Showroom7561
@Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Driver stops in the middle of a cross ride, and starts using her phone. 14 hours ago:
They are all over here, specifically at crossings that join MUPs (Multi Use Paths).
But they have made some areas more dangerous because of drivers who don’t stop behind the line. A pedestrian walking slowly might not be hit, but a cyclist going bike speed is at far greater risk of “not being seeing”.
- Comment on Driver stops in the middle of a cross ride, and starts using her phone. 14 hours ago:
be PREDICTABLE
This is why I strongly support banning on-street parking. Cars that randomly park on the side of the road, big, small, tall, some too far out, some blocking signs, some creating blind spots… they just create unpredictability and randomness for other road users.
- Comment on Driver stops in the middle of a cross ride, and starts using her phone. 1 day ago:
… someone stopped in the roundabout to let a car in.
I wish more people realized how dangerous some nice acts can be.
I’ve been in plenty of situations where someone might wave me on in situations where it really isn’t appropriate or safe, so I have to basically yell at them to continue.
The last thing I want is for a driver with good intentions to be rear ended, and me getting hit. Three people’s day would be ruined, at the very least.
- Comment on Driver stops in the middle of a cross ride, and starts using her phone. 1 day ago:
I turned around and gave him the “what the fuck” hands and gestured at the stop sign, and this mother fucker looked at me like I fucked up.
Not long ago, I was going through an intersection on a green… from one bike lane, continuing into the other on the other side of the intersection.
While I had a green, a driver making a left nearly ran into me, honked and did the same “what the fuck are you doing” to me.
It’s pretty amazing that we don’t hear of crashes every minute of the day, because some people quite literally have no idea what the hell they are doing.
- Comment on Driver stops in the middle of a cross ride, and starts using her phone. 1 day ago:
Yes, maybe they didn’t know cross rides were a thing, were fatigued and forgot, etc.
This is why people get killed, unfortunately. We had a teenager, riding through a cross ride, and was killed by a driver who didn’t stop behind the line late last year. I visited the spot, and even with a goddamn shrine set up under the stop sign, drivers were still not stopping. I was disappointed, and furious by this lack of care.
- Comment on Driver stops in the middle of a cross ride, and starts using her phone. 1 day ago:
I value my bikes far too much, but in my head, I would love to! LOL
- Comment on Driver stops in the middle of a cross ride, and starts using her phone. 1 day ago:
My ride yesterday was about 5 hours, across 7 municipalities, and over 130km.
I can say with confidence that there were at least a dozen close calls at intersections and cross rides, specifically because drivers aren’t paying attention.
I had one lady “stop”, and then crawl into the crossing, while looking only to her left (I was coming from her right). I had to stop and ring my bell before she even realized that I was there.
Many, MANY people making turns without checking for pedestrians and cyclists crossing.
And not stopping behind the line happened more times than I can count.
I’ve witnessed a few times people actually driving onto bike paths! Not just bike lanes, but fucking paths, like ones that go through parks and forests! Just clueless about what they’re doing.
- Comment on Driver stops in the middle of a cross ride, and starts using her phone. 1 day ago:
Maybe they didn’t know.
Didn’t know what? The traffic rules?
Our local police do squat about traffic violations, unfortunately, unless they are present when the infraction occurs. I’ve got a video of this entire thing, she was in the cross ride for at least 17 seconds. And I’m sure she was on her phone for more than just this encounter.
This kind of lack of awareness is why we have so many pedestrian and cyclist deaths in places designed to be “safe” for cyclists and pedestrians!
- Comment on Driver stops in the middle of a cross ride, and starts using her phone. 1 day ago:
Is a cross ride like a crosswalk but for bikes or something?
Yes, you can ride through with your bike. Notice the two green lights above her, those are bike symbols, indicating that I have the right of way to cross. She needed to STOP behind the line, and also not be on her phone (illegal).
- Submitted 1 day ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 70 comments
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 1 week ago:
Air-fried oatmeal, FTW!
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 1 week ago:
In a quite unexpected turn of events, it is claimed that OpenAI’s ChatGPT “got absolutely wrecked on the beginner level” while playing Atari Chess.
Who the hell thought this was “unexpected”?
What’s next? ChatGPT vs. Microwave to see which can make instant oatmeal the fastest? 😂
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 1 week ago:
Not pictured the 5000lbs of watermelons, the 2500lbs of onions (those will last a lot longer).
