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fpslem, 8 hours ago

Same here. You can tell it still hurts.

fpslem, 12 hours ago

Housing was out of reach for many Americans before interest rates went up. I don’t think allowing an escape to mortgage rate lock-in is a bad idea, but state and municipal funding and financing and zoning reform would make more of a difference in the housing market.

fpslem, 10 hours ago

Yes please!

fpslem, 8 hours ago

How much of the increased price of fast food is because restaurants have to pay workers more than $7.25/hour now? It seems like the entire business model of cheap fast food was premised on low-quality food and labor costs so low that most fast-food workers qualified for public assistance. Leaving aside the low-quality oligarchical food product industry and just looking at the labor side, it’s still a failure. And a business model that relies on food stamps and welfare for its employees really isn’t a business model.

fpslem, 1 day ago

Melinda > Bill

fpslem, 1 day ago

I don’t love the consolidation in this industry, but I know the big draw was the spectrum US Cellular holds.

fpslem, 5 days ago

Little Kitty Big City, which is some great, silly fun.

fpslem, 4 days ago

It is fairly short, but at $25USD, it was priced reasonably enough that I didn’t feel cheated. And frankly, I don’t have time for very long games, I really can only manage short games, so it works out well for me.

fpslem, 5 days ago

Pretty sick and tired of so-called clean aviation fuel efforts. Just build the damn high-speed rail already, knock out most of the domestic air travel, and limit flights to trips that couldn’t be done by train. That requires zero new tech and would make WAY more of an impact on greenhouse gas emissions than hydrogen jets ever could.

fpslem, 6 days ago

tab grouping

Sure, okay.

vertical tabs

To each their own.

profile management

Whatever, it’s fine.

and local AI features

HOLLUP

fpslem, 6 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

Primož Roglič is at altitude camp and is supposed to ride the Dauphiné in a little over a week, but we’ll see. Jonas Vingegaard was also supposed to ride the Dauphiné but he’s now out and is just looking to return for the Tour, reportedly through training in Mallorca. (It probably sounds more fun than it is.)

Remco Evenepoel and Mikel Landa haven’t returned to racing, but they are both training together as they aim for the Tour. Sean Quinn is back to racing, and just won the U.S. Road Race National Championships in a tight sprint over Brandon McNulty, which was pretty fun to watch. Steff Cras is reportedly training with Wout Van Aert right now, but hasn’t returned to racing.

Jay Vine is just happy to be walking again, but I haven’t seen any news about him even returning to training. I can’t find any news about Natnatel Tesfazion, but he had some of the worst injuries, so he’s probably like Jay Vine and just working on recovery.

Also, though his crash was separate from the mass crash, Tom Pidcock had also crashed in Itzulia, but he’s back to mountain bike racing.

fpslem, 7 days ago

Both are risking the lives and safety of the non-consenting public as they beta test 2-ton vehicles on public streets. Damn them both.

fpslem, 7 days ago

I’m interested in how this takes place in one room with a curtain divider, which I think was more common when home sizes were much smaller.

fpslem, 6 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

In small apartments curtains are definitely a cheap way to divide space, or make a single small space more adaptable or modular. I knew plenty of young adults in tiny NYC apartments that used curtains to “wall off” a sleeping area in a studio apartment, or create a make-shift workspace. Heck, I did that during lockdowns to have a work space. Although I did discover the downside of curtains, they do little to dampen sound and (to a lesser extent) smells.

fpslem, 4 days ago

It seems absurd for WADA to acknowledge the widespread problem of pharmaceutical contamination and still declare trace amounts of substances a violation. It should at least establish a minimum threshold for known potential contaminants.

My amateur opinion is that WADA is not using good forensic science principles, but it doesn’t want to admit it to athletes or the public. Obviously, we all want to know that sports are clean and that we can be confident in the safeguards in place, but hiding the flaws only makes it worse. It shouldn’t take a professional athlete who also happened to study medicine to figure this out.

fpslem, 7 days ago

He’s hard to dislike, even when he is demolishing your hopes and dreams!

fpslem, 8 days ago (edited 8 days ago)

I call it his “big boy gun”

Good! And I hope you never let him hear the end of it. What a poser.

fpslem, 8 days ago (edited 8 days ago)

It sucks but unless he hurt you, hit your bike, or you have any sort of footage what is the police suppose to do?

It’s worth noting that most American states have a “3 foot law” that requires vehicles to pass bikers with at least 3 feet of space. (Often, drivers are also required to completely change lanes when doing so, although that varies more by state and by the width of the lane on that particular road.) If a driver in one of the 39 states runs a biker off the road, even if they never physically contacted the person on the bike, they almost certainly violated the “3 foot law.”

Yes, police often won’t investigate or bring charges, and yes, it sucks, but most of those dangerous drivers are indeed breaking the law.

fpslem, 8 days ago

I think we’re both in agreement about the result, but we shouldn’t forget that testimony is evidence. The chump behind the wheel will deny it, so you’ll have conflicting testimonial evidence, but until recently, this was usually all the evidence any prosecutor had. We’ve gotten too used to video evidence and now police won’t act without it, even though it’s not legally required. It just provides a convenient excuse for cops not to bother when they don’t care.