important to note about the “not adding Fluoride” bit: many countries have to remove fluoride from drinking water because there’s too much of it…

wow, no.

none of what you said is actually true.

• “gridlock” happens in non-grid layouts too, the english name is just taken from american road patterns.
• “show me…” no. YOU made a claim (that local information suffices, which is a VERY bold claim), so it’s on you to prove that local information suffices.
• roads are absolutely NOT “like wires”; they are like pipes. which is why civil engineers commonly use fluid dynamics to simulate traffic.
• the rest of what you said is irrelevant to everything else.

seriously, if you make a claim contradicting both the very premise of the post, and common knowledge on the topic, then at least provide a source for that claim, lr explain WHY you think your claim is true.

“all the information is there” is not enough information to verify the claim; it’s a wild guess without evidence to back it up.

if shit where THAT simple, we’d have it figured out 50 years ago… it’s almost like this isn’t the simple problem you desperately want it to be…

this completely ignores larger traffic patterns like arterial roads.

with your idea you are guaranteed to get massive gridlock all along the major roads.

and biochemical assembly of proteins has just about nothing to do with either shop-floor-planning or traffic regulation.

what you are suggesting IS better than simple timers!

but it is NOT better than central coordination.

you are seriously underestimating the complexity of the problem, and your “all you need to do…” bs only shows how little you understand of the underlying issues.

do you really think nobody else has thought of what you’re proposing?

of course people have thought of this approach. it doesn’t work.

how would that even work, if there’s no indication that driving too fast was the reason for the red light?

do these actually include some sort of screen that tells the driver they were too fast and that’s why the light turned red?

I’d imagine that this “feature” would only result in more frustration, and thus more speeding, instead of less.

I’m extremely sceptical about local data being enough to properly guide traffic…

the problem is that intersections are connected.

one intersection influences others down the line, wether that is by keeping back too much traffic, thereby unnecessarily restricting flow, or by letting too much traffic flow, thus creating blockages.

you need a big picture approach, and you need historical data to estimate flow on any given day.

neither can be done with local data.

could you (slightly) improve traffic by using local traffic flow to determine signals? probably, sure.

but in large systems, on metropolitan scales, that will inevitably lead to unforseen consequences that will probably probe impossible to solve with local solutions or will need to be handles by hard coded rules (think something like “on friday this light needs to be green for 30 sec and red for 15 sec, from 8-17h, except on holidays”) which just introduces insane amounts of maintenance…

source: i used to do analysis on factory shop-floor-planning, which involves simulation of mathematically identical problems.

things like assembly of parts that are dependant on other parts, all of which have different assembly speeds and locations, thus travel times, throughout the process. it gets incredibly complex, incredibly quickly, but it’s a lot of fun to solve, despite being math heavy! one exercise we did at uni, was re-creating the master’s thesis of my professor, which was about finding the optimal locations for snow plow depots containing road salt for an entire province, so, yeah, traffic analysis is largely the same thing math-wise, with a bit of added complexity due to human behavior.

i can say, with certainty, that the data of just the local situation at any given node is not sufficient to optimize the entire system.

you are right about real-time data being important to account for things like construction. that is actually a problem, but has little to do with the local data approach you suggested and can’t be solved by that local data approach either… it’s actually (probably) easier to solve with the big data approach!

as a glorified search engine, after pretty much all search indexes were neutered on purpose…but even then it’s…mostly passable, but always untrustworthy.

how surprising! /s

but seriously, it’s almost never one (1) thing that goes wrong when some idiotic mandate gets handed down from management.

a manager that mandates use of copilot (or any tool unfit for any given job), that’s a manager that’s going to mandate a bunch of other nonsensical shit that gets in the way of work. every time.

is there a modern equivalent that describes “i function differently from NTs, but am generally able to live my life without special accomodations”?

because i’ve been described as high functioning and never really thought much about it, but the nazi connection is…uncomfortable…

ah, that’s what it was!

i was pretty confused by the cc, thought i got caught in some drama there!

all good, thanks for the clarification!

yo, read my comment again.

