Yep. The combination of moving to New York City and reading "death and life of great American cities" really pushed me into being anti car culture. That and looking back at growing up in the suburbs where I couldn't do anything without a car. Age like 10-17 sucked. I was so jealous of the kids that lived in the city and could go out and do things.
Why do those who like cities have to live in a car-centric hellscape
More people on bikes makes cities more bareble even for people who for some reason like driving because more bikes = less traffic jams and less noise
Why does biking automatically mean big city. Small cities are in theory even better for that since they tend to be more compact. Stuff is less spread out even if the relative density is lower.
I usually ask people to name a food stuff that hasn't been genetically manipulated in some way by human hands. You can't. There really are none. Even non-gmo food stuffs are still selectively bred or clonal species.
Blackberries have grown wild in Europe for thousands of years. The US ones have been messed with by farmers and scientists, but in the UK they're pretty much the original deal.
Yeah I was thinking about this recently. Wild blackberries you see all over the place growing like a weed are pretty much the exact same as the ones you see in a shop.
It's nothing like, say, apples, which have been changed a lot by humans.
Is it not the case that kale, broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage are all basically derived from the same plant?
This is what I've been told, but I am very ignorant of such matters and while you will say that I can simply Google the issue, which is true, it's never been enough of a priority for me to do so, goddammit.
As for Sequoia sempervirens or Sequoiadendron giganteum being forms of broccoli, I do in fact know enough dendrology to know that it's bullshyte.
Regardless of the other comment, you're right, the alt text is wrong. Alt text is used by visually impaired users to understand what the image is about and is not the place to put the title of the XKCD.
It's not the title, but rather a sort of "bonus joke" that pops up when you hover a cursor over the image (or long press on mobile I think). It's a staple of xkcd and other webcomics, but I'll grant that it does present some confusion for those who rely on alt text.
I for one appreciated that being in the post so I didn't need to click thru for the bonus joke as I usually would. Perhaps it's just better to call it something other than alt text.
In this case, it's not really on OP; that's what Randall puts in the xkcd alt text. There is a transcription for each comic on explainxkcd that ppl could copy to the post though
This anti-car shit is starting to become another brainless cult. The issue with North American urban planning was never with the cars themselves, but rather with our over reliance on them. Bike paths, public transport, better walkability, and mixed zoning are all great things but cars are still very useful tools. Banning them entirely will cause more problems then it will solve.
Just gonna drop the name Blood on the Clocktower for anyone who likes social deduction games and hasn't heard of it. It's mafia or werewolf on steroids and it's so good.
And while you’re at it, you could add some pictures. Maybe something like a grid of 6-8 pictures on each page. The dialogue could be in a bubble close to the speaker’s head.
At this point I'm just grasping for straws but imagine such an audiobook where the pictures are shown alongside with the audio. Perhaps even using 24 individual drawings per second to mimic motion. Or 30 for Americans.
Sent my mom a very small package about 300 miles away via USPS priority. It took 16 days to get there. It took 11 days to get more than 50 miles from us. And that's not my first such story, and I bet everyone reading this in the US has one or more just like it.
Any other business would be allowed to fail. USPS should be allowed to fail. Yes, they handle a lot of packages. Yes, other shipping companies make mistakes too. None of those others have given me even a single story like that, as shipper nor receiver.
And there is no one you can call, no one who will do anything at all to help. You just have to wait until they decide today is the day they are going to pick that box up off the floor and do something with it.
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