DrunkEngineer

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DrunkEngineer ,

There is so much to criticize Trump on...why make shit up?

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/00bee7ad-3379-49f3-bfd9-56c00928adda.png

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Kordia first entered the US in 2016 on a tourist visa and obtained a student visa the next year.

In 2021, her visa was terminated for lack of attendance. She applied to have her revoked visa reinstated and was approved later that year. But she again failed to attend classes, leading the feds to again terminate her visa in 2022.

I see a Mod censored my earlier post. Let's see how long they allow this reply to stay...

DrunkEngineer ,

Only 19?

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Guess I'm in the minority that finds Carplay really aggravating. Can't pinch-zoom the map (at least on my vehicle), and my music player is functionally useless while the car is moving because Apple disallowed scrolling. Not that the car manufacturer offerings are much better....

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Well, yeah since Cameron was the one who introduced the legislation.

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there’s no such thing as “wasted” research

Oh my sweet summer child.

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Oh come on. "Studying" 5G and anti-vax conspiracy theories is hardly in same league as the stuff Faraday was researching.

DrunkEngineer ,

In the entire city of Denver, there are just 4 red-light cameras operating.

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I downvoted because rent control is an idiotic idea that just reduces housing construction.

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No, we used to call them Cyclocross.

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Because CBS News was the original source. They interviewed her, and saw the original letter. All the other sources merely report second-hand info.

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The program being cut was for electric grid upgrades and H2 projects. There was not a single "e-bike lane" project being funded.

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This has nothing to do with historic preservation. Berkeley has even gone so far as declaring a parking lot as historic to block construction of an apartment building.

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Definitely the latter.

DrunkEngineer ,

The gas mustang earns 5-10% profit margins, whereas Ford's EV division loses $5 billion per year.

DrunkEngineer ,

Mods: Just ban this neckbeard troll already.

Eliminate Fire Risk in the SEPTA Silverliner IV Fleet ( www.ntsb.gov )

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is providing the following information to urge the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority (SEPTA) to take immediate action on the safety recommendations in this report concerning electrical fires aboard Silverliner IV railcars in passenger service. We identified this issue ...

DrunkEngineer ,

NCTD in San Diego recently had a meeting about a proposed H2 railcar project for the Sprinter line. The H2 fuel costs are running 4-16x more expensive relative to what was originally planned. So nice to see scarce public transit dollars funding H2 research 🙄

DrunkEngineer ,

The same poll shows just 30% approval of the Democratic party. In other words, RFK Jr is slightly more popular than the Democrats.

DrunkEngineer OP ,

He was watching porn during a Board meeting.

DrunkEngineer ,

Unfortunately, phase 2 of the project will be a lot more expensive....

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LOL 'Cities making the switch more possible than ever'. Maybe in Europe but definitely not US or Canada.

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A lot of funding is from the fossil fuel industry (some call it National Petroleum Radio).

DrunkEngineer ,

Sure they cover climate change, just like other commercial outlets -- but the coverage is extremely milquetoast ("stressed about climate change? Write a letter to the Earth!"). That is what their sponsorship dollars are buying.

And in matters of foreign policy especially, public broadcasting has been extremely supportive of military mis-adventures in oil-rich countries. NPR lost a lot of support among totebaggers over their Iraq war coverage.

Republicans Want to Scare You off Mass Transit. Cars Are Scarier. ( newrepublic.com )

If you’ve wandered onto social media in the last week, chances are good that an algorithm seemingly designed to reward snuff films served you a video of a gruesome killing. Among the clips is footage of 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska being brutally, fatally stabbed on the Charlotte Light Rail by Decarlos Brown Jr., who faces both ...

Driver of stolen BMW in custody after striking multiple people near UC Berkeley: police ( www.ktvu.com )

An eyewitness said that the driver of a grey BMW 52I hit a man in his 30s walking his German shepherd and dragged him for at least a block, and then looped back, rammed another car, jumped the sidewalk and hit a man on a bicycle, which was left mangled at the scene. ...

DrunkEngineer ,

Keeping the highway open would have been very expensive. There is major coastal erosion, and just the routine sand clearing. Closing the highway is consistent with official long-term plans that have gone through decades of meetings. Unless this very small number of voters wants to foot those costs all on their own, then I see no reason to give them veto power.

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Yeah, but the same drivers who complain about speed cameras would also flip out over eliminating car lanes.

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I'm not sure what "rarely visited" street you mean, but San Francisco has placed its speed cameras on heavily traveled high-injury corridor streets. And as far as I know, there are no other cities in the Bay Area currently doing speed cameras.

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Sorry, but BC is not cool. If it wants to join the cool states club, then it needs to implement proper vaccine mandates. Currently, kids do not need to be vaccinated to attend BC public schools.

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No thanks. Canada has too many anti-vax nutters.

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The same poll also found RFK Jr had the highest positive approval rating — in fact the only major national leader with net positive rating. So I have serious doubts about the accuracy of the polling.

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Risk Compensation theory predicts that “safety” technology, like backup cameras, just results in more aggressive driving.

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

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The "tipping" dialog in the diner scene would have to be changed considerably....

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Even if same train, it is not run under the same regulations. The US FRA regulations really kneecap the operational speeds:

For the track between New Haven and Boston, [Acela] has a waiver for operation at 7 inches of unbalanced superelevation. This means, that the [tilting] Acela is allowed to use the same curve speed as non-tilting TGVs (or multiple units) in France. The "Acela Express" looses about half an hour between New York and Boston, compared to best practice in tilting train usage. (It also looses at least half an hour, compared to the calculations of US railroad engineers in the 1960s.)

Source: https://zierke.com/shasta_route/pages/15regulation.html

Note that the above was written about Acela 1. The Acela 2 is supposedly lighter weight, so in theory FRA might allow higher speeds (though I have yet to see any progress there).

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Again with the zombie myth that Katie Porter is a progressive. She is even worse than Newsom.

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The portrait was originally removed by Act of Congress. Military staff who reinstated the portrait are following an illegal order.