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Paris mayor plans to triple SUV parking tariffs to cut air pollution

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  • So use that vehicle in austere places, and don't park it in Paris (or any other city).

    • HP misreads room, awkwardly brags about its “less hated” printers

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    • Manosphere grifters misuse evolutionary psychology to promote anti-feminist views

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  • Found the Omicron Male! /s

    • Chinese automaker BYD goes after Tesla’s throne with more than 300,000 electric cars sold in a month

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  • BYD has a factory in California where they make electric buses and commercial trucks.

    • Chinese automaker BYD goes after Tesla’s throne with more than 300,000 electric cars sold in a month

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    • 280 million e-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric cars. E-bikes and scooters displace 4x as much demand for oil as all of the EVs in the world.

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  • I think ebike, scooter, etc. usage will increase even more if we mod infrastructure to be safer for everyone.

    • Heat Index in Brazil Hits 137F (58.5C)

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  • A lot of Brazil is in the tropics, so no, not winter kinda latitudes.

    But Brazil also extends to something like 33° South, where winter starts in June.

    • Shutdown standoff: White House preps for Johnson to fail

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  • Someone should look at how much porn downloading and streaming bumps up when government employees are furloughed and have idle hands.

    Maybe the evangelicals can be swayed to avoid a government shutdown with that kind of consequence.

    • 'Accept that reality': Ex-GOP rep. predicts Republicans will need Dems to end infighting

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  • I guess for each rep it comes down to whether they think the folks in their district will be upset more because they let the government grind to a halt or they colluded with Democrats.

    I'm worried that in many districts, voters are so polarized that they would see working across the aisle as heresy. It's the same reason Jordan got 190ish votes publicly, but only 86 in a secret ballot.

    • How Talking With Animals Would Change Our World

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  • I'm going to go look for an update on DeepSqueak...

    • Pythagorean Theorem Found On Clay Tablet 1,000 Years Older Than Pythagoras

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  • Someone here is seeing this xkcd for the first time just now...

    • Driverless Cruise car runs over woman hit by another driver

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  • I think most computer vision cameras are fairly low resolution, so I'm not expecting the hit-and-run vehicle will be identified.

    • How cities can stem the tide of pedestrian deaths from large cars and SUVs – Ars Technica

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  • Maybe make the fines scale with the mass instead of linear size.

    • Suburbanites Baffled By Person Outdoors Who Isn’t Delivering Something (The Onion)

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  • "Hi!" the automation greeted the man on the sidewalk. "You are being recorded!"

    • ‘TRUMP WON!’ Proud Boy Who Told Judge He Was ‘Changed Man’ Raises Fist and Shouts MAGA Slogan On Way to 10-Year Prison Sentence

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  • It's a whole lifestyle makeover! 😆

    • Relationship between vehicle characteristics and injury severity

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  • If there was only some governing entity that would prioritize the good of the whole community instead of selfish interests.

    • What are your opinions on this Not Just Bikes comments on "fixing" North America?

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  • It's probably 10 miles to Walmart, and many other daily or weekly destinations are spread out in your town.

    If folks need a car for just a few basic things, then they are much more likely to use that car for all of the things.

    • Debugging in Production

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  • Sorry, I tried! It took me several tries to find a way to download the vid, and when I tried posting I saw this:

    We are working on resolving the issues

    Over the next few days, there will be a change in server infrastructure. Temporary problems with the website's functionality may occur during this time.

    • Activist Group Is Protesting Driverless Cars by Disabling Them With Traffic Cones

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  • If you don't have a cone available, maybe a bit of tape on a sensor window?

    I haven't tested this.

    • MIT develops a motion and task planning system for home robots

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  • No manufacturers can make a dishwasher that lasts 18 months anymore. And they don't make replacement parts. I'm not in any hurry to add another hunk of electronic junk to my home.