Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.

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Cake day: June 15th, 2023
  • Zagorath@aussie.zonetodailygames@lemmy.zip•Connections #783 2025-08-02
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    2 hours ago

    Connections
    Puzzle #783
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    First time I’ve done connections in ages. Was looking up

    Spoilers

    contranyms, because I was with family and pointing out how cleave fits with both “glue” and “split” and they didn’t know the word contranym

    and that helped us notice that there was a whole category full of those.

    The ordering of the other three categories after purple is utterly insane.

  • Zagorath@aussie.zonetoMemes@sopuli.xyz•That's meEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Sure, but the chemical structure of teflon itself is pretty safe and can be easily expelled by the body, which puts it in a whole different category in terms of safety compared to the far more dangerous so-called “forever chemicals” that are produced and released during the production of teflon.

  • Zagorath@aussie.zonetoMemes@sopuli.xyz•That's meEnglish
    3·
    4 days ago

    get rid of the Teflon non-stick pans

    No, definitely don’t. Teflon is completely safe, once it’s already made. Keep that shit as long as you can. But avoid buying new Teflon, because the manufacturing process puts a lot of plastics into the environment.

  • Zagorath@aussie.zoneOPtoSolarpunk Urbanism@slrpnk.net•Yes, going fare-free can make transit betterEnglish
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    7 days ago

    There are legitimate cons to fare-free public transport:

    • In places with large populations where fares currently make up a large portion of revenue, removing fares reduces the total funding and may necessitate cutting routes or frequency
    • Many more new riders, in a system that is not receiving the automatic boost in funding that would come with fares, may result in being unable to expand to accommodate the new riders adequately
    • The extra funding from tax revenue would be more efficiently spent on expanding the network (routes or frequencies) rather than further subsidising the existing routes
    • Increases in “problem riders” (though the video addresses why this is overstated)

    But there are many more important pros:

    • Equity: it may have little impact on commutes to work, but opens up the ability for people to travel to other destinations much more easily
    • Lower admin costs: no need to pay fare enforcers, no need to pay for expensive tech solutions for payment systems, etc.
    • Operator safety: some studies suggest the main source of conflict between operators and passengers is at the fare box.
    • Increases ridership. Duh.

    The video makes a bunch more points than just this. The above is only a summary (and already quite a lossy summary) of roughly the 1st half of the video.

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