maniajack @ maniajack @lemmy.world

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What does modernizing highway infrastructure even mean? I don't think you could call adding more lanes "modernizing" if you're being serious. That's been the blind answer for years but adding more lanes does not solve congestion/demand/whatever you want to call it. It's not an efficient way to solve the transportation problem. You spend a ton of resources (punishing people bulldozing neighborhoods or with noise pollution, destroying nature, etc) and you still have the same ultimate problem you did before you started, people traveling slowly in a pollution emitting vehicle. So doing both is not even the point when one side of the equation (adding lanes) is a very poor solution. Focus on better solutions like public transportation reaching more people.

Yeah I mean you're kind of just re-framing point. Yes the mega highway has the ability to move more cars, but still the end result after 5 years is it's actually taking longer to move cars than before (at peak travel time). So what if it's due to induced demand, we just want to solve the problem of getting people from point A to B, and adding more lanes is a very inefficient transportation method. It's a massive waste of resources when moving around in a car is so costly compared to public transit.

Whoops should have used this gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/us/widen-highways-traffic.html?unlocked_article_code=Si7TexwYggpvmSXOYHececNLy0PwyxLKVvINkua9n0Bn17aAT86gZS5-iomiLv4TLAa4846kpv-dEg9NaSmyPitsohN5-1B2S5c8aKBs6Ia8TsJbF4WRjQYzBQgRV_DOa1nDfAI_5xo8GTpwQdQfX4s8pO6O_T4LbccN4D2uaKrOKAKMB-CIxdi-ZXkHy2UoHLUNf5HUHMdP8WmS7bRW0KMuxfUPJROF6wWvtsxqvEKddU5pJsbSxAnOvr-ujBc2le7srKRE7WGaLJkNarvQfbx_pq34IPVvjzaN2-95rvhqMwEfa8ozPQAKvjzRSGVQebno0S1KlhnlTyMC&smid=url-share

The best technique as far as I've heard is to cut it down to the stump and put a bit of Glyphosate (Roundup) on the fresh cut. I've used an eyedropper but seen these little bottles with a foam top to stamp the stump with.

Groups around us will have privet clearing parties and that's what they do.

I'll make sure to tell the Smithsonian 😃, it was just a copy/paste from their site for people who don't want to click the link. But doesn't "the TURN of the 20th century" imply that it's the start of, not the end of the century... like 1999 is near the turn of the 21st century, which occurred in 2000.

Yummm. Add some feta and that's one of my favorite pizza topping combos. Mozz, pepperoni, jalapenos, feta.

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I don't get the response in this thread. All the complainers need to go run your own instance for free and leave yourself personally open to potential lawsuits. You're not even on the lemmy.world instance, so you're shitting on admins from an instance making a decision to legally protect themselves, oh and it does not affect you at all. Programming.dev might get sued at some point, or at the very least they have to live with the stress of that potential.

Yep, always my first thought. If you're in the US you can get tax benefits by making your home more energy efficient. It's doable yourself but hiring someone to do it will eventually pay for itself.

And for the attic don't just pile on insulation, need a good air sealing first if that's no good.

I did, but yeah not enough others did. Yet when the spotify price went up and I kept it, because it's one service that has everything. There's a ton of value in me not having to hunt around and find every show I want to watch across 8 different shitty streaming apps.

Better than a shit in your mouth? I don't have to be excited to vote for a lemon but I sure as fuck will to avoid a mouth full of shit. Oh and the reality of what a republican pres will do to the environment.

Imo quality engagement comes from quality moderating. Facebook has a lot of moderators but they don't give a shit about community and their focus is purely monetization. Reddit used to care about community but we know how that went. Lemmy has a chance to get it right. But even if an instance fucks it up the platform is open and gives us options for other communities within the platform.

When I've checked the front page it's like 15 year humor has taken over. R/unexpected top post was some dumb "NSFW" gif with a breakup and a girl saying how she loved a dude and him saying she didn't give him pussy, "🤦so cringe. All my subs were borked, not worth the effort to rebuild, I'd rather build new in lemmy.

And what happened though, was it unfilled hype or that death caused by that Uber autopilot? Back when waymo was grabbing headlines you would've thought we'd be a lot closer to driver less by now.

The solid state press releases Toyota releases every once in a while do look incredible. It would be nice for them to demonstrate and deliver it though because I hope it's not vaporware.

Yeah so this article just parroting Russia's propaganda. 👎

Exactly. Also helps me to think gen Z is coming up and replacing all those dead Republicans.

The swipe actions on posts and comments no longer vibrate at all for me on pixel 6a. They did with reddit sync. I'm missing that a lot for some reason, good feedback to know which swipe action I'm on, and satisfying for an upvote. I didn't know there was a difference in vibration motor vs "haptic engine", but I'm all for more haptic feedback with the swipe actions.

It's like email, I have yahoo, you have gmail, your grandma has aol. Each is their "home" instance but they can all talk to each other. They're not in a walled garden and can only talk to themselves like whatsapp or reddit or twitter etc. Fediverse is an open platform and lemmy is a reddit-like part of it. Mastodon is a twitter-like part of it. Sync does do a great job, no need to make head go ouchie.

Love obsidian. For something as simple as what OP is asking for though I just use Google Keep