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"Off the charts:" Solar is about to leave nuclear and everything else in the shade | RenewEconomy
https://reneweconomy.com.au/off-the-charts-solar-is-about-to-leave-nuclear-and-everything-else-in-the-shade/
Solar is on track to become the biggest source of electricity on the planet by the mid-2030s. The Economist says to bet against that is to bet against capitalism.Peter Martin (RenewEconomy)
The Rwanda deportation scam had a fixed cost of £370M, plus an extra £20,000 per person, plus £12K in air fares, plus an extra £120M after 300 people were deported.
So it would cost well over £1M/refugee deported to Rwanda. Absolute madness (and clearly corrupt deals for cronies).
As it is, only 5 people were (illegally!) deported, at a cost of tens of millions per person.
Really, it'd have been beyond astonishing if Starmer *hadn't* cancelled the scheme.
https://mastodon.online/@RufflySpawned/112740716768631630
Yay!! Common sense starts to prevail. Al Jazeera English: Keir Starmer says scrapping UK’s Rwanda migrant deportation plan https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/6/keir-starmer-says-scrapping-uks-rwanda-migrant-deportation-planMastodon
A new “continuous sidewalk” in #Kitchener. The design differs from regular sidewalks in that it doesn’t dip down to road level at intersections. It continues at an uninterrupted height. This slows cars turning onto the street + reinforces pedestrian priority through the intersections. Same at the driveways, so you don’t get the up-down “roller coaster effect” when you’re #walking, #cycling or using a wheelchair.
#safestreets #urbanism #accessibility
Numeronyms are fun, but they have one major problem: namespace collision.
What is a11y? Is it accessibility? Associatively? Axiomatically? Autobiography?
This is obviously a problem that needs solving.
My solution? SHAsum hashing.
We can avoid the ambiguity of "a11y" with this unique, cryptographically sound alternative:
Accessibility? a884a5f3609f2cca635fed56d4ec5795da56fb970y
Axiomatically? a20c4bcee8f977a3f5a3b6b499d52d7dd32584771y
Simple, easy to visually distinguish, everyone wins.
This related joke I made while doing my tax return might tickle you:
https://meow.social/@tuftyindigo/112610851931403402
All those people who moan and complain about vaccines... I just had my latest flu one, and am SO HAPPY I live in a future where they're available.
Medical science is fucking awesome.
i built a tiny fedi server entirely in bash!
https://kiki.velzie.rip
somehow it works and you can federate with it
https://github.com/velzie/kiki if you want to install it for some reason
@colonthree@kiki.velzie.rip @mastodon@kiki.velzie.rip
a super-tiny activitypub semi compliant microblogging platform, written entirely in bash - velzie/kikiGitHub
Also.... If you are going to make your steam name a meme... FOR THE LOVE OF BISCUITS PUT SOMETHING IN YOUR STEAM BIO THAT TELLS PEOPLE WHO THE FUCK YOU ARE!!!!
Just scrubbed 3 people off my (quite small) friends list because they've all changed names since being added..... and now I don't know who they are!
My twitter https://twitter.com/dansingsinghk Other VRM tool: https://vtubershop.booth.pm/items/3366941 Hello. I make the hand tracking with VMC sender free for everyone. The VMC receiver port should be configured to 3333.booth.pm
"The problem with self-deprecating humour is that it caters to those who are comfortable deprecating you. Self-congratulatory humour caters to those who are comfortable praising you." (thecoolgooddoer)
after being charged with arrogance for my absurdist self-congratulatory humor, I'm doubling down on this. my opinion on the matter is the correct one as always
@ajft
I’ve been calling my home decor style “low-key hoarder” for a while now
I’m not sure when I tick over into full-scale hoarder
The signs are there though
maybe we can all have a necessary life cleanse and donate all too a community #LibaryOfThings
@RepairCafe_Barry
https://toot.wales/@RepairCafe_Barry/113174958110948161
Attached: 1 image A huge thank you to the wonderful man who donated a sewing machine to us after buying his wife a new one. We're servicing it before passing it on to Benthyg Library of Things, Barry, for the community to benefit from.Tŵt Cymru | Toot Wales
Random fursuit photos from the archives.
