[-] nBodyProblem@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

That’s the joke

[-] nBodyProblem@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

Also you can’t just leave your toddler at home when you go out for dinner, or drop your kid off with a boarding facility when you want to go on vacation

[-] nBodyProblem@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Seriously. Southern CA alone is 4-5x the population of all of Norway, and that region often has 3-4 taco shops per block when it’s allowed by zoning.

Edit: the USA has 75,000 Mexican restaurants. That means that there are only 73 people in Norway for every Mexican restaurant in the United States.

The average restaurant in the USA serves 100 people per day. That means that, on average, US Mexican restaurants serve more people daily than the entire population of Norway.

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Aurora over Wyoming (lemmy.world)
[-] nBodyProblem@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago

Really depends on the individual birds in question IMO. A red tailed hawk for example is really best optimized for prey on the ground like rabbits. On the other hand, a peregrine falcon is optimized for aerial prey and they eat everything from hummingbirds to geese

[-] nBodyProblem@lemmy.world 30 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It’s worth noting that the lack of second language proficiency isn’t a result of laziness or ignorance

In Europe, most people are a short train ride from another country. There is also a lot of cultural exchange between countries within Europe.

Most Americans are multiple days of driving from the nearest non English speaking country, and that’s just to arrive in an area of Mexico where the people they will interact with overwhelmingly speak English.

In that context, there is little utility for most people in learning a second language. It’s also very difficult to achieve true proficiency when you are so rarely exposed to native speakers of a language.

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[-] nBodyProblem@lemmy.world 131 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I live in one of these cities (Denver) and in my city’s case this push is part of a ton of other provisions including a push to set a maximum speed limit citywide of 25 mph.

About 80% of my trips out of the house are walking or on a bike, but it seems clear to me that policies like this don’t improve safety. It’s just lazy policy making. For example, if you set a 25 mph speed limit on a road designed to support 45 mph traffic, most drivers will still drive 45+ mph and you instead get a wild mismatch of driving speeds. This just slows traffic with an arguably negative benefit to safety. Similarly, if you ban turn on red in the city many drivers will still turn on red, but now whether or not a car will turn on red becomes unpredictable.

What our cities need is more dedicated bike and pedestrian infrastructure that is separated altogether from the roads, as well as greatly improved public transit.

[-] nBodyProblem@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The thing people forget is that 3d printing doesn’t just enable the direct manufacturing of parts, it also enables the manufacturing of tooling for parts that would never have been manufacturable at home otherwise.

For example, you can rifle a metal tube and form a chamber using electro etching and printed tooling. Or, you can make tooling to make magazine springs

The key point to be made here is that a fully plastic gun is sketchy but 3d printing has absolutely transformed the ability to make reliable and effective firearms at home without any off the shelf firearm parts

The same type of thing is happening in the car hobbyist world. We aren’t printing cars but people are using prints to make molds, form sheet metal, align parts for weldments and manufacture low stress plastic parts like intake manifolds.

[-] nBodyProblem@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

This is just what the basement of their mom’s dungeon looks like

[-] nBodyProblem@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Same. My strategy is basically to stay at home until enough other people come in that they can single people out. It’s not like they can fire the entire office.

When they were really amping up the “mandatory” rhetoric, we had a tornado rip through the parking lot and total the cars of everyone who actually complied with the work from work mandate. Then they refused to pay for the vehicle repairs.

Way to guarantee that nobody comes in.

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ass clown rule (lemmy.world)
[-] nBodyProblem@lemmy.world 59 points 1 year ago

Were you not here for the bit about the beans?

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[-] nBodyProblem@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

Because the biggest practical downside of Linux is a lack of natively developed big name software. It’s annoying to find some great software that perfectly meets your needs and then discover than it can’t run with decent performance on Linux.

Market share growing means that Linux becomes a better and more accessible option.

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Fudd Rule (lemmy.world)
[-] nBodyProblem@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

Some of them have

However, “the mod team” is a diverse and fragmented group with many individuals across Reddit

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Car communities are always filled with people wanting to know what they need to do to get started with car activities like autocross, track days, or meets. To kick off useful/informative discussion over at /c/ft86@lemmy.world, I decided to write a series of “getting started” guides. I hope they might encourage some people to stop thinking about it, go out, and do fun stuff.

I feel like they might have some interest to the wider car community, so I’ll repost them here with some modifications to generalize anything that is 86/BRZ/FRS specific.

Autocross

What you need:

Autocross is often confused with track days, which is really far from the truth. Autocross is really no harder on a car than any number of normal on-street activities for a sports car. The runs are only ~40 seconds long with tons of cool down time between runs.

However, you do need a car in good working order that will pass tech. This means no bad wheel bearings, suspension that isn’t falling apart, and a properly secured battery. You are also responsible for ensuring you don’t have any major coolant or oil leaks. Nobody likes it when someone oils down the course and runs have to stop to do cleanup.

You also need a helmet if your region doesn’t have loaners. Most do, but it’s a good idea to ask if in doubt.

Nice to haves:

You probably want to bring a tire gauge for adjusting pressures.

Summer tires are good to have because all seasons are prone to chunking when driven hard. You don’t need to buy special autocross tires when just starting out, but if you are on all seasons keep an eye on the heat between runs and be carefully not to overdrive the car.

Bring lots of water, sunscreen, closed toe shoes, and maybe a wide brimmed hat. You will be out working at most events and will get a lot of sun.

A helmet sock is nice to have if you are using a loaner helmet.

Additional prep info:

I’d like to discuss the issue of classing. Basically, don’t mod your car to prep for autocross if you aren’t experienced at the sport. The things that knock you into a higher class can be unintuitive and if you don’t mod with a class in mind it will quickly become impossible to be competitive without huge money outlays.

For example, any aero mod in SCCA classing will knock you into either prepared or xtreme street at minimum. Prepared allows full on racing slicks and stripped out interiors; it is VERY expensive to compete in. Xtreme Street allows unlimited powertrain modifications; in many regions the winners have widebody cars with 3x the stock power levels and it takes a ton of prep to win in that arms race.

It’s usually best to just show up in a stock car for awhile and build for a specific class once you have experience.

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