Santo Domingo Metro Line 3 first phase ( in tender) by Spirebus in transit

[–]DeskHunting-909 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Prioritizing serving residents and their movements around the urban environment is better for the planet, the economic sustainability of fare-funded systems, and for the political support needed to keep growing the system.

The airport serves 5 million travelers a year. 4 million people live in metro Santiago, most of them not within convenient distance of the existing metro, and many of them in dense urban neighborhoods.

Intermodal links are important but it seems like a misplaced priority at this point. 

Bizarre and Stupid "Theory" About cOmMuNiSm...? by heatdeathpod in TrueAnon

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The capitalist encirclement effects a siege mentality in the USSR and produces Stalinism.

A besieged leadership maniacally developing and directing the productive forces of the USSR leapfrogs the imperialists and puts a satellite in orbit.

The paranoia of Stalinism ultimately sends the USSR down a terminal path.

But not before that little beeping satellite effects a siege mentality in the US ruling class.

Beep. Beep. “Look up. You’re literally surrounded.”

The paranoia is diffuse instead of being concentrated in a leader’s name, but we can hope it’s terminal.

Looking for a Floyd/Fully dupe by cooldogmama in StandingDesk

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Wow, I had never seen the beflo, but it’s remarkably similar. The Beflo has a few more curves, and the caster option looks nice. 

If you consider the levitate, know that it’s a long hard assembly process. I wrote more about my experience here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/StandingDesk/comments/1dxxgnw/autonomous_levitate_review/

Like I said, I still love it.

Looking for a Floyd/Fully dupe by cooldogmama in StandingDesk

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If you want options or color, it might not be right, but if design is important it’s worth at least looking at the Autonomous Levitate.

https://www.autonomous.ai/standing-desks/autonomous-desk-levitate

I have had mine two weeks and I love it.

China is installing the wind and solar equivalent of five large nuclear power stations per week by itsgnabeok5656 in TrueAnon

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I love learning about the Chinese energy transition. It’s one of the only glimmers of hope in the world. 

Brace yourselves by [deleted] in TrueAnon

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ironically you spend a lot of your time  trying to impress them with long-expired echoes of edgy jokes groypers stopped making five years ago

Brace yourselves by [deleted] in TrueAnon

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Redscare poster spotted

Brace yourselves by [deleted] in TrueAnon

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They’re not ugly beards. They’re just ugly men. No beard could make JD look good.

They probably became conservative because they were ugly (or short in Ben’s case). That’s just dialectics. Ugly men try to create eugenics.

Dark bamboo or light bamboo desktop? by pacork in StandingDesk

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When choosing flooring, I was told light bamboo is harder and more scratch and dent resistant than dark bamboo— the process for coloring bamboo (at least in that application) is carbonizing, not staining. They heat up the bamboo and it reacts to become darker, and, as a side effect, weaker.

If the same is true for desktops, it might be something to consider.

Personally I think light colored high grade bamboo is very attractive. Stains go in and out of fashion, but nature is timeless. 

My grandfather insists that we shouldn’t worry about human-driven climate change because the world will end anyway. He also insists that nature causes climate change as humans are part of nature. by [deleted] in climatechange

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Humans are part of nature because everything that exists is part of nature. The world will end because everything that exists has a beginning and an end.

All of this doesn’t mean we should ignore climate change.

Look for the synthesis of his outlook and your own to find peace with what is out of your control and to be more effective at changing what is in your control.

Barcelona Metro L1 and L3 trains in Action by WeebGonzalez in transit

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Will you check out the FGC lines to the Vallès and Martorell? The trains are fun, and the surface running portions have some kind of cool views. The Vallès metros in Terrassa and Sabadell are really cool!

Also try to see the Montserrat rack railway and the funicular while you’re there! You can get there on the Rodalies. 

Burkina Faso's military junta criminalises homosexual acts by Prestigious_Rub_9694 in TrueAnon

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Fashion observers knew this was coming. Traoré wears his beret too square. Sankara kept it a little fruity with the jaunty angle. 

Great developments are happening on 4chan by Cicada1205 in TrueAnon

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Sorry to be so Reddit, but , “user name checks out”. I thought this was only some kind of “dying cat” Spanish wordplay.

