I just passed by this meme a few times today but only just now noticed the fucking elementary school sign, how about you just slow the fuck down or lose your license, asshole?
Semi-related: Only small amounts of copper are typically stored in the human body, and the average adult has a total body content of 50–120 mg copper. Most copper is excreted in bile, and a small amount is excreted in urine.
Water: 35 liters, Carbon: 20 kg, Ammonia: 4 liters, Lime:1.5 kg, Phosphrus: 800 g, salt: 250g, saltpeter:100g, Sulfer: 80g, Fluorine: 7.5 g, iron: 5.6 g, Silicon: 3g, and 15 other elements in small quantities… thats the total chemical makeup of the average adult body. Modern science knows all of this, but there has never been a single example of succesful human trasmutation.
<span style="color:#323232;">These are the Things that Make a Man
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Iron enough to make a nail,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Lime enough to paint a wall,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Water enough to drown a dog,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Sulphur enough to stop the fleas,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Potash enough to wash a shirt,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Gold enough to buy a bean,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Silver enough to coat a pin,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Lead enough to ballast a bird,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Phosphor enough to light the town,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Poison enough to kill a cow,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Strength enough to build a home,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Time enough to hold a child,
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Love enough to break a heart.
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Just an aside, it’s still impressive to me with all the technical limitations they had, they were still able to make Mario feel so damn floaty swimming through the water levels.
I think modern developers are in some ways stifled by an aimless lack of limitations.
Creative constraints is the term you’re looking for
It’s absolutely a thing - they do it for creative writing and game jams, and it’s very effective.
Programming is inherently creative, even if we don’t think of it that way. You start learning the basic use, then you get into very rudimentary designs - at that stage, you transition from problem solving to creating a design that solves a problem.
Constraints help - if you pick what we call an opinionated framework, it limits and guides you. It tells you how pieces fit together, and ideally it doesn’t limit you, but it does make some things much easier and others harder.
Nintendo had an extremely opinionated engine in that time - they were still drawing the maps out on paper in a grid, then scanning it with custom hardware.
These days, you open up godot, and you get a blank screen. You could make anything, 2d or 3d, a game or a tool, and it just gives you the tools. You could build a tile map for a 2d game, or a terrain for 3d, you can set the camera wherever you want. You can have multiple cameras, multiple maps - you can do anything
photo enforcement sucks and doesn’t really work and is just used as tax revenue for cities
meanwhile speeding continues as normal with all the casualties that come with it
Cities, however, do need this revenue to not go bankrupt because they’re all designed wrong and can barely get any tax revenued while still affording details like infrastructure maintenance
Cities should redesign their rod infrastructure instead. Where you still need car roads, design the roads for the speed you want. If you put a highway in front of a school, people will drive a 100 miles per hour because that is what the road was dest for.
Cities should start changing laws to push for livable designs focused on humans beings instead of cars everywhere. You’ll need less cars, have less accidents, get more tax revenue from more local businesses
They take your picture and then you get a mostly automated letter with the picture saying you have to pay a fine, but mostly you can ignore them. I lived near an intersection with one, every time the left turn light turned red (which happened way faster than normal) the picture flash went off for the last three or so people going through the intersection, presumably all of them getting tickets. I assume they are also recording the license plate numbers of everyone going through the intersection regardless of perceived violations.
Why do you think those letters in the mail can be ignored? They are tied to your license plate and that is serious business. If you don’t pay traffic fines, the fines go up and up and Then they involve the criminal justice system and you have to show up in court and it’s all just very ugly. Oh yeah they can suspend your driver’s license over it too, There’s no way to get out of paying traffic citations.
It will depend on where you are. My area has a law that almost word for word says, “This law cannot be used to deny X,” where X is renewal of a driver’s license, withholding of any services, etc. It also can’t be sent to collections or be a mandatory fine from the state. The company is basically fucked.
I know in Arizona, but possibly other states too, you have to be served for the violation. So people just ignore them without consequences until they get caught for something else more serious.
Why do you think those letters in the mail can be ignored?
I forget the exact reason, I researched it at the time and don’t remember well now, but the other comments are probably right. Anyway I know they can be ignored because I ignored them and nothing ever happened. Was more than a decade ago so I think I’m good. They were clearly sending them out to a large portion of everyone going through the intersection for no good reason, it was basically just a grift, so it would have been ridiculous to actually enforce all of them with police and courts.
“Both states were not included in the larger dataset. Number of watefalls is likely higher than depicted.” in reference to Alaska and Hawaii. It might not have been super visible to some people.
As a geography nerd I don’t think we have the capabilities to actually count every single waterfall in Alaska. Alaska is still true wilderness and it is massive
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