Is this the future we signed up for? Here’s how Big Tech quietly turned freedom into captivity.Joan Westenberg (Westenberg)
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Unnervingly enough, there's a Mac Donald's at the top of Donner Pass.
And yes, we stopped there.
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Cleaning hurricane damaged retro computers & CRTs — LGR
When Hurricane Helene hit my home in Asheville, North Carolina in September 2024, two oak trees fell through the roof and wrecked the place. Including the main LGR vintage computer collection downstairs where lots of rain water leaked through, resulting in moisture and mold issues. This first part of the cleanup process is unboxing the moldy boxes, evaluating the damage, and cleaning the surfaces of things! Internal cleaning and testing will occur later.
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Found the cause:
header = (const struct archive_entry_header_ustar *)h;
size = tar_atol(header->size, sizeof(header->size));
if ((size > 1048576) || (size < 0)) {
archive_set_error(&a->archive, EINVAL,
"Special header too large");
return (ARCHIVE_FATAL);
}Open source software has its advantages. :3
I wonder what header this is. 🤔 #macOStar: Special header too large: %llu tar: Child process exited with status 70 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
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