Yeah occasionally I’ve seen that. Its not like there’s an alternative that’s any better on that front though.

OpenStreetMap is spotty at best about having any addresses at all, paper maps are always going to at least a little bit out of date, etc.

and even the postal service can sometimes be slow to get new places listed (I had a friend live in a relatively new apartment building and they couldn’t put in a change of address because the building wasn’t in their systems yet.)

I guess the “alternative” that fixes this is a sensible street grid where you can tell what block an address is on by the numbering. Much of my city has this and it’s very nice

I don’t think it’s had time to really shape the actual structure of cities much yet, but I do think in plenty of localized areas like yours, it has made the traffic flows worse/more annoying. I’ve seen it mostly in exurban/rural areas around me, it occasionally will just jam up a side road with traffic, because of some minor slowdown on the main highway.

Honestly my theory, inspired by @zifnab25@hexbear.net’s comment about how it pretty much works as intended in houston, is that it was designed for modern american cities and it probably has some unintended consequences on how it directs people in older more complex cities that aren’t just built for cars to go zoom more fasterer

my smartphone died recently and I haven’t replaced it with another apple/android, and I’ve been realizing pretty fast both my strengths and weaknesses navigating my own city. I never really liked relying on navigation for around town use when I should mostly know where I’m going, but I did use it when going somewhere unfamiliar or in a hurry before, and that resulted in some areas where I really just didn’t know the details, especially of the side streets, which I’m now learning (mostly on my bike), and some newfound strong feelings:

• a hatred of squiggly-road suburban developments where the main drags are deadly as a bike/pedestrian and the side roads are practically impossible to navigate without turn-by-turn (I still have map access but no nav), plus have no sidewalks if you’re walking
• a love of good wayfinding. I’m having to learn to go with the signs over going with my gut, because there has been some decent effort put into bike wayfinding here, and going with my gut frequently spits me out onto routes with unavoidable sections of biking in mixed traffic with fast moving cars lol

Oh, it’s normal alright. It’s not like every street is like that, but every city has streets like that, some cities have a ton and some have less. My city is considered pretty decent for walking/biking/transit, though not amazing, and even here, in the city proper, not even out in the suburbs, there’s a lot of 4 lane stroads that are impossible to cross, and even streets that should be pretty quiet can be dangerous when they refuse to even paint on a sidewalk on (the “liability avoidance” thing this vid mentions seems to be the reason/excuse, along with the “well nobody crosses at this incredibly dangerous unmarked crosswalk therefore there is no demand and we don’t need to make it safer” BS)

I bet a dozen drivers max in the whole state know they have to stop for pedestrians even if the paint isn’t there. if you start to step out into the road and glare intently you can get people to stop if they’re paying attention, but you’re more likely to get honked at than other traffic actually stopping. with these types of roads it’s really a “take your life in your own hands getting their attention and still piss off a few drivers” thing, or walk to the nearest signalized intersection.

Even marked crosswalks are very hit and miss if people will stop, but once you’re out in it they usually will if they are paying attention. There are a number of bike/ped crossings with HAWK or similar flashing light systems, and honestly the adherence rate on those after at least a few years of them being installed is much better than a paint-only treatment, I usually don’t have to wait long after hitting the button, but it’s still far from good (I’d consider it good if I could press the button and step out into the street with confidence within a short period, like 5 seconds, now its longer, and I have to look pretty carefully at incoming traffic to guess if they’re actually stopping). And some people try to run past it before you get out into the road, so if you wait for traffic to actually stop before entering the road then you’re just encouraging far-side traffic to keep running through the light before you get to them.

cocoa to orlando would be if it actually got built and opened at 125mph. Barely anyhow. 79mph top speed with good branding? Not a chance in hell. Makes me mad that some flashy “high speed” branding and a healthy dose of ideology was all it took to get people slobbering over a passenger train in the US

acela is high speed but by god does it need to run on alignments that don’t slow it down so much. it’s running at like intercity 125 speeds (not top speeds but almost comparable average speeds over a route), aka shit the UK did in the 70s. nowadays their east coast main line runs at over 110 mph average and we’re still at 70)

Seems like a real mixed bag, leaning towards a negative because it requires a civil lawsuit. On one hand sure, good, you can sue harassers at the source. On the other hand how many nasty things like neo-nazi group membership are brought to light through doxxing and will also become illegal. and since it requires you bring suit, this will protect the people with more money/resources more often than not.

as far as I know upstream lemmy doesn’t want it and is waiting on pictrs proxying support. If I’m wrong though our code is public, I’m sure a dev would be happy to put together a PR,

Hexbear.net stays winning, external embeds are domain whitelist-only until pictrs adds proxying support, and blurred by default.

Good PSA tho, I’d honestly encourage other instances to do the same but it requires dev effort that I know not everyone has, and upstream isn’t quite as paranoid about this stuff.

For reference:

gravity bong. commonly made out of plastic bottles like a 2L of soda.

Could be very very good shit. Shame I’m not using android anymore

you smoking out of a geeb or something?

even if it doesn’t affect the brain, it will affect your lungs, and I wouldn’t bet on it not affecting the brain too

blame lemmy’s terrible Active algo. It’s a struggle session factory

None. I was raised Lutheran and it never really was important to me, just something I was forced to do. I sorta liked the singing and community aspects, but by high school I was done with it. I try not to be a reddit atheist though, I honestly respect anyone whose religion brings them to similar moral conclusions as my own. There is plenty in the christian bible to get you there, helping the poor and the sick, giving up material wealth and living in common, but in america the vast majority of christians do not follow the teachings of jesus in any meaningful way, so I’m not too broken up about no longer being christian, and even the highly progressive churches have often been pretty culty in my and my friends’ experience.