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to put this in perspective; a lower hood will strike somewhere lower on the body like the legs, and bounce them off the hood (absorbing some impact) a higher hood will strike somew…

part of the problem, at least in the US, is that the SUVs destroy other cars, so it is quickly becoming a weird safety arms race.

I think Hong Kong has been enough of a cautionary experience for Taiwan that this is more or less not going to happen willingly.

That’s not necessarily a bad thing. As an example, 110v American outlet plugs are almost certainly not the most efficient way to power devices and appliances; but, because they are…

Japan itself is involved with a lot of the R&D, the factories are there because of that and because of major buyers also being there. It’s not like we’re going to evacuate the hund…

The emerging thing is that the earthquake caused a gas leak which later caused an explosion. Pipes will just go out of alignment during an earthquake, there isn’t a ton you can do …

this isn't even that weird, when I worked in a BigTech it was pretty explicit that there were certain countries where you should not bring your actual work device through the borde…

A diversity of media is a good thing. Most of the bad things you could say about state media also apply to sufficiently concentrated private media.

It’s also a bit of a dilemma; if your boss has AI mania, and you buying into it or not is the difference between being promoted, keeping your job, passed up or even fired, the rati…

for events specifically, Partiful seems to be the thing in my area finally displacing the Facebook events model, and it's a lot less bloated.

at least in the US, most people are fine with iMessage/SMS since * pretty early on the vast majority of phone plans started bundling unlimited text messaging, which IIRC was a big …

even in the best scenarios, a well organized group of people is not using all the features of email "properly" to say nothing of groups that are supposed to have the general public…

When i say multitask I mean that more literally. If you’re driving you can’t read, if you’re a passenger on public transit audio won’t make you motion sick, if you are cooking or c…

Audio is just easier to multitask with than reading.

admittedly i have not used a vespa myself, only seen. but an e bike is a pretty good mode of motor transport.

also, there are neighborhoods with extended amounts of gun violence and discharges and I can't say that the residents "don't mind it"

It's worth noting that the initial supersonic bans came as a result of sustained sonic boom testing over the same population: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_sonic_boom…

Japan is a bit of an outlier because of earthquake regulations. There is a history of substantially updating building regulations every time a new record is set for largest earthqu…

there is a large, well connected domestic auto industry that wants Americans to keep driving bigger and more gas guzzling cars because that's the only thing they know how to sell t…

This is correct. For context, when the 747 was being developed, simultaneously Boeing was developing the SST, Britain and France were developing Concorde, and the Soviets had their…

I would have to imagine that the newer 747-8 would have the much lower pressurization and other comfort standards of its generation of aircraft in the 2000s; the problem is that it…

do they? OCR has gotten pretty good in 2026.

now that e-bikes are so prevalent, I wonder if we will see more regenerative braking. i live in a place with large hills that have long descents over miles, and it would be nice to…

If anything, we’re reversing progress on this front, given we just had a UFC match on the front lawn of the White House.

It’s not really a secret that most new auto factories serving the US tend to open in places where those unions are not active, like the South or Mexico