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- Comment on Valid point 2 days ago:
I don’t think it ever left… Its not popular with Gen Z that’s for sure but I love my side parting! Give it a go for her.
- Comment on Valid point 2 days ago:
Well yeah, gotta have a nice purse, its too useful, didn’t mean it as a separate thing just that apparently crossbodies are apparently a very millennial thing…
- Comment on Valid point 2 days ago:
I thought it was crossbody bags and side partings that gave us away?
- Comment on ‘I felt my spine and body split’: the woman who was hit by a child on a Lime bike – and denied compensation 3 days ago:
Thats more what i mean, even the lime ones are absurdly fast, not like a lightly assisted e-bike
- Comment on ‘I felt my spine and body split’: the woman who was hit by a child on a Lime bike – and denied compensation 3 days ago:
I don’t really agree - theft prevention is one thing but I’d argue that if they have permission to rent their bikes out in unmanned public space locations then they have a duty of care to the population of that area to make sure their bikes are not mis-used.
Your point about personal e-bikes isn’t really directly equivalent simply because of the additional expense involved - if you send a lot of money on one then you are less likely to be quite so irresponsible. The financial punishment for misuing a Lime bike is negligible.
Honestly I want to see significantly more regulation surrounding these things in general. They are becoming a real issue.
- Comment on ‘I felt my spine and body split’: the woman who was hit by a child on a Lime bike – and denied compensation 3 days ago:
I think the argument here is out of negligence on Lime’s part as they aren’t the manufacturer, they rent these to people. Like why does the bike even work if not part of an ‘active ride’? Surely it should be locked down and the electric motor shouldn’t work, making sure that you can be more certain that you always have the details of the renter for insurance reasons exactly for this kind of incident.
There are a lot of things that I think need more regulation for these things, I nearly had somebody hit me the other day on a pedestrian crossing and had similar situations with hired electric scooters in the past. Things like:
- powered riding should not be possible if the renter (having provided ID etc.) is not present - some kind of phone proximity or re-verification after a period of inactivity
- the excessive weight and speed of these bikes is really dangerous given how often they are used by inexperienced riders who ride on the pavement with pedestrians and not on the roads. Being hit by an idiot on a rented pedal bike is one thing, this is quite another thing
- a speed/power limit is already activated in certain areas, they should also detect (by front facing camera or something) if the bike is being ridden off the road, to reduce the impact of collisions
I can’t blame her for trying to go after Lime, what else is she meant to do seeing as the kid disappeared? She suffered really quite awful injuries. Had Lime had mechanisms in place to prevent unauthorised riders or limit speed and power then this wouldnt have happened. Yes we can blame lack of regulation but I don’t think that should absolve them of their responsibilities.
- Comment on The Old Car Summertime Struggle 3 days ago:
2003 1.2 Vauxhall Corsa (which I still own!), yeah had to hit that boost button, god it was slow with aircon on.
- Comment on Fingies 5 days ago:
I think thats taking what they said a bit too literally, both the knowledge they do have and the tone makes it pretty clear to me that they know what they are saying but are using it for humerous (heh) exaggeration and effect.
- Comment on Why are there so many more mtf trans vs ftm trans people?? 1 week ago:
Online skews things a lot. Often due to how they are raised in childhood you might find more trans women online as being terminally online was more socially acceptable and the norm with their, at the time, peers. Also you tend to find a lot of trans women seeking community to be themselves before coming out whilst trans men are often able to explore their gender more in person so the idea of presenting as the ‘opposite’ gender before or at the start of socially transitioning means trans men might not be seeking that extra level of community and support - there are generally less things to learn from scratch.
- Comment on Why are there so many more mtf trans vs ftm trans people?? 1 week ago:
Its tricky to say when it comes to that. How do you tell if neurodiversity results in more likely to be trans vs neurodivergent people are more likely to break the taboo and are more likely to come out vs remain closeted? (Which is a feasible thought if there is actually a meaningful disparity and the way that autism can present in childhood?).
Either way its a really dangerous subject because it already gets vastly misused to claim that gender affiming care is abuse of ND (mainly autistic) people - simultaneously removing their own agency and treating them as simpletons who don’t know what they are as well as indicating that trans people don’t really exist because its all some kind of delusion from being autistic.
