No parking altogether discourages car ownership. Unfair to the people who live there to change it aspirationally, but if you provide other transportation options that are better than driving, then you don’t need it.

We cannot even so much as consider dedicating less of the most valuable land (downtown city land) to cars. It is unthinkable, impossible, and bad for me, somebody who drives from the suburbs and expects to be totally accommodated at the expense of people who live here.

Honestly i used a left handed desk as a right handed person once and it was fine.

In elementary school, during the final year (age 12 or 13) I had a teacher whose system was during work periods you could leave whenever you wanted, but there was a board at the door to mark your name with a clothes pin.

Going to high school, it went back to having to ask for permission, or give a heads up in later years.

The furthest two points in Altoona and NYC are no more than 240 mi apart.

The flag pictured is the Ba’athist flag, it’s been the flag of Syria for 40-ish years.

The flag you describe was the Syrian flag after independence from France, and as of two days ago, is now also the de facto flag of Syria.

Wow that website is awful

They’re both made of long polymer chains - chains of repeating carbon-based molecules - but rubbers are synthesized in a way that makes it easy for these chains to slip past each other and spring back. In plastics, the chains are much more tangled and bonded together.

Exactly. I, an everyday normal person just like you, think that murdering CEOs is bad. I am definitely not saying that because I am a CEO of a health insurance company. It is important that health insurance CEOs be spared, and not at all for personal reasons! We- i mean they deserve to live. This is an opinion that all normal everyday people - of which I certainly am one myself - should share.

.worlder moment

If instead of loans, education was paid through taxes, would that still be stealing?

I’m inclined to believe your economics teacher would say taxation is theft, and can be ignored. Using taxpayer money to improve society is not “theft”, it’s the social contract.

They did not back off after Parliament overturned it, they said they would uphold martial law until the president called it off. The president was the one who called it off after the vote from Parliament

Cannot repro

I guess https isn’t strictly necessary if you’re not handling user input.

There’s still an argument to be made that https prevents malicious code from being injected in transit.

Taxonomy of bread fasteners

Nope, I saw a video about the rarest bread clip and it talked about that site

If you created this without the use of an LLM, you have a gift.

Well, I guess it depends which tenth of a second of the fall you get. Do you get the beginning jump out of the plane, or somewhere midair?

It’s funny. People tell me they like that Bluesky has “no algorithm.”

But a ton is not 1000 kg, that’s a tonne 🤓

I’m not vegan so take it from me: you’re being obtuse.