klu9

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[–] klu9@lemmy.ca 122 points 4 months ago

Some bureaucrats in Mexico City tried this years ago.

An important ring road had two lanes in each direction. To increase its capacity, they didn't actually widen the road; they just repainted the lane markings to turn two lanes into three, and claimed a 50% capacity increase!

Everyone immediately screamed about being crammed together just centimetres apart, accidents increased and the city officials quickly u-turned; they repainted to have just 2 lanes in each direction again.

But they then tried to claim that as that was a 33% decrease, and that because they had earlier increased it 50%, that meant they had achieved a net 17% increase in the road's capacity!

[–] klu9@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago

Multiple references to hardboiled detectives and authors in the character names.

Radioactive Dreams characters:

  • Philip Chandler
  • Marlowe Hammer
  • Dash Hammer
  • "Spade" Chandler

Pulp detectives

  • Philip Marlowe
  • Mike Hammer
  • Sam Spade

Authors:

  • Raymond Chandler (creator of Philip Marlowe)
  • Dashiell Hammet (creator of Sam Spade)
[–] klu9@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

Justwatchit says no :(

[–] klu9@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

Three aliens land on Earth and transform themselves into beautiful buxom babes in order to drain life force from men during sexual excitement. Meanwhile, detective Oakenshield bumbles his way into the investigation of the dessicated bodies.

Apart from the comedy element, sounds a bit like, well, Lifeforce.

[–] klu9@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

"Distro of Gaming Excellence"

  • Comes with a Fiverr account for paying someone else to level up your character!
  • Built-in GrokAI to provide tips on what to say in game chat. "Hello, fellow gaming kids."
  • Preconfigured X (Twitter) + OBS Studio, so your followers can watch your livestream fail! Repeatedly!
[–] klu9@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think one of the articles I looked at said the Focus estate is their last estate and is expected to end production this year or the next.

[–] klu9@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago
[–] klu9@lemmy.ca 35 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Musk has a distro???

[–] klu9@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Rocked by the omission

[–] klu9@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Unlike Gowron?

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