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skyfaller, 8 hours ago

@checkervest Terminator 2, when John Connor is trying to teach the T-800 to be cool... and, when Sarah Connor is reflecting on how the T-800 is actually a great father figure.

Look, just make it the T-800's theme song.

skyfaller, 1 day ago

@StephanieMoore My advice would be to use a more upright position (might need new handlebars or a new bike if yours is more "sporty" or aerodynamic). Also try adding suspension, at least on your front fork, and perhaps on your seat post. Those steps made a huge difference for me.

skyfaller, 1 day ago

@ben I'm not anti-NYC, but I am against the NY Times. There are still good journalists there doing great journalism, but they're weighted down by management that seems to be in favor of fascism and they also publish increasing numbers of offensive articles abetting those who want to destroy our democracy.

I don't know for sure who this ad is targeted at or who it's reaching, but I'd assume it's people like me. I've already subscribed to the Inquirer, though.

skyfaller, 1 day ago

@anildash For anyone not familiar with the MOVE bombing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing

skyfaller, 1 day ago

@CartyBoston @anildash They just waited a little bit until the Governor prodded them, I'm not giving them much credit: https://www.inquirer.com/education/upenn-encampment-police-remove-20240510.html

skyfaller, 23 hours ago

@kyleejohnson @acm_redfox The Inquirer says, "Mayor Parker’s budget slashes funding for Vision Zero, a program designed to end traffic deaths": https://www.inquirer.com/transportation/traffic-injuries-deaths-spending-vision-zero-20240510.html

"The administration wants to spend $9 million on safer streets over the next six years — a sharp drop from Mayor Jim Kenney’s budgeted $15 million over six years. Last year, Kenney spent $2.5 million, compared to Parker’s proposed $1 million for 2025."

skyfaller, 23 hours ago

@kyleejohnson @acm_redfox If you think this sucks, might be worth testifying at a community budget town hall and telling them not to cut the budget: https://bicyclecoalition.org/mayor-parkers-first-proposed-budget-leaves-vision-zero-advocates-with-questions/

It grinds my gears that we couldn't defund the police. Why can the city defund life-saving measures like Vision Zero, but we can only ever increase the amount of money set aside for unaccountable murderers?

skyfaller, 1 day ago

@oreoteeth When was smog season back then? I assume summer because of heat domes and similar weather phenomena, but I suppose it could also be related to some local industrial process with some other logic to it. Was it regular and predictable? Do you remember smog season not being a thing anymore at some point?

skyfaller, 1 day ago

@oreoteeth Then would you say that it's odd they're still wearing masks in November, then? Would this have been after smog season?

Are they wearing the masks to make a point about how increasing bicycle use would reduce smog, rather than for practical reasons because it was actually smoggy that day?

This post has a pic of a 1977 protest, could be the same one? Nobody is wearing a mask because they are singing, although one man to the right has a mask under his chin: https://bicyclecoalition.org/launching-in-the-70s-the-bicycle-coalitions-first-decade/

skyfaller, 2 days ago

@nancywisser Fair, maybe I am misusing the tag. This scene was actually pretty noisy; aside from all the geese and goslings, it was by multiple busy roads full of cars.

My interpretation of the tag is that it should feel peaceful and relaxing, and the person posting the picture should shut up and let the picture do the talking ;-)

skyfaller, 2 days ago

@davidho I kind of want a penny farthing, but my primary bike route is through a rocky muddy path in the woods, which also sometimes has low-hanging tree branches. Sadly I think I need to stick with bikes that are better at off-roading, and less tall, for practical purposes.

skyfaller, 1 day ago

@Sandra It may be too late for a soft landing, but it's never too late to demand justice.

What's the alternative to climate justice? Eco-fascism, where billions are sacrificed so the master race can inherit the Earth? That might be used as a rhetorical device, but I no longer believe eco-fascism will ever be a major force. Basically all real-world fascists seem to be doubling down on climate denial, and no matter how they justify mass murder, I don't think any will ever take real climate action

skyfaller, 1 day ago

@Sandra I mostly agree. But by what mechanism will you build the political power necessary to end capitalism, and take other drastic action to save civilization & the biosphere?

You seem to argue a narrow focus is necessary, only fix GHG emissions. But CFCs only affected fridges/AC, Y2K only computers (before everything was computers).

Successfully addressing the climate crisis requires changing almost everything about our culture. A broad coalition is required to mobilize all of society.

skyfaller, 1 day ago

@Sandra What we have here is a strategic question, an empirical question: Are we more likely to succeed politically by fixing only one thing, or by fixing many things?

I would argue that if we have to change everything anyway, we might as well change it for the better. And then you have ways to convince people who don't understand how they are being affected by the climate crisis (yes, of course they are affected already) to sign on to your ambitious program: solidarity with their struggles.

skyfaller, 1 day ago

@Sandra CFCs and Y2K could be effectively addressed by experts working in their fields, backed by government policy. The general public didn't need to do anything, or know or understand anything.

The climate crisis requires an informed & engaged public, which is a heavy lift. How do you motivate them? Fear might get people involved (worked for me), but it won't keep the movement going in the long run; and we'll be dealing with climate change for the rest of our lives. How do you give them hope?

skyfaller, 1 day ago

@Sandra So when I say "climate justice", I'm not just talking about what is ethically the right thing to do. I'm talking strategically, how do you get people to sign up for completely re-imagining society and rebuilding it from the ground up, to eliminate fossil fuels and capitalism? That's a lot of work!

I think some sort of climate justice framing is the only way to build the mass movement that can succeed at this daunting task at this late date.

skyfaller, 4 days ago

@meganL One source I saw being passed around (from 2013): https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-damage-could-be-caused-by-a-massive-solar-storm-25627394/

https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/112417491109860261

skyfaller, 4 days ago

@evan Technically some of the 11+ domains under my registrar account aren't really mine, but I'm responsible for them. Anyway, the ones that are truly mine are still enough to get me over 11 domains.

skyfaller, 2 days ago

@seabikeblog Anna the author is on fedi FYI: @Nondriver

skyfaller, 8 hours ago

@charlesxjyang Image description: A Felix e6100 ebike stands under a tree in a grassy park on a sunny day. It is a comfortable-looking Dutch-style city bike, with fenders on the wheels, integrated headlight & taillight, and a rear rack.

skyfaller, 4 days ago

@Strombo It is not greater than the effort to update one client's site, but if I want to scale this as a business, I can't do everything myself.

Also TMI but I have mental health issues where I go thru periods of being unavailable / unable to work on various tasks, and clients should be able to update their websites when I cannot.

Finally, if I can solve this, I could help static sites become more popular, which could help reduce the environmental impact of the Web. https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about/the-solar-website/

skyfaller, 4 days ago

@punkpaleo I assume the hadrosaurs were eating vegetation from the trees, and that's why their tracks clustered around the tree roots? Or are there other likely explanations for this behavior?

Like, might they have used the trees as scratching posts, like bison do (American bison prefer eating grass over trees, apparently)?

skyfaller, 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

@shom @charmcli This looks great! Is your code online anywhere? Have you done more work on a Hugo interface since this post? I'm tempted to try something similar for my Hugo sites.

EDIT: OK I found the script from this post https://git.sr.ht/~shom/filmPoster

Still curious if you intend to go further :-)