As we have seen a rise of toxic behavior we have decided that it would be time for some rules. We would love other ideas too and feel free to discuss it here.

Also we are thinking about, to put in an Automoderation tool that could help us a lot. Because its currently not easy for us to scan every new comments and reports are rare currently. We want your opinons on that too, because its important to us that this community is based on the people here.

The shortlist that we have currently as idea for the Rules:

• Be Kind to each other
• No Hate speech
• Dont harass people
• No Racism, sexism and any other discrimination
• Dont attack other people just because they have differnt opinions (Stay on Topic)
• Do not double post

In the absence of a flair system on lemmy yet, let's try to make it easier to scan through posts by type in here by using tags:

• [meta] for discussions/suggestions about this community itself
• [article] for news articles
• [blog] for any blog-style content
• [video] for video resources
• [academic] for academic studies and sources
• [discussion] for text post questions, rants, and/or discussions
• [meme] for memes
• [image] for any non-meme images
• [misc] for anything that doesn't fall cleanly into any of the other categories

I have copied that idea from another community. I forgot which one so sorry!

Feel free to discuss that here, I would like that change because it makes it a lot easier

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/fuckcars/p/1357365/people-living-within-a-10-minute-walk-of-improved-urban-woodlands-are-10-less-likely-to

Legit, need a countersuggestion for a friend who wants to buy one for our community space.

(Please no AI generated designs)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/50899444

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/50908658

Three years into the push for a safer Forest Lawn Drive, Mayor Bass (in the L.A. Times) stated that she anticipates a new Forest Lawn design without the elimination of lanes and with “signal modifications to increase safety.” Per Bass, “I think that the Department of Transportation will be forthcoming with that very soon.”

As part of Long Beach’s budget, city leaders are proposing a new traffic safety division, which consolidates two Public Works teams and adds more than a dozen staff who will administer a state pilot program for 18 automated speed cameras around the city.

It comes after the city saw a record number of fatal traffic collisions in 2025 — 53 last year, the most in more than 10 years — that includes 32 pedestrians, cyclists and e-scooter riders killed. That eclipsed the number of people murdered in the city that year.

High rates of traffic deaths and collisions coincide with a record number of public requests to overhaul dangerous arterial streets, calibrate traffic lights and add traffic calming measures to neighborhoods known for dangerous driving. Long Beach currently sits on a backlog of more than 1,400 open traffic requests.

Many delays are tied to the 4% completion rate of traffic investigations. Officials explained many of those unresolved cases involve arterial streets the city already knows need expensive, yearslong overhauls. Neighborhood traffic calming requests have also spiked, from about 35 in the second half of last fiscal year to 306 in the first half of this one.

I gave over $300 to LibreOffice, Gimp, Krita, Inkscape. It feels painful. No one likes losing money. I do it anyway.

I write letters to lawmakers. Actual physical letters that I print. It requires patience and effort. I do it anyway.

I register to vote. It feels painful. Honestly, I'd rather stay home. I do it anyway.

NO PAIN = NO GAIN

Any meaningful change requires some pain. Posting on Lemmy is extremely easy. But it's not very effective. If you feel pain, you are changing the world.

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Privacy groups warn that flying plate readers could expand surveillance far beyond roadside cameras.