lemming934

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Cars are faster, cover long distances which are just infeasible for bikes, are more comfortable, can be used in bad weather, and are needed for people with disabilities.

In many cases the long distances were created by cars. Cities worked fine before cars. But cars demand so much space that cities became spread out.

A solution to this problem is to repopulate city centers around the country by replacing parking lots with mixed use buildings.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

In lots of cities vacancy rates are too low making it hard to find housing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

The electric interurban railways in America talks about the history of electric passenger trains that connected American cities particularly in the Midwest. Lots of fun maps of the networks and they describe how all the companies failed.

Thought it was written with a 1960s carbrain perspective, the information is interesting

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I typically use Wolfram alpha for more complicated date math, and it answers a slightly modified version of this question correctly: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=what+day+is+the+11th

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Ive used pythorhead which seems to be more actively maintained

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

It also works for me. On macos and linux /usr/bin/env python3 -c "print(chr(ord('🚗') ^ 0x20))" gives you 🚷

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Awesome! Looking forward to more American cities joining

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Inheritance is clearly societal ill, and even on a personal level, depending on inheritance might cause family troubles

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I guess before mas production of cars, bicycles were the aggressively marketed luxury consumerist product.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

If enough states decide to give their votes to the winner of the popular vote, this would solve the problems of the electoral college. A fair number of states already agreed to the popular vote compact. We just need the big Republican states to agree. Which probably will happen after a Democrat wins the electoral college after loosing the popular vote.

The way politics are trending, with more white Democrats and non-white Republicans, the electoral college advantage for Republicans is fading.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I wouldnt bike on that painted bike lane across a right turn slip lane designed to make cars slow down as little as possible coming off the freeway

There should be a protected bike lane in the median with a dedicated signal where the diamonds cross

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)
 

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