dbilitated

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

to be honest, as a rider, i always blame myself if i'm in a position to be hit by a car.

you really have to assume everyone is going to do the wrong thing and ride accordingly. it doesn't matter if someone wasn't supposed to do something, someone will eventually fail to see you and you've got to plan for it. I've had near misses but no accidents - and every near miss was a good lesson in what to look for in future. on a bike road rules are nice to know but you have to monitor everything for threats and make sure you're always in a safe position. if you ride in someone's blind spot you're actively putting yourself in danger.

having said that, the op comment is an asshole. YES obviously car drivers should be more aware. what the fuck? if you're obliviously running people off the road you don't blame them, good lord what a fucking psycho.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

I posted this a while ago - it's about the olympics but I think a lot of the conclusions are relevant. Personally I back the logic of a known loss now, rather that doubling down and facing an uncertain and likely worse loss during an already difficult time.

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/economics-hosting-olympic-games

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

always. but saying "oh there's all these developments and they're all vapor" - i get sick of armchair experts telling everyone they know better every time on-the-horizon announcements come out. I get not all of them ever get produced, but by current phone has 10 times the battery capacity of my first one, and the quick charge really does give me something like an 80% charge in 15 minutes or so.

some of these claims are pretty out there but development keeps going and by the time something with high levels of performance is in your car these guys will be smugly crapping on something else to assert nerd authority. i guess it's just a social niche thing and nothing about batteries 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I switched back to Spotify after google music disappeared.

too much crossover between random youtube videos and actual high quality music

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago (3 children)

honestly though batteries have improved a lot

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

wonder how many human cab drivers crashed this weekend, and what the comparative rate is.

not saying this is a bad move, just curious

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I'm also sort of sick of talking about the politics of social media, I'd rather use social media to talk about other more interesting things

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I do miss some of the more specialist communities on reddit but honestly this is great for just scrolling stuff, and it's completely replaced reddit for that.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

not sure if you're joking but I can see the url is wrong.. .ee on the end, not .me

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I'm actually cool with that. have a big dataset? charge a fee to use it for training

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

happily she's on the wrong side of most issues so it's easy to have both

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