- I don't believe "there is a god".
- I believe there is no god.
Both are atheism. First is weak/negative, last is strong/positive. The first merely rejects the theist's claim, while the last makes a claim on their own.
I know that is bs because I haven’t been there in days and I probably added 100 visits a day to their stats. So they’re at least a couple hundred shy.
The article mentions 55.31 million daily visits (average). You decreased their stats by 0.00018%. Even if all new active lemmy users had your level of activity, the other site would still return to normal. There are just so many other users.
I know that I am not back. And I won’t be back, and I think a lot of people are staying away as well. That the traffic is now normal seems a bit sketchy.
I'm afraid that's just bubble bias. Most people just don't care or haven't found a viable alternative yet. These +43k active users on Lemmy are huge for Lemmy, but not even a scratch for the other site.
After the initial exodus at the start of this month, you could see more and more comments demanding returning to business as usual.
there’s a bug where voting causes all of them to become uncollapsed at once.
Thanks for linking! It is 'closed as completed', but I still get it every time?
The title made me think it could not fly. It can fly!
The biggest issue from my point of view: They can only transport one (1) passenger at a time.
Even with 100% renewable energy, that is a wasteful and ineficcient way to move people.
Utopia (from Ουτοπία) is an impossible Vision of the future, while Evtopia (from Ευτοπία) is the best possible Vision.
Interesting. I never heard of Evtopia, and I also did not understand Utopia as necessarily impossible. Could be possible or impossible, depends on context.
- https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/utopia
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia#Etymology_and_history
I also don't think being unreachable is necessarily a bad thing. Consider an 'Ideal'. Although some ideals may never be fully actualized, they are seen as something good and worth pursuing nevertheless.
But mostly, I don't think the opinions of proponents or opponents of this idea are swayed by wether we call it Utopia or Evtopia. If anything, using the more common term makes it more relatable.
You’d think if it was all basic biology we would just have a unique gender for every one wouldn’t you?
Nothing in biology is exactly identical between individuums. A common eye color is brown, although there are as many shades of brown as there are people.
It is just practical and how language, or even perception works, that we tend to categorize similarities, and strongly favor common occurrances over outliers.
the doctor is describing your phenotypic sex based on observable characteristics.
Your doctor is assigning you a gender.
Maybe you two aren't even disagreeing?
I'd say the doctor tries to assign the new born into male or female according to biological sex, and gender is inferred from that.
He calls you either a boy or a girl based on your genital configuration
Yes, that's what I mean. A two-step process. First, biological expression is assessed. Next, based on #1, social gender is inferred.
Basically, do you identify as your birth gender (not sex, gender and sex are different)?
The additional explanation actually confused me. Let's compare the two sentences:
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A) Basically, do you identify as your birth gender?
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B) Basically, do you identify as your birth sex?
I assume biological sex can be identified by looking at your body as a new born baby, and gender is usually inferred accordingly. So I would assume new borns are being assigned a gender which mathes their biology, although they probably don't have any opinions themselves on the topic.
Anyways, what's the difference between A and B? I feel you felt it was important to point it out, and I just can't see any.
If you buy local, and go with the seasons, I'd argue it is rather hard to not have all three (cheap, delicious, healthy) at the same time.
You won't have to rely on produce which is optimized for long transports but can tap into fresh, original flavors. Ripe fruits and vegetables from the fields, harvested just this morning. And because they all ripen now, quality maximizes when prize minimizes.
The Economist: Live tracking of fights using fires and ML
> Our tracking system is based on data from firms, a publicly available system set up by America’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (nasa), which was originally designed to detect forest fires. We have built a machine-learning algorithm that evaluates the location of each fire detected by firms, and assesses whether or not it is related to the war. It consists of 100 separate models built to predict fire activity in non-war years. If at least 95 of these models agree that the number of fires identified at a given place and time is abnormally high by pre-war standards, the algorithm marks these “extra” fires as war-related.
Also explained / showcased in this YouTube video: The Economist - War in Ukraine: Tracking the fighting with satellites
It's the first and only lemmy app working on my old 2015 android phone.
