We haven’t banned cars, but my city did put a park-and-ride lot at each end of its one BRT line. It’s pretty great, now the haters get to complain that BRT is a failure because nobody rides it, AND that it’s useless because those lots are always full.
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World News@lemmy.world•An Australian writers’ festival cut a Palestinian author in the wake of a terror attack. Then it fell apartEnglish
162·7 hours agoAnd you shit on her memory by using her legacy and image for hasbara in a way that she clearly would have disliked. You should be ashamed.
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World News@lemmy.world•An Australian writers’ festival cut a Palestinian author in the wake of a terror attack. Then it fell apartEnglish
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•There aren't any ancient ruins with crazy traps and riddlesEnglish
44·2 days agoFor fun, here’s a link to the 10,000-year clock, built by The Long Now Foundation. The level of modern engineering, and planning, that it takes to build a clock that will operate for 10,000 years is fascinating. When you stop to think about, say, the trope of a mechanism that will slide back a 20-ton rock door reliably after 2,000 years is quite ridiculous.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Whats a good book about things or life not going your way?English
2·2 days agoTake a look at the works of David Sedaris. Those fit the description, and are funny.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•The U.S. VP has strong Big Brother energy, but it's the "Why are you hitting yourself? Stop hitting yourself!" kind.English
5·2 days agoBig Brother in the book was menacing. Best JD can pull off is bratty and annoying.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•The U.S. VP has strong Big Brother energy, but it's the "Why are you hitting yourself? Stop hitting yourself!" kind.English
23·2 days agoI just learned recently that he actually died from the COVID-19 vaccine. That’s what caused his neck to that.
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Footage from 2020 in Australia shows a firetruck being overrun by a bushfireEnglish
56·2 days agoIndeed, never try to outrun a bush fire. Stand your ground, make yourself look big, and intimidate it by staring it down.
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Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•Oklahoma City Council approves controversial resolution to ban new bike lanesEnglish
20·3 days agoCorrect, I am privileged not to live in Oklahoma.
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Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•Oklahoma City Council approves controversial resolution to ban new bike lanesEnglish
111·3 days agoOnly been to Oklahoma briefly, but I think you have to harbor a deep, deep self-hatred to love there.
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politics @lemmy.world•Hours After US Citizen Shot Dead by ICE, JD Vance Says ‘Door-to-Door’ Operations Are Coming | Common DreamsEnglish
11·3 days agoDoes it now? Prove it.
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World News@lemmy.world•New video of Renee Good's fatal encounter with ICE agent in MinneapolisEnglish
9·4 days agoOkay, dumb question: Where’s the video frame that shows the contact with the vehicle? The photo with the caption “ICE Agent 1 and the vehicle appear to make contact” just shows a close up of a giant turd. Certainly no vehicle in view in that image.
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politics @lemmy.world•Hours After US Citizen Shot Dead by ICE, JD Vance Says ‘Door-to-Door’ Operations Are Coming | Common DreamsEnglish
21·4 days agoSame reason spree shooters choose gun free zones.
LOL. Might wanna get acquainted with what reality says 'bout that…
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World News@lemmy.world•US World Cup boycotts grow as Trump threatens MexicoEnglish
17·4 days ago“FIFA PASS” to fast-track visas? Sounds like a convenient cover story for terrorists to get in easily.
/s
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World News@lemmy.world•Trump to meet Venezuela’s Machado and says it would be ‘great honor’ to take her Nobel PrizeEnglish
41·4 days agoHow could she transfer the Nobel prize? Sure, prize winners get a medal, a diploma, and monetary award, but what’s really important is the recognition and the honor of being a Nobel laureate. A lot of them give the prize money to charity, and…
…oh lord, it’s the gold medal. [REDACTED] is such a toddler that he’s captivated by shiny, gold baubles.
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•The boy who was relentlessly bullied by his uncleEnglish
22·5 days agoHey, is this the 500/10 guy?
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.ziptoShitty Ask Lemmy@lemmy.ml•Isn't it a little late to make another World War sequel?English
4·6 days agoEighty years? That’s nothing! They wrapped on the prequel in 1648, which means that it was over 260 years before they dropped the next episode. Unfortunately, the writers never gave the storyline of German national trauma a satisfactory resolution. It’s kind of lazy writing TBH, just spreading the problem to a new country, as if the people in the story were too stupid to fix it permanently.
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homeassistant@lemmy.world•Is there a way to remove the autopopulated dashboards from the sidebar? Not per device.English
9·6 days agoLong-press (or long-click) on the “Home Assistant” title at the top of the sidebar. That brings up a dialog box in which you can hide the items you don’t want to see. (It’s available in user settings, too, but this is a shortcut.)
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What 2025 action of Trumps do you find most unsettling?English
7·9 days agoMoving regime officials into quarters on military bases. They clearly have… plans.
How will that help? By some studies, about 30% of traffic on downtown city streets is drivers circulating looking for street parking. With self-driving cars, they could cause congestion by circulating all day instead of parking.