I like the idea, but there doesn’t seem a way for a pod to temporarily move into the other track, which raises questions. Like, how do they handle rebalancing the pods? Ideally, you want a free one at each station for the next person who comes along, but if you come into a station with pods already there, do you have to get out and move to the first pod? Or when you leave your station, do all the pods on the line automatically move one station up the line, making a new pod available for the next person and leaving you a smooth trip to your destination (but limiting energy savings)? Do the pods have to cycle all the way to the end of the line to turn around (again, energy inefficient if most of the traffic is between a lesser number of stations)?

I like the idea, I really do! I’m just curious how they handle balancing availability and traffic.

It’s good that we’re decreasing our impact. That said, the climate is a really massive thing that we’ve been pushing against for over 200 years, and climate change now has an incredibly massive amount of momentum behind it.

Do you have more info on Sony?

I use weather.gov and use their charts and stuff. If this is specifically because of the eclipse, check out eclipsophile.com .

spez doesn’t care, be just wanted the money for his doomsday bunker.

There’s also Eclipse Soundscapes, a citizen-science project by NASA.

“I know there’s a ton of skepticism about Meta entering the fediverse — it’s completely understandable,” Cottle says. “I do want to kind of make a plea that I think everyone on the team has really good intentions. We really want to be a good member of the community and give people the ability to experience what the fediverse is.”

If I wanted Facebook shitposts and forwards from KlanMa, I’d’ve joined Facebook. And I don’t believe Meta has good intentions, I believe they want to overwhelm the fediverse, and I believe they want to make money. Middle-manager Cottle and their team may have good intentions, but corporate certainly doesn’t, and I certainly don’t trust their users.

I feel like something changed

He grew up a rich white boy in full-Apartheid South Africa. He’s never grown up (Tesla models S,3,X,Y! Tesla fart noises! 42069 amirite!).

Nothing changed, he just got bored and started interacting with the poor’s and people noticed the person he really was.

It was pretty obvious that Trump would try to scam Musk. Fortunately, given his own difficulties, Musk was unlikely to agree - we’re just fortunate these bills are coming due so far in advance of the election. And also that, given Musk’s foreign birth, he’ll never be eligible to be president or vice president (something that I’m sure sticks in his craw).

Lmao, I was thinking more about how fractious reddit is even without provocation, but you’re right, too!

users could become unruly if Reddit stock falls below the IPO price.

Lmao, dude doesn’t know redditors at all, do they?

Okay, this one made me laugh!

Spez is trying to outfit his doomsday bunker and wants the cash.

Aka, if we pretend to vaguely do something with no consequences for not following through, we can argue that we’re responsive and self-regulating, and hopefully avoid real regulation with teeth.

Archive link.

But Choate said he stole the papers out of anger on behalf of the victim’s family, with whom he is close. Neither the accuser nor her family asked him to steal the papers, he said. […]

“I feel that there’s been several articles written in this paper that negatively affect local families and businesses,” Choate said. “And I think what I did was kind of … the last straw for me over the years of reading this stuff.”

[The publishers] said Choate expressed similar sentiments in conversations with them, specifically over a story about a business that did not heed public health orders and a former sheriff involved in domestic violence incidents.

Update here:

https://kbin.social/m/news/t/777342/Ridgway-man-cited-in-newspaper-theft-case

Spoiler: it’s not the sheriff, the sheriff’s son, or the sheriff’s son’s friends - a mysterious new player has entered the ring …

The Ouray County Sheriff’s Office cited Paul Choate, 41, who admitted to stealing the newspapers early Thursday morning. He returned them to the Plaindealer office Thursday night with an apology. […] Choate, who owns Kate’s Place restaurant in Ridgway, admitted he took the newspapers because of the front page story. […] The Plaindealer is not disclosing Choate’s relationship to the sexual assault case. The theft was not connected in any way to the three defendants in the case, their families or the Ouray Police Department.

They’re promising more details in next week’s edition.

tl;dw?

Honestly, I think spez was offended last spring when he realized that every. Single. AI had included most of rexxit’s content in their training data - and that rexxit had paid the infrastructure and bandwidth costs for that to happen. And that he was angry about that, and afraid that he’d once again missed the boat, just like he did with rexxit crypto and rexxit NFTs. He really is an astoundingly incompetent CEO.