Great to have backwards compatible options. I also like it :)
They are, I get results. My worry is they are not aggregated/unified. Some lemmy instances don't have 'lemmy' in their name, and I'm not sure if they would show up in a search "X + lemmy".
Ok, but you can only do that if they already joined the fediverse. I replied to "the powers that be must never be allowed to join the fediverse". It's also questionable if everyone will block them.
The article is not about single persons who might be trolls or whatever to qualify as a “bad guy”. But about megacorporations like Meta.
Yes, sorry for being unclear. I meant the bad 'guy' Meta. Maybe continuing with 'entity' would have been better:
we can be sure some entities will join
ensure only good entities enter
The best way to deal with them is-in my opinion-to not cooperate and defederate them as soon as they start to enter.
I tend to agree. Still quite new to the topic.
Sehr guter Beitrag, ja! Ich sehe eigentlich keine Chance für den Fall, dass das Fediverse weiter wächst?
Meta kann uns auf mehreren Ebenen durcheinanderwirbeln, und alle sind per Design weit offen dafür.
Sie können mehr Content, mehr User, mehr Aktivität haben, was sie für große Teile des bisherigen Fediverse unwiderstehlich attraktiv macht.
Sie können Features implementieren, die sich die Leute wünschen. Eine gut implementierte Suchfunktion, Community Grouping, einen einfachen Account Transfer, Search Engine Lookup, KI-gestützte Mod-Tools.
Ist doch letztlich nur eine Frage von: Wie interessant ist das Fediverse für Meta, und wie interessant macht sich Meta wiederum für das Fediverse?
Klar wird es eine Gruppe von Instanzen oder Leuten geben, die sich durch nichts bezirzen lassen, aber vermutlich wird es für die meisten Leute ab irgend einem Punkt vernünftiger erscheinen, zumindest teilweise zu folgen.
Was lässt sich dagegen effektiv unternehmen?
I'm worried this will not be enough in the long run.
Imagine Meta provides more original content, a higher user base, more engagement, more activity. That alone would make it interesting for many other users, further increasing their relative attractivity.
Additionally, they could invest in the codebase, and implement some of the community's dream features, some nice mod tools, search engine discoverability and whatnot. On a fork which lives on their instances, of course. Services which work if you federate with them.
They have the resources to rase the stakes higher and higher. The incentives are objective, real, advantages for users, communitites, mods and admins. Isn't it only a question of time / stake height until significant parts of the fediverse choose to cooperate for various reasons?
We should be honest and ensure people join the Fediverse because they share some of the values behind it.
How could that be done? Anyone with the resources can host an instance, and there are plenty of instances with a low entry bar.
If the fediverse grows enough, we can be sure some entities will join not because they share our values, but because they see our value.
I don't see how we could prevent that or ensure only good guys enter. The fediverse is open by design.
the powers that be must never be allowed to join the fediverse
How are they not allowed? How is it checked, how prevented?
As I see it, they can freely use the code, freely set up instances, freely create user accounts on their own or other instances, with 'independent' users, employees or bots.
The only thing stopping them is the current fediverse's insignificance. We're just not tasty enough, yet. But if we become, how could we disallow them from joining?
Introducing Connect for Lemmy (Android)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/831266
> Hi lemmings, > I switched over from Reddit 10 days ago now but I couldn't find a mobile client that I was happy with with an experience similar to the Reddit experience I was used to. So I decided to build my own and I hope you will like it as well! > > Play store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect > > Features: > - Material U > - Dark and Light themes > - List view / Card view / Fullwidth view > - Filter lists for hiding posts > - Multiple accounts + switcher across multiple instances > - Guest accounts for viewing an instance without signup > - Search and community autofill > - Markdown support + attempt to navigate links correctly (/u/foo will open that user instead of browser kickout. Same for /c/, !, and @) > - Saving posts > - full sort types > - NSFW view options (hide, blur, show) > - copy text and url on all posts and comments > - add comments, replies, and new posts > - comment replies with line indicators > > Here's other screenshots: > > ! > > ! > > > ! > > > ! > > > ! > > > ! > > Future plans: > - Improving the inbox > - Swipe actions > - Multi-~~reddit ~~communities > > Thank you for taking a look. I hope others who are migrating from Reddit like me will find the app useful and I'd love to know your thoughts! > > Edit: Community for the app is here: https://lemmy.ca/c/lemmyconnect >
Could you run a Kbin or Lemmy instance that was not live all of the time and not break federation
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/809126
> If you ran Lemmy or kbin locally as a single user instance with no hosted communities and it was not live all of the time would you miss a lot pushed data? Would this data be pulled later? Would this cause de-federation?
