Are you trying to suggest that there’s no such thing as “spotting” anything from a satellite unless a human astronaut is riding inside it?

A human driver probably would’ve heard him shouting and stopped to fix the problem.

NISAR

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NISAR_(satellite) :

The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission is a joint project between NASA and ISRO to co-develop and launch an Earth observation satellite (EOS) equipped with dual-frequency synthetic aperture radar (SAR) in 2025. It will be the first radar imaging [emphasis added] satellite to use dual frequencies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaging_radar :

Imaging radar is an application of radar which is used to create two-dimensional images, typically of landscapes. Imaging radar provides its light to illuminate an area on the ground and take a picture at radio wavelengths.

It is, in a literal sense, “spotting” the subsidence using visual techniques, albeit at a lower EM frequency than what humans can see.

“Spotted” is still also accurate. How do you think a satellite could measure anything, except by looking at it?

I assume absolutely every single app is doing shady shit like that

No. Only the proprietary and/or corporate-controlled ones.

Turns out the last few percent can’t just be ignored, 95% isn’t good enough, and 100% is really fucking hard.

The funny part is that every CS grad student studying AI understood that perfectly well a decade ago.

This is not a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxqnFJ3lp5k but keep it up and it’s gonna be! 😡

Okay, but bread is supposed to be baked!

I mean, with meat and dairy and fruits and vegetables there are always situations where it might be legitimate to have them be eaten raw or only partially cooked, but that’s not a thing for bread!

How bad do you have to fuck up to get people sick from bread?!

I appreciated it much more after watching this video analyzing it.

The speed of it is hardly the problem! The real issue is that it’s an entirely made-up fascist witch hunt, that no amount of slow and careful work could ever justify!

There are many parts of the US where highways have chronic congestion because they just can’t scale enough, nor could we afford to maintain them, where intercity rail would be a much better choice.

The examples I can think of chronic congestion are pretty much all intracity (which I consider to include between the central city and its suburbs), not intercity (the long rural stretches between metro areas). Intercity rail is better than freeways (but more importantly, better than airplanes) for efficiency’s sake, but doesn’t necessarily have much to do with reducing congestion. Intracity rail (commuter rail, subways and streetcars) is what’s needed for reducing congestion.

Hexbear is where the r/chapotraphouse people went after they were banned from Reddit.

See also:

https://lemmy.world/post/1084297

https://www.distractify.com/p/chapotraphouse-reddit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirtbag_left

The Monkees - Last Train to Clarkesville

Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train

Gladys Knight & The Pips - Midnight Train to Georgia

Edit: also https://hellomusictheory.com/learn/songs-about-trains/

Bonus question: if you’re autistic, what are your opinions on trains? I’m personally ambivalent about trains, but they also feel like they’re my culture, because of how many of my fellow autistic nerds like trains.

Not autistic, but an urbanist and transportation engineer: trains are fucking awesome! Second only to bicycles in terms of efficiency of land-based transportation, and with such high capacity that induced demand actually becomes a positive effect for them (as opposed to a very negative effect when talking about automobiles).

Listen here you little shit.

Metro Atlanta’s only passenger rail station that still exists, a tiny thing on Peachtree Road in Brookwood (just north of Midtown), was originally a commuter stop on the way to the big, beautiful stations downtown. They were all torn down decades ago.

I’ve just realized I don’t even know how many traditional train stations (including ancillary commuter ones, but not including streetcars or the modern subway system) the city/metro area even had. It’s gotta be dozens, at least.

A comedy, sure, but nevertheless it’s one of the best ones too.

Yeah, but it’s still way better than plastic.

Meanwhile, Corelle enjoyers:

It’s a better Star Trek movie than most Star Trek movies.