one has to wonder what the ideal thickness is, are we supposed to think it’s just never thin enough? will we have phones that literally cut into the skin of your hand as you hold it and they still brag about how the new model is 4 atoms thinner?
it’s not like they’re getting easier to hold, modern phones are so huge that you need a popsocket for it to be reliably and comfortably held.
“forcing doctors to write clearly legible notes will kill people” is probably my favourite take this month
“afford to live in a city” is such a violently american sentence it just gave me heartburn
right but literally everyone has a rear rack, is that not true in america? and it’s not particularly helpful for transporting anything other than mail packages.
we live in an age where almost all satire has happened at least 10 times
huh? any serious marketplace has cheap or free basic insurance for purchases.
the problem is most emphatically not people skipping stuff in school, the problem is that the world is filled with people who have literally researched how to mislead and manipulate people. The only classes i think would actively help protect you against this is history and political science.
We can’t expect everyone to be educated in every field so they can recognize misinformation, what we need is for everyone to recognize fascism and general authoritarian methods.
it’s obviously sped up and even if it wasn’t this seems like a perfectly reasonable speed to bike at. This looks to be america and so you rather have to go fast in order to reach your destination within the hour…
some people just have to do that to be comfortable, idk if my hip is twisted or something is up with my bike, but i need to nudge my saddle ever so slightly to the left for it to feel right.
what is it with the racks? i barely ever see anyone here in sweden use those, we all just have baskets in the front and rear and that gives enough capacity to rival bakfietsen, put the baskets on a cheapo e-bike and you effectively have a DIY cargo bike that looks normal.
“the rakers”, they’re really enthusiastic about gathering leaves
people talk about separation of church and state, but i’m pretty sure america has missed the even more important separation of government and state
the way it should work and how i think it works in most places these days; is that the parliament is the main thing that keeps things running and is made up of hundreds of people from different parties, and then on top of that you have the government which is a subset of those people who make larger decisions. And if for some reason the government ceases being able to function (e.g. because enough parliamentarians oppose the current government) then it mostly just means that the big decisions have to be delayed until government can be restored, and aside from that no one notices much of anything.
i will however merrily call him Rafael Edward Cruz, until such a time that he loudly proclaims that he supports trans people’s right to change their names.
if you’re not arnold schwarzenegger married to pamela andersson then you’re gay, sorry i don’t make the rules.
please tell me they experience different flavours from gems, like they’re candy, but the other party members keep trying to taste gems and it’s always just flavourless crystal.
and every now and then your sorcerer meets someone who shares their baffling ability to use gems as infinite gobstoppers, and they start enthusiastically chatting about what materials and cuts are best, as everyone else just looks on in confusion and exasperation
slightly neurotic diviner who almost always knows what’s optimal, and struggles between doing the obviously ideal thing or rejecting that and knowingly doing something suboptimal so they aren’t just a puppet to the magic
will never understand why people think frozen is automatically bad, frozen pizza is bog standard in nordic grocery stores and tastes great.
i’d imagine google can’t magically enforce this for old versions of android or custom roms, so just keep using that like 90% of us already do…
they’re still available, in electric even these days! Though tbh you’ll also get by perfectly fine with a normal bike that has a basket on the back, yeah you’ll have to lift it up and it’ll be a little bit wiggly with the weight up high, but it’s absolutely fine if you’re in normal health.