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    JasonDJ
    Now 66%

    I think whoever put the trees in my yard felt the same way.

    Never see any acorns or pinecones. Sometimes a maple seedpod floats it's way into my yard.

    But our (silver and white) cars turn fluorescent green with tree spooge if we don't rinse them off daily in the spring.

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  • Problems
  • "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearJA
    JasonDJ
    Now 90%

    I actually really appreciate the rational response to this that people have had about waste fruit, the rotting, and the food chain that follows the fallen fruit.

    I had wanted to plant a few fruit trees in my front yard and allow neighbors to just take fruit off of it. Lots of people walk up my 0.5mi dead-end road.

    But then I remembered what every PYO farm is like...tons of rotting fruits sitting at the bottom of all of them. And any apple someone picks that isn't 100% perfect gets tossed in the pile.

    That's a lot of maintenance. Totally doable for an individual or small group to maintain a small patch. Gets really difficult to scale up.

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  • "Why won't my adult children talk to me anymore?"
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    JasonDJ
    Now 89%

    You know what's fucked?

    Women can say that babies make their ovaries twitch and that's totally fine.

    But if a man says that babies make their dick hard, everyone loses their mind.

    What's that all about?

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  • "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearPO
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    Tim Walz is younger than Brad Pitt & Tom Cruise!
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    For Republicans, truth is... honestly overrated
  • "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearJA
    JasonDJ
    Now 66%

    The executive isn't supposed to be wielding power unilaterally. What the president does now, with executive orders and signing statements and line-item veto, is massive overreach.

    In a properly functioning democracy, the president delegates authority over most everything to trusted advisors (i.e. head of FCC, or DEA, or what have you) who are placed in that position because they have demonstrated both great political/leadership skills, and appropriate knowledge of the area they are governing. The president still has the final say-so in the form of veto power, but that's pretty much it.

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  • -current
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    JasonDJ
    Now 81%

    That's a pout-pout fish.

    With a pout-pout face.

    For spreading drearie-wearies all over the place.

    Blub.

    Blub.

    Bluuuub

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  • Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic
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    JasonDJ
    Now 75%

    500 carjackings in NYC in a year? Oh the humanity.

    There's literally a million cars on the road on any given day just in lower Manhattan.

    Get a sense of scale.

    10k pedestrians get hit by cars and trucks in NYC every year and you're worried about the health and safety of 500 carjackers (probably fewer, given potential for repeat offenders). What in the actual fuck?

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  • There you go little guy
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    JasonDJ
    Now 50%

    Sure. But speeding doesn't cause collisons nearly to the level of any of the other things.

    Going slow is a great way to reduce damage once a collision has occurred. Artificially slowing down roads (by throwing up a camera and a sign and nothing more) doesn't do shit to prevent collisions in the first place. It might slow down the road. It might make someone panic and jump on their brakes to avoid a ticket. It might get people paying closer attention to their speedometer than to the crosswalk up ahead.

    Put another way, you're referencing the second law. Second law doesn't matter until the first law is broke. Don't act upon an object, won't be no actions upon another object.

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  • There you go little guy
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    JasonDJ
    Now 72%

    I don't disagree, but I also think speeding is the least dangerous thing that happens on the road.

    Where are the cameras catching tailgaters, people who don't signal, people cutting others off, people cruising in the left and not passing, people blatantly running stop signs, people texting or doing makeup?

    These behaviors are all far more dangerous.

    Speeding is a psychological problem. You can't take a four-lane, straight, flat, state highwayswith few cross-roads, and all of a sudden it's a 20MPH zone because there's a high school on it (and an elevated crosswalk at that), then throw a camera on it and make a money generating machine.

    I mean, you can...Rhode Island does it. At least in the poorer neighborhoods. They don't do it in the nice neighborhoods (well, most of them...I guess Blackstone Blvd is like the one exception). But it's not really doing anything but pissing people off.

    Maybe just...don't build the highschool on a four-lane, flat, straight state highway with few cross-roads? Ain't nobody living in walking distance of it anyway.

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  • The bumper...I don't know what it's called...that little clip with the snow that fades in and reveals the logo. It's terrible. For one, a lot of people actually don't know what TV static is. Analog broadcasts stopped almost 16 years ago, and before that, most younger people had cable. For another, static is really difficult to compress. It looks *horrible* and consumes way too much bandwidth for just a couple of seconds that won't even load right. If anything, they should cache a local copy of the bumper in-app in a format that doesn't look like ass when every pixel changes every frame.

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    Apologies for the potato quality. My wife has an iPhone. He's on a different side of that fence from where his run is attached.

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    While $1m USD in 1988 is worth only $2.6m in 2024, if they just put it in the S&P 500 back then and left it there, it'd be worth over $44.6m today. I don't know if the Dijon ketchup is really worth it.

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    JasonDJ

    lemmy.zip