I am so tired of hearing about the "privilege & #ableism of the bike community" as an excuse for not investing in protected low-stress bike infrastructure. Those assholes buzzing you on a path (or when you're in the bike lane on streets with no sidewalks) are #drivers on bikes, not members of my bike community. I'm taking my kid to a doctor appt and #CarSupremacy is squatting on 130ft and 65ft swaths of asphalt while we share scraps of space with people walking their dogs. #BikeTooter
Technically you have to put your toe in with the sharks for this to have been a violation on the #drivers' part. Pedestrians are also technically within their rights to signal their intent to cross by deploying a spike strip ("including but not limited to cane, crutch or bicycle.")
People who honk at other #drivers need to realize that they are not doling out justice, just being rude to everyone around them, like loudly farting in an elevator but intentionally. Maybe if they got a ticket in the mail for $165 (ORS 815.225)
@PedestrianError@CathyTuttle it's some specific men in govt, but also women leaders, who may not realize how much infrastructure exposes women to abuse from #drivers, or how to fix it with #bollards. Roadway design which assumes drivers are all law-abiding rule-followers is too inviting for those who would take advantage of the difference of hundreds of horsepower and thousands of pounds of armor. Separated bikeways would also be more popular, so there's people near you, not cocooned in cars.
The barrier to #30daysOfBiking for most people was never the weather, hills, or distance, it has always been the luxury car and/or SUV #drivers with tinted windows who don't stop for crosswalks, or otherwise brandish their vehicle as a weapon to cow people into giving up their rights to public space.
Of course, the #drivers who FTY at #crosswalks and block #BikeLanes also came up the other side of the hill, using the small neighborhood street (which lacks sidewalks on one side, barely complete on the other) as their cut-thru to avoid driving on nice big streets that go around the hill to within a block of the school with nice 💸💸 traffic signals. This is what you get for leaving every street open to cars for cutting through in every direction: every street has too many cars. #InducedDemand
"Pedestrian Head Starts, also called Leading Pedestrian Intervals (#LPI s), are a known and proven safety intervention used around the country. These give pedestrians the walk signal several seconds before drivers get a green light, 🚦so #pedestrians can begin crossing the street before drivers start to turn. This makes the #drivers more likely to see & stop for them.
Studies from other cities have found reductions in pedestrian crashes and near-misses... as much as 60%"
#TheDriversHandbookSays when someone on a bike signals well ahead, makes a legal maneuver, has the right of way, and you had plenty of time to stop, you should honk to let them know you didn't want to. #BikeTooter#drivers#honky
“Bicycle deaths in New York City hit a 23-year high in 2023, according to new data from the NYC Department of Transportation. Of the 30 cyclists who died last year, 23 were riding electric bikes. “
So I looked up the article, and that is all it says; that’s the entire thing. Nothing about how they died, just that they died.
It seems that the #NYTimes is having a War on Bikes, especially #eBikes, and I wonder why.
One final thought (well, maybe 2), but does anyone ever notices that the word “crash” is almost never in the reporting, and 2) when these things are reported, they never mention that there are #DRIVERS in the #car; but sure, #bicyclists are keeling over dead.
It’s really weird how the #NYTimes can shift-blame everything in such a short blurb.
I started walking about 3 miles a day.
One more Tesla goes to pull out of a parking lot, driveway, street etc and cuts me off and blocks the sidewalk, I am gonna walk over the hood of their car. Happens all the time and they are always fucking Tesla drivers.
I'm delving into controlling the image (displayed on the screen) at the UEFI level and then the operating system level. But I have lots of questions....
I'm delving into controlling the image (displayed on the screen) at the UEFI level and then the operating system level. But I have lots of questions.
There is GOP (UEFI Graphics Output Protocol).
He appears to be controlling the image right from pressing the POWER button on the computer.
At some point, the graphics card driver takes over.
Is that so? Is there something else going on in between?
So the graphics card is in GOP mode, and then in the mode in which the image is controlled by the graphics card driver?
I am interested in the issue of resolution and refresh rate of the image transmitted by the graphics card to the screen.
How does the GOP control this? Image resolution and refresh rate?
When I turn on the monitor's OSD while in UEFI, it shows 2560x1440 60 Hz.
At some point, probably when switching to the operating system, the screen goes blank for a moment and then comes back with the correct resolution and refresh rate set (2560x1440 165 Hz).
Why does this screen blackout have to happen? Why can't it be smooth?
Why can't it be 2560x1440 165 Hz at the UEFI stage?
Anyway, when I set the system to 2560x1440 60 Hz (which is the same as the OSD says for UEFI), the screen goes out the same way.
So what does this mean? What exactly is the mechanism behind this, at the graphics card level?
Why do I need this knowledge? Out of curiosity...
Because in my case the screen goes off for 6 seconds, it seems like such a long time, it's the monitor's fault, it's just like that, and there are many monitors that just have it like that. But it's minimally problematic, and that's why I'm delving deeper into the topic...
“V2X connects vehicles to everything, though, this #technology can do much more than just protect #drivers. Like a #digital seatbelt for the 21st century, V2X-enabled #bikes can provide critical protection for their riders by prompting V2X #cars to display a warning right in front of the driver when a #cyclist is about to cross their path”
“anonymized #data can be shared with #cities to help plan new #bike and #pedestrian#infrastructure”
Image control at the UEFI level and then the operating system level - I'm exploring the topic...
I'm delving into controlling the image (displayed on the screen) at the UEFI level and then the operating system level. But I have lots of questions....