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Pionir

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He/him. Bikes bikes bikes. Woke is not an insult. London, UK

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Pionir, to random
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As promised, here's some photos for you of St Dunstan in the East. The main challenge was getting photos without tourist groups in the frame. Not so abandoned! @AbandonedAmerica

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AbandonedAmerica, (edited ) to random
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The newest of my Decay Theory articles just went live on Atlas Obscura! In it, we explore the struggling town of Gary, Indiana to determine how a once-thriving city winds up with over 7,000 abandoned buildings. It's an important story, not just for Gary residents, but for many American towns facing similar issues.

Let me know what you think, I'd love to hear your thoughts!
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/abandoned-america-gary-indiana

Pionir,
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@AbandonedAmerica and lovely article. And now I'm going to have to have lunch in St Dunstan in the East the next time I'm in the office as I never knew it existed. Thanks!

enobacon, to random
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solved congestion by banning cars, go figure

https://youtu.be/sEOA_Tcq2XA

Pionir,
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@enobacon cash strapped councils could probably spend their road repair budget on bollards and planters and have enough change to run decent community services too

helenczerski, to climate
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I have just discovered that those odd waste/recycling bins that are all over the oldest bits of Bergen, Norway, link to an UNDERGROUND PNEUMATIC WASTE TRANSPORT SYSTEM. The waste collects for a bit and then WHOOSH... it's off to the recycling centre. All underground. No bin lorries (garbage trucks), fewer road vehicles, less noise... amazing. @davidho says that my (considerable) excitement about this is entirely unreasonable. I disagree.
https://www.envacgroup.com/how-it-works/the-envac-system/

#climate #waste #Norway

Pionir,
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@thiagocsf @helenczerski @davidho I was thinking more

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AbandonedAmerica, to random
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My newest Decay Theory article for Atlas Obscura is now live - in this one we look at why churches are the most ubiquitous abandoned sites in the American countryside, next to homes. Whatever your feelings on religion are, the answers may surprise you. Check it out and let me know what you think! https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/abandoned-churches

Pionir,
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@AbandonedAmerica another lovely article. Here in the UK many smaller churches and chapels have been converted to residential dwellings.

My local one has actually become an art hub although seems to constantly be o the verge of a funding crisis: https://www.landmarkartscentre.org/

AbandonedAmerica, to random
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The abandoned Packard Motor Car Company in Detroit, reputedly once the largest ruin in North America.

See the rest: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/packard-motor-car-company

Pionir,
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@AbandonedAmerica Is that the one used for Robocop? (and probably many other films)

Pionir,
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@AbandonedAmerica

"One location was found outside Texas, way to the northeast in Pennsylvania. The old steel mill in ‘Sector 3D’, where Murphy holes up and finally takes out Boddicker’s crew, was the Duquesne Steel Works, off Route 837, Duquesne, just southeast of Pittsburgh. The plant had been closed down in 1984 and, as you’s expect, has since been totally demolished."

https://www.movie-locations.com/movies/r/Robocop-1987.php

AbandonedAmerica, to random
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I'm very excited to announce the first column of my "Decay Theory" series for Atlas Obscura. This one's about the death of the suburban American shopping mall. It's easy to write off the closure of malls as the result of online shopping - but their fate was likely sealed years before Amazon became the brick and mortar shredding juggernaut it is today. Here's the link! https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-life-and-death-of-the-suburban-american-mall

Pionir,
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@AbandonedAmerica wow you're a great writer. A very moving piece. Thanks for taking the time write it

jbouter, to firefox
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By remaining to use a chromium browser, you're assisting in fucking up the web. I get it, it was nice and shiny. But it's time to come back to Firefox, folks.
https://arstechnica.com/google/2023/12/chromes-next-weapon-in-the-war-on-ad-blockers-slower-extension-updates/

Pionir,
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@niavy @jbouter @Gigoince if you're on android, NewPipe (available on f-droid) is great. It even has a download option and I often cast those with mx player to a tv

quixoticgeek, to random
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Court rules Tory scum, are Tory scum...

Bet that's gonna go down well.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/nov/21/protesters-iain-duncan-smith-tory-scum-reasonable-court-rules

Pionir,
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@quixoticgeek @jfparis

AbandonedAmerica, to random
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Do you want Ninja Turtles? Because that's how you get Ninja Turtles https://abc7.com/green-slime-nyc-sewers-new-york-city-lower-manhattan/14018262/

Pionir,
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@AbandonedAmerica cowabunga!

rosamundi, to random
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Speak for yourself, BBC. I knew crypto was a load of old tulips from the start. Ergo, I knew SBF was just a dodgy salesman.

