@pageflight There's always something like that that you don't see unless you're somewhere in the business.
The usual problem is that they're different budgets held by different public bodies, so that the council (or whatever) having to put in the investment isn't the one making the gains, and getting the one to cross-subsidise the other is often simply too much bureaucratic and political hassle. Like the savings you get in the criminal justice system from putting in CCTV (perps are more likely to plead guilty after seeing themselves on screen, which saves *lots* of money in the court system).
If you challenge yourself too much as a pilot, for example, that could be your last flight.
(I once planned a flight with both more challenging weather than I was used to and more challenging navigation than I was used to - probably one or the other, rather than both at once, would have been more sensible. The Luton air traffic controller was very nice about it and I phoned him to say thank you once I'd got down.)
@Swede1952@universeodon.com That's what I'm drinking right now - we don't take a grinder on holiday with us so there's part of a packet left in the freezer.
@ChrisMayLA6@bookstodon I'm always puzzled by galactic scale SF which has religion as a thing. Surely, one might expect, by the time any civilisation has reached galactic scale it will long since have left religion behind it?
@Zugumba@ajsadauskas@fuck_cars On my one trip to Texas my host said we were going out to dinner. So at the hotel we got into a car, were driven out of the hotel car park, up the ramp onto the motorway, along for one junction, down the ramp, and into the restaurant car park.
And when I looked around I could see that the hotel was in fact next door. Each was surrounded by a vast nearly empty car par. We could have walked from one to the other ... except of course there was an impenetrable fence between the two car parks. 'cos nobody would want to walk, would they, when they could drive, so why leave a gap in the fence?
And then ... there were all sorts of weird hoops to jump through before we were allowed to buy alcohol to go with our dinner. Of course if we'd been able to walk from the hotel we could have drunk as much as we liked without worrying about being sober enough to drive back.
@ajsadauskas@fuck_cars One thing you can get within a 15 minute walk of some US homes is arrested!
(My grandma went for a walk in a Miami suburb. The locals thought that someone walking (rather than driving) was obviously suspicious so they called the cops. Because my grandma was white and female and elderly, rather than black and male and young, they stopped to talk to her rather than just shooting her. They then spent several minutes trying to get her to admit that she was walking because her car had broken down - they just couldn't get it through their heads that she was walking because she wanted to walk.)
@li10@diskmaster23 My commute would be mostly off road, but there's no way I'm risking my life in an office in these plague-ridden times so I'm working from home.
@NickEast_IndieWriter @galacticwriters @bookstodon @joinin @writingbooks @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop
Some books do indeed read as if that much effort had gone into each sentence.
Others don't.
@Valmond @supersquirrel Ah, the reflection thing. There was concern about that in the vicinity of #Cambridge airport.
But the really naïve response would be "surely the panels are designed to absorb sunlight, not reflect it?"
@NickEast_IndieWriter @libraries@literature.cafe @Libraries@fedigroups.social @library @books @bookstodon @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop I think a pestie will tell you that you get mice everywhere and anywhere.
@pageflight There's always something like that that you don't see unless you're somewhere in the business.
The usual problem is that they're different budgets held by different public bodies, so that the council (or whatever) having to put in the investment isn't the one making the gains, and getting the one to cross-subsidise the other is often simply too much bureaucratic and political hassle. Like the savings you get in the criminal justice system from putting in CCTV (perps are more likely to plead guilty after seeing themselves on screen, which saves *lots* of money in the court system).
@ttyybb @NickEast_IndieWriter "Usually", indeed.
If you challenge yourself too much as a pilot, for example, that could be your last flight.
(I once planned a flight with both more challenging weather than I was used to and more challenging navigation than I was used to - probably one or the other, rather than both at once, would have been more sensible. The Luton air traffic controller was very nice about it and I phoned him to say thank you once I'd got down.)
@upmultimedia @atomicpoet @videogames Ah yes, I remembered that right. But now you've got me wondering about Hercules cards ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel/_aspect/_ratio
@upmultimedia @atomicpoet @videogames Wasn't CGA back in the day when you had to cope with non-square pixels?
@Swede1952@universeodon.com That's what I'm drinking right now - we don't take a grinder on holiday with us so there's part of a packet left in the freezer.
@Swede1952@universeodon.com Keep it in the freezer once opened - it'll be sort-of OK-ish for a few days.
@mattblaze@federate.social Ouch. Try getting to your mooring there without using the engine.
@MicroWave Another MAGA win! More lives fucked up! Exactly what they voted for!
Don't say we didn't warn you. Seen it all before. Ever heard of #brexshit?
@ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon I'm always puzzled by galactic scale SF which has religion as a thing. Surely, one might expect, by the time any civilisation has reached galactic scale it will long since have left religion behind it?
@Zugumba @ajsadauskas @fuck_cars On my one trip to Texas my host said we were going out to dinner. So at the hotel we got into a car, were driven out of the hotel car park, up the ramp onto the motorway, along for one junction, down the ramp, and into the restaurant car park.
And when I looked around I could see that the hotel was in fact next door. Each was surrounded by a vast nearly empty car par. We could have walked from one to the other ... except of course there was an impenetrable fence between the two car parks. 'cos nobody would want to walk, would they, when they could drive, so why leave a gap in the fence?
And then ... there were all sorts of weird hoops to jump through before we were allowed to buy alcohol to go with our dinner. Of course if we'd been able to walk from the hotel we could have drunk as much as we liked without worrying about being sober enough to drive back.
@ajsadauskas @fuck_cars One thing you can get within a 15 minute walk of some US homes is arrested!
(My grandma went for a walk in a Miami suburb. The locals thought that someone walking (rather than driving) was obviously suspicious so they called the cops. Because my grandma was white and female and elderly, rather than black and male and young, they stopped to talk to her rather than just shooting her. They then spent several minutes trying to get her to admit that she was walking because her car had broken down - they just couldn't get it through their heads that she was walking because she wanted to walk.)
@CAVOK Land take and infrastructure ...
@li10 @diskmaster23 My commute would be mostly off road, but there's no way I'm risking my life in an office in these plague-ridden times so I'm working from home.