That’s brutal. This time of the year has festivals pretty much every weekend for the next few months, so can these be donated to those events, so that it doesn’t go to waste?
- Comment on I guess they hate shoppers (context below) 1 week ago:
Have you ever seen a person with a disability who uses a walker or wheelchair try to drop down from a tall curb?
Regardless of who’s liable, they don’t want to get hurt doing something completely unnecessary.
I’m acting like the company shouldn’t be assholes, and use the abundance of space along the rest of the front face of that building.
- Comment on I guess they hate shoppers (context below) 1 week ago:
Idk what a skid is
It might also be called a pallet where you live. It’s that large, heavy, wooden blue thing at the end of those racks. It doesn’t slide, so you need a forklift or hand-pump lift to move it.
I mean, I have no problem moving shit that’s in store aisles to get to the shelves, but there’s too much liability here for me to move large plant racks, even if it was easy.
- Comment on I guess they hate shoppers (context below) 1 week ago:
And just push the skid out of the way, too? 😵
- Comment on I guess they hate shoppers (context below) 1 week ago:
Work without pay? This store is playing the long game! LOL
- Comment on I guess they hate shoppers (context below) 1 week ago:
Again, I and most literally couldn’t care less if they have to spend 3ft in low speed parking lot traffic like every other person.
There is no curb cut for someone with a wheelchair, mobility device, walker, stroller, shopping cart, or hand trolly to even do that. 🙄
- Comment on I guess they hate shoppers (context below) 1 week ago:
They have a lot of space to work with, but chose to pile everything in the section right before the door.
And there are no curb cuts in front of the store, only at the entrance past this gauntlet, so someone in a wheelchair would be SOL.
- Submitted 1 week ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 68 comments
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 1 week ago:
Pirates are winning over my empathy.
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 2 weeks ago:
I use a case. And every phone I’ve owned over the last 15+ years has looked like new years after buying them.
Not only do they keep their value (if sold), but if given as a hand-me-down, they are “like new”.
Worth it, IMO.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 2 weeks ago:
but you can only transfer photos compressed to 2MB jpeg.
I don’t own a Nikon camera, but my Sony, Canon, and Panasonic camera apps allow you to set the size of the transferred photo to “original”, and they do default to something smaller, so I always change it first.
Do you have that option?
- Comment on Received an official government letter dated nearly two months ago... 2 weeks ago:
This is with the federal government, so I think they’d be understanding.
But I’ve read stories during past postal strikes where municipalities made it clear that bills, fines, tickets, etc. MUST be paid, regardless of whether the mail is being delivered or not. No mercy! LOL
Then you have banks, that do maintenance at night, when I have time to actually catch up on bills and stuff, and insist that you do everything online. It’s like these people don’t even use their own products/services/systems.
- Comment on Received an official government letter dated nearly two months ago... 2 weeks ago:
That’s almost as bad as getting a tracking number with a “Your item has shipped!” email, days after you already received the item. Thanks, no thanks!
- Comment on Received an official government letter dated nearly two months ago... 2 weeks ago:
Is the postage dated? Like when the letter was actually processed by the mail service?
The letter is dated from March, but the printed stamp on the envelope is from a few days ago. LOL
Also does the text say ‘within 10 days of receipt’? No, word for word:
“You are required to inform us within 10 days, at the above address if you change your address or Bank Account Number.” etc…
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 10 comments
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t want any of my business being shared with Google, including the fact that I use Canon products. It’s just yet another data point for them to weaponize via targeted ads and data brokering.
And simply opening Chrome means that a data siphon to Google was just opened, so telemetry data would have been collected immediately.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 2 weeks ago:
Firefox doesn’t support WebUSB, Web Bluetooth and several other integrations, so applications that need to connect to other devices need some kind of Chrome application.
If those features in the browser were needed, I could be a little less infuriated (they didn’t have to break previously working features, though).
However, Chrome was needed only to sign up and log in. Once that was done, I was able to disable chrome, and the app continued to work after restarting it.
Why they couldn’t implement a log in directly in the app, or use the device webview api, is beyond me.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 2 weeks ago:
It actually wanted the chrome app to be enabled and only opens the chrome app for the sign up/log in process.
So a user agent switch wouldn’t have helped in this case.
