I’m not sure that’s infuriating at all, when they’re already blowing up and hacking neighboring countries. It might mean Europe has to spend more or regulate more to protect their cars, that’s it.

I mean, there’s more options than just tree or grid, and if it’s not strictly a tree the fastest route from A to B could be something small again. And of course trees have their own issues, like what happens if you need to get from one leaf to another that’s nearby, but only “as the crow flies”.

That example about having to move aside for a car going through a narrow European street is something I’ve actually experienced. Maybe it’s just my Canadian brain but it feels unsafe.

Ahh yes the good old days, when there was no urban planning, and empty land to develop on was always there from whatever section of town just burned down.

Only kinda /s. Obviously fires are bad, but development can be so politicised and dumb now.

Bingo. Allow me to introduce you to the colonial French seigneurial system.

And the ancient Romans, and Indus valley people another couple millennia earlier were both fond of grid plans.

They’re considered passe, but there’s real advantage in terms of easy scalability and adaptability to changing land uses.

I mean, you can organise grids to be more or less stroady, and if you have too much of this going - like you have a medieval street plan - you can get the opposite thing where cars are forced through areas only suited to pedestrians, and everyone has to flatten themselves against building walls to make room.

Yeah, someone deciding to clear out an area and develop it in a completely different way is possible, I guess, but seems a lot less likely. Maybe there’s a bit of both - something large like horse stables or a hospital was there, then it was replaced with a new self-contained development, and then they built out into the margin around it later on yet.

In any case, somebody had a big urban planning idea of some kind, but it hasn’t really continued to make sense as things changed. The angle could just be because one grid is aligned true north, and the other magnetic north.

There has to be some interesting history here.

A few other examples have been posted, but this is easily the wildest. It’s not even the same aspect ratio of grid, or at a normal angle to the rest, or over a very significant area. (And they’ve still managed to tie it in reasonably well)

Canada works this way too, interestingly enough.

Couldn’t they distill their own in something metal?

Yeah, the crosswalk part was harmless, even if he technically wasn’t supposed to do the municipality’s job for them. The rest I’ll take your word for.

The charges include interfering with a traffic control device, grand theft, and vandalism exceeding $400

Actually reading the article, the first fits, but the rest is definitely the cops power tripping, unless he stole the equipment to do it.

I mean, the article is about France. Am I missing something?

Yeah, people also don’t want high-speed rail tracks going past their house or whatever.

If the government doesn’t address it, the people will.

Good luck with that. Most people like cars a lot more than I do.

If you’re thinking of protein design it is, just with a sequence instead of natural language text. Although it’s not just a straight LLM, there’s some kind of physics awareness engineered in as well.

Anything that’s fuzzy and impossible to automate with traditional algorithms, but that also has a reasonably high tolerance for error. It just makes up stuff a good portion of the time, you see.

However, I’ve found some benefits with AI. For example, I’m chatting with ChatGPT on credit cards, because it is something I may lean towards getting into. It’s helping me better understand than most people have tried explaining to me. Simply because it is giving me a more stream-lined response than people just beating the bush.

Watch out, personal finance is not one of those things.

Good. (Downvote me all you want)

If you let everyone design their local traffic flow it will be impossible to go anywhere. That’s worse than everyone deciding if they want low-income housing or a safe injection site in their neighborhood.

Here, I won’t add anything, I’ll just cited what I’ve brought up:

The Neanderthal stuff is recent research and still kind of in flux, so you could object that there might be another interpretation somehow. The bit about everyone outside of Africa having admixture is here, and it actually mentions that east Asians have the highest proportion.

On the origin of white people, here’s the steppe herder component and here’s the bit about them having horses. This is the Middle Eastern agriculturalist part and these are the original hunter-gatherer inhabitants of western Europe, specifically the section on them likely being black and blue-eyed.

This is a photo of historical Ainu in Japan which gives a sense of why I’d compare them in appearance to Europeans, as some of the Europeans themselves did. There isn’t actually a close relation:

In other species that intermix like that, you see stretches of DNA where all admixture is excluded, because it’s instantly selected out. In humans, such a stretch exists, and has to do with sex determination, which is a pretty much a smoking gun. I’m finding stuff about the Y chromosome, but I thought there was something on the X chromosome to do with testicle development as well.

Obviously, female hybrids were fertile at least some of the time, since there is admixture. But, it’s possible every half-and-half male hybrid ever ended up sterile, and later generations would probably have had higher rates of sterility.

The general idea that humans are irrationally obsessed with categories and tribes holds, but this doesn’t seem like a clear-cut example.

but retaining neanderthal genes adaptive to the northern climate.

Shake and bake a couple generations, you get white people.

Anyone outside of Africa has similar-ish admixture; skin colour has little to do with it. European hunter-gathers at the end of the ice age were what we’d consider black, and they were replaced by Middle Eastern looking and originating agriculturalists. The light skin colour is from Eurasian steppe nomads that rode in on the first horses in the bronze age. Other unrelated groups, like from the Caucuses area or pre-modern Japan, also have/had light skin.

It’s worth a read just for the diagrams of possible timelines. Apparently there was at least one earlier wave of Homo Sapiens ancestors going to Europe, too, labeled gamma, which would have just been absorbed by the Neanderthals.

The Eurasian superarchaics would themselves have left Africa around 2 million years ago, with the very first Homo Erectus or Habilis migrants into the larger world.

That’s the one reasonably well-defined definition, anyway.

Neanderthals and humans produced often/usually sterile offspring, though.