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[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

surely traffic lights pre-date automatics?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

gboard and heliboard both have it. been using it for years. it's awful for glide typing since you're mostly just bouncing around the home row.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

i'd definitely pay for the development of something i use that much. unfortunately i can't donate directly to development of firefox, otherwise i would have.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

seems like a pretty good reason for revoking a licence to me

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (20 children)

i will never understand why us traffic lights go immediately from red to green. you have a whole-ass third light to use for signaling that the light is about to change, so people don't have to floor it due to an unexpected change.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

you know all the shootings that have been reported from sweden the past few years?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

here it's reversed. blank votes are counted separately, meaning that you want to participate but no option is good. abstaining means you don't care.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

and "fart" is where you get "fare", as in to travel. or rather, we both got them from german.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"fart" is colloquial swedish for speed, but it's not used on signs like that. as mentioned previously the correct word is "hastighetskontroll", but we don't actually have signs like that for permanent speed cameras. those signs are blue, and just depict a camera.

when "fart" appears on signs, the actual meaning is akin to "travel" or "fare", like german "fahr-" words. so we have "sjöfart" (seafaring), "rymdfart" (space travel), "fartvind" (wind rushing by when moving quickly), "uppfart" (driveway) and, importantly for signs, "utfart" and "infart" (exit and entry for vehicles).

my favorite of this is a sign nearby on a narrow road that warns about multiple exits with no sight lines.

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