"Most mini trucks have the same roughly 6-foot bed size as the F-150."
Something Ford *definitely* doesn't want you to know.
I make the case for tiny trucks...
The new hot truck comes from Japan and looks like a toy
Measuring about half the length of a Ford F-150, Kei trucks look almost like toys in comparison to your standard pickup truck. But for a car so tiny, you mightABC 12 WJRT-TV
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Eric Schmidt says we’re not going to meet our climate targets, so we must put all our energy into improving AI and hope it solves the problem for us.
He’s part of a growing chorus of tech billionaires openly admitting they’ll sacrifice the climate on the altar of their AI ambitions.
https://disconnect.blog/silicon-valley-is-sacrificing-the-climate-for-ai/
#tech #ai #genai #generativeai #climate #climatechange #ericschmidt
Silicon Valley is sacrificing the climate for AI
Eric Schmidt is the latest tech executive to claim AI must be built regardless of the climate costParis Marx (Disconnect)
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@joosteto @the_Effekt @Urban_Hermit
What happens to that radioactive water if there's a containment breach?
Fukushima
Chernobyl
Three Mile Island
@the_Effekt @Npars01 @Urban_Hermit
That's 25,000,000 Gallons per hour, or 200,000,000,000 gallons per year for a 1GW nuclear power plant, *ENORMOUS* storage!
Fortunately, nuclear power plants use separate cooling systems: a system that cools the actual nuclear rods: that has radioactive water. But that water never leaves the plant. It's cooled by a separate cooling system, water from outside, that doesn't get radio active.
So, no need for storage of yearly 200,000,000,000 gal.
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Most of the reason a better USA/EU trade agreement didn't happen is their shitty food standards and enforcement thereof.
Both those things, separately, were enough on their own.
When asked to do a little better, the USA was very clear that no.
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The Chief of NBC Marketing for "The Apprentice" apologizes to America:
I want to apologize to America. I helped create a monster.
For nearly 25 years, I led marketing at NBC and NBCUniversal. I led the team that marketed “The Apprentice,” the reality show that made Donald Trump a household name outside of New York City, where he was better known for overextending his empire and appearing in celebrity gossip columns.
To sell the show, we created the narrative that Trump was a super-successful businessman who lived like royalty. That was the conceit of the show. At the very least, it was a substantial exaggeration; at worst, it created a false narrative by making him seem more successful than he was.
In fact, Trump declared business bankruptcy four times before the show went into production, and at least twice more during his 14 seasons hosting. The imposing board room where he famously fired contestants was a set, because his real boardroom was too old and shabby for TV.
#VoteBlue
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2024-10-16/we-created-a-tv-illusion-for-the-apprentice-but-the-real-trump-threatens-america
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https://gizmodo.com/guy-who-threw-away-500-million-bitcoin-hard-drive-sues-local-government-to-search-dump-2000512846
Guy Who Threw Away $500 Million Bitcoin Hard Drive Sues Local Government to Search Dump
What do you do when you've thrown half a billion dollars worth of crypto in the trash?Lucas Ropek (Gizmodo)
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TIL in Japan, some restaurants and attractions are charging higher prices for foreign tourists compared to locals to manage the increased demand without overburdening the locals
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/japan-restaurants-tourist-prices-intl-hnk/index.html
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1g62coz/til_in_japan_some_restaurants_and_attractions_are/
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Ample White Space on Candidate’s Yard Signs Demonstrates Love of Community Input
In a testament to how much the Seattle City Councilmember and homeless shelter-fighting landlord who just proposed the idea of no-protest zones this week loves community input, citywide Council sea…The Needling
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It referenced every website available at the time, mind blowing that you could visit every single site in one sitting, the golden times!
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Redbox hard drive hacked to reveal customer information from 2,471 rentals
The bankrupt company may not see any consequences.
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In 2023, Meta (the parent of FB/IG/WhatsApp) made 134 billion US dollars. It is projected to make around 158 billion US dollars in 2024. Yet CEO Mark Zuckerberg declared 2023 the 'year of efficiency' and will fire people until morals improve. It is all about profit and stupid AI now. Who cares if people lose their health care and other benefits despite a company making record-breaking profits?
https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/16/24272195/meta-layoffs-whatsapp-instagram-reality-labs
https://fortune.com/2024/10/17/meta-staff-layoffs-meal-credits/
Meta reportedly fires staffer on $400K a year for spending $25 meal credits on toothpaste and tea
Meta employees on Blind claimed employees had been fired for spending in-office meal perks on groceries delivered to home.Eleanor Pringle (Fortune)
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Google did the same thing like less than 4 years ago if I recall correctly... the CEO was complaining about how much money was being given to employees despite them making a thousand times more.
