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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Kash Patel copied the contents of former/legitimate FBI Director James Comey's lawyer's computer to read their email and private legal documents. A judge has prevented the FBI from using the files and expressed the opinion they will be returned after Don's government makes its case, and that the seizure was unwarranted.
Don and Kash expect their crimes to be law, and the law to be criminalized.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.287269/gov.uscourts.dcd.287269.10.0.pdf
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Japan says Chinese fighter jets targeted its aircraft near Okinawa - EUROPE SAYS
Japan said that Chinese fighter jets twice directed fire-control radar at its F-15 aircraft over international waters near Okinawa, calling the incidentsEUROPE SAYS
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Video shows masked Border Patrol agent chasing woman back to her Louisiana home
Masked immigration authorities were recorded on video this week following a woman back to her Louisiana home during what the Department of Homeland Security is calling a “targeted immigration enforcement operation.Colin Sheeley (NBC News)
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“Real” America Is Turning Against Trump’s Mass Deportation Regime
In Appalachia and the Southeast, everyday Americans are standing up to ICE arresting their immigrant neighbors.Alain Stephens (The Intercept)
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#SpaceWeather News for Dec. 7, 2025
"A SOLAR STORM IS HEADING DIRECTLY FOR EARTH: Strong G3-class #GeomagneticStorms are possible on Dec. 9th when a full-halo #CME is expected to strike our planet. The storm cloud was hurled in our direction on Dec. 6th by an almost- #XClass #SolarFlare. Full story @ Spaceweather.com."
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🚨 SHREDDED CHEESE RECALL 🚨
"The FDA says they were distributed to 31 states — Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin — as well as Puerto Rico."
Please Boost!
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/03/nx-s1-5630116/shredded-cheese-recall-pecorino-romano
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The Trump admin🚨has effectively outsourced soaring disaster costs to ill-equipped states, profit-seeking insurers, & ultimately, helpless individuals. When the next hurricane hits,
these cuts will prove disastrous.
>1/3 of #FEMA staff🚨have been fired
& #KristiNoem has left the rest unable to do their jobs. Stancil argues that it's worse than negligence -it’s evidence for “the Trump admin’s disdain for human life itself.”
#GOPDeathCult #Democide #Sadism #Protest #USPol
https://prospect.org/2025/12/05/trumps-katrina-is-coming-fema/
Trump’s Katrina Is Coming
The president’s FEMA sabotage has all but guaranteed us more acute disasters in the future.Kenny Stancil (The American Prospect)
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“The #TrumpRegime🚨has become a living experiment to prove that actually #DEI did work better, & is a superior approach to hiring INCOMPETENT MEDIOCRE WHITE MEN, who only got the job bc of🚨who they knew & being a kiss ass.
What we’ve learned is: #women & people of color need to be overqualified in order to get a job,🚨while white men can be under qualified & get the same job….”
-A Siskind
#Misogyny #Racism #Kakistocracy #Patriarchy #Fascism #Protest #USPol
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"Musk controls the algorithms at X, Zuckerberg does the same on Facebook, Silicon Valley is investing heavily in AI—which offers its own version of 'truth' while slowly strangling the information ecosystem. We are—or will very soon be—in a post-truth world."
~ Kristin Du Mez
#information #disinformation #PostTruth #media #SocialMedia #ElonMusk #MarkZuckerberg #fascism #Trump
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"Not just a world where many of our neighbors are living in a different 'information' reality, but one in which it may become impossible to sift truth from propaganda.
This is by design."
#information #disinformation #PostTruth #media #SocialMedia #ElonMusk #MarkZuckerberg #fascism #Trump
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We've already experienced this in my community where we looked to FEMA for assistance after last July's deadly and horribly destructive flooding here, in this very Red region. Don just revoked our aid package evidently because we're Blue statewide, and that's how the regime nongoverns. (Our DC delegation is 2 Democratic Party members and an Independent.)
We're not proud to be among the first with this. Things will get much awfuller all around the country.
https://prospect.org/2025/12/05/trumps-katrina-is-coming-fema/
Trump’s Katrina Is Coming
The president’s FEMA sabotage has all but guaranteed us more acute disasters in the future.Kenny Stancil (The American Prospect)
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Politics Girl
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🇱🇷Politics Girl 🇱🇷 | When I read this it literally translates to Trump:"I know nothing I let Pete do whatever he wants with my toy soldiers, I don't care | Facebook
When I read this it literally translates to Trump:"I know nothing I let Pete do whatever he wants with my toy soldiers, I don't care!" And Pete:"OH I don't really care it's all a game and I just let...www.facebook.com
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Longer Political Cartoons for Your Sunday Reading Pleasure #ABlueView🧵1/4
When I republish multi-panel, longer cartoons they receive less commentary & engagement than typical, single panel cartoons do even though their format allows them to tell bigger stories. Here's a sample.
