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@ LilB0kChoy @midwest.social

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I'm here for entertainment and to engage with opinions, views and perspectives different than my own to grow myself. I don't care if you downvote but if you don't engage me I can't learn from it so I may block you as I'll take it that you don't want to see my content.

  • In New York City, Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Criminal Court Summonses

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  • The article doesn’t describe a “biker problem” though. It specifically is talking about e-bikes and electric scooters.

    It follows actions by city officials from Paris to Honolulu to Hoboken, N.J., who are responding to residents angry about zippy vehicles with silent electric motors zooming down sidewalks and streets, often startling people, and occasionally hitting pedestrians.

    A manually powered bicycle or scooter is a lot different from an electric powered version capable of 20-30mph.

    Unfair treatment of one group versus another isn’t right and more cycle friendly infrastructure is needed but do you put both regular and e-bikes on that infrastructure to share it? Wouldn’t that lead to a lot of the same complaints that sharing with cars currently generates?

    I do think you’re right that it’s not all of any one of these groups (cyclists or motorists) that are problematic; we just notice the ones that are problematic the most. That said, cyclists are the minority which means they need “imperfect allies” of motorists to drive the change that leads to more, better cycling infrastructure.

    I don’t know the best way to go about that but ignoring the laws you’re required to follow isn’t a great way to go about it. I’d propose instead that working to change the rules for cyclists so that they aren’t bound by the “one way” and are allowed to legally proceed through a red as long as they can safely do so (no opposing traffic at the light/stop, they’ve stopped and confirmed it’s safe to proceed) and so on would be good. Then it might incentivize some motorists to ditch their car so they can get around easier as well as improve the experience for current cyclists.

    All of this is assuming the traffic laws in NYC work similar to where I am.

  • What's the Holy Grail item in your hobby?

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  • An original production Semmerling LM4.

  • If you could have one always ready, perfectly cooked food magically available to you at all times, what would it be?

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  • Two slices of cottage bread, lightly buttered on the inside with quality unsalted butter, two pieces of deli style American cheese (specifically the stuff from our local butcher but similar to Kraft Deli Select) evenly distributed in the middle.

    Delicious cheese sandwich!

  • Whatever happened to Data Poisoning?

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  • Way, way back in the early days of the internet when it was still all just message boards and users from universities there were discussions about data poisoning. The early forebears of users today had enough foresight to understand what the internet could be if it went the wrong way and started a collaborative project to develop tools as technology developed to combat it. They managed to keep up the project, legacy developers would move on or die but new ones sprang up in their place. It all fell apart way back in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers table.

  • What is your most lukewarm take?

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  • maybe you just don't get my tone

    Ahh, blame the other person for your poor communication. That says a lot about you.

  • What is your most lukewarm take?

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  • Seems a lot more expedient to say "if this isn't what you meant, let me know".

    No need for multiple paragraphs of pedantry about language on an AskLemmy post inquiring about people's opinions.

  • What is your most lukewarm take?

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  • Phrasing matters here. There are many similar words you could have used

    This implies you knew what their intent was but being a pedant was more important.

    The irony of doing it in this thread with this comment from @[email protected] is too perfect.

  • What's a phrase or saying that you learned from your parents that you don't hear others saying?

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  • Hypothetical. Would this be permitted in a US state: long hours, little work, and sub-minimum wage. (please click for details).

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  • Hypothetically, yes this would be allowed in the US but they wouldn't be employees. The closest I can think of offhand would be a 1099 contractor or something similar to military enlistment agreements.

  • People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like?

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  • Really depends on the restaurant.

    The smaller or local places where we are have all mostly switched to the handheld mobile devices.

    The fast food places are all still front register POS style.

    The larger chains or fancier restaurants are mostly still take your card away and run it then return for a signature.

    I imagine the holdouts either don't want to make the technological and cost investment to update (big chains) or they feel the mobile device is too "low class" (fancier restaurants).

  • Have you ever cheated on a test?

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  • You might be the reason for my story. I helped a bunch of other people cheat but I didn't, and it was not directly intentional.

    We had TI-89s too but we were required to erase all memory and show the output message to the teacher to be allowed to use it.

    I was really into some game on my calculator and didn't want to lose it from wiping my memory. So, I wrote a program that would mimic all the steps as if you erased it and return the same output at the end. Everybody was asking me to share it and they used it on the next test. I did too but I didn't have anything saved to use to cheat.

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    How does a guy become his most confident around women?

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  • I found that as I got older I got more confident in general. I think mostly it's just about being comfortable with who you are so you can be your genuine self around others.

  • Republicans wanted fewer abortions and more births. They are getting the opposite

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  • Some people are really averse to medical procedures, we shouldn't judge others for their bodily autonomy.

    That said, I did similar to you. My wife has some ovarian cysts and was warned that a tubal ligation would likely cause more and then she'd probably have to have surgery, maybe even an oophorectomy.

    I had concerns about the risks of tubal ligation already but that sealed it for sure. Got snipped right after my 40th birthday.

  • I dont want to enter a contract when consuming your product..

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  • Assuming you're talking about the US, this is correct.

    In the US you need to both actively acknowledge acceptance of the T&Cs, which simply opening a package typically doesn't meet.

    Also, and arguably more important, they need to include the entirety of the T&Cs for you to be able to review before accepting. This means on the packaging or presented at time of purchase, not requiring you to go elsewhere to find them or having to search them out.

    Now even though it's not legally enforceable, I'd say it's still scummy and companies that do it should be avoided.

  • Republicans wanted fewer abortions and more births. They are getting the opposite

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  • This is a good call out. It's one of the lowest risk surgical procedures you can have but low risk ≠ no risk.

    There is the high level info from the provider that I went to in case anyone is curious, it can be found here.

  • I just spent four months in hospital in the UK. How screwed (financially) would I be in the US?

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  • As an alcoholic whose life was barely under control.

    The long story short version is that, over 10ish years I drank myself almost to death, ended up hospitalized with liver and kidney failure, got discharged and went through treatment and the ended back in the hospital in pretty serious need (so they told me) of a transplant.

    Fortunately for me I got listed and was transplanted 5 days later. After that I realized I was given a second chance most people don't get and worked to turn my life around.

    I'm now 8 years sober, good credit, married with a house, 2 dogs, 2 cats and I wake up every day grateful to have this extra time.

  • Linux smashes through five per cent desktop share in the US

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  • I saw somewhere that Bazzite was good for purpose built gaming rigs. I have yet to try it out though. My gut have to change it if I don't like how it runs.

  • Republicans wanted fewer abortions and more births. They are getting the opposite

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  • Same! The really important part is the after care. If you ignore the doctors instructions you can have blood pool up in your scrotum and if it's bad enough they'll have to extract it.

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    LilB0kChoy @midwest.social

    What communities or instances do you have blocked to make your Lemmy experience more enjoyable?