[-] alphabetsheep@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Good resource thanks for posting! It seems like they really went out of their way to avoid mentioning EBikes. My experience has been that for folks with disabilities EBikes are a game changer as they allow people to put in as much effort as comfortable but not go past that. I also think the section about it getting sweaty could have mentioned EBikes as a potential solution. I understand they don't want to piss off cycling purists, but I think it's important to recognize the positive impacts these new technologies have.

Finally, I get their stance on helmets and agree that helmet mandates aren't ideal. That said, I think it's disengenuous to say that helmets are useless. It's true that those studies looking at city helmet use found no difference in safety overall, but I'm not convinced that wearing a helmet wouldn't improve my personal safety. I've absolutely wrecked a helmet riding on the street, and I'm very glad it wasn't my head instead.

[-] alphabetsheep@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Are you able to fall back to normal git commands if you don't know the shortcuts? This sounds awesome until I can't remember the syntax to do something I don't do everyday.

[-] alphabetsheep@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Ohmyzsh with the git plugin is my fave - gaa & gcmsg "a commit" feels like the right level of verbosity for me.

[-] alphabetsheep@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

My guy you shouldn't have visited New Jersey... In all seriousness though, this is at least partly satirical right? There are definitely some tough spots in America like most places, but when I went to Europe and Scandinavia it was about the same.

[-] alphabetsheep@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I mean, many folks would say that's what leclerc did successfully in 2021. That's a bit of a conspiracy, and doesn't make a ton of sense (gearbox penalty etc.) but it's not impossible.

[-] alphabetsheep@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I'd argue it shouldn't matter what the cause is. It's a little far fetched, but I could imagine teams organizing mechanical failures to gain an unfair advantage. All it would take is to tell the driver the wrong gearbox mode to cause a spin, Monaco style. As written it would suck to have an honest car failure and then lose extra grid places, but I think those kind of incidents will be pretty equally spread among the field.

[-] alphabetsheep@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

For better or for worse he's got a lot of friends within openai. Sounds like many of them have threatened to resign if he's gone. If he goes and starts a competing company without the ethical guardrails, I think it's likely a lot of folks will follow him. He also has very tight ties to the investing community so he would likely be able to raise funds quickly. I think there's a solid chance he could make a credible competitor to openai within the next 5 years, especially if they lose talent/money over this.

[-] alphabetsheep@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

I hear ya on that. My philosophy is that if I'm going out for coffee I'll pay for a good one from a local Cafe. Most mornings I'll make it at home to compensate for the cost.

[-] alphabetsheep@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

Or support a local Cafe that treats their workers right. Can be hard to find, but they do exist.

[-] alphabetsheep@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Audible books and essays

Anarchist podcasts

[-] alphabetsheep@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

This is key. Urban planners and environment folks focus so much on their respective fields and don't consider dignity enough. Of course we'd all like cheap, fast, sustainable transportation, but not if that means being packed into bench seating, plagued with delays, and sometimes even risk our safety due to other passengers. Trains don't have to be bad, but the penny-pinching planners often ruin the experience.

[-] alphabetsheep@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I live in the middle of nowhere and drive race cars on the weekend, I think we agree on a lot of things. I love having plenty of space, not a fan of close neighbors, apartment living or any of that shit.

I still want cheap trains and micromobility though. Every once in awhile I need to go into the city and taking my ebike in on the train is so much better than driving. Also even if you still drive like normal, it would go so much smoother if all the city folks stuck to the train and got off the roads.

Not saying cars should be more expensive, and definitely not saying city living is the way, but having better options for city folks only helps the situation for the rest of us.

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