How to make an instance-independent link to a post or comment?
There are instance-independent links to communities, for example: [email protected].
The good thing about it is, it will keep you on your home instance logged in while visiting the target.
How to make a similar thing to link to specific posts, or specific comments?
Posts disappeared from local communities and personal history
Hi :)
Since yesterday, I cannot see posts created by me, in neither view nor search. The posts still exist, but they aren't shown to me.
Today, I also noticed the two local communities on lemmy.click apparently have 0 posts.
Not sure if these phenomena are connected. Does anybody else experience the same? Does anybody know what's going on?
Ukrainische Gegenoffensive: Oberst Reisner über Probleme und Chancen | ZDFheute live (13.06.2023)
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Markus Reisner finde ich immer sehr informativ und sehenswert.
Redaktionssitzung mit Evangelisten | Sketch History
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Ist schon paar Jahre alt aber ich fand's gut gemacht :)
Find the communities that subreddits are migrating to: https://sub.rehab
Find your next diving spot. A list of subreddit alternatives on different platforms.
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cross-posted from: https://quex.cc/post/13083
> As seen on kbin.social > > Site that shows subreddits mapped to the fediverse
Die Hamburger Polizei will bald Videokameras einsetzen, die angeblich verdächtiges Verhalten automatisch erkennen sollen. Hamburg wäre damit die zweite Stadt in Deutschland, die diese Technologie einsetzt. Besonders betroffen sind Obdachlose.
![„Intelligente“ Videoüberwachung: Polizei Hamburg will ab Juli Verhalten automatisch scannen](https://feddit.de/pictrs/image/36f82df4-4cbb-4c1f-9cb7-115ab035641a.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/164620
„Intelligente“ Videoüberwachung: Polizei Hamburg will ab Juli Verhalten automatisch scannen
Die Hamburger Polizei will bald Videokameras einsetzen, die angeblich verdächtiges Verhalten automatisch erkennen sollen. Hamburg wäre damit die zweite Stadt in Deutschland, die diese Technologie einsetzt. Besonders betroffen sind Obdachlose.
![„Intelligente“ Videoüberwachung: Polizei Hamburg will ab Juli Verhalten automatisch scannen – netzpolitik.org](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5d942825-6ab4-41b0-8185-a3a04bf08f38.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/164620
Die Hamburger Polizei will bald Videokameras einsetzen, die angeblich verdächtiges Verhalten automatisch erkennen sollen. Hamburg wäre damit die zweite Stadt in Deutschland, die diese Technologie einsetzt. Besonders betroffen sind Obdachlose.
