If you teach #computerscience or #programming and use #Canvas as your #learningmanagementsystem please join the conversation requesting restoration of file preview for common programming languages. Instructors can no longer annotate student submissions. It has been working for 5 years and now Instructure claims it’s not supported.
Post office is abt a mile from her home. But she could let the mail carrier pick it up or use a mailbox.
She’s 88. I told her to decide what she would like to do. When she can no longer live independently, she has agreed to live with me. If she needs more care, a nursing home in my city so I can check in on her. She would be miserable with me because she would miss her friends.
She probably shouldn’t be driving, at least at night. She needs a car to be ‘independent’
I am going to have to face the reality off upgrading my work MacPro 5,1 past 10.14 or getting a new computer at some point, but I'm just trying to ignore that as long as possible.
The thing is this does everything it needs to, and everything I want, extremely well. Software updates are 100% the only issue.
@ascentale#BikeNite A9 - I'd say by listening. It's presumptuous to think we can understand other people's viewpoints. So - we do our best to be respectful and be willing to change if we are wrong.
@xtaran was inspired by a question by @Dadmin about clothing. We chatted about this before, but that was ~6 months ago!
Q3. Do you have a favorite cycle-related t-shirt or other beloved piece of clothing with cycle-related motifts, slogans or pictures? Sporty-wear, casual wear, whatever, all are applicable.
I'm all for having as few cars as possible. But how do we manage things without expecting farmers to, say, walk 20 miles to buy seed? And how do we manage things without turning things over to Amazon and making it an even bigger monopoly?
I'm planning to table at a mutidisciplinary cultural event for our school next week. Our table will be about using cycles as transportation and living car-free or car-lite in the USA.
Q6. What are common questions that you get from people who don't cycle for transportation? How do you answer them? What other points would you want to make if you were staffing a table?
@ascentale#BikeNight A6 - how do you get groceries? (a basket and backpack), what if it snows? (mtb with knobby tires), what if it rains? (rain gear or get wet), at night? (lights), aren’t you afraid of the drivers? (YES!)
• Do you have ride/no-ride rules? For example - I won’t ride if it is icy
• If you have multiple bikes (doesn’t everyone?) - are they all fully equipped with a patch kit/tube and pump, etc.? Or do you have a bag that can move between bikes?
• If you are riding late at night - is it okay to break all the rules? Like ride against traffic on the shoulder, cross diagonally, etc.? Or do you follow the rules at all times?
I saw videos this morning of NY being pummeled by rain. @enobacon asks:
Q6. I hear a lot about Cleverhoods (where's their mastodon acct?) My rain cape has a strap across each corner for hands to fit through to & hold onto the handlebars w/no holes for arms (don't those leak? You don't ride with arms through holes, right?) But Center for Appropriate Transport in Eugene quit existing these, and mine's starting to leak/wet through. Restore or replace, with what?
@enobacon@ascentale - sent the link to https://www.thegreenpepper.com/ - maybe they will create a pattern. It is entirely possible Green Pepper knows of or even includes people from the Center for Appropriate Transport ... they're both in Eugene.
I welcome people who disagree and express a difference of opinion, based on their experience and the surrounding facts.
Unfortunately, there are those who just want to be "right" all the time, when there is not even anything "right or wrong" about.
You should be able to feel validated without always needing people to see it "your way." Your way, may not be someone else's, but so long as you're not knowingly or intentionally harming anyone you're free to do you.
I guess I'm somewhat of an expert on #eBikes at this point, but I'm kinda surprised they don't already have some resources they could ask about this. 😏
I met M on a train platform in Portland Maine (USA)
He grew up amid gangs and drugs and he made it out
He told me a story about a turtle and a lizard riding on the turtle’s shell. ‘Which is more important - the journey or the destination?’, asked the lizard. ‘The company’, answered the turtle.
M’s story is awesome and his message is “be kind”. It was one of the best conversations I’ve had in my life.
British people, I cannot explain adequately what absolute hell the American healthcare system is. You know how people say: "at least in the US, you can get fast treatment. At least in the US, you can choose your doctor. At least in the US, you can get the most innovative treatment"?
Lies. All of it.
The US healthcare system excels at one thing only, and that's bankrupting people.
@yappari@KFuentesGeorge Tying healthcare to employment also hurts those that care for others - often women - trying to raise children or support elderly relatives if they are not a ‘dependent’ of a person with healthcare benefits
