Tar_alcaran
@Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on We're switching produce! 12 minutes ago:
That’s impressive! I’m happy when my unions are bigger than a plum…
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 2 days ago:
It depends.
It isn’t that yarn in itself is expesive, but if you’re knitting/weaving, you’re not doing it to save money on socks, you want to make something cool and unique. If you really get into it, you’re going to eventually want that specialist wool/bamboo/elastane blend with a super specific colour grade and maybe a specific manufacturing method too. And that’s expensive.
Similarly, if you’re spinning your own yarn, you can get boring old for about half the price of boring old yarn, and even less if you dye big batches yourself. You can get a pretty nice wool for about a quarter of the price of the yarn, so far so good. But of course, if you’re spinning your own yarn, you’re going not doing that for production purposes, you want to make something cool and unique. So you’ll want to blend in specifics, like glitter nylons, or maybe even metalic fibers, and that long-fiber, ultra-fine angora will go great with a slightly thicker cairngorn, etc etc. And before you know it, you’re making yarn that costs maybe ten times what they sell at the local hobby shop.
And spinning wheels aren’t exactly cheap either. Mine was something like 800 euros, but you can easily spend four times that on an electric wheel. You can buy a LOT of yarn for that money. And lets not talk about how much wool I’ve ruined due to lack of skill.
- Comment on Tencent ‘Horizon clone’ pulled from stores as Sony settles lawsuit 2 days ago:
Yo dawg, I heard you like ads, so I put some ads in your ads so I can sell toys while I sell toys
- Comment on Russia Has Lost 1.2 Million Troops in Ukraine—More Than Its Entire Pre-War Army 2 days ago:
Im pretty sure the 1.2m number just measures casualties, not corpses.
If someone trips and breaks an ankle, that’s a casualty just as much as when someone tries to headbutt an FPV drone.
Only one of those is unrecoverable though.
- Comment on Russia Has Lost 1.2 Million Troops in Ukraine—More Than Its Entire Pre-War Army 2 days ago:
More like 35 years until they have 0 military age males left
Nah, the thing with “military age” is that you can write down a new set of numbers.
- Comment on Russia Has Lost 1.2 Million Troops in Ukraine—More Than Its Entire Pre-War Army 2 days ago:
the argument some people here make about Russia just trying to eliminate Nazis in Ukraine.
You should really block lemmy.ml, it’s much better for your blood pressure and mental health.
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 2 days ago:
Doing historical reenactment can be done in two ways:
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spend an absolute fuckload of time on everything.
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spend an absolute fuckload of money on everything.
The former is more historically accurate, but I completely understand not wanting to pick up flax farming as a side hobby.
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- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 2 days ago:
finding workable clay in nature is stupidly easy if you know what to look for
Workable clay may be hundreds of kilometers away, depending on where you live.
I mean, I’m in the Netherlands, i literally can’t avoid the stuff, but not everyone lives in a giant river delta.
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 2 days ago:
All the other ones also have copies floating on the great seas, and some are just plain free
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 2 days ago:
As someone who owns a spinning wheel, you can dye and spin yarn at home to make the money pit even wider and deeper!
- Comment on I'm not even gay 3 days ago:
It’s pretty much every other religion too.
- Comment on I'm not even gay 3 days ago:
Every pastor who raped a little had that exact back story
- Comment on Are you happy now, so-called "bleeding heart" libs? 3 days ago:
Average American kid-killer car
- Comment on life hack 4 days ago:
Sure, but you don’t go there as a punishment from god for a lack of belief, you go there because you did shitty things.
- Comment on Anish Kapoor 4 days ago:
Vantablack is applied via spraying it on at some 200 degrees C, then putting the object in a vacuum to let the nanotubes align.
Its not really a paint.
- Comment on big tobacco stopped paying 5 days ago:
Seperator meat has basically lost all of the properties of meat in term of flavour or texture, so why even bother with using dead animal at that point?
- Comment on Are all rich white guys pedophiles? 5 days ago:
That doesn’t seem very Joker-y
- Comment on Dragon Eye Water Bottle... 6 days ago:
Ok, let me rephrase that: even small hobby lathes are pretty big machines.
- Comment on Dragon Eye Water Bottle... 6 days ago:
Yeah, I don’t really consider that small. They’re not really a “put it away until I need it” tool.
- Comment on Control Resonant - Announcement Trailer | PS5 Games 6 days ago:
I loved Control, it had such a great setting and amazing world building that was constantly reinforced in your surroundings.
The Oldest House was an amazing place. I hope they can match it with the new area, a city just isn’t the same.
- Comment on Dragon Eye Water Bottle... 1 week ago:
I want a lathe too. But there really isn’t such a thing as a small hobby lathe.
- Comment on Lemmy users when they found out that there is people who don't think like them other than conservative 1 week ago:
All of them are spammy shit that they post far too many times. Good thing an easy block fixes that.
