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LovesTha🥧

@ LovesTha @floss.social

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A melbournian with many interests: Christian (very liberal) Embedded Rust Engineer Magic The Gathering judge Board gamer Keyboard enthusiast (DIY, very small, Colemak) Getting into 3D printing, supporting the keyboards and gaming. Father of 2 kids (2018 & 2020) NixOS user (awaiting alternatives for community reasons)

All too often I come off as argumentative, I'm working on it but definitely a work in progress.

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    Cars don't belong in cities, says Top Gear's James May

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  • @LvInSaNevL @Malfeasant I'm happy to limit the 'no personal cars' to areas that are 1/4 acre blocks and below. (Remembering that a 1/4 acre block gets back a substantial amount of useful land when you delete the driveway, so blocks all become 'bigger' in such a system)

    Places that are substantially less dense than that do benefit from cars. But that isn't that large a % of people, while it is a very large % of the land mass.

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    Cars don't belong in cities, says Top Gear's James May

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  • @faythofdragons @pineapple shitty PT is not the goal. Yes there are PT systems that are shit, that doesn't mean good PT is worse than good individual car ownership (something I've never heard of), it just means shitty PT need to be less shitty.

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    Cars don't belong in cities, says Top Gear's James May

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  • @pseudo @jaggedcircle It had a pretty good viewership in Australia too. I think it did pretty well in a lot of countries.

  • The worst Mountain Bike Part You still Use [presta valves]

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    Tesla vehicles hit with 'targeted attack' in Las Vegas, among other acts of vandalism

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  • Let's talk being 'Car Poor'

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  • @9point6 @scrubbles the $500 a month for a second hand lease?

    Converting that to Aussie, we'll call it $800 a month. My wife visits the office twice a week, by Uber at 8pm her one way commute would be $42. That is safely an under estimate as peak traffic makes that much worse.

    2 x 2 x 4 = 16 trips a month is $672 a month on taxi's for that commute. A commute that is infrequent, and less than half the distance to the city from our suburb.

    Yes that is before other car costs, but other trips too

  • Trump turns the White House lawn into a Tesla showroom

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  • @Almacca @GlobalLiberty Yep, and someone should be in jail for it.

    But also, nothing will happen, Tesla will keep failing.

  • How to Turn Cities Into Biketopias? Make it Harder to Drive There

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  • @m4m4m4m4 @br3d Also "make things worse for drivers" can be things that sound bad but actually mean nothing. Closing half the lanes through a CBD has no impact on traffic, but it sounds really bad for drivers.

  • This Basic Measurement is Missing from Many Cycling Computers

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  • @Obelix @Treczoks bikes are outside and GPS is pretty cheap to receive these days too.

  • Local big box HW store (but one of their smallest stores) has closed their front doors on main street Monday to Friday. You know the doors near all the nice footpath seating.

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  • @singletona I've heard plenty about car centric design killing main street. Interesting what different parts people hear.

  • Local big box HW store (but one of their smallest stores) has closed their front doors on main street Monday to Friday. You know the doors near all the nice footpath seating.

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  • @GeneralEmergency probably, but it can be hard to see that context when your in it :)

    Maybe it's the general idea that main streets are dying in the concept of people should drive to every store, and stores that do this take away value from being able to walk between stores.

  • Local big box HW store (but one of their smallest stores) has closed their front doors on main street Monday to Friday. You know the doors near all the nice footpath seating.

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  • @jaybone I'd rather not have a 40m gap of nothing in the middle of main street.

  • Local big box HW store (but one of their smallest stores) has closed their front doors on main street Monday to Friday. You know the doors near all the nice footpath seating.

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  • Local big box HW store (but one of their smallest stores) has closed their front doors on main street Monday to Friday. You know the doors near all the nice footpath seating.

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  • What if we handle road safety as general safety?

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  • @lgsp bike helmets are pretty much useless :)

  • This woman needs a psychological examination

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  • Approach to winter cycling?

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  • @Doofytoe @grumpopotamus When I commuted regularly rain on the way to work was a reason not to ride, the risk of rain on the way home wasn't. Maybe if the office had a good shower I would have ridden to work in the rain too.

  • The War Against Headlight Brightness

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  • Yes we need less cars, but leaving cars more dangerous isn't the better interim solution.

    While cars have always travelled at speed at night, till modern headlights they were just reckless.

    It is another reason cycling infrastructure should be seperated: so headlights can be shielded.

  • Mercedes-Benz swerves aggressively through crowd of cyclists blocking Los Angeles street

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  • @ltxrtquq @takeda (I can't watch the video, so I'm going off just the image)

    Imagine how pissed that driver would be if they were actually following what the driver probably thinks they should be doing: riding single file next to the kerb.

    The long queue of bikes would prevent the driver turning onto the road for so long.

  • It’s Impossible to Get Rid of a Tesla Cybertruck. I Want to Cut My Losses and Move On, but I Can't Give This Thing Away. I’ve Lost So Much Money Already; Help.

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