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  • I'm pretty sure Jane Jacobs wrote about this in the 1960s.

    Somehow people refuse to accept this.

  • I don't have the means or motivation to do research now from the couch, so I'll concede you may be correct. However, I think it might be even safer to take those same billions of dollars and invest them in mass transit and other infrastructure changes. That would mean fewer car accidents, less pollution, nicer spaces, healthier people, healthier economies, etc. private car ownership cannot be the long term solution. If it's not an outright dead end, it's certainly a side street instead of high speed rail (if you'll pardon a strained metaphor).

  • Self driving cars are a great idea, but they aren’t a fix everything solution, they just one part of an overall solution.

    Why are they a great idea? What are they making better? How is it worth the real and opportunity costs?

  • To be clear, I didn't insist we run women candidates anyway. That's a tactical decision I don't feel qualified to make from the toilet where I make Lemmy posts.

    I just want us to agree that those 30% of men or whatever are trash. Because they are trash. Trash that votes, but still trash.

    (And not irredeemable - many things that end up in the trash can be fixed or repurposed. People are not immutable.)

  • Some men will simply not vote for a woman, it’s sad, but it’s reality.

    Can we all agree that those men are trash? I don't care what else they've got going on, if they refuse to vote for a woman because she's a woman, they deserve to go into the dumpster.

    I'm so sick of all these sacks of shit making the world worse

  • Self driving cars have always been a stupid solution to the wrong problem.

    We shouldn't be investing billions in them. We should be investing billions in creating livable spaces that don't need cars so much. Then people will be happier and there will be less pollution.

    But I guess that's not profitable so I guess we'll just do idiotic garbage that gets people killed.

  • Oh weird. I saw the ad for "good night and good luck", which is a 2005 movie, and assumed from that.

    And yeah, times square isn't really a fun time. I'm rarely up there.

  • Unfortunately I don't have a spare windows machine, and I don't think my girlfriend's work would be happy with me installing the Xbox app on her laptop.

    Oh well. Maybe someone will find a way to update it on Linux

  • Tech giants have so much power in part because most people are kind of stupid and don't want to think too hard.

    "Don't use that platform. It's owned by a Nazi and pushing right wing lies" -> "uhh but it has memes lol"

  • I wonder if you can do it in a VM, actually...

  • To fix these issues you must connect the controller to a Windows PC and update the firmware via the Xbox Accessories App.

    Well shit. I don't have a windows PC anymore.

    Never should've gotten an Xbox controller. Always thought they were kind of shit, but my friends insisted they were the best and most standard.

  • Much of this slots into time outside work rather than the workday itself.

    • walk a different route to a destination
    • pick an algorithm and walk with no destination (eg: straight until you hit a light not in your favor, then turn. Works in urban envs)
    • go somewhere you don't normally go. Eg: library, different coffee shop, that little art store you always see
    • go to the library. Walk along the shelf with eyes closed and pick a book at random.
    • pick a genre of music you never listen to. Listen to it.
    • cook or prepare a meal unlike your normal fare
    • go to a thrift store. Buy a cheap article of clothing you wouldn't normally wear. Wear it. See how it feels
    • find free or cheap art (music, theater, whatever) in your area. Go.
    • journal. Spend a few minutes writing down your day's details
    • hit wikipedia's random article button. Read it.
  • What year was this? 2005?

    And yeah, I don't think I've ever gone to times square on purpose in my ~20 years of living here.

    The photo doesn't give me any anxiety or discomfort, though. Maybe I'm just acclimated.

  • I didn't think anyone liked Vance. But I guess there are a lot of sexists and Republican cultists out there.

  • Some states in the US are marginally better than others. I think they're all bad, by any reasonable metric. I think Texas has no guaranteed paid time off. New York gives you one hour off for every thirty hours worked, to a maximum of 56/year.

    It's stupid, cruel, and self destructive.

    If someone was sick, told to come in anyway, and they held their boss down and vomited on their face, and I was on the jury, I would nullify.

  • There's a single mod that purports to convert the game to pathfinder 2e. I'm not sure if the balance isn't to my taste or if I was doing something wrong, but my characters all had very low hit chances on their first attack. Missing isn't fun for me

    I believe it was this one: https://mod.io/g/baldursgate3/m/pathfinder2ndedition#description

  • I've seen at a very large company a workflow that involved manually updating an excel workbook and (I think) saving it on confluence, so a python script could download it and parse it later. It wasn't even doing formulas. It was just like less than a hundred lines of text in a half dozen sheets.

  • Obviously this varies but I found myself walking far more in Europe than in the US.

    Whenever I have to visit family in the [US] suburbs, it's a nightmare of driving everywhere. Walking a mile or two every day just living life has health benefits.