My university’s traffic engineering curriculum was still pretty car-centric as of the late 2000s, and that’s at a top-tier school so I assume most others were even more backwards.

More people are turning than crossing.

Because of the crossover, traffic can only cross the interchange in one direction at a time, so most of the traffic in the interchange is not moving most of the time.

I’m not so sure about that. The appropriate use of a diverging diamond is when there is a lot of traffic entering and exiting from the ramps, and some of that traffic can go at the same time as the traffic crossing the interchange in one direction.

That particular factoid is a great litmus test to tell if somebody is an absolute complete fucking moron.

Not on bicycles, that’s for damn sure!

Wanna hear something stupid and fucked-up? Listen to this: in my city, getting a license to serve alcohol comes with a minimum parking requirement. Not maximum, minimum. In other words, if you as a business want to be allowed to get people drunk, you effectively must facilitate drunk driving by building extra parking for them. It’s absolutely ludicrous and ass-backwards!

Like how the fuck do you get home after a night on the pish, fuckin’ flying?

Public transit?

For real though, what is the alternative? I live too far from the city to walk and getting someone to drive is not always easy and in the case of a taxi, expensive.

Public transit?

Hi, civil engineer* here. Nah, fam: a lot of the time we don’t even use formulas; we just look shit up in tables or interpolate on a graph!

(* To be fair, (a) I specialized in traffic, and (b) I didn’t do all that much professional work as a civil engineer before switching to software “engineering” instead. That’s even less mathematically rigorous most of the time, LOL.)

Beaver-fursona* people in shambles.

(* I assume that’s a thing)

I don’t think it’s fair to color Greenland and French Guiana differently than Denmark and France, respectively.

Right, but that’s exactly my point, it likely wouldn’t just be one flat color. If you scale it by population density you get a map displaying the average distance between kids and parents compared to the average distance between any two people which I would expect to be 1. non-uniform…

My point was that I expect exactly the opposite: that the average distance between kids and parents is pretty much exactly proportional to the average distance between any two people.

That said, if you wanted another acceptable alternative, you can also remove all outliers and likely return the curve back to normal.

I’m not sure I would call that “acceptable.” I would be more likely to call it “destroying the interesting features of the data.”

See also: https://xkcd.com/1138/

https://xkcd.com/1138/

I mean, the original wasn’t funny either (and became notable because of how jarringly unfunny it was), so I guess that’s kinda the point.

Exactly my point: .io should never have existed because BIOT itself should never have existed.

I’m curious, are places like Hawai’i seeing similar movements?

Yes, but I don’t think it’s very large right now. IIRC it might be growing, though, because of how high real estate prices are squeezing native Hawaiians out of land ownership (and the program to allow them to reclaim land is, unsurprisingly, failing).

I’m not sure .io should even exist. Why would the Chagossians call themselves anything that would abbreviate to “IO” to begin with?

and you can totally train a voice synthesizing model on people who willingly donate their voices.

I’ll be honest: it isn’t very copyleft of me, but I want literally Majel Barrett.

Ironically, microcontrollers with wireless small enough to fit in an acorn are likely to be ESP32-based, which doesn’t use an ARM CPU.