[-] PhoenixAlpha@lemmy.ca 25 points 3 weeks ago

If your city is only designed for drivers, it's no surprise that people will want to drive places. When you remove parking minimums, you also need to prioritize transit and micromobility accessibility, so people are actually incentivized to switch modes. Cities can and are making this shift successfully: here's one example.

[-] PhoenixAlpha@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

You really ought to get on the mathfinder train

[-] PhoenixAlpha@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

They are more privacy focused, but they are not "better" in an unqualified way. Mullvad and Tor especially are not recommendable for daily usage without significant asterisks, they have some features disabled and if you modify their settings at all, add extensions, or even log in to websites, you ruin their anonymity features.

Librewolf is nice, but it's basically just Firefox with Arkenfox pre-applied, and it lacks automatic updates which are important for security. If you have a package manager that's better, but by definition you'll still get updates slower than using Firefox and applying Arkenfox yourself. For instance Firefox 129 released on August 6, Librewolf 129 on August 10.

[-] PhoenixAlpha@lemmy.ca 139 points 3 months ago

"Why and how would you falsely confess to anything?"

Like this.

TLDR: cops tortured this poor guy into believing he killed his father while on medication. They threatened to euthanize his dog. He tried to hang himself in the interrogation room. Then they found his father ALIVE. Then they sent him to a psychiatric ward, since he was unstable from the torture THEY inflicted.

It sickens me to see that someone thinks this can't happen.

[-] PhoenixAlpha@lemmy.ca 17 points 4 months ago

Induction stovetops are fast, efficient, and safe. (but regular electric is fine as well)

Water heaters are similarly available in electric and heat pump configurations.

[-] PhoenixAlpha@lemmy.ca 19 points 6 months ago

Air pollution from coal and oil is estimated to kill 5 million people every year. That's more than every nuclear disaster combined, and not to mention the signifcant safety advances that have been made since those disasters.

All nuclear waste ever produced can fit in one football field. It's stored in containers so thick you can go up and hug them safely, and so strong you can ram them with a train without doing significant damage. And if need be, we have the means to bury it deep underground.

Renewables are fine, but they don't deliver consistently, so they need backup power. Nuclear provides that at much lower environmental cost than, say, giant lithium batteries.

[-] PhoenixAlpha@lemmy.ca 29 points 6 months ago

They should equally be allowed to own homes without yards. But exclusionary zoning, minimum setback, and maximum lot coverage laws don't allow that.

[-] PhoenixAlpha@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago

There is an android skin in the settings, not as fleshed out as the ios one but it gets rid of the uncanny valley effect for me

[-] PhoenixAlpha@lemmy.ca 7 points 7 months ago

I use Startpage and am happy with it. Yes it uses Google, but Google can't track you as they can only see that the search came from the Startpage server. You also don't get any of the AI summary or sponsored link bullshit. Beyond that, you could try SearXNG which can aggregate results from many engines.

[-] PhoenixAlpha@lemmy.ca 20 points 8 months ago

If USB4 is so good, why isn't there USB4 2?

USB-IF:

[-] PhoenixAlpha@lemmy.ca 9 points 9 months ago

If you're looking to rent for the day, you would never pick 3 cars over 1. And if you already own the 3 cars, you wouldn't go out of your way to rent another one. I don't see how a parking charge would change this, unless it was far heavier than this proposal is.

Additionally, think about how many full 9-seat vans there are in Paris. Think about how many single-occupant SUVs there are. I think the benefit here is pretty clear.

[-] PhoenixAlpha@lemmy.ca 14 points 9 months ago

Article says they are tripling the cost, and 9 is more than 3, so...no.

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