Everyone got duped by Sam Bankman-Fried's big gamble

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67302950

Pionir,
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@zdl @rosamundi who knew the emperor's new cloths was actually a warning document from Dr Who

Pionir, to random
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So I'm sure all the EV sceptics who jumped to the wrong conclusion and were spreading anti EV rhetoric in the media are retracting their statements just as publicly right? .... Right?

"It is thought the fire started with a diesel-powered vehicle "and then that fire has quickly and rapidly spread", said Andrew Hopkinson, Bedfordshire's chief fire officer."

BBC News - What caused the Luton Airport fire and what happens next?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-67077996

Pionir,
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@stuart it's puzzling to me though as they're still perpetuating the "cars give you freedom" narrative. Maybe it's just resistance to changing anything, no matter how beneficial the change might be. I guess the same people would have been screaming about evil cars replacing trains 🤷‍♂️

Pionir,
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@stuart I can't work out if she's thick, playing to the crowd (not sure which crowd though!) or just a stooge for vested interests. She's demonstrably wrong on so many things, I can't help thinking it must be deliberate.

BicycleBen, to random
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I've just been out for an errand on the bike in a t-shirt. Could probably have swapped the trousers for shorts too. Home now and I'm hot.

Doesn't seem right for nearly a third of the way into October.

Pionir,
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@andycarolan @BicycleBen it really reminds me of this classic British sci-fi film

Linux_Is_Best, to microsoft
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Microsoft, quietly, has published a guide on how to download and install Linux.

No... Seriously... It is not a joke...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linux/install

The article was published September 29, 2023 (9 days ago).

The guide provides every option available, too. Starting with using their Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), to using a Virtual Machine, and even on "Bare Metal" alongside Windows.

That's right, Microsoft now tells you how to dual-boot Linux. 🤯

Pionir,
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@Linux_Is_Best that's because Microsoft will make far more money off you running a Linux vm in Azure than Windows on your laptop

Pionir, to dadjokes
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I was recently asked who my favorite vampire was. I said, “the Muppet from Sesame Street.”

They told me: “he doesn’t count!”

I replied: “I assure you, he most certainly does.”

WilliamNB, to cycling
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I'm seriously considering going back to platform pedals. When I did an Audax a few weeks back, I was chatting to a man who'd done PBP multiple times, and he ditched SPDs in favour of platform pedals, after experiencing knee issues for years.
I've been having knee problems for quite some time now, so it's got to be worth a punt, right?

Pionir,
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@mariusor @WilliamNB the foot naturally rotates in the horizontal plane through the pedal stroke. A pedal that locks the foot too rigidly will cause pressure points in the knee. This is why float was built into most pedal designs but often it's not enough

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    @ElleGray @paul_ipv6

    You need to watch this if you haven't already

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrainDead

    AbandonedAmerica, to random
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    Sure, ghosts and witches are spooky, but the real horror of Halloween is staring down the barrel of several months of darkness and cold knowing your already severe depression is about to level up 🎃

    Pionir,
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    @AbandonedAmerica

    Hope the greatest halloween costume ever made makes you smile a little...

    video/mp4

    pierstoval, (edited ) to random French
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    Project manager: "What's technical debt? Explain it to me like I'm 6 years old"

    Devs:

    (source: "Richard Scarry's Storybook Dictionary" : https://archive.org/details/1scarryRichardStorybookDictionary/page/n56/mode/1up )

    Pionir,
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    @pierstoval oh the irony. I'm sitting in an end of life meeting arguing why doing nothing is doing the wrong thing.

    davidallengreen, to random
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    This is a briefing note on the legal rule that computers are presumed to be operating
    correctly

    Happy to hear from anyone with an informed view on this issue

    https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10151259/1/briefing-presumption-that-computers-are-reliable.pdf

    Pionir,
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    @davidallengreen if computers and/or computer programs operated correctly there would be no bug fixes, security updates or vulnerability management in IT. (there are loads).

    Even the hardware has software bugs, although it's usually called firmware in that context.
    E.g.
    https://www.securityweek.com/companies-respond-to-downfall-intel-cpu-vulnerability/
    And
    https://www.zdnet.com/article/log4j-zero-day-flaw-what-you-need-to-know-and-how-to-protect-yourself/

    solar_chase, to random
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    The thing people most often underestimate about the difficulty of doing research is, they overestimate other people's willingness to fill out surveys.

    And, I mean. Why should people fill out surveys? Especially vaguely hard ones.

    Pionir,
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    @Loukas @solar_chase or like to enter prize draws

    lowqualityfacts, to random
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    That's rough.

    Pionir,
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    @lowqualityfacts that's just mean behaviour from Simple Cowell

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