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  • Why is bicycle riding so controversial in America?

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  • Why should my half hour be worth less than your minute or 2 until you can safely overtake.

    Not to mention that if their bike commute allows them to take a car of the road, you might be faster on average you just think that the bike makes you slower. Plus the 1000s of dollars in just waste if they would need to own a car instead and so on ...

    You know what's super convenient for you(r group) but super inconvenient for everyone else, car centric infrastructure development.

  • Why is bicycle riding so controversial in America?

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  • There's a big difference in that type of cyclist and someone that's riding a bike in street clothes for a commute. And it doesn't make sense to act like they're the same.

    No there isn't at least not a large one, cycling costume or not has almost no bearing on whether the ride is for recreation/fitness or for getting from a to b, often both are combined. If you had a 30km commute on a bike you'd also try to wear clothes that make it easier to get there quickly and you would use the most direct route and this is what most cyclists are doing when people get annoyed by them.

    Plenty of people are doing their commute as their training ride because it makes sense to do so, why should they have to drive their car half an hour and do an hour of cardio instead of their hour cycle commute, just so you can arrive a minute early come on.

  • Women riding the streets of Tehran on motorbikes is the latest sign of Iran's societal change

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  • Tbf their state was changed / weakened/ worsened/remade by British Soviet and US meddling.

    Like blaming a child for not having their shit together when the parents are using them as a pawn in their divorce battle.

    Perhaps accurate but lacking all nuance.

  • Obama calls Mamdani to praise his campaign and offers to be sounding board

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  • Calling the plurality of political conflict from 45 to 90, and like several fields of study, semantics is kinda crazy work but you've got the spirit in general I guess. Good day as well.

  • Obama calls Mamdani to praise his campaign and offers to be sounding board

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  • on the left side of the political divide

    There is no such political divide, at the minimum there are a couple of axis on which to place peoples and groups political position. There can be such a thing as three or more fundamentally opposed political positions(liberal, left, fascist, monarchist,...) and there can be a united opposition of two or more of these opposed to another. As would from some point of view ideally be the case with left and liberal politics being united against fascist politics. This does not make left and liberal politics the same or part of the same thing. They are fundamentally opposed in a way where the underlying assumption of the philosophy that defines them are incompatible so that accepting one of these assumptions makes accepting the other impossible.

    refusal to unite against fascism

    it's not productive as you said but I think there can be much said about the concept of accepting that one can fight fascism without outwardly doing it towing a liberal party line. Said another way if liberals will not join leftists in their way of fighting fascism, why should the reverse be generally true.

    In all honesty it just feels like a case of US brained political understanding or just like not well read. It's the kinda environment where someone will call out Mamdani, sanders, obama, and bill gates for not uniting under one flag to fight orange hitler. Maybe they will but it should be obvious that it's gonna be a temporary and strenuous marriage at best.

    From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_politics paragraph 3 and 4 it should illustrate why Obama is not considered part of the Left even though part of his campaign and probably governance could be considered center-left

    Ideologies considered to be left-wing vary greatly depending on the placement along the political spectrum in a given time and place. At the end of the 18th century, upon the founding of the first liberal democracies, the term Left was used to describe liberalism in the United States and republicanism in France, supporting a lesser degree of hierarchical decision-making than the right-wing politics of the traditional conservatives and monarchists. In modern politics, the term Left typically applies to ideologies and movements to the left of classical liberalism, supporting some degree of democracy in the economic sphere.

    Today, ideologies such as social liberalism and social democracy are considered to be centre-left, while the Left is typically reserved for movements more critical of capitalism ,[9] including the labour movement, socialism, anarchism, communism, Marxism, and syndicalism, each of which rose to prominence in the 19th and 20th centuries.[10] In addition, the term left-wing has also been applied to a broad range of culturally liberal and progressive social movements,[11] including the civil rights movement, feminist movement, LGBTQ rights movement, abortion-rights movements, multiculturalism, anti-war movement, and environmental movement,[12][13] as well as a wide range of political parties.[14][15][16]‌

  • What are some of the best Christmas markets worth visiting in the EU? [AskEurope]

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  • Cologne has more than just Domplatte which is very full, although it is hard to find any that are not at least somewhat full just because the city already has 1M and there's maybe up to 2/10 of that in visitors around that time as well. I'm of the opinion that none of these are worth it at night because it's too crowded for me. On a weekday earlier than about 4pm they can be quite enjoyable.

    • Domplatte : right next to the Dom and very full almost always, skip-able unless you need Dom specific merch
    • Heumarkt - Alter Markt : Center of the old city often with quite cute stall design and ice skating on the Heumarkt this is where I'd go first because after the Dom it's the first to get crowded. The stalls are good and the location is nice so I'd say take a peek.
    • Schokoladenmuseum: Quite nice and on the water has the ferris wheel typically, not that coordinated but still nice. And not that central so a bit more bearable in terms of crowds.
    • Neumarkt and Rudolfplatz: I end up hushing through these mostly Can be nice but they are both smaller and more geared towards food

    There is at least another 5 in the city I've never been to

  • Obama calls Mamdani to praise his campaign and offers to be sounding board

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  • The problem is more that people conflate liberal and left through Obama. Like you are doing in this very comment. If you know what left politics is it's obvious that Obama isn't part of this.

    If Obama is good or bad, whether he carried some better than conservative policy, or got something done really doesn't matter because he isn't a left politician, so placing him as one will generate resistance not because everyone on the left sees him as evil, but because he is obviously not left to people who understand what 'left' and or 'liberal' means.

