MossyFeathers

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[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Nothing to do with auto play. My phone gets upset if I try to have more than one audio source open at a time, regardless of intent (I have to install an app and explicitly state which apps shouldn't pause media); meanwhile my PC doesn't give a fuck.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 187 points 1 year ago (10 children)

My phone: "we paused your music/video because you clicked on another video/song/sound clip and we don't want you to get overwhelmed by multiple audio streams"

My computer: "HELL YEAH MOTHERFUCKER! LET'S PLAY 57.5 MOVIES AT THE SAME TIME WHILE WE LISTEN TO THE NATURAL SOUNDS OF TRASH COMPACTORS AND WATCH A YOUTUBE VIDEO ABOUT SAWING YOUR COCK OFF, BITCH!"

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 6 points 1 year ago

I've read it depends on the species. "New World" species tend to be docile with harmless or low-toxicity venoms with urticating hair as a defense (hair that can come loose and irritate your skin, giving you itchy skin). "Old World" tarantulas tend to be more venomous with aggression as a defense.

Also, "New World" tarantulas are usually fuzzy, "Old World" tarantulas usually aren't.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm gonna call that macro/micro streetpunk matchwave. It's when you and your mini-me go out in matching basketball gear.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Anon, I'm so sorry but your mantis friend isn't gonna last very long. :c

If you want a long-term segmented friend, try a tarantula. Those fuckers last a long time if you treat 'em right. Mine got to be around 20yrs old, and supposedly they can live longer.

I kinda miss my tarantula.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You haven't lived until you've tried pizza on pineapple though.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 33 points 1 year ago

Damn, you know shit's getting serious when they add green to a temperature color gradient.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 17 points 1 year ago (15 children)

I think a lot of millennials are "button-pushers" (aka enjoy pushing people's buttons) and love that kinda stuff; and if Gen Z wants to continue to get along with us, they're gonna have to learn how to not get mad when we intentionally press their buttons. Like, the 90s and 2000s were the best time to be a button-pusher because trolling at that time was an art form and form of internet comedy. Sure, trolls could be infuriating, but you knew they were fucking with you.

Nowadays, the term has been appropriated and redefined to refer to someone who spreads propaganda. Pushing someone else's buttons is now frowned on, not just irl but online as well. Sure, there are shitposts, but there's sort of an expectation that you're meant to ensure everyone is on the same page and not leaving people clueless. It's not like trolling where you're intentionally trying to mislead someone to fuck with them.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fwiw, feeder lanes probably shouldn't be counted in Texas because they're basically glorified city streets. Businesses can have entrances and exits on frontage roads, so there's not really anything special about them except that they have a slightly higher speed limit (50~60mph vs 40~45mph) and they have immediate access to the highway.

An interesting article to go along with this.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 10 points 1 year ago

The picture of the "Chinese 50 lane road" was an internet hoax. It wasn't a road. It is a toll gate, and it also only has 25 lanes.

If you're counting feeder roads, shouldn't toll gates get counted too? Even so, while looking up the widest road in Brazil that you mention later, I came across an article that explained that OP is actually wrong and that the Katy freeway maxes out at 13 lanes. The only way you get close to 26 lanes is if you also count the feeder/access/frontage roads. So the Chinese highway is still wider even if you don't count the toll gate (assuming you aren't counting access roads, though it might still be wider even if you count access roads).

The Katy freeway that OP posted has 26 lanes and is considered the "largest" road. The picture doesn't really show it that well, and I'm also not sure if the feeder roads ought to count. It "only" has 6 ordinary lanes in both directions but a lot of entryways, exits and other designated lanes.

I live in Texas and have been on the Katy freeway before. It's honestly extremely wide and makes you feel like you're surrounded by pavement.

Personally, I think access roads shouldn't be counted because iirc they're required by law (Texas law supposedly states that anyone with land immediately next to a highway must be able to access said highway) and treated like normal streets.

Like, on the one hand, Texas highways almost always have a road with at least one or two lanes running parallel on both sides that on/off-ramps connect to, so they should be counted as part of the highway, right?

On the other hand, they're treated as normal city streets, have a lower speed limit, can have traffic lights, have parking lot entrances/exits, and so forth; so they're not really part of the highway. It's not like you could bulldoze the access roads without potentially making a lot of homes and/or businesses completely inaccessible.

I didn't bring that up though, because I didn't want to risk someone getting mad because I was "minimizing the fuck cars energy" or something.

According to Guinness Book of Records, the widest road is in Brazil and is 250 meters wide. However this is also just a technicality, because it is also a 6 lane road with a really really wide median strip.

That makes me wonder if we should be counting lanes, actual width, or a ratio between the two. Imo a 250m wide, 6 lane road is significantly worse than a 169m wide, 26 lane road (Google says the Katy freeway is 169m wide at its widest). Technically the 6 lane road is greener because there's probably not as much vehicle pollution, but that's a fuckton of wasted space.

I feel like inefficiency should be the real target, but that doesn't make for good headlines or thread titles. Imagine titling a thread, "the Katy freeway is the world's least space efficient highway due to being X-wide with an A:B width:lane ratio" vs "the Katy freeway is the world's widest highway with 26 lanes". The latter is a lot easier to visualize than the former.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When I was very young I had a similar clock but instead of digital with a screen, it had those flipping number boards. It was really cool and was the coolest thing I owned until something caused the clock to start smelling smoky whenever it was plugged in.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

It's absurdly wide, but I'm calling bullshit on the widest highway in the world. Didn't China have a 50-lane highway?

It's too bad the straddle buses they were considering in China were infeasible. It was the kinda thing you could see from a mile away but you wanted to pretend it would work anyway, because they were too cool.

Edit: OP is misleading or even wrong, depending on how you count access/feeder/frontage roads. The short of it is that the Katy freeway maxes out at 13 lanes, not counting the access/frontage/feeder roads; which, as mentioned in a later reply, probably shouldn't be counted as part of the highway due to Texas' regulation around highways and frontage roads which causes frontage roads to be glorified city streets.

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