Suburbs are intentionally designed to not be walkable.
To get to the neighbor behind my house, without cutting anybody's yard, I have to walk about a mile. We aren't far. His daughters play with my sons through our shared fence.
And that's a modest example. Plenty of cul de sacs that are "close" to the main street, as a crow flies but a lot further if you're an East Asian Chinchilla Monkey running as fast as you can.
Yeah I rented a Mustang Mach-E and drove between Houston, Austin, Dallas, and back to Houston, without very much charger anxiety. And not being confined to a slow charger...except on the way back to the airport. The first charger I found was a slow charger and all the fast ones were occupied. But still had plenty of charge to find the next station and get it high enough to return
This. Kids love "dramatic" play...that is, imaginative play in a costumed role.
Plenty of kids with day-glow vests and hardhats, nobody is knocking them. Plenty of kids with cop costumes, or cowboy hats, or spacesuits, or fireman jackets.
I agree with you entirely...it's a bit "weird" on the surface, but this is really great play for kids. Kids are absolutely interested in what happens behind the scenes (or at least behind the counter) and building independence by making their own snacks and stuff.
Just as long as they aren't having kids working at factory chicken farms. Because that would likely scar them for life. Then again, maybe they should.
If any time traveler comes to 2024, it's either great because there's science in the future, or it's terrible, because there's something about to happen that's worth seeing first-hand.
Football players don't run very much, but they spend a lot of time getting slammed by and pinned between refrigerator-sized humans running remarkably fast for their build and amount of padding.
Yeah if there's one thing the world needs less if, it's those selfless pricks working themselves to the bone in understaffed, underpaid, and underappreciated (yet totally necessary) licensed professions.
Let's get mad at teachers for having the week "off" this week, too. They don't need paid time off, what do they need money for? Pencils? Hah!
I just landed in Houston, mainly to see the eclipse next week. Originally I was going to view from Austin, but it’s because of this that I decided to trek to Dallas instead.
Essentially “totality” is inside the moons shadow. Since the moon is spherical (well, mostly), the shadow it casts is a circle. That’s the path of totality.
I know you know this, I’m just saying this because you see that black band and you think all totality is the same. It’s not. If you’re on the edges, imagine a big circle shadow. Easier to visualize this way.
Went to Houston Space Center today and there was a presentation on the eclipse. I guess they will have an event there on Tuesday Monday, but at HSC they are only going to be 90%.
I’m planning to see it from Dallas, but I really wanted to speak up when she said “it’s still gonna be great”.
It will be nothing compared to actually being in totality. And I don’t know why anybody in greater Houston that has the day off would spend it at HSC instead of actually inside the path.
Some people transcribe posts on the internet as a matter of public service.
A picture of text is not particularly accessible to the blind. But written text, well they can zoom that significantly without reducing clarity, if they have some vision…or they can use any text-to-speech tool.
I don’t know a lot of poorly sighted people though. I’m assuming that they have some sort of font packages they use that scale well to large sizes for increased legibility, just like there are fonts specifically to help with dyslexia.
xkcd #2948: Electric vs Gas ( xkcd.com )
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Saw this and thought it was fake until I googled. It's real. ( lemmy.world )
The QR code...
VMware customers may stay, but Broadcom could face backlash “for years to come” ( arstechnica.com )
Price hikes of over 2x widely expected under Broadcom’s VMware, survey finds...
Every damn day ( programming.dev )
xkcd #2932: Driving PSA ( imgs.xkcd.com )
https://xkcd.com/2932...
Riot cops line up next to a sign at University of Texas at Austin. ( slrpnk.net )
Edit: Name of University fixed.
Nurses with an overbearing manager, how do you pass time at work without getting caught?
cross-posted from: https://linux.community/post/792581...
xkcd #2914: Eclipse Coolnesss ( imgs.xkcd.com )
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xkcd #2898: Orbital Argument ( imgs.xkcd.com )
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A billionaire wrote this letter to Google a year ago. How likely is that Google's layoffs and actions since then are at least partly because of this? ( lemmy.world )