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/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!

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Looks like I’m testing not using YouTube.

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A van would have killed him on a regular bike too?

Sounds like the problem wasn’t the e-bike.

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Bicycles aren’t supposed to be on sidewalks either, that’s how pedestrians get hit.

The problem is motorist thinking they own the fucking road.

Gaza: After ICJ order to halt attacks on Rafah, Israel launches over 60 air raids on the city in 48 hours (euromedmonitor.org)

Palestinian Territory - Israel continues to ignore orders from the International Court of Justice (ICJ), including the Court’s most recent ruling. This ruling requires Israel to halt its military assault on the Rafah Governorate in the southern Gaza Strip and reopen the Rafah border crossing to facilitate the movement of...

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Why is Biden making it easier for Trump to get reelected?

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He could choose to do what his supporters want him to do, but he won’t. A majority of Americans disapprove of Israel’s actions in Gaza. A majority of US voters want a permanent ceasefire. The numbers are even more stark among his own base. There’s no constituency for this genocide unless he’s trying to win over Trump’s base.

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I just posted polls that clearly show the opposite.

If he lets Israel drag us into WW3 he will certainly lose in a landslide. If he does what Reagan did and force Israel to back down, he’ll maybe lose some support from hardcore Zionists (who are mostly Republicans anyway) but he’ll gain back a lot more from the majority of Americans that oppose this genocide.

People like me.

I’m not voting for genocide and you have no one to blame for that but Biden. Deal with it.

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Biden is doing genocide. We’re already in Hitlertown.

This November is a choice between polite Hitler and rude Hitler. If you vote for this, the Democratic Party is going to learn one lesson: they can kill as many children as they want and not lose a single vote i.e. “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.” If Blue MAGA wins, they will put me in a camp and you will vote for it because the other party would be ‘worse.’

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I am not speaking in hyperbole!

Biden is already cracking down on peaceful protesters who support Palestinians, it isn’t much of a stretch to start going after people more broadly. Biden has already "put every single university and college president on notice,” and Republican congressional members are doing McCarthyist witch hunts.

If you actually pay attention, the stuff Trump says he’s going to do is already happening.

By the time we get to the election it’s already going to be much worse than it’s already gotten, and you will vote for it.

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Examples of the hundreds of people being rounded up at dozens of pro-Palestine protests? I suppose Biden has plausible deniability here since he’s not sending in National Guard, but these are cities controlled by Democrats in states controlled by Democrats at schools predominantly supporting Democrats. With as heavily armed our cops are in this fascist country they don’t need National Guard to crack down anymore.

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Riding on ice scares the shit out of me, especially when it’s windy.

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What the fuck is the autonomous driving mode even for though? It seems like it’s just a dangerous toy…

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I’ll clarify: what is the actual purpose of giving customers access to this infantile technology? It doesn’t make following traffic laws easier like cruise control does, it doesn’t make drivers better at driving or safer behind the wheel, and it merely encourages distracted driving.

So why did they ship this product? Again, it just seems like a dangerous toy.

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Buh bye! 😘

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So uh, is that traffic light in the middle of the cycling lane?

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The problem is that feedback loops start to kick in above 2°C so it doesn’t matter if the economy crashes.

In fact, in some cases that makes things even worse. One example is that without smokestacks and ships pumping out sulfur dioxide the albedo of the atmosphere will rapidly drop, which might cause immediate and rapid warming over a period of only a few years.

We could be pushed past 2.5°C or even 3°C without industrial forces contributing at all.

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So despite climate change, Australia's federal government has just committed an extra $3.25 billion into building a toll road and a 20-lane freeway widening.

For those who wonder why Aussies think toll roads are a scam (https://aus.social/@LesserAbe@lemmy.world/112405373613706682), here's a great example of why.

"Pouring an extra $3.25 billion worth of federal funds into Melbourne’s North East Link is a good use of taxpayer money, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has insisted, despite the project’s cost doubling just a few months ago.

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"The North East Link – which includes 6½ kilometres of tunnels – will stretch from Bulleen to Greensborough. It will widen the Eastern Freeway by up to 20 lanes.

"Allan revealed in December that the 10-kilometre toll road had more than doubled in cost since it was first announced.

"The toll road was initially budgeted at $10 billion and reassessed in 2019 at $15 billion. But the government revealed last year that the updated cost estimate was $26 billion."

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/federal-funding-to-boost-victorian-road-link-by-3-25-billion-20240509-p5ii7b.html

@fuck_cars

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Hey, maybe a $26 billion road project could have just been a rail project instead?

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If the Court decides that the President has unbound authority then why shouldn’t Joe Biden shoot Donald Trump with a gun? It’s not illegal when the President does it!

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Biden’s base is “at least he’s not Trump” so I’m not sure.

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This is my shit 😤 hell yeah, is there a /c/ where people post pictures of nature swallowing man-made shit?

(also we still calling those cliffs? y’know, cuz we’re lemmings?)

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When I say this is my shit, I mean I like this content very much. 👍

I’m just wondering if there’s a cliff for nature reclamation.

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Perhaps some kind of super-mold that eats oil products like tar and asphalt!

Just make sure you wash your tires off regularly or they’ll get moldy 👀

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Your bike’s tires! Unless you use, like, large discs of wood or something 😏

Oh! Have you seen those bicycle rickshaws? They could replace taxis!

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Relatable.

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The West is currently doing participating in a genocide.

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I think a pass phrase is more secure than a password because you can memorize truly huge strings without worrying about ever losing it.

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A password “8pmfvt3bww7t” could be remembered as “8 pandas might find vases that 3 bears will wash 7 times.

