Oh damn. I didn’t realise just how ahead of his time (by Anglosphere standards) Nader was. We’re 50 years on and just now are the evils of motornormativity starting to be more widely understood.

Personally I like the idea of a second house that is able to act as the house of review, thanks to its members having longer terms than the lower house. That’s a quality we have in Australia federally, but not in my home state of Queensland which is unicameral. It’s also something New Zealand lacks with its unicameral legislature (elected via MMP).

I’ve only skimmed it, I’ll admit, but all I saw was that it said there were 4 attempts. I didn’t see what they were, apart from the 1 I already knew of which was mentioned (the 2021 instance).

But I didn’t say you don’t remember anything. I just pointed out that anything you do think you remember…is very likely wrong. It might be correct, but you can’t know that.

Sorry I still don’t really understand. What does “unsafe at any speed” mean?

More Middle-earth. South is Harad, and north is Forodwaith. Both of which are regions of Middle-earth.

Oh neat. Are their maps actually being used by Microsoft’s Bing Maps or other user-facing products yet?

The unreliability of memory has been known pretty well for a long time. It’s why eye witness testimony in court should not be given nearly as much weight as the average person gives it.

Assuming this is real (it’s not)

Proof?

Subtlety and nuance are great in art

They can be. But if that was the intention, that’s what the teacher should have said. “Dial it back” is a far cry from “your art would be more powerful with a more subtle message”. And anyway, sometimes the artist doesn’t want to be subtle and that’s ok too. Subtle art can be easy to misinterpret. Look at all the chadbros who idolise the characters in Fight Club.

I’m happy to see you’re not talking in the 3rd person anymore though.

Pretty sure they just didn’t have reason to refer to themselves in that comment. They’ve always used normal pronouns for other people.

Americans lost abortion rights because of the piss-weak Democratic party relying on a shaky legal foundation to keep them in place rather than legislating it themselves at any of the times they controlled the Senate, House, and White House under Carter, Clinton, Obama, or Biden. All of whome had a period where that was the case. It’s not feminists of any sort that are to blame.

I recall a couple of years ago some talk about a new open mapping initiative that Apple or some other big commerical players were going to be involved in. Separate from OSM. What ever happened to that?

I’m surprised that Apple Maps has a community that is pretty much Tue same size as organic maps

Ftfy

Because like, what is there to talk about?

The serious answer is it’s juxtaposed with East and West. West being the Undying Lands of Valinor, and East being the much less well-explored Land of the Sun.

You actually can’t. Human memory is really quite terrible. Most of your older memories are likely distorted by other people telling you about them, or even just the natural decay that occurs whenever you recall a memory.

Wait, 4 attempts? I think I only heard about 1.

This one needs explaining

Headline seems overly generous to him. Seems his support is reliant on them promising not to actually block the port again. Which would seem to completely defeat the point of the protest.

As a result of our meeting and my request, Rising Tide provided me with a written commitment to use their best endeavours to ensure all participants obey police directions.

Specifically, this includes directing people to remain close to the shore and not enter the shipping channel, nor make movements that suggest they are attempting to get into the channel.

Basically, “X is one-third more than Y” means either X = (4/3) × Y or X = Y + 1/3. I’m fine with either interpretation.

The problem is that with the values of X and Y in this example, neither interpretation produces a valid equation.

It’s an 11 minute video in which roughly one minute is that, albeit with a bit more meat to it (explaining what the motivation between the misleading name may have been).

“a half is one-third more than a third” should mean either

1/3 + 1/3 = 1/2

Or

1/3 + (1/3 × 1/3) = 1/2

Neither of which is true.