Here he is, three minutes later, it turns out cars aren't very fast even if you think you're important enough that everyone around you should wait for you while you operate your big stupid vehicle. #SeeYouAtTheNextLight
edit: already sold! The legendary Surly Cross Check, yours for a good price and a good cause. #pdxBikes (with delivery by cargo bike via @robgalanakis) 54cm
I have a theory about why every social media post about either cyclist or biker safety immediately gets swamped by really angry car drivers who want to kill us, and it comes down to ignorance.
Most cyclists and bikers are also car drivers, so we can see both points of view.
Most car drivers are only car drivers, which makes it harder to understand the different points of view. Learning to drive a car should include some time on 2 wheels. #BikeTooter#motorcycle#CarBrain#roadsafety
DIY $15k shed on a $20 foundation, "wanted to turn it into an AirBNB but the city wouldn't let us" LMAO, helluva youtube genre I've stepped in there. Is this the crap they trained the AI on?
Why spend so much on roof structure + decking + surface and then punch holes in it to add solar panels? I'm thinking of a solar porch/deck roof that's mostly just panels on structure, with gutters underneath. But what if you had insulation + waterproof membrane / house wrap on the roof and a similar system on the house? Thermal bridging vs structure through the foam, and gutters full of slime under the panels are a couple reasons why not, maybe the panels need airflow below?
I guess your decking is adding some shear strength to the framing assembly, but for $30-50/sheet of anything these days, you could afford a bit of triangulated tension strapping.
@carraway I think there might be lower hanging fruit, like the awning and porch covering, where there's air circulation below, easier to clean/adjust / maintain, and less critical concern about water or leaks.
@lkanies the question is whether you can now acquire shoes that fit. My feet are 12in long and seem roughly foot shaped, but shoes that long typically aren't.
hey petromasculinity dudes, RIP your sperm counts, LoL, PVC
"Microplastics found in every human testicle in study
Scientists say discovery may be linked to decades-long decline in sperm counts in men around the world"
Does brand loyalty really mean anything when all brands are owned by some multinational corporation or holding company, and driving profits up to please shareholders is their primary goal, usually at the expense of quality? :/
I only lurk on #Reddit without an account - anybody want to tell this person the right address to contact? It's actually MassDOT, so they need to email MassDOTMaffaMystic@dot.state.ma.us as this traffic change was part of the Mystic /Maffa bridge project.
@inliuofjoan the 311 should generally be able to figure that out, and I think e-mailing the mayor should be the next option if a city's 311 system doesn't work right. Governors and state DOTs are of course a whole other level of buck-passing that shouldn't be necessary or tolerated, IMO. As for turning left with a car, well, I hope the reply is don't.
The contrast with failed #VisionZero plans like #Portland's seems pretty basic: "They said: 'You as provider of the road transport system are no longer allowed to kill people on that mass level that you've done'
#VisionZero has worked when the adopted plan actually mandated changes to infrastructure instead of wishes for "safety funding". Here, we let people keep driving after they participate in the city/state killing someone with their car, because "we all need to drive." If we're going to hold drivers accountable, we need to make it easy & convenient to get to and from the bar without driving, make infrastructure where bad driving will break the vehicle, require drivers actually learn how to drive.
NIMBYs will complain about "human feces" in places where they personally opposed public restrooms because homeless people might use them, and then really just let their dog crap wherever
@EverydayMoggie@Andres4NY yeah the rim would likely need to be laced into a new hub and moved to a new bike, unless there's a suspension fork retrofit in this bike's future.
Cars work a lot better when there are fewer of them on the road, so maybe forcing everyone to drive, thus clogging up roads, is actually the best way to make them worse. :P
@tk what's important to them is not that customers are happy, but that they don't have a choice but to drive. Car brands try to sell status and comfort to differentiate themselves, but there's never a question as to whether you need a car.
This whole thread is 🤯. I’ve never seen anyone with a generalized view of my opinions on most productivity software.
Comtact and calendar apps are just shoddy transcriptions of how we managed that info on paper. They’ve not only barely changed since they were first ported over — they I’ve barely changed since a century before that.
We are held back by the representations of the work we are doing.
@lkanies we're held back more by the market's obsession with captive customers and monetized users than anything inherent to the medium. Clumsy efforts to compete with paper (e.g. stylus) or even revolutionize the calendar concept are bounded by hardware and inoperable software. The infinite number of infinite pages can also be folded, cut and stitched together, jump to specific snapshots or filtered views. It's completely unlike paper except you can print it, but then that's an export, so...
To all the supporters of universal basic income out there, what happened to make you support it even more after you already came to support it?
For me it was learning the many dirty details of traditional welfare benefits and how programs like TANF are designed and treat people, and how many people in need they don't help.
@scottsantens unemployment "insurance" requiring people to continually apply for jobs as a condition of payout, besides self-employment disqualifying you from collecting while also not counting towards future coverage. Muddles the job market with extra low-effort applications, automated filtering, nobody reading cover letters, etc. Plus dealing with an underfunded govt bureaucracy. You still have to pay income tax on it anyway, just give everyone money and handle the rest as taxes!
