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  • Blind users of Lemmy - how was vision been explained to you the first time?

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  • As far as I knew they are mainly to tell a seeing impaired person where not to walk into the street.

    They also seem effective at encouraging everyone else to step back a little

    But the dot version is standard where I’ve seen.

  • Family in Georgia says they're forced to sell home to help power data centers

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  • I’m sure they’re getting compensation. The question is always whether it’s fair compensation. I’m sure they’re claiming they’re just using an easement on the back of the property while they’re saying our entire lives are here and we don’t want to live under power lines

  • Gov. Jeff Landry: New Orleans is no longer as important to Louisiana as it once was • Louisiana Illuminator

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  • So Louisiana will have a business that’s not in New Orleans (and not a refinery)? Employing dozens?

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    Why doesn't the US as an country have bullet trains?

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  • Yes we have the population density to support bullet trains. Obviously not everywhere but pretty much every major city is the right distance from another major city for rail to be a good choice. People focusing on the rural areas and current long distance trains are using the exception fallacy: no one is arguing that. We easily have the density for rail service to well over half the population.

    The problem is some sort of inbred need to fund highways to the exclusion of anything else. That’s a longer argument others are making and there are many videos exploring it.

    China is an interesting comparison when you consider rural areas.

    • The US interstate highway system intentionally covers rural areas where the population density “is not worth it”. It was understood to be good for overall mobility and development
    • China seems to follow similar logic with high speed rail: important for bringing together the country and encourage development, even to areas where the population “is not worth it”

  • Blind users of Lemmy - how was vision been explained to you the first time?

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  • That’s a great idea, but I’ve never seen that before. I’ve only seen the dots

  • Trump Justice Department Scrambles as Lawyers Flee in Droves

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  • They can deport you for free

  • Apple M7 Ultra Chip Planned With Up to 1.5 TB of Unified Memory

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  • Remember this is “unified”, it’s not like you can upgrade, nor is it available in the “cheap” packaging we’re used to.

    You’ll get whatever Apple puts on the SoC, and you’ll be happy with it

  • If AI says that to save them from climate change, humanity has to shutdown AI...

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  • Out of all the currently known Things we need to do to mitigate climate change, can you name any that corporations have done willingly?

  • Trump Suddenly Opens Dozens of Gas Stations Selling Suspiciously Cheap Fuel, and Experts Are Already Warning of Impending Disaster

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  • As far as anyone knows gas stations have a very competitive market and most have low profit margins. It’s not as simple as someone just deciding to take less profit.

    It’s pretty shady to hide how this is being paid for

    • illegally skips gas tax?
    • illegally does not meet gasoline standards?
    • illegal misuse of campaign money?
    • illegal Trump-related slush fund?
    • other illegal misuse of government money?
    • illegal import of sanctioned Russian gasoline?
    • corporate funding in illegal expectation of quid pro quo from Trump administration?

  • Gavin Newsom wants to make seizing ballots a felony

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  • There has to be a way for law enforcement to investigate election fraud. However we always trusted the investigators would be legitimate and investigating actual fraud, rather than being the ones perpetrating fraud

  • Gov. Gavin Newsom announces plan to make seizing California’s ballots a felony

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  • Maybe. While I don’t expect cops to step up and enforce the law, attorneys general have been fairly active doing so, and have more wins than most people know.

    And of course a state law can’t be pardoned by the federal chaos beureau. These people are all cowards, so being able to hold one to legal consequences could have significant deterrence

  • What's something that gives you hope about the future?

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  • Thank you! I can’t believe I’ve been here three years already!

  • Execs Confused and Horrified by the Huge AI Bills After Thinking They Could Replace Workers for Free

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  • So they thought it would be free forever, and are surprised by the usage based pricing? I wonder what will happen when ai companies need to be profitable and increase prices accordingly

  • doorbell camera recs

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  • I don’t know how onto look for this but one of my requirements next time will be responsiveness with the doorbell/video. I have a small front yard so already the Ring has trouble being timely

    I was hoping a locally controlled doorbell would be more responsive than a cloud doorbell

  • doorbell camera recs

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  • What are your requirements?

    I have a Ring that has served well and I believe there are newer models with a package camera. However I’m not happy about the privacy situation.

    Since it’s not immediate, I’m waiting to see what Apple comes up with.

    • Apple claims to be privacy focussed
    • my family is all Apple already
    • end-to-end encryption
    • functional out of the box, not a project like self-hosting would be
    • no extra subscriptions for cloud storage
    • possible synergy with smart lock

    That’s a lot of nice claims

  • Student pilot successfully lands plane after instructor jumps to death mid-flight

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  • FYI- much lower. At 15,000’ you need oxygen (or pressurized cabin), which most small planes do not have. I don’t think you’d need a supercharger yet, but many engines would be struggling

    I was a passenger on a small plane where they only had oxygen for the pilots. I believe it was at 15,000 ‘. It was surreal: it didn’t take long for the blackness to start closing in from the sides until I could only see a small tunnel in front of me. I don’t know if I should have been worried for my life but I clearly would not have been capable of flying.

    A standard air breathing small Plane without supercharger or other altitude adaptation, can take a long time and a lot of fuel to get up to 15,000’ as the engine gets weaker with thinner air. It’s generally not worth trying to go this high unless you’re in a longer trip (the article doesn’t say anything about the plane though so if it had a supercharger and oxygen, then disregard this. Nothing I say applies to anything with a turbine)

    One of the most common training aircraft is a Cessna 152. Google tells me it has a ceiling of 14,700’. It can’t even reach 15,000’ (depending on air pressure)

  • Student pilot successfully lands plane after instructor jumps to death mid-flight

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  • But seriously ….. a more plausible path is that instructors sometimes create interruptions to ensure you know how to focus on the aircraft. My instructors would open windows at inopportune times: little did they know but it caused me to fly an aircraft with a canopy that can slide back during flight, a “convertible”. In aircraft where you can, I’ve definite heard of instructors opening doors during flight.

    The plausible accident is exactly that: instructor opening a door as part of emergency training. Of course it’s much harder to explain lack of seatbelt, or how he got up from his seat

    You have to be able to handle a door or window opening in flight because there can be mechanical failures where that happens. And if we’re stretching things, the student pilot panicking could cause a sudden jerk of the wheel, throwing an unrestrained passenger out. It could happen. Extremely unlikely but it could …… except the seatbelt.

  • Student pilot successfully lands plane after instructor jumps to death mid-flight

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  • I imagine it’s more like an intrusive thought when he was vulnerable. He was likely having a bad time, feeling desperate and suicidal with no help. Then the thought came that he could just open the door, so he did. No planning, no consideration, no real thought once triggered. Other people just weren’t relevant

    Arguably if you have the wherewithal to consider other people, there’s at least a sliver of something to live for

  • What's something that gives you hope about the future?

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  • But there is no silver bullet that cures everything, or we can’t wait for utopia before we begin, or don’t let perfection be the enemy of better. I would also prefer cities designed around people: I live in Boston because it’s close to best you can get in the us. I am all for making most cars obsolete, but until then, we need to do better

    The reality is the Netherlands still has cars and there always will be a need for at least some cars. The other reality is that we can switch to EVs in a handful of years, significantly reducing our impact on the environment. And the most unfortunate reality is redesigning cities is a continuous process over many decades: we can’t just do nothing until then

    My point was mango Mussolini accidentally speeding up the global shift toward electrification and EVs, despite grasping for the opposite. However he has had no positive effect on transit or walkability, even accidentslly