@FlintFox runs into some trouble trying to fit in a phone box during ConFuzzled 2017.
Learned about a really neat font that's designed for Dyslexic readers.
Unlike more traditional dyslexic fonts like OpenDyslexic or Comic Sans, this one was designed to be legible for dyslexics **and** compatible for professional design contexts.
It also has multiple character variants and 6(!!!) variable axes to enable people to fine tune the ways that letter forms can be distinguished from each other.
https://www.nothingcomicaboutdyslexia.com/inconstant-regular
Dyslexia Scotland teams up with Daniel Brokstad to create a brand-new dyslexia-friendly typeface that is as variable as dyslexia and that can be adjusted based on personal needs. Check it out and download here. #NothingComicAboutDyslexiawww.nothingcomicaboutdyslexia.com
Hurrah!
English language source: https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/new-uk-pm-starmer-confirms-end-rwanda-asylum-deportation-scheme-2024-07-06/
Prime Minister ends Rwanda scheme on first day in office. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻Edit number 2: BBC News story on this topic - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz9dn8erg3zo
https://ard.social/@tagesschau/112738401186298325
Sir Keir Starmer confirms Rwanda plan 'dead' on day one as PM
The prime minister says he is going through with Labour's pledge to end the pledge to deport illegal migrants to Rwanda.Sam Francis (BBC News)
Prime Minister ends Rwanda scheme on first day in office. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Edit number 2: BBC News story on this topic - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz9dn8erg3zo
https://ard.social/@tagesschau/112738401186298325
The prime minister says he is going through with Labour's pledge to end the pledge to deport illegal migrants to Rwanda.Sam Francis (BBC News)
Never sure if people who think they’re being told to “feel bad for being white” are serious or just think it’ll garner sympathy.
You don’t have to feel bad for being white. But you should be aware of the racial history and dynamics of your society, and the relative advantage of being white in many.
This also isn’t “if you’re white your life is perfect”, or even good. It’s “all other things being equal, not being white would generally result in you having worse outcomes, not better ones.”
Yeah!
And re: your third paragraph, yeah, I've heard people trying to argue like "Where's MY white privilege? I'm white and I still work at a crappy job!" etc.
Hey white person. When you go into a store, do security guards tend to follow you around because you might be a shoplifter? Do you tend to get pulled over a lot while obeying traffic laws? No? There's your white privilege right there!
Light lazing around and watching butterflies (like a slacker)
Be cringe.
Do what you love unabashedly.
Fuck the haters.
You're perfect the way you are.
💙💙💙
The only thing cringe is calling something you dislike cringe.
That and getting something thrown at you but I guess that's more a wince than a cringe, so
As people react to the horrible crime of someone getting pushed in front of a BART train, it's worth noting that platform screen doors prevent this and are standard in subways around the world. In 2019, BART decided against them because the $24 million cost was too expensive.
Meanwhile, hardening fare gates to exclude people who can't afford BART's highest-in-the-nation fares will cost $90 million.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/BART-studied-putting-up-barriers-between-tracks-14468667.php #SFPol #TransitTooter
Content warning: old art, funny, caps, smol feral cat man
I was actually racking my brain for 'starts with a, ends in y, same length' words to make this dumb joke but then I remembered that /usr/share/dict has _huge_ flat-file lists of words of many languages in it, so I could just get them from that?
Ninety seconds of grep, awk and sort later, there it is. For future reference there's 223 of them, alphabetically going from abdominoscopy to axiomatically.
Y'all these computers have so much in them already. _So much_. But nobody knows.
I joke but a note about language usage and open source _cultural_ accessibility: Numeronyms are bad.
There's no meaningful distinction between "a884a5f3609f2cca635fed56d4ec5795da56fb970y" and "a11y".
Neither is recognizable as "accessibility" to anyone new to the field - great work nerds, we've managed to give the word "accessibility" its very own accessibility problem - and I gotta tell you, "not typing out long words because they're long words" seems childish as hell to most people.