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I agree. I live in a city and cycling for sport in the city sucks, regardless of whether there are bike lanes or not. There are too many traffic lights and traffic gets in the way. The good cycling spots are outside the city like you said and bike lanes are great to get out of the city and to those spots. Plus, I’d wager most people who cycle for sport also do a lot of other trips by bike too.

I also just want my loved ones to be able to get from point A to point B safely. That’s way more important than my sport.

As a middle aged man in lycra who enjoys riding road bikes fast for sport and is comfortable riding in traffic: That Forester guy sounds like a dick. One of the things that makes bikes so cool is that they come in all kinds of different shapes and sizes, optimised for different use cases. Road bikes are cool, but so are mountain bikes, cargo bikes, fixed gear bikes, dutch style upright bikes, etc. And even if countless near death experiences while cycling around cars have made me feel comfortable (or complacent?) riding in traffic, I still appreciate good cycling infrastructure. People deserve to be safe and every trip taken by bike instead of by car is a win.

Also, I refuse to ignore this in any conversation about Counter Strike, it is fucked up.

Honestly, that’s fair. Valve gets a lot of good will for making good games, but the fact that they happily allow Counter-Strike to enable what’s essentially a casino for kids has got to be one of the most scummy things in video game monetisation.

Ignoring all the monetisation, which is basically a pipeline into gambling addiction for kids.

Counter-Strike players largely don’t want major change. The reason people play it is because it hasn’t changed much in the last 30 years or so that it’s been a thing. I barely switch on my PC anymore these days, so my information is largely dated, but Valve does add things from time to time, besides skins: new guns and maps, minor alterations to the mechanics and ruleset, new game modes (most of which didn’t survive the transition to CS2 unfortunately), seasonal events, etc.

Bigger changes like vehicles and destruction would turn the game into something else entirely and even if they were only available in a side mode, I reckon Valve has numbers showing that not enough people would care enough to actually play it (like the Battle Royal mode, which I’m still salty they removed).

You could argue that Valve is doing the bare minimum to keep the game alive and generating revenue from the gambling mechanics and I’d probably agree, but also I don’t think the game needs to change at a faster pace.

There’s a reason road races won’t let you start without bar end caps. It’s a safety critical part and actually quite dangerous to ride without them. Consider yourself lucky you only hurt your hand and didn’t take a core sample of yourself.

I hope you heal up quickly and stay safe!

I straight up don’t want to do it, even for my friends. But since they are my friends I would do it anyway. I’d definitely rather they paid for movers though.

I paid for movers my last two moves. It was expensive, but if you can afford it, it’s totally worth it in my opinion. Instead of the move taking a whole weekend it was done in half a day both times.

And it’s true: nobody wants to help with that shit. My friends offered, but the relief on their faces when I told them there was no need, was clearly visible.

lmao, I did DXM a couple of times, but only one proper big dose. I took 35 gelcaps of the stuff like an absolute degenerate (a solid 3rd plateau dose for someone my weight). 3 hours or so absolutely nothing happened and then I guess the caps dissolved and it hit me like a freight train. I spent the rest of the night robowalking between the couch and the bathroom to throw up the remains of the gelcaps, but since my short term memory was non-existent I only remember doing it once (I had a trip sitter who told me what happened the next day). It was at the same time one of the most intense, stupid and pointless experiences I’ve had on drugs, and considering I’ve done tons of acid, shrooms and DMT, that’s really saying something.

Also did salvia one time and while it wasn’t a bad experience per se, I think it’s the only time I did a drug and thought “one time is enough for me”.

Same. It’s the only way to actually quit stuff for me. I’m all or nothing and don’t do moderation.

Personally I don’t forward ports for anything that only I am supposed to access (such as SSH). Instead I connect to my home network via VPN and establish the connection from the inside. I just have an allow all from the VPN subnet to my main one, but you could also allow things selectively if you don’t want everything accessible via VPN. Using the VPN has the added bonus of ensuring everything is going through a secure tunnel if I’m connecting from a public network.

It’s highly regarded for a reason. If you’re on iPhone you can get a one month trial for Apple Arcade and play it for free, but it’s worth 10€ imo. It’s a good game in it’s own right, but it’s also one of very few mobile games that are not monetised beyond the initial purchase, well suited to touch controls and short play sessions and are actually fun.

People don’t wear shoes indoors in any civilised country. Only Americans do that.

Pineapple and kebab on pizza is available in Germany too, although I think it may be illegal in Italy.

I agree with practicing harm reduction if you’re going to do drugs, but it’s still not worth it imo. I spent much of my twenties experimenting with all kinds of drugs and experienced a lot because of them. From party drugs to wild psychedelic experiences, none of it was actually worth a damn. With psychedelics especially it can feel profound and spiritual at the time, but it’s really not. It’s just your brain chemistry reacting to the drugs. Nothing special or worthwhile about it and you’re better off going outside and experiencing real things and forming relationships with people.

they’re taking pictures of a specific Bianchi model and asking what year it was manufactured

And the answer they get will probably be wrong, or at least wrong often enough that you can’t trust it without looking it up yourself. And even if these things do get good enough people will still won’t be using it frequently enough to want to wear a device on their face to do it, when they can already do it better on their phone.

iOS has this with “Guided Access”. It’s in the accessibility options.

To me it seems like a thing that sounds kinda cool on paper, but is not actually that useful in practice. We already have the ability to do real time translations or point the camera at something to get more information via AI with our smartphones, but who actually uses that on the regular? It’s just not useful or accurate enough in its current state and having it always available as a HUD isn’t going to change that imo. Being able to point a camera at something and have AI tell me “that’s a red bicycle” is a cool novelty the first few times, but I already knew that information just by looking at it. And if I’m trying to communicate with someone in a foreign language using my phone to translate for me, I’ll just feel like a dork.

Same. Lots of people like Star Wars. That means there are plenty of Torrents to choose from. I unsubbed a while back and it’s really no problem.

I recommend setting up Sonarr and Plex or Jellyfin for fully automated copyright infringement. It’s like having a free streaming service that has everything you want to watch as soon as it releases.

I thought the implication was that a muslim wouldn’t vote for a woman, because she is a woman. Re-reading it, I understand the comment to be an implicit reference to the last US presidential election and Harris’ stance on Israel/Gaza. Not being American myself, I don’t really have much to say about that particular dilemma.

That’s a terrible example. I was talking about having a choice between two evils and not an evil and a woman.

I mean I understand the cause and effect, but that’s not what the question was about. It was about morality. And I’ve explained how I feel about that.

What if fascist A plans to kill innocent group X and fascist B plans to kill innocent group Y, but group X is more people? Should I vote for fascist B then? How would you explain that to group Y, that is now being killed because of your choice, but would have been fine otherwise? Do you think they will be okay with your numbers argument?

That’s an extreme example, but I never said I would allow a fascist to win, because I disliked the other candidate’s policy on public transit, just that there is a line somewhere that I won’t cross, even if it means a somehow “less bad” outcome.