Sometimes I struggle to stop scrolling and just go to sleep. But this meme has such poetry in it, it's my good piece of news for today. Makes me go to sleep with a smile on my face, thank you!
Nooodel
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The moral dilemma of not doxing someone vs celebrating them...
Context: riding s-Pedelec through a European city for 25km each way on commute several times a week over three seasons at any weather. Been doing since 3 years now. Majority of the path is cycle paths, lots of crossings and entrances that have cars coming out on the way.
Helmet:
- NTA8667 certified
- with MIPS
- integrated lighting
- windshield
(e. G. Lumos ultra ebike smart helmet). Mine is a bit older, that's the one I'd get now.
Vest: high vis with reflectors and good air circulation. Small rain jacket in the bike bag.
Trousers: reflectors there as well, always carry rain-proof trousers in your bike bag. 30mph make you freeze to your bones even in summer if you get wet and have wind running through your cloths
Gloves: depending on the season, high summer none, when temps are below 18degC light mountain bike gloves, when temps are below 12 thicker gloves. Beginning and end of the biking season skiing gloves.
Bike:
- spoke reflectors
- really loud horn. You want a car driver to jump when you press the horn not to be annoyed by you
- additional lights for driving in the rain
I never had an accident in three years but lots of close calls and I really try to save time on my commute, so I don't go slow. However, that being said I think similarly important to the right equipment is the mindset.
- Plan your route so that you avoid any tricky spots. E. G. My old route went on a stretch of road through the woods. I hated it bc the road turns meant car drivers could potentially not see me in time.
- be paranoid about car drivers
- be double paranoid about trucks. There's no do over after a truck accident, no matter what you wore.
- be paranoid about pedestrians. They'll randomly veer off path.
- never believe that a car driver will not just cut right across your way only bc they looked at you 1 second before. They do not understand how fast you are.
- I'd rather get sued than killed. There are spots where it is illegal to drive my bike on a cycling path (stupid laws). Same spot has a really tricky and dangerous stretch of road. I'm happy to pay the fee for having taken the bike path illegally, a lot cheaper than an accident.
- take care of others, be prepared to break. Normal cyclists are like turtles when you're riding an s-Pedelec. Keep proper distance and just factor in the few minutes extra for staying in line behind them for a mile each way
- Train braking from full speed in emergency mode. It's not that easy with such a heavy bike. Keep your emergency brake path also in mind when choosing your speed.
- assume they don't know you're there until you honked them.
That last one combines great with the paranoid rules above, don't honk in anger, honk to make others aware you're there. Also when driving in the rain in the dark you unlock a new mode! You're completely invisible, no matter how much lights you carry. That assumption saved my ass twice last season.
First time ever I heard Kazakhstan being called part of the European region.
Sorry, didn't know that. I was just looking for a video hosting site that requires no account. Happy for better suggestions on what to use next time
Was the first thing I found that let me upload a video for a few days w/o making an account
Wow, Delaware really has a jewel of a representative. Continuing with a flippant response to such an insult, afterwards declaring she's here to make life of her constituents better and refusing to rise to the bait of that mysoginistic POS? I wish there were more politicians like her.
Fife has a unique landscape, formed by its vulcanic past combined with the erosion of the sea. Different types of lava have different resilience, which is partially responsible for those stunning rock formations. Great shot!
So this one got some more than just the usual 'adjust contrast, desaturate, increase vibrance' treatment. After seeing what someone made of my fog post with some local contrast etc, I thought I'd experiment a bit. So I first did some work on the overall picture, toning down highlights, increasing ambiance, desaturating and setting the white balance a bit further to the cold side.
But then I added some extra darkening to the shadows of the road to increase its local contrast and lit up the shadowy regions of the mountains. Somehow that makes the image work a lot better now imho.
Saw this wonderful fog the other day and tried to capture it. Turns out it's not as easy as I first thought. Am not quite happy when th the result yet. Any pointers to how to capture fog well are very welcome :)
Skiing Hut from above, using a DJI Mini 3. Cropped, contrast up a notch, ambiance up half a notch and framed. Erased some artifacts (snow is good for that)
took two images with different exposure, overlayed them in gimp and used a mask to bring the cloud reflections from the darker shot into the lighter image of the island, no further editing
Increased the structure of the water, darkened the highlights to reduce over exposure of the boats. The shot was a bit tricky, I wanted to go higher up but it's in the outer controlled airspace of an airport which restricts altitude to 50m AGL
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Wow, this is so beautiful. Really nice shot!