    It's an error in categorization on the part of the one conflating Obama and left, not a failure of "left purity" on Obamas part, he never was left to anyone paying attention, at best he used left messaging and heritage to promote a liberal campaign. Which might be the second reason many are sometimes angry with him, he used left aesthetics and talking points, while in retrospect not caring all that deeply about them, which to someone starting out naively optimistic about the prospect of an Obama White house, feels like betrayal, not because Obama really betrayed them as such, more because over time they came to realize he was never really fighting for them to begin with.

  • Don't fix the problem just change the parameters

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  • Idk in our university lecture halls we had HH:MM.sss digital clocks and it's obviously superior for exams because you can just compare the numbers instead of translating and then comparing the numbers. And I'm pretty sure that's why they were digital, because it's easier to quickly compare.

  • How do you work at a job where you fundamentally disagree with the company's ethics?

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  • Burnout my friend.

  • ich👍iel

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  • Soweit ich weiß ist THC der appetitanreger auf welchen man sich dann einstellt.

    Ist nicht wirklich zu empfehlen hol dir lieber ozempic wenn Appetit suppression wirklich wie ein sinnvoller weg erscheint.

  • Innovators rethink bike seat design to combat cycling saddle pain

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  • Unlike uncomfortable shoes the saddles have a point, not chafing/ allowing for the pedalling movement while also supporting part of the riders weight.

    Wide/cushiony saddles prioritize comfort of the latter point over the former. They will support more of the riders weight more comfortably, while neglecting the comfort of the movements of the rider. So on shorter and easier rides the cushion saddle is fine, the longer you go the more such a saddle will cause discomfort.

    If your saddle works for you by God keep using it, im just trying to explain why other people use different ones.

  • ich👍iel

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  • Ich würde sagen der normal Appetit wird verkleinert durch regelmäßiges kiffen, das kiffen an sich wirkt immer noch Appetit anregend ist dann aber auch notwendig um wieder auf normal zu kommen.

    Wenn man eh eher zu Untergewicht hang hatt durchaus eine Problematik.

  • Innovators rethink bike seat design to combat cycling saddle pain

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  • The thing is if you would've stuck with that setup for a month or 2 (assuming a not overweight person, and the saddle being correctly sized/ the whole bike fit being correctish ) the agony would have most likely subsided. And it likely wouldn't have existed if you had built up/ trained yourself to it in smaller steps. Starting with rides as short as 15min.

    It's almost like saying running 10km is impossible after your first run in years. Or hitting the bullseye in dart is impossible after your first game. The saddle requires training. The position and movements on the bike require training. Because if not trained your body will be sore, if you overdo it.

  • What's your solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict?

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  • What's your solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict?

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  • Simple build a freezer over the entire area and let the Chinese decide in 2099.

  • This is on a facebook story about how driving faster than 50 km/hour increases the risk of pedestrians dying

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  • Not your parent comenter.

    I've been hit by cars twice and hit a car once and every time I've had the right of way. Tho I was on a bike, it just happens if you spend enough time in traffic I think.

    I didn't really get injured on either of these, 2 bikes got destroyed tho.

    I have tbf gone down pretty hard trying to overtake other cyclists which is also traffic but there it was certainly my own fault.

  • Coca-Cola rebrands products in Germany amid US image crisis

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  • I'm a mio mio cola junge but vita and afri are both also better than coke.

  • What is lunch like in exclusive private schools for rich kids?

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  • I was at one of the best schools in Turkey for a week on exchange.

    The cafeteria food i got to try was good but probably nothing special for Turkey in terms of dish selection and such. I really mostly remember eating sucuc scrambled eggs and sipping tea every morning.

    We only had one dinner at the school while I was there which was very nice and fancy, but it also was separate from the normal boarding school dinner. So quite a bit nicer for just our group of 60 especially I'd guess in terms of presentation. The chefs running the show were the same tho so the taste should be quite good even for regular dinner.

    The rest of the evenings as far as I can remember we were eating out and getting hammered in downtown Istanbul so the host students at least had some allowance to burn and so did the rest of us.

    I don't think I really ate anything that was close to bad or unappealing that entire week, but im also not that picky and Turkish food obviously slaps.

    German (no menu unfortunately): https://www.istanbullisesi.net/ Turkish (with menu) : https://istanbulerkeklisesi.meb.k12.tr/

  • What's your favourite menu music in a game?

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  • Need For Speed Most wanted (2005), Need for speed music of that time period was kinda goated in general.

  • Why can't countries with vast deserts make solar farms to power the world?

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  • There are a few factors that stand in the way of this setup, but a milder version of this where we are generally trying to tie power grids together to transmit solar and wind power from places with favorable conditions to users is underway. I know for example of at least one large project where Singapore is installing large scale solar in Australia and building undersea cables for transmission (1). So we are going in this direction despite difficulty.

    The main issues are:

    • Transmission is difficult and expensive. High voltage power lines especially undersea or very long ones are expensive things to construct, and still relatively uncommon and therefore specialized compared to regular grid infrastructure.
    • Oftentimes solar in the dessert is actually not that favorable in price especially if you factor in the transmission which is not 100% efficient. The site in the dessert might require security especially in places which are perceived as insecure or unstable and regular cleaning if the dessert is dusty. And solar obviously benefits from more sun hours and no cloud cover, but high temperature eats into that advantage somewhat, as solar cells are less efficient at high temperatures (2).
    • The management and bureaucratic overhead rises for larger projects and projects involving several countries which is an issue for both regular grid interconnection but also purpose specific generation and transmission involving 2 or more countries.

    There are probably other issues but work is being pursued nonetheless.

    (1): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia-Asia_Power_Link

    Other examples I could find with a quick google:

    China:

    https://www.renewable-ei.org/pdfdownload/activities/GEIDCO_191126.pdf

    EU: https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/breaking-borders-europe-electricity-interconnectors/

    US: https://www.gridunited.com/projects/

    (2):https://8msolar.com/solar-panel-efficiency-vs-temperature/