In theory, Sponsorblock could evolve to download a new video multiple times, check what frames match each copy, and use that data to skip to the next matching frame when users watch something.

This would overcome video stream ad injection even if every ad was a different length and in a different location each time someone watched the video.

Well yes, as in step one in a many step process. Most places don’t even consider step one.

Honestly, there aren’t many places that do bike lanes well anyway, and so long as the idea of bike lanes in Ontario is a painted line at the edge of the asphalt, I wouldn’t bother.

Damn, no one got the joke about the two top commenters in the thread becoming the same entity?

Oh well, it was pretty low effort.

Pretty big thought you’ve got there.

Have you considered joining forces with another influential thought leader such as @oakey66@lemm.ee? Together you could better serve the commenting community across the platform.

Not exactly related to this article but, I looked this judge up on Ballotpedia, and found this funny little tidbit.

Judge Merchan handed the Trump Organization a $1.6M fine in that tax case a couple years ago. The District Attorney for Manhattan, Alvin Bragg, said:

“While corporations can’t serve jail time, this consequential conviction and sentencing serves as a reminder to corporations and executives that you cannot defraud tax authorities and get away with it.”

What a head of cabbage. As if a couple million dollars is anything to these corporations. These fines need to be double digit percentages of revenue before they get viewed as anything other than a line item on the expense report.

As someone that tries to condense posts and comments, I have ‘Show action bar by default for comments’ disabled. Now, as score location has been altered, I’m not able to see comment score. More problematic is there’s no longer an indication of whether I have already voted on a comment or not.

In order to get this information now, I either must enable the action bar for every comment which fills a lot of the screen with buttons that I don’t need, or press and hold the comment to expand the action bar manually. This is a reduction in displayed information that doesn’t seem proportional to the benefit of a ‘cleaner’ style.

At the very least, I’d think the score should be put back next to the commenter’s name when the action bar is disabled.

What an invaluable sacrifice. She no doubt saved the lives of multiple children, and her actions will radiate throughout their lifetimes.

Not sure why articles like these don’t link the donation pages, but it’s currently about £40k raised of the £50k goal.

I’m not sure if the last line is condemning bus drivers specifically or individual drivers in general, but either way, it’s a shame so many families have lost loved ones to these accidents.

Yet another Trump appointee swinging her undeserved gavel to keep hundreds of millions in the pockets of big business.

An umbrella arbitration clause like this, if it were argued at court, surely would only be held up for cases related to Disney+. At least one would hope. Having such an agreement cover entirely separate arms of a company is ridiculous.

That ‘CO2 is plant food’ argument always cracks me up. Like, water is good for people yes, but I’ll still die if you shove a thousand gallons down my throat.

I agree. In the long term, it would make sense to leave as much as you can so you have it for more useful purposes in the future. Medical applications perhaps, or rocket fuel to get materials to the moon would be cool. Who wouldn’t want to see us get a moon base?

What is a genuine emmisions plan? Of course fossil fuel companies are opposed to the Paris Agreement. Even the ones that claim to be aligned with it. They’re structure is fundamentally against anything other than the exponential increase in oil and gas consumption.

The industry could have gotten behind clean energy decades ago. Instead they chose to continue extracting a material that - without a shadow of a doubt - we will run out of. What an insane business model.

Remember a decade ago when the US was decreed ‘the Saudi Arabia of natural gas’? They cooked up this wonderful term for the methane. Every pundit and politician from coast to coast called it a bridge fuel over and over again. Then instead of a bridge, they went and built a ramp that isn’t levelling off, never mind declining.

Imagine if a couple generations ago, Exxon decided to pivot to solar and wind. With the financial resources available to that one company, we might have had panels at 40% efficiency by now. Maybe turbines at 50-60%. Who knows, if the industry as a whole put in the leg work, we may have been off oil and gas entirely today.

The fossil fuel industry has an expiry date. If we aren’t sufficiently prepared, the impact of running out of an energy supply will be devastating.

The saxophone battle that unfurled on the New York City subway ten years ago comes to mind.

Does your name happen to be David?

Maybe if we didn’t make city streets as wide as highways, people wouldn’t drive so fast. I feel like it’s obvious that people will drive faster between painted lines than if those lines were walls. Even lining a street with trees lowers speeds. An indirect side effect would be a drop in ticket revenue, but surely the police department would prefer safety over money.

The fact the Coast Guard spent four million dollars per recruit on a NASCAR campaign is unreal. Yet after they’ve served they’ll be lucky to get a free massage.

The PAC that got this AG elected must have a loose definition of ‘crooked’.

From their site:

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To add a touch of perspective, China has spent 70% more than the EU and the US combined on their renewable infrastructure.

It’s odd how politicians only seem to point out China’s current position of largest annual carbon emitter, and use that as an excuse not to lift a finger in the way of reducing domestic emissions. It goes entirely ignored that those numbers are a result of China being the world’s factory.

Despite this, they still have close to half the carbon emissions per capita compared to the runner up in annual carbon emissions - the United States of America - despite all that manufacturing.