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destructdisc@lemmy.worldOPto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•Coventry in the UK is trialing a tiny battery-electric single-car tram it calls the Very Light RailEnglish6·1 hour agoIt won’t get stuck in car traffic, for one, and it’s reversible so its operational footprint is smaller than that of a bus network. Also predictable because it’s on rails so people outside the tram know exactly where it’s going. Also lower operational and maintenance costs because less wear and smoother ride
destructdisc@lemmy.worldOPto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•Peak American design: a vehicle that is 6 meters long, weighs over 4 tonnes, and can only carry six or seven people (but will usually carry one person most of the time.)English1·3 hours agoF-150 SuperCrew with an 8-foot bed is 244 inches long, just over 20 feet. But that’s a truck with an 8-foot bed, it might actually do something useful sometimes. This is a three-row pavement princess SUV.
destructdisc@lemmy.worldOPto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•Peak American design: a vehicle that is 6 meters long, weighs over 4 tonnes, and can only carry six or seven people (but will usually carry one person most of the time.)English71·17 hours agoExpect a lot of dinged doors and door dinging.
…which will then lead to wider parking spaces and even more space stolen from pedestrians and cyclists.
destructdisc@lemmy.worldOPto A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•Florida sheriff warns protesters ahead of nationwide rallies: ‘We will kill you dead’10·17 hours agoWith how cops are, it’s tantamount to the same thing – it’s tacit approval for them to straight up murder protesters regardless of provocation. They can always make that shit up later and get off without consequences.
destructdisc@lemmy.worldto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•Ron DeSantis says Floridians have right to hit protesters with carsEnglish2·18 hours agoAnd I’m sure no one is ever going to misuse that and claim the protester calmly standing in front of the car was “threatening them!!!1!!!1”
destructdisc@lemmy.worldOPto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•Peak American design: a vehicle that is 6 meters long, weighs over 4 tonnes, and can only carry six or seven people (but will usually carry one person most of the time.)English111·18 hours agoAs a car enthusiast I’m incredibly conflicted because muscle cars are cool – but I can’t for the life of me tell you why. They’re loud, heavy, inefficient, and much clumsier and slower than other sports cars (which is why I prefer sports cars anyway). They have incredible amounts of power but they can’t even use it properly except on a prepped drag surface, maybe.
You’re right, they really are dumb as fuck.
destructdisc@lemmy.worldOPto A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•Florida sheriff warns protesters ahead of nationwide rallies: ‘We will kill you dead’24·18 hours agoNone of those things automatically give you the right to murder someone. Due process exists for a reason.
destructdisc@lemmy.worldOPto A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•Shooting an unarmed woman who was just trying to walk home: just LAPD things211·4 days agoThis does happen regularly in the US.
destructdisc@lemmy.worldto A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•Taekwondo player alleges gang-rape by priest, others inside Kanpur ashram. A national-level Taekwondo player has alleged that she was gang-raped inside an ashram located right next to a police station1·4 days agoNo you won’t. It’s significantly higher in the subcontinent, and those are the 10% that actually make it to the news. We tend to cling pretty hard to the “women are property” idea around these parts, unfortunately
destructdisc@lemmy.worldto A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•Taekwondo player alleges gang-rape by priest, others inside Kanpur ashram. A national-level Taekwondo player has alleged that she was gang-raped inside an ashram located right next to a police station2·4 days agoUttar Pradesh is India’s analogue to the US’ deep south. Take the worst stereotypes you’d associate with that, turn them up 11x, and that about covers what it’s like.
Waymo uses Jaguar I-Pace CUVs that are built primarily out of aluminum and powered by lithium ion batteries. Aluminum melts at about 660°C, and Li-ion battery fires can easily reach 1000°C
Tom Morello was at the protest, hopefully he’s had the same thought
destructdisc@lemmy.worldOPto A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•The Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation.58·5 days agoChannel 9 reported it as her being “caught in the crossfire”, as if she got hit in a gun battle between protesters and cops or something
destructdisc@lemmy.worldOPto A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•The Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation.51·5 days agoThey’re two separate statements. I acknowledge that it’s beyond shitty for cops to be shooting anyone (especially journalists).
But also the news outlet in question is known to have shitty politics and therefore while this specific article is more or less accurate (and backed up by other sources) , they are far from a reliable source.
destructdisc@lemmy.worldOPto A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•The Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation.219·5 days agoOkay but also, fuck LBC, they’re a rightwing (and Zionist) mouthpiece
destructdisc@lemmy.worldOPto A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•TIL a single 25kg bag of flour now costs $1000 in Gaza.331·6 days agoGaza is extremely short on physical cash, which is ironically why merchants only accept physical cash. This has given rise to a middleman industry where Gazans have to wirelessly transfer money via the Bank of Palestine app to a “money exchanger” office who will give them physical cash in exchange, while taking a (now 45%) cut for themselves to be able to pay the rich businessmen who are hoarding the cash
destructdisc@lemmy.worldOPto A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•The Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation.27·6 days agoJudging by their relative sizes in the screengrab and with some quick back-of-the-envelope math, the cop shot her from about 5 meters away. That’s pretty fucking close to point blank, no?
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