À se demander, comme à chaque fois, parmi ces gens outrés par la suppression d’un train de nuit, combien sont ceux qui ont jamais pris un train de nuit.

The deal with blackbirds is that only the adult males are (uh) black - but they also have a yellow eye-ring, which this one doesn’t. So I’m guessing it’s a juvenile male. Maybe a better expert will confirm! Dunno what else it could be if you’re in Europe.

Onnen [the presumed killer], who had joined the Nazi party before Hitler took power in 1933, came from an educated family and in his youth enjoyed “travelling, studying languages”, Matthäus said.

One interpretation is that evil is banal. Personally I’m not sure this even took evil. All you need do is convince someone of the truth of a narrative. Humans are storytelling creatures.

An interesting demo of how much storage space you gain by making the user straddle the thing.

YSK: this is clearly entirely jurisdiction-dependent and we don’t all live in the USA.

Unfalsifiable conjecture. Contradicts everything the people involved say themselves. Including transparently good actors like some of the board members.

Assumes bad faith, basically. Which ironically is one of the founding ills of social media.

Dammit that thing is cute.

Five grand for a 16 kilo bike. Come on.

That is one very black blackbird. Juvenile?

Rings a bit false that the USA slips so little.

Nothing is cleaner than a cat.

Perhaps we have difference thresholds for what constitutes nonsense.

The main issue IMO is outdatedness, and it’s reaching almost insurmountable proportions. Take a random article outside the 1000 most popular ones (and outside the generally decent ones on hard science) and you’ll find that the “center of balance” of cited dates is now a decade or more in the past. “As of 2009, the proposed bridge is awaiting approval”, “The budget was to be revised in June 2012”, etc. The problem is absolutely rampant. And completely logical because that was the period when all the editing was happening - the number of editors has dropped off hugely since then. And yet there’s very little appetite for deleting obsolete content. In my analysis that’s because the original generation of Wikipedians skew by nature towards the idealistic and tend to believe that all those articles will be updated and fixed eventually, it’s a just a question of time. Personally I’m not convinced. I think that idealism is misplaced and it’s now undermining the project.

Canary in the coal mine for the rest of the project?

Personally I’ve always worried about Wikipedia’s top-heaviness. It’s much easier to create content than to maintain it. Of those 7 million articles in EN, an awful lot are “short or unintelligible” or outright “nonsense” - and on top of that they’re becoming steadily out of date.

IMO this amazing project needs to move to retrenchment so as safeguard its reputation. Logically that means lots and lots of deletion. Not a popular opinion alas.

On est bien d’accord sur tout ça. Et du coup en Chine on voyagerait entre les grandes ville en train et en Europe (et aux USA) on le fera en avion en pourrissant l’atmosphère et donc la planète. Après tout, la bureaucratie et la démocratie nous “empêche” de faire autrement.

L’impact environnemental d’un voyage Paris-Berlin en TGV est beaucoup, beaucoup moins de celui du voyage équivalent en avion.

Opinion impopulaire : les trains de nuit ne vont jamais faire l’affaire pour l’immense majorité des gens, qui ne cherchent pas à voyager, ils veulent juste gagner rapidement Berlin ou Vienne. A terme, le seul moyen pour détrôner l’avion à ces distances c’est le TGV. Les Chinois, eux, ont compris, rien n’empêche l’Europe de les copier.

Hardly an issue because it plugs into a standard outlet and the battery is removable (slides out from inside the frame, bike is technically foldable). It has a capacity of 0.6kWh, so in theory charging it is like running a kettle for 40 minutes or so. Not enough to bother hotel owners, it turns out.

This is an excellent, well-written opinion piece with lots of thoughtful ideas. But in the feed, at a glance, it looks like just another low-effort video share (check out the domain)! I almost didn’t bother clicking. We need a new fediversal convention: if you’re posting primary original content (an article, basically), don’t do it as a link. Instead just post your article and put any links in the text.

Back to the point.

Do I think it’s a bit silly to bring a 150+ lbs “ebike” onto the ferry, or dangerous to ride along a multi-use trail on the side of a bridge when there are also pedestrians? Absolutely! But again, I think the takeaway is that the times are changing and preparations must be made in anticipation.

As owner of an 85 lb EU-regs-conforming e-bike which looks like a motorbike (because fat tires mainly), I do agree in theory, but it’s an annoying situation. I’ve got the thing on trains recently (as is my right) but it involved fighting with staff a couple of times. I’m counting down the clock until some new regulation leaves me on the platform,

The really dumb thing IMO is that (at least here in Europe) kick scooters are now mostly banned from public transport because of battery safety or something. But those things take up a tenth the space of a bike. They’re a perfect fit with public transport IMO. Seems so irrational that a solution can’t be found.

Pedaliformes, the earliest Mobilitas, are powered by their own symbiotes while Motorigneis developed with an internal combustion engine and Electro-mobiliformes developed rapidly with many different forms to include the popular Kickscutiformes.

The associated diagram is inadvertently quite useful.

stopped recognising

Of course they didn’t. But this is about an initial recognition. This one feels unseemly to me personally.

Not saying it’s wrong in principle. It certainly feels like a “sympathy recognition”, much like Kosovo and indeed Timor Leste itself. But in those cases the putative independent states were not run (even partly) by religious extremists with overtly genocidal intentions.

Still, I will agree that things are not black and white.