JayDee
@JayDee@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Don't Let Your Thoughts Wander 10 hours ago:
I have a custom keyb BTW. Image I use Dvorak BTW. My times are all set to UTC btw. Did I mention I boulder? Did I menti
- Comment on Physics 1 week ago:
I personally lean towards “we’ve done all this work and it’s incredibly scary that modern observations actually tell us all the work we’ve put in is actually wrong and we have to create brand new formulas again.”
- Comment on Anon hates aluminum 1 week ago:
Only for the best submarines.
- Comment on Anon hates aluminum 1 week ago:
The true tossup is actually mercury or lead.
Both insanely useful metals with a massive variety of helpful traits.
And the universe made them poisonous to us as a big “FUCK YOU”.
- Comment on null 3 weeks ago:
Optimist take: Because there is none! (whoo)
- Comment on shoot for the moon 1 month ago:
Turkey at distance is the proper measure here. That’s a Turkey at I’d reckon 10 football fields.
- Comment on Peak technology 1 month ago:
For those who don’t know, Wendigoon is a creepy lore youtuber.
He’s also sometimes been acredited with creating the aesthetic of the boogaloo boys, not sure how true that is.
As far as I’ve heard, his videos are fairly consistent with documentation of the events he covers, such as the unibomber, the MLK assassination, etc.
It’s very funny to think he wasn’t radicalized before the printer situation.
- Comment on Physics 1 month ago:
- Comment on Anon ponders modern magic 3 months ago:
Sure, Silicon works as a cheap base. Boron, phosphorus, arsenic and antimony are also used in the process, though. Other elements are also finding use in the process.
There is also a minor step in the middle. When scribing process is happening, the other elements are embedded into or deposited onto the substrate between ‘scribings’.
- Comment on Excuse me, René 3 months ago:
I won’t argue with you; I am unequivocally a moron.
- Comment on Excuse me, René 3 months ago:
Philosophy is the soil from which science has always sprouted. Without philosophy, much of modern society would not come about.
- Comment on Excuse me, René 3 months ago:
I won’t argue with you till you put some pants on.
- Comment on Anon likes bikes 4 months ago:
That’s fair, but I wish you luck in your town Hall meetings and marchs. Local change is always the fastest.
- Comment on Anon likes bikes 4 months ago:
I think you’ve misenterpretted these convos. I am not blaming those people for not riding a bike, I literally pointed out the amount of effort and time needed to make their cities more walkable. That’s not coming from a place of judgment, I’m just disseminating information I’ve gathered over time.
The post explicitly states “if entire cities were designed around [bikes] the way they are with cars, everyone would be fine with it”, and I think it’s important to keep that in mind.
The top of this comment thread states bikes don’t protect you from the cold, among other things. The following comment says just to wear a jacket. There’s a reply stating the guy saying ‘wear a jacket’ hasn’t lived in cold climate. I then chimed in stating that in-fact, you just need the proper layers to bike in winter.
All of that above is one convo going on parallel to the other.
During this, the original comment also says bikes don’t get you anywhere. The second person points out that the original commenter must live in the middle of nowhere, away from anywhere important. That’s why I stated I don’t think the comment was criticism. I think its just observation.
The reason someone can be in the situation is because A) they live rurally, which is a minority of people globally - or B) they live in/near a car-centric city. I detail the work they’d need to do to change that, and they changes they would have to allow. That isn’t blaming them, it’s giving a roadmap.
- Comment on Anon likes bikes 4 months ago:
Not sure what you’re meaning by “… blaming the victims of car-centric city designs.” Is this going back to the comment before saying it’s a “weird thing to criticise someone for.”
Since you didn’t quote a portion of my comment, I have no idea which portion you are saying is blaming people for car-centric city design.
- Comment on Anon likes bikes 4 months ago:
Start yelling at your city legislators then. Force them to change how the city zones so things are closer together. It will take a couple decades of work, but you have to be apart of that change for it to happen.
- Comment on Anon likes bikes 4 months ago:
Living on the border with Canada, I tell you now that I bike during the winter. It is in fact as simple as wearing the right layers. Even some of the coldest regions in the world have bike commuting.
I don’t think the second part is a criticism. It’s pointing out that you live in a place who’s infrastructure has been completely fucked by car-centrism. Were it designed with walking, biking, or even just public transit of any kind as a priority, the distance between points would actually be short (public transit benefits from shorter distance between stops by having shorter routes Which cuts fuel and maintenance costs).
In order for cities to have changes in their structure, mixed-use zoning needs to be allowed, along with various other reforms to current infrastructure law - laws which disinsentivise driving (car-centric people label it as ‘punishment’ when it’s more just revokal of massive amounts of privilege. It takes several decades, but overtime city footprints would shrink and become much more walkable - and safer - and more quiet.
- Comment on Anon likes bikes 4 months ago:
Yeat, rural areas will pretty much always need cars or something similar - not just for traversing the massive gaps between places, but also because most rural homes are their own logistics for most things.
It also doesn’t help that this conversation itself is a pretty America-centric one. In the US and Canada, dense urbanism does not exist outside of major cities. NotJustBikes on YouTube has many videos talking about just how car-centric and space-inefficient it is here.
- Comment on Anon likes bikes 4 months ago:
- kryptonite U-lock.
- locking skewers for the tires, gears, seat and handle bars.
- an ugly color
At this point, they’ll need an angle grinder to get anything valuable off the bike. It’s more expensive but so long its not the standard of ever biker, bike thieves’ll target easier bikes to steal off.