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Nicovel0

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Family man. Bicycle obsessive. Nerd. Colander. He/him.

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Nicovel0, to random
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It may be that in particularly fat fingered, but I find tapping on the “reply” and “boost” icons quite difficult on @IceCubesApp. I often end up opening the link/image several times before getting it right. Is it just me?

Nicovel0, to cycling
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The London Cycling Campaign is calling for safe cycling for women. Sign the petition here:

https://action.lcc.org.uk/safe-cycling-for-women

pluralistic, to poop
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"who knew poop shaming was even a thing?"

https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/194trv8/who_knew_poop_shaming_was_even_a_thing/

Nicovel0,
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@pluralistic ooh this has disability suit written all over it

cstross, to random
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Dilbert Stark rediscovers human biology orthodoxy circa 1890 among fans of eugenics (long since debunked) ...

It's almost like he wants to breed H. G. Wellsian far future big-brained hominids and has no clue how evolution works.

Nicovel0,
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@cstross so the richest guy in the world is full on in the ideology that directly led us to gas chambers.
Cool cool cool cool cool.

Garwboy, to random
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Daughter is watching an episode of The Octonauts where they're dealing with an issue affecting mountain goats

...surely that's beyond your remit, guys? Not faulting your work ethic, but it's hard to think of a species that so actively keeps as far away from the sea as possible

Nicovel0,
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@Garwboy they’re looking to a future with extreme ocean rises caused by climate change. Octonauts is in fact dystopian sci-fi.

Nicovel0, to random
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It looks like 'CORNICES CENTRE®' are about to discover what the Streisand effect is. That’s 'CORNICES CENTRE®', whose driver apparently can’t overtake a cyclist in a safe fashion.

Cyclist threatened with legal action for posting video of close pass by driver in company-branded van https://road.cc/content/news/cyclist-threatened-with-legal-action-over-close-pass-clip-305935

gerrymcgovern, to random
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"About three times a day, Rich Benoit gets a call to his auto shop, The Electrified Garage, from the owner of an older Tesla Model S whose car battery has begun to fail. The battery, which used to provide several hundred miles of range, might suddenly only last 50 miles on a single charge. These cars are often out of warranty, and the cost of replacing the battery can exceed $15,000."
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ev-batteries-are-dangerous-to-repair-heres-why-mechanics-are-doing-so-anyway/

Nicovel0,
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@hembrow the motor assembly for my e-bike isn’t made anymore, afaik, so if it breaks it’s likely the whole bike becomes landfill. And this isn’t some eBay container no brand, it’s a Shimano powered Gazelle! I was also quoted nearly £500 for a Gazelle supplied replacement battery. Makes sense to crack open and source battery elements myself at that price.

Nicovel0,
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@hembrow it’s still working fine, although I realise now how lucky I was to get the motor replaced under warranty early. I’m going to work the battery into nothing before I risk breaking it open.

ChrisMayLA6, to Energy
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We are told that the involvement of the private sector (in this case in markets) allows them to price in risk more effectively... so how is it that now consumer debts to energy firms have passed £3bn, it is customers who are be subject to a surcharge to cover these 'losses'?... surely, the firms should have priced this risk in already?

Well, the answer is actually, this is just another disguised subsidy to their , to ensure that don't have to stomach that loss... but we do

Nicovel0,
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@ChrisMayLA6 the usual privatise profits but socialise losses. As old as capitalism itself.

hembrow, to random
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I was told by a neighbour this morning that I am "the right kind of immigrant".

When asked to explain he said that I work and pay taxes. He didn't also say that I'm ok because I'm white but I wonder how the conversation would have gone if I had a different skin colour.

Am I reassured that because i am "the right kind of immigrant" everything will now be fine in the Netherlands after a quarter of the people who live around me just voted for a fascist, when the new speaker in our parliament is a conspiracy theorist as well as a fascist, and when most of the rest of the country appears to think that this is just fine ? No I am not.

I have more in common with asylum seekers and any other immigrants than I do with fascists or with unthinking voters for fascists.

Nicovel0,
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@hembrow during the Brexit referendum campaign I chatted with a neighbour who assured me it wouldn’t be a problem for “people like me”, it was all those refugees they had a problem with. When I said “like my wife?” he realised he hadn’t quite thought things through.

Nicovel0,
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@hembrow I really thought the British experience would serve as a cautionary tale for a bit longer than that

kim_harding, to random
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Why would anyone say that the ECHR is out of date? It was created to guarantee of Human Rights when things get difficult, as they are now.

Now more than ever, we need to protect universal Human Rights for everyone, or we risk becoming the slaves of the few...

Nicovel0,
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@kim_harding as a kids I was given a copy of the universal declaration of human rights, and I challenge anyone to read it and find a right they’d be happy to relinquish.