Their egos are large that they feel like they need to make endless piles of cash to feel better about themselves. As always the root of arrogance is in LITERALLY EVERY PROBLEM! ;)
Ironically, people who are selfish are less happy.
But try to tell that to the rich? they give you the run around and ad hominem and other dodgey methods to avoid that they have a problem.
New Dick’s-a-thon Route Just Endless Loop Between Pony and The Cuff
Today organizers of this weekend’s annual Dick’s-a-thon run—benefitting local search and rescue groups and the Washington National Parks Fund—announced a new alternate route that is a just an endle…The Needling
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big noise in about 15 minutes
From: https://xcancel.com/NWSSeattle/status/1846948536426156227
Edit: seems like there are no sirens in Seattle lol. See thread.
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NVS : Tsunami Evacuation Zones
NVS provides easy access to observation, forecasts, data, and visualizations.nvs.nanoos.org
Read about True Value hardware declaring bankruptcy today: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/true-value-declares-bankruptcy-sells-174128698.html
Which seemed odd to me, as they've been around for long time selling low-priced items.
It took me exactly one search to find perhaps another reason beyond the claimed "the housing market stalled and consumers have become far more picky about discretionary purchases like hardware” for the news:
True Value declares bankruptcy and sells itself to a hardware rival
True Value, a 75-year old hardware store brand, has filed for bankruptcy and is selling substantially all of its operations to a rival, the company announced...Jordan Valinsky, CNN (Yahoo Finance)
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Seattle's new zoning plan triples down on the failed urban village model, and will lead to increased rent and homelessness. The city is ignoring their their own findings of what the people want
Community feedback regarding the desired location new housing
reflected that belief that new housing should be constructed
“everywhere” and “in all neighborhoods”
Please leave a comment and contact your council members
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Zoning Map We are seeking your input on our draft proposal. The map below shows proposed zoning changes to implement the One Seattle Plan growth strategy and fulfill requirements adopted in 2023 in House Bill 1110.one-seattle-plan-zoning-implementation-seattlecitygis.hub.arcgis.com
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On the one hand it's nice to see that the public is on the YIMBY side.
On the other hand what is the point of these consultational meetings?
"In the U.S. alone, about a million more working-age adults reported having serious difficulty remembering, concentrating, or making decisions in 2023 compared to before the pandemic, according to a New York Times analysis of Census Bureau data."
https://time.com/7021575/covid-pandemic-19-brain-cognition/
Did the Pandemic Break Our Brains?
COVID-19 can directly affect the brain, and living through the pandemic have indirectly affected cognition and memory too.Jamie Ducharme (Time)
"Although the researchers did not analyze the effects of SARS-CoV-2 infections, they concluded that the stress of living through pandemic lockdowns was likely to blame for the change, which they likened to an extra four years of brain aging for girls and an extra year for boys."
They just listed all the ways that the virus affects the brain. How on earth can you then think it must be the "restrictions"?
https://time.com/7021575/covid-pandemic-19-brain-cognition/
Did the Pandemic Break Our Brains?
COVID-19 can directly affect the brain, and living through the pandemic have indirectly affected cognition and memory too.Jamie Ducharme (Time)
“COVID was a generational traumatic event,” says USC’s Petkus. “Everybody was exposed to it.”
For me, the main stress is from how people responded.
How people were happy to infect their friends and family.
How people got angry about you wanting to meet outdoors, use an air purifier or to wear a mask.
How people believed nonsense like immunity debt.
https://time.com/7021575/covid-pandemic-19-brain-cognition/
Did the Pandemic Break Our Brains?
COVID-19 can directly affect the brain, and living through the pandemic have indirectly affected cognition and memory too.Jamie Ducharme (Time)
"Some of the potential causes of chronic brain fog—like persistent inflammation or damage to blood vessels—are theoretically reversible with the right treatments."
Theoretically. In other words, do not count on it.
https://time.com/7021575/covid-pandemic-19-brain-cognition/
Did the Pandemic Break Our Brains?
