BothsidesistFraud

joined 2 years ago

You are right that you pretty much can't eliminate edge cases, like addicts running in traffic at night.

However, Chicago is notoriously lawless for driving and a lot of these deaths were due to running red lights, lane violations, turning through peds at an intersection, etc. All of those can be addressed pretty effectively.

[–] BothsidesistFraud@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

From another article

“The initial crash investigation revealed that a Mazda B2200 was traveling northbound on Clairemont Avenue in the center travel lane,” the spokesperson said. “A cyclist was also traveling northbound on Clairemont Avenue in the curb lane. The cyclist attempted to turn left, westbound, onto Ponce de Leon Place from the curb lane of Clairemont Avenue. This action led to the cyclist striking the passenger side of the Mazda.”

If the police spokesperson can be trusted, seems like a poor decision on the cyclist's part. I don't turn left from the curb lane, I either take the left/turn lane (if feasible) or just pull over and cross perpendicular when it's clear.

RIP

[–] BothsidesistFraud@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

The memeification/cutesiness of the name of this center and others (Cornhusker Clink, Speedway Slammer) are blackpilling honestly.

[–] BothsidesistFraud@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I mean this is pretty obvious stuff. For anyone that didn't read the article:

  • People make choices based on what they perceive as efficient
  • Sometimes you have to educate them about better options than driving
  • Not all transit is good transit

Now one thing that wasn't really addressed, but which should have been, is on-board experience of transit. Qualify of life issues seems silly to a lot of people to spend effort policing, but they matter. Guys on the subway smoking, playing music, smelling awful, etc. Even things as basic as people not taking their backpacks off leading to jostling and crowding. This all matters.

[–] BothsidesistFraud@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Is there any evidence this person was "constantly treated like garbage"? There is no excuse for murdering children.

[–] BothsidesistFraud@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Reddit's AI report processing is terrible. I got permed for advocating violence, discussing a completely hypothetical self-defense situation in the passive voice. Literally anyone with a brain cell would have understood it was not advocating violence.

[–] BothsidesistFraud@lemmy.world -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes gender in quotes since there at least 7 different definitions floating around, some in the dictionary for decades, some floated on Tumblr circa 2012.

[–] BothsidesistFraud@lemmy.world -3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

class > race > "gender"

[–] BothsidesistFraud@lemmy.world -4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

The best thing that Democrats can do is come up with a popular governing vision and then storm back in the 2026 midterms.

Personally I would think this would have to compromise on immigration and the worst culture war excesses of the left, while emphasizing support for the working class and most importantly good governance.

[–] BothsidesistFraud@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Vermont tried for a version of universal healthcare about 10 years ago, and they decided the cost was too high.

Every state has a program for poor people that's in part funded by Federal tax dollars.

You also have to address the free rider problem by vesting benefits in.

[–] BothsidesistFraud@lemmy.world -2 points 6 months ago

Laws against murder? Ok bud

 

I was gonna go try to feel righteously validated for a pet peeve of mine over at Unpopular Opinion, but it's closed. Then I saw this post and it describes some concerns with moderation policies, but the link it references has a bunch of crossed-out text, and I was just wondering if someone is willing to write out the detailed explanation of what happened and what the controversy is.

 

Primarily I'm wondering if certain instances have reputations that might color what people think about my community just by virtue of it being hosted on a particular instance.

There's also the question of instance-wide content moderation or something, not like I'm trying to be edgy, but like some instances might not like curse words or discussions about heavy topics like suicide, or something.

Also I'm wondering if it's somehow harder for people from other instances to find communities (I understand that subscribing is easy, but finding may be different?)

Appreciate details...

 

requirements:

  • quick to erect
  • cheap materials
  • hard to move
 

Any topic is good. Don't care about format or where it's published as long as I can access it (substack, random PDF, journal, etc). Looking for deep and rare thought, but essay length for a short reading.

EDIT: Also I am particularly looking for stuff not as much in online or nerd culture.

 

I swear sometimes I feel like I'm reading a bad newspaper comment section, like everyone is a poorly trained AI that just spouts default politically-oriented replies. The New York Times comment section for any given topic (not just current events, also culture etc) is way more interesting than most of it here.

Note this also applies to a LOT of reddit but there are some subreddits that are more interesting. A lot of them have their own circlejerk but at least when I first find them the "game" is new so I'm eager to read what people have to say.

Where on Lemmy is the actually good or interesting discussion happening, please, I really want something better, I am eager to contribute too, it's one of my resolutions for 2025.

 

Problem statement: I have a bunch of links to sites that update infrequently (think monthly or quarterly magazines) and I want to remember to go read them when they've updated.

RSS isn't a great solution since almost all sites spam out constant low-value content which I'd prefer to not be bombarded with - I just want to see the main updates, similarly to how I'd have received a magazine in the mail, in the past.

The basic answer here is just keep a list of links and remember to click them, and that's what I do, but it feels like there could be a better solution...

How do you handle this?

 

Long time back I used to use a spam email whenever I needed one. Then services started declining emails from those services, so I made a temp Gmail I used for everything. But I'm not comfortable with how much I use that.

 

I don't mean an application of technology. Or a specific fact. I'm interested in more big picture things.

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