[-] davetapley@lemmy.world 24 points 6 months ago

Landlords create housing in the same way scalpers create tickets: They don't.

The houses are built, the work is done.

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I'm getting a lot of 'but my car is more convenient' arguments lately, and I'm struggling to convey why that doesn't make sense.

Specifically how to explain to people that: Sure, if you are able to drive, and can afford it, and your city is designed to, and subsidizes making it easy to drive and park, then it's convenient. But if everyone does it then it quickly becomes a tragedy of the commons situation.

I thought of one analogy that is: It would be 'more convenient' if I just threw my trash out the window, but if we all started doing that then we'd quickly end up in a mess.

But I feel like that doesn't quite get at the essence of it. Any other ideas?

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Just came across this article about a book titled:

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing An Epidemic of Mental Illness

I haven't read it, but I'm a little concerned that the article has zero mention of the built environment. Thoughts?

[-] davetapley@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago

So conflicted. On the one hand good to see them actually sticking to the rules as written, but then: common sense 😵‍💫

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That Lando jump start (www.planetf1.com)

“The stewards reviewed positioning/marshalling system data, video and determined that the video appeared to show that Car 4 moved before the start signal was given,” their report began.

“However, the FIA approved and supplied transponder fitted on the car did not indicate a jump start.

“Article 48.1 a) of the Formula One Sporting Regulations states clearly that the judgment of whether or not there was a jump start is to be made in accordance with the transponder, which did not show a jump start. In the circumstances, we took no further action

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My current pet peeve is people complaining about the 'cost' of protected bike lanes because "people on bikes don't pay their way".

Beyond even the data showing just how much private car ownership is already subsidized, can we just take a moment and acknowledge: We wouldn't need protected lanes at all if cars were not killing and injuring so many people.

It's like the owner of an animal bemoaning the cost of an enclosure for their animal, which keeps killing and maiming members of the public as they pass by.

It's not the victim's fault the enclosure is needed, and it's not the fault of someone riding a bike they need protection in a public space.

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[-] davetapley@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago

There are fresh concerns as to how casino employees will get to work once the Strip is closed so Max Verstappen can win another race in a season where he long ago clinched the championship.

Never has a sentence so succinctly described how I suspect a lot of people feel.

[-] davetapley@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Quite a good explainer, just found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGNgINohags

Writing a script to demonstrate the difference was very clever.

[-] davetapley@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Puts Lando (159) ahead of Charles (151) in drivers championship.

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Happy Birthday Murray Walker (en.m.wikipedia.org)

I still can't listen to The Chain without being right back there in my childhood home. I was too young to really understand what I was watching, but I remember loving it regardless.

[-] davetapley@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Genuinely scared seeing Logan's in lap. I almost wonder if need a medical meatball flag, seems wrong to tell driver it's their call because they'll inevitably push it too far.

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On September 28, Epic Games announced the sale of Bandcamp to Songtradr, Inc. In an internal announcement to staff, Epic Games wrote that Songtradr, Inc. would be offering positions to some Bandcamp employees but not all. This comes amidst ongoing contract negotiations with Bandcamp’s staff union - Bandcamp United.

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I wish I could share it, but I guess DRM makes the screen go black.

Starting at 09:00 in the F1 TV Pre-Qualifying Show - Qatar the presenters are standing in the pit lane with a regular camera, and start talking about Alonso.

Then it cuts to a shot of them from overhead using the pit lane cable camera, which immediately starts rolling down in the pit lane until it reaches the Aston Martin garage where it zooms in to the car being worked on.

Really cool attention to detail. And the first time I've seen that camera used by the F1 TV people.

[-] davetapley@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

Long, long overdue but I'm so nervous for the first woman who makes it to the grid, going to be so much attention and scrutiny.

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A video explaining modern monetary theory and how with a little Marxism it can benefit everyone.

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[-] davetapley@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

Haha, guilty admission: seeing nothing here I went to Reddit and sure enough someone had posted the update there.

I was about to go on with my day but then realized we're all gonna have to put a bit of work in to break free of Spez, glad you appreciated it!

[-] davetapley@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

If you are 'pro car' then you should definitely be resistant to adding lanes (and pro using that money for transit alternatives).

Getting cars off the road is the only thing that's going to make driving less miserable in the kinds of places were adding lanes is suggested.

[-] davetapley@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

The meals will (I assume) be allocated on inmate numbers, so the animal will be reared, killed, transported, then thrown in the trash because someone doesn't want to eat it.

More generally this is the weird 'opt out' culture of food, where vegan is considered the exceptional position, which is kinda stupid, in my opinion.

[-] davetapley@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My life so far:

  1. Be born in UK, be able to work / live anywhere in EU
  2. Emigrate to USA to try that for a bit (can always move back to anywhere in EU if I don't like it!)
  3. Brexit
  4. Trump

And yes, I do miss the trains.

[-] davetapley@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

I think the USA's National Weather Service Twitter presence is a good example.

If you look deep enough you'll see caveats like "supplemental service provided by NWS" and "Twitter feeds and tweets do not always reflect the most current information", but the truth is that a lot of people (and news organizations) depend on Twitter as their main interface to the NWS, and rarely if ever go to their website.

That obviously creates a tension, which bubbles up in scares like this:

Before last weekend’s storm, the National Weather Service’s Baltimore-Washington office sent this tweet saying that because of a new Twitter policy, automated tweets that show advisories, watches, and warnings might not load.

Contrast that to a world where NOAA (the federal administration which runs NWS) has their own instance: they get the benefit of being able to disseminate updates in a consumer friendly 'social media' style and they retain full control of platform and can be sure the service won't be held hostage, or go down in the middle of a storm.

Finally: if you're reading this from the USA, consider contact NOAA/NWS to let them know you'd like a fediverse presence, I did!

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