"We're gonna get all the poors off the road so it's only nice cars"
I genuinely believe that car owners could be tricked into supporting FuckCars policies by a very crafty politician/campaign. It would work like this:
- Proclaim your love of cars. Loudly. "I want to make our city the best city in the world for drivers!"
- "What are the biggest problems drivers face today? Traffic and parking! Therefore... We need to open up roads and parking spaces..."
- "And that's why we're going to cap the number of cars that can enter downtown. With increased public transit, we can free up these roads for drivers! That way: more parking, less traffic, a better life for drivers"
Do the same thing for bikes:
- "These bikers want to share the road, but studies have shown that whether you use sharrows, plastic bollards, it doesn't matter: people still get hurt.
- And here's the thing: when a car hits a cyclist, it's bad for everyone, including the driver. Nobody wants to hit a cyclist. But the sad truth is that it might just not be possible to share the road
- "That's why I'm proposing that we make some roads car-only, to protect cyclists." [Crowd of drivers cheer, and you quickly say:] "Also we'll make some streets bike-only, for the same reason." [And then when you get in office, just be like "Yeah the highway is for cars"]
I'm available for speeches if anyone's hiring
Surprisingly, one of the only groups to use this calendar IRL was a giant international corporation: Kodak
There's a push to get OpenReads to work with BookWyrm
This happens a lot: I apply for a job and they ask for my complete address. Why? I would understand if they just want to know what city/town I'm in: That has bearing on how easily I can get to the office.
But why do they need to know my street address?
The only thing I can think: Indeed/LinkedIn/take-your-pick is building a profile of me based on this info, using my street as a proxy for my income, credit score, or, ultimately, for my social class.
From now on, when they ask me, I'm just going to put a rich person's address. For this one I used a Brooklyn townhouse where Maggie Gyllenhaal and one of the Saarsgaards lives.
Last year Elon Musk accidentally revealed that he has a burner account on Twitter called @ErmnMusk.
Now that account is gone.
I'm looking for an archive: its tweets, its likes, anything and everything. Does anyone know where to find?
Fair question! But yeah, I'm seeing this issue with my lemm.ee and not my lemmy.world
I'm unable to load my own profile in Eternity. Having this issue across multiple accounts. Tapping "Profile" in the sidebar brings up my profile but it's empty, no posts load. Anyone know how to fix?
I just joined lemm.ee from lemmy.world. I was drawn to lemm.ee bc it federates with all the right instances.
But my feed is behaving oddly. (I view Lemmy through the Eternity app on Android.)
- I'm seeing posts from communities I haven't subscribed to, even when I view my "Subscribed" feed
- I get a weird error when I try to comment on some posts (in Firefox@lemmy.ml, most recently)
These issues didn't happen previously. Anyone know how to fix?
I'm confused. I've been using this extension for years on desktop without this issue. I think it has an option where you can install a companion conversion app on your machine and bypass the QR code. Am I mistaken?
My Asus Zenfone 8 is still going strong after 2+ years. Case and screen protector help, of course
Sorry but you have clearly never imported and raised giant kangaroos for mass transit. $80 billion is nothing to them. Nothing.
I'm looking for a way to pull images from my Lemmy feed and display them on desktop tiles, similar to Scrolldit. Ideally, the images would refresh every so often.
Does anything like this exist?
Thank you
I'm looking for a way to pull images from my Lemmy feed and display them on desktop tiles, similar to Scrolldit. Ideally, the images would refresh every so often.
Does anything like this exist?
Thank you
I'm sorry, I'm having difficulty following your point.
That's a really, really crap argument that is permissive of all kinds of cultural genocide.
Isn't it the opposite? He's arguing that work of cultural importance should NOT be in private hands. You might say, "Who gets to determine what's culturally significant? And why do we trust governments to do a better job than private collectors?" Those are fair questions, I think, but then I get lost again:
A LOT of artwork is in private collections that by no right should be.
Right, that's what he's arguing too.
I live in country that used to "legally" buy and sell people.
Ok, so... You acknowledge that just because it's legal to trade in something, doesn't mean that it's moral or ethical. So is that also true of culturally-significant artwork?
See why I'm confused as to your argument?
Eh, "Good thing we had dangling pianos to drop on the guy who's been cutting all the cords on our dangling pianos" isn't quite a strong argument for the pro-dangling pianos side
It's just reposting ABC News if that matters
TBH I don't think we have to read these posts as shaming the driver of these cars, necessarily. We could read them as indictments of all the choices we've made as a society that result in poor transit options & large vehicles.
Choices like:
- under investment in public transit and rail
- Regulations that encourage/subsidize SUVs
- low density housing policies
- And, if we're being really honest, the racism that drives so much of American public policy
All of these are worthy of critique and fair targets
Reader View is working for me with that website. The only issue is that it writes out the phrase "link opens in New tab" after every link.
Do you have cookie settings or extensions that might be interfering with something?
