it entirely depends on the qualities of the water, and temperature. My water tastes utterly uninteresting unless i cool it down to fridge temps, which makes it very tasty. Some of the best tasting water i’ve had was from an old well that was super cold and tasted like metal in a very refreshing way.

i’m not sure what you mean by this, and it sounds quite worrying

this is the only reason i have a bread box, in which i keep 7 bobby pins and a screwdriver.

why i’ll use the fucking godot engine if i ever have to make a graphical program, and otherwise will merrily stick to scripting in python which literally requires no boilerplate at all.

Even if you just want a simple qt/gtk/windows program it takes so much more faff compared to scripting, meanwhile with godot it’s specifically geared to let you easily make graphical programs that run anywhere! Yeah it’s a game engine but fuck it, it works.

i never don’t have those thoughts, which is why my keys are on a lanyard and i think popsockets are mandatory for phones, i got an iron grip on that motherfucker

american traffic design is almost explicitly hostile towards literally everyone except the rich people who profit from it, nothing about it is in any way beneficial to any user of the infrastructure, in any way whatsoever.
It sounds like hyperbole but seriously, it’s INSANE to have massive highways with traffic at a standstill, there’s no fucking excuse for it.

I like to say that the nordics historically is what it looks like when you truly build car-centric infrastructure: We recognize that a lot of people cannot and should not drive, and that cars on roads fundamentally can only support a certain amount of people; thus we spend just enough money on non-car infrastructure that the roads don’t get clogged and that people who can’t or shouldn’t drive can baseline get by.
Then when we build the actually interesting car infrastructure we do a magical thing called “thinking about the design”, so generally every feature of a road, including where it’s placed and how it connects to other roads, has a reason for being designed that way. This means we’re not pissing away money on objectively useless or even actively detrimental infrastructure, and can instead spend it on making it easier to drive.

it’s possible to make perfectly nice underpasses instead, so long as the geography allows for it. And conveniently areas that are unfriendly to pedestrians almost always have lots of room to spare.

android is a box were the lid only closes halfway on its own, and it took them until now to care enough to close the lid

i mean, if you’re on a non-stock OS you can just not install google services at all, and instead use aurora store.

what precisely is the point of a reference implementation that isn’t good?

I’ve never seen an outright pull handle on a toilet door, it’s always a “normal” turn handle (usually the handle itself is used to lock the door), and i just cover my hand with a sleeve or i use my elbow to open it.

Fuck it, take maintenance into your own hand and snap the offending branches off. It takes 10 seconds so even if someone sees you do it and cares about it, they won’t have time to react before you bike away.

there’s something weirdly empowering about touching people’s cars. I’ve straight up slapped the rear end of cars that passed in front of me while i was using a pedestrian crossing, and it’s like getting to slap them in the face but without it being assault, or even hurting anything other than my hand.

People feel so utterly safe and isolated in cars that having someone on the outside affect you directly is incredibly jarring and punctures the sense of invulnerability

“hello bob. In front of you is a new employee who is going to operate dangerous machinery while following all protocols and keeping themselves safe. You have to get through the entire shift without telling him he’s a sissy for wearing ear protection, or you will be fired.”

but the bus driver is, you know, the person driving the bus; and thus the person who can think “hey there’s a person cycling on the road ahead, let’s slow down and get as far away from them as i can while passing, because i don’t want to make them shit themselves in fright”

When it comes to anything on rails it’s all VERY arbitrary and hard to define, but probably the single most useful and objective line you can draw is between systems that run on line-of-sight (like normal, cars/buses/bikes/walking) and systems that run on signals (99.999% of trains do this, the main exceptions being in places like depots and yards where the trains will go 40km/h max so they have time to stop if needed).

Other than that, “tram” almost always means it’s a smaller vehicle (primarily in width, but they’re also usually shorter as well) and it tends to at least partially run in/next to the street like buses do.

The main problem i have with any personal vehicle is that you have to bring it with you, which IMO is a pretty severe limitation in many cases.
Bike/scootershare systems are great for this reason, they let you combine the convenience of micromobility with the flexibility of not having a personal vehicle. For example if you live on a big hill you could take the bikeshare downhill, then going home when you’re all tired you can just hop on public transport home. Best of both worlds!

i maintain that in a sane world any even vaguely urban area would have transitioned to rideshares as the standard way of using a car 10 years ago.
It’s just objectively better in so many ways, even if you want to drive to work every day you can just get a smaller car for that and rent a larger one whenever you need it.

The greater Helsinki area has literally more than 20% of the entire Finnish population, and way more people than the largest city in Montana (Billings)

So, how exactly is what you said even remotely relevant to anything?

somehow the dutch seem to get by just fine cycling in the rain, despite also having good public transport…

You’re not made of sugar, and there’s no bad weather only bad clothing.