I know :-p Spherical cow in a vacuum :-) It highlights the difference in truck v car v bike, all else removed from the equation, and shows that bikes basically have (approaching) zero impact on roads built for cars/trucks. Another way to look at it is if you only had to engineer roads for bikes they could be a fraction of the cost AND last a lot longer! Sigh, dreams are free!

Someone posted this link below and you have the right idea (that bike = less damage = road lasts longer) but you’re ever so slightly off with you 2x estimation. Just a smidge out :-D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law

The road stress ratio of truck to car is 10,000 to 1.

The road stress ratio of the car to bicycle is 160,000 to 1.

To put it another way. This means that after 160,000 crossings, the bicycle causes as much damage as the car does when driving on the road only once.

A truck, ONE truck, ONE time, is this number of bike crossings (if I mathed it right??): 1,600,000,000?! What even is that number?? It’s in the billions!? I mean there might not be that many bike crossings before the heat death of the universe?! And that’s just ONE truck, ONCE!?

Conclusion: Roads would last till the ends of time if they were only utilised by bicycles! Even if you only built roads to last ONE year under heavy truck use, under heavy bike use this same road would last 1.6 billion years!? Is this even real?! Am I mathing wrong?!

It could backfire though because people now understand that microplastic = bad so all we need to say is “You know those pesky microplactics? Yup. Well, basically tyre!”.

You’re so right! When something is almost 80% of a thing, it’s more or less that thing now. It’s that thing, plus some other stuff but the focus has to be on the thing that is almost 80% of the issue. If we reduce car tyre derived microplastics by one quarter it would be the equivalent of completely eliminating ALL other sources of microplastics. The issue needs reframing badly!

They need to put it explicitily into the terms and conditions :-D He should always have to enter with his own card but that’s somewhat on those that swiped for him, they shouldn’t have. Yes he’s taking the piss but if they don’t specify time limits or “fair use” in the terms and condidtions that’s on them.

I loved every minute of it! Thought it was incredibly well cast! Lucy & her brother, The Goul, Ma June and Wilzig were among my favourites! I loved the world, the T60 armour, the wildlife, Filly, Snip-Snip, the pre-war period and how they managed to get at least three main characters through their own interlocking story arcs and come to a satisfactory conclusion so that if there was never a season 2 it still felt pretty complete. Looking forward to seeing more in this world!

LOL this one not willing to admit that the bible is way more “metal” than most of these metal bands will EVER be! LOL bible be full of insest rape, guests at your home rape! Dashing babies to death on rocks! Drown the whole damn world and EVERYONE in it, every man, woman, child, babies all drowning to fricken death! The coutryside would have been strewn with the skeletons of millions of deceased once the flood waters receded! They wanted to bury Jesus before the sabbath so they asked for permission to BREAK HIS LEGS to speed along the whole death process! The J man was already dead so they just broke everyone elses legs! This was so they couldn’t stand up and breath leading to suffication! And all this brutality simply because you couldn’t work on the Sabbath which was the next day?!! I could go on and ON for days on this shit! Kill your son Abraham. Okay boss, whatever you say! LOL just jokes dude, murder this ram instead! Frick you were gonna do that bro?! Kill your own son?! Lambs blood on the doors to ward off the angel of death and prevent said angel from unenlivening every single first born son of every single family!! Rivers turning to blood! The whole Nile! That’s a significant amount of blood! Like a LOT!! Holy shit! Metal bands be like an old womens knitting club compared to this shit! Pretending to drink Jesus’s blood & eat his flesh! They nailed him to the cross through his feet and hands!? Do you have any idea how hard it must be to nail someones FEET to something?! Maybe it’s not that hard?! I wouldn’t know! But it’s BRUTAL!! So much BLOOD in the Bible! Metal music be like a soothing meditation after reading the bible!

When you turned the TV on you had to wait a minute for it to ‘warm up’. The black and white image would slowly emerge out of the darkness.

When the printer ‘ran out of ink’ you wound the ribbon back onto the starting spool and ran it through again. The next time you might need to turn it upside down to get any more out of it.

Nah, I’d be like, go on! Do you associate that song with a particular event, person, time or place in your life? When did you first hear it? In what context is it your fave? Have you ever heard it played live? What was that like? Could you ever imagine another song taking its place or is it too sentimental or ingrained into your very being?

Basically a question like “fave colour/song” is often a simple test. The kind of answer you give should indicate whether or not the topic can be opened up or expanded upon or even just indicate if you want to talk to this person at all right now. If you answer “blue I guess”, and look completely disinterested or “insert massive pop hit of the moment” and leave it at that, then they know to go about their day or try another topic like “So what about that sportsball game/weather/current event?”. But you might give them a nuanced answer that will lead to more conversation.

It is handy to have a simple, 1 dimensional responce if you want to shut down the conversation quickly or direct it to another topic.

