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>The pandemic opened the eyes of many to the benefits of running or cycling to work – or “active commutes” – and some have kept up the habit. >No longer content with long drives or boring train rides, commuters have been seeking ways to make their journeys more productive and enjoyable.

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Majority believe e-scooters make New Zealand cities more liveable
  • Hanrahan Hanrahan 7mo ago 100%

    Love scooters, myboarter and I jave one. Defintly need to be kept off sidewalks, mixed with bikes and used much more but then I hate cars , sooo...

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  • Buying Music on Android
  • Hanrahan Hanrahan 7mo ago 100%

    Support the artists ? Buying from Apple (or Amazon etc) sees you supporting Apple, supporting the publisher, the RIAA. The Artist is at the end of a long chain of grifters and middle men taking their pound of flesh.. I'd love to support the artists, if I could donate directly to them. The ones who aren't, like Taylor Swift don't need more supoort.

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  • Lemmy.ml is acting as a proxy instance for Hexbear and should be defederated by any instances that defederate from Hexbear
  • Hanrahan Hanrahan 7mo ago 85%

    I think thays a good compromise. if you then have an issie with a particular user you can block them individually.

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  • Councils from Paris to the Yarra want to use parking fees to clamp down on big SUVs. What are they doing and will they succeed?
  • Hanrahan Hanrahan 7mo ago 100%

    Not sure I agree with this as any solution, tokeninstic at best, the asshats who can afford $100k+ for a ute won't give a shit about increased parking fees, well enough of a shit to complain but not enough to stop them. Just ban them.

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    I'm convinced they're all passively suicidal.
  • Hanrahan Hanrahan 7mo ago 100%

    I...don't even understand what they wrote, fuck I'm old :(

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  • Mozilla Firefox is Working on a Tab Grouping Feature
  • Hanrahan Hanrahan 7mo ago 100%

    I don't log in to YT to watch any videos, I alao use Newpipe and Stube sans account. Grouping them in Tabs to get to is great for me.

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  • If we were to ban cars, what would happen to emergency services?
  • Hanrahan Hanrahan 7mo ago 100%

    Ban cars to me is shorthand for ban private cars, has nothing to do with EMS, or even public owned shared cars for that occasional time a car might necessary.

    An 80% reduction in cars should be easy. 90% reduction with a few tweeks i'd think.

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  • A generation of renters are staring down poverty in retirement unless something drastic changes
  • Hanrahan Hanrahan 7mo ago 100%

    I'm wondering how to connect to an org? I have no kids, had a vasectomy decades ago over concerns about world population and biodiversity issues.. I keep my carbon emissions low and vote Green. Seems to me I give more fucks about a future livable planet for other peoples children then many parents do but that aside.

    Anyone aware of a genuine community org that might be interested in me leaveing them my modest house and they can use it to house people ? I am guessing they'll get fucked over with stamp duty though for the title transfer, so maybe a modest sum to cover that for them as well?

    Currently my will specifies everything is liquidated and then distributing the proceeds to reputable charities so, maybe that still makes more sense?

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  • To all the ex-theists in this community. What drove you to leave your religion?
  • Hanrahan Hanrahan 7mo ago 100%

    I am 58, I have a vague memory of being lied too about Father Christmas , being told thays not true even though I was assured he was originally and then thinking the same thing about god (catholic family) but figured out for myself that it was bullshit. Doesnt take much ciritcal thinking, even as a kid to realise that.

    I had to LARP for a bit but stopped the nonsense of church etc when I was allowed too as a young teen. Reading more widely after that you get to see some of the utter horrors caused by religion and release how toxic they are.

    An example, lived in Cambodia many many years ago and a bunch of evangelicals wouldn't let locals use a water well until they "converted". A constant reminder of the toxic nature of religion.

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    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13061057

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    www.theguardian.com

    A three-time Archibald Prize finalist, Santiago’s work is inspired by her Filipino heritage,

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    CNN: Atheists are still reluctant to ‘come out’
  • Hanrahan Hanrahan 7mo ago 89%

    Right, it's not like there aren't billions and billions of religious nutters out there. I mean I don't see aethiests killing people for believing in a fairy god monster and yet if you said you're an atheist in Saudia Araiba etc you'd be killed. The fuck sort of tolerating intolerace is that?

    Aethiets are pushing up not down, mocking people for believing in fairy tales seems a very sensible reaction ? especially when they inevitably double down on their nonsense.

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    Please defederate from threads.net
  • Hanrahan Hanrahan 7mo ago 50%

    Being "well meaning" and using "a toxic billionare run platform" are incompatable. You can be one ...or the other, you can't be both.

    Ignorance isnt an excuse. Let then stay with their toxicity is all that's being asked.

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    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13017037 > #BrisPol > > Nice to see some sensible policy for a change. Alas they have no hope of getting in :(

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    #BrisPol Nice to see some sensible policy for a change. Alas they have no hope of getting in :(

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    A few months ago BlackRock launched low-cost ETFs for global infrastructure and property
  • Hanrahan Hanrahan 7mo ago 100%

    No idea , woukd be nice to know. Are there unhedged funds from them with low fees?

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  • https://www.currentaffairs.org/2023/07/climate-optimism-is-dangerous-and-irrational

    Just as a addendum to this, there's a book "What Lies Beneath" [What lies Beneath](https://www.breakthroughonline.org.au/_files/ugd/148cb0_a0d7c18a1bf64e698a9c8c8f18a42889.pdf) with a super interesting foreword by Hans Joachim Schellnhuber about the very real dangers of relying on statistical models and doing nothing. You don't have to read the entire book but I'd encourage everyone interested to read the foreword.

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    Finally back down to 14 tabs, still too embarrassed to show anyone
  • Hanrahan Hanrahan 7mo ago 100%

    I find Edges grouped tabs well implemented, not sure why Firefox doesnt move this way natively?

    As to 14 tabs, I'd have 50 or more

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  • Hobart endures hottest night in 112 years as severe heatwave hits south-eastern Australia
  • Hanrahan Hanrahan 8mo ago 100%

    I was expecting a hot day (by Tassie standards, being from Far NQ originally all those years ago) up here in the NE as well but my little weather station showed 24.6 as the max for the day. But it is why I moved here, cooler, wetter, 300m ASL.

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  • Polestar Joins Tesla in Departure from Auto Lobby Over Proposed Vehicle Efficiency Standard
  • Hanrahan Hanrahan 8mo ago 100%

    Pretty much this but another point of difference with say the US is that (Utes) (trucks) in Australia would be classified as "cars" and not commercial vehicles. Which is why you can see so many giant fuck off trucks in the US, they're not part of the legislation ... loopholes. Currently they want Government to have the same loophole as the US, so Toyota -> Hilux Ford -> Ranger etc can keep bringing in their big sellers with no penalty,

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    As an Austrian I can only agree,

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    Editor’s Note: Bill McGuire is professor emeritus of geophysical & climate hazards at University College London and author of “Hothouse Earth: An Inhabitant’s Guide.”

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    Interview with Professor Kevin Anderson on our "do nothing but make it wors" approach to Climate change.

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    Long time user back in the day on Reddit, and to stumble across it here, good to see. Has Lemmy gained enough critical momentum? Woot!

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