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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (6 children)

They probably know that if they put corn starch on Stonehenge they'll be in jail for a few days and get community service, but if they put spray paint on a billionaire's yacht, they'd get shot.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Lots of people who have had a stroke and should absolutely not be driving are still driving.

Because in America telling old people they can't drive is basically telling them to sit at home die sad and lonely. Or worse, move out of their status symbol suburban homes to which they have tied their entire self worth.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (4 children)

There is no reason why the message sync that works from phone to phone could not be implemented on the desktop client as well.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Because she works for billionaires, not for the people. Vote blue no matter who.

[–] [email protected] 211 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I feel for the hundreds of engineers at Microsoft who have been yelling about these security issues since day one, but cannot say "I told you so" because they'd get fired.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Albany control of and intervention in local transportation decisions screws NYC just like it screws small towns with a state highway running through the center.

This is even worse than Hochul's decision to give a billion dollars of taxpayer money to billionaires to build a head injury stadium.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The noise is the worst part of race cars. Why do people want more of it?

Hearing damage is cumulative and permanent.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

To be clear, it is four times that pedestrians have to cross, not four times that drivers are encouraged to not slow down. Drivers are not explicitly encouraged to not slow down, but the point of the diverging diamond is to make drivers not have to slow down.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

This is expensive to address because you have to separate cyclists out to the right before the right car lane splits for right turns before the crossover. And then you have to build a bridge or tunnel for cyclists and pedestrians. On each side.

Really, any road busy enough to justify a diverging diamond probably already needed separated bike lanes. But in America (motto: "If you aren't in a car, you don't matter"), there almost certainly was not any cycling infrastructure there before.

There is one of these near me. Their solution for pedestrians is to make them cross the high speed outer lanes four times (where drivers are encouraged to not slow down). Their solution for cyclists is take the lane and pray or get off and do what the pedestrians have to do.

Edited for clarity: pedestrians cross four times, not drivers are encouraged to not slow down four times.

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