it’s about cars turning onto side streets and it happens at a lot more than 5 MPH.
I have mirrors, so I check behind me for cars turning right and I can see oncoming traffic for cars turning left.
You have to factor the probability into the risk, not just the severity
My primary concern is the severity. I feel way less safe riding in the street. All it takes is a semi-truck swerving a few feet, a drunk driver not paying attention, or someone looking at their phone at the wrong moment and it's game over for me. The stretch of my commute that I have to share the road with cars is the worst part and if I had to do that the whole way I simply wouldn't cycle anymore.
The real problem is a lack of bike infrastructure, but until that is resolved I'm going to ride where I feel safe and that is as far away from cars as possible. And I'm not on an ebike, just a regular one. I only go 10-15 mph.
I always ride on the side walk if there is one. I'd rather get hit by someone backing up at 5mph than someone going down the road at 50mph. And I'm always watching driveways for cars backing up.
Please link to all relevant scientific literature. Otherwise I'm going to assume you're just spouting talking points out of your ass because this stuff hasn't been studied as extensively as you claim.
I agree with a lot of what you said. I think we need a digital bill of rights to protect things like online privacy and personal data.
There's two reasons TikTok is different:
Being controlled by a foreign adversary is not comparable to a corporation trying to make money. They will use the data they collect to weaken American interests and push their own.
As I understand it, the data collected by TikTok is so excessive it makes Facebook look mild.
It's because the app is controlled by a foreign adversary. If there was a Russian social media app that collected obscene amounts of user data, people would be rightly calling for that to be banned too.
Again, I'm not sure how much you know about bitcoin because the boom/bust cycles you're talking about are reflections of the halving cycle, not dead cat bounces. The next halving is going to happen in April this year, and after that the price is going to go up even more. I've been through this before, I'm not worried about the despair phase but that's not what's coming next.
Less safe how?