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Proper #COVID19 language:
We ARE in a pandemic.
The global health emergencies are over.
We are NOT post-COVID.
We are post-caring about COVID across public health agencies and the population.
The pandemic is NOT behind us.
Most COVID monitoring and precautions are behind us.
COVID IS still a risk.
And most importantly, we truly will not know the long-term impact of one infection, much less five or more infections, for another three to five years.
Small life improvement: I have changed the domain name of my private network from ".lan" to the now standardized ".internal". So when I type <hostname>.<internal-domain> Firefox will actually access the host instead of making an internet search.
https://itp.cdn.icann.org/en/files/root-system/identification-tld-private-use-24-01-2024-en.pdf
#DNS #Networking #Firefox #LAN
The EU enacted a new law a while ago that all bottle caps should remain attached to the bottle, to combat plastic trash.
All the bottle and packaging makers, from massive multinationals like Coca Cola and fucking Nestlé to small local producers invested in the development of new caps, changing their production lines, and shipping the new caps. Today, a month before the law goes into effect, it's basically impossible to find a bottle without an attached cap.
I don't know, I thought this story was weirdly relevant right now with Apple being a whiny bitch. Imagine being worse than Coca Cola and motherfucking Nestlé.
"YouTube confirms crackdown on VPN users accessing cheaper Premium plans"
No, listen, you just don't understand.
If Google pays taxes in a random country to cheat the system and save money, that's because "Globalism".
If you do it, you get banned though.
Fursuit arrived, trying it on for my first #FursuitFriday! This is pretty amazing!
🪡 Sarahcat Fursuits
Wroommm wrooommm Let's drive super fast into the weekend and have a good time!
#FurryCommunity #fursuitfriday
It was super fun to drive these cars in the fursuit, but unfortunately with limited speed. We were allowed to drive it unlimited without the fursuit. That was great, because the electrically powered cars had great acceleration.
📷 Akai_the_white_guardian (Telegram)
🧵 @Areksim
Sometimes you meet furs you never thought you would at convention, like in 2018 when I met @crash_azarel for the first time at EF then MFF. And I had the pleasure to see him again last NFC alongside the handsome @Tsumef4n 🥰 #FursuitFriday
📸 by @lisansnowtiger
David Tennant. Always supporting Pride and trans people. Just a wonderful human being ♥️
(photo by Georgia Tennant. posted on her insta)
Another commission of the cyber-deer!
This time showing off his energy-tech powers, he's supposed to be something like Mass Effect Sentinel.
Had fun with this one, I enjoy drawing energy and comic-like action shots, and it's always fun to draw some cyber parts 😎
#FurryArt #MastoArt #Commission
The summer solstice is upon us, and I've got it made in the shade. Hope you're staying cool out there!
The American road system baffles me for many reasons. The main one being:
🔴 Traffic light red:
You can turn right.
There will be no pedestrians crossing. You have right of way.
🟢 Traffic light green:
You can turn right.
There will be pedestrians crossing in front of you. You do not have right of way.
I’m getting confused replies.
In the UK red means stop, green means go, no exceptions.
UK Pedestrian crossings are only green when it is safe to cross because no traffic is even attempting to drive in your direction.
In most of America that I’ve visited, all 4-way intersections have the pedestrian phase at the same time and same direction as the vehicular traffic. This means when you cross, turning traffic can be attempting to drive down the road you’re crossing.
As a driver in America this means that turning left/right on green means there could be pedestrians directed to cross the road, wonderfully obscured by your car’s frame.
In most of America that I’ve driven except NYC and Washington DC IIRC, you are allowed to drive right if the traffic light is red, if there are no cars coming.There may be pedestrians crossing in front where easily visible but they’re not being told to cross around the corner where they’re not visible.
These days there are very few things I believe the UK does well, but road safety is one of them.
Pedestrians have right of way over all else. Eg. Drivers should stop if there is a pedestrian waiting to cross.
All other road users have right of way over those bigger than them.
Doesn’t always work like that in practice especially in bigger cities where there are more bellends. And London specifically where I suspect there are more drivers who learned abroad. But still.
Oh god I’ve started. Don’t put a public transit and cycling infrastructure enthusiast in the city known for its design for cars over everything else.
Here, have all the things I can think of that I like about American road infrastructure:
Road names are almost always clearly signed at every junction.
Positive things about US roads:
Lanes are a bit wider, so I'm less worried about trading paint with other motorists.
The roads usually get swept more often than in the UK, where the assorted detritus and rubber particulate has piled up at the side into an 8"-high berm
Fewer diesel vehicles, so the air quality isn't as god awful as it is in the UK.
