Not an idiom, but a slogan for a sugary children's cereal Trix.
I saw the wall of text, skipped to the punchline, and rolled my eyes glad I saved myself a couple minutes
Yeah, but does their government convert 1.5 trillion dollars a year in public monies and national debt into defense industry and health insurance industry profits, providing incredible value for shareholders?!
Checkmate, communists
Pikes Peak hillclimb winner onboard
Here's the best time from Sunday's Pike's Peak Hillclimb, Robin Shute driving. The car (all the cars in this class) is a custom made hill climb car possibly made just for this race.
The run itself is a new record but still has a few issues including what seems like a stall or shift failure early on.
Just build a road one mile wide between and directly through the middle of every urban center so suburbanites have an easier time getting where they're going. This is so easy I should be a road planner
Sort of like pheromones.
Getting mysteriously horny during the test drive
Better yet getting mysteriously aggressive smelling a rival and wanting to fight the car.
No, not yet - just made a reminder to try out their streaming in August. Too much going on already this weekend between WRC Kenya and pikes peak sunday
Yes, I think this is much more like the real solution. Combine that with densifying urban living and commerce and suddenly vehicle NEED drops by a large margin. Anyone just saying "No cars should exist" isn't being practical at all
What's to stop them doing that at a four way stop? What's to stop them doing that at a stop light? You can't cure bad drivers except to stop letting them drive. Yeah sure a big obstacle is fine if it's open enough but in an already existing four way stop it's way, way overkill to build up this huge thing.
Now if you want to sink a foot wide concrete pole in the dead center of the intersection I'm on board, as long as it doesn't involve ripping up a half acre of land
That average has to have some really grotesque edge cases. What really SHOULD happen for a variety of reasons is city centers shouldn't be a place you commute to but that you also live in and all the changes that come with that, including having far less or no cars at all. Suburbia and cities designed for cars are the problems, self driving cars are a venture capital magnet looking for a problem to fix.
Reading more of these comments it's clear we need to invest heavily in biking and transit infrastructure so taking away some idiots drivers license doesn't damn them to poverty
An issue I see locally is they can't just paint a circle on the road with a couple signs. It always has to be a million dollar project widening out the curbs, building up a huge curb in the middle, putting a big goddamn planter in the middle, then sprinkle signs liberally until it's unreadable.
I tried feeding crows in my front yard with a hanging flat feeder and all I get are grackles :(
A federation superhighway, if you will
You can hear him screaming "I'M NOT OWNED! I'M NOT OWNED!!!!" right through the internet
Super Metroid, probably started it at least forty times and finished it a dozen or more. Link to the Past was one I had started several times but never beat until I met my now wife, who had played it through often. Now it's one of my go to games. I've played through Doom 1+2 quite a few time and Quake occasionally SOMA since it came out has been my go to Halloween game.
Dirt Rally and Dirt Rally 2.0 are much more recent but unparalleled rally racing games.
No idea there was such a thing as an affordable fountain pen. I had assumed they were only hand crafted and $100usd minimums. Are they closer to gel pens for feel and ink or a completely different animal to write with?
That sounds like a good weekend trip (or day trip) from Southern Indiana, might have to drop the wife and kids off at a pool
Just like the old world internet, whoever owns (or rents) the server and pays for the connection pays for it. The frontpage has a "Donations" section that lists an OpenCollective link and a Patreon link if you want to send money to the operator. It's https://opencollective.com/mastodonworld which sounds like they also run a Mastodon instance.
I don't know the traffic questions, hopefully someone that does comes by or looks it up. It probably varies a lot. You could run your own private instance that would go out and fetch the content you subscribed to but no one else could join. Your comments would go out to the federated instances to be shared if you so choose.
There is no central place. As I understand it if Lemmy.world or Beehaw is destroyed permanently, all those users and and the content is gone but every other instance that shared those communities (the common ones, like this) they will still exist just without the content coming from the disappeared instances.
I'll look around for an explainer vid because now I'm curious, I doubt most of my guesses are right