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/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!

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queermunist ,
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A van would have killed him on a regular bike too?

Sounds like the problem wasn't the e-bike.

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Bicycles aren't supposed to be on sidewalks either, that's how pedestrians get hit.

The problem is motorist thinking they own the fucking road.

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It's what pushed me to give up eating flesh. I couldn't abide the suffering of the workers forced to kill animals for me.

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Riding on ice scares the shit out of me, especially when it's windy.

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What the fuck is the autonomous driving mode even for though? It seems like it's just a dangerous toy...

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I'll clarify: what is the actual purpose of giving customers access to this infantile technology? It doesn't make following traffic laws easier like cruise control does, it doesn't make drivers better at driving or safer behind the wheel, and it merely encourages distracted driving.

So why did they ship this product? Again, it just seems like a dangerous toy.

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Buh bye! 😘

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So uh, is that traffic light in the middle of the cycling lane?

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So despite climate change, Australia's federal government has just committed an extra $3.25 billion into building a toll road and a 20-lane freeway widening.

For those who wonder why Aussies think toll roads are a scam (https://aus.social/@LesserAbe@lemmy.world/112405373613706682), here's a great example of why.

"Pouring an extra $3.25 billion worth of federal funds into Melbourne’s North East Link is a good use of taxpayer money, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has insisted, despite the project’s cost doubling just a few months ago.

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"The North East Link – which includes 6½ kilometres of tunnels – will stretch from Bulleen to Greensborough. It will widen the Eastern Freeway by up to 20 lanes.

"Allan revealed in December that the 10-kilometre toll road had more than doubled in cost since it was first announced.

"The toll road was initially budgeted at $10 billion and reassessed in 2019 at $15 billion. But the government revealed last year that the updated cost estimate was $26 billion."

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/federal-funding-to-boost-victorian-road-link-by-3-25-billion-20240509-p5ii7b.html

@fuck_cars

queermunist ,
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Hey, maybe a $26 billion road project could have just been a rail project instead?

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Unlimited genders on the first world.

queermunist , (edited )
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This is my shit 😤 hell yeah, is there a /c/ where people post pictures of nature swallowing man-made shit?

(also we still calling those cliffs? y'know, cuz we're lemmings?)

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When I say this is my shit, I mean I like this content very much. 👍

I'm just wondering if there's a cliff for nature reclamation.

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Perhaps some kind of super-mold that eats oil products like tar and asphalt!

Just make sure you wash your tires off regularly or they'll get moldy 👀

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Your bike's tires! Unless you use, like, large discs of wood or something 😏

Oh! Have you seen those bicycle rickshaws? They could replace taxis!

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The West is currently doing participating in a genocide.

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I think a pass phrase is more secure than a password because you can memorize truly huge strings without worrying about ever losing it.

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A password “8pmfvt3bww7t” could be remembered as “8 pandas might find vases that 3 bears will wash 7 times.

You're going to have to explain to me why the first password is more secure than the second pass phrase. The second has more characters and that's the only thing someone trying to guess is going to possibly know. There's nothing else to go off of, they don't even know they're trying to guess words in the first place. The longer string is always more secure afaik

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Suppose you had a word list of 1,000 five letter words. Each of your passphrases is 5 words long. That means you have 1,000^5 possible combinations of passwords, which is an entropy of ~49.8 bits. Even though each passphrase is going to be 29 characters long (5 five letter words plus 4 spaces in between), the password wasn’t generated character by character.

That's a lot of supposition.

The reality is the password guesser has a string of 29 characters. All they know is ***************************** - they do not know they are guessing individual words separated by spaces, and even if they know these are words they do not know what word list is being used so they have every word that has ever existed as part of a possible list, they do not know the length of any of the individual words being used, and to top it all off they do not even know if the words have conventional spellings or are English words or anything!

So actually, you have a string of 29 characters, and they might as well be random characters as far as a password guesser can guess.

Although I will grant that pass phrases are unlikely to use unconventional characters !$#@;<> etc so you have a point there.

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What you failed to demonstrate is that passwords are better than pass phrases, and that's my point. In order to crack my pass phrase you have to have tons of additional information like the fact that I use a pass phrase, what the rules are for the words in my pass phrase, the list of words I draw from for my pass phrase, etc. Your suppositions are required to beat it.

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A more compact space isn't better, though, unless you're dealing with a character limit. The longer the pass phrase the stronger it is, and you can memorize some seriously long phrases.

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Except "nobody wants to work anymore" i.e. you can't actually replace them that easily.

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Walkability is way different from bike infrastructure. Walking is around 2mph. Biking is 12-17 (depending on how in shape you are) and up to 25 if you have an ebike. Entirely different.

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I love flying downhill! You can't maintain that speed over 10 miles, though, especially with stops and hills to climb. We're talking about commuting, not just sprinting lol

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You said 17 was the max speed.

No, that was me.

