This is one of my pet peeve misspellings, so I apologize but I can’t help myself. It’s impossible to “effect” anything as it’s only ever a noun. Effects are the result of someone affecting something. For instance, someone can affect a justice, the effect being that they hold sway over the daily lives of many Americans despite the absence of credentials.
I don’t believe any of their spouses set out to do so when they married them but they certainly do so to the detriment of humanity at large, and that’s bad enough.
The verb effect goes beyond mere influence; it refers to actual achievement of a final result. the new administration hopes to effect a peace settlement. The uncommon noun “affect,” which has a meaning relating to psychology, is also sometimes mistakenly used for the very common “effect.”
Conservative comments on this joyous event can be divided into three groups.
Group 1: how dare the government do this to our golden god!?
Group 2: this is good for Trump’s campaign for reasons
Group 3: the demonrats are going to say mean things about us
Note that none of these are “oh man, I might have been wrong to support him.” The complete absence of regret coupled with severe delusions around trump are more than slightly distressing in the long term.
2016 was the beginning of the end. Constant propaganda posts, hijacked subreddits, lack of admin action on hate speech and occasionally even active propagation. An absolute shit show and the acceleration toward free fall. I do not miss 2016 Reddit.
A bike wheel with an open air center without visible spokes would necessarily have to impart momentum across the top or bottom of the wheel, rather than the center, otherwise the momentum wouldn’t have a medium to travel through. The simplest method would be powered wheels set in a semicircle above or below, with a matching unpowered pair on the opposite side of the spokeless wheel. Or the chain loops all the way around a wheel fully enclosed in a large load-bearing construct. It’d look futuristic. Someone get on it, I can only get high and offer engineering ideas so often.
Ghengis khan would be so proud of the breadth of their siege…
But in all seriousness, after reading the article I feel I need to enquire, in a general sense, what in the flying fuck? Did they not own enough garbage to be rid of some more? If so, that’s horrifically depressing. They would need to be so destitute that even their refuse is scarce. Was it even voluntary? Were they ordered to shit in the packages? The complete absence of reasonable causes is distressing. I mean, who chooses to give an entire city a Chicago sunroof?
All these cameras accomplish is forcing people to brake strongly and spontaneously, which is unsafe. In truth, they’re a revenue stream first, second, and third; for the government, insurance companies, and automotive shops. It’s a selective tax system that also nudges your bumper every other week. I don’t believe they’ve ever actually improved traffic conditions.
“For right angle crashes, the review found a decrease in overall crashes and a decrease in injury crashes. For rear end crashes, the review found an increase in overall crashes but no significant difference in injury crashes“
Impeding traffic, increasing accident rates, and arriving more slowly make for a poor lifestyle pitch. Speed differentials hurt everyone, including you.
Legitimately good bait, but preventing someone from driving exactly the speed limit, a construct lagging severely behind current safety standards, is more important to me than simply calling it out.
Bullshit, if that were the case, vagina-possessing astronauts would need to be examined for their propensity for squirting via physical stimulation, lest the craft be inundated with fluids. Could you imagine a bookish man with soft hands and azure eyes leaning toward you while lifting their glasses and calmly, firmly, requesting that you climax at your secondary interview? The chair crinkles lightly as you squirm, the seam voicing your excitement and discomfort all at once. All you can do is ask “will you be there?” And they sit back and smile just a touch more.
The machine understood what they needed and supplied the cure. Two hundred years ago, “AI” was a blind woman in a yurt smoking a sweet substance from a long mixed wood and metal pipe, urging you to kill the reincarnation of vlad the impaler lest he take your spouse in the night. Frankly, AI is bringing us back to our roots.
Anon misses some signals (sh.itjust.works)
Publisher of ‘2,000 Mules’ election conspiracy theory film issues apology (www.npr.org)
Samuel Alito: ‘I Tried To Take The Flag Down, But My Wife Hit Me. She Hits Me Every Night’ (www.theonion.com)
TRUMP GUILTY ON ALL 34 COUNTS (www.bbc.com)
Is lemmy now what reddit used to be 10+ years ago?
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Usernames in the Fedivers 😫
Why can you never change your username in Mastodon, Lemmy or Peertube? Is it a condition introduced by ActivityPub or a forgotten feature?
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