Traffic laws actually get enforced (problems with discrimination and fatal interactions aside), whereas in the UK the police don't have the resources to go out and ticket people for stuff.
ooh ooh ooh
If you like LOTS OF LANES and a consistent motorway system that spans a huge continent then you've come to the right place
If you want to not die, I'm sorry but America is the wrong place
Next door in Nevada (and Utah, I think?), their custom is to attach a road name sign to a bridge or viaduct if it is flying overhead, even if there's no junction from one road to another. Also apparently applies for trail systems, which often cross underneath highways.
I enjoy navigating via landmarks and natural features -- aviation people call it pilotage? -- so identifying roads overhead when on foot is fun for me.
The squishability hierarchy in the UK Highway Code (the H clauses) introduced a couple of years ago were not well communicated to road users.
In the UK, only Northern Ireland has a jaywalking law, IIRC.
France and most European places I've visited are kinda in-between. Pedestrians can cross at the same time as cars in the same direction, like in America, but there's no authorization to turn right when it's red. (there's a sign that allows bikes to turn right but it's pretty rare)
UK is definitely the safest, and makes sense especially for a busy intersection. I think the French one is still reasonable for low traffic areas.
This is correct in most of the US. There are /some/ intersections with dedicated pedestrian phases but they are very rare.
The previous post is more dependent on local law.
It's helpful to remember that the US is more like the EU than the UK. It's not quite as loosely-federated, but it's a better analogy.
This is how it works in my neighborhood of Chicago, IL, USA. If I'm walking north and south, it's safer to cross on a "DONT WALK" than on a "WALK" signal because traffic will be going straight, looking at me, and driving on a side road with a 25mph speed limit. If I crossed on a "WALK" signal, traffic would be going 35mph, turning, and unable to see me until they turned.
The solution to this is to look all 4 ways before you cross, see who has a green light (or red, they'll make a rolling stop to turn right) then run like hell, and mostly ignore the crosswalk signal. I've got CFS so my "run like hell" is more of a "jog like heck" but I haven't got hit yet.
This is the framing Apple wants to sell for their decision to withhold features from the EU, and blogs are parroting it.
In reality, Apple is purposefully withholding these features from the EU, either because Apple are being retaliatory against EU customers for the existence of the DMA, or because Apple (with full knowledge of the DMA for years) refused to build these features in compliance with it.
Apple chose to harm their products in the EU. The DMA didn't. This framing is marketing.
One day I'll get more art for my komodo dragon taur character as it's been a while since anything more than a sketch has been done of him. He has such a great design that I need to do more with, but it always gets knocked down on the priority list
Art by AgroPuer
https://www.deviantart.com/stash/01wzhznhbymq
The Post Office Horizon scandal resulted in the deaths by suicide of four adults. It is rightly seen as a national disgrace.
We now have credible evidence that, since Dec. 2020, 16 trans children have died by suicide while under NHS care. That’s compared to 1 in the 7 years previous. Government policies on trans healthcare are having a real and tragic effect. Labour has promised, if elected, to continue those policies.
https://mastodon.green/@christineburns/112654471306430598
Jo Maugham presents the receipts for his assertions about a trans youth suicide explosion and NHS management attempts to cover it up.Mastodon.green
"All we have to do is punish that group of powerless people, and we’ll be happier."
- rough translation of much political speech these days
*nyaa*
#FursuitFriday #fursuit #kemonofursuit #fursuiteveryday #kemono #furry #furryfandom #fursuiter #fursuiting #kemonosuit
I stare into the Abyss, and I know it stares back at me. Slowly, hesitantly, I reach out, and the Abyss reaches out to me.
It pets me.
It is neither warm nor cold, both firm and soft, and very, very comforting.
"Thank you," I say.
Faintly, I hear: "You'd do the same for me."
I don’t know how many people will see this, but you all seemed to be a fan of Foster Dad, so I was thinking…
What if he had an occasional video series where he talked to viewers and answered audience questions, offered life advice/wisdom and general dad-wolf thoughts?
Would anyone be excited for that?
Is AI exhausting your power grid?
Have you tried turning it off and not back on again?
Excuse me while I go ugly-cry: “Gilead’s experimental twice-yearly medicine to prevent HIV was 100% effective in a late-stage trial, the company said Thursday.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/20/gilead-prep-lenacapavir-succeeds-in-phase-3-trial.html
Gilead's experimental twice-yearly medicine to prevent HIV was 100% effective in a late-stage trial, the company said Thursday.Angelica Peebles (CNBC)
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The fact we automated that blows my mind. It worked well enough, that's exactly the sort of thing that tends to go unchanged.