[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 hours ago

With varying degrees of regret. Some cities named to keep the right of ways, so rebuilding is more reasonable, others gave/sold it off and now they're double plus fucked.

Most of the pre-1950's trams were private, and not city run. The cities that took them over and kept them running are looking really smart at this point.

My city is about as smart as a box of rocks.

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 days ago

Ah, the replacement mythos, blended with White Fascism and Christian Nationalist chaser. All badness all the way down.

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Washington State Department of Transportation is starting to realize that we cannot afford to maintain the sheer volume of roads we build. The maintenance debt that we have built up is bankrupting our governments and it's only going to get worse year by year.

Civilization itself cannot afford to have so many car oriented roads long term.

https://www.thecentersquare.com/washington/article_e69a80be-75f1-11ef-8b50-3babe18f06e9.html

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 days ago

It sounds like Twitter is hosting their services on several cloud platforms or replication services that weren't blocked by Brazil. So, users in Brazil just hit the 3rd party platforms and kept going like usual.

Is that Twitter's fault and/or on purpose? Don't know yet, but services like Akamai need to make sure their hosting Twitter doesn't get them banned in Brazil across the board.

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 days ago

International relations are often tough to build, especially when one side is quite rude and then wanting special benefits afterwards.

The UK cut the ties, so the EU has more say in how relations are rebuilt. The UK had a ton of special exemptions and their own national identity in the EU then many other members and the UK still freaked out about how oppressed they were.

The EU doesn't really owe the UK anything that's not in still existing agreements and if the UK wants a relationship they'll have to come to the table bringing something, not just hurling demands.

I'm just really glad that the UK leaving the EU didn't devolve into armed conflict. That's a pretty normal arc for such a big relations change.

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 36 points 4 days ago

Who would have guessed that she's corrupt? Strange that she's acting just like her right wing anti-Constitution bosses on the Supreme Court. I wonder how that kind of corruption trickles down.

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 days ago

The right has been trying to destroy schools since they were founded hundreds of years ago. Secular, public education is an anathema to the racist and religious indoctrination required to maintain right wing communities.

This is very much a two birds, one stone moment for their agenda.

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 43 points 4 days ago

The summary that I liked from the last post was "python is the second best language for everything". There's always something specialized and better for every given job. But, if you want one tool that'll do a solid job everywhere, python is your go to.

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 17 points 4 days ago

Plus the estimated million+ who smartly fled Russia in the first year of the war.

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 24 points 4 days ago
  • Women get educated
  • Women get their own money
  • Women get control over reproductive rights and tools

So much of our world is based around women keeping it on the rails without receiving credit for their efforts.

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 days ago

If the government financial trams aren't already investigating it, then they're stupid. This is shooting fish in a barrel for financial crimes.

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 12 points 5 days ago

We're entering the 'blockchain for every need' stage. Expect massive money to flow into scams, poor ideas, and outright dangerous uses for a few years .

Before Blockchain we had 'the web' itself in the dot com era. Before that? I saw it in basic computing as a solution to everything.

[-] azimir@lemmy.ml 17 points 5 days ago

I had a student came into office hours asking why their program got a bad grade. I looked and it didn't actually do anything related to the assignment.

Upon further query, they objected saying that the CI pipeline built it just fine.

So ..yeah... You can write a program that builds and runs, but doesn't do the required tasks, which makes it wrong. This was not a concept they'd figured out yet.

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The more car trips taken, regardless of how safe you try to make things, or how much you try to educate drivers, or how many 'be careful' street signs you put up, will always increase the chances of a crash.

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submitted 7 months ago by azimir@lemmy.ml to c/fuck_cars@lemmy.ml

The measure to make vehicles weighing 1.6 tons and over pay 3x the parking rates for the first two hours has passed in Paris.

Now, let's get that in place for London and many other other places to help slow, and even reverse, this trend towards massive personal vehicles.

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submitted 10 months ago by azimir@lemmy.ml to c/fuck_cars@lemmy.ml

This video outlines some of the relationships between US commuting culture and the perspectives that it's engendered about the role of the city. The, when compared and contrasted to other nations' approach to city design and perspectives shows that it's possible to have a city core that's more than just a workplace.

My city is currently clinging to a small area of interesting downtown core. Everything else has either been bulldozed for parking lots, turned into office buildings with no store fronts, or plowed into wider roads. Every time I show the maps of the city with how car-focused we've made downtown to a city council member they recoil at the desolation, but it's so hard to get change happening.

We need fewer roads, cars, and non-human spaces in our city core areas. Making wider walking paths, biking roads, mass transit (not just busses!), and planting trees to make spaces more attractive will all continue to invite people to come downtown, not just someone desperate enough to drive there, park, hit one store and drive away.

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The mayor of Hoboken, NJ came in with a vision of reducing traffic deaths to pedestrians and cyclists. He instituted several strategies of traffic calming, increasing pedestrian visibility, reducing city wide street speeds to 20 mph with schools and parks down to 15 mph. Within a few years of road improvements and redesigns their pedestrian traffic deaths to zero for several years.

The article does note that half of the streets have bike lanes, they've put buffers between pedestrians and cars, and continue to redesign intersections with a focus on safety instead of just focusing on car speed/throughput.

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submitted 1 year ago by azimir@lemmy.ml to c/books@lemmy.ml

Given that it's June, my suggested book to read is "Monstrous Regiment" by Terry Pratchett. Yet another wonderful work by one of the best authors in the history of humanity.

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