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[Cyberpunk Panatela]

Drew should also read this article on the failed migration to Mastodon (archive) (A&N discussion) that also makes the apt analogy to Linux.

Speaking of which he actually made a whole blog post about his interaction with Jason:
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What Jason wants is the comfort of having Daddy Elon shove his "content" in other people's faces, in other words free advertising.

Because federated instances don't do this and he has to do the work of getting people interested himself, something his delightful personality and intriguing videos aren't doing for some reason (Shocking, I know), he is tarding out.

IDK why Mastodon is the first port of call for former Twittards - maybe it's because of the high user count?

A power outage occurred today because a wire designed for 60 amps or so (serving five houses) was pulling 125. The guy mentioned it was mainly an electric dryer (they have to bring in a new transformer and split some houses off) and so I said “yay but aren’t they the best” and the power guy was like “I don’t know how they’re gonna make the electric cars work, the grid can’t take it”.

It’s hilariously bad and gonna get worse.

I remember a Tesla supercharger point crashed the grid in California once back when Teslas were new - because of an "event" held by a group of Tesla owners all charging at the same time(I think they were trying to get a Guinness world record for "most electric cars charging simultaneously").

Even if blackouts could be avoided there would be other problems - charging cars would mainly be done at night, which is the time that power utilities use to replenish essential things like gravitational storage reservoirs.

People who are metered in KVA will see their bills skyrocket by charging their EVs, because every time they connect up they will register a spike in demand on their meters which will put them into the highest consumption bracket for billing(their entire month's power consumption will be billed at the highest rate, in other words).

In other words, the power utility's penalty fee will probably make it more expensive to run an electric than a petrol vehicle.

 

[WelperHelper99]

What you're paying for in first is a guaranteed seat, free food, no crowd, and access to the first class lounge at major stations. No standing travel allowed. Pleb class can also have reserved seating, but there's no guarantee you'll even be able to get to your seat at peak times because the entire train is crammed with commuters. Even if you do get there, you'll have to contend with the mob leaning over you for your entire journey.

Mental. So much money for so little gain, and the plebs basically get nothing. Ill take my old beater please

The fastest Level 2(240V) charger is 80A which gives you a 19.2kW charge rate. Provided your vehicle accepts it. AC 'chargers' are really just fancy electrical outlets and rely on the equipment in the car to charge. So if your car only accepts 10kW then that's all you'll get.

The biggest battery looks like the upcoming pickups at around 200kWh and 400 miles or so of range. Which I suspect few people would deplete in a day.... unless they use it for work and tow a work trailer and reduce that range significantly. So about 11 hours to charge. The problem is that if you drive all day and deplete the battery then you go home the solar panels are only going to be useful for a couple hours before the sun vanishes.

Now you're stuck back in having a secondary battery at home assuming you have enough solar to fill it or being grid connected. And that second battery for a 200kWh car is probably going to cost $100k or so.

It's probably going to be cheaper to just buy 2 cars and swap them every day. Or, you know, drive a Diesel.

A diesel, or better yet, two, is gonna save you gas, be able to swap vehicles if one is having issues, and you won't have to wait on a recharge or replace those massive batteries every 10 years.

I saw a cargo bike today. Trike configuration, long, fairly narrow wheelbase and a pretty tall cargo compartment. It looked wobbly when taking turns, and i wonder how it would handle during the winter.

I still don't know why i'd choose a cargo bike and possibly an unknown driver when i need to move shit around. If i can't fit it in my basic-ass car (with folded seats) i can just rent a van and have a faster more comfortable ride

Answer, you wouldn't, you'd just buy or rent a van, get a old Ford Windstar for cheap than get on one of those accidents waiting to happen.

The cyclist's statement, which reveals his real name (Garrett Miles):

The protestor's statement:

Source (Archive)

I've been saying it, keep harassing car owners, you're gonna get a lead pill in you. Luckily that didn't happen.

 

[quaawaa]

/r/fuckcars mods admit defeat:

Source (Archive)

 

[Markass the Worst]

/r/fuckcars mods admit defeat:
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I know this isn't an urbanist neologism but "enshittification" makes me laugh. Why you can't just use an already existing word like "shitty" is beyond me. Apparently it was invented by that Cory Doctorow faggot according to Know Your Meme. (a)

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

What you're paying for in first is a guaranteed seat, free food, no crowd, and access to the first class lounge at major stations. No standing travel allowed. Pleb class can also have reserved seating, but there's no guarantee you'll even be able to get to your seat at peak times because the entire train is crammed with commuters. Even if you do get there, you'll have to contend with the mob leaning over you for your entire journey.

What you're paying for is no niggers. I mean literally they charge more so you're not dealing with plebs.

The key is whether it is fucking 3x as expensive or whether you get it for 50% more like Amtrak Business Class.

Even if blackouts could be avoided there would be other problems - charging cars would mainly be done at night, which is the time that power utilities use to replenish essential things like gravitational storage reservoirs.