![„Intelligente“ Videoüberwachung: Polizei Hamburg will ab Juli Verhalten automatisch scannen](https://feddit.de/pictrs/image/0804ee33-079b-4bae-852f-0d489de6f01c.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/164620
Not Just Bikes: The Dumbest Excuse for Bad Cities (06/19/2023)
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> 0:23 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=23s > > > But there's one lame excuse that is so common, so prevalent, so ubiquitous, that I want to talk about it and that's the excuse that "My country is too big to have trains, bicycle infrastructure, walkable neighborhoods or whatever." > > --- > > 1:27 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=87s > > > So when someone new to walkable cities sees an example of a great City and they realize it's clearly better than where they live, their first gut reaction is to grab any difference between the two and make that the reason as to why their city can't be the same. > > --- > > 2:26 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=146s > > > So why is this argument so stupid? Well, quite simply, Americans aren't traveling from Fluffy Landing to Hump Tulips every day. Canadians aren't traveling from Dildo to Spasm every day, and Australians aren't traveling from Chinaman's Knob to Useless Loop every day > > --- > > 2:55 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=175s > > > They travel within their city, so the only thing that really matters to most people is the design of that City. > > --- > > 3:05 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=185s > > > For example, in the United States, over 45 percent of trips - all trips - are three miles or less (that's five kilometers for the rest of my audience). These are distances that could be easily done by walking or cycling. So despite the size of the country, and the sprawliness of the cities, Americans don't actually travel that far for most trips, but unsurprisingly, almost all of those trips are taken by car because it's too dangerous to walk or cycle, and public transportation is non-existent, which again is the whole point. > > --- > > 4:18 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=258s > > > The problem is not cars, it's car dependency. We need to give people the freedom to not to have to drive. > > --- > > 4:35 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=275s > > > This is where Americans will claim that America is too big for trains, which is absolutely comical, because America was literally built by the railroads, and so was Canada. > > --- > > 5:01 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=301s > > > Nearly every town, city and village in the United States and Canada had a train station and was connected by rail, with very few exceptions. And almost every city and town had a streetcar line too, with very few exceptions. And every one of those places was built to be walkable, as every one of those places was built before automobiles were common. Again, with very few exceptions. > > > A hundred years ago, you could get a train from almost any city to just about any other city on the continent, and even many towns and villages, too. The reason those train stations don't exist anymore is because they were bulldozed, often to make room for highways, along with the walkable downtowns they were connected to. > > --- > > 5:46 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=346s > > > American cities were not built for the car, they were bulldozed for the car. > > --- > > 6:03 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=363s > > > There are dozens of city pairs in the U.S that are the perfect population and distance for high-speed rail or high frequency rail, and CityNerd has made a video about this if you'd like more details. > > --- > > 6:16 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=376s > > > Canada may be a huge country, but about 50 percent of the entire population lives in this little area, which is literally in a line. > > --- > > 6:27 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=387s > > > This is Japan to scale, the country famous for all it's trains. So yes, Canada, you can build a high-speed train between Toronto and Montreal. > > --- > > 6:37 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=397s > > > Here's China with it's high-speed rail map. > > --- > > 7:17 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=437s > > > The Schengen zone is not constant and new countries are being added every few years. For example, Croatia was just added in 2023 and Bulgaria, Romania, Cyprus and Montenegro plan to join in the near future. But if that happens, will Amsterdam need to tear up all their bike lanes, because the Schengen zone is too big? No, of course not, that would be stupid. Which is the same reason why saying America is too big for bike lanes is also stupid. > > --- > > 7:45 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=465s > > > The fact is, it is possible to build walkable neighborhoods everywhere. They have existed in every country on Earth for thousands of years, and it is possible to connect those walkable places together by high quality public transportation, to make it so that people can go from any walkable area to any other walkable area regardless of the size of the city the country or the continent. > > --- > > 8:18 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=498s > > > Even if size did matter, then why isn't Maryland covered in bike lanes and train tracks, or Hawaii, or Prince Edward Island? > > --- > > 10:22 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=622s > > > The United States destroys over 750'000 acres of natural and agricultural land every year [note: the source talks about 1,200 square miles] to build sprawling suburbs. And Ontario, Canada (where I'm from) destroys 175 acres of farmland per day to build more car-dependent suburbia. That is a choice. > > --- > > 10:43 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=643s > > > When Americans say something like "U.S cities are too big and spread out to do - whatever" then yes, that's true. But that is literally the problem that urbanists are trying to solve, so it's not really helpful to restate the problem, and then use that as the excuse as to why it can't be solved. > > --- > > 11:26 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=686s > > > The Dutch make great places, while North Americans make excuses.
