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swope

Aerospace engineer working to make aircraft greener & safer.

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  • I think also bans "coal-rolling" ... If that wasn't already illegal.

  • It would be more likely to be critically hit by an SUV or pick-up, just saying.

    • Dancing.
    • Tattoos.
    • Foreskins.
    • Shrimp buffets.
    • ...
  • Recently our county sheriff put out an Amber Alert (a forced alert on all mobile devices) but the obfuscated link resolved to Twitter.

    I wonder what portion of the public saw the Twitter login page and just closed the tab, never to see the details of the child abduction.

  • Maybe this more of a misheard lyrics thing, but for a long time I thought "noxious gas" had to do with nitrogen oxides (NOx), and then spread to other metaphorical applications like "noxious weeds" and so on.

  • Science Fiction @kbin.social
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    A nice list of 71 Sci-Fi movies

    And they rhyme.

  • This Is a Religion for People

    As opposed to a religion for droids?

  • I think homelessness and despair cause mental illness and substance abuse. If we can prevent "normal" people from losing their homes, I think they would be more stable and able to take care of themselves long term.

    Allowing homelessness is far more costly to everyone else than preventing it.

  • Setting aside the topic of generative AI, isn't it about time that Pokemon goes to the public domain?

    It's been a long time since I read Lawrence Lessig, but I think we would undo Disney's mods to copyright laws and allow more cultural remixing after a reasonable time. Like maybe 20 years instead of a century?

  • I wonder how many Primer viewers first learned about the film from this comic.

  • An EV engineer friend of mine said that this is specifically the Hertz Teslas because Tesla parts are expensive and sometimes hard to get. So when a Tesla breaks, they sell it rather than repair it.

  • I rented a Bolt EV from Hertz once. The car was fine, but the charging stations in the area were mostly broken, or they required downloading an app and giving personal information to charge.

    I got the feeling the charging networks are all about collecting government incentives and the sale of private information from subscribers, and not at all about service.

    My new preferred rental car is no rental car at all.

  • I enjoyed the humor, but the OP did set a boundary of [serious].

    So I guess what we are learning here is that setting boundaries is always going to provoke some people to break those boundaries out of spite.

  • The conviction was about a year after the crimes, which is a lot faster than I would expect than in my country. 5.5 years does seem light to me, too.

    The rhetoric is still somewhat apologetic to the perpetrators. Like "it's difficult for students to resist due to a sense of closeness to their teachers" doesn't say anything about rank, authority, and power that teachers have over students. And "checking whether a teacher is under excessive pressure" seems to redirect fault away from the perpetrator.

  • I wondered if the weapon was a Taser or cattle prod... But it says "deadly weapon" so maybe it was some kind of custom supervillain lighting gun.⚡

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.ml
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    Calvin Calming

    Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    L.A. Metro Shifts Funds for Transit to Expand Highway Lanes

    It should surprise no bros that Southern California still wants to add one more lane to fix traffic.

    After the last expansion project, traffic on I-405 only got worse. Metro wants to try again.

    Under the proposal, Metro will “add and shift Measure R (Metro 2008 countywide sales tax) Multimodal Highway Subregional Program funds to various projects, mostly freeway lanes/ramps expansion and arterial streets/intersections expansion,

    Programmer Humor @lemmy.ml
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    Debugging in Production

    Science @kbin.social
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    Polynesians steering by the stars met Native Americans long before Europeans arrived

    Study of modern DNA shakes up ideas of when and where contact happened.

    fuckcars @kbin.social
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    Bill Nye the Science Guy - Cars

    Bill Nye the Science Guy explains some of the problems with cars.

    Antiwork @lemmy.ml
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    Is this satire?