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cshentrup

@cshentrup@mastodon.social

election by jury https://www.electionbyjury.org/ ("sortition"). tax carbon. tax land. give people money. abolish zoning and public parking. nuclear power. open borders. abolish religion; islam first.

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arstechnica, to random
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Biden’s new import rules will hit e-bike batteries too

The tariffs’ effects on the bike industry are still up in the air.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/bidens-new-import-rules-will-hit-e-bike-batteries-too/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

cshentrup,
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@arstechnica @notjustbikes so you understand why market distortions are bad and neoliberalism is good? progress.

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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The bald eagle could have easily gone extinct. But we did all sorts of "woke" things protecting it legally, ran conservation and study programs, banned DDT (that was good for other reasons too) and in 2007 they were removed from the endangered species list.

Likewise pine forests could be dead from acid rain.

The ozone could have a huge hole.

We CAN take care of nature when we want to. And the successes have been worth it.

I feel like we forget this, you know?

cshentrup,
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@futurebird That's not woke. That's sensible.

cshentrup,
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@futurebird maybe, but i don't think you're going to change that. just like i can't change how dawkins's original conception of "meme" became co-opted to mean "cute cat gifs". i don't know of any other word that captures that sense of "absurdist virtue signaling" to even use in its place.

Sheril, to random
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Do you see a series of sunken rectangles or 16 circles?

This is The Coffer Illusion.

Our brains are geared toward identifying objects & here, “pixels” are grouped to form edges & contours, shapes, & objects. The image is inherently ambiguous so there is no “right” grouping.

Rectangles dominate first for most people - including me, but keep staring & the image may flip to circles.

cshentrup,
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@Sheril I just see a bunch of white and gray lines.

enobacon, to portland
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"as part of a project for PSU’s Master of Urban and Regional Planning program. Students... are working with local nonprofit @bikeloudpdx to investigate the potential of adding a major bikeway to Sandy when it gets repaved by the Bureau of in 2026."

https://bikeportland.org/2024/05/13/sandy-blvd-primed-for-a-future-bikeway-report-says-386316

cshentrup,
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@enobacon @bikeloudpdx at the very least, cut it down to two lanes. stroads should be banned. I live right by 33rd and Sandy and the same goes for 33rd and Broadway.

rbreich, to random
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Wondering if wealth inequality is out of control?

Well, Jeff Bezos made over $7.9 million an hour last year.

In just 13 minutes, he made the equivalent of what a typical person earns in a lifetime.

Don't tell me that the rich can't afford a wealth tax.

cshentrup,
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@Sadsquatch @PeachMcD @rbreich income tax is dumb.

https://medium.com/effective-economics/what-to-tax-or-subsidize-42cd7dc5c726

cshentrup,
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@PeachMcD @Sadsquatch @rbreich no. a market economy creates a pareto optimal distribution of resources.

eff, to random
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In coalition with 19 other organizations, we told Meta to . Read the company’s response and our statement here: https://stopsilencingpalestine.com/our-letter-and-meta-s-response/

cshentrup,
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@eff unfollowing. the enemy is Hamas.

cshentrup, to random
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the best litmus test for whether someone is crazy is if they call israel's actions "genocide".

cshentrup,
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@Alon LOL, this campaign only began in the last decade: China’s campaign against the Uyghurs, a mostly Muslim, Turkic-speaking ethnic group living in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, has been ongoing for several years. The Chinese government has reportedly detained more than a million Muslims in reeducation camps since 2017.

cshentrup,
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@Alon and is China only going after combatants, and deliberately trying to avoid harming civilians? this analogy is so broken. you're falling hard on your face.

cshentrup,
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@Alon you're clueless

cshentrup,
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@Alon You clearly don't understand it because you just used one of the dumbest analogies imaginable, and you think that "this conflict" began in 2023 you moron.

cshentrup,
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@Alon You should try actually listening to experts on this topic. today's lesson is urban warfare.

https://youtu.be/xqxzscalX2E?si=BGEc-xJwPrizWH2p

cshentrup,
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@Alon LOL, He's an expert on rational thought and has brought on countless experts to dissect the Israel situation to death. You are a blathering idiot.

enobacon, to random
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These 20 four-digit pin numbers are 27% of the ones people choose, mine is 6969

https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/112400215689617040

cshentrup,
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@enobacon you said "pin number". you are going to hell.

cshentrup, to random
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hamas must be destroyed.

teacherbuknoy, to random
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To my fellow tooters who are also , did you ever stop fearing ghosts? 🤣 I'm one month in and I still can't sleep properly unless music is playing to fill the silence lol

cshentrup,
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@teacherbuknoy The other night I was walking up the stairs in my basement after I had turned the light off and I just felt this deeply primal urge to scurry up the stairs before something behind me could get me. I'm 45.

stefan, to random
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Is there a more efficient way to check if two accounts follow each other via Mastodon's API, other than fetching followers of both accounts and finding a match?

cshentrup,
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@stefan Well you could hack into their accounts and check right?

cshentrup, to random
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oh great, a car destroyed some bike parking in Portland. cc @notjustbikes

Neblib, to emacs
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Another / newbie question:
When the cursor is on a post in one of the timelines is there a way to quickly open/expand the post's thread in another buffer window instead of expanding the thread in the current buffer window?

My current strategy is to duplicate the current timeline buffer window using C-x 2 then switching to the second window using C-x o then pressing the thread command T. Is there a better way to speed that up with less commands? Maybe a macro?

cshentrup,
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@Neblib just use vim.

cshentrup, to random
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these clouds are all "leaking". i've never seen anything like this. what does meteorologist mastodon have to say?

cshentrup, to random
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my ranking for portland mayor so far:

  1. keith wilson.
  2. liv osthus.
  3. rene gonzalez
  4. mingus mapps
  5. durrell kinsey bey
  6. carmen rubio
notjustbikes, (edited ) to random
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As if there wasn't already enough reason to hate Florida, the state just passed a bill that makes it almost impossible to convert a car lane to a bus lane or a bike lane.

Are you guys loving all that American Freedom™️?

Right wing governments hate cities and good urbanism. If you care about these things, you need to vote left. It shouldn't have to be this way, but it is.

https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1301/?Tab=BillHistory

cshentrup,
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@notjustbikes do, you need to vote neoliberal. you just made a total false dichotomy. the left here in portland is doing insane stuff like waiving tolls for people below a certain income (means testing) rather than just giving people a UBI.

cshentrup,
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@Alon @notjustbikes can you show how this response is relevant to anything in the proceeding thread?

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