If you're not shocked by the fraction of city space taken up by car parking, you're not paying attention.
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If you're not shocked by the fraction of city space taken up by car parking, you're not paying attention.
If the inventor of Clippy had somehow become a secret trillionaire and launched a years-long back-room plan to get back at everyone who made fun of him by inserting obnoxious AI assistants into EVERYthing... how would that look any different than now
If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice
Strait remains closed, producers are shutting down. There’s a real nonlinearity here: a 2-week closure of the Strait has much more than twice the adverse impact on global oil supply as a 1-week closure. If this goes on for multiple weeks — oil prices could go much higher.
The war that is not a war that is just getting started and might last until September is pretty much done and we’re also going to seize a strait we don’t control and maybe kill more leaders if we don’t like them
For some US ballpark numbers, hybrids + EVs were 19.2% of MY 2024 production. Weighted average MPG in refined product terms (eg, not EPA MPG calc of 99.9 for BEVs), the hybrid + gasoline new vehicle fleet got 44.0 MPG versus 24.8 MPG for ICE-only. Weighted that way, fleet MPG for MY was 29.5 MPG.
A reminder that humans in cars - notably omitted from this thanks to motonormativity - kill 1.2m people every year
the ooda loop of manned systems vs unmanned with ai .... humans are the weak link in many scenarios
The emperor is being interviewed stark naked, insisting he has a magic outfit that only the wise can see. The journalists play along, not because they believe him but because *he'll* say they're fools if they can't see it. So they go on and ask him about military strategy and ignore his exposed dick
No idea what you're using for the database, but I've been blown away by what can be done with DuckDB using the spatial extension for little hobby projects I've done.
Reposting for the LOLs
#birds
Great chart. Nicely illustrates why so many oil and LNG-importing nations are electrifying as fast as they can.
Import renewables and electrotech once, rather than importing volatile and expensive hydrocarbons every day forever.
That's the choice.
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Most people don't have an intuitive feel for the way that kinetic energy goes up as the square of speed.
Every sleep researcher ever, all the time: permanent Standard Time is unquestionably better for our health
Governments: we're switching to permanent daylight time!
Anyway, sign this petition for permanent Standard time: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
This could go one of two ways: either SpaceX/xAI goes public and becomes another massively overvalued empty meme stock like Tesla now is, or it fails and pops Tesla and crashes tech stocks across the board.
Eisenhower
A giant black Ford F-650 truck
I am forced to choose between buying my Boy Kibble or filling up my car to get to my email job
Parenting an 11 year old girl in four easy steps
1. Notice she looks upset
2. Ask if everything is okay
3. Daughter screams "I'm fine!!!"
4. Back away slowly into the abyss
Inject this content straight into my veins
A diagram showing how a 2 minute delay to an active travel trip reduces the accessible area from a 15-minute trip by 25%
As I was made to wait 2.5 minutes to cross a road this morning, let's again do the maths simple.ghost.io/lets-do-the-...
uh oh
Forget net-zero by 2050. Let's have full energy security by investing to bring that forward. A lot.
friend sent this over from the other place and unfortunately I did laugh
All bikelanes must be good for an 8 year old and for an 80 year old; if not, do NOT even call them bikelanes.
Actually, everything you do in cities, parks, sidewalks, all, must be good for and 8 and an 80 year old
If good for 8 & 80 it'll be good for all ages, 0 - 100+.
