TomK32

Just think of the other things they'll find before finding MH370!

Wow, that's really Only the Shit I Love. It's now on my wishlist until my bank account allows to buy it.

Talking of Aussie bands: https://drunkmums.bandcamp.com/album/beer-baby and https://3pod.bandcamp.com/album/middleborough-rd

Did you try KDEConnect?

I buy my music at bandcamp and other sites. I always feel a bit angry if an artists doesn't offer a proper download for their music.

It's quite impressive that this red building Hualien County is just leaning and didn't collapse. Even most of the glass panes are still in place and mirror the ground just fine. Comparing this to earthquakes in places like Turkey when the buildings just collapse into a pile of rubble, I doubt the builders in Hualien could have done much better expect for foundation piles going far deeper than code dictates.

Wouldn't be the easiest way to program a robot to "show" it its task by simply moving the arm a few times in the paths it has to replicate afterwards?

I see a big difference between one side searching for human written content and not finding it and on the other side just making up stuff. Maybe most people expect the AI to search and quote from existing human-authored content? At least in situations where laws and regulations are involved this should be the default.

The problem will only get worse and you can expect humans to copy those AI-authored answers into the web where AIs are likely to digest them as facts.

From Wikipedia 3.7 million people were employed in New York City; Manhattan is the main employment center with 56% of all jobs.[19] Of those working in Manhattan, 30% commute from within Manhattan.

And: The primary mode of transportation in New York City is rail. Only 6% of shopping trips in Manhattan involve the use of a car.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_in_New_York_Cit...

I'm a huge fan of bollards that retract for motorist with access, but that's be impractical in such a case. Bollards are simply more visible for the average motorist who doesn't bother to read signs. The Netherlands are far more advanced when it comes to designing roads so the road user visually understands "you enter a village and 80 km/h is not acceptable any more".

I live in Linz in Austria, three years ago they turned a small passage into pedestrian only street and I still stop motorist and explain then that things have changed. Most just didn't see or understand the sign (which comes with an extra sign with a lot of exception obviously, for a 100m passage with no parking spaces or private garages). The city won't draw the "pedestrian zone" sign on the ground, I'm sure that would help a lot.

London had the first full assessment in 1964 that something ought to be done about cars on the basis of congestion, but sadly those building roads had the upper hand for a few more decades.

21 years of London's congestion charge and its effect will give New Yorkers a good idea on the effects to expected: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_congestion_charge#Effec...

A bit embarrassing that Germany, the USA, Japan and Russia embassies are among those refusing to pay the toll... I'm very very curious how NYC will treat the British ambassador.

> The toll will be $24 for small trucks and charter buses, and will rise to $36 for large trucks and tour buses

Still very acceptable for cargo.

I just hope you don't loose your love for pizza.

I do wonder if storing crates or trucks filled with poisoned vodka bottles right at the border would stop an invading russian army...

Not listed: living in a neighbourhood with great cycling infrastructure and less cars in the first place.

Neither high viz nor helmets help if the motorists are not driving their car as they should https://twitter.com/SurreyRoadCops/status/145491990796403507... https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/18206596.pictured-pol... https://thelincolnite.co.uk/2021/08/stoned-lorry-driver-crus... https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0qy743j0do

and Firefox on Linux.

As long as the focus is wrong: Yes. In Germany the Pendlerpauschale (a tax rebate when you live a long distance for your workplace) costs the state 2.2 billion Euros a year, Diesel is still taxed less than petrol, another 8.5 billion and there's a tax privilege for company cars in a mix-private use which costs 1.8 billion. There's plenty of money to pay bus/tram driver more and build more lines.

One thing most forget: Travel and transportation that is car-focused ignores those who can't yet/anymore operate a car. Better public transport allows you granny to travel easier as well as your children.

Oberösterreich is not in Germany, but that contract was only for 35 cars.

Vertical? I doubt that, besides the literal meaning of the word. The first two months saw a YOY increase of new registrations in Germany but the share of EV did drop. People are stubborn and love the ease of filling up a petrol tank. There were more Ferraris registered than BYD, though that might change. In November the Austrian state of Oberösterreich did announce BYD being the winning bid for buying a fleet of electric vehicles, but in January it was instead decided to lease BMW and VW cars instead. Sadly still cars instead of a stronger investment into public transport.

Fun facts: Kazakhstan was the last to leave the Soviet Union and Baikonur is still rented to Russia until 2050. Let's hope renting it doesn't go sour like it did with the naval facilities in Ukraine's Crimea...

Especially for the Speed selection it needs an invert toggle. Why not use numbers to click for the Capacity? Lastly, something like a sane default or a choice of the three most common search queries would make using it much faster.

Sure sounds funny but here's a few things:

  * Lukashenko is president since the post was created, his position is quite solid and will be useful when Putin's time is over.
  * just two years into his presidency he signed a Union treaty with Russia, then still ruled by Yeltsin. Russia always understood that treaty as Belarus becoming part of Russia, something Putin is very keen on, extending Russia by force has happened more than once since 2000 but Belarus joining peacefully would push Putin's popularity. Lukashenko again and again promised things like introducing a common currency by 2004, 2005, 2006 and "maybe" 2007. Didn't happen. For Lukashenko it's a carrot he dangles in front of Putin.
  * Belarus didn't join the war against Ukraine, and Lukashenko profited a lot when he got Wagner to stop their rebellion.

An here they are in 1997 signing the founding treaty of the Russia-Belarusian Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_State#/media/File:RIAN_a...

Funding to Ukraine is even more complicated than most people realize. A massive amount of the money spent for weapons to be delivered to Ukraine is produced outside Ukraine in the US, EU etc. In cases where existing vehicles and ammunition is sent it is also an opportunity for all donors to modernize their vehicles and ammunition by replacing the donated ones with new ones.

Surely not the last opposition figure and Russia will run out of manpower as every attacker has a higher loss than the defender. You forget Lukashenko, he wasn't unwilling to let Belarus join the Russian Federation for no reason. As soon as Putin dies for whatever reason, Lukashenko will be the first to race to the Kremlin and take over.

Personally I have great hopes that an outsider like Kasparov could become President of Russia once Russia is defeated. He did attempt to run for presidency in 2007.

You do read the news? Ukraine is sinking the Russian Black Sea fleet ship by ship with cheap sea-drones. Ukraine is destroying Russian oil refineries and Russia has to reduce it's crude oil production now that India seems to saturated with cheap Russian oil.

On Ukraine ceding territory, I assume that's in case of a peace deal? Putin will sell that as a victory to the Russian people and prepare the next attack a few years later. This simply isn't an option for Europe to allow. Russia will crumble.

Wikipedia writes: "As of early September 2022, 32 of France's 56 nuclear reactors were shut down due to maintenance or technical problems" and "In 2022, Europe's driest summer in 500 years had serious consequences for power plant cooling systems, as the drought reduced the amount of river water available for cooling."

Besides the wider social trend for kids, did the pedestrian deaths decrease because cars get safer or people are just too scared to walk and take the car for everything? The increase of cars on the roads support this though: There might be a lot less pedestrians now than there were in 1975.

Unlike your friends, you can't choose your family and sleepovers with friends is what my daughter has more than once a month.

SUV are get bigger with the blind zones in front of and around cars are getting longer and frontovers are becoming a problem as well https://www.kidsandcars.org/news/post/senator-wants-federal-...