Also, being an alien is not any sort of wrong. People going through the formal authorised pipelines are also aliens.

Somehow people have heard the term “illegal alien” and have decided that they can drop the word “illegal” and retain the same meaning.

I can put 2 points 3 feet from each other and it will route them around a 2 mile detour randomly

I had that happen to me with Google Maps walking directions recently. I worked out pretty confidently that the reason was because Google thought it was a one-way path, because the detour would stop happening if I swapped the start and end locations.

My go-to is Ride With GPS. It gives you the ability to do manual routing if you want it, and frankly I usually do use that, but its defaults are a lot better than Google.

To be honest, I find Google Maps pretty poor for cycling even in Australia. For some of the same reasons they’re bad in the Netherlands. A high tendency to send you on busier roads (though here that means actually dangerous, rather than just a bit uncomfortable and noisy), and not really understanding the difference between an on-road bike lane, a dedicated bike path, and a quieter bike-friendly street.

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Lobby for voting system change. Then vote third party.

A vote for third party might as well be a vote for Trump, if you do it under FPTP.

The catch is that you’re signing up for a recurring subscription, and Audible plays the hard sell when you try to cancel your subscription.

(If you’re determined though, this can be great for you. I think I’ve gotten a total of 5 or 6 audiobooks for free from Audible thanks to their free first month and “please don’t leave” unsubscribe flow and “please come back” emails.)

*Upper working class (what the media likes calling the middle class)

It’s useful, because it more accurately matches what the rest of the world means when they say “middle class”. It’s always weird watching British panel shows and the like when I hear someone refer to someone as being “so middle class” as a synonym for “so posh”. Because here, it has basically the opposite meaning.

Yeah true. The Wikipedia page for zhuge nu actually mentions that it was primarily a self-defence weapon for women, not a battlefield weapon.

I find it amusing that the Wikipedia page for Huo Che makes no mention of the Korean Hwacha, other than in its “see also” section. That said, which one was done first seems…debatable, I wouldn’t feel comfortable coming down too strongly in favour of either one being the first.

This crazy Wizard/Inventor named Zhuge Liang invented hot air balloons and used them as communication between troop formations. No wait, this one is actually true and not a legend.

He’s also the guy after whom the “zhuge nu” (which you may also have heard called a “chu ko nu”—a repeating crossbow) is named. Though it seems likely that he was actually not involved in inventing it.

Since you brought up Vlad III, it’s probably worth noting that claims that he “inspired” Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel are grossly exaggerated. The truth is that Stoker had pretty much finished the novel and was just weeks from publishing it—under the title Count Wampyr—when he came across stories of Vlad the Impaler, and decided to change the name and a few minor details to fit.

First, I doubt that. Even with all the tooling available for mods on Reddit, being able to access a user’s overall karma or subreddit karma was really useful for moderating. Including the tools accessing that karma count.

But secondly, and perhaps more importantly, even if that weren’t true, and future mod tooling for Lemmy was going to magically solve the problem, removing that tool now is pretty poor. Better to leave it and remove it only once it is no longer necessary.

Karma was also a really handy tool for mods to keep away bots and trolls.

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