Alcoholicorn
@Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
- Comment on Why do .ml users get a bad rep? 4 days ago:
It’s the same username, just on .ml. They’re just really obnoxious, the sort who goes down fighting about being allowed to say slurs.
- Comment on Why do .ml users get a bad rep? 4 days ago:
To maintain an overton window firmly within liberalism. Pre-emptively defederating hexbear “as a last resort” gave the game away.
- Comment on Why do .ml users get a bad rep? 5 days ago:
Weird, there’s no history in your mod log.
- 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 5 days ago:
Bikes are a much denser form a transportation; you can have 100s of bikes cross an intersection in the time it takes 4 cars to cross. You don’t want a traffic system where both have to wait, you prioritize the more efficient form of transit.
- 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 5 days ago:
Of course you should ban cars from areas of the city, but bikes still need to travel between those islands. If your “pedestrian area” is an island everyone has to drive to get to, it will fail.
- 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 6 days ago:
Right, so you don’t stop at a white line, you lower speed limits+add speed bumps, or protect your bikelanes.
- 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 6 days ago:
The issues you are identifying aren’t the fault of attempting to add non-car modes of transit, those people are just the victims. The issues is that they add them while fearing slowing down drivers or taking away parking or lane space. If drivers are swerving into unprotected bike lanes, you don’t go “guess bike lanes can’t work”, you protect the bike lane. If drivers are hitting bicyclists when there’s no bike lanes, build more bike lanes and slow the traffic down. Ride a bike in HCMC or Hanoi some time. There’s literally thousands of bikes on the road, swarming cars, trucks, buses, and pedestrians. Serious accidents are very rare in the city, and typically involve texting or drinking. If drivers in your area drive too dangerously for mixed traffic, the problem is the drivers driving dangerously, not their victims.
It’s not implemented well, and it’s getting people killed.
So implement them better, either ban right on reds or start ticketing drivers who don’t come to a complete stop.
As for e-bikes: They’re basically not regulated, there’s supposedly a classification system for them, which people ignore. There’s no enforcement, and they do whatever the hell they want, including riding at travel lane speeds on sidewalks, which causes collisions because no other traffic, vehicle or pedestrian, is expecting 20+mph traffic on the sidewalk
Design sidewalks better. Couriers use bikes on sidewalks across east asia, except Japan, nobody cares. You can slow heavy ebikes via pavers, or block them entirely by requiring they be lifted a certain height.
- Comment on We can play that game too 6 days ago:
Common Caleb L.
- 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 6 days ago:
So is the problem that there’s too much support for non-car infrastructure, or that there’s so little they get away with half-assing it, and not slowing the cars down enough that the road is safe?
As far as mopeds in traffic, the problem is obviously the cars running them over, wtf?
- 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 6 days ago:
Terminal car brain
- Comment on Nvidia lobbies White House and wins loosened AI GPU export control to China — U.S. lawmakers reportedly reject GAIN AI Act. There is another bill in the works. 1 week ago:
I see tons of foreign cars here in China.
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 1 week ago:
once meta leaves the VR space it will be exclusively for enthusiasts and low quality indie games.
I literally never even heard of anything associated with Horizons that wasn’t a low-quality cashgrab or some kind of scam.
- Comment on Chasing the Elephant 1 week ago:
“The elephant in the room”
- Comment on car producers 2 weeks ago:
If only literally any other company had that branding. Why does the archetypal American bike have to be some 800 lb monstrosity that’s constantly having minor mechanical issues, and impractical for going to work or getting groceries, or going around traffic, that absolutely sucks to pull onto a curb?
- Comment on car producers 2 weeks ago:
I don’t remember seeing 1 jeep in China, but every mall has a Jeep clothing store.
- Comment on Scientific Exposure 2 weeks ago:
If you told me that dude was Reagan’s nephew, I wouldn’t even bother to check.
- Comment on Elon Musk Had Grok Rewrite Wikipedia. It Calls Hitler “The Führer.” 2 weeks ago:
I mean it is biased, just not biased enough for Musk.
- Comment on I work long hour and make little money 2 weeks ago:
dissent = trouble shut up = safe
That’s true in the US, anyone who thinks they have free speech hasn’t said anything that anyone cared about, and were asleep the entirety of 2020 and hasn’t turned on the news now that Trump’s ICE are so wildly incompetent they don’t even bother to obfuscate what they’re doing.
Those who don’t move don’t notice their chains.
- Comment on After Today's meeting where Trump fell in love with Mamdani, this is MAGA tomorrow morning. 2 weeks ago:
“This food has never been touched by human hands.”
-Trump, talking about McDonald’s.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
You’re supposed to change their feed when they get to the desired size.
- Comment on Racism restaurant 2 weeks ago:
Combine with butter and sodium citrate to make any cheese meltable.
- Comment on Radon 3 weeks ago:
I jack lumber.
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting Theory. 3 weeks ago:
Do you know how misshapen and lumpy Trump’s body is? That man’s tailor is a miracle worker to turn that into “wtf is that” into merely “oh, the suit looks too big”.
- Comment on A man can dream, can’t he? 3 weeks ago:
What coward is downvoting this?
- Comment on Baby boomers want to axe property taxes. Millennials and Gen Z would pay for it. 3 weeks ago:
Can you move in with the kid? Give them an interest free loan to build you a Finished Room Over Garage or basement apartment, to be repaid upon selling the house.
- Comment on Baby boomers want to axe property taxes. Millennials and Gen Z would pay for it. 3 weeks ago:
Flee country, move to a place where rent is <500 USD.
- Comment on 🔥🔥🔥 3 weeks ago:
You understand that’s not any better right?
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 3 weeks ago:
The average EU politician is 50. They were 25 when Napster did its thing.
There will be no change as long as the EU is fundamentally a liberal institution.
- Comment on I've heard New Yorkers are devastated 4 weeks ago:
People who run companies are a tiny minority.
- Comment on What the democrats just did. 4 weeks ago:
Did you even read your own source? <5% of registered dems blamed the dems, and ~21% of registered independents.