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psud , vor 15 Tagen

Full refunds would be reasonable, if they wanted to protect their IP

psud , vor 12 Tagen

If they die, other companies will buy that IP

psud , vor 12 Tagen

I hear about people getting Minecraft on game pass. Those people don't play Minecraft like I play Minecraft

psud , vor 12 Tagen

Yeah Baldur's gate 3 and hell divers are both doing terribly

Minecraft is pretty unique, or was until its imitators appeared and is the most popular game (or is it second to Tetris?)

psud , vor 13 Tagen

I was taught to use spaces for thousands in Canberra

psud , vor 13 Tagen

I like Steve Mould's ad reads. He does science content and seems to only advertise products and services he uses, so his ads are mostly straight "this is what I like about the product, what makes it different to alternatives, this is why I use it, this is the stuff they told me to say"

He's one of the few YouTubers I actually believe when he says a product is good

psud , vor 13 Tagen

$35

psud , vor 19 Tagen

That guy pretends he was fired and sued for sharing that meme. He was neither. He was told off, got butt hurt and stopped going to work, got fired for not going to work, lied about being fired for the meme and got sued for the lie

psud , vor 23 Tagen

It's supposed to be common that people can catch the flicker in the corner of their eye

psud , vor 26 Tagen

The debt we're talking about here (as opposed to deficits) is practically all bond sales, isn't it?

psud , vor einem Monat

Surely there is an add on for that

psud , vor einem Monat

The browsers are all quite good at copying your links, tabs, and history. Don't worry, there will always be a good option, especially since open source has no strong path to enshittification

psud , vor einem Monat

Chrome is very good at running Google's pages. Even before Google owned YouTube chrome was better at YouTube.

psud , vor einem Monat

I just searched "tab groups Firefox" and found results saying it has them. No idea as I wasn't able to find relevant settings last time I tried on a PC. Mobile just now I tried adding tabs to a collection, but it doesn't look like it did anything

psud , vor einem Monat

Hope someone else chimes in on how to do this. I typically have hundreds of tabs open, groups were a godsend

On mobile chrome I have ":D" tabs open which I occasionally go through and cull

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Entirely possible, I was pretty busy in my early career back then

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Many native Americans have adopted the group name "Indian". You might not like it, but they do.

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Sometimes people will down vote a comment because they agree with a contrary reply above it. I don't like the way people punish people for asking

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Sorry if I misinterpreted your question mark as indicating you questioned the use of the term ;)

psud , vor einem Monat

I'm sure I have seen the most radical anti-meat opinions here.

Like it's worth destroying the ecosystems that depend on large herbivores to ensure the carbon they would move from grass to air back to grass instead is liberated by fire when the grasses grow unchecked, possibly forever when the grasses are no longer fertilised by the animals they support

I'm all for ending the worst animal agriculture. Get rid of the factory farms, get rid of methods that don't last. I easy meat, but I pick my meat from the stuff grown in places they are a net benefit or at worst displace other herbivores that aren't as tasty as cows

psud , vor einem Monat

And, of course the seventh day adventists, but for ruttyness control

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The Earth is in fact larger than a beach ball

Larger to us than a beach ball is to an ant (which can't perceive the curve of the ball)

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Another solution is mass transit. That right of way could support light rail and still have several car lanes in each direction

The light rail also gives work from home people a way to get to shops, shows, and sports without driving

Light rail also can be built to not get stuck in traffic, which makes it faster than driving too

psud , vor einem Monat

Suburban rail is heavier than trams, the London tube is suburban rail, as are Sydney trains

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If you design your cities well people live near the places which people want to visit, and pedestrian speed is fine

Lots of cities are well designed, though most that were so designed in the US got modified after cars became important

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My town does buses better than that, but peak hour buses get stuck in traffic

So times when it's a 20 minute drive, it's 30 or 40 minutes by bus, when the same drive is 45 minutes in slow traffic, the bus is not a lot worse, at 1 hr

Anyway the better solution has busses only as a last mile solution, with trunks covered by rail

psud , vor einem Monat

Part of it is that the organisations that design and build roads are also the ones who assess whether a road is needed. No big surprise that they "forget" about induced demand

psud , vor einem Monat

I mean we really don't need cities, just make hundred lane roads in their place

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My town wants to widen a section of road near me. It's the only part of the road with only one lane each way

I'm torn. I know widening the road won't help traffic (right now that narrow bit reduces through traffic, making it a nice bit of road to drive) but if they do widen it, they will also add cycle lanes.

psud , vor einem Monat

Suburban centres to city centres, in places where that's the traffic flow

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You know what would work just as well, but without isolating people?