COVID-19 can directly affect the brain, and living through the pandemic have indirectly affected cognition and memory too.Jamie Ducharme (Time)
I'd rather not gamble with my cognitive functions and rather avoid what is avoidable!
- Seen enough people with far superior fitness, firefighters & spec-ops being 'nerfed' by 'Rona into people who take 5l bottles of oxygen and 3 hours to get their groceries for a week and be basically bed-ridden due to exhaustion for the next 48 hours afterwards...
People in my surroundings are keeping up appearances. But I see them struggle with work.
They probably cancel meetings at a similar rate to me, as I have migraines, and sometimes must cancel a meeting as well (but at least that is not so uncommon any more).
"student test scores are recovering but have still not bounced back to pre-pandemic levels"
Maybe this is because this brain damaging virus is still infecting people regularly?
https://time.com/7021575/covid-pandemic-19-brain-cognition/
Did the Pandemic Break Our Brains?
COVID-19 can directly affect the brain, and living through the pandemic have indirectly affected cognition and memory too.Jamie Ducharme (Time)
+9001%
Prior to 'Rona, I had faith in existing rules and regulations and that everyone can muster a few weeks or months of discipline necessary to quarantine-away that shit.
- But instead I saw all the good and correct disease control rules being abolished and the Government conditionlessly surrendering to antivaxxers as well as other genocidal & democidal sociopaths!
I'm shure the same kind of people would also insist on hugging and kissing Ebola deaths!
- Calling them "Rat Lickers" is an insult to rodents...
Now we got this shitshow and the worst part is that apparently most people are okay with this...
- If I didn't have family or friends I'd move to Antarctica permanently, maybe build myself some shack somewhere and have a plane or ship drop some supplies and I'd just launch weather balloons in return or sth. else...
Yes, the seem to be convinced that no disease can harm them and want to approach all illness with taking supplements, eating their very special diet, and their very special exercise program.
‘New York Times’ To Cease Publication
cc @mr_electrico @jeffjarvis @dangillmor
https://theonion.com/new-york-times-to-cease-publication/
‘New York Times’ To Cease Publication
NEW YORK—With the struggling newspaper admitting this was the final nail in its coffin, The New York Times announced this week that it would permanently cease publication, saying there was no way it could compete with The Onion’s newly relaunched pri…The Onion Staff (The Onion)
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Preemption Playbook: Big Tech’s Blueprint Comes Straight from Big Tobacco
Big Tech is borrowing a page from Big Tobacco's playbook to wage war on your privacy, according to Jake Snow of the ACLU of Northern California. We agree.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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in my interviews lately (which all have some variation of “AI” in the description regardless of what they’re actually for) I’ve been using the phrase “there will be blood on the floor when it pops” and wow, visually, I did not know how right I was.
You’d think, you know, these execs and economists make the big bucks for supposedly doing these things correctly, but I don’t know in what world “we dumped a bunch of money into a thing that didn’t work and we fired the people that told us it didn’t work” is anything but mind numbing incompetence.
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Revealed: International ‘race science’ network secretly funded by US tech boss
Group promoting ‘dangerous’ scientific racism ideology teamed up with rightwing extremist, recordings revealJason Wilson (The Guardian)
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I use Waterfox myself, which seems to me, to not send much metadata back.
But of course the Tor Browser is going to be the best at privacy.
I checked: Luxembourg, by contrast, _does_ have maritime law.
https://luxembourg.public.lu/en/invest/key-sectors/maritime-sector.html
Maritime sector
Even though Luxembourg does not have direct access to the sea, the maritime sector has been developing since the 1990s.luxembourg.public.lu
I'm not sure this is accurate but it is funny
https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels?flag=LI
Vessels Database - VesselFinder
VesselFinder is a free Vessel Database with over 500000 ships, technical specifications and management information, live AIS positions and port calls, ship photos and related news.www.vesselfinder.com
It seems a lot more likely that these are just transcription mistakes, perhaps transposition error or something
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posted by @BigFox1956@reddit.com - https://reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1g50bz7/ithasbeen22years/
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We figured out the greenhouse effect closer to the start of the Industrial Revolution than to today
Source: xkcd
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https://taz.de/Entdeckerin-des-Treibhauseffekts/!5646043/
Entdeckerin des Treibhauseffekts: Mit Glaskolben und Sonnenlicht
Eunice Newton Foote wies schon 1856 die Wirkung von C02 nach. Ihre Beiträge gerieten in Vergessenheit. Den Ruhm heimsten männliche Kollegen ein.Ulrike Herrmann (taz)
Things I do not want from a kettle: an engaging interactive experience.