People do NOT realize how finely tuned the grid is to how we have been using it, and it's going to be amusing when they realize that fucking with parts of a finely-tuned machine fucks everything. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup (a) is a known thing, and the grid is designed for that.

The largest ever pickup occurred on 4 July 1990, when a 2800 megawatt demand was imposed by the ending of the penalty shootout in the England v West Germany FIFA World Cup semi-final.

Yes, a grid where every house just drew exactly 30 amps all the time would be simpler to design, but that's not the grid we have.

(As a note they ended up not doing a new transformer as an additional, but instead replaced ALL the wiring on the block and put in a bigger tranny on the pole).

I know this isn't an urbanist neologism but "enshittification" makes me laugh. Why you can't just use an already existing word like "shitty" is beyond me. Apparently it was invented by that Cory Doctorow faggot according to Know Your Meme. (a)

That word is fucking everywhere now and it went from "oh that's a cute name" to "goddam anyone who uses this is a faggot of the highest order" in like 12 seconds flat.

 

[Doseferatu]

"organized bike ride" - I had no idea that if you gathered a bunch of assholes on bikes that it constituted a genuine cause for blocking ambulances.

If anyone I loved had to suffer because the ambulance was blocked in traffic by bicyclists, I would toss every bicycle I saw into the sea. I would start a jihad against insane cyclists - Killdozer 2.0.

"illegally honking"

My mother honked at a bicyclist who was toting his child up a hill right in the middle of the road (i.e. not the bike lane). He flipped her off when he saw her behind him.

He later reported my mother to the police - she explained he had endangered a child by toting it (in a seperate buggy attached to the bike) right up the middle of the road and she was warning him that cars were nearby.

Recently, a ten-year old died because he ran a stop sign while on his bike on the road - he smashed right into a car. Guess where he learned that entitled behavior?

I can't read any other posts - my blood is boiling and these freaks want to create a shithole society.

 

[Marvin]

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Basically this:

 

[Itchy Hemorrhoids]

/r/fuckcars mods admit defeat:
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I put this into the Soy to English translator on Google and it basically said:
We bent the knee to spez so we could keep our janny powers.

 

[Itchy Hemorrhoids]

Why Is the U.S. So Good at Killing Pedestrians?​

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How many black assault trucks will it take before it stops?

The comment thread on Orange Reddit has some really good faggot snark too.

>unlike the EU
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Truck hoods are literally GENOCIDING us.

Of course no one notices the contradiction. Pedestrians are dying, so they wonder why people want to drive? lmao.

 

[Markass the Worst]

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Clearly they haven't taken a look at the US justice system in general. You can murder someone with a gun and activist judges and prosecutors will basically go "meh" especially if you are part of the 13% because to do otherwise would be racist. At worst they'll just give you $1,000 bail and you can easily pay that with a bond agency and be out on the streets no questions asked. Cars are not an exception to the rules, they just have shitty rules there.

Oh and if you think the US is bad, wait till you hear about the guy in a sports car who used his car as a weapon against the police, got shot and died and the entire country rioted over his death.

 

[quaawaa]

The comment thread on Orange Reddit has some really good faggot snark too.
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>unlike the EU
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Truck hoods are literally GENOCIDING us.

The “pickup trucks have less visibility than a tank” thing is so stupid. Stand anywhere but directly in front of the tank’s “windshield” and the driver can’t see you without cameras (which modern trucks also have).

Hood length, more than height, is what causes bad front visibility. As an example, a Formula 1 car, which is incredibly low to the ground, has horrible front visibility, worse than a pickup truck:

Spoiler: Archive

Relevant part starts at 6:03

Luckily, urbanists all would never use vehicles with poor front visibility:

Stop that woman! She’s riding a child-killer!

 

[Thiletonomics]

It looks like Skyline will be a flop, as ridership was down 90% yesterday (1,245 yesterday, compared to ~18k riders on July 4), after the free trial period ended, and riders need to pay to get on.

(Archived)

Compared to other rail lines elsewhere, how bad of a flop is Skyline so far?

 

[Cyberpunk Panatela]

Compared to other rail lines elsewhere, how bad of a flop is Skyline so far?

It would probably take a few months to tell, because activity during the free period doesn't mean anything (and the people who think it does are retards).

The incomplete station shown in the news show is a bit concerning (for some reason half-finished stations tend to stay that way for a long time - Berlin had some on their underground line which took 30 years to finish and Moscow has some "planned" stations that weren't done after 50 years (IDK what their status is now).

That Skyline official wanting to extend the track without having real data yet or even finishing the infrastructure properly looks bad and almost like they're trying to fuck up.

IME the successful HS rail lines are ones that don't duplicate existing public transport, connect places which make sense and interface well with other transport.

A good example of a functioning one would be the Pretoria-Johannesburg HS rail line ("Gautrain"), which has its own bus service for areas around the stations, a station at the airport and others which are joined to existing train stations. They also don't run trains in the dead of night because these would be very empty, a waste of money, and attractive to criminals. (r/fuckcars would hate this train line, because it has a rule that bicycles are only allowed on off-peak trains and cyclists have to leave the train and wait for the next one as soon as all the seats are full).