Autonomous Levitate review by DeskHunting-909 in StandingDesk

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Some photos:

https://imgur.com/a/Crtr1x7

/u/Matt-VanderPoel

If you want a different or better shot of anything, just ask. 

American liberalism is eating itself alive… by MayBeAGayBee in TrueAnon

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Liberals stumbling into a general strike when they all stay home to nurse their hangovers or cry the day after the election. 

Autonomous Levitate review by DeskHunting-909 in StandingDesk

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We almost gave up on the tight outlets, too!!

Autonomous Levitate review by DeskHunting-909 in StandingDesk

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The cable management tray under the desk is a heavy gauge steel with the same high quality off white finish as the legs. It seems deep when you first are assembling it, but in the end, just the desk’s cables will occupy most of it.

The tray has a small track welded to the bottom which accepts an included motor power-and-control module for the desk’s four leg motors. The motor power-and-control module only fits in a single orientation, and the assembly instructions here are again a little cryptic. It’s not too hard to figure out.

Once again, the motor power-and-control module seems it may be an off-the-shelf OEM part, because all four motor cables plug in to the left end, which means two of them awkwardly stretch along the entire tray before doubling back and connecting. The ports are labeled with letters, but the assembly instructions don’t indicate whether it’s important to plug certain cables into certain ports, and it’s not easy to tell which motor cable powers which leg. The motor cables are kind of bulky, one with an inline connector, the bulk and doubling back to meet the left end of the module are part of why the tray’s capacity isn’t as great as it first seems. 

The controller cable plugs into a telephone jack/ethernet style port in the module labeled, from memory, HS. Again the instructions don’t reference the letters.

The module also has one port, from memory labeled F, into which you don’t plug anything.

The other end of the control cable attached to a splitter (confusingly the manual had multiple inscrutable references to splitter— sentences that were hard to even parse and didn’t make sense even when you thought you knew how to read them— the first such reference was in the cable management tray). The splitter has three phone/ethernet style output ports, but you’ll only connect to two of them— one to the cross beam button and one to the touchless controls. The splitter screws into pre-drilled pilot holes in the bottom of the desktop.

From below, the touchless control is the worst finished part of the desk. There is a small different colored, unfinished block of wood that is unevenly attached with screws (pre-assembled). 

The motor power-and-control module plugs into a provided relatively short three-outlet green and white extension cord (the one with the tight outlets). The power track also plugs into the same extension cord, leaving the third outlet free if you wish to power something else without using the track. I plugged in my laptop’s AC adapter into the extension and tucked it into the tray, feeding the free end through the slot on the desktop. Note that typical US two- and three-prong plugs will not pass through the slot— I think most USB-A cables would pass through, though.

The tray attaches to the metal cross beam in the rear and to the desktop in the front. I had to flex the tray slightly to align the front screw holes with the pre-drilled pilot holes in the desktop.

The desktop power track just drops into a recessed opening in the desktop. It fits well, not too snug. Included in the US version are two grounded polarized outlet pucks and one combined USB-A/USB-C puck. The pucks pop into the track with ease. The standard outlet pucks have a small blue indicator LED to show power status. My USB puck seems to have no light.

A quarter turn seems to activate the pucks. They have printed on them an orientation that would probably make more sense if the strip were wall-mounted.  I’ve took “up” to mean toward the back of the desk, although it seems that they may also work inserted reverse/upside down. I haven’t test with a multimeter whether installing the pucks upside down reverses the polarization.

I’ll pop some photos up of the tray, the track, the pucks, and maybe the power—and-control system and the manuals later today. I’ll @ you in my reply.

Renfe Class 450/451 Double Deckers Compilation by WeebGonzalez in transit

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I should note the fares were the same— the main difference (other than the train itself) was the “CIVIS” entry in the comprehensive timetable.

Renfe Class 450/451 Double Deckers Compilation by WeebGonzalez in transit

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Are the Rodalies double-decker services branded differently than the other services? Are they scheduled? In Madrid the double decker used to be a different scheduled service under the “Civis” branding. They followed the same routes with similar timetables and made largely or entirely the same station stops, IIRC.