TheTechnician27
“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: […] like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.” —Jonathan Swift
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TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldto
Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•This is how pedestrians die on Chicago streetsEnglish
16·20 hours agoI response to your comment, I looked in the compiled statutes, and such a law exists. I guess it just isn’t mentioned in the handbook.
625 ILCS 5/11-1002(d), which I quoted in an edit.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldto
Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•This is how pedestrians die on Chicago streetsEnglish
451·20 hours agoEdit: See edit at the end. I was working on incomplete information.
Looked it up, and here’s what Illinois traffic law has to say:
A driver must come to a complete stop (and yield):
- When a pedestrian is in a marked crosswalk [notably, this one is marked as a “zebra crossing”].
- On school days, when children are in close proximity to a school zone crosswalk.
So you technically don’t have to stop until a regular pedestrian steps into the crosswalk, but once they decide to enter, you have to stop your shit.
Additionally:
A driver must yield:
- When a pedestrian is in an unmarked crosswalk on the driver’s side of the roadway, and there are no traffic control signals.
- When making a turn at any intersection.
- When making a lawful turn on a red light after coming to a complete stop.
- After coming to a complete stop at a stop sign or flashing red signal at an intersection.
- When a pedestrian enters a crosswalk before the traffic light changes.
- When a pedestrian walks with a green light, to a “walking person” symbol or to a “walk” signal.
- When a pedestrian leaves or enters a street or highway from an alley, building, private road, or driveway.
- When a pedestrian enters an intersection with a flashing yellow arrow.
- To a person with disabilities, including physical, hearing and visual disabilities.
Only the last person was driving illegally, but I think the other people who didn’t stop were being dicks.
Edit: I dug further (i.e. into the compiled statutes and not just a handbook) and found more:
Whenever any vehicle is stopped at a marked crosswalk or at any unmarked crosswalk at an intersection to permit a pedestrian to cross the roadway, the driver of any other vehicle approaching from the rear shall not overtake and pass such stopped vehicle.
So actually, the second-to-last car was violating traffic law too. The other two could be debated given the middle car wasn’t yet “stopped”, but it sure was still a diiiiick move.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Stanford University admits AI was used to ‘race swap’ student photoEnglish
44·2 days agoThe oracle foretold*
TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldto
Political Memes@lemmy.world•Congratulations USA!! State-run media is here.English
17·4 days agoNo idea why you’re sending that Forbes link through Google.
The actual article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2026/09/21/white-house-launches-trump-tv-after-presidents-press-ban/
That’s an excellent post, TribblesBestFriend. Perhaps one of the mods here would like to make it.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldto
Fuck AI@lemmy.world•AI "actress" Tilly Norwood suffered an embarrassing glitch during interview when she inexplicably started speaking Cantonese.English
38·4 days agoOink, oink, Big Papa.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldto
Fuck AI@lemmy.world•AI "actress" Tilly Norwood suffered an embarrassing glitch during interview when she inexplicably started speaking Cantonese.English
107·4 days agoCo-founder of Particle6, Eline van der Velden, gave an explanation for her short-circuiting bot to Deadline, saying: “Tilly can be a bit of a show-off - I’m guessing she just wanted to show her language skills as most of her interviews to date have been in English… She is autonomous after all.”
Ah, yes, sure.
That’s because you’re revealing your sex*, not your gender, duh.
* provided you aren’t intersex and your gametes match your genitalia
I’m guessing this means you got your master’s before transformers made sequential data processing so parallelizable that it’d be commercially viable to let Bob down the street into the “we” who wouldn’t be dumb enough to give them that ability.
I think your assumption was reasonable.
That’s a lot for what amounts to “I want to sweep China’s systematic abuse of the Uyghurs under the rug.”
Edit: Oops, they went on to do a genocide denial below. Wonder how that happened.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldto
Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Just so much wrong with this Reddit post idk where to begin…English
3·5 days agoThe penis tie really brings it together.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•River home to 500 crocodiles chosen as Olympic rowing venueEnglish
3·7 days agoMore motivation to row and you people are complaining?
TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldOPMto
Comic Strips@lemmy.world•Drinking the Kool-Aid [Mr. Lovenstein]English
1·8 days agoI don’t know what you’re talking about. [email protected] is not, has never been, and will never be sponsored by Kool-Aid or Kraft Heinz generally. I’m not getting paid to say this right now. I’m not writing this in a swimming pool full of Kool-Aid. If this swimming pool were full of Tropical Punch Kool-Aid, though, it would be a good source of Vitamin C with 35% LESS SUGAR than leading regular sodas.
Hi, OP. Per Rule 4, do you know who the artist is? The signature “DK” isn’t much to go off of. If you can’t find it, that’s okay too, as long as you feel you’ve tried.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Android Central: Fairphone (Gen. 6+) with /e/OSEnglish
0·24 days agoELI5: Why use /e/OS over Graphene? This isn’t a rhetorical rant; I’m genuinely curious.
Edit: See below. I misphrased this question.




This article ironically feels like it’s just an LLM lazily summarizing a Reddit post.