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I am no expert, but those state road funding figures are highly misleading.

It ignores all direct federal subsidies on roads.

It ignores the original moonshot-scale creation of the interstate highway system, which was obviously not based on user fees.

It ignores related health costs caused by dirty air.

It ignores the intangible but very high cost of turning cities into noisy, unpleasant, and dangerous places built for cars instead of humans.

It ignores the less tangible subsidies involving things like military to keep oil flowing.

It ignores current and especially future costs due to a rapidly changing climate.

...and probably many other things.

The comment described a plausible scenario of how flock could be used in the described stalking. Instead of assuming the commenter is paranoid and delusional, we should make sure that surveillance cameras cannot be used in that way, especially given that there are actual documented cases of flock being used for stalking and no apparent safeguards to prevent it.

They are fundamentally different from bicycles, but I agree they should not be allowed on sidewalks.

If you simply generally forbid cars from the city (with some exceptions), there would be plenty of room for delivery bots, pedestrians, sidewalk cafes, bicycles, etc.

It is a few notches beyond sitting in a wagon and emptying a fire extinguisher to go for a little ride, and about as practical, but I do not see what makes it some incredible feat of engineering.

You have provided no evidence to support the absurd claim that I am being harmed by my cruelty to a pile of sand.

I would beat it with a stick if I could, just because i would enjoy it, and no harm is done.

and yet the ocean surface is already at roughly +1 degree Celsius.

As long as we are doing absolutely useless comparisons of enormous numbers that could potentially be used as disinformation to vastly understate the impact of global warming: To heat the entire planet Earth down to the core by 1 degree Celsius would require the energy equivalent of (~order of magnitude) 1 quadrillion Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs.

Interval training also seems like a great way to burn out and make yourself dread the thought of exercise.

Other than for elite athletes tuning specifically for bursty competitions, interval training is such an unnatural torture that I do not understand the appeal. Even if the dubious popular claim that it is a short cut to optimal fitness might be partly true, I would much rather have an hour or two fun cycling or light running and exploring than 10 minutes of interval agony.

Almost -- power is equal to force multiplied by velocity, so double the speed is 8x the power considering only air resistance.

Oreo changed their recipe to cardboard flavor relatively recently, within the past decade or so.

My question is whether they really changed the recipe again to now taste like music instead of cardboard, or is it just clever marketing in a shiny smaller package?

Telescopes in space are extremely expensive even if the launch itself were completely costless.

A decision of whether or not to destroy the dark night sky globally should be made at a societal level beforehand. Instead the path of maximum expected profit for a few people was taken instead of carefully considering the implications, alternatives, and mitigations.

It does not need to be a choice between having internet or seeing stars at night.

Also, telescopes on the ground can be made much bigger and more powerful than in space, so even if some satellite profits were somehow (magically?) directed toward space telescopes, losing the night sky would be bad for science.

Science is progress. Putting mirrors in space in order to provide sunlight at night seems more like willful destruction than progress.

> "Bikers don't pay taxes"

That is obviously false -- just ask any biker who is not a little kid or a billionaire.

In many places, bicyclists are not fewer in number, not that the distiction makes the rest of your comment rational.

At least it is a break from the endless stream of anti-LLM posts written by LLM with half the comments being serious replies and the other half fake-politely debating whether it was written by LLM.

Plus there is a bonus start-up opportunity to LLM-code an app that enables travelers to earn money while they wait in line at the airport.