it wasn’t specifically about the ban drag received:

my comment was only in reference to the mass bans of any remotely positive, or even just neutral (and my case not even directly connected) comment about luigi…

it has nothing to do with any ableist or bigoted shit, just about the ridiculous zealotry by the .world mods specifically about “promoting violence” and making up rules on the spot, on violation of the .world ToS and rules of conduct, which explicitly state that ban should always cite the rule being broken.

i know exactly nothing about drags behavior that led to their ban, but since i do know how trigger happy .world mods are about luigi comments and posts, i made the assumption that it was just that.

thank you for providing the relevant context.

that said, please keep in mind that my comment is not in support of drag and their behavior, and is instead solely a criticism of the general mod behavior on .world and asklemmy specifically.

honestly shouldn’t be surprised, the ask[thing] communities tend to have overzealous moderation on any platform…

that’s all of .world…

.world has some really odd ideas about “promoting violence”, especially given that there are literally nazis marching the streets in the U.S. and germany…like, the nazis can scream “kill all the [insert slur]!” on the streets just fine, but woe be the anti-fascist on .world that says that maybe, just maybe, it’s time to do something about, you know, THE NAZIS.

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that’s because they are forced to by the yt algorithm: you flat out cannot run a business on yt without resorting to clickbait titles, stupid thumbnails, and a bit of sensationalization, because the algorithm will deprioritize your video and unfairly limit your viewership if you don’t do those things.

Steve’s videos are generally very much dry, factual reporting using fairly neutral language; or in other words: really decent reporting!

if you want to complain about some tech youtuber doing the exact things you complain about, look at linus and jay…

there’s some good reasons why steve is one of only a handful of tech channels i still subscribe to…

alright, then we’re talking about slightly different things: i was talking exclusively about the similar kind of government contracts…those are, afaik, almost entirely gone.

the EU contracts i know nothing about, but it’s gonna create the same problems if they’re structured similarly to the local governmental ones…

government employees rarely make more than private employees.

what they are getting mixed up is that some tenured positions get paid about 2x that of a new employee, because there are still some old contracts around that are simply much better than newer one in terms of pay raises over time.

and those older government contracts frequently include provisions that make these employees contracts impossible to terminate, resulting in some government employees that simply sit out their time on a stupidly inflated salary that nobody can fire…yes, that’s as bad as it sounds, but those contracts are, as far as im aware, no longer being offered anywhere, and the last ones to get those contracts are going to age out into retirement very soon. most are already retired.

it’s not related to corruption at all either, these contracts used to be standard in many governments all over the world, europe just happened to have some of the cushiest jobs associated with them…

but it is true that these employees generally contributed a LOT to governmental inefficiencies…which is why they’re no longer available.

like that other comment said: it’s not for everyone.

some kids are gonna love it, some are gonna hate it.

target demographics for products aren’t monoliths ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

it’s about being able to read emotions:

a large portion of autistic people have trouble reading emotions in others.

that’s why they’re often drawn to things like books, comics, animated content, theater, and, like in this example, robots that clearly express their emotions.

speaking for myself (diagnosed ASD), it’s the ambiguity that bothers me more than anything. i like it when things are nice and clear, neatly organized, and generally don’t require a lot of attention to interpret.

interpreting the environment is taxing enough, adding a lot of emotional interpreting on top can quickly get overwhelming, which leads to poor mood, performance, and ultimately just straight-up headaches…again, this isn’t a hunch, it was part of the ASD diagnostic test.

so i can imagine how much easier it is for kids with similar problems to relate emotionally to something that shows it’s emotions in clear, easily recognizable ways, rather than having to guess constantly. that constant guessing gets real tiring, real quick…

“women’s only cars” aren’t really much of a thing… there’s like, a handful of places in the entire world that have them; they’re super rare.

no, but:

• 1. those were off the top of my head, there’s definitely been more.
• 2. these events tend to happen in bursts. it starts with one dead tyrant. then there’s another. then there’s general mayhem for a short while. then order sets in again.

it’s a cycle as old as civilization itself.

(not to be confused with that bullshit cyclical history theory… it’s “a” cycle, not “the” cycle and it’s neither guaranteed, nor predictable, necessary, nor regular. just to preempt any confusion about that)