Shit this comment made me so thirsty good lord I need some water

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I’ll ride my bike around, ideally picking up some food and eating it somewhere public where I can people watch. Then the rest of the day I’ll play around with my guitar and/or some video games if I’m playing anything at the moment. (Still working on TotK right now)

There are dozens of us!

LET’S GOOOOOO

I used bacon reader for a couple years before switching to relay and staying there for like 10 years or something like that. Tried others here and there but always quickly went back to relay for one reason or another. I’ll be sad to see it go

I cannot imagine that marginal calorie burn from the 1-2 lbs difference in frame material is going to outweigh the impact of manufacturing costs and longevity of steel vs aluminum, though I do agree that these should be likey addressed after bikes have the infra and adoption sorted out. E-bikes still represent the best solution towards replacing car trips for the average person imo

I’m admittedly not familiar with how the program works but I suspect that “totally bulletproof and unbiased eligibility criteria that can’t / won’t be weaponized against specific people groups” isn’t something that it guarantees

wrong thread but still based. bike + transit gang

As someone with not a ton of exposure to this topic, it’s heartbreaking to hear about the environment that these people grow up in, and how life they are robbed of by an institution of fear and control. I cannot imagine how difficult it must be to break free of the cycle when everything and everyone you’ve ever known is working against you do hard. I’m glad that their children are thriving in school and showing them that all that effort and grief was for a reason.

Not lurking is such a hard habit to break. Especially with the way Reddit sorts comments, I’m so used to clicking into a thread to find some insightful discussion or hilarious joke that had already been made. But I’m trying my best, even by writing this comment!

I always feel the same way, but hey, even hearing you say that helps me feel seen and I’d say that’s pretty worthwhile for an Internet comment, isn’t it?

well well well if it