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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Mishmash2000@lemmy.nztoFuck Cars@lemmy.worldOh yeah
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    2 months ago

    It’s an important reframing. A reminder to not blame the victim. Roads bisect ecosystems. Some flora and fauna can’t ever cross them. Some like deer can but risk being killed. All this has a dampening effect on genetic diversity by bisecting populations into ever smaller areas of smaller populations. For these deer maybe it doesn’t matter so much, but for some species it matters a lot. Roads everywhere cut the landscape into islands (especially for insects for example) meaning populations are often divided into smaller ones of less genetic diversity. Less genetic diversity often means less robust populations. I am not an expert but this is how I understand it. The poster barely hints at this but there’s only so much you can achieve in a poster but the reframing is a start. Jaywalking laws were a reframing that was designed to transfer the blame from the car and driver to the pedestrian in accidents. The new laws said that cars weren’t the problem, the victims being run down were the issue as they shouldn’t have been in the way of the car.



  • Yes, he delicately chainsaws off only the finest shark carcass heads and air dries them on the roof of his car in the heat of the natural sun! Only the best natural produce for him! Prepared by nature!*

    *may contain parasitic brain worms, weavels and maggots for an added protein boost!






  • You’re not being creative enough ;-) All Fed vehicle fleets will have to be Tesla within a short timeframe. And regulations limiting the rollout of self-driving vehicles in any way will be gutted. Also massive tariffs will apply to all imported EVs. Rural broadband contracts will all go to Starlink. Truth Social may or may not get merged with X, but regulations and regulators in that space will be gutted. All Fed infrastructure projects will all of a sudden require the Boring Company for some reason. A.I. regulations will always come out in Elon’s favour. FDA will be gutted and Neuralink will get fast tracked. NASA will be severely neutered and SpaceX will step in to fill the void where ever possible. NASA will be gradually reduced to a consultation / supporting role until it’s no longer required. Missions will stear away from pure research and towards those with a clear profit motive like mining, space tourism and comms. Fun times ahead!




  • Yeah, I’m no expert but won’t Trumps tariffs on everything under the sun be much much worse than the inflation?? Manufacturing won’t come back to the USA, it’ll just shuffle around any of dozens of countries that will still be cheaper to operate out of. Also, retalitory tariffs are a thing which will harm what manufacturing IS in the USA. Also, Trump promised his rich buddies 3 trillion dollars in tax breaks. He’s going to slash health budgets (and more besides) to fund it. What are people thinking!? They’re going to fund the ultra rich from their own pockets AND pay massively more for goods while damaging local industry?! I mean there’s a million other things to worry about including mass-deportation but cost of living is about to increase BIGLY!?



  • I’ve always found this subject fascinating. Why are we all so different in this regards? What’s going or not going on up there? Anyway, this is my result…

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    I imagined a bright red ball, like a shiny red plasticy looking ball

    The “person” pushing the ball was just a disembodied arm, the ball rolled and bounced around the pool table much as a pool ball would

    The arm was pretty much my arm. I didn’t bother to visualise the person, instead concentrating on the interaction with the ball.

    The ball was larger than a pool ball, maybe softball sized or even slightly bigger

    The table was basically a pool table, green felt, but smaller or maybe the ball was just much bigger

    All this I knew from my visualisation but when answering the questions I probably solidified my thoughts a bit. When viewing things they are constantly changing or shifting to match new information/ideas/concepts of what’s there. I don’t really see the whole scene at once easily, instead focusing in on different aspects of it. For example if I’m concentrating on the red, shiny ball then the table is just a green plane/background.


  • Mishmash2000@lemmy.nztoFuck Cars@lemmy.worldInsanity
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    4 months ago

    Wow, that’s a bummer :-/ For me it’s 15-20 min by car assuming a few minutes walk to where I’ve parked. 25 min by bike (20 min by road but I take a safer ‘scenic route’) and about 40 min by bus and about 10 minutes of that is walking to/from the bus stop. And the bus fare gets capped at 8 trips per week so every trip thereafter is free meaning if you commute to work every day, Friday and all weekend will be unlimited free trips.


  • Mishmash2000@lemmy.nztoScience Memes@mander.xyzstacked
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    4 months ago

    One of my carless kin! There are dozens of us!! The number of times people have assumed I can’t go somewhere “because it’s raining” and I’m just like, I have a jacket and an umbrella! But what if you’re biking?? Um, I have a jacket, a backpack cover and leggings and sometimes… if I’m just heading home to a hot shower and a change of clothes, I just get soaking wet! Like absolutely sodden! NBD! And if I’m heading somewhere without the option of a change of clothes, I bus there and that leads to a whole other issue of “But that must take ssooo long!?!” Yeah sure, a bit longer, but I can relax, pop on some headphones, set google maps to tell me when I’m near my stop, watch/listen to something and let the driver worry about the driving!