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- Comment on Stephen Miller: Secretary Kennedy one of the world's foremost experts on public health. He is working hard to restore the credibility of the CDC as a scientific organization 1 day ago:
RFC Jr has no medical degree, no public health credentials, no scientific publications.
It’s even worse than that. He isn’t even scientifically literate, or honest, for that matter.
Just yesterday, one of the top vaccine officials at the CDC resigned because of Kennedy’s gross incompetency and anti-vaccine agenda.
- Comment on The Dumbest Phone Is Parenting Genius: Landlines encourage connection—without the downsides of smartphones. 3 days ago:
Car dependency is a big problem in most of the US.
I agree, and that often ends up being the excuse why kids aren’t allowed to walk or bike to school, and it’s fucking terrible.
But when you look at stats from countries in Europe, you have some countries that have kids being fully independent (in regard to walking or biking or taking public transportation) by their time they’re 10 or 11 and able to do considerably more than North American teenagers, even at younger ages. It’s kind of disgraceful for us North Americans.
- Comment on The Dumbest Phone Is Parenting Genius: Landlines encourage connection—without the downsides of smartphones. 3 days ago:
Now about 15 to 20 families in their South Portland neighborhood have installed a landline.
This is awesome.
Also, let kids walk to their friend’s home to see if they want to play or hang out. It will build independence, get them exercise, and it gives them an opportunity to physically connect with their neighbourhood.
- Comment on President Trump shows President Zelenskyy and President Macron his 4 More Years hats 1 week ago:
Does that make it any better? He’s the president taking world leaders, including one at war, to a MAGA gift shop showing hats with “Trump 2028” on them as if any of this is normal or sane? 😮
- Comment on President Trump shows President Zelenskyy and President Macron his 4 More Years hats 1 week ago:
The White House has become a redneck dollar store.
- Comment on The guy President Trump nominated to lead the US Bureau of Labor Statistics 2 weeks ago:
The worst human beings ironically end up being the “best” people to work under Trump.
Friendly reminder that Trump is a child rapist and is purposely withholding the Trumpstein files from the public.
- Comment on Sixt wants to store a scan of my face 2 weeks ago:
I’ve never rented a car so I’m curious, what benefits does checking-in early actually get you?
Nothing. Just like checking in early to a flight.
In fact, I can only see downsides and risks… for example, if something happens on your way to the rental company or airport, which makes it impossible to actually get the vehicle or take your flight.
“But you checked in, sorry!”. 😒
- Comment on Companies are monitoring and enforcing office attendance at the highest rate in 5 years 3 weeks ago:
I love how not a single word was about productivity. Because it’s only about control, regardless of the negative impacts to the employees or company. Useless management trying to justify their existence.
- Comment on Bat flies into woman's mouth in Arizona, costing her nearly $21,000 in medical bills 4 weeks ago:
I find this odd to believe though.
Census.gov reports over 12% of people in the States are poor (38 million people).
The NPR reported that half the population can’t afford rent.
A good chunk of the rest are able to afford it, but unlikely to have several thousand laying around for a trip.
A vacation doesn’t have to be extravagant. A good chunk of U.S states have PTO even and driving to Arizona isn’t that extravagant anyway.
I guess it depends on what “vacation” means. In the context of this article, it seems like this lady actually travels for vacation.
If we mean visiting the local beach as a “vacation”, we’ve really been screwed over by wealth hoarders.
- Comment on Bat flies into woman's mouth in Arizona, costing her nearly $21,000 in medical bills 4 weeks ago:
This makes me mildly infuriating:
The unemployed Massachusetts woman figured she could roll the dice as a healthy woman in her early 30s or at worst, could hastily buy private health insurance in a pinch, Kahn said.
The near-$21,000 burden will probably lead to fewer vacations
A huge percentage of the population doesn’t have enough dispodable income to take a single vacation, yet this FAFO situation “will probably” lead to fewer vacations for this woman?
My empathy meter is at near zero, TBH.
That said, fuck any country for not having a healthcare system available to all without having to cost a few vacations.
- Comment on Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s explanation for socializing with Jeffrey Epstein 4 weeks ago:
His excuse is he hangs out with a lot of rapists
And just how casually that comes out, too.
- Comment on AI-generated search result descriptions 1 month ago:
Jesus Christ. Enshittification because of “AI” is getting out of hand.
If this isn’t happening in other search engines, then DDG is likely doing it, which would be awful as it neuters the point of showing snippets for search results.
- Comment on Gen Z's 'overemployed' solution for a broken economy: 5 jobs and $3K per day. It's totally legal 1 month ago:
This article makes me want to vomit. Like blaming people who are forced to work multiple jobs to survive and treating them like criminals.
Fuck you. These aren’t billionaires hoarding wealth, they are people who can’t afford school, a place to live, or their next meal. If one job can’t support them, then they’ll take five!
Even if the work is getting done, Maleh says employers care because:
It creates trust issues: If you’re hiding this, what else are you hiding?
Even if the work is getting done, eh? These are the same employers who underpay and want to spy on their workers as if they were prison inmates, right?
Fuck you twice!
- Comment on Businessman Josh Kraft, son of Billionaire Robert Kraft, is running for Boston Mayor. He is accusing the mayor of worsening traffic by building bike lanes 1 month ago:
And I will still continue to point out that places which have the most traffic congestion, like highways, also do NOT have bike lanes in them.
Strange how that happens, eh?
You’d think that without bike lanes, 18 lanes for cars, no pedestrians “jaywalking”, no stop signs or stop lights, “go as fast as you want” speed limits, and no speed bumps that you’d NEVER see congestion. But then reality kicks you in the balls.
