Showroom7561

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Showroom7561,

It’s why, she said, they’re able to offer items like organic strawberries for $0.97 a pound.

I haven’t found prices to be lower in any small shop or co-op that I’ve used, but I would donate a kidney to get organic strawberries that cheap!

Showroom7561,

I’ve got music CDs from the early 90s that still work fine. Even CD-r and rw discs from the late 90s and early 2000s work.

Hell, I recently found a stack of 3.5" diskettes that still work.

The only time I’ve had an issue with media is when it’s been physically abused (I.e. scratched or damaged).

Showroom7561,

Our mission is to make the skies available for everyone with our safe personal electric aerial vehicle.

NO. PLEASE DON’T.

I don’t trust people in vehicles that are grounded to the road and don’t have propellers 360 around them. There’s no way in hell I want to see these anywhere near public spaces.

But they are cool. No doubt about that. Keep these in Dakar or the Mojave Desert.

Showroom7561, (edited )

some of these families have said the money they’ve saved on child care has helped them buy a second property.

If this is true, everyone should be furious. We’ve been trying to find childcare for our two grandkids for YEARS. Their mother is in healthcare, and if we weren’t able to care for them (at our loss), she wouldn’t be able to work or survive.

Why are daycare services even offered to families who aren’t in desperate need? Those families can afford a babysitter.

Single parent homes, low-income homes, parents who work in an industry in crisis (education, healthcare, etc.) should be at the top of the list for $10 a day childcare.

Showroom7561,

City council voted unanimously in 2021 not to participate in the province’s e-scooter pilot program.

3+ years, plus a few extra more, before they knew about the pilot. The city simply seems incapable of adapting to the needs of a changing world.

Yes, ban rentals. They are garbage and cause problems for everyone else, but don’t ban private e-scooters.

“Blind people don’t know when silent e-scooters rocket at them at over 20 KPH, driven by unlicensed, untrained, uninsured, unhelmeted, fun-seeking joyriders,” the groups said in a joint statement.

Nonsense, unless you also want mobility scooters, and both regular and e-bikes to be banned, too.

Cars kill people, and e-scooters being used away from sidewalks pose no danger to blind pedestrians. If you want to make the city safer, get people out of their cars and using micromobility or public transportation.

The problem is that the main opposition is led by David Lepofsky, an advocate for the blind who has been extremely negative towards anything offered to sighted people.

You can clearly see this (no pun intended) in the “fun seeking joyriders” snide remark in the statement.

He has never once offered a compromise or solution to any objection.

I’ve heard his rhetoric for years, and most of it is just propaganda trash. He wants ONLY the blind to have accessibility, discounting the fact that micromobility also allows people with other disabilities to move freely.

“Left strewn on sidewalks, e-scooters are tripping hazards for blind people and accessibility nightmares for wheelchair users.”

Yes, this I agree with, which is why rental e-scooters should be banned. Nobody with a private e-scooter does this, so punishing everyone isn’t right.

Showroom7561,

they can hit a top speed of up to 50 mph (80 kph).

Why do we need to create another industry that’s designed to kill people? Don’t we have it bad enough with cars and trucks? Now we need these tiny thing on the road going 80km/h with two people in it?

Showroom7561,

Maybe you missed the article (and the accompanying video), but this trike is about waist high. It doesn’t even clear the front height of a sedan, let alone be visible to someone in an SUV or pickup truck going at near highway speeds.

I wouldn’t consider this safe, unless it had a huge flag on it, similar to what you see on recumbent bicycles. Motorcycles with a rider on them are at least significantly taller and more visible compared to this thing.

Showroom7561,

I’ve been avoiding their stores for years.

Not only was I spending 100% of my grocery budget at a Loblaws owned store, but I can probably count on one hand how many times I’ve visited one in the last 6 years.

Switching to alternative stores saved me thousands over the years.

