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Formerly u/CanadaPlus101 on Reddit.
- Comment on What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all 1 week ago:
For the children.
- Comment on Protect consumers my ass! 🤦🏻😡 1 week ago:
It would make it pretty hard to do some kinds of research for a living, though. You’d basically get a small number of open source nerds fully in charge of, like, curing cancer.
- Comment on China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns 1 week ago:
What kind of token rate do you get if you try to run them in swap space?
- Comment on China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns 1 week ago:
They were wrong, and they know it, but also you’re not allowed to say that.
- Comment on China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns 1 week ago:
It should be said that there’s a lot more people who actually could find someone, but think they can’t.
Still, China likes to ban things almost for it’s own sake, and this is an example.
- Comment on China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns 1 week ago:
That’s hard to say, at this point. A cheap, always available and completely sycophantic AI seems like it would be hard for a lot of people to resist.
What is clear, is that contraceptives existing is responsible for almost all of the decline since historical times.
- Comment on this absolute bullshit from reddit 1 week ago:
If that cost/benefit ratio is correct for this situation, you must never have a use for information.
- Comment on this absolute bullshit from reddit 1 week ago:
Why does every discussion, especially on Lemmy, eventually turn into “it’s run by a pedophile” or “it’s owned by billionaires”?
It’s the jerk. Everything is the fault of billionaires (never mind that they actually don’t own most stuff), and every billionare has all possible negative personality traits.
Occasionally, we manage to have actual intelligent conversations, in between all the huffing our own upvotes.
- Comment on this absolute bullshit from reddit 1 week ago:
Does it work again?
- Comment on this absolute bullshit from reddit 1 week ago:
Everybody in here that’s saying “don’t use Reddit” is either posing, or never has to troubleshoot or research anything.
- Comment on this absolute bullshit from reddit 1 week ago:
Yep, just checked it as well. Clearly it’s not across the board.
- Comment on this absolute bullshit from reddit 1 week ago:
It still has tons of information that’s hard to find anywhere else.
- Comment on Electricity Does Not "Split" H₂O. And That's VERY Useful. 3 weeks ago:
That’s some nice DIY. Also cool you can actually see plain hydrolysis working with the ph indicator.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 1 month ago:
It’s responsible for a lot of unnecessary death, and the splintering of a lot of organisations that could have done good otherwise. Often both at the same time. That’s because everyone has a slightly different idea of righteousness.
Shitty historical events seem to relate to either too much or not enough of it.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 1 month ago:
“AI businessperson suggests the future is AI”
If that infuriates you, you’ll be infuriated a lot.
- Comment on Working class neighborhoods are resisting data centers at 5 times the rate of wealthy ones 1 month ago:
Yeah, past experiences with the next great thing that actually turns out to be meh may very well be part of it. Especially if it’s an older person.
The whole “wifi causes cancer” thing is still out there too, and might be conflated with a datacenter.
- Comment on Working class neighborhoods are resisting data centers at 5 times the rate of wealthy ones 1 month ago:
No, but appreciating what a big generic building does could require education.
If there was any education behind making those slopcenters, they wouldn’t make them gas powered in a desert.
Yes, they’re definitely designed and built by illiterate cavemen. /s
Like, obviously you know engineers do that, and are educated and well compensated. It seems like you’ve drifted off to a different argument here.
- Comment on Working class neighborhoods are resisting data centers at 5 times the rate of wealthy ones 1 month ago:
The rich are also more educated. Lemmy hates AI, but other upper-middle-class types might just see it as a big box full of cool technology.
To plumbers and cashiers, it’s more of a new-fangled abomination we don’t need.
- Comment on Russia wants to legalize cars stolen in EU 3 months ago:
I’m not sure that’s infuriating at all, when they’re already blowing up and hacking neighboring countries. It might mean Europe has to spend more or regulate more to protect their cars, that’s it.
- Comment on It hurts. 3 months ago:
That’s true of a tree style layout, but only that, and those have problems of their own. The example about moving aside for a car going through a narrow European street was something I’ve actually experienced.
- Comment on It hurts. 3 months ago:
Ahh yes the good old days, when there was no urban planning, and empty land to develop on was always available because a section of town would just burn down.
/s, although it’s gone to far the other way at times.
- Comment on It hurts. 3 months ago:
Bingo. Allow me to introduce you to the colonial French seigneurial system.
- Comment on It hurts. 3 months ago:
And the ancient Romans, and Indus valley people another couple millennia earlier were both fond of grid plans.
They’re considered passe, but there’s real advantage in terms of easy scalability and adaptability to changing land uses.
- Comment on It hurts. 3 months ago:
I mean, you can organise grids to be more or less stroady, and if you have too much of this going - like you have a medieval street plan - you can get the opposite thing where cars are forced through areas only suited to pedestrians, and everyone has to flatten themselves against building walls to make room.
- Comment on It hurts. 3 months ago:
Yeah, someone deciding to clear out an area and develop it in a completely different way is possible, I guess, but seems a lot less likely. Maybe there’s a bit of both - something large like horse stables or a hospital was there, then it was replaced with a new self-contained development, and then they built out into the margin between the two later on yet.
In any case, somebody had a big urban planning idea of some kind, but it hasn’t really worked out as envisioned. The angle could be because one grid is aligned true north, and the other magnetic north.
- Comment on It hurts. 3 months ago:
There has to be some interesting history here.
A few other examples have been posted, but this is easily the wildest. It’s not even the same aspect ratio of grid, or at a normal angle. (And they’ve still managed to tie it in reasonably well)
- Comment on It hurts. 3 months ago:
Canada works this way too, interestingly enough.
- Comment on California father arrested after repainting crosswalk, adding stop signs near children’s park 3 months ago:
Yeah, the crosswalk part was harmless, even if he technically wasn’t supposed to do the municipality’s job for them. The rest I’ll take your word for.
The charges include interfering with a traffic control device, grand theft, and vandalism exceeding $400
Actually reading the article, the first fits, but the rest is definitely the cops power tripping, lol.
- Comment on California father arrested after repainting crosswalk, adding stop signs near children’s park 3 months ago:
Yeah, people also don’t want high-speed rail going past their house or whatever.
If the government doesn’t address it, the people will.
Good luck with that. Most people like cars a lot more than I do.
- Comment on California father arrested after repainting crosswalk, adding stop signs near children’s park 3 months ago:
Good. Downvote all you want.
If you let everyone design their local traffic flow it will be impossible to go anywhere. It’s worse than everyone deciding if they want low-income housing in their neighborhood.