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Likes jazz, cycling and software development. Opinions my own only and don't reflect anyone I work for, know, am related to, make eye contact with.
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How does that follow from his post? If the car in the inner lane is going less than the speed limit you can still overtake in the outer lane.
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They were a trip hazard back in the days of the Empire. No idea why anyone thinks this a good idea now.
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I think it's usually that they're "big ideas" people with other sources of income who think that many of the tasks required to make something are mechanical, requiring very little effort or creativity, and that they could easily do them themselves if they weren't so busy with the vision stuff.
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I didn't even make it past the headline....
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Facebook in particular seems almost entirely full of "age appropriate" nostalgia content that I suspect is only a click or two away from Der Stürmer
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Phew. Because there's nothing that a busy delivery rider loves more than engaging in drawn out banter.
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On diversity, I think it was Richard Dawkins (I'm paraphrasing) who said that the hereditary system *is* more representative in that a complete idiot can get a place.
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It's a scary weakness in our political (and media) systems that makes it way too easy for supposedly moderate politicians to pull this stuff.
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Cars themselves insulate drivers from their bad driving, and governments and the criminal justice system often do a good job of the same.
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Hang on, but maybe he also has a troubled personal life and is haunted by an unsolved case decades earlier?
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These are the links referenced in the article
www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-the-...
www.oecd.org/en/publicati...
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All done by people saying stuff that "you're not allowed to say any more"
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I'm still interested in what the least woke roundabout would entail
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What else was the guy going to do for a living?
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County Meth looks nice
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I bet he's really annoyed at being left in this difficult, completely unforseeable position by the previous government.
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Yep, it's like comparing record player use with how often somebody visits a library (to be clear, I'm not making a qualitative judgement here about the relative merits of vinyl vs Spotify or libraries vs LLMs !)
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Any bus/bike lane proposals in the area are now attempts to trap you in your own home.
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Problem with these pieces is that they give a distorted opinion of how many of these absolute f*ckheads actually exist. Most people are probably fine with it, but by boosting this garbage they create an environment where even basic measures to protect vulnerable road users become political.
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Yep, I've tried to explain it to non-arthropod fans and they tend to glaze over. I'm going to have to read it again.....
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Amazing book! Best book I've read for years
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"How is Elaine, she left you yet?"
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SimAnt was a great game
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Brilliant that not ploughing your car into pedestrians and cyclists is woke.
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I'm always stuck in the middle between the kids loving ants and having endless fun making trails for them etc, and a partner who hates them with a vengeance.
(I'm not really in the middle - I'm in the "hey, cool, did you know they can lift a zillion times their body weight?" school)
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Also, you can of course disagree with Catherine Connelly, but if you find yourself accusing her of "vitriol" then that might be a sign that you've lost it somewhat.
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They get really arsey about it as well, like everybody is supposed to play along with the idea that earnestly expressing something is the same thing as taking action.
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As an aside, having borderline obnoxiously bright lights on my bike makes me feel way safer than any helmet :)
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I always wear a helmet when "sports" cycling and the main reason I usually wear one when just cycling round town is precisely because it removes an excuse for lenience on the part of the criminal justice system if a driver hits me.
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The problem is that it seems so obvious to those people that when you ask things like:
- why does nobody in The Netherlands wear a helmet?
- why does nobody ever consider helmets for car occupants even though head injuries are the main cause of death?
they assume you're being deliberately obtuse
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Yep, it's an article of faith alright that also comes from the view that cycling is inherently dangerous.
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A lot of people in good faith believe that compulsory helmets will make cycling safer because intuitively it seems right. But the evidence just isn't there that it works at a population level. It tends to reduce cycling overall without making it any safer. Which is why helmet requirements are rare
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Haha, just noticed that I got blocked by the poster that I'm responding to. Always a sure sign of confidence in one's argument if you put your fingers in your ears and go "laa laa laa!" when somebody disagrees with you.
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But what if he pulled his most serious/earnest face while voting?
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They're not compulsory in "many" other countries.
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It's the exact opposite of this
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This is unfortunately not surprising given the way the election turned out. What will be instructive will be whether the media continues to give a "free pass" to inaction by FF FG (by batting all questions to Greens) even though they supported the Climate Action Plan.
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If it doesn't involve the deployment of bulldozers then it's not proper infrastructure
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If you're an AI then a data center *is* your house.
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When it comes to cycling in Galway, there's no such thing as low-hanging because even something as simple as bollards to protect an existing bike lane are treated by some as an infringement on the rights of motorists to place their vehicles wherever they see fit.
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There's a real squeamishness about charging dangerous driving in general, probably because courts don't like to convict. I'm thinking of a recent case where someone was caught driving at 160km/h which by any sane metric is "dangerous" but the criminal justice system treats as merely "careless".
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They could have done one on concrete, or accountancy, and it would still make you want to pick it up.
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There seem to be sections of the media and political class who think that Alan Partridge is a real person who is actually very good at his job.
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Ooof, that's toe-curling stuff.