If you can get them at all. Everything seems disposable nowdays.

Nice. I love how 3d printing helps with sustainability.

Aspirin has entered chat.

Paywall

Yep. https://youtu.be/WfIRo92DyXA

I smell the same flavour of bullshit about RedNote that I do/did about Bluesky. The articles are so obviously Astro turfing.

I’ve heard (not confirmed) that as a firefighter I can turn up to a blood donation centre, tell them I’m a firefighter and want to dump PFAS and they’ll draw, and dispose, of my blood.

I should confirm it…

I’ve been pretty happy with my Apple AirPods Pro

Why would we let another corporation take control? Recovers is where it’s at.

I’ve noticed a significant change in my Facebook feed recently. It’s almost all content creator content now, which I’m taking as a sign that my network is no longer posting there.

I’m not sure you need to melt it for the PFAS to leech out. There was a study recently about smart watch bands and they found that the PFAS exposure from wearing them was way above safe limits and they weren’t being heated to 327C.

Admittedly frypan coatings and watch bands are not the same materials, but still…

I like the one when he had a single ass hair transplanted on to the top of his head.

Chonki boi!

Don’t need 'em. Got spiders and snakes.

bloviating

I love this word. TIL it.

“Asshole resistant”

I love that concept.

Love your sense of humour. :-)

Being nice to people makes them happy to be around you.

It’s almost as if, hear me out here, the Norwegians are right…

I wasn’t saying you were excusing the behaviour. I was saying that many, including the media do.

So what practical measures do you suggest to stop this from happening again?

Every accident I have been to (and I’ve been to a lot), was either caused by driver impatience (driving faster than the conditions, drink driving, fiddling with phone, etc) or deliberate intent (suicide). The former is a driver education and training problem. We need to train young drivers to accept delays as OK. As a former motorcycle rider, I taught my kids the importance of patience and driving as if the rest of the world was out to kill you. Every driver should have to do (and pass) a defensive driving course. Also, too many bad habits are passed from parent to child, so every driver should have to spend a prescribed amount of time with registered driving instructors. In Germany, you cannot get your drivers licence without spending time with registered driving instructors, and if you fail your test it costs 400-500 euros to repeat, so there’s a good incentive to learn the skills correctly the first time.

This was an organised event with signage etc… There are many things that could be done, but better driver education to overcome the “bikes shouldn’t be on roads” mentality would be a good start. Dedicated cycle lanes and a loosening of the ridiculous restrictions on e-bikes in NSW are some other things that would help imho.