HELLO LONDON ON A TUBE STRIKE DAY!
I cycled from Farringdon to Marble Arch this morning on a Forest bike and it was BONKERS.
Here’s a video ⬇️⬇️
Sound up for an absolute tune by Raye 🎶🎶
Oh definitely, infrastructure is the solution.
But driving needs to undergo a cultural shift.
Because cycling is not dangerous. Drivers need to be made safer.
Broken rules need fixing, make the roads safer: laws need enforcing and punishments need to deter.
At least we make an effort to discourage law breakers once in a while.
Of course, the quote from a man who makes money informing drivers where speed cameras are is a bit off. But freedom.
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I have to admit, my kid's helmet saved him from losing a little skin a few weekends ago, so it'd definitely prevent him being killed if he went under the wheels of a speeding Dodge Ram.
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Without my glasses I could mistake that for a fluffy slipper.
Case on point: you should leave cyclists enough room that you HAVE TO move into the oncoming lane, so waiting for a gap in traffic is mandatory.
It's a rule shown to save lives.
When that's the rule, riding two or three abreast makes no difference.
Rules for drivers are not suitable for cyclists. Sorry.
Deaths caused by cyclists breaking rules is insignificant.
Because drivers kill 10,000's, even drivers who follow (most of) the rules.
So maybe cyclists should be more responsible. But rules for drivers should definitely be stricter.
They was asking for it.
Is it age or is it crowding?
I'm happiest tucking in behind a truck and setting the ACC to 86kmh these days.
I know it but I rarely do it.
Rabbit hole: search "addict's fallacy" and relate what you read to your experience of car use.
By god, I swear I used to get pleasure from driving country roads. I haven't experienced that in years, despite the occasional pointless drive.
Maybe I never did experience it, maybe I'm just chasing the dragon that advertising created, bypassing actual experience.
Well this is terrifyingly horrific
Father claims Google's AI product fuelled son's delusional spiral www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A lovely bike-only bridge on Noordammerweg south of Amstelveen in the Netherlands. A white arch with cables supports a deck for two-way bike traffic.
The diversion to this lovely bike-only bridge would only take 3min each way.
Has anyone contacted / got another way to contact @boringscience.bsky.social ?
His account looks to be hijacked.
(Except that one time my father melted the ice cream and its plastic tub by rapidly heating the oven. The smell. Oh god, the smell.)
That's very odd.
I come from a family who lightly melted supermarket brand vanilla ice cream in the cooling oven. WHICH IS NORMAL.
#Zee | Blekersvaartweg, Heemstede 😢
Eh?
On my bike?
I'd stop in time because it's been designed to remove all those pesky blindspots.
To design a vehicle otherwise would be irresponsible.
To introduce blindspots to make sales would be absolutely immoral.
To buy one, while arguing you have no responsibility on the web, likewise.
Aldi sell cars in the middle aisle now?
This is an awful story.
A guy in a car straight up murdered a woman because she was pissed he was blocking the sidewalk and poured a bottle of water on his car.
So he drove over her *with his family in the car*, leaving her to die.
Snippet of the news story linked by OP reading "The San Francisco District Attorney’s Office announced Thursday that Valantino Cash Amil, the 30-year-old man accused of running over a pedestrian, is facing a murder charge. Amil, who is also facing a felony charge for allegedly leaving the scene of an accident"
It's indicative of a problem we all understand to refer to a suspected murder in one paragraph and an "accident" in the next.
bbc News - Man hates mother-in-law's cooking, "they taste so bad I feed them to the birds" - bbc News
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The rise in uninsured driving is linked to deprivation in that story, which demonstrates the desperate state of car dependency in the country.
During the boom times we've let the Tories neglect public infrastructure, leaving people little choice.
Uninsured driving isn’t victimless. Offenders are 6–7x more likely to be in a fatal crash, and over half are linked to wider criminality—reflecting risk-taking, disregard for the law, or deception. It pushes up costs for honest drivers. Tackling it protects communities.
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"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