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Kettle: make water hot
Fridge: make things cold
Toaster: make bread hot
Oven: make many things hot
Dishwasher: make things clean
Lights: makes things visible
Rice Cooker: make rice hot and damp
None of these should require a fucking internet connection, generative (not actually) AI, or a fucking app.
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Can't agree more, with one quibble.
A lot of this kit has touch screens now. Even when it's not connected to anything. I don't want an app, I want physical buttons, knobs, and so on. But for kit with touch screens, an app might be the only way I get to use the device (due to accessibility issues).
It's a weird world for sure, and I'd rather no app and no touch screen of course.
And I suppose for other accessibility considerations different from mine (I'm blind) other people might benefit from an app. The pity is that we don't have some kind of universal API for this and have to install weird per-device applications.
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@modulux Whilst #touchscreens can increase #accessibility and #longevity (no button / force needed) they also can hinder intuitive operation.
- There's a resson we have buttons and knobs and levers in cars, ships, airplanes and even on bikes and scooters: You don't want to click through menues to be able to turn off the radio, activate warning lights or pull over...
You want immediate and blind control...
@modulux the only form of "accessibility with touchscreens" I've seen are either alternative menues & audio navigation (like on most modern ATMs in Germany) - bypassing touch entirely like a phone tree - or some #TTS reading where one swipes if not the entire screen.
I'd love to really dive into this...
@modulux nodds in agreement cuz with like a stovetop or similar there are ways to make settings feelable (indicator position on the dial and clicks to confirm settings)...
- Same with manual transmissions in cars where one can feel the position of the stick...
Ideally the optimal approach would get focus-group tested by disabled people to find the best balances...
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We as #consumers need to give such #Enshittiied #Appliance the #juicero treatment and collectively #RefuseToBuy that shite and urge lawmakers to ban "unnecessarily connected devices" if not for #privacy and #cost then at least due to their wasteful #EnergyConsumption!!!
I want @EUCommission & @bsi to mandate "#PrivacyLabels" like the #EUenergyLabel and mandate everything to be functional without #App, #Account, #Subscription or #Internet / #Network access at all!!!
- I'm so sick of the #Enshittification!!!
EU energy labelling requirements - Your Europe
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Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year. Is nature’s carbon sink failing? | Oceans | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/14/nature-carbon-sink-collapse-global-heating-models-emissions-targets-evidence-aoe
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Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year. Is nature’s carbon sink failing?
The sudden collapse of carbon sinks was not factored into climate models – and could rapidly accelerate global heatingPatrick Greenfield (The Guardian)
First President to Honor Indigenous Peoples’ Day Treats Self to a Little Genocide
In honor of being the first United States president to comemmorate Indigenous Peoples’ Day, today President Joe Biden treated himself to a little genocide. “I’ve been a trailblazer these last…The Needling
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in reply to 𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 • • •Neil E. Hodges likes this.
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in reply to 𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 • • •In this #Straphanger dispatch, In Praise of the Tiny Truck:
https://www.straphanger.blog/in-praise-of-the-tiny-truck/
In Praise of the Tiny Truck.
Taras Grescoe (Straphanger)𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇
in reply to 𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 • • •Tom
in reply to 𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 • • •Andy
in reply to Tom • • •@Tom nah. They are built for intracity deliveries and hauling. Hell they can’t go over 50 on the hwy iirc. I’d love to see one with a slightly bigger bed and motor. Let me haul a pallet of wood from the mill to my workshop and we’re gold.
Really wish we’d get more options again. The midsized have been so ignored in recent years.
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in reply to Sam Whited • • •Baloo Uriza
in reply to Tom • • •@Tom 4x4s are common and I've yet to find a kei anything that used weird tire sizes. Most new USDM cars use absolutely byzantine strange tires completely inappropriate for the vehicle, like low profile racetrack tires and 24 inch rims on a SUV for retired soccer grandmas...
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Unknown parent • • •Andy
Unknown parent • • •Tom
in reply to Andy • • •Solarbird :flag_cascadia:
in reply to 𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 • • •