For nearly all of my life, I've known how I was going to die. Not from cancer, or diet, or drink, but by being crushed under a car. I will be mangled and bleed out painfully. The driver, distracted on their phone, will say that I "came out of nowhere". The police and the DA will call it an "accident". There will be no consequences of any kind. Except for my death, of course. [...] https://jwz.org/b/ykV3
@jwz non-cyclists that are confused by activism think that activists are attracted to cycling, when the reality is that becoming a cyclist very quickly radicalizes one into becoming an activist. Nothing crystallizes strong opinions as being frequently threatened with death by at best indifferent and at worst aggressive and antagonistic people.
The irony is not lost on me that the Internet Archive went out of its way to acquire the physical versions of millions of books and loan them out carefully and in a limited way, and is facing a near-extinction-level event over it, while for-profit and VC-backed companies are just stealing people’s content and making up excuses to validate the bad behavior.
"Sir, all of the media are talking about how bad Biden was last night and surfacing chatter of replacing him. I think you should do a rally today and say even more than your usual allotment of insane stuff to try to get the focus back on you."
#Trump: All they know is electric. They want electric planes. What happens if the sun isn't shining while you're up in the air?
@notjustbikes don’t know if you mentioned this before in one of your videos, but apparently Spain has introduced 30km/h speed limits on most urban single lane roads back in 2021, decreasing the number of traffic deaths considerably. I’m in Salamanca now and it seems to be working fine, most drivers stick to the rules and 30km is also the speed limit on most double lane roads in the city. https://www.surinenglish.com/spain/speed-limits-towns-20220517101946-nt.html
@hayify surprisingly that didn't come up in any of my research on 30kmph cities, but it's great to see!
I think like most thing urban planning, switching to 30kmph speed limits gets a lot of pushback, but when it's actually implemented things go fine and the majority of people like it.
@notjustbikes yeah, i agree. I have been perfectly happy with the decrease to 30 in Amsterdam. Feels a bit weird on roads that weren’t designed for it but you get used to it and it definitely feels a lot safer.
I administer ~100-200 domains, and I've never had certificate issues in the past years. certbot runs in a cron and it does all the job for me.
It appals me that the 2nd most valuable company in the world struggles so much with certificate renewals instead - a problem largely solved even for small administrators.
RESEARCH: Backchannel moderation tools like “Chillbot” that prioritize communication over punishment could be effective in nudging members of online groups towards positive norm engagement and creating a more equitable and transparent content moderation process.