Not Just Bikes: The Dumbest Excuse for Bad Cities (06/19/2023)
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> 0:23 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=23s > > > But there's one lame excuse that is so common, so prevalent, so ubiquitous, that I want to talk about it and that's the excuse that "My country is too big to have trains, bicycle infrastructure, walkable neighborhoods or whatever." > > --- > > 1:27 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=87s > > > So when someone new to walkable cities sees an example of a great City and they realize it's clearly better than where they live, their first gut reaction is to grab any difference between the two and make that the reason as to why their city can't be the same. > > --- > > 2:26 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=146s > > > So why is this argument so stupid? Well, quite simply, Americans aren't traveling from Fluffy Landing to Hump Tulips every day. Canadians aren't traveling from Dildo to Spasm every day, and Australians aren't traveling from Chinaman's Knob to Useless Loop every day > > --- > > 2:55 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=175s > > > They travel within their city, so the only thing that really matters to most people is the design of that City. > > --- > > 3:05 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=185s > > > For example, in the United States, over 45 percent of trips - all trips - are three miles or less (that's five kilometers for the rest of my audience). These are distances that could be easily done by walking or cycling. So despite the size of the country, and the sprawliness of the cities, Americans don't actually travel that far for most trips, but unsurprisingly, almost all of those trips are taken by car because it's too dangerous to walk or cycle, and public transportation is non-existent, which again is the whole point. > > --- > > 4:18 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=258s > > > The problem is not cars, it's car dependency. We need to give people the freedom to not to have to drive. > > --- > > 4:35 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=275s > > > This is where Americans will claim that America is too big for trains, which is absolutely comical, because America was literally built by the railroads, and so was Canada. > > --- > > 5:01 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=301s > > > Nearly every town, city and village in the United States and Canada had a train station and was connected by rail, with very few exceptions. And almost every city and town had a streetcar line too, with very few exceptions. And every one of those places was built to be walkable, as every one of those places was built before automobiles were common. Again, with very few exceptions. > > > A hundred years ago, you could get a train from almost any city to just about any other city on the continent, and even many towns and villages, too. The reason those train stations don't exist anymore is because they were bulldozed, often to make room for highways, along with the walkable downtowns they were connected to. > > --- > > 5:46 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=346s > > > American cities were not built for the car, they were bulldozed for the car. > > --- > > 6:03 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=363s > > > There are dozens of city pairs in the U.S that are the perfect population and distance for high-speed rail or high frequency rail, and CityNerd has made a video about this if you'd like more details. > > --- > > 6:16 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=376s > > > Canada may be a huge country, but about 50 percent of the entire population lives in this little area, which is literally in a line. > > --- > > 6:27 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=387s > > > This is Japan to scale, the country famous for all it's trains. So yes, Canada, you can build a high-speed train between Toronto and Montreal. > > --- > > 6:37 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=397s > > > Here's China with it's high-speed rail map. > > --- > > 7:17 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=437s > > > The Schengen zone is not constant and new countries are being added every few years. For example, Croatia was just added in 2023 and Bulgaria, Romania, Cyprus and Montenegro plan to join in the near future. But if that happens, will Amsterdam need to tear up all their bike lanes, because the Schengen zone is too big? No, of course not, that would be stupid. Which is the same reason why saying America is too big for bike lanes is also stupid. > > --- > > 7:45 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=465s > > > The fact is, it is possible to build walkable neighborhoods everywhere. They have existed in every country on Earth for thousands of years, and it is possible to connect those walkable places together by high quality public transportation, to make it so that people can go from any walkable area to any other walkable area regardless of the size of the city the country or the continent. > > --- > > 8:18 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=498s > > > Even if size did matter, then why isn't Maryland covered in bike lanes and train tracks, or Hawaii, or Prince Edward Island? > > --- > > 10:22 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=622s > > > The United States destroys over 750'000 acres of natural and agricultural land every year [note: the source talks about 1,200 square miles] to build sprawling suburbs. And Ontario, Canada (where I'm from) destroys 175 acres of farmland per day to build more car-dependent suburbia. That is a choice. > > --- > > 10:43 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=643s > > > When Americans say something like "U.S cities are too big and spread out to do - whatever" then yes, that's true. But that is literally the problem that urbanists are trying to solve, so it's not really helpful to restate the problem, and then use that as the excuse as to why it can't be solved. > > --- > > 11:26 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=686s > > > The Dutch make great places, while North Americans make excuses.
