ilinamorato
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- Comment on California is debating whether or not to remove the bike lane on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. During the public hearing, a politician was driving his car 1 day ago:
Yeah, the more I think about it, the less I think they should get rid of the lane. If anyone at all relies on it, it’s worth the lane.
- Comment on California is debating whether or not to remove the bike lane on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. During the public hearing, a politician was driving his car 2 days ago:
That is incredibly frustrating.
- Comment on California is debating whether or not to remove the bike lane on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. During the public hearing, a politician was driving his car 2 days ago:
Five miles. Dang, I hadn’t processed that. Even at highway speeds, that bridge would take more than five minutes to cross; if you’re a strong cyclist, you could do it in, what, 30 minutes?
Still, you’re right. The next closest way for a bike to get around would be something like 20+ miles out of your way in one direction or the other, it looks like. So it would turn any hour-long errands you might be able to run by bicycle into day trips of 4-8 hours.
I dunno. Tough choice.
- Comment on California is debating whether or not to remove the bike lane on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. During the public hearing, a politician was driving his car 2 days ago:
America-good, not Europe-good.
- Comment on California is debating whether or not to remove the bike lane on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. During the public hearing, a politician was driving his car 3 days ago:
I believe the Bay Area has pretty good transit, but I don’t know the specifics at this location. The bus is probably more theoretically efficient, but I would wonder about usage in this case. I believe it’s slightly too suburban for light rail.
- Comment on California is debating whether or not to remove the bike lane on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. During the public hearing, a politician was driving his car 3 days ago:
It’s a well-known fallacy in urbanism that bike lanes “see almost zero use.” Bikes have much less visual weight than a car, so one driver in a lane will look like a lane being used while one bicyclist in a lane will look like the same lane being “half-used.” In addition, bike lanes are much more efficient at keeping travelers moving at a constant rate so that they don’t bunch up, meaning that a busy road with backed-up traffic will look like it’s getting more use when what’s actually happening is that the bike lane is just moving travelers more efficiently.
Furthermore, the “induced demand” phenomenon means that adding capacity actually doesn’t reduce traffic, at least not in the long term. We have decades of data proving it. The amount of cars that the lane can accommodate will invariably be taken up by people taking that route who had previously taken a different route. The only way to reduce traffic for a given route is to either create more routes or remove traffic from the road. Bike lanes do both.
In reality, for most routes, if you compare the number of people being moved on the bike lane, you’ll often find that it equals or even exceeds the number of people being moved on the car lane immediately adjacent to it. More importantly, they also tend to reduce the number of drivers on the same route and nearby routes as they encourage travelers who would ordinarily be afraid of biking to ditch the car.
I can’t speak to that specific bike lane, of course, but in general the argument that “it’s not doing anything!” is a fallacy, and replacing the bike lane with a motor vehicle travel lane would almost certainly result in worse traffic, not better.
- Comment on Periodic reminder to get your library cards and fill out museum surveys. 1 week ago:
I hope so, but it’s such a lame one. Just incoherent. Maybe someone prompted an AI to post troll comments, and it’s just doin’ its best.
- Comment on Periodic reminder to get your library cards and fill out museum surveys. 1 week ago:
there could be a little bit of bias involved
Absolutely. Even putting aside the possibilities for regional and temporal bias, they’re a literary society; they’re quite likely to strongly play up some minor noise in both directions–either to paint themselves as a dying breed in need of saving, or as an ascendant force worth watching. They’re very unlikely to have no opinion one way or the other.
Interesting that Pratchett sold well but Adams didn’t. I can kind of see Martin, since that was right after the TV show shambled to a halt ignobly, but Pratchett and Adams feel like they’re cut from the same cloth, particularly as far as people who would enjoy their work go. Maybe there was a bump associated with the Good Omens show?
Anyway. I appreciate your gracefulness. I try intentionally to not be that kind of guy online, so it stung particularly because I felt like I was betraying myself. Don’t get on social media on a bad day, kids.
- Comment on Periodic reminder to get your library cards and fill out museum surveys. 1 week ago:
Same. I think sales figures for new works could provide a partial picture, but not anything definitive. The only thing I found in my short research (I like doing big research binges, but don’t have time for it today) was this article, which is far from a mic-drop but it sure is interesting.
I just like to discuss things.
Same. Sorry for jumping down your throat earlier. I assumed a tone of you that you weren’t using.
- Comment on Periodic reminder to get your library cards and fill out museum surveys. 1 week ago:
So I’m just… politely disagreeing with you.
Honestly…this is the first time in a decade or more that I’ve actually believed anyone online who said something like that. Hey, you’re cool. I like this sort of disagreement.
Anyway, that’s the way I see it and unless we get facts on the table from somewhere, I don’t see how we could agree in this.
“We face each other as God intended. Sportsmanlike. No bad faith arguments, no logical fallacies…fact against fact alone.”