You’re going to have to explain to me why the first password is more secure than the second pass phrase. The second has more characters and that’s the only thing someone trying to guess is going to possibly know. There’s nothing else to go off of, they don’t even know they’re trying to guess words in the first place. The longer string is always more secure afaik

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Suppose you had a word list of 1,000 five letter words. Each of your passphrases is 5 words long. That means you have 1,000^5 possible combinations of passwords, which is an entropy of ~49.8 bits. Even though each passphrase is going to be 29 characters long (5 five letter words plus 4 spaces in between), the password wasn’t generated character by character.

That’s a lot of supposition.

The reality is the password guesser has a string of 29 characters. All they know is ***************************** - they do not know they are guessing individual words separated by spaces, and even if they know these are words they do not know what word list is being used so they have every word that has ever existed as part of a possible list, they do not know the length of any of the individual words being used, and to top it all off they do not even know if the words have conventional spellings or are English words or anything!

So actually, you have a string of 29 characters, and they might as well be random characters as far as a password guesser can guess.

Although I will grant that pass phrases are unlikely to use unconventional characters !$#@;<> etc so you have a point there.

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What you failed to demonstrate is that passwords are better than pass phrases, and that’s my point. In order to crack my pass phrase you have to have tons of additional information like the fact that I use a pass phrase, what the rules are for the words in my pass phrase, the list of words I draw from for my pass phrase, etc. Your suppositions are required to beat it.

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A more compact space isn’t better, though, unless you’re dealing with a character limit. The longer the pass phrase the stronger it is, and you can memorize some seriously long phrases.

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Iran has constantly proved itself the more rational and mature actor in the Middle East compared to Israel.

Yet we allow Israel to have nukes while we sanction the fuck out of Iran.

Hmm 🤔

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It’s strange how you’re ignoring the fact that Israel attacked first. Iran retaliated, and did so after warning Israel of exactly what it was going to do so it could prepare. It did this even though Israel attacked Iran without a similar warning and assassinated an Iranian general.

Iran’s response has been tepid and measured because it doesn’t want to start WW3. Israel, on the other hand, very clearly does.

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Why did they attack?

To draw the US deeper into the conflict.

In any case, the cold war between Israel and Iran didn’t start with Israel bombing an Iranian embassy. Honeslty don’t know who started it, but it wasn’t the first attack, not the first attack on an embassy either.

Fair. Netanyahu has been provoking Iran for decades, this is just the latest escalation. But the fact remains that Iran was retaliating to an attack that came from Israel, Iran wasn’t just attacking out of nowhere.

Iran claims they warned Israel. The US says they didn’t.

And yet the US and Israel were able to perfectly defend against the attack and prevent any serious damage. 🤔

I guess we’re just supposed to believe that those defensive capabilities are god-like and can respond to any attack with zero warning!

I mean, your user name suggests you’re queer and a communist. How utterly bizarre that you’re defending an Islamic theocracy.

Y’all keep telling me to choose the lesser evil in the elections but you won’t do the same thing in a geopolitical context. 🤨

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Walkability is way different from bike infrastructure. Walking is around 2mph. Biking is 12-17 (depending on how in shape you are) and up to 25 if you have an ebike. Entirely different.

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I love flying downhill! You can’t maintain that speed over 10 miles, though, especially with stops and hills to climb. We’re talking about commuting, not just sprinting lol

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You said 17 was the max speed.

No, that was me.

Also I didn’t mean it’s the max speed, I meant it like a cruising speed. If I’m going to a grocery store I’m not pushing as fast as I can go lol

Also! If you have saddlebags and cargo the drag is going to make that harder anyway. Commuting adds complications to cycling.

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I fully support Marines giving their lives.

In fact, they should all do it! Imagine how free we’d be 😉

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Motorists greedily demanding free and unlimited access is the real problem.

Google Allows Creditors to Brick Your Phone (lemmy.world)

I installed NetGuard about a month ago and blocked all internet to apps, unless they’re on a whitelist. No notifications from this particular system app (that can’t be disabled) until recently when it started making internet connection requests to google servers. Does anyone know when this became a thing?...

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Huawei is a employee owned and communist state backed company - not very capitalist, at least by comparison.

They’re being hammered with export restrictions and sanctions and federal bans and executive orders to keep that from being a viable alternative in the US, but if you’re outside that might be an option.

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And yet when Huawei was flush with cash (after being forced to sell off assets destroyed by US sanctions) it distributed those billions in profits back to the employees.

It’s not a worker cooperative, there are problems with it like any employee owned company, but don’t be so cynical.

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How would ambulances work in a car free city? They seem kind of bulky for a city built for bikes. Unless we’re assuming those cities will still have huge roads to drive on?

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Probably need two in case multiple emergency vehicles need to be on the scene. Imagine a bombing - you need ambulances, fire trucks, police, etc. That’s easy with huge car-based infrastructure but a bike-city seems complicated.

Unless you just build huge roads everywhere despite the lack of cars, which would be sad.

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Eliminating parking space for cars would be huge.

Might be able to cheat a little with the gravel shoulder, so it’s “two lanes” but only if vehicles on the left and right dirve half-off the road.

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He’s an old man spewing word salad. He just says shit and people interpret him like augury because none of it actually makes sense. 🙄

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By that same logic, everyone has a responsibility to educate uninformed people about enshitification. Everyone is uninformed until they aren’t, and you can help.

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Also doubles as a kill list for when they decide it’s time.

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🤡

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¿Por qué no los dos?

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lol no one is becoming a fascist because we ask them to say mail carrier instead of mailman 🙄

And you know what makes women feel alienated? Being called men. Do we matter?

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