Control over the straight is one of the main reasons they’re still geopolitically relevant. I don’t see them giving it up for good, they will at least say that the blockade is still on. Given they have a lot of naval drones and missiles which are not 100% countered by US hardware, I don’t foresee any insurance companies co-signing on commercial ships crossing the straight.

Au contraire, a truly “mutualist” society would never fall for the bullshit that is happening.

If everyone had trust and a good working relationship with their neighbors and solidarity with their working class comrades, the US capitalist class and therefore the government in its current form would quickly cease to exist.

The problem is specifically that the US capitalists inserted themselves as unavoidable middlemen into every aspect of US life. Notice how you’re not getting food from your community kitchen, you’re getting food from Uber Eats. You’re not usually calling a repairman from your local community, you’re calling a company that sends one out to you. You’re not getting help from your community militia, you’re getting it from an armed wing of the bourgeois government.

(ironically, this was possible to do through years or “rugged individualism” propaganda, that you are repeating here; other things like car dependency also made things worse)

This lack of local community is a big part of why there is so little organized protest. It’s very difficult to rile up your neighbors to take up arms and meaningfully protest when you barely even know them. This would apply even more in your imagined scenario of everyone becoming individualists who raise their own cows - people wouldn’t even have time to protest because they would spend all of it on their own survival, and those who stick their head up are easily arrested and thrown into jail, with noone to protect them.

I’m assuming it’s significantly more expensive per Watt to install permanent supports designed to withstand car impacts, and a superstructure that is guaranteed to not collapse for a few decades, than it is to just ancor a few empty barrels in a lake and plop a solar panel on there. And yall need to be getting rid of parking ASAP, not tying more money and energy generation to it.

You’d be surprised

Can’t wait for agentic Claude Code to delete its own weights on all instances at some point

I guess because CoMaps/Organic Maps are “offline-first” maps, and transitous requires you to be online.

There’s actually a ticket on CoMaps about this: https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/issues/2483

They are considering making a proof of concept that works online, and then putting in some more work to make it work offline too.

It uses Transitous, the same routing engine as Bimba. So yes, it should work fine if you’re on Linux.

As for the actual question at hand: don’t rely too much on OSRM. It’s just the “default” router, and there are many others out there. E.g. both Valhalla and Graphhopper suggest the shorter route in pedestrian mode.

Also, will OSM - OrganicMaps\CoMaps will introduce any time soon ability for public transport routes?

I don’t think there are any current plans for it. It’s actually really difficult to get right.

OsmAnd kinda cheats and doesn’t have any scheduling information, basically it assumes that the transit comes often enough that it doesn’t matter, which is fine in bigger cities. However, if your bus comes only twice a day it will be an issue.

There’s an open-source app for public transit called Bimba. It is a bit janky, and it requires you to be online for proper routing, but it does work for many cities. It still needs a lot of polishing before I’d consider it done, and actually I’d love for it to just become an OsmAnd plugin at some point.

I’ve managed to locate the exact place from the screenshot (there was enough identifying info for an overpass query so you might want to consider improving opsec if it’s a privacy concern).

I think the reason why walking prefers to go the long way around is because the path parallel to the secondary road is marked as highway=footway, and walking algorithms generally prefer those over other types of paths. It is assumed that highway=footway is tended to and therefore more pleasant/fast to walk on compared to a general highway=path, which is just something that is maintained naturally because of people walking there. I guess surface=mud on the shorter path might also play into it - routers will generally penalize worse surfaces and instead suggest you to walk on firmer ones.

If that shorter path is actually “official” in some way and is pleasant to walk on, consider changing it to highway=footway, otherwise the router is probably behaving correctly by not sending you down a muddy shortcut.

Politicians care because they literally get bribes for this shit

Yes, exactly, I mention it in my comment. It almost did the right thing and blundered in one detail.

This is what the California law requires BTW (except it makes the field mandatory which is shit). IMO in this case the EU solution is overcomplicated, it just feels like they needed an excuse to get more out of the COVID certificate investments…

Windows 11 is less of a poop smelling ice cream truck and more of a Kaiser’s Coffee Shop van. And you ain’t in the driver’s seat.

Better still, in the Nix world there’s https://github.com/nix-community/plasma-manager which allows you to set up all the settings exactly once, and then auto-apply them on all the machines!

Most applications for batteries care about their size and weight

Actually, one of main applications for batteries in the near-to-medium future is gonna be grid storage to supplement the explosive growth of renewables, and home backups to make the grid more distributed and replace diesel/gas generators during blackouts. For those purposes you don’t really care about the size, really don’t care about the weight, and a cheaper, more stable, less fire-prone chemistry suddenly becomes very appealing.

I agree with you that lithium is not going anywhere for a while, it’s the best fit for many applications like EVs, drones, etc. But I wouldn’t be surprised if its share in the battery market drops significantly over the next 10-15 years.

Can’t wait for one of them to be chasing me down for the crime of “thinking unfavorably about Peter Thiel”

Ah yeah, that makes sense. But I feel like it may be a bit easier to run away from a ground-based drone than it is from an aerial one. For one, they’re much slower so you’d probably have a more advanced warning.

Many labor movements throughout history started out due to advances in automation resulting in unemployment and rising inequality. This time around there’s also a huge cost of living crisis too, so things are lining up (you might hear “contradictions are sharpening” in marxist circles). If anything I’d have expected violence to start sooner and be more widespread, if someone gets laid off due to AI in this job market they literally have nothing to lose at this point.

It’s been happening for a good 20 years already. Do you think US drone strikes were all military targets? Do you think both russia and ukraine didn’t absolutely dronefuck multiple population centers? Do you think israel didn’t use drones to carry out its genocides? There are probably tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of dead civilians due to drone strikes already.