I wish I had tips and tricks. Nothing replaces being there in your kids’ lives, but of course, that’s not really actionable more than holistic.

I feel bad because our kids are going to inherit an exceptional shit sandwich and the only way for the species to make it is if a lot of them see past the culture wars and hate and focus on unifying against a worldwide threat as ecosystems collapse and we all choke on the effluence the vroom-vroom crowd insist we accommodate. I love giving them good news, but also want them to be aware <gesticulates at the hellscape>

I’ve had nightmares about our kids falling down the depression spiral; I can’t fault anyone for a raging case of what-the-everlasting-fuck when they look at the world and read the news, but fight. fight on. “Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”

“AH CRAP, FUCKED THIS WHOLE RUN UP, TIME TO RESTART THE SIM. FUUUUUUU”

it’s just another part of the eternal war between the french and jellyfish.

https://www.sciencealert.com/swarming-jellyfish-just-shut-down-a-nuclear-reactor-for-the-second-time

Pennsylvania does that to people.

this should be how the giving tree ends.

It’s gonna be bad. when 2008 happened, the houses were still worth something the next year.

no one’s gonna buy up all the datacenters openai and anthropic are circle-jerking from nvidia and the tech-lemmings driving the ship at meta, goog, amazon etc.

and there’s more than a trillion fucking dollaroos invested already. lol fuuuuuck

whether it’s accurate or not damn I wish I could hibernate… but through summer instead. qol improvement would be amazing

that person in this context would be you, dolt.

with that self own, I’ll be blocking you so I don’t have to read anything else so abjectly stupid.

what a creep

sure creepazoid. sure.

this is the disconnect I struggle with - it needs to be thought of as a major thoroughfare but we’re treating it like superficially decreasing speeds will ‘fix’ it.

mitigating the road to one lane each way would be wretched, it would push even more traffic into people cutting through neighborhoods.

I don’t think there are any ‘right’ answers, just many wrong ones on this issue.

not sure what direction you want to see…? like, yeah, I agree that’s a very low speed limit for a major artery with 2 lanes each way and a two tracks in the middle.

people ignore the speed limit regularly though.

sure thing creep

yeah it’s just me buddy, keep telling yourself that.

https://m.slashdot.org/story/456972

I often wonder if gaming may also be responsible to the drop in violent crime seen over the last 30 years.

I think going after every person doing a few over is poor use of resources and invites over-policing and bias.

That said, the vroom vroom/street racing crowd- I can’t understand how these assholes in hellcats and chargers get away with blasting all over town. Noise ordinances alone should be hitting these drivers so hard they can’t afford to continue; the speeding is bonkers too. MLK should not be a fucking race track most nights of the week.

it’s a major thoroughfare - basically you have this and I-5 to go north/south; rainier ave is much more narrow with lots of street parking (not that these things stop people speeding through;) I spend a lot of time near MLK/Othello and MLK/Alaska volunteering, I don’t think you can revamp - traffic mitigate, lane reductions etc., - this without it hurting accessibility in a substantial way. it’s already carrying a very heavy amount of traffic.

In my experience people still regularly hit 50 on MLK, I don’t have a problem with the limit set at 25 but any constriction of flow is gonna huuurt.

dude, I’ve been using phones since they had dials. one place I lived, we had a party line shared with 3 neighbors.

it’s not the same thing at all. Stop acting like phones and EYEWEAR are the same. People have no reasonable expectation if you’re holding a phone to their face that they aren’t being recorded. Looking at your silly stupid mug while serving your food or walking by isn’t consenting to be recorded.

One thing I’ve really learned over the years is that a huge percentage of the population has virtually no ability to think ahead even a few years in terms of tech,

this is rich, considering how out of touch you are on this subject.

PHONES DON’T RECORD WHERE YOU LOOK.

Phones are visible! they don’t look like spectacles. Why do I have to explain this?

I suspect you’re just being duplicitous, certainly you’ve never tried to put your phone on your face or answer the glasses when you hear a ringtone.

Stop acting stupid.

yeah, I’m overall thinking renewables + storage = a much better overall solution for generation, transmission, and impact.

I don’t think we should ‘get rid’ of nuclear - the tremendous investment in giant steam run nuclear plants should be used, but we shouldn’t build new ones, and should look really hard at how we’re gonna store the waste in a secure manner.

Ideally waste-consuming reactors will come along to eat all those waiting storage pools of hot radionuclides and turn them into energy + inert waste, but until then we have to stop adding to the pile.