0:00 We all know, that GNOME has been one of the best desktop environments providing
0:03 a graphical user interface for the Linux operating system. It delivers a next-level
0:08 user experience that is similar to Windows and macOS. However, there are a few things you can
0:14 do to enhance your gnome desktop functionality. This is where Gnome Extensions comes into play. 0:21 An extension is a software that allows you to take your GNOME customization to the next
0:26 level. By using the extensions, you can customize GNOME Shell,
0:31 add app transitions, as well as additional features like window tiling.
0:36 In this video, I will show you the top 15 must-install GNOME extensions for Linux
0:42 systems in 2024. For demonstration purposes, I choose to use arch linux but these extensions can
0:49 be used on any GNOME-based distribution such as Fedora, Manjaro, Zorin, Pop OS, and more. 0:57 Before we begin, If you enjoy this video, please
1:00 like and help the YouTube algorithm make it visible to more people.
1:03 Requirements The only requirement of this
1:05 video is to ensure you have installed the flatpak package on your Linux system. Then, open the
1:11 terminal on your gnome desktop and download the extensions manager using flatpak. Once installed,
1:19 open the extensions manager. This is a simple tool that allows you to install any gnome extension.
1:26 The user interface is clean and intuitive, with two sections on the top bar, Browse and Installed.
1:32 The Installed section displays all the extensions installed by the user. The “Browser” section,
1:38 allows you to search for any GNOME extension. Let’s start installing gnome extensions.

Astra Monitor
1:45 Search for Astra Monitor and install it. Astra is a monitoring extension for the
1:51 GNOME top bar that helps users track various system performance metrics such as CPU, GPU,
1:57 RAM, disk usage, network statistics, and sensor readings. It offers comprehensive
2:00 monitoring capabilities with detailed information accessible through hovering
2:05 over resources. The interface is highly customizable, allowing users to choose
2:22 what resources to monitor. The extension is designed for optimized performance,
2:27 ensuring lightweight operation without unnecessary resource consumption.

Pano Clipboard Manager
2:37 Pano Clipboard Manager provides a graphical overview of your clipboard history making it
2:43 much faster to find previously copied content, such as text, images, website URLs & more 2:50 You can view the clipboard history at any time, from any app, by pressing shift + super + v on
2:57 your keyboard. So when you copy anything on your system it will be shown here.
3:06 By clicking on any item in this row allows you to copy and paste it elsewhere.

PaperWM
3:16 PaperWM is a Gnome Shell extension that provides scrollable tiling of windows and per-monitor
3:23 workspaces. It’s inspired by paper notebooks and tiling window managers, it makes working
3:29 with different applications very easy. Hovering on the left or right gives the preview of an app,
3:36 and clicking on it puts the app into focus mode. By toggling the workspace button,
3:50 you can change the Windows focus mode to the center or default.

MiniView
4:06 MiniView displays an app window like Picture in Picture Mode. Pressing Shift + F12 opens & closes
4:13 mini app View. By holding the left mouse button you can drag the mini window and
4:23 by holding Ctrl and dragging the window with a right mouse button, you can resize the preview.
4:30 By hovering on the Window preview and scrolling
4:33 with the mouse wheel switches to different applications. 4:37 This is my favorite extension that allows
4:39 to monitoring of a specific app while working with other apps.

Quick Settings Tweaker
4:52 Quick Settings tweaker lets you add media controls, notifications,
4:56 and volume mixers to quick settings and remove useless buttons giving
5:00 a brand new look to the default quick settings and making it more functional
5:04 and practical. You can notice the date menu goes vertical and looks minimal.

Privacy Settings
5:12 Along with that installing the privacy settings extension adds a privacy toggle
5:17 that allows you to enable or disable the camera, microphone, and location services.

Apps Menu
5:31 Apps Menu is a must-have extension that categorizes the installed applications
5:37 making it easy to find the app you need based on category.

Places Status Indicator
5:50 Along with that places status indicator, Add a menu for quickly navigating places in the system.

Logo Menu
6:05 The Logo Menu is similar to Apple’s macOS menu for the GNOME Desktop.
6:14 This extension provides a simple menu along with the ability to get the icon
6:19 of your distribution on the top left part of the panel for a great look.

Just perfection
6:36 Just Perfection is an excellent gnome extension for customizing the gnome-shell.
6:41 Using this extension, you can tweak things like the dock, notification panel, icons, and more. 6:57 For example, you can enable or disable system animations, panels, clock, app menu & more. 7:12 You can also change the behavior of the workspace preview,
7:15 whether to show a workspace switcher or not, how you want to open the app grid, and more.

Top Bar Organizer
7:26 The top bar organizer allows you to organize the Menu items of the top bar. You can simply
7:32 rearrange all these menu items according to your liking by dragging them with the left
7:37 mouse button. You can even delete the specific menu items by clicking on the three-dot menu.

