GissaMittJobb

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Wisconsin Republicans help pass bill to ban thing that almost never happens: noncitizens voting in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 minutes ago

That's kind of a silly request on account of any non-citizen having been identified as having voted would have their vote not count, right?

What were people doing before high fives?? in c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 13 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

Carbonara was invented around 1950.

No respect will be afforded to Italian cuisine based on this fact

I can't believe it in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 day ago

I'd eat that, especially at that price. Not even British

YSK if you browse Lemmy on desktop/in browser, the Lemmy Universal Link Switcher script makes browsing between instances significantly less annoying in c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world
[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

True, I didn't consider that. This particular instance warrants a user script

YSK if you browse Lemmy on desktop/in browser, the Lemmy Universal Link Switcher script makes browsing between instances significantly less annoying in c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world
[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Seems like something that should be upstreamed. We're not on Reddit anymore, the source code is open and contributions get accepted. The need for userscripts has been removed basically

How Do You Go About Buying Stuff Online While Avoiding Amazon? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

It's very easy in Sweden - there are plenty of e-commerce alternatives present, and you can use a comparison website to find the best price for any given item.

For various cycling gadgets and other cheap stuff, I've started ordering on AliExpress, with a pretty decent success rate so far.

How are the blatant anti-competitive practices of Apple just…allowed? How is this even possible? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 days ago

While I broadly agree with your sentiment,

Why can’t you compile Swift outside of MacOS

You can compile Swift on Windows and Linux. There are other tools required to build macOS and iOS-apps bundled with XCode that prevents building those on other platforms, but Swift itself is available standalone.

France & Germany's economic councils endorse electric trucks over hydrogen in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That'd be green hydrogen. Gray or blue hydrogen, both sourced from methane, is not produced using electricity.

Green hydrogen is practically speaking not cost-effective with current production parameters, and as such, gray and blue rules the day. Hence, hydrogen is effectively just another form of fossil fuel for the time being.

What DIY successes and disasters have you had? in c/casualconversation@lemm.ee
[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago

I've done a few rounds of DIY repairs on our robot vacuum, pushing out a good 4 additional years of life out of it.

Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from new tariffs in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

Dude was worried they would have his head when iPhones started costing $3k

What books would you describe as nothing burger? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

See the One Book-theory from the podcast If Books Could Kill

Because all self-help books are basically the same and they all fit that bill

False alarm in c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago

A similar thing applies for Sweden, where there's a quarterly test of the public emergency warning system, which always happens at 15:00 on Mondays.

The system has the nickname "Hesa Fredrik" ("Hoarse Fredrik").

Since this system will be used in case of an attack in the event of a war, this means we have to contemplate if Russia is attacking or if it's just Monday each time we hear the signal.

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Mannheim live updates: One person dead after car drives into crowd in German city of Mannheim, police say (www.bbc.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/26684168

Interestingly worded title - did the car drive itself into the crowd? No, right? Then why would they word it like that?

Anyway, more evidence to support the fact that cars are far too efficient as weapons to be granted as much free rein as they are today. Bollards save lives, implement them liberally throughout any areas with pedestrians.

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Mannheim live updates: One person dead after car drives into crowd in German city of Mannheim, police say (www.bbc.com)
 

Interestingly worded title - did the car drive itself into the crowd? No, right? Then why would they word it like that?

Anyway, more evidence to support the fact that cars are far too efficient as weapons to be granted as much free rein as they are today. Bollards save lives, implement them liberally throughout any areas with pedestrians.

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Several injured after vehicle drives into crowd in Munich (bbc.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/25961823

It's probably time we admit cars that are a bit too useful as weapons to continue affording them the vast uncritical access they currently enjoy in our built environments.

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Idea: Rebrand Bike Lanes and Bus Lanes as Emergency Vehicle-lanes (lemmy.ml)
 

This post is inspired by me seeing an ambulance in the bike lane by the apartment building opposite of mine.

By this point, I'm sure we've all had just about enough of anti-urbanists and NIMBYs claiming in bad faith that bike lanes and bus lanes will be obstructive for emergency vehicles, and as such cannot be built.

You're probably well aware that exactly the opposite is the case - cars are the principal obstruction for emergency vehicles, and emergency vehicles can actually make very efficient use of bike and bus lanes to shorten response times.

I propose that we flip the argument on its head by rebranding bike and bus lanes as Emergency Vehicle-lanes, which just so happen to afford permission to buses and bikes when not in active use by emergency vehicles (which is of course already the case, everyone is required to yield any space to emergency vehicles, at least where I live).

This way, we kill this particular argument against bike and bus lanes in its crib, and expose the opposition as being actually against emergency vehicle mobility, in favour of having more lanes to drive their cars on.

Let me know what you think!

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What podcasts have you been listening to the most during the year? (lemmy.ml)
 

I'm getting close to the bottom of my backlog on a few podcasts, so I'm looking to get something new in there.

Personally, it's been, in no particular order:

  • If Books Could Kill
  • Darknet Diaries
  • Hard Fork
  • 99% Invisible
  • The War on Cars
  • The Urbanist Agenda
  • The Climate Denier's Playbook
  • Well There's Your Problem

I'm mildly considering getting into Behind the Bastards and It Could Happen Here, but I'm a little bit skeptical on account of how damn much there is to be listened to in their feed.

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