The more interesting statistic I saw was prevelance of gender diverse people with EDS - up to 17% (eds.clinic/…/transgender-and-non-binary-identitie…) but could actually in theory skew numbers towards more trans men… Its all a bit wooly unfortunately.
- Comment on Yeet 1 month ago:
In one direction sure, not on the z axis
- Comment on Charlie Kirk commemorative PEZ dispenser 2 months ago:
Well we know Ben Shapiro hasn’t
- Comment on Some of you are too young to know what this is 2 months ago:
Never understood the point in this. When you flipped the DVD to the other side to play the other half it naturally rewound the first side. Such a scam.
- Comment on phonetic alphabet 2 months ago:
I think we need to be more consistent with it, time to drop the ‘p’ sound from helicopter as per its roots.
- Comment on Most of plant based leather uses a lot of polyurethane 2 months ago:
My point was more that harmful chemicals in the sense of chromium salts etc. aren’t present in veg tan which, for the most part, is boiling it in a load of tree bark.
- Comment on Most of plant based leather uses a lot of polyurethane 2 months ago:
I do hobby-level leatherworking and I’m all here for real non-animal leathers but yeah, basically all of them, cactus, mango, pineapple leaf etc. all just get put on a PU backing…
I got excited for cork leather at one point but turns out that is also either PU backed or fabric backed (which is better but doesn’t really work as a direct replacement for leather, especially structurally).
There are a few I’m more excited for and I would love to get hold of but they still seem either experimental or used directly by the makers for their own finished products. Most are fungus based, so one is SCOBY leather, basically the big blob of microorganisms used to make kombucha can be grown in big flat sheets, dried and treated to make a leathery material but I’ve not seen many applications of it yet…
But mushroom/mycelial leather is the one I’m most hopeful for. Not only do some of them look like real leather but the random ‘grain’ of the mycelium has the potential to ape the natural fibrous grain of leather that gives it its strength. That is the one I’m really excited for.
- Comment on Most of plant based leather uses a lot of polyurethane 2 months ago:
And veg tan? I try not to use chrome tan in stuff I make for both environmental reasons and the fact its a pain to work with but we have been veg tanning for thousands of years.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I think so? I think ours used UniVerse whixh used UniBasic and UniQuery. I never had to use it in anger, I was mostly focused on supporting a different thing written in VB6…
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I worked for a company that still supports a critical healthcare system that runs on Rocket U2 on AIX which is an evolution of PICK.
- Comment on Biological Women 3 months ago:
I dunno, referring to somebody as a “total weapon” is very valid here
- Comment on What was your social media path? 4 months ago:
MSN messenger Independent forums (like Invisonfree) Bebo Facebook Reddit Discord Matrix Lemmy Instagram (originally just for a friend to sell me stuff but I now have some more friends and communities on this) Tiktok (only used for a friend to send me things she likes)
- Comment on 3-bean soup 8 months ago:
Fair enough, more of a misuse as the word has kind evolved away from its original meaning.
- Comment on 3-bean soup 8 months ago:
Its not mistranslated, its caffe latte but the caffe part is cut off for brevity when ordering at a coffee shop.
- Comment on 3-bean soup 8 months ago:
Coffee
- Comment on Everyone has a phase 8 months ago:
Nah its Daniel Day-Lewis
- Comment on 8 months ago:
Then use the provided scanning handset! Both are provided, just depends what you prefer.
- Comment on 8 months ago:
This is why self scan is my favourite. Just scan stuff on your phone as you walk around, pack your bags ahead of time and the only time the staff need to get involved is age checking alcohol or painkillers, if there is some problem you had scanning something or if you get a random rescan request (which is admittedly horrible as it makes you feel like a criminal when they find the one item that didnt scan right). So much easier and faster than any of the other methods.
- Comment on Stellar job 8 months ago:
Made worse if you know the traditional divisions of Sussex that predate the Norman Conquest.
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 9 months ago:
Its more often rhinoviruses rather than coronaviruses or other families
- Comment on Members of far-right party organising asylum hotel protests across UK, Facebook posts show 10 months ago:
I bet the tattoo to teeth ratio is particularly high in that lot