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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Why aren’t they made to bring all of them back!? “Guilty until proven innocent” would be an improvement right now because they’re deemed guilty without the chance to prove their innocence?! Throwing out “Innocent until proven guilty” and all other tenets of due process is insanity!

    They’re running the country on a “move fast and break things” mentality and it’s madness because the things they are breaking are the Justice system, the Constitution and peoples lives! They’re relying on “outrage fatigue” and I get it, that’s super effective! I’ve seen the images of the protests and there’s a hundred different things people are mad about but something has to happen quick, before it’s too late and everyone who isn’t 100% Red WHITE Blue and MAGA gets swept up?!

    I know it’s easy for me to say this from afar and the protests so far have been truly impressive but they need to be massively ramped up and fast! Because once the system is broken it’s gonna be reaaaly reaaaaly hard to put it back together again!





  • Yeah, it’s infuriating! Elon said something along the lines of Humans drive all the time just using their eyes, so we can replicate that with just cameras. Leaving out the fact that one of the benefits of a self driving system should surely be that it’s in many ways BETTER than humans which are often terrible at driving in fog, torrential rain, low light/night time etc!? It was almost a point of pride that his cars would be every bit as shitty as a human driver to a fault!

    I guess his robots are going to be just as weak and frail as humans and need sick days and simulate getting tired and dropping things too?? I can just imagine one of his robots entering a room and saying What did I come in here for again?? I think I need a nap!?


  • Things I’ve seen people doing while driving: taking phone calls without using hands free, adjusting their stereo or AC or any number of other buttons that are off to the side and usually require looking down, reaching across to get something out of the glove box, texting, putting on makeup, reading a book!?

    When I got hit by a car while riding my bike I was wearing high vis, it was daytime, I was in a cylcle lane, they were on a giveway/yield and yet some people I told about it after the fact STILL implied it was probably my fault because I didn’t see them or wasn’t looking for random maniacs running giveways?! I WAS looking and DID see them but you only have so much time to react and the choice between slowing down versus speeding up to avoid impact is not so clear when you only have seconds at best and your brain is going FUCKSHITFUCKWHATDOIDO?!




  • Mishmash2000@lemmy.nztoFuck Cars@lemmy.worldOh yeah
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    7 months ago

    It’s an important reframing. A reminder to not blame the victim. Roads bisect ecosystems. Some flora and fauna can’t ever cross them. Some like deer can but risk being killed. All this has a dampening effect on genetic diversity by bisecting populations into ever smaller areas of smaller populations. For these deer maybe it doesn’t matter so much, but for some species it matters a lot. Roads everywhere cut the landscape into islands (especially for insects for example) meaning populations are often divided into smaller ones of less genetic diversity. Less genetic diversity often means less robust populations. I am not an expert but this is how I understand it. The poster barely hints at this but there’s only so much you can achieve in a poster but the reframing is a start. Jaywalking laws were a reframing that was designed to transfer the blame from the car and driver to the pedestrian in accidents. The new laws said that cars weren’t the problem, the victims being run down were the issue as they shouldn’t have been in the way of the car.



  • Yes, he delicately chainsaws off only the finest shark carcass heads and air dries them on the roof of his car in the heat of the natural sun! Only the best natural produce for him! Prepared by nature!*

    *may contain parasitic brain worms, weavels and maggots for an added protein boost!




  • Yeah, I’m no expert but won’t Trumps tariffs on everything under the sun be much much worse than the inflation?? Manufacturing won’t come back to the USA, it’ll just shuffle around any of dozens of countries that will still be cheaper to operate out of. Also, retalitory tariffs are a thing which will harm what manufacturing IS in the USA. Also, Trump promised his rich buddies 3 trillion dollars in tax breaks. He’s going to slash health budgets (and more besides) to fund it. What are people thinking!? They’re going to fund the ultra rich from their own pockets AND pay massively more for goods while damaging local industry?! I mean there’s a million other things to worry about including mass-deportation but cost of living is about to increase BIGLY!?



  • I’ve always found this subject fascinating. Why are we all so different in this regards? What’s going or not going on up there? Anyway, this is my result…

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    I imagined a bright red ball, like a shiny red plasticy looking ball

    The “person” pushing the ball was just a disembodied arm, the ball rolled and bounced around the pool table much as a pool ball would

    The arm was pretty much my arm. I didn’t bother to visualise the person, instead concentrating on the interaction with the ball.

    The ball was larger than a pool ball, maybe softball sized or even slightly bigger

    The table was basically a pool table, green felt, but smaller or maybe the ball was just much bigger

    All this I knew from my visualisation but when answering the questions I probably solidified my thoughts a bit. When viewing things they are constantly changing or shifting to match new information/ideas/concepts of what’s there. I don’t really see the whole scene at once easily, instead focusing in on different aspects of it. For example if I’m concentrating on the red, shiny ball then the table is just a green plane/background.


  • Mishmash2000@lemmy.nztoFuck Cars@lemmy.worldInsanity
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    10 months ago

    Wow, that’s a bummer :-/ For me it’s 15-20 min by car assuming a few minutes walk to where I’ve parked. 25 min by bike (20 min by road but I take a safer ‘scenic route’) and about 40 min by bus and about 10 minutes of that is walking to/from the bus stop. And the bus fare gets capped at 8 trips per week so every trip thereafter is free meaning if you commute to work every day, Friday and all weekend will be unlimited free trips.