SlopppyEngineer

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[–] SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

With Uber and other ride hailing services it became clear that cheap point to point transport replaces trips that are otherwise being made with public transportation like buses, and thereby increasing traffic. There were also more trips in total done because of the convenience than were done before, thus also increasing traffic. It's the classic Jevons paradox.

Self driving taxis could certainly have the same effect or more if they are cheaper than ride hailing. The increase in usage can easily be greater than the number of private cars it replaces.

Pollution causes autism. Big pick-up trucks have more pollution.

That's what the hurricane said

[–] SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I find it easier to just remember the approximate table.

0C = 30F

10C = 50F

20C = 70F

30C = 90F

But that means the great idea moments are during unproductive times. People at the office must be allowed to be unproductive. If there is strict no talking and no coffee breaks allowed and strict clocking in because time is money there isn't much innovative benefit to being in the office.

Negative, you are 65% oxygen, so in effect hot air. 18.5% is carbon, 10% is hydrogen.

Or by molecules, you are mostly water.

And by those metrics, the average vehicle exhaust from a year of driving contains as much carbon and oxygen as 300 humans.

[–] SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de 78 points 1 year ago (13 children)

And then everybody slaps a "Only for 18+, fill in your birth day" on their site and nobody can legally claim it's harming children.

[–] SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's Truth Social. Musk seems to use it as a blueprint for the new Twitter.

[–] SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The one that makes the decision sees all workers as replaceable cogs and the managers that know which people are the good ones are not consulted. We call that the "foie gras" style of management.

We have curse stacking so it forms one big word. Godverdommemiljaardenondju. It's an ugly mix of dialect, French and Dutch, meaning something like "curse you a billion times in the name of God". And if it's only a mild inconvenience we only use a small part, like "dju" or "miljaar."

[–] SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

TruthX. It brings it more in line with SpaceX and model X, and also tells what it's turning into.

Propaganda. In this case it's designed to make people angry about an issue and in angry people critical thinking shuts down and falls back on group opinions. Any rational argument from outside that group then becomes an attack on the commonly held beliefs.

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