7bicycles [he/him] @ 7bicycles @hexbear.net

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a precision immobilization technique

not that precise was it

get in my car

gross

I had sort of the same thing happening with a glob of rice noodles and I was quite surprised that I was quite occupied with how dumb of a death that would be instead of anything remotely helpful

I am judging the fuck out of nazis though and I will not stop

Maybe if the WTC was wearing high vis the pilots would've been able to see it

there's buildings in kamurocho you racist

If the state has it's done it's called privateering

if it's the international emergency economic powers act why's the US get it all

Coming from some video editing as a hobby from Windows Movie Maker over pirated Sony Vegas, OpenShot and Shotcut to Kdenlive it's an incredible piece of kit. It has fucking working motion tracking! For free! And it works very well! Insane to me!

Also OSM usually beats Apple and Google by a mile when it comes to route planning for bicycles. I think it's one part techbros being eternally car brained and one part if you're a cyclist the chance you're the kind of crank to contribute to things like OSM is exponentially increased.

I feel like that's mostly a feelgood myth. Like for every person who handles their drink responsibly and started drinking young it produces like 10 functioning alcoholics. This countrys relationship to alcohol is fucked up

I reformated that so much I forgot to include my dissatisfaction was mostly with e-bikes and the associated electronics lmao

But yeah, bottom brackets are ridicolous. Only reason we ever moved away from BSA was cost cutting and now that everyone and their grandma has creaky high end bikes people just return to BSA anyways.

I tell you, if I ever become emperor of a country it will have the world largest bicycle industry and everything is in absolutely standardized parts

yeah the whole dang teenagers and their bluetooth boxes always struck me as odd. I mean not that it's not dick behaviour but considering we allow sports cars to annoy everyone in like a 1 mile radius when the owner decides to compensate for whatever it feels odd that there's this focus on people listening to music

I feel like every new comfort feature on a car is solved legally by still having the person at the wheel responsible and since now the computer does it (well enough maybe 60% of the time) you see way more of an increase in stuff like too bright lights, missing lights cause the rain detector isn't working and things of that nature because people just assume the car will take care of it

To add to this, I feel this with recent updated road laws here to make them more "cycling friendly", a trend that laws keep getting written that are either impossible to enforce the way they're written or nobody gives a shit either. Basically just making the question of liablity easier after the fact. Which seems sort of like a very shit proposition for road laws to me

I work in IT and you can basically track enthusiasm about self driving cars along the lines of technical knowledge

have you considered my spontaneous daily shopping trip for my family of 8 that includes either a washing machine or large furniture

The propietary shit around bicycles was never good, especially drivetrains, but on the other hand most of it was some sort of standard easy enough to machine with modern technology that you got at least 1 factory in china still cranking out the most esoteric shit possible because ehh it costs them $2 to make or something and they can sell it for $25 or something, why not. It's just pipes and diameters and threading.

It's cool and that's the foremost design rule of MGS since always. All the deeper or more complex stuff just follows along

A large portion of South Wales is small towns and villages built on hills and mountains, so it's difficult to cycle from place to place for most people. Mid Wales tends to be very spread out and hilly, so again, difficult to cycle around unless it's for pleasure. If you cycled to work, you'd probably be very sweaty by the time you got there.

E-bikes have been invented for a while now

Have a look at Google Street View to see how steep some of our hills are. They're great for a challenge, but you definitely wouldn't want to tackle them on a cold, wet, Welsh morning on the way to work.'

This is just bog standard "It wouldn't work here" stuff. It gets cold and wet elsewhere and it doesn't stop people from cycling

Even the main road going north to south through the country is a single lane in each direction for the majority of it.

That's a policy choice not an inherent condition of geography. Switzerlands full of mountains and they have good trains.