TheMechanic

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[–] TheMechanic@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

When I wrote the above I thought, hah someone's going to be like 'bUt HoW WilL tHe vAnS gEt tHeRe jEeNiuS?'. But then I thought, nah noones that iamverysmart. Yet, here we are.

[–] TheMechanic@lemmy.ca 32 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Ban cars in the main street. I'm sure you can learn to walk one block. You might even find you enjoy it when you are not having constant near death experiences with cars.

All those parking spaces are now spaces for pop-up businesses. Food vans, shipping containers that are now selling vegetables, outdoor dining, art fairs, etc.

You can now legally live in those apartments that people used to live in built above the existing shops, before that was made illegal for reasons unknown.

[–] TheMechanic@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago

Don't worry, they have options. They can also take out shitty loans laden with fine print from China

[–] TheMechanic@lemmy.ca 29 points 11 months ago (3 children)

It's always a baguette and some celery

[–] TheMechanic@lemmy.ca 13 points 11 months ago

I agree. Ukraine did a great job in preparing for an inevitable invasion. Zelensky is the reason the preparations succeeded.

[–] TheMechanic@lemmy.ca 24 points 11 months ago

You have to know how to operate the oven to reheat store bought pie. Generative LLMs are machines like ovens, and turning the knobs is not creativity. Not operating the oven correctly gets you Sharon Weiss results.

[–] TheMechanic@lemmy.ca 33 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Tearing out extra lanes that do nothing but encourage more traffic, adding protected cycling lanes or reducing road speed are seen as extreme by those that made the decisions that have created the infrastructure we have. In reality these are compromises.

'Share the road' is not a compromise. Sharrows are not a compromise. Jaywalking laws are not a compromise. Victim blaming is not a compromise. Media dehumanising pedestrians is not a compromise.Nobody ever fucking considered anything else but cars, drivers and the car lobby when installing these things.

Now tearing it out city centers to focus on humans and humanity is extreme?

[–] TheMechanic@lemmy.ca 17 points 11 months ago (8 children)

I was buying from ebay because I didn't want to support Amazon. Now what?

[–] TheMechanic@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Massively increasing child fatalities is just the price of freedom baby

 
[–] TheMechanic@lemmy.ca 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I did spend some of my childhood stealing traffic lights and street signs. It wasn't Satan that made me do it, it was the boy scouts.

[–] TheMechanic@lemmy.ca 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The Russian mobilised from prisons are trucked to special units made up of criminals who are sent straight to the front line to die in human wave attacks.

These are small unarmored units with light weapons only. They are sent in waves consisting of many small groups of around six across a long area of frontline. They die in huge numbers and if they turn around and retreat they are killed by other Russians themselves, in what is known as 'blocking units'.

The entire point of their deaths is to spread Ukrainian soldiers and widely as possible and to constantly test the Ukrianian fortification for weakness.

If they find any, bigger infantry units are sent with support from a light armored vehicle with heavier weapons.

This tactic also applies to other people Russia considers disposable. Ethnic minorities such as Buryats, or poor people from rural villages.

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