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I think also bans "coal-rolling" ... If that wasn't already illegal.
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grossly overvalued
Just grossly? lol
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It would be more likely to be critically hit by an SUV or pick-up, just saying.
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- Dancing.
- Tattoos.
- Foreskins.
- Shrimp buffets.
- ...
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I'm guessing this is a "leopards ate my face" situation for a lot of people.
Recently I saw a meme showing some poor crewman with his window facing the red glow of a warp nacelle, but I've lost it now. Does anyone know where I can find it?
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Interpretation
Proximity to traffic and high air interchange increased the exposure to air pollution of commuters using motorised transport. Larger inhalation rates and commuting time increased inhaled dose among active commuters. Benefits of active commuting from physical activity are larger than the risk from an increased inhaled dose of fine particles.
I've often wondered about the net effect. Interesting.
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I don't even know what the FAA counterpart for maritime is.
The FAA has issued a final rule that will require most larger aircraft built after Jan. 1, 2028, to meet new efficiency standards designed to reduce their carbon emissions per passenger mile. The new rule will cover all subsonic jets with a maximum takeoff weight of more than 12,500 pounds and turboprops with an MTOW of 19,000 pounds.
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Recently our county sheriff put out an Amber Alert (a forced alert on all mobile devices) but the obfuscated link resolved to Twitter.
I wonder what portion of the public saw the Twitter login page and just closed the tab, never to see the details of the child abduction.
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Reggie immediately chooses violence and Betty is so ready to conspire.
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Probably all crisis actors. /s
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Maybe this more of a misheard lyrics thing, but for a long time I thought "noxious gas" had to do with nitrogen oxides (NOx), and then spread to other metaphorical applications like "noxious weeds" and so on.
And they rhyme.
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"Butt bots... Sorry. But bots have become..." (Read in Ze Frank voice)
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The map is 64-bit.
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This Is a Religion for People
As opposed to a religion for droids?
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Found Ismo's fediverse account.
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Just don't make it weird.
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I think homelessness and despair cause mental illness and substance abuse. If we can prevent "normal" people from losing their homes, I think they would be more stable and able to take care of themselves long term.
Allowing homelessness is far more costly to everyone else than preventing it.
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Setting aside the topic of generative AI, isn't it about time that Pokemon goes to the public domain?
It's been a long time since I read Lawrence Lessig, but I think we would undo Disney's mods to copyright laws and allow more cultural remixing after a reasonable time. Like maybe 20 years instead of a century?
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I wonder how many Primer viewers first learned about the film from this comic.
www.planetizen.com
It should surprise no bros that Southern California still wants to add one more lane to fix traffic. > > > After the last expansion project, traffic on I-405 only got worse. Metro wants to try again. > > > > > Under the proposal, Metro will “add and shift Measure R (Metro 2008 countywide sales tax) Multimodal Highway Subregional Program funds to various projects, mostly freeway lanes/ramps expansion and arterial streets/intersections expansion, > >
> > > Signs of life beyond Earth could take forms that are clearly artificial – radio or light signals, or even evidence of large-scale engineering. > > I know this is pretty basic for many of you, but I'm happy to see this from NASA.
Study of modern DNA shakes up ideas of when and where contact happened.
The state of Missouri has a lot of towns named for American ideals, like Liberty, Independence, Peculiar, and Tightwad. [\#showerthoughts](https://kbin.social/tag/showerthoughts)
While satellite-based global navigation systems have become essential tools in our daily lives, their effectiveness is often hampered by the fact that the signals cannot be accessed in underground, indoor, or underwater environments. Recently, a novel navigation system has been invented to address this issue by utilizing the characteristics of the ubiquitous and highly penetrative cosmic-ray muons.
Joby Aviation said this week that it got the green light to flight test its factory-made air taxi, which it hopes to launch commercially in 2025. It's one of several companies reaching for the skies.
The sexual division of labor among human foraging populations has typically been recognized as involving males as hunters and females as gatherers. Recent archeological research has questioned this paradigm with evidence that females hunted (and went to war) throughout the Homo sapiens lineage, though many of these authors assert the pattern of women hunting may only have occurred in the past. The current project gleans data from across the ethnographic literature to investigate the prevalence of women hunting in foraging societies in more recent times. Evidence from the past one hundred years supports archaeological finds from the Holocene that women from a broad range of cultures intentionally hunt for subsistence. These results aim to shift the male-hunter female-gatherer paradigm to account for the significant role females have in hunting, thus dramatically shifting stereotypes of labor, as well as mobility.
Mars is named for a god of war because it is red. Red is associated with war because blood is red. Mars is red because of iron oxide on the surface. Blood is red because hemoglobin contains iron that oxidizes when it's exposed to air. [\#showerthoughts](https://kbin.social/tag/showerthoughts)
NASA discusses the status of its X-57 Maxwell all-electric aircraft project.