Ah, I meant increasing the pressure when I notice it’s a bit too low for my liking.

My shower lever has to be pulled in a specific diagonal direction to increase pressure without causing the temperature to change drastically.

Oh god, same.

I have nearly figured out how to increase the pressure without changing the temperature.

I still boil/freeze myself sometimes though.

Try Mullvad browser, it works well in my opinion. It should be used with a VPN (i.e. shared IP address space) though.

Just because there is no ethical consumption does not imply all consumption is equally unethical.

As an extreme example: Paying for CSAM directly supports those who produce it and is several magnitudes more unethical than paying an OnlyFans model.

Yes, if the induced demand results in similar levels of congestion - which it very often does - there would be more emissions in the end.

And you’re right, cars will exist for the forseeable future. I do not however want the government subsidizing car dependency since it is destructive to the environment and to everyone’s health and safety.

A couple of possibilities to drastically reduce traffic:

• turn all multi-lane streets within cities into single-lane streets for cars with exclusive bus and bike lanes to treat all forms of traffic equally
• reduce all inner-city speed limits to 30 km/h to reduce car noise, emissions and increase pedestrian safety
• traffic lights should prefer public transit, pedestrians and bicyclists instead of cars
• stop subsidizing parking spaces for cars with city money and drastically reduce on-street parking as cars take away massive amounts of space
• put toll roads onto highways as their cost is massively higher compared to fuel taxes. After all, trains have to pay a costly fee to use train tracks already - why should cars have this privilege?

There’s a lot more I could write here but you get the gist. Making car traffic more efficient does not reduce emissions in the long term in the slightest. Making car traffic less efficient reduces emissions instead because people will not use cars as frequently.

And keep in mind, I’m not talking about Bumfuck Nowhere (population: 725) when mentioning public transit. Cities have insane amounts of car traffic which can be massively reduced with just a couple of decisions. This would make car traffic less efficient as right now it enjoys many privileges over other forms of transportation.

And next year the congestion will be the same as before, except with even more cars and even more emissions.

This is equivalent to building another lane on a highway to increase throughput and decrease traffic jams. In the beginning, emissions will be reduced since traffic jams occur less frequently. And then, through induced demand, there’s congestion again.

Improving car throughput directly leads to increased emissions with a small delay.

From the paper:

Increased speeds from adaptive signals may induce additional travel, as people opt to drive more or travel farther, potentially offsetting some congestion benefits. Our models do not fully capture induced demand due to data limitations, but adaptive signaling generally supports higher traffic volumes and smoother flows.

There are none of them as good as Proton.

For example, AirVPN hasn’t had any security audits and doesn’t seem too interested in them either due to monetary concerns. That’s a deal breaker for me.

Brandalism’s Subvertising manual [PDF]

Do you seriously think this “ad” would be approved by the company selling ad spaces?

I’m genuinely confused how college sports is so big in the US.

Who in their right mind besides parents and maybe friends gives a flying fuck about sports tournaments of amateur young adults?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russian-troops-raped-tortured-children-ukraine-un-panel-says-rcna49168

The report:

https://www.ohchr.org/en/statements/2022/09/update-chair-independent-international-commission-inquiry-ukraine-51st-session

In the cases we have investigated, the age of victims of sexual and gendered-based violence ranged from four to 82 years. The Commission has documented cases in which children have been raped, tortured, and unlawfully confined. Children have also been killed and injured in indiscriminate attacks with explosive weapons.

Not at all.

Hardly any Lemmy instance is hosted in the US and other countries never had this section to begin with.

Most Lemmy instances already need to comply with laws making them responsible for keeping illegal content up.

There’s the BSW which has the social policy of the left, the economic policy of neoliberals and the reactionary policies of the nazis.

They are hardly better than full blown nazis and vote in lockstep with them on topics concerning minorities.

How about the burning dog in the burning café?

Eh, America would ally itself with Russia anyways. Might as well invest into weakening the Eastern front first.

‘recipe for creampie’ is a better search term to prevent unwanted search suggestions.

Me and @[email protected] (we were both equally as creative when naming our accounts)

Section 230 doesn’t apply to lemmy.world already because their instance is hosted in the EU and has to comply with laws that make them responsible for what’s posted already. Or rather, responsible if content isn’t removed quickly.

It’s also why comments supporting Luigi Mangione’s alleged murder are removed as they would make lemmy.world liable.

It was a 24 year old man from Afghanistan.

Germany is now almost guaranteed to have a far-right majority after the next election

This doesn’t explain why a truck can drive at double digits mph with the trailer up.

That’s like the most basic safety mechanism the manufacturer could implement.

I’m not sure whether that difference is statistically significant though since there are only a couple of left sources included.