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fpslemto Portland•Amtrak pulls aging railcars from Cascades route due to safety concernsEnglish1·26 days agoRadio Free Ubanism talked about this last week, and they said that Amtrak has already ordered cars to replace these, but they won’t be delivered for another 18 months, so it’s going to be a long period of disruption. There was some talk about Amtrak leasing cars from regional transit agencies (Sound Transit, possibly) to fill the gaps for a while.
fpslemto Bicycling•How to Turn Cities Into Biketopias? Make it Harder to Drive ThereEnglish11·2 months agoWould you feel better if it said “stop heavily subsidizing driving” instead?
fpslemto Technology•Buying a $250 Residency Card From a Tropical Island Let Me Bypass U.S. Crypto LawsEnglish222·2 months agoThat’s probably a fair assessment, but still a rather damning indictment of the industry writ large.
There are definitely better versions of cryptocurrency that I think could be more useful, but the industry is definitely not headed in that direction. Instead, it’s all pump-and-dumps, rug-pulls, and other schemes that render them nothing more than highly speculative asset classes in which the underlying asset has no intrinsic value.
fpslemto Technology•Buying a $250 Residency Card From a Tropical Island Let Me Bypass U.S. Crypto LawsEnglish1127·2 months agoIt’s just grift all the way down with crypto, isn’t it? Scams layered on scams layered on scams.
fpslemto Global News@lemmy.zip•‘Total chaos’: Monkey blamed for nationwide power cut in Sri Lanka6·2 months agoSquirrels in North America and parts of Europe are the chaos gremlins, but the result is the same.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_disruptions_caused_by_squirrels
Love this shitty reporting:
A man was forced to climb out of an overturned car which flipped after hitting a bollard in Coventry city centre.
Yeah, the car just flipped. On its own. The man who “was forced to climb out” didn’t have anything to do with it, he wasn’t a shitty driver who hit a stationary object, it just happened to him.
That’s okay, I’m definitely more of a SuperbOwl guy myself.
Also, it should have had Super Mario Galaxy 2, it was crappy that they went from 4 games down to 3 for that All Star collection.
Tubi is owned by Fox Corp, and can absolutely fuck off.
Tour Down Under spoilers for stages 1 and 2
With the Women’s TDU dominated by non-Aussies, it’s actually nice to see some Australian dominance. Chapeau to Welsford, particularly today for overcoming that early crash and making it back on when he was dropped. But I still think Danny van Poppel is the true hero, Bora had to drop him back to pace Welsford back on, and Danny still had enough in the tank to give Welsford a magic carpet ride leadout and drop him off with 200m to go. DvP for the win!
No, and the majority of New Yorkers don’t own cars. Which is why it’s been mind-boggling to have the majority subsidize the minority and out-of-towners when they want to drive in an store their 3-tonne vehicles in public space, often for free.
Yeah, to be honest, that’s a crappy article from CBS. London’s Low Emission Zone is a huge success in terms of air quality and active transportation. The city has continued to pour the revenues generated from the zone fees into its public transit system, so the iconic double-decker busses run frequently all day, and they have continued to open new train lines like the Elizabeth Line. New York has never managed that level of investment, and without the income and incentives congestion pricing creates, it won’t be able to. If anything, London still prices the LEZ too low, just like NYC has priced it too low at $9, rather than the $15 was supposed to be before Gov. Hochul’s cowardice.
fpslemto Science Fiction•I put off reading Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga for a long time due to the terrible covers, but I highly recommend them!1·4 months agoOkay, I picked it up and blitzed through Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen, and it was a deep disappointment. The personal and romantic stakes and themes of the earlier books with Cordelia Naismith were coupled with other adventures or plots, and the combination of the personal and the galactic stakes was part of what made them work. I felt like Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen utterly lost the broader plot, and it was just a book about two people getting together and retiring. (Which, to be fair, is a perfectly fine plot and there are multiple genres and sub-genres built around that plot, but in the context of the Vorkossigan Saga, it was a nothing-burger of a story.) There are some revelations about things long-past, which I think Bujold did to try to flesh out the story and maybe give Cornelia’s take on some of the events that happened around her in the intervening ~30 years since she had a book from her perspective, but in this book, hardly anything happens. Seriously, the stakes are so low. It’s pleasant, but scarcely needs to exist for the rest of the characters or novels. What a baffling addition to this series.
fpslemto Technology•There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly DudEnglish5·4 months agoI’ve seen where doctors are using it for surgery
The article I’ve seen is one instance in Brazil (article in Brazilian Portuguese) for laparoscopic surgery, which makes a lot of sense. I don’t know how it compare to other displays, however, or if using a VR set rather than a monitor offers advantages, or if the Vision Pro did anything new or better. The same article mentions that doctors had done the same thing with a HoloLens VR headset some years before.
fpslemto Science Fiction•I put off reading Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga for a long time due to the terrible covers, but I highly recommend them!2·4 months agoOh, I have not, thanks for the recommendation!
Is this the straw that will break the back of the $1.50 hot dog and drink???
Duck Detective. Charming game, but quite short.
No problem!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0Kle4KE2fY