SpeedUp Gnome Shell
8:03 Gnome 4x UI improvements tune Overview UI to make it more usable. You can increase the size
8:08 of Workspace thumbnails, hide the search bar & show it only when the user begins to search. 8:24 In combination with that, Impatience is another
8:26 extension that helps increase the animation speed of the GNOME Shell

Wiggle
8:44 Wiggle is an extension that magnifies the cursor when the mouse is moved rapidly
8:49 which is extremely useful especially when working with large screen monitors. So
8:56 when you forget the location of the mouse pointer just wiggle the mouse to find it.

Blur my shell
9:08 Installing blurMyShell extends a blur to the dock, panels, activities overview, and more.

Burn My Windows
9:32 BurnMyWindows triggers an app transition when it’s
9:35 opened or closed providing stunning app transitions that may surprise everyone.

Caffeine
10:00 When running an important task that needs to be monitored, use caffeine which prevents
10:05 your system from sleeping. Upon installing this extension, you will see a new toggle
10:10 added to the quick settings Menu allowing you can enable or disable caffeine mode.

DDTerm
10:30 DDTerm is my favorite drop-down terminal extension for GNOME Shell With tabs and
10:35 is compatible with Wayland. This allows quick access to the terminal by clicking on this icon
10:41 on the top bar. It’s very responsive and also provides an option to customize it. 11:03 That’s pretty much it, these are the top 15 best gnome extensions that
11:07 you must try on GNOME Desktop in 2024. Let me know if I have missed anything,
11:12 and feel free to share your list of extensions that you use in the comments section below.

Taking money from kid friendly forms of transport like walking, biking and public transport AND taking away their school lunches! They’re on a roll! What else can they do to make kids lives tougher??! Am I missing anything? I guess increasing traffic volumes makes crossing roads and biking on roads and even walking down footpaths ultimately more dangerous. Better stop walking/biking to school and go by car. Now we need even MORE lanes! Quick check, how’s that environment going? Oh, umm. Never mind that. Not like there’s any kind of emergency around that anyway right? /rant

Oh yay, just what I want; to be able to bike 45km in 2.5hrs, getting fresh air and exercise along the way, hardly costing a cent, seeing the sights, feeling refreshed and invigorated, having a sense of accomplishment and being more connected to my neighbourhood while having almost no negative impact on the environment!

Great post idea! My list is based mostly on nostalgia for a certain period of time in my life:

Fog (again) - Live - Radiohead

Pyramid Song - Radiohead

Fake Empire - The National

Hurt - Johnny Cash

Headlong - The Frames

Scattered Black and Whites - Elbow

Grace Under Pressure - Elbow

Starálfur - Sigur Rós

Hoppípolla - Sigur Rós

October - U2

It’s F2P this weekend and your progress will carry over if you decide to buy the game.

Safety first. Nobody is walking home in the dark. I’ve been to one suuuper crowded hut that had a doc ranger as it was during a holiday period and they did their best to accommodate everyone as best they could. They asked for volunteers to sleep on the floor, by the fireplace or outside on the deck which is what I opted for as the weather was great and I like sleeping outdoors. There were a few spare mattresses to use, kids were top and tailed wherever possible, it was a bit chaotic, but everybody was safe and sound, but maybe not super comfy. There’s no guarantees there’ll be spare mattresses so if you’re worried about having to sleep on the floor maybe take a bed roll. Saying all that, hit the trail early as possible and try and get there in time to secure a good spot. Just be ready to work together with others if it’s already full.

Hell yeah!! I absolutely would! I would love to see a bit of the travels, travails and tribulations some went through just to get there! And then follow mime running / rat poison & eggnog guy; starving / cut down suit / stole peaches / rotten apple nap time guy (he could be a whole movie on his own!); drove half the course in a car / pretended to win but just for jokes dude and would have done better but was chased a mile off course by wild dogs man?!? Maybe a quick check in on massive internal injuries due to dust inhalation fella?? Also I want to know about intentional dehydration man!?! Was that really the best time to test your theories on intentional dehydration?? I mean, I guess it was but WTF?!?

Kleiopedia. Named after Kleio the Greek muse of History. Alternate spelling derived from her Latin spelling is Cliopedia but I personally prefer Kleiopedia. She was often depicted with a scroll or a chest full of books.

LOL did they just take the script of M3gan and submit it as a business proposal?!

Yes, I am pretty sure this is the case. It’s not hard to think that people that walk / cycle past a business will notice more things. They’ll be lured in by those elaborate window displays you spent all morning setting up. They will smell the baked goods wafting by. They’ve probably worked up an appetite from all the walking/biking as well. They’ve maybe even had time to be influenced by your signage promising bargains, discounts etc etc. Cars are just zooming by, no attention whatsoever paid to your business unless they’re A) already intending to go there or B) you have something outside so offensively eye catching and distracting that it probably should be outlawed?!