One inch sensor in a phone is incredible. Hope that tech makes it over here

Superfeet are pretty great, but spendy. All the good ones are. Sole are also good but dont last as long ime.

Honestly, I kinda get it. It’s getting really hard to find real food. Fries taste WAY better cooked in lard. It used to be the norm, but is impossible to find now. Same with donuts or anything fried, really. Also gluten free stuff tastes like shit. I’m happy it became a trend for the actual celiacs out there though.

I know this is meant to be funny, but animal fat > vegetable or palm oil any day.

I don’t know much about the guy’s track record in council. But I did tune into the debate before the mayoral election, and two things stood out. First, was that he sounded incredibly reasonable, which was a surprise to me as my leftist echo chamber had me thinking he was an extremist. Second, the whole debate was respectful, sane, and that all the candidates seemed to want the best for the city.

Municipal political partisanship will destroy what seems to me to be the last bastion of cooperative politics in the country, which is a real shame.

The other day a jeep wrangler swiped my car in a parking lot and drove off. I wasn’t there but a kind bystander saw it and left their number and the offenders license plate. The damage wasn’t small, but also small enough for me to shrug off because it’s a 2014 golf wagon and in the end it’s just a car.

But the hit and run pissed me off enough that I reported it. The cops found the driver who will be ticketed now and their insurance will go up. If they fessed up I’d have let it slide.

At least your dude fessed up. And yes, they’d all have a much easier time parking if they chose a sensible car.

I use a keyboard remapper to change the key next to space (windows maybe? Not at my desk) to control. So acts like cmnd. You could do the same in reverse on mac instead. I also recommend changing right opt on mac to forward delete. Gamechanger, that one.

I have a seriously hard time believing there’s anyone dumb enough to buy that

Congrats!! That’s some seriously quick progression, great job!

I’ll take “last organisms standing on earth” for 100 , Alex.

I suppose the double edge sword of sponsoring an F1 team is more scrutiny. They should know better.

In my perfect world, multilaned roads would be split up. Two or 3 smaller lanes would go to the ebikes and velomobiles, but since lanes are so huge on our current roads, there would still be space left over for full sized cars. Those would include busses, which would now be freed up with almost no traffic to become the quickest way to cover long distances (think one end of a sprawled city to another). It would also include the delivery vehicles and work vehicles with stringent licensing. Perhaps automatic plate checks for people headed to a highway road trip.

What you’re describing would fit great on the ebikes roads though for short distance public transit, although the pedaling might be more for fun and exercise than a requirement, as they would need to serve people of all sorts of physical abilities. With slower speeds, would also be a great case for autonomous microbuses, which are being tested in various places.

Again, all a pipe dream, but the funny thing is is that we have all the infrastructure, technology, and vehicles (can start with golf carts) needed to achieve it extremely quickly if there was ever the will to do so.

This is a dumb policy and I too hate the UCP, but what does this have to do with Calgary specifically?

I’ve always been fascinated by these things. When you think of the relatively miniscule amount of energy it takes for a cyclist to move along at 30km/hr, or an ebiker to move along at twice that speed, it’s absolutely insane that we use 4000lb cars to move us just a bit faster still.

If we were all to drive around in 100lb electric velomobiles with speed limits capped at around 80km/hr, everything would work better. There would be fewer safety issues, road maintenance would become almost negligible, and traffic and parking would be largely solved

Obviously, highway vehicles and towing and delivery would all still be a thing, so this would need a completely separate road network and is basically impossible, but man are cars overkill for getting us from a to b.

This is interesting. On the one hand, seems great that such a cast area will be redirected and protected. On the other, it’s being done by a private company to offset terrible activities. And while a big area, on the global scale it seems tiny.

It sort of makes clear that credits, even when followed, are not going to be enough to solve climate change.

Crikey

I feel like we (or the US at least) is past the point of being able to have a common enemy. Covid should have been a rallying cry. It wasn’t. Putin’s war should have universal condemnation, it doesn’t. politics, especially in the US but also elsewhere, prevent us from seeing a common threat. It’s obviously also the case with climate change, even moreso.

Unless the enemy is wearing a turban and flies a plane into a building, I’m not sure what woild inspire a wartime-like effort in the US.

It’s kind of surprising to me that such a huge ship only needed 21 crew members. Also 7 had to jump overboard because the fire spread so fast.

Fortnine on YouTube recently did a video on using a rugged android phone as a motorcycle computer. It could work well for bikes too. After watching that I looked into it, and there are quite a few options available at all different sizes, many under $200.

Maybe you or someone here can tell me why it’s a bad idea on a bike

This guy taking some pretty long showers

I guess there’s a Tucker Carlson sized hole of hatred that the other anchors are clamoring to fill