The maxim "If you build it, they will come" does not apply to rail transport (unless you're talking about Thomas the Tank Engine enthusiasts and their sexual kinks).

 

[Yamamura]

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How many black assault trucks will it take before it stops?

View attachment 5196438The comment thread on Orange Reddit has some really good faggot snark too.
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>unlike the EU
>raging jak.png
Truck hoods are literally GENOCIDING us.

Of course no one notices the contradiction. Pedestrians are dying, so they wonder why people want to drive? lmao.

Excuse the shitty meme, but I don't know why this made me laugh.

Something about the impotent rage of this bugman seething is hilarious to me. Mostly because it's just a pointless plea to the type of people they'll never interact with. Imagine one of these guys going up to an actual boomer at Home Depot going like, "uh, sir you know you could probably load that fertilizer with a cargo bike. Also did you know your truck leads to thousands of baby deaths a year... Sir, sir where are you going? Come back here I was just going to tell you about this cool youtube channel that explains why the car industry is also secretly a conspiracy"

 

[WelperHelper99]

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Excuse the shitty meme, but I don't know why this made me laugh.
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Something about the impotent rage of this bugman seething is hilarious to me. Mostly because it's just a pointless plea to the type of people they'll never interact with. Imagine one of these guys going up to an actual boomer at Home Depot going like, "uh, sir you know you could probably load that fertilizer with a cargo bike. Also did you know your truck leads to thousands of baby deaths a year... Sir, sir where are you going? Come back here I was just going to tell you about this cool youtube channel that explains why the car industry is also secretly a conspiracy"

That GMC is sexy, ngl, and even though I'm young, I would be the boomer here. In fact I'd go a step further; if shit ever went mad max, guess who's mounting some Jerry rigged gun set up in the back lol? It'll carry wood, bricks for my garden, and be a war wagon faggot-WITH back up cameras, which almost no tanks have, and have to use a full crew to compensate for

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

The comment thread on Orange Reddit has some really good faggot snark too.

lol (a) it got fagged by HN:

head janny dang hasn't overturned it, so apparently he agrees that it is "not interesting"

Some other people dared to think about noticing that the "pedestrians" killed are often drunk/drugged out/insane homeless, etc.

(the case I personally know of where someone killed a homeless dude was because the fucker was walking ON THE FREEWAY)

 

[Return of the Freaker]

lol (a) it got fagged by HN:

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head janny dang hasn't overturned it, so apparently he agrees that it is "not interesting"

Some other people dared to think about noticing that the "pedestrians" killed are often drunk/drugged out/insane homeless, etc.

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(the case I personally know of where someone killed a homeless dude was because the fucker was walking ON THE FREEWAY)

I've seen enough posters talking about wandering around drunk/high being a benefit of public transit with zero irony. "It's not fair!!! It's my human right to stumble around stoned out of my mind!!! Carbrains are oppressing me!!!"

 

[WelperHelper99]

lol (a) it got fagged by HN:

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head janny dang hasn't overturned it, so apparently he agrees that it is "not interesting"

Some other people dared to think about noticing that the "pedestrians" killed are often drunk/drugged out/insane homeless, etc.

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(the case I personally know of where someone killed a homeless dude was because the fucker was walking ON THE FREEWAY)

Faggots don't understand public decency and using crosswalks. You DO have the right of way... at crosswalks and sidewalks. After that, if you're drunkenly stumbling into the road, I'll try to stop, no shit, but it might not work, and I'm risking a pile up over YOUR idiocy

 

[Markass the Worst]

lol (a) it got fagged by HN:

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I agree, we need to start locking up criminals instead of just letting them out on bond because they keep killing tons of people.

Oh wait, wrong political, technological, and social issue, sorry.

Some other people dared to think about noticing that the "pedestrians" killed are often drunk/drugged out/insane homeless, etc.

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(the case I personally know of where someone killed a homeless dude was because the fucker was walking ON THE FREEWAY)

No, it's not "victim blaming", it's taking responsibility for your own actions. A lot of the panic over pedestrians being "murdered" goes away when you realize many of them made bad decisions and in an urbanist utopia would have just been walking on the tram tracks instead of the freeway.

And if you think that's victim blaming, wait till you see CityNerd's video on crime that says to just avoid being mugged.

Although there should be a responsibility to politicians to not unnecessarily defund the police like Seattle and Portland has, but urbanists are ACAB-adjacent people who will never connect the dots between defunding and rise in crime no matter how many people are killed.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

Faggots don't understand public decency and using crosswalks. You DO have the right of way... at crosswalks and sidewalks. After that, if you're drunkenly stumbling into the road, I'll try to stop, no shit, but it might not work, and I'm risking a pile up over YOUR idiocy

I really have yet to understand how a bus or fucking TRAIN can stop faster than a car, and how walking drunk in front of one of those (they have REALLY BIG AND BAD HOODS) isn't going to result in a thin red line.

oh wait it does lol