American Motorcyclist Association Urges DOT to Act on Automated Driver System Regulations Following Tragic Collision (americanmotorcyclist.com)

PICKERINGTON, Ohio (April 26, 2024) — In the wake of the most recent tragedy involving a fatal collision between a Tesla vehicle in autopilot mode and a motorcyclist in Washington state, the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) once again urges the Department of Transportation (DOT) to strengthen Automated Driving System...

Showroom7561,

I don’t give a fuck if crash avoidance systems plow through test dummies sometimes. The times it doesn’t matter.

Would you be OK with human drivers plowing into pedestrians without any reason whatsoever, just because other people don’t the other 99% of the time?

These advanced systems should never fail, especially not in test scenarios that couldn’t be easier for them to pass. Some of these vehicles literally fail to even slow down while hitting the test dummies!

Add them into a random adventure that is the real world, and I wouldn’t trust them unless they don’t kill people like it was a lottery draw.

Showroom7561,

Here’s a video report from last week, showing how crash avoidance works, and that auto break simply fails to work in some vehicles. And yes, the feature does work in other vehicles, as they should in such easy scenarios.

The problem is, you have cars marketed and sold as having these features that simply do not work. And it’s clear that drivers who own vehicles with all these magical features get lulled into believing they don’t have to pay attention 100% of the time and at a moment’s notice.

Nobody on public roads should be OK with this.

Showroom7561,

A new report lends insight into Canadians who leave the country, estimated to number around four million in 2016, or about 11 per cent of the population according to Statistics Canada.

More than one in ten people in a single year?

I don’t think I know a single person in all my life who moved out of Canada.

Are they all movie stars or millionaires?

Loblaw reports $13.58B in Q1 revenue, as Reddit group's boycott kicks off (www.cbc.ca)

Loblaw Companies reported $13.58 billion in first-quarter revenue — a 4.5 per cent increase from a year earlier — on Wednesday morning, the same day that a group of frustrated shoppers said they would begin a month-long boycott of the grocery retailer....

Showroom7561,

The company’s quarterly profit was $459 million, marking a 9.8 per cent increase.

This is far, far more important than their revenue.

The company is run by thieves.

Showroom7561,

Nothing on there says it needs a legacy version, but I may be overlooking something.

It took several attempts (with failures) to get it installed on the latest Raspian version, then after some digging I saw that the requirements said to use “An SD Card with the 64-bit version of RaspiOS installed (please use Bullseye)”.

With Bullseye installed, BirdNetPi works just fine, but it is old and comes with old software.

Showroom7561,

I’d rather update anything that’s old, as long as it stays on the same OS version (Bullseye and not Bookworm).

With newer versions of Raspian or any version of Linux, there seems to be a software update GUI that makes this pretty easy, but I’m taking stabs in the dark with this legacy version.

Showroom7561,

I appreciate that! Thanks.

Showroom7561,

If you need an anti whistleblowing law, that’s a red flag.

100% this.

Any company or industry that actively tries to get these laws instated should be investigated immediately, because they are doing some really, really bad things.

Showroom7561,

Doing your job at a high standard is a problem? Who makes this garbage up?

Showroom7561, (edited )

to make illicit drug use illegal in all public spaces, including inside hospitals, on transit and in parks.

Wait, was it legal to use illicit drugs in parks, on transit, and in public spaces???

Showroom7561,

whoBIRD

I’ve been using it, but it’s so unfriendly compared to Merlin, which allows you to play back recordings, see more info about the bird detected, etc.

Showroom7561,

An add-on that simply overlays a black box when you pause is easy enough.

Showroom7561,

I pause videos to read what’s on screen.

An add-on that screenshots on pause would fix this. But yes, I understand the use-case as I do the same. Google doesn’t give a damn (about users).

Showroom7561,

Yup. And let’s hope the mom and her child repented for any sins before they were murdered, or they don’t get tickets to heaven. /s

Showroom7561,

I love my bike computer. Yes, you don’t “need” one, but once you start using the features like navigation, fitness tracking, and have it as a tool to better your health, it becomes incredibly valuable.

I prefer it over using my phone as a navigation device for more than a few reasons 😀

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