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How many drivers of $150k cars die after driving into floodwaters? It costs nothing to turn around and not drive through a flood. https://www.weather.gov/safety/flood-turn-around-d…

Public transit should be worth the (inexpensive) cost of a ticket. The money used to make fares free should instead be spent on improving the quality of service. Better service att…

Behavior by cyclists certainly has a bias towards survivorship. Every other vehicle on the road represents a potentially lethal threat at any time. Inadequate dedicated infrastruct…

Roads that have existed for hundreds or thousands of years certainly weren't built for cars.

Horse-drawn busses predate private automobiles by almost a hundred years.[0] The movement to pave roads was started by bicyclists decades before the rise of the automobile.[1] Cars…

Unfortunately it sounds like this program is designed to maximize revenue for the private vendor, not make roads safer by changing driver behavior. The county is also using this su…

Unfortunately the example included (geekatlas.com) appears to be long gone, so we're not able to enjoy this ourselves.

The EU is still buying billions of dollars of fossil fuels and other resources from Russia.[0] [0] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/3/how-much-of-europes...

Sony Pictures Core and Kaleidescape are as close as it gets, and both require expensive proprietary hardware.

That’s corporate for “would you like to discuss this off the record away from public view?” Especially with a non-native English speaker who may be more comfortable expressing them…

12 TB is easy. https://yourdatafitsinram.net/

Some interesting history here: https://www.firerescue1.com/firefighting-history/articles/th...

>Do people need training to use a calculator? Yes? Quite a bit of time was spent in math classes over the years learning to use calculators. Especially the more complicated functio…

Here's a non-Amazon metasearch site for independent book sellers. There's copies starting as low as $11. https://www.alibris.com/booksearch?mtype=B&keyword=Albion%27...

What do you think the market is for this kind of digital art? Do you see this style of work attracting an audience elsewhere? How much is it selling for? I'm far from an expert, bu…

Unironically referencing a four year old "female delusion calculator" ( https://igotstandardsbro.com/ ) is also quite a choice. I've learned more about this individual from these t…

Louisiana has a long history of political corruption, and the petrochemical industry is a major part of their economy.

Vanguard and Blackrock are just asset managers. Public companies are owned by everyone with mutual funds, like pension funds and individual retirement accounts. https://factcheck.a…

A podcast is just a distribution method. It means digital audio files delivered over the Internet using RSS feeds.

If everyone is hosting events, who will attend them?

Just to hazard a guess, you could start reading here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_and_environmental_impac...

Coming from their manager, I suspect it could have also been meant as: "Radical transparency doesn't mean you get to say negative things."

Wireless carriers are a low-margin, increasingly commoditized business. Apple is only interested in expanding into high-margin businesses like services (iCloud, Apple Music, Apple …