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2·2 years agoYow, they must be doing well their whole website is sold out
32·2 years agoAs with many things there’s not a clear cut answer. I think you could make a strong case for the Katy Freeway expansion being a failure where those resources would have been better spent on other forms of transportation. I’d agree that adding lanes is not always a bad idea, but blindly adding lanes like the US has done for decades has not been a good thing overall, imo. We’re dependent on cars for everything, they’re heating up the planet and they’re a very inefficient solution to the ultimate problem of getting people from point A to B. I’m not so much anti-car as anti-inefficient travel that has saddled us with tons of negative aspects to city life.
What does modernizing highway infrastructure even mean? I don’t think you could call adding more lanes “modernizing” if you’re being serious. That’s been the blind answer for years but adding more lanes does not solve congestion/demand/whatever you want to call it. It’s not an efficient way to solve the transportation problem. You spend a ton of resources (punishing people bulldozing neighborhoods or with noise pollution, destroying nature, etc) and you still have the same ultimate problem you did before you started, people traveling slowly in a pollution emitting vehicle. So doing both is not even the point when one side of the equation (adding lanes) is a very poor solution. Focus on better solutions like public transportation reaching more people.
Yeah I mean you’re kind of just re-framing point. Yes the mega highway has the ability to move more cars, but still the end result after 5 years is it’s actually taking longer to move cars than before (at peak travel time). So what if it’s due to induced demand, we just want to solve the problem of getting people from point A to B, and adding more lanes is a very inefficient transportation method. It’s a massive waste of resources when moving around in a car is so costly compared to public transit.
The best technique as far as I’ve heard is to cut it down to the stump and put a bit of Glyphosate (Roundup) on the fresh cut. I’ve used an eyedropper but seen these little bottles with a foam top to stamp the stump with.
Groups around us will have privet clearing parties and that’s what they do.
I’ll make sure to tell the Smithsonian 😃, it was just a copy/paste from their site for people who don’t want to click the link. But doesn’t “the TURN of the 20th century” imply that it’s the start of, not the end of the century… like 1999 is near the turn of the 21st century, which occurred in 2000.
Yummm. Add some feta and that’s one of my favorite pizza topping combos. Mozz, pepperoni, jalapenos, feta.
1·2 years agoThe code has been redeemed, thank you very much!!
26·2 years agoI think the gist is Mueller investigated Trump and the shady Russia stuff and had enough to charge him with obstruction but did not due to DOJ policy (to not charge a sitting president). He laid out a plan for congress to do something about it, congress impeached but the GOP controlled Senate blocked it.
So I guess some of that could be dug up? But there are bigger fish to fry now, considering the current indictments.
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3·2 years agoI don’t get the response in this thread. All the complainers need to go run your own instance for free and leave yourself personally open to potential lawsuits. You’re not even on the lemmy.world instance, so you’re shitting on admins from an instance making a decision to legally protect themselves, oh and it does not affect you at all. Programming.dev might get sued at some point, or at the very least they have to live with the stress of that potential.
Uhm well I’ll take it if you’re still offering, sad this sub hasn’t taken off though. I loved Naruto back in the Shippuden days.
12·2 years agoFind a place and lock it up. There are grinder resistant locks now but get insurance if you’re very worried.
4·2 years agoYep, always my first thought. If you’re in the US you can get tax benefits by making your home more energy efficient. It’s doable yourself but hiring someone to do it will eventually pay for itself.
And for the attic don’t just pile on insulation, need a good air sealing first if that’s no good.
2·2 years agoI hate how the wording still props up Russia’s bullshit about the war. “Found guilty of spreading false information” uh actually it was true information that Russia has criminalized.
161·2 years agoI did, but yeah not enough others did. Yet when the spotify price went up and I kept it, because it’s one service that has everything. There’s a ton of value in me not having to hunt around and find every show I want to watch across 8 different shitty streaming apps.
192·2 years agoBetter than a shit in your mouth? I don’t have to be excited to vote for a lemon but I sure as fuck will to avoid a mouth full of shit. Oh and the reality of what a republican pres will do to the environment.
5·2 years agoImo quality engagement comes from quality moderating. Facebook has a lot of moderators but they don’t give a shit about community and their focus is purely monetization. Reddit used to care about community but we know how that went. Lemmy has a chance to get it right. But even if an instance fucks it up the platform is open and gives us options for other communities within the platform.
What the fuck I thought Super PACs were not allowed to coordinate with the candidate…right? …right? It’s paying his fucking legal bills how is that not a violation? Oh that’s right because it’s a fucking corrupt bullshit concept. The supreme court’s awful Citizens United ruling completely fucked over this country.