“You mean…you’ll put down your anecdotal data and I’ll put down my cherry-picked personal experiences and we’ll try and convince each other of our points like civilized people?”
- Comment on Periodic reminder to get your library cards and fill out museum surveys. 1 week ago:
I know that some people value physical media. But most don’t. Most people value convenience.
I’m not talking about “everyone in the world,” I’m talking about “more people than ten years ago.”
I recognize that the internet is allergic to context and nuance, but seriously.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yeah, I mean, it’s not the end of the world if the coverage doesn’t happen, but it still sucks for the people who are still there. It would be nice to not have to deal with that, and ADP has the ability to help but chooses not to.
- Comment on Periodic reminder to get your library cards and fill out museum surveys. 1 week ago:
Walk into any music store. Or bookstore. Or a Half Price Books, which sells both. People are sick of paying for the capricious hands of streaming to tell them what they’re allowed to watch or read or listen to on any given day.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Easy to say if you’re not the one burning. I’ve been there.
- Comment on Periodic reminder to get your library cards and fill out museum surveys. 1 week ago:
I refuse to believe that this is not a really weak troll.
- Comment on Periodic reminder to get your library cards and fill out museum surveys. 1 week ago:
Physical media is coming back because owning is better than licensing.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
You still need to know who isn’t going to be there so that you can get coverage for the absence and such.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
My first reaction wasn’t, “Oh, the manager is trying to decide whether or not to grant it,” but rather “oh, the manager needs to put it into a calendar and find coverage and they can’t if there’s no name attached.” Super frustrating, especially if you end up asking the requestor to cover their own PTO because you don’t know who it is.
- Comment on Substack’s “Nazi problem” won’t go away after push notification apology 2 weeks ago:
Substack is an email newsletter platform that supports paid subscriptions. They were exposed a few years ago as allowing Nazis to host their newsletters and make money on their platform; when this became public, the people in charge at Substack said they would not stop allowing Nazis to use the platform, including to be paid for making Nazi content.
This week, they sent out push notifications that actively recommended Nazi content to users.
- Comment on Tetris Elements – one of the strangest Tetrises ever released 2 weeks ago:
Sounds awesome. Does anyone know where I could find a decomp?
- Comment on US education 2 weeks ago:
We briefly homeschooled during the pandemic, and like you we’re non-conservative Christians. When our Christian friends asked about our curriculum, they always wrinkled their noses at the fact that it said “secular curriculum” on the cover. We told them, “you don’t understand how weird the home school curriculum business is. Trust me, it’s way easier to take this curriculum and add the values we want to impart than to take all the Christian nationalism out of the religious curriculum.”
- Comment on Which of theses games should i play? 2 weeks ago:
Bedrock Edition is fine. It’s basically at feature parity with Java now. The mod scene is almost non-existent, but for vanilla it’s fine. If that’s where your friends are playing, you’ll have a great time.
- Comment on kingdom come 3 weeks ago:
I only have the most pedestrian understanding of the IPA from a single class in college (which was a long time ago), so I’ll admit I just grabbed the IPA for “fruit,” “vegetable,” and “fudge” to bridge between the two. It looks good enough to my eyes to be at least reasonable.
- Comment on kingdom come 3 weeks ago:
Ah, once again, nature refuses to be easily categorized! Thanks.
- Comment on kingdom come 3 weeks ago:
The culinary classifications have no scientific basis, but they do have an anthropological basis. They’re not completely meaningless.
Who is “we”?
I was basing that on a misunderstanding: I thought that the word “vegetation” being an archaic term meant that it was no longer used, but yeah, I was incorrect there. I appreciate the correction.
- Comment on kingdom come 3 weeks ago:
I am actually…kind of just like this at parties. So, you be the judge.
- Comment on kingdom come 3 weeks ago:
Excellent to hear. That’s what I was hoping for!
- Comment on kingdom come 3 weeks ago:
I’m so glad that this problem isn’t just limited to English.
- Comment on kingdom come 3 weeks ago:
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.
A properly grown tomato absolutely can be so flavorful, sweet, tangy, varied, complex… that you could just eat it like an apple.
I am sad to say that, although I’ve heard of this, I have never had the pleasure of eating such a tomato.
Finally, to throw more insanity on this terminology dumpster fire…
Corn.
As a native son of Indiana, I have to say that’s the thing that breaks pretty much all of my categories. I lived the first twenty years of my life thinking that it qualified nutritionally (ugh, that’s another part of this terminology dumpster fire…the food pyramid. shudder) as a vegetable, which it…doesn’t really.
So… ketchup… is then roughly a tomato/corn smoothie, made primarily from two… frui-getables.
Great point. “Tomato smoothie” is already a term that makes me feel a little bit queasy, but adding in the corn…
Fruigetable.
Beautiful. fɹud͡ʒ.tə.bəl, I think, incidentally.
- Comment on kingdom come 3 weeks ago:
Oh dang, I hadn’t even considered that! I wonder if that’s the same across all fruits we tend to eat raw.