What could be more important than traffic throughput?

CW: Animated traffic violence

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/37264540

Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20250824220020/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/08/dsa-mamdani-losing-elections/683970/

A Meadowview, Virginia, research center spearheads the effort, and more than a dozen experimental, large-plot plantings on state public lands have not only survived but reached maturity. Lesesne State Forest in Nelson County, for instance, holds about thirty acres of natural, second-growth woods anchored by seventy-foot-tall American chestnut trees that are more than sixty years old—and produce delicious wild nuts that few living people beyond foresters and researchers have ever tasted.

“We don’t go out of our way to advertise this fact,” says Scrivani, “but the public can now hike in and walk through natural groves of healthy [American chestnut trees] and forage for nuts for the first time in nearly a century.”

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/25092390

State law bars police from sharing data from automated license plate readers with federal agencies. They're doing it anyway.

State law bars police from sharing data from automated license plate readers with federal agencies. They're doing it anyway.

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/3496521

A man shares his love of classic rock with his best friend.

Hi all, as you may have heard, this instance is unfortunately shutting down at the end of the month. As far as I know, this is the only Lemmy foraging community, so I’d like to keep it going elsewhere if possible.

Does anyone know of or wish to create another foraging community?

If not, I’d be happy to make one on slrpnk.net. There used to be one but I think it was closed due to mod inactivity.

I’m not sure if Lemmy is big enough to sustain such a niche topic yet but if there is still interest in this community I’m curious if there is another similar one or if one should be started?

I got to thinking last night that theoretically, with enough hair, the air resistance would slow you down so that your terminal velocity would be low enough to land unharmed. How long would it need to be? How would one go about calculating this?

I assume you need some kind of drag coefficient and a density for hair to start with. Not sure where to find that information.

I assume y’all know the onion is satire at this point but you’ve been warned just in case.