Not Just Bikes: The Dumbest Excuse for Bad Cities (06/19/2023)
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> But there's one lame excuse that is so common, so prevalent, so ubiquitous, that I want to talk about it and that's the excuse that "My country is too big to have trains, bicycle infrastructure, walkable neighborhoods or whatever."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=87s
> So when someone new to walkable cities sees an example of a great City and they realize it's clearly better than where they live, their first gut reaction is to grab any difference between the two and make that the reason as to why their city can't be the same.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=146s
> So why is this argument so stupid? Well, quite simply, Americans aren't traveling from Fluffy Landing to Hump Tulips every day. Canadians aren't traveling from Dildo to Spasm every day, and Australians aren't traveling from Chinaman's Knob to Useless Loop every day
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=175s
> They travel within their city, so the only thing that really matters to most people is the design of that City.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=185s
> For example, in the United States, over 45 percent of trips - all trips - are three miles or less (that's five kilometers for the rest of my audience). These are distances that could be easily done by walking or cycling. So despite the size of the country, and the sprawliness of the cities, Americans don't actually travel that far for most trips, but unsurprisingly, almost all of those trips are taken by car because it's too dangerous to walk or cycle, and public transportation is non-existent, which again is the whole point.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=258s
> The problem is not cars, it's car dependency. We need to give people the freedom to not to have to drive.
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4:35
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=275s
> This is where Americans will claim that America is too big for trains, which is absolutely comical, because America was literally built by the railroads, and so was Canada.
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5:01
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=301s
> Nearly every town, city and village in the United States and Canada had a train station and was connected by rail, with very few exceptions. And almost every city and town had a streetcar line too, with very few exceptions. And every one of those places was built to be walkable, as every one of those places was built before automobiles were common. Again, with very few exceptions.
> A hundred years ago, you could get a train from almost any city to just about any other city on the continent, and even many towns and villages, too. The reason those train stations don't exist anymore is because they were bulldozed, often to make room for highways, along with the walkable downtowns they were connected to.
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5:46
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=346s
> American cities were not built for the car, they were bulldozed for the car.
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6:03
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=363s
> There are dozens of city pairs in the U.S that are the perfect population and distance for high-speed rail or high frequency rail, and CityNerd has made a video about this if you'd like more details.
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6:16
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=376s
> Canada may be a huge country, but about 50 percent of the entire population lives in this little area, which is literally in a line.
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6:27
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=387s
> This is Japan to scale, the country famous for all it's trains. So yes, Canada, you can build a high-speed train between Toronto and Montreal.
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6:37
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=397s
> Here's China with it's high-speed rail map.
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7:17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=437s
> The Schengen zone is not constant and new countries are being added every few years. For example, Croatia was just added in 2023 and Bulgaria, Romania, Cyprus and Montenegro plan to join in the near future. But if that happens, will Amsterdam need to tear up all their bike lanes, because the Schengen zone is too big? No, of course not, that would be stupid. Which is the same reason why saying America is too big for bike lanes is also stupid.
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7:45
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=465s
> The fact is, it is possible to build walkable neighborhoods everywhere. They have existed in every country on Earth for thousands of years, and it is possible to connect those walkable places together by high quality public transportation, to make it so that people can go from any walkable area to any other walkable area regardless of the size of the city the country or the continent.
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8:18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=498s
> Even if size did matter, then why isn't Maryland covered in bike lanes and train tracks, or Hawaii, or Prince Edward Island?
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10:22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=622s
> The United States destroys over 750'000 acres of natural and agricultural land every year [note: the source talks about 1,200 square miles] to build sprawling suburbs. And Ontario, Canada (where I'm from) destroys 175 acres of farmland per day to build more car-dependent suburbia. That is a choice.