Also I didn't mean it's the max speed, I meant it like a cruising speed. If I'm going to a grocery store I'm not pushing as fast as I can go lol

Also! If you have saddlebags and cargo the drag is going to make that harder anyway. Commuting adds complications to cycling.

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Sure, but it will make a private security contractor and private prison company have great returns for investors!

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The shelters aren't near where people work. They're also often more dangerous than the street.

queermunist ,
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I fully support Marines giving their lives.

In fact, they should all do it! Imagine how free we'd be 😉

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Motorists greedily demanding free and unlimited access is the real problem.

queermunist ,
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It's more like locking your door and then getting robbed because there was an exploit on your door's lock that a thief used to get inside.

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The alternative is to not have valuables and live an ascetic lifestyle. Valuables are just luxuries.

You don't need a TV, much like you don't need to take nude selfies. Zero difference imo

queermunist ,
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Don't own anything you don't want to get stolen. Still not seeing a difference. You don't have to have a TV.

queermunist ,
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God never got over being dumped by Lucifer.

Google Allows Creditors to Brick Your Phone (lemmy.world)

I installed NetGuard about a month ago and blocked all internet to apps, unless they're on a whitelist. No notifications from this particular system app (that can't be disabled) until recently when it started making internet connection requests to google servers. Does anyone know when this became a thing?...

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Huawei is a employee owned and communist state backed company - not very capitalist, at least by comparison.

They're being hammered with export restrictions and sanctions and federal bans and executive orders to keep that from being a viable alternative in the US, but if you're outside that might be an option.

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And yet when Huawei was flush with cash (after being forced to sell off assets destroyed by US sanctions) it distributed those billions in profits back to the employees.

It's not a worker cooperative, there are problems with it like any employee owned company, but don't be so cynical.

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How would ambulances work in a car free city? They seem kind of bulky for a city built for bikes. Unless we're assuming those cities will still have huge roads to drive on?

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So if we banned cars, all women would stop being attracted to men?

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Probably need two in case multiple emergency vehicles need to be on the scene. Imagine a bombing - you need ambulances, fire trucks, police, etc. That's easy with huge car-based infrastructure but a bike-city seems complicated.

Unless you just build huge roads everywhere despite the lack of cars, which would be sad.

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Eliminating parking space for cars would be huge.

Might be able to cheat a little with the gravel shoulder, so it's "two lanes" but only if vehicles on the left and right dirve half-off the road.

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    Arm the homeless.

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    Also doubles as a kill list for when they decide it's time.

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    🤡

    queermunist ,
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    ¿Por qué no los dos?

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    And lets not forget shit like the CIA overthrowing attempts at democracy.

    And of course the UN partitioning Palestine to create Israel.

    And all the fucking oil wars.

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    The Ottoman Empire existed, you do realize?

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    There was a 100+ year period of relative peace and prosperity after the conquest of Constantinople, just like today where Western Europe has had a period of peace and prosperity after the defeat of Nazi Germany. The revolts began when the Ottoman Empire entered stagnation and decline because of warfare with Europe. It has nothing to do with ethnic and cultural conflicts, it's all economic and political and it always has been. The ethnic and cultural dimensions of the conflicts are merely set dressing for deeper structural causes of war.

    Now that we have entered our own period of stagnation and possible decline, be prepared to live in Interesting Times.

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    I can tell you've never actually worked a blue collar job.

    Both factories I've worked in are evenly split 50/50 between men and women, but men are the ones that get to be supervisors while women stay in production. The main difference is that 90% of these women are migrants so they don't shy away from hard work the way USians do.

    It's all socially constructed, there's no biological imperative, and it's extremely obvious if you go to any US factory.

    Or go to any farm that uses migrant labor. Same story there, the fields are filled with both men and women. Or slaughterhouses or meat packing plants or many of the other dirty jobs where US-born workers are a small majority or in the minority. Women born in the US are socially conditioned to avoid these jobs and to instead pursue service jobs and other female-coded labor like hospitality and education and nursing, but women who immigrate from Africa or the Caribbean or Latin America don't have that choice.

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    You don't get to "pick" jobs in a factory setting, you are assigned work and you either do it or get disciplined.

    Women are operating heavy machinery, lifting and organizing steel parts, operating power tools like grinders and air guns, working with welders and powder coat ovens, and everything else that men do on the production line and at production stations. The difference is women have to stay at the bottom and don't get to be supervisors or managers or shift leaders. At best they can become a team leader, someone who barely makes more than anyone else and has to do basically every job that needs doing when there's staff shortage.

    "Biology" doesn't cause men to like risky jobs, they're socially conditioned to undervalue their own health and comfort for money. You don't see rich men taking risky jobs! That's for all of us on the bottom of society, because we have few choices. Blaming biology for what is very obviously a product of capitalism is absurd. After reading Capital Volume 1, read The Origin of Family, Private Property, and the State.

    Also? Sex work, the oldest profession, carries a huge risk of fatal injury and death. It's uncelebrated and frowned upon too.

    Yet women dominate the work in that field. Why?

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