JFK is in the midst of a $19 billion construction project that is expected to create heavy traffic for people arriving at the airport by car. Port Authority leaders have said they’re considering waiving the AirTrain fee to get people to take public transit to the airport, but for now the $8.50 fee — on top of the $2.90 subway fare — remains in place.

So there’s a subway that goes to the airport, and they want people to use it, but because of some payment system compatibility fuckup they can’t pay? Or it’s harder to pay? It’s kind of unclear exactly what is happening here other than people getting public transportation for free, which sounds like a good thing.

Also I’d be cold and I don’t want to

Mention and link to it on Reddit when it is especially relevant

It’s possible to cut a groove in a board so you can drive a screw outwards from it, but that’s pretty difficult and also the wrong approach for shelves which should be attached to the wall by supports underneath instead to distribute forces better.

The article doesn’t have pictures but one it links to does: https://www.uafsunstar.com/news/student-eats-ai-art-in-uaf-gallery-protest-arrested

The artist’s reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/aiwars/comments/1qcektc/my_art_in_a_gallery_show_was_destroyed_over_ai/, which includes real pictures alongside some photorealistic AI generated depictions of the art being chewed up. He disclosed in the post text which of the pictures those are and which are real, but of course some people in the comments didn’t read that and took discrepancies in the images to mean that the whole event was faked. Which is pretty brilliant if intentional, fits well with the “ChatGPT psychosis” topic of the original piece. Might have gotten slightly out of hand though since these images are now featured in screenshot of screenshot style posts that lack the context that it’s not a real picture.

I also like the memes people are making about it, overall a very entertaining event.

Good movie though

What is the solution? It seems like inflatable tubes would be difficult or impossible to make without access to equipment or materials. Supposedly they do sell foam inserts that can be used instead of inflated tubes, but I got the impression from the reviews that they are basically unusable, and those might also be unavailable. I guess wheels before tires used to be wooden, but biking on wooden wheels sounds like it wouldn’t work very well.

This comment reminded me I needed to re-lubricate my bike chain, which I hadn’t done for something like 7 years, so I did that and took it for a spin. Got rid of the squeaking, noticeably smoother and easier pedaling, but a relatively minor difference.

But yeah, if you can’t get replacement tubes, that’s a different story, I have to replace those once or twice a year or the bike is not going anywhere.

more and more [Americans] are calling for a revolution—and not all of them think peace is an option

Maybe this is true but I don’t think a selection of tiktok videos is a good metric for this

If it is, at least they bothered to put a different font on the text than the usual for ChatGPT comics. The woman being drawn identically in the second panel except for the eyes is also a point against it being AI.

Drugs people use illegally have overlap with drugs prescribed as medicine, like amphetamines for adhd and opioids for pain management. Who gets to decide what is healthcare on behalf of the individual? Doctors, parents, governments, insurance companies? There is a lot of room between them to get it wrong. In all of these cases authorities are claiming to be protecting people from making what they say is the wrong choice. Of course it is in some cases, and parents probably should be pressuring their children not to take dangerous drugs, especially for reasons that are not healthcare. But if there are authorities that deny that something is healthcare, and that’s contested, “my body, my choice” is a slogan that implies it should be the individual that decides.

He did some vivisection based experiments on dogs that were kind of horrific iirc

Makes sense, that was when I started using it

I’d been looking for Reddit alternatives for years, but most of them were full of sparse content I wasn’t interested in and users who seemed like assholes. Lemmy meets a higher standard, and my interest in gradually moving away from Reddit and supporting others abandoning it has also gotten higher. The decentralized design is also a big plus, gives free network effects to potential new software efforts because they can freely plug into it.

Good use for VPNs

“Perhaps most frustratingly, all of the tickets, pull requests, past release builds and changelogs are gone, because those things are not part of Git (the version control system),” Sauceke told me. “So even if someone had the foresight to make mirrors before the ban (as I did), those mirrors would only keep up with the code changes, not these ‘extra’ things that are pretty much vital to our work.”

What can be done about this?

And either way, eventually someone from the city would probably show up to ask why you’re using 40 tons of water every day.

lol

They targeted gamers.

Gamers.

Public mod log is a big accountability improvement over the absence of information Reddit has

Even if they are trying to hack me it’s only polite. Plus on the very remote chance they somehow find this and care they would have slightly more info about me.