- Comment on What water bottles are completely free from the problem of weird chipping/shavings of the material which could put material in the water, even when dropping it or when using Bottle Bright tablets? 1 month ago:
I have never encountered a water bottle getting chipped or leaving shavings.
I’ve heard of people complain that steel bottles that use steel tops “scrape” together when you are using the lids, and that can cause metal particles to shed into the water.
That’s one of the reasons why most steel bottles have plastic lids.
- Comment on The Mayor of Calgary, Canada, just received this letter 1 month ago:
Wipe your ass with that.
As demonstrated in Montreal, Toronto, Paris (France), Netherlands (pick any city), Berlin, San Francisco, and every other place that takes transportation seriously, you have to degrow car-centric infrastructure to build people moving infrastructure, including bike lanes.
The growing urban population needs to find more sustainable ways to get around, because you can never satisfy car-centric infrastructure. “One more lane, bro” isn’t an actual solution to anything.
- Comment on Too many non-working holidays in America. 2 months ago:
300 million people can’t have a single fucking day off every once in a while because it will “cost billions”, while less than 10 people are hoarding over a TRILLION in wealth.
- Comment on The White House is paving over the Rose Garden with concrete. People are outraged 2 months ago:
Oh, it will happen.
And when will he force every home and business to have a portrait of himself on the walls? Because, that will probably happen, too.
- Comment on Driver stops in the middle of a cross ride, and starts using her phone. 2 months ago:
They are all over here, specifically at crossings that join MUPs (Multi Use Paths).
But they have made some areas more dangerous because of drivers who don’t stop behind the line. A pedestrian walking slowly might not be hit, but a cyclist going bike speed is at far greater risk of “not being seeing”.
- Comment on Driver stops in the middle of a cross ride, and starts using her phone. 2 months ago:
be PREDICTABLE
This is why I strongly support banning on-street parking. Cars that randomly park on the side of the road, big, small, tall, some too far out, some blocking signs, some creating blind spots… they just create unpredictability and randomness for other road users.
- Comment on Driver stops in the middle of a cross ride, and starts using her phone. 2 months ago:
… someone stopped in the roundabout to let a car in.
I wish more people realized how dangerous some nice acts can be.
I’ve been in plenty of situations where someone might wave me on in situations where it really isn’t appropriate or safe, so I have to basically yell at them to continue.
The last thing I want is for a driver with good intentions to be rear ended, and me getting hit. Three people’s day would be ruined, at the very least.
- Comment on Driver stops in the middle of a cross ride, and starts using her phone. 2 months ago:
I turned around and gave him the “what the fuck” hands and gestured at the stop sign, and this mother fucker looked at me like I fucked up.
Not long ago, I was going through an intersection on a green… from one bike lane, continuing into the other on the other side of the intersection.
While I had a green, a driver making a left nearly ran into me, honked and did the same “what the fuck are you doing” to me.
It’s pretty amazing that we don’t hear of crashes every minute of the day, because some people quite literally have no idea what the hell they are doing.
- Comment on Driver stops in the middle of a cross ride, and starts using her phone. 2 months ago:
Yes, maybe they didn’t know cross rides were a thing, were fatigued and forgot, etc.
This is why people get killed, unfortunately. We had a teenager, riding through a cross ride, and was killed by a driver who didn’t stop behind the line late last year. I visited the spot, and even with a goddamn shrine set up under the stop sign, drivers were still not stopping. I was disappointed, and furious by this lack of care.
- Comment on Driver stops in the middle of a cross ride, and starts using her phone. 2 months ago:
I value my bikes far too much, but in my head, I would love to! LOL
- Comment on Driver stops in the middle of a cross ride, and starts using her phone. 2 months ago:
My ride yesterday was about 5 hours, across 7 municipalities, and over 130km.
I can say with confidence that there were at least a dozen close calls at intersections and cross rides, specifically because drivers aren’t paying attention.
I had one lady “stop”, and then crawl into the crossing, while looking only to her left (I was coming from her right). I had to stop and ring my bell before she even realized that I was there.
Many, MANY people making turns without checking for pedestrians and cyclists crossing.
And not stopping behind the line happened more times than I can count.
I’ve witnessed a few times people actually driving onto bike paths! Not just bike lanes, but fucking paths, like ones that go through parks and forests! Just clueless about what they’re doing.
- Comment on Driver stops in the middle of a cross ride, and starts using her phone. 2 months ago:
Maybe they didn’t know.
Didn’t know what? The traffic rules?
Our local police do squat about traffic violations, unfortunately, unless they are present when the infraction occurs. I’ve got a video of this entire thing, she was in the cross ride for at least 17 seconds. And I’m sure she was on her phone for more than just this encounter.
This kind of lack of awareness is why we have so many pedestrian and cyclist deaths in places designed to be “safe” for cyclists and pedestrians!
- Comment on Driver stops in the middle of a cross ride, and starts using her phone. 2 months ago:
Is a cross ride like a crosswalk but for bikes or something?
Yes, you can ride through with your bike. Notice the two green lights above her, those are bike symbols, indicating that I have the right of way to cross. She needed to STOP behind the line, and also not be on her phone (illegal).
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- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 2 months ago:
Air-fried oatmeal, FTW!
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 2 months ago:
In a quite unexpected turn of events, it is claimed that OpenAI’s ChatGPT “got absolutely wrecked on the beginner level” while playing Atari Chess.
Who the hell thought this was “unexpected”?
What’s next? ChatGPT vs. Microwave to see which can make instant oatmeal the fastest? 😂
