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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.

  • “The city of the future uses bikes” Seen in Puebla, Mexico

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  • @Zagorath @zerakith recumbent trikes are excellent at low speed manouvers, which can be a boon in busy areas where any bike must be walked. I only once tried to corner too fast and that was faster than I corner on a bike anyway.

    Hills are fine, in theory better than a bike as you have something to push against. So if you are light and have poor arm strength you can put out more power in a recumbent. Or just someone with legs stronger than that

    They are trash at going through narrow spaces.

  • Sinclair C5s

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  • @FartsWithAnAccent @lemmyreader I loved my tadpole. Super sad that I haven't been able to find the budget to get one again since I had to sell it when I moved back in with my parents.

  • When to Choose Trains over Buses? A Complete Guide - Reece Martin

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  • @Rentlar I though two single track tunnels were faster to bore than a single double track tunnel.

  • When to Choose Trains over Buses? A Complete Guide - Reece Martin

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  • @Rentlar are train tunnels cheaper than bus tunnels? The ones that get built tend to be because single lane traffic tunnels are rare (and dangerous) and the are a larger bore than a train tunnel.

  • How to make sure drivers will give way

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  • @lgsp @mondoman712 Painting a foam brick with a rubbery paint should collapse down well in a bag and spring up to full size really quickly

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    Real-world CO2 emissions of cars are 20% higher than indicated. For plug-in hybrids they are 250% higher.

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  • I was intending it as an indication that individual cars are hard to justify.

    Additionally cars have inefficiencies around parking (time/energy spent doing it, space required) that PT doesn't.

    They are only a good solution when ignoring/socialising so many of the costs and prioritising things that are really not important (or from a lack of imagination of what else is possible)

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  • 2-7kg personal vehicles are optimal efficiency, 20-70kg personal vehicles allow for everyone to do anything (okay some of the larger electric wheelchairs blow past 70kg pretty easily, but allow me some artistic licence).

    Even busses aren't amazing on vehicle weight per person: 16,000kg for 50 people is 320kg per person. Good suburban trains bring that back down to 230kg per person.

    So for cars to be viable your 5 seater needs to be 1600kg max. And one needs to actually use those seats.

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  • @dillekant @Anamnesis There is also too many PHEV's that are given to people as work vehicles when they have no option to plug in. Ideal, the right user and real world can all be very different scenarios.

    Don't take any numbers at face value, actually understand what is being measured.

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  • @Bytemeister Did I say you did?

    Not every reply is arguing against you, I was agreeing with you and pointing out one of the factors going into EVs having batteries larger than needed

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  • @Bytemeister @hobovision which is another reason the range anxiety narative is harmful: people buy EVs with batteries larger than they need

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  • People Hate the Idea of Car-Free Cities—Until They Live in One

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  • @Habahnow yes, going from 1000 to 999 is a major achievement and something to bi proud of.

  • People Hate the Idea of Car-Free Cities—Until They Live in One

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  • @Habahnow @PastaCeci "I want to do it my self" says man purchasing petrol from Iraq to fuel a car manufactured by thousands of people and assembled in a dozen countries.

    Anyone actually doing things by themselves isn't concerned with car policy as they know they can't produce a car.

    They already are happy to purchase things from a store that have been delivered to that store in a collective way, what is weird about getting wood delivered to their property?

  • Cars are rewiring our brains to ignore all the bad stuff about driving

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  • @lemmyuser838586 @Boozilla The US is an outlier on guns, but tailgating is common every country I've been to (which isn't all that many, but 7 is a few)