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🧵4/4 Longer Political Cartoons for Your Sunday Reading Pleasure
These 4 are all from the brilliant @jensorensen.bsky.social
The effort to topple democracy in #Venezuela and plunder its state-developed petroleum has zero to do with drugs; there weren't drugs of any kind on 80% of the murdered sailors' boats; the only crimes here are going totally unpunished, and they are being committed by Pete Hegseth, Don Trump, Marco Rubio, Elliott Abrams' gang of pillaging nazi CIA thugs - and this Frank Bradley guy. #warCrimes and lying to our Congress. These crimes do not benefit any human being. These @warCriminals will all one day find themselves lined up against a big, beautiful wall.
Admiral told lawmakers everyone on alleged drug boat was on a list of military targets
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the U.S. military on Sept. 2 to kill all 11 people on a suspected drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean Sea because they were on an internal list of narco-terrorists who U.S.Courtney Kube (NBC News)
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Don’t have a phone? Stay outside and get eaten by bears you fool.
https://soranews24.com/2025/12/07/japanese-company-selling-bear-proof-automatic-doors/
Japanese company selling bear-proof automatic doors
Effective against bears and very lazy people.Master Blaster (SoraNews24 -Japan News-)
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Nazi orders being followed by nazis, scapegoating the hardest-working new members of our communities.
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.Sarah Betancourt (GBH)
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Nazi techbro
https://www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale-calls-for-public-hangings/
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalatesGil Duran (The Nerd Reich)
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Just thinking about how the FBI considers every contact of a person of interest to be in scope, and about how broadly "radical gender ideology" can be interpreted
and about Fediverse demographics
and how it is more likely* that a Fedizen would be struck by lightning than have NOT interacted with people with varieties of colourful flags in their names
which means literally the entire Fediverse is in scope!
yes really, do the Fermi estimate yourselfhttps://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-list-of-extremists-is-coming
#security #FBI #USPol #USPolitics #politics
FBI Making List of American “Extremists,” Leaked Memo Reveals
Are you on Trump's naughty list?Ken Klippenstein
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USB Video Capture Devices: Wow! They’re All Bad!!
#classichacks #retrocomputing #firewire #usb #uuuu #vhs #videocapture #vintage #hackaday
posted by pod_feeder_v2USB Video Capture Devices: Wow! They’re All Bad!!
[VWestlife] purchased all kinds of USB video capture devices — many of them from the early 2000s — and put them through their paces in trying to digitize VHS classics like Instant Firep…Hackaday
He served his country; now it's 'turning its back': Georgia veteran stuck in ICE detention after policy shift
Godfrey Wade is a wartime U.S. Army veteran who served overseas and received commendations upon his honorable discharge. Now he's set for deportation.
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Shortly after he arrived in the United States, Wade enlisted in the United States Army, 7th Infantry Division, beginning in Aschaffenburg, Germany. He earned commendations for good conduct and wartime service.
After his honorable discharge, he built a wide-ranging career and earned multiple college degrees. He's worked as a master tailor, fashion designer, tennis coach, and chef. He was working at the Georgia Capitol Café before he was detained.
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65-year-old Wade said he spent his first 12 days at Stewart Detention Center sleeping on a makeshift bed on the ground, a result of overcrowding.
"We don't have any bunk space," he said. "We're given what we call boats, and those are placed on the floor with a two-inch mat."
He also said there are only two working urinals for his entire pod of 80 people.
"There's sewage water flowing on the ground," he said.
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Things are moving really fast, so I went on and created a Codeberg organization for coordinating a post-Calibre path forward for uniting readers and writers in the goal of archiving, organizing, and reading books.
https://codeberg.org/rereading
DNS is still propagating, but https://rereading.space should be up soon as well.
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Silicon Valley needs to be dismantled.
https://www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale-calls-for-public-hangings/
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalatesGil Duran (The Nerd Reich)
Content warning: Cruises, Consumer Culture, Petri Dish Tour, Griping
Indigenous school facing ‘collapse’ as former principal convicted of assaulting students | Indigenous
One of Australia’s oldest independent Indigenous schools is in crisis after its former principal was found guilty of physically assaulting four students.EUROPE SAYS
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The full guide to switching from big US tech to supporting more ethical and EU-based companies! (Now with a
The full guide to switching from big US tech to supporting more ethical and EU-based companies! (Now with a website) https://i.redd.it/dr7d0nv0ar5g1.png byEUROPE SAYS
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Trump's new National Security Strategy avoids calling Russia a threat, blames the EU for blocking peace efforts, and calls for restoring "strategic stability" to Russia
Kremlin response: "Largely consistent with our vision"
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/07/russia-hails-trumps-new-security-strategy/
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Creatine shouldn't taste like anything. This bag does have a funny taste to it. I'll be glad when it's empty.
Any of you gym monkeys have a brand you like?
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Most car exhausts, anyway. Not the M3 that my neighbour across the road drives.
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