Reading more about this now... Last October it was reported that there's 500 completed Metacycles sitting in a Chinese factory. There's even a pic!
Are they still there? Because I'll go to China right now and buy one for $2500 cash.
I'm looking for an EV motorcycle that can support 2 passengers. Anyone know of any?
I've read that the Sondors Metacycle can fit 2. But that's all I've found. Seating on the Zero FX is said to be tight, and other bikes seem specifically designed to cap at 1 passenger. Ex: the Johammer or the Tarform
Maybe you could fit 2 on the Land Moto District? But any owners in here know what that drops the range to?
Thanks all
I'm having an issue w/ fullscreen videos since the last update (22 days ago). My computer will enter Suspend mode, even if I make a video fullscreen. This happens when I'm watching Netflix, YouTube, or any other fullscreen video.
This is unusual; In the past, if I made a video fullscreen in Firefox, my computer would stay awake.
I'm wondering if this is related to a bug fix in the latest release: Bug 1853896, which addresses a previous bug in fullscreen video.
- Is there a way that I can fix this?
- Or, if not, can I roll Firefox back to an earlier version?
I'm running Firefox 120.0.1 (64 bit) on Linux Lite 5.6 My hardware is an old HP Chromebox connected to a display via HDMI.
Thank you Lemmy folks!
I'm interested in getting an electric motorcycle, but something I've been wondering:
ICE motorcycles can be loud, and that can act as a safety feature, especially when lane splitting. I'm thinking about Los Angeles, where motorcycles regularly weave through bumper-to-bumper car traffic. The noise they make helps prevent riders from getting accidentally doored.
Do electric motorcycles have any kind of artificial noise maker to achieve the same thing? Or does anyone sell a device that does this?
Note that I'm not talking about generic speakers, because
- I don't want to have to blast music all the time just for safety, and
- most speaker kits are pointed BACK at the driver, not FORWARD towards traffic.
Anyone know the answer?
I'm looking for a FOSS email client for desktop. (Windows and MacOS, for now.)
Using Airmail or Mailbird as references, I'm looking for a client with some of these features:
- A clean, minimalist design
- A left-side toolbar as a narrow band, icons only.
- Bonus points if it can schedule an email to send later.
I'm familiar with Thunderbird and there's a lot to like there, but design-wise, it's pretty cluttered, IMHO.
Does anyone know of a FOSS desktop email client that looks clean? -OR- Is there a way to change Thunderbird's layout so it looks/functions more like Airmail or Mailbird?
Thank you!
Tl;Dr: Beeper has rolled out a new app, Beeper Mini, just for iMessage. It claims that the new app is a privacy improvement over the standard Beeper app (now called "Beeper Cloud")
The claims:
All messages are end-to-end encrypted before being sent. Beeper (and Apple) cannot see your messages.
Encryption keys never leave your device.
Beeper Mini connects directly to Apple servers. There is no Mac server relay, like other apps.
No Apple ID is required. Beeper does not have access to your Apple account.
Your contact list never leaves your device.
In another post, Beeper says they plan to add Signal to Beeper Mini.
I currently use Beeper, but I do not give it access to my Signal messages.
If these new claims about Beeper Mini are true, though, and if Signal is ever supported in Beeper Mini.... I might actually consider bringing it in. I would love to have fewer chat apps!
I'm a big user of Tree Style Tabs. And I LOVE using pinned tabs.
Recently, I modified my CSS so that my sidebar will shrink/expand on hover. I really like getting this screen real estate back.
But there's a problem: My pinned tabs keep moving every time the sidebar changes width, causing the entire tab tree to slide up. (GIF) This means I have to hover, wait for the tabs, find the one I want, and finally click on it, rather than - y'know- just mousing over there and clicking.
Is there any way to change this, such that my pinned tabs stay in the "wide" configuration, and are just "revealed" when the sidebar expands?
Thanks Lemmy folks!
Lots of news channels post their video feed online, for free, legally.
Pulling up each feed is a pain, and I don't actually want to watch all of them: I just want to see, at a glance, what each network/channel/outlet is covering, so I can get a sense of what the big story of the day is.
The feeds would all have to be on mute, obviously.
Some video feeds that could be included:
- Al jazeera
- ABC News (Australia)
- DW News
- RT News
- NBC News Now
- Sky News
- i24
- PTV (Pakistan)
- NDTV
- Press TV (Iran)
- TRT World
And these are just streams that are posted legally. If anyone wanted to incorporate pirate streams, we could add a TON.
Alternately: If displaying a ton of live feeds is too taxing on a processor, it could just show a collage of screenshots from each feed, updated every 60 seconds. That would be easier for processing, and it might sidestep any legal issues.
I'm using the Proton theme of TST, and I really want these X buttons to only appear on hover. I know that's possible: It's how the Xs function in the Sidebar theme of TST. However, I don't like the Sidebar theme otherwise.
Does anyone know how to change the TST Proton theme to make the X button only appear on hover?
Thank you!