- Comment on Hytale can now be pre-ordered 1 week ago:
Can. But shouldn’t.
- Comment on ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE Announcement Trailer 1 week ago:
small levels centered on some gimmick that get boring on replays.
If I never have to fly through pointless glowing circles or highly dubious canyons ever again, it will still be too soon.
- Comment on "Man, I used to beat this level so easily when I was younger..." Me now not realizing I did it on Easy mode 1 week ago:
I grew up on Sonic the Hedgehog and Battletoads. The former is OK, the latter is absolutely impossible now even though I finished it on the Mega Drive when I was like… 12.
- Comment on "Man, I used to beat this level so easily when I was younger..." Me now not realizing I did it on Easy mode 1 week ago:
All the platformers I used to think were easy are now super hard, and all the RPG and RTS games are now much easier.
- Comment on YSK that in most countries, traffic fatalities have been falling. But in the U.S., the opposite happened. Americans die in rising numbers 1 week ago:
Because of how so many American towns and cities are built, you’d have to bulldoze entire cities to do things like eliminate small traffic lights from residential neighborhoods.
Weird how countries manage just fine without bulldozing. What they actually do is switch up road lanes and on-street parking, and it fits just fine.
Having multiple lanes in between level intersections adds pretty much nothing to the capacity anyway, so you may as well use it for something useful.
We’re not going to tear down the entire fucking nation for some retards on bicycles.
Terminal carbrain: not realizing that getting more people on bikes means fewer cars, less traffic and a nicer trip for literally everyone, including cars.
- Comment on YSK that in most countries, traffic fatalities have been falling. But in the U.S., the opposite happened. Americans die in rising numbers 1 week ago:
Your parents didn’t even try to educate you, did they?
I have a bachelor’s in civil engineering, and that’s part of the reason why I’m able to pierce through the deep coating of carbrain induced status-quo thinking.
You’re making all the wrong assumptions right from the start.
At a small stop-go light, like you might find in a residential neighborhood
These shouldn’t even exist. A residential neighborhood shouldn’t have traffic lights, and it should have a low enough speed and low enough volume of cars (only the people who live there should be driving there) that accidents should be rare and low risk.
The fact that you assume there’s a traffic light here starts from the basic assumption that there is so much car traffic that it needs managing. You’ve already designed your residential street wrong then.
A more medium size intersection
Skipping this, because these intersections shouldn’t have ANY bicycle interactions at all. If bikes are crossing your 4-lane divided highway, you’ve already designed your roads wrong. I would argue if you’re putting a full streetlevel crossing in, you’re also not doing great unless you get paid per traffic jam.
Note that these are two different environments; at an intersection in a city center, the speed limits are often 20mph, and frankly, bicycles should not have their own lanes there. By law they’re vehicles, they should be in traffic behaving the same as cars and have the right of way that cars do. Where they get themselves killed is trying to weave in and out of traffic, or insisting on putting in a parallel bike lane pretending it turns off friendly fire. “Just add to every driver’s cognitive load and make them responsible for my safety.” Fuck off.
A protected bike path and protected intersection REDUCE everyone’s mental load because it makes it practically impossible to hit a bike. And it separates bikes from traffic too, so they can’t weave.
The problem with American bike gutters with painted lines is that cars enter them constantly, by design. Cars cross the bike lane to park, they cross it to turn right, and something they just drive in it because the drivers are idiots. Or cars park in it because they’re idiots. And every time a car enters the bike path, the bike needs to move or die. So they move, creating more risks.
All of those problems go away with a raised barrier between the bikes and the cars. You can just stop thinking about them, because they’re in an entirely different lane that you physically can’t even get to. And if you turn right, you can treat them like any other vehicle again, where they’ll have the right of way or there’s a traffic light.
Meanwhile, back out on Some Road and Another Street, these have 45 and 55 mph speed limits, you’re traveling from town to town here, and these places pretty much should not see bicycle traffic.
Depends. A 20km bike ride is totally fine, an 80km one isn’t. But if there’s cars going 55mph right next to me, I won’t be taking a bike because that’s super dangerous. There should be a seperate bike path there as well, removing all risks.
Of course, only if it’s actually inhabited in that distance.
- Comment on YSK that in most countries, traffic fatalities have been falling. But in the U.S., the opposite happened. Americans die in rising numbers 1 week ago:
Bike lanes as I have seen them implemented are a lot like sidewalks; slower traffic is placed to the right of traffic lanes…except they do not expect to treat every intersection as a stop sign, and they interpret green lights for straight through as for them, even in conflict with right turning traffic.
Why the fuck would you have right turns on the same signal as straight? Why the shit wouldn’t you make protected intersections.
Your argument is basically “poorly designed roads are dangerous”. Yeah, they are, stop making them
- Comment on YSK that in most countries, traffic fatalities have been falling. But in the U.S., the opposite happened. Americans die in rising numbers 1 week ago:
All of those are policy choices though. None of that (except the old cities) happened by accident