@notjustbikes don’t know if you mentioned this before in one of your videos, but apparently Spain has introduced 30km/h speed limits on most urban single lane roads back in 2021, decreasing the number of traffic deaths considerably. I’m in Salamanca now and it seems to be working fine, most drivers stick to the rules and 30km is also the speed limit on most double lane roads in the city. https://www.surinenglish.com/spain/speed-limits-towns-20220517101946-nt.html
@hayify surprisingly that didn't come up in any of my research on 30kmph cities, but it's great to see!
I think like most thing urban planning, switching to 30kmph speed limits gets a lot of pushback, but when it's actually implemented things go fine and the majority of people like it.
@notjustbikes yeah, i agree. I have been perfectly happy with the decrease to 30 in Amsterdam. Feels a bit weird on roads that weren’t designed for it but you get used to it and it definitely feels a lot safer.
🇬🇧Five more years of von der Leyen? Just look at what her EU Commission proposed in the past five years:
💥the end of private messaging and secure encryption #ChatControl
💥mandating unique citizen identifiers #eID
💥working group to resurrect indiscriminate #DataRetention#EUGoingDark
💥essentially unchanged online tracking & micro-targeting practices #politicalAds
💥legalising #Europol's unlawful bulk data collection practices
💥ultra-fast cross-border online content removals without court orders #TERREG
💥#biometricMassSurveillance in the #AIActgranting
💥industry access to our #healthdata without our consent #EHDS
> Yet the whole thing was simply painful to watch, mostly because it was useless on any practical level. This much ballyhooed confrontation between two political foes for the most important office in the world turned out to be featherlight on substance, policy, interest, intellect, imagination, vision, energy, ideas, humor and hope. It was heavy on one thing (besides cringe), though: ego.
@makiki@ShadowJonathan Social media that completely reject any sort of nudity are weird to me. Like it is pretty easy to not come across it on most platforms just by having nsfw functions and filters.
Third and not last, Roberts has the 6-3 decision in SEC v. Jarkesy, affirming the Fifth Circuit on the Seventh Amendment jury trial issue. The court does not reach the other issues. Sotomayor has the liberals' dissent. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-859_1924.pdf
Sotomayor is reading from her dissent in Jarkesy. #SCOTUS
A likely outcome is that the executive agencies, including the SEC, is just going to stop bringing enforcement actions. They don't have the resources to bring everybody to trial. So people are just going to get away with financial fraud... which, again, is what Republicans want.
Once again, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is saying out loud just how corrupt and politically motivated the Supreme Court majority has become. https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/112685094145453092
Six Republican Justices, already embroiled in scandal for receiving millions in “gifts” from oligarchs with business before the Supreme Court, overturned the clear will of Congress today to legalize bribery-after-the-fact. Or as they call it, “gratuities.”
Justice Jackson, dissenting, has some choice words: (1/5)
@JamesGleick
This is very similar to the bump stock ruling that willfully ignores the plain mean of the law passed by congress and declares that bump stocks are not yet illegal.
With this court, the words written by congress have no binding power
@TechConnectify in your dishwasher and detergent pods yay or nay, did you ever talk about hard water? Off the top of my head I don't think you did, but I haven't gone and rewatched them either. I just wanted to note that most powders don't have citric acid or anything in them like that that can be used to fight hard water residue the way most detergent pods do.
@bytor And for the record, I did talk about water hardness but only in regards to how much detergent you should use. In the second video I talked about the components in detergents, and even cheap powder has softening agents.
And BTW, vinegar works OK but you'll probably have a less fussy and more effective clean with a bottle of dishwasher cleaner. In my experience they're like magic.
@TechConnectify@TechConnectify I tested varying amounts of powder in the dispenser and ruled that out the first thing. It is distinctly different from hard water buildup. I hear Chicagoland is around 8 grains per gallon. In my city in Southern Ontario it's 14, so hard water crusties slowly reducing pressure is the only thing I have not been able to rule out.