There’s research into non-oil based polymers in Akron funded by the Biden administration (don’t tell Trump) and Goodyear IIRC. So … if that goes somewhere, maybe not.

I hate that rentable but not self-hostable gaming servers have become a thing.

“Unused road” is ridiculous except in extremes. Unless people merge well over a mile back, 1 lane of traffic will make no difference. The only way “unused road” matters is for the people that haven’t entered the traffic jam yet who are getting off before they reach it.

Very few people (from what I’ve seen) merge more than 30 car lengths out. 30 cars is not going to make a difference.

What does make a difference is the fact that we can’t do a merge at speed because some people want to “zipper late.” It’s the zipper behavior that matters, the “at the very end” part never should’ve been added to that recommendation.

Looking at an actual research paper about this, the zipper merge demonstrated is not at the last possible point. A merge point forms ahead of that point and that’s what should be used. The pictures from their study show the zipper occurring over a wide area with many of the zipped cars driving in the middle.

https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/35694

I don’t know how studies like this have become the recommendations we have. They seem to me to miss critical bits.

Edit: based on my quick read, it’s worth noting the study finds only minimal support for the zipper merge and only in contexts not involving trucks largely based on visual analysis from their video feed as the quantitative data was not statistically significant. We need better transparency on recommendations like this frankly and the research supporting them. We should be able to have an honest debate on the merits of the papers.

The problem with zipper merges as this person describes them is a zipper merge is SUPPOSED TO get traffic back up to speed. However, when your take on the zipper merge is “up there where the wreck is at the last possible spot I can merge” there’s no time for a human to safely merge at speed. So everything has to continue at a crawl.

So the people jumping out of their lane and “zipper merging” at the last second instead of 50 feet out or so end up making things worse for everyone.

The zipper does not and should not be at the point of the physical problem on the road. Just like you should not just drive to the end of the on ramp and at the last possible second merge into the lane on your left without paying attention.

I really can’t more strongly disagree with this take.

Zipper merging is to interleave two lanes of traffic when there’s one lane of traffic available ahead.

It DOES NOT matter if it’s done with 3 feet to merge or 300 feet to merge. There’s no efficiency gain.

What does matter is some assholes trying to merge at speed at the last possible second.

The zipper point should not be the point where there’s NO ROOM to merge SAFELY without EVERYONE going 3 miles per hour.

The handful of times I’ve seen a zipper merge actually start to work, someone rushes down to the end of the line where the problem is, nearly causes a second accident trying to get over, and then everything starts moving at a crawl again.

You don’t need to zipper merge at the “physical barrier” causing the zipper merge to be necessary.

Why would a car alarm be a problem…?

Every place I’ve ever been, they take the keys and drive it into the garage to do any work they’re doing.

Car alarm should only be relevant if the mechanic locks the car, no?

I think it’s fine to have an opinion, just qualify it with “I’ve not been in that situation before, but … I think bla … because bla.”

It’s just about being honest.

I had a friend who’s latest and greatest dating advice was to go back and hangout at the college I graduated from (at the time already) several years ago.

I thought it was an incredibly disingenuous and creepy suggestion.

Him and his partner were like “it’s totally fine…”

Not a single female friend disagreed with me that, that would be very creepy and I absolutely should not do that.

He got mad that I would never listen to his (terrible) dating advice.

So that’s why Oscar is always hiding in the trash can grumbling!

I think there is a certain amount of social media that is itself the problem.

Like, trolls and rage baiters are a menace; not to mention social media is often an assault on nuance.

Memes are still really popular but they undercut serious discussion … and often just make noise about depressing shit without even the inkling of answers to the problems they comment on.

You nailed it.

I use containers for work stuff so I don’t have to deal with edge cases of mixing accounts.

I also put Proton in a container to hopefully reduce the odds of any kind of cross site scripting exploits from succeeding… But that base should already be well covered by proton servers and the normal protection mechanisms.

Interesting, though I’m not sure that it would really be lemmy at that point, no?

ActivityPub in a certain sense is not Plebbit … and I’m not sure how compatible these ideas really are.

Because that would be confusing

Yeah, I got it like its first day of early access, super excited by the art style and then got immediately turned off by the stamina system.

I don’t think I’m a big souls-like fan, but I can at least tolerate Elden Ring, Lords of The Fallen, and really enjoyed Remnant II.

I also don’t know if they’ve changed this, but I found their exit game button being hidden behind tab and then a submenu within that overlay to be just incredibly dumb.

I ended up refunding it for the above.

It looks like they still haven’t implemented co-op which is also a huge shame. That might have at least made it somewhat more worthwhile (for me anyways).

It’s really just a shame as I love the art style and the world seems really cool … but I really don’t want to deal with the stamina system.

Some might say … a group of individuals then? lol

I think asymmetrical could be fun, but it is really hard to get the balance right.

All of those games including dead by daylight make the movement feel so bad that I just can’t stick with them though.

Like, you’re being chased by Killer Klowns and you run like you’re in a CSGO map with full tactical gear on. It’s just dumb.

🤦‍♂️

I honestly suspect antitrust is the reason Google hasn’t laid more fiber (not that antitrust is bad). They’re dangerously close to being broken up for so many other things adding this would be a very high risk gambit. Especially because ISPs are known for their shitty business practices and leveraging lawyers to maximum pain on any legitimate competition that threatens them.

Something to implement signing given the key to sign with could almost certainly be created.

I think the biggest reason this stuff hasn’t really happened is … there’s not much motivation and Apple will likely respond to such efforts unkindly so you might need to be a bit of a curious masochist (or at least in strange circumstances) to attempt such an effort 😅