teuast

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[–] teuast@lemmy.ca 10 points 10 months ago

That's true, but I think people would be less upset if they were actually running it, you know? Like I fell off like legit six or seven years ago when there was a promised Heavy Update 2, and I came back a few months ago to find that that was still MIA. And that kind of inaction is kind of why fans find themselves making these kinds of projects in the first place. So this does still feel hypocritical, even if they are entirely within their rights to do it.

[–] teuast@lemmy.ca 9 points 10 months ago

sentences that sound made up but have actual meaning

[–] teuast@lemmy.ca 12 points 10 months ago

They've put a lot of work into locking people into an ecosystem. To pick one example, if you've got a Logic project you want someone to be able to edit, even if you manage to migrate it with all of the required stuff, they're still going to need a Mac to open it.

[–] teuast@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago

and what pray tell would cause a neck kneel to be absolutely necessary

[–] teuast@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"remove our 2A rights" is a weird way to phrase "regulating gun availability to make it harder for people who intend to use them to kill people to get them." you know the text of the second amendment includes the phrase "well-regulated," almost as if they did not intend for gun availability to be the lawless wasteland that it currently effectively is.

[–] teuast@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

...All of them? That's literally how all of them work.

[–] teuast@lemmy.ca 19 points 11 months ago (2 children)

My car is a bicycle. Specifically it is a 2017 Masi CX Comp.

Why own a Ford when I have my Chevrolegs?

[–] teuast@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

that's the joke

[–] teuast@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They claim to be on track to make another profit year in 2024.

I'd give better odds to me becoming the king of Thailand in 2024.

[–] teuast@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

He used to be a right wing billionaire who loved spreading his propaganda. He still is, but he used to be, too.

[–] teuast@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago

ok then

What you've been failing to consider, which I think I may have been taking as read to my detriment, is that the way our cities are organized plays a big role in determining which mode of shipping is more effective. The denser of a center you have, the more businesses you have concentrated in one place, the more you need capacity and the less you need flexibility. That inverts as things get more spread out and stuff needs to get to more different places. When you have a city organized around its rail infrastructure rather than a sprawling car-dependent mess, that rail infrastructure absolutely kills at supplying the place, significantly reducing the severity of the last-mile problem.

I will also note that even the most anti-car places still rightfully allow for delivery vehicles, and neither I nor I think any other person who doesn't like cars would begrudge that. I personally just think that pretty much any shipping done by big rig when it could be done by rail is a missed opportunity.

Here are a few additional links for you to consider:

Trucking is heavily subsidized

The interstates are increasingly a metaphorical financial albatross around our collective neck

The places that are connected by and organized around rail are invariably the most economically productive areas of any city

[–] teuast@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Saying dense urbanism with plentiful public housing is a "communist fantasy" is literally too dumb to dignify with a response.

Meet me in Vienna and I'll buy you a beer.

 

I didn't crash, fortunately: my only physical complaint is sore shins from having to walk three miles in MTB shoes.

So the abridged version of the story is that I was up on the ridge trail on my gravel bike, and after I did a huge drop, found that my right side crank had come loose. Walked it in to the shop and my guy Ashton found that that side of the axle was welded into the crank, and the weld had failed and sheared off. He also said he'd never seen a break like that before, probably because most people who come into that shop don't ride their gravel bikes as much or as hard as I do. So while I'm still out a bike for a week while we wait for the replacement to arrive, I at least feel like I earned it.

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