[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

You're lucky. They're well-intended, but really awful. You're supposed to traverse the intersection in the order you arrive. All it takes is for one jackass to waive* their right of way, or run the intersection, and the other three drivers are thrown into disarray. Add multiple lanes to this and, well... good luck everyone!

* Often literally waving at you to go. Through the intersection. At the wrong time.

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Someone needs to slap a com-badge on that guy. It's just so darn close.

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Alamo does the same, although I like their wings a bit better.

And yes, it's all steep for the quality no matter where you go. I liken it to a trip to Medieval Times, only the crowd, entertainment, and food are usually better.

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Well, they can take my plugins and Tampermonkey when they pry it from my cold, dead, hands.

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Exactly. Without a veto-proof vote on this, they can play both sides on this one. That said, these four repbulicans are also saying that they care a little more about midterms than toeing the line on this issue.

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

I have no idea. I'm just as mystified by this.

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago

Honestly, this is why I fled suburbia for someplace more integrated and communal.

I looked around and realized that I barely knew who lived there, and nobody had my back. Likewise, if someone was in trouble, I would never hear about it. I'm not unfriendly by any means, it's just the whole tract-housing setup with no communal space is practically engineered to divide people up. Heap work hours and commute time on top of that, and all you know is someone keeps a car in so many driveways overnight; you never see any people. Everyone there really kept to themselves, as the environment made that easy to do.

I'm happy to say that I'm in a place now that would likely band together if it came down to it.

Wait if I assume you are Americans, do you have limited work hours per day over there?

Yes and no. Depends wildly based on industry, job type, and income level. Generally we stick to a 40-hour a week at your place of work, unless you're a wage earner (which could be much more or less). That said, it doesn't always work that way.

The worst case is a suburban or rural lifestyle that is one hour (or more!) from the office, where logistics (e.g. groceries, auto maintenance, healthcare) and friends are almost as far away from home. That adds up to a ton of time in transit, with a handful of hours to yourself each working day for the rest, if you want to sleep a healthy amount. Then you add kids, daycare, after-school activities, and there's literally no free time left.

All I know is that a simple 4-way stop, with multiple lanes in all directions, has an effort:chaos ratio that is off the charts. No need for multi-million-dollar engineering projects.

I only just noticed this. Is one a Beluga Whale and the other Dolphin?

Starfleet security codes and: "there's a vast, limitless, empty ocean above the air that you navigate in special boats?! How do you find enough krill to not starve?"

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I used to really enjoy sites like this. I know there's joke accounts on Twitter and other sites here and there, but I haven't seen anything lately that has the whole site as one big running gag.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q%26A_comedy_website

A Q&A website is a website where the site creators use the images of pop culture icons, historical figures, fictional characters, or even inanimate objects or abstract concepts to answer input from the site's visitors, usually in question/answer format. This format of website, most popular in the early 2000s, evolved from the much older Internet Oracle. The original progenitor of this type of site was the now-defunct Forum 2000. The Forum 2000 claimed to have run the site by means of artificial intelligence, and the personalities on the website were called SOMADs, or "State Of Mind Adjointness pairs". However, later Q&A sites usually dispensed with this pretense, with the most extreme example being Jerk Squad!, on which the administrators of the site provide many of the answers.

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FTA:

Two Democratic legislators are introducing a bill on Wednesday aimed at Mr. Musk and the so-called Buffalo Billion project, in which the state spent $959 million to build and equip a plant that Mr. Musk’s company leases for $1 a year to operate a solar panel and auto component factory.

The bill would require an audit of the state subsidy deal to “identify waste, fraud and abuse committed by private parties to the contract.” It would determine whether the company, Tesla, was meeting job creation targets, making promised investments, paying enough rent and honoring job training commitments.

If Tesla was found to be not in compliance, the state could claw back state benefits, impose penalties or terminate contracts.

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Some of you may remember this absolute diamond of insanity that was the "4-Day Time Cube." This was the go-to example of the internet as a universal amplifier for communication - for both the sane and insane alilke. It was there from nearly the start of the world-wide web, back in the 1990's. Alas, it ceased to be some time ago, but it still lives on in our hearts.

For the uninitiated: welcome. Read and join the rest of us that are "educated stupid."

Amateur documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7lWCqbgQnU

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