Sorry, the correct answer is OpenDocument Format. Which, oddly enough, works better across different Microsoft Office versions than Microsoft's own file formats.

Makes a better argument for the fediverse and against commercial social media than anything else.

Seriously this. I know over two orders of magnitude more people in the fediverse than I've even heard of people using Instagram.

I'm surprised SAG, AFTRA and the AFL-CIO aren't calling for a general nationwide strike.

There's no way an article that doesn't get the technical semantics remotely right would make it past CmdrTaco.

We're to the "infighting" part of this conservative dance. Just stand back and watch 'em take each other out. People who perform stochastic terrorism over people's immutable attributes (race, sex, gender, orientation, age) don't deserve life.

Republicans turned America into a shithole country, and decided to go so far right they steered the country into the drainage ditch. Most Americans either want out or the Republicans eliminated.

Are we in 2010 again?

Like, real world open standard decentralized like SMTP or HTTP or ActivityPub, not this pretend crap like ATProto.

Oh, if that was the criteria, insurance companies would never cover them. Damn things think trucks turning left on an expressway is a billboard and attempt to drive under.

This, so much this. At least California's doing the right thing and electrifying its public railroads, so the acceleration time is considerably better than with the legacy and obsolete diesel-electric equipment. But even then, that's just... start a siding loop before regional trains have to slow down and end it after they're back up to speed if not just straight up quad-track it so regional trains can stay out of the way of the high speed trains. Everyone wins, the high speed trains are high speed and nonstop, meanwhile, Haversack, East Buttfuck and Nebrahoma City still get service.

Cars don't work because you need shitloads of road if you want them to work in the city. They don't scale. This same problem is why PRT and the loop fail. You need roughly human size vehicles for individual humans, or enough room for everyone. Car size vehicles are farm equipment for rural life.

Yeah a lot of the stops on that really should have been regional spurs coming from high speed stations in a later phase or separate project.

PRT doesn't scale up. Even the Morgantown PRT as more or less permanently switched to traditional circulation because demand service doesn't keep up. Also why the Vegas Loop doesn't work. Also why freeways don't work in cities. You either need to make the vehicles as close to individual size as possible, or make them as high capacity and predictably scheduled as possible, but trying to split the difference just gets you long headways and traffic jams. Also why low-stress bicycle routes clear more people than car lanes faster.

It's too curvy with bridges too old and outdated to handle high speed traffic for the most part. Just fixing the bridges would fix most of this, as you can't really overcome the turn issues, but there's still plenty of straightaways. The old trains could go about twice as fast as they were ever run on the NEC because of the same problem.