Cars are an appliance.

Wouldn’t you think a toaster an appliance?

Do you think the people in this post have any decision making power over the type of infrastructure that gets built in their respective municipalities? Your comments here don’t show someone that wants safer biking through their city, just fruitless yelling at the wind.

Join an advocacy group in your community to pressure your councillors for modal separation. If there isn’t such a group, start one. Start a bike bus for your local elementary school. Start a bicycle based trash collection service for your neighbourhood. Do anything other than shit on people that may not have another option than driving due to their infrastructure. Antagonizing people only serves to harden their position.

Showing up to a huntering lodge and shouting about veganism isn’t going to help the cause. Instead, try inviting them to a barbeque and have plant based sliders for them to try.

Do you have a long commute or take road trips often? I ask because I used to have an hour commute. I enjoyed my car, but to your example, I enjoyed it only when I ‘wore’ it.

After I realised I didn’t enjoy the car when I wasn’t driving it, I realised something else. 90% of it’s life, 85% of my waking life, and 95% of my time away from work, it was just sitting somewhere waiting to driven again - not being ‘worn’. So I sold it and got something much cheaper in every way; to purchase, maintain, insure, refuel, etc.

Once I’d downgraded, it was funny to me how many people I knew were asking me if I were okay, as if I lost the nice car in a divorce or something haha.

I gotta say, it’s wild behaviour to come into a vehicle appreciation post and call them toasters hahaha.

Your bike is an egg timer, but if you’re passionate about egg timers then so be it, enjoy that countdown. When you find yourself in an artisanal grandfather clock festival, keep the egg timer in your pannier.

Likely situations where a person will be okay this month so they send another $20 or so and maybe a few months down the line, they are the one that needs a bit of help.

It’s like the proverb, “it takes a village”, only commoditized.

Maybe they’re right. Steve Carell once took action to protect the future from God’s plan. Maybe we do too.

It’s pretty obvious Krommidas has met an unfortunate fate. This law on the books about assuming an individual dead only after being missing for three years is surely meant for when a husband goes out for cigarettes, not when all the worldly possessions of a person training for a triathlon are left waiting by the water.

The judge’s Ballotpedia is lacking recent information, but in 2017 he ran in an election under the republican banner so just based on that, it’s not surprising to me he chose to follow the letter of the law here as doing so will ultimately benefit the republicans on the ballot come November.

The protected infrastructure is great for bicycles but the secondary benefit of reducing the crossing distance for foot traffic by almost half is my favourite part of this type of redesign.

Thank you for linking that video and doing what you can to share these conflict free sources you hold in such esteem.

I did a few searches and while I didn’t find that quote from Kurzgesagt’s CEO, I did find the contribution listed from a decade ago on the Gates foundation website. $570,000 paid out over four years. They also gave NPR $2,000,000 the next year.

Since I didn’t find the CEOs quote you’ve mentioned, I can only question the context around it. Would those videos not have been made because the Gates foundation specifically tied the funding to those videos being created? Or would they not have been made because Kurzgesagt didn’t have the money to do so otherwise?

Regardless, Kurzgesagt is a private company and if they wanted to conceal hidden agendas by corporate contributors, they would just keep quiet - not openly acknowledge that they made content with money given to them by some larger organisation.

If we’re going to denounce any group of people that are connected via Bacon’s Law to a disastrous corporate industry, the moral high ground will be unachievable for the entirety of our species.