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nilloc

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  • How people around the world get around.

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  • I’d argue it’s both freedom and dependence.

    If you live in a rural area it really does feel like you are trapped there without a motorized vehicle. Especially late at night or in an emergency, even an ambulance can be 20+ minutes away in many places.

    You can see this with the popularity of over powered e-bikes with teens. Basically silent dirt bikes at this point. They let kids go much farther from home and reduce the speed differential on road sides.

    Public transit would be nice of course, but lots of people live 20-50km from any stores, and plenty live further. And have long cold winters.

    I commuted by bike and subway for 18 years in Boston, but then moved home to care for dementia parents, now my son is biking (just pedals), and we’re forced to ride on paths or one town over where they have wide sidewalks and crossings (there aren’t either in our 2 stoplight town). Btw my commute took twice as long by public transport than by bike, but that’s another issue.

    Like everything else, it’s a gray area, I think the US could realistically reduce vehicle use to the 40%s, but to go much lower would require the elimination of sprawl, building denser housing and a ton more local shopping, doctors, and grocery stores. Not just more trains and buses.

    /end rant, sorry it got long, nuance is tricky.

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  • That’s what I like about Ruby ORMs. They did all the conversion for you, and you could have SQLite on your dev box, Postgres on the test server and MySQL on the annoying production host that wouldn’t run anything else.

    This was 18 years ago though.

  • Pi day is behind us, but I don't care. What is your favorite pie, sweet or savory?

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  • Strawberry rhubarb with mostly rhubarb. Two crusts, nine of that crumble garbage and a big lump of vanilla ice cream on top.

  • Sir, this is a Wendy's...

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  • Our dog is kinda gray, but his hair is banded black/white/black. So it shows up on anything.

    Unfortunately he sheds like 2 dogs so we’re ultimately in the same boat.

    Reusable grocery bags are the most embarrassing, so I end up cleaning them every week.

    Dog tax:

  • Most could work on anyone really

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  • I’m 6’3 and tall to most people, but fit under most doors just fine.

    Basement stairs can fuck right off though I’ve done that lotsa times and it managed to be a surprising painful thing every time.

    Also I think I’d laugh if someone said and if the short guy things to me, I get called things like string bean and “big guy” by bros who don’t know me.

  • It's Saturday, what have you watched this week?

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  • Just watched Back to the Future with my 8 year old.

    He’s kinda sensitive about stressful scenes and bullies, and has had a hard time finishing some movies, but he made it through and was the most psyched I’ve seen him about a movie at the end.

    We’re gonna watch 2 next Friday. He’s Pumped.

  • Sweet Deal? American Airlines Pays 5 People $1,200 Each To Leave Because Plane Was Too Heavy

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  • They do this with overbooked flights too.

    Is a decent deal if your schedule allows it. You get a free hotel and meal vouchers too.

  • Texas school sent waiver for parents to allow kids to be coached by sex offender

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  • absolutely and horrifically education-adjacent.

    I work on a ski team helping set up the course and not even directly interacting with athletes (unless theirs an injury, we’re sort of the first responder to stabilize and radio to patrol if necessary). Just in order to do that job I have to spend 2-3 hours each season reviewing Safe Sport courses that train us to spot, report and prevent creeps like that from abusing children. And it’s not even difficult, if you have at least half a (non-perverted) brain, it’s mostly common sense.

    Getting a letter like this as a parent would be calling national news worthy level of creepy.

    Fucking insane Christian language makes it even creepier. This sounds like enabler bullshit and should get reported to authorities on its own.

  • What was your "we have to leave now" moment?

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  • No substances were involved, but when I was 16, my parents went out for the night and my buddy and I took my mom’s new Jeep Cherokee for a ride down a moderately serious fire trail near my house. It had rained and there were a few long puddles to ford, maybe axle deep at most.

    Anyways we got it good and muddy and we were worried it got scratched on branches, so we took it to a 24 hour car wash, cleaned it, and everything looked great. Then while dropping off my buddy, I closed the back door and it didn’t latch all the way so I sorta hip checked it closed. The fucking thing caved in, and had a serious crease in just below the body line by the door handle. Like it was mad of cardboard.

    Anyway I got in trouble and we mostly pulled the dent back, but never fully fixed it and had to hear shit about it for years after.

    But they never knew that we had it on 3 wheels and possible airborne an hour or two before the door dent.

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    Democrats Are Pissed Another One of Their Own Has Died in Congress

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  • Nobody here thinks the dementia riddled fascist should have been president at any age.

  • 'He’s got to pay': Chaos as Republican caught pantless in town hall refuses to resign

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  • 2026-04-23

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  • It’s a spear thrower, like finding a smoking gun.

  • Mr. Bryant finds this unacceptable.

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  • Wouldn’t he still be hovering if he’d missed the landing?

  • Copyright and DMCA Best Practices for Fediverse Operators

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  • Take Doctorow’s advice and lobby your government to withdraw from or ignore the DMCA. If all of Europe did it, and Canada and China (if it isn’t already) it’ll have no power.

  • Massive Attack: Boots on the Ground (ft Tom Waits) review – first single in a decade is a dark hymn for our times

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  • He’s not pulling any punches. Gonna have to explain some of what he said to my 8yo though.

  • Pancake posting week 2: make your own batter

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  • Yup, but I never bother with separating the eggs, just make the batter before preheating the waffle iron, letting the batter sit for 5-10 minutes makes for fluffy waffles, though we’ve also switched to oat milk, which might behave differently too (I don’t recommend oat creamer though, made them too floppy, thought they did get a crispy layer after 30 seconds out of the iron.

  • First Loon of the year

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  • Yeah grew up in MI and didn’t see them until moving to New England. There are way more here and we even have a ski area/mountain named after them.

  • SpaceX satellites half the size of pickup trucks are falling from the sky

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  • F-350°F for F-150 minutes.

    I think this could be an untapped cookbook market. Make it look like a shop manual and I’m in.

  • ‘Project Hail Mary’ Won’t Be ‘Streaming Anytime Soon’ as It Extends Run in Movie Theaters: ‘It’s an Experience to Share With Others’

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  • Add to that, the only “affordable” theater in my area just shut down. Like a week before this came out. I’m not paying $60+ for 2 hours in seats not built for a tall person.

  • Do you still listen to the radio?

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  • Just whichever NPR affiliate comes in clearest on a drive.

  • Dogs @lemmy.world
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    If she's cold, it's too late for you

  • camping @sh.itjust.works
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    My son's art project while camping at a friend's lean-to

  • Air-Cooled VWs @lemmy.world
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    Cool splitty at Transporterfest last weekend

  • Oldtimers, Youngtimers and Vintage Motoring @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    OC

    Brazilian Beetle at a car show

  • Oldtimers, Youngtimers and Vintage Motoring @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Yeah, it's basically a Ferrari

  • Oldtimers, Youngtimers and Vintage Motoring @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Found an architect at the ski lodge! (OC)

  • Oldtimers, Youngtimers and Vintage Motoring @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Technically it's a 90s car

  • Lemma - An iOS Lemmy client @lemmy.world
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    bug

    unable to mark messages as read