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Cake day: November 14th, 2023

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  • This is a bit of a reach but bike lanes are most effective when they connect directly. That means they are built on major roads, not cul-de-sacs that go nowhere.

    Who buys roads in front of major roads: the poor. Because the expensive homes are in cul-de-sacs far from the heavy road noise.

    So the law is equally just to rich and poor in the same way it is equally just to rich and poor by making sleeping under a bridge illegal.

    Everyone benefits from the bike lanes, but only the poorer homeowners are inconvenienced.




  • I thought they were completely insane but losing their parking because of poor planning is a good reason to be mad.

    The city planners created a town that wasn’t walkable and then took away parking from a few people knowing that a minority of complainers can’t fight back.

    If the council wants to take away a few citizens’ parking, how about they bulldoze the council members yards for parking lots. Even better is eminent domain the council members homes to turn it mixed use urban design to make the town walkable. Then they can have more bike lanes and everyone is happy.









  • 2 years was a long time to wait to use the extra memory that Linux could use out of the box.

    For 8 years, Linux had the same limitations as Windows. Then for 2 years it was ahead. Pae could always be turned back on with a boot switch. Going back 25 years to criticize Windows is kind of weird but you do you.

    (I run Linux on a variety of PCs, SBC’s, and VM’s in my house. I just get annoyed by unjustified Linux fanboyism.)







  • “With this in mind, it should be clear that a candle flame gives off light even though it is not a plasma. In contrast to candle flames, certain burning mixtures of acetylene can reach 3,100 degrees Celsius, with an associated Debye length of 0.01 millimeters, according to the Coalition for Plasma Science. Such flames are therefore plasmas (as long as the flame is much larger than 0.01 millimeters, which is usually the case). Other flames, including flames from campfires, propane stoves, and cigarette lighters, have temperatures that lie somewhere between these two extremes, and therefore may or may not be plasma.”

    https://www.wtamu.edu/~cbaird/sq/mobile/2014/05/28/do-flames-contain-plasma/