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10:43
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=643s
> When Americans say something like "U.S cities are too big and spread out to do - whatever" then yes, that's true. But that is literally the problem that urbanists are trying to solve, so it's not really helpful to restate the problem, and then use that as the excuse as to why it can't be solved.
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11:26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=686s
> The Dutch make great places, while North Americans make excuses.
June 17: John Oliver approves on Twitter to being featured on r/pics during the protests
> Dear Reddit, excellent work. Attn: r/pics — have at it...
The thread also includes "a palette so that Pixel Artists on Reddit can create accurate pixel art of your face and other parts."
minutephysics: The Bizarre Physics of Electric Guitars (X-Pick magnetic pick)
YouTube Video
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For more information about the pick: https://www.guitarworld.com/news/x-pick-multi-fx
For understanding why it might not be a good idea to buy it, watch the video.
Unity Community?
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Looking for communities related to the Unity Game Engine.
It's a pain to search for, since every community was made with Unity :)
Alternatively, can I force tools like https://browse.feddit.de/ to only show 'exact' matches, discarding 'contains'?
Two communities on the same instance about renewable energy
- [email protected] (this one here)
- [email protected]
I see some benefits of having redundant communities on different instances (resilience), but are there any benefits of having duplicates on the same instance?
Since (1) has a typo (rnergy), I vote for removing (1) and using (2).
TravelTime Maps: Area covered in a given time with a given mode of transportation - https://app.traveltime.com/
I use this tool when I'm looking for a place to move home.
While the maps for walking and cycling look rather unsurprising, the maps for driving and public transports can reveal surprising insights.
I don't want to check apartments only to find out they are too far away from my points of interest. And with too far away, I naturally mean time, not distance. Traveltime Maps helps with that.
So I create a map layer centered around my workplace, a layer for friends, a layer for another point of interest. The common overlap area is the area in which I would be willing to live. By definition, all my regular trips can be done within the time limit I find acceptable.
An example for Tokyo, public transport, 75 minutes:
ERNTE TEILEN (Dokumentarfilm, 2023) in Dortmund, Kino sweet sixteen: 26. Juni
Erfahre mehr über den Dokumentarfilm ERNTE TEILEN, über Solidarische Landwirtschaft und wie du zum SoLaWi-Botschafter werden kannst.
![ERNTE TEILEN - der Film - Dokumentarfilm & Kampagne](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/933baf07-7a69-4bf7-a878-5d254b4e2285.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.click/post/36338
> “ERNTE TEILEN” erzählt die Geschichte von Landwirt:innen, die dem Wachstumszwang unseres Systems etwas entgegensetzen und aus den Strukturen der konventionellen Landwirtschaft ausbrechen. Filmemacher und Aktivist Philipp Petruch begibt sich mit dem Film auf eine Reise zu drei SoLaWi-Initiativen in Brandenburg und Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Sie verbindet ein klares Ziel: Mit Hilfe von Gemeinschaften schaffen sie einen lokalen Versorgungskreislauf nach den Werten von Ökologie und Gemeinwohl. Mit Mut, Gemeinschaftssinn und einem neuen Verhältnis von Konsument und Produzent können wir die Landwirtschaft verändern. Und ein kleines Stück die Welt. > > Trailer auf YouTube: Ernte Teilen - Trailer (2 min) > > * Länge: 81 Minuten > * Erscheinungsjahr: 2023 > * Sprachen: Deutsch (UT: Englisch) > * FSK: Ab 0 Jahren > * Erstveröffentlichung: Premiere in Berlin im Babylon am 31.05.2023 > * Drehorte: Berlin, Brandenburg und Mecklenburg-Vorpommern > * Finanzierung: Crowdfunding via Startnext und Gefördert von der Rentenbank > > Der Film läuft aktuell an einzelnen Terminen in vielen deutschen Städten. Du kannst auch weitere Termine organisieren!