MisterFrog @ MisterFrog @lemmy.world

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While I get that as a stop gap when your city hasn't built enough PT, car to the station sounds like a good last mile solution. But my personal preference, and how good public transport is set up, is that in 90% o more of the trips around your city, public transport should never be more than a walk away.

This is not to say that cars should be removed entirely (for disabled people where PT accommodations are difficult, delivery, emergency vehicles etc). Just that you shouldn't nearly as many cars for the last mile, in a well designed system.

This is how I try to live, mostly. Can't get there by public transport? Well I'm not going unless I have to then 👍 because cars are expensive and I'll get a cab or rent one if I have to. But I live in a fairly car-centric city. It's totally possible to have your entirely city be accessible by foot + PT.

I'm not sure if the driverless car tech would ever be viable, and why not just do driverless BRT conversions, which is possible right now, and not that expensive.

I used to do it this way in highschool, but could never remember if it was divide by or multiply by 3.6

Instead I now do it as you have shown, except it all goes in the same expression.

10 km/h * 1000 m/km * 1h/3600s = 2.778 m/s

No need for the extra steps. Slap it all in the same expression and put it in the calculator (being careful to check that the units cancel as intended)

I dislike that my highschool never once gave me the concept that units can simply be treated like constants to be cancelled out.

I used to do the conversions for each variable before putting them in the equation like a fool.

Now I'm slapping all of the conversions alongside the original values/units in a single expression like god intended.

It's called a hidden fee for a reason, it's hidden from you. So, yeah, it's a non-option for first time patrons.

Why are you defending these business? Inb4 you say, I'm not, but the free market will correct this! The "free" market clearly isn't, because we're talking about it right now lol, hidden fees are common place in many places in the US.

And regulation (in Australia, for this issue), clearly IS working, because this is practically unheard of here.

You know what's way, way more effective than the invisible hand of the "free" market? Regulation. Hidden fees at restaurants are almost non-existent here in Australia, and if you ever encounter one, because it's illegal, you can just not pay it, what are they gonna do? And so the business either quickly stops doing it, or they end up with a fine from the ACCC 🤗

Also, as a former cafe employee, let me tell ya, I was much happier being paid a guaranteed wage than relying on tips. Which for morality's sake, is practically another hidden fee.

I mean, at least put it on the weekend, like other countries (or at least mine).

Allow early in-person voting centres and postal votes. Make it convenient.

Though, maybe these are only widespread in mandatory voting counties (like mine), because you'd get massive complaints if it wasn't convenient.

Turnout is unsurprisingly, very high here.

TotalLauncher has been a great replacement for me. Jumped ship a number of months ago

Oh neato, then all good!

It would make sooo much more sense for the ISO to set something up, and make governments each responsible for keeping it updated, since they're the ones doing the changing.

Require all participants to amend their law/regulations, so there's a note to prompt whoever is in power and changes it next.

I'm sure some places would still neglect to do it... Haha

Perhaps we'll move to UTC+10¼, and then move forward 45 minutes in the summer.

If the day number is a prime, then we'll go back π hours.

Hope that will help!

It's wild, and telling, what they think are smears.

Apparently vote.gov is a thing.

Yeah, I'd be super sus doing this via a 3rd party.

So why are they asking?

You'd be surprised how many of us simply never consider even the bare minimum of the mechanisms behind how things work.

I don't entirely blame them, because the areas outside my knowledge you could wave your hands and I'd probably believe you if it's too detailed or advanced for me to understand deeply, and things closer to my area I understand and question more.

Quantum physics is basically magic to me (I'm trying to think of another area where I've never considered how something works, I'm sure there are many areas where I'm a dunce, but alas, it's hard to know the things you don't know you don't know). I'm totally happy with the physicists telling me: there's some wibbily-wobbly magic happening down there, and thus, in most cases you're going to come across, discrete electron energy levels 👍.

Thanks, I like your funny words magic man.

Though, in some cases, I think people's lack of curiosity disturbing. I had someone once seriously tell me they thought we had sent spacecraft to other star systems 😬. because they heard been able to measure compositions of atmospheres. That was a formative experience for me at the age of 19. That despite someone going to 13 years of school, and getting into a decently competitive university, they didn't know we haven't sent spacecraft that far.

ThErE's A dIffErEnCE bETwEeN a RePuBlIC aNd a DeMoCrACy

We're painfully aware. Please get everyone who's eligible to go vote, we can't, but are still affected.

How anyone in the US doesn't know is beyond me. Hell, you'd have to not go outside, and not go online. Which you'd imagine to be fairly rare.

Username checks out

Aquaphobia, automobile, hexadecimal.

This is all the words I could be bothered copying from the wiki article haha.

There are many affronts to God for your enjoyment here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_word

You'd be surprised how much of the belief was added as expansion packs by the early church.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea

The painting is just another notable addition to the cinematic universe.

We don't talk about the rival fanfic, or the original book fans. It's not as good as ours. And our main character in the sky is totally different.