spidermanchild

@spidermanchild@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will COVID death rates of Republicans have a significant impact on the outcome of the presidential election?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m too lazy to look this up, but I believe death rates were higher out of cities vs in cities. Half the reason hospitals were packed in cities is because rural people went where the ventilators were. Everywhere had all the covid waves, they just hit cities first.

  Elderly tend to be more R, and D folks were more likely to mask and vaccinate. But elderly vaccinated pretty well across the board and the divide was bigger in the young. Lots of factors, but my money is on D making out slightly better as a broad cohort. Tragic all around though.

  Ok I did some searching and excess mortality points to higher rural impact, but official cause of death data is mixed (too lazy to link though).

  …upenn.edu/…/penn-sas-comparing-urban-and-rural-e…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon rides a bike⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re going to do great. Keep the seat low and push with your feet to get the feel of coasting, just like kids learn. Small steps and you’ll be riding in no time. Depending on where you live, see if there are community bike groups you can volunteer at - these are great for learning about bike maintenance, and some places will let you build a bike for yourself from donated stuff for your time. Bike shops are pretty much universally supportive too.

  For what it’s worth, I think you already did the hard part by coming here and expressing interest :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon rides a bike⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Spoilet alert: someone fucked up on a colossal scale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else feel like fireworks are a complete waste of money and a ridiculous amount of unnecessary Pollution?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m the opposite, I think a proper show with professional fireworks is super fun but clowns setting off tiny loud POS fireworks randomly over the course of several hours are just annoying. They don’t have the boom boom, they don’t make much light, and people just set them off in residential areas near kids/dogs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pros / cons of riding a bike?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What kind of ice are you riding on? Snow, even packed snow it usually ok, but turning/braking on ice is a disaster without studded tires. Source - I’ve crashed on ice several times despite being a very competent rider in all conditions for 3 decades.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are we just going to ignore the millions of acres of vast grasslands that supported like 50 million buffalo in the US 200 year ago? Healthy grassland ecosystems and ruminants are a thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The real issue is one of attribution. “Traced to” isn’t the same as “responsible for”. I have a hard time blaming Saudi Aramco for massive volume of oil consumption in the US. Yes the oil companies are eco terrorists too but the binary take is absurd.