NarrativeBear

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Maybe just in terms of their electronics, such as updates and extended services.

I do wonder if things like heated seat subscription in EV's and ICE car's will keep functioning after the company disappears.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

GDP (gross domestic product) has always been a poor metric IMO. It prioritizes a never ending upwards trend to increase productivity and "produce more", all while assuming infinite resource's.

There needs to be a new metric that also takes into account the planet and sustainably. We dont have infinite resource's and at some point GDP will go off a cliff.

For example you can't just cut down 100 acears today, and in a effort to increase GDP cut down 200 acres tomorrow. At somepoint you will run out, and your GDP metric will fail.

A sustainable business that produces a steady flow while maintaining a steady supply should be the gold standard. A sustainable circular industry.

Long term vs short term thinking/profits.

Disclaimer: All things stated are my opinions and by all means I am not a expert. I am a ape.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

China is number one. The USA needs to be number one. The USA wants to be China. Illuminati Confirmed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

It would help if the politicians entertaining these ideas knew the difference between a link and a complete summarization of the article or content on a secondary unaffiliated website.

Websites survive by generating traffic, links to these site help increase traffic, the increase in traffic means higher ad revenues. News agencies wanting to double dip is only hurting theselves.

News agencie, you can't have your cake and eat it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

The wooden Cyber Truck is already a thing. Relevant video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUp1KHIfme0

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

"What they do is set up a fake payment portal where money goes in and nothing comes out."

They actually go alot further in making the scam seem legit. They setup full trading platform apps that look legit. These apps are listed in the apple store and play store, they even have real real reviews.

You download the app yourself, you setup your profiles yourself. Everything seem legit because you actually setup the acounts.

You then put money into these "accounts", you watch the value go up and down like it normally would on a stock market. Then when you are happy with your "investment", time to withdrawal and there's no money to take out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No worries, VMware or some of the other virtualization software's should work in this case as most other comments pointed out. Probably the most simple and straight to the point.

If you have the urge to tinker, another potential item or route you can look at is a proxmox machine. You can run multiple VMs in tandem at the same time. This would run on a standalone machine.

You would then be able to remote desktop into any virtualized OS on your home network. You can use a software like parsec which I like to access each machine from a clean interface.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I run a Hackintosh's dual booting Mac OS and Windows. So you solution is not insane as some have pointed out.

What I would suggest is maybe running a NAS on your local network to act as your share. Obviously this won't help if you dont store your working files on your NAS, but its an idea. I know no way to directly share between the two machines as they are technically not on at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Going to need a shit load of frappuccinos

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Excellent example! Very rarely do you see a individual just shoot out from behind you in a line and by pass a whole queue of people.

Where as in a car you see people mounting a curb/sidewalk to make a right turn to squeeze past the individual in front of them. Or driving into oncoming traffic to get to the left hand turn lane a few seconds sooner. Or my favourite, seeing people stuck in highway traffic choose to off road to leave the highway, as opposed to waiting for the offramp. Meanwhile a crowed of individuals follows causing a unsafe situation for everyone.

Video for context regarding the last point.

https://www.tiktok.com/@oxtailpapi/video/7222122580495453445

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I would really like to live in a town/city that does not have this issue. North America really needs to reassess its roadways and infrastructure.

The path to safe infrastructure is usually not just "remove all barriers" but instead "control the flow of traffic".

 
 
 
 
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Police said emergency crews were called to the intersection of Frederick Street and King Street East shortly after 9:30 a.m. on June 1 after receiving reports of a crash involving a streetcar.

While it remains unclear what caused the collision, police say the driver of the vehicle involved was taken to hospital with serious injuries, while two people on the streetcar were also injured.

In an update, police said a 62-year-old man was charged with careless driving under the Highway Traffic Act.

 

Months after cancelling the construction contract for a new downtown pedestrian bridge in the face of “unforeseen challenges,” city officials have called off the project altogether.

As stated in a post on the city’s website on Friday, plans to build a bridge over the Speed River connecting The Ward with Downtown Guelph have been scrapped. Instead, city officials will look for ways to include pedestrian flow into another nearby project over the river.

 

Campaigners have called for “mini Holland” walking and cycling schemes to be introduced in towns across Britain after the first London pilot scheme produced dramatic results.

London’s pioneering “mini Holland” low traffic neighbourhood is “synonymous with the changes that need to happen around the world”, according to the capital’s walking and cycling commissioner.

 

Yet more hate towards cycling, and somehow if a floating bus stop is located between two care lanes its perfectly acceptable.

 

“What is up with some people’s complete disrespect for our public spaces? It doesn’t require a huge amount of effort and discipline to keep our streets, sidewalks, parks and shorelines clean. Yet some of us appear incapable.”

 

Why does the TTC suck so much in customer service, and what's with the constant delays every single day.

Sometimes going into the office (when I'm stuck between station for 30 minutes in a non-moving train), I wonder how much better it was during covid with a full WFH mandated.

The TTC main complaint those last few years were no one is riding, but now they have ridership and they can't keep up with demand.

 

The bridge had just gone through extensive renovations and updates with construction finished late summer of 2023.

https://www.blogto.com/city/2024/05/driver-lodged-truck-bridge-downtown-toronto/

 

A cyclist's new hobby of cleaning street signs has already taken him as far afield as Belgium.

John Edwards, from Shrewsbury, took up the hobby after spotting a video of a man improving signs during lockdown.

Since then he has posted clips of his cleaning around the county, and has even been tidying up the signs in Belgium after watching a cyclist race.

Mr Edwards said he was delighted to clean the signs and the response from the public was "gangbusters".

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