ChrisMayLA6, to Horizon
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Michelle Donelan was in Brussels yesterday to formally sign-up to the UK re-entering the EU's research programme.

Now, the Govt. is going to spend up to £10k per organisation to help them (re)attract & prepare bids for the rest of the programme's duration.

So essentially, we've held out for a better deal (which we didn't get), but due to 's dithering, we now have to 'pump prime' appplicants who are out of the habit of applying and/or have lost key staff

idiocy!

Nicovel0,
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@Sheencr @ChrisMayLA6 and for the few years that the U.K. was out of Horizon the EU redirected funding to south and east Europe, that’s not coming back. Neither are the groups that moved wholesale.

velobetty, to random
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The confused girl meme.

Nicovel0,
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@velobetty not weird at all

Nicovel0, to random
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Just Stop Oil protesters’ jail terms potentially breach international law, UN expert says https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/20/just-stop-oil-protesters-jail-terms-potentially-breach-international-law-un-expert-says

Nicovel0, to random
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"When will drivers treat cyclists as humans?": Cyclist riding with his kids gets cut off before a roundabout... and then gets close-passed by a van driver https://road.cc/content/news/cyclist-riding-kids-cut-and-close-passed-305195

Nicovel0, to random
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For fuck’s sake people, this is a solved problem.

Measles deaths jumped over 40% between 2021 and 2022, CDC reports https://www.livescience.com/health/viruses-infections-disease/measles-deaths-jumped-over-40-from-2021-to-2022-cdc-reports

Nicovel0, to random
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“But tradespeople can't carry their stuff around by bike” – oh yes they can! How cargo bikes are changing the way people work https://road.cc/content/news/how-cargo-bikes-are-changing-way-people-work-305177

NicolaElle, to random
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Okay, I’ve just been stunned into stupefaction.

Just got passed by a car with three bumper stickers.

“Coexist” - with various religious and diversity symbols for the letters.
“Peace” - again, with various symbols for the letters.
“Moms For Liberty”.

……………

As Sesame Street once sang, “One of these things is not like the others…”

Nicovel0,
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@gimulnautti @NicolaElle I think there’s something about a speck in your brother’s eye in their favourite book, sounds like they missed that passage

Nicovel0, to random
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Surreal quote by the policewoman in this article: “I was looking at you, because your lack of hi-vis caused me to look at you”

“Can't the police use Google?” Cyclist mistakenly pulled over by police and threatened with ticket for “using phone” – and then gets lectured by officer for not wearing helmet or hi-vis https://road.cc/content/news/cyclist-mistakenly-pulled-over-police-phone-use-305133

Nicovel0, to random
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Well, I dont know Forbes, maybe if you looked at actual innovators rather than enshittificators extraordinaire?

cstross, to random
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I grew up reading Heinlein novels too; the difference (I think) is that I learned (a) how to read critically and (b) that Heinlein loved to play fake-out mind games using unreliable narrators, to study ideological positions he didn't necessarily agree with but enjoyed playing with. Oh, and (c) he had some weird unexamined cognitive biases.

Nicovel0,
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@briannawu @cstross Musk is supposedly a big fan of the Culture novels, from which he has clearly learned nothing beyond “spaceships and AI are cool”

ChrisMayLA6, to random
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Another week at the & 's role as useful idiot has been confirmed with 'witnesses' lining up to say he was an idiot, not be trusted & generally incompetent.

So his utility is now coming into focus as the lightning rod (sacrificial lamb?) for ... as more & more is laid at his door, the rest of the shambles will try to hide in the shadow that casts.

But lets be clear: there is blame enough to go around & be shared.

Nicovel0,
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@Herman @ChrisMayLA6 most governments dealt with the pandemic extremely poorly in the wealthy world. I think the only one that got it right was Japan, possibly a handful of other Asian countries and some in Africa. Their problem was getting hold of vaccines (still is). They were screaming to be sent some just when the antivax fever was reaching its peak in the west.

Garwboy, to random
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Why stop there?

Severely physically or mentally impaired? Lifestyle choice

Living in an abusive environment? Lifestyle choice

Literally drowning right now? You should have chosen a lifestyle with better access to air

Don't have to fund support for anything if everything is a choice, after all.

Nicovel0,
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@hittitezombie @cstross @iinavpov @Garwboy they’re >< that close from outlawing any other party

stavvers, to random
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IT'S TUMBLR THREAD TIME! I'll be posting about 5-10 screencaps a day from the very best of tumblr. The mob wants it. The mob will get it.

Nicovel0,
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@cstross @stavvers some amazing sentences in this abstract: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07373937.2020.1771569

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