Favorites June 24th 2023

Perfect blueberries, like jewels. Midjourney V5

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The Wikipedia article on the fourth power thing is pretty concise, the most amazing part for me was that this was determined empirically. They just drove trucks on a bunch of test tracks continuously.

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While long distance freight transport isn't super great for the environment, it's still very likely that buying from massive specialized farms will not only cost less, but likely have less environmental footprint.

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This is such a wild conclusion to this very short lived but surprisingly successful coup attempt. Don't know how Prigozhin could possibly think he's safe at this point though.

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Sim City 4 drastically limited the size of your city, and rid of all the parts of the game that were fun (scaling things up, thinking long-term). I'm sure Cities Skylines: 2, which just came out, seems likely to be a success as well.

Threads

• Short thread about how the trucking industry convinced their regulators to tilt analysis towards allowing pedestrian deaths. Peer nations also have bad intersections and dangerous roadway design, the keys to reducing deaths are Automated enforcement, smaller vehicles, and more transit.

• Proposal to modify state constitution so that cities must merge if 75% of their population works in another city or if 75% of their workers live in another city.