Mixed zoning and mass rapid transit

Let people work walking distance to their home, give those who need to go somewhere a way of going there quicker than traffic

It'd also be good to mandate easy availability of work from home for anyone in a job where that is practical

psud , vor einem Monat

My small city's main suburb to centre link is a 100km/h, two lane each way parkway, until it merges with a similar road from a different centre, grows to 3 lanes each way, and slows down sharply as it gets close to the centre

Between the last traffic lights and the spaghetti junction that merges it with a similar road it's free flowing and fine. The slow lane goes about 95, the fast lane about 100 to 110, with occasional slight slowdowns when a 95km/h car catches up with a slower one

But on that stretch there's about 300 metres of slow traffic due to a fixed speed camera. People going 95 who think their speedometer might be wrong the opposite way to which it is slow to 80; people doing 110 slow to well below 100, people following too close brake heavily, the fast lane ends up with a standing wave with a peak (or is it a trough?) of 60km/h

Then as you get past the camera it gets loud with even the slow cars rebelling against the slowdown give much throttle. That camera must cost so much CO2. I doubt it catches anyone except during the lightest traffic times. In even medium traffic you couldn't speed through that bit of road if you tried

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The bus must stop at other stops, wait at an interchange for passengers, then drive in the same lanes as cars (though there are limited lanes on some major roads)

There are no dedicated lanes on the route in my example, though it also is an express bus which doesn't stop at the interchange between where I live and the town centre. Also it is speed limited slower than the rest of traffic on the main road of the route

psud , vor einem Monat

If you want to also be pedantically technically correct, 9V batteries are often made from 6 AAAA cells. Most of the things people call battery are actually cells, the common batteries are 9V (6x1.5V cells) and 6V (4x1.5V cells) alkalines, 12V lead-acid (6x2V cells) and electric vehicle batteries (lots of 3-ish volt cells of various lithium technologies)

psud , vor 2 Monaten

know it's hard for the Tesla cultists to accept, rather like the Apple cultists before them, but Tesla products are not good products for the price.

Likewise, it must be hard for the Musk haters (and anti Apple people!) to accept it when Tesla (or Apple) make a good product at good value. I live in Australia and get no discount to the price of the car and call it good value.

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I'm pretty sure the other states have similar incentives [as Adelaide!]

Now look up Victoria. They have an extra tax to stop EV owners from dodging the excise on petrol

Where I am we have free registration for two years and the ability to drive in HOV lanes, which is a couple of hundred dollars of benefit

Australia is a Federation. Each state, and to some extent the two mainland territories, sets its own rules to a large extent. We have no federal incentives on EVs

Nice of you to accuse me of lying without looking for more than 15 seconds, arsehole

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The planet will be fine. It might suck for humans for a while (especially bad for poor people), but we will succeed in bringing carbon levels back to whatever is best for us (somewhere between pre-industrial and a hundred years ago, I suppose)

Right now the cheapest electricity is renewable. We are making inroads into electrifying transport and running planes and ships on renewable energy. There is money being pumped into research to find low carbon ways of making steel and concrete.

Once electricity is clean and transport is clean we're a long way towards cleaning up industry. Electricity, transport, and industry are the two biggest wedges in the emissions pie chart

There are clear paths to make agriculture cleaner through renewable fertilisers and treatments for ruminants' methane emissions (which oxidises the methane to CO2 (which is carbon neutral unless their feed was fertilised with fossil carbon))

psud , vor 2 Monaten

The typo indicates you typed that in a huff and a hurry. Please watch the videos I linked. My optimism isn't completely misplaced.

psud , vor 3 Monaten

I suppose that's why out of office only replies to each sender once now. I recall that exchange used to send ooo replies every time, and that must have been in '99 or the early 2000s. I wonder if there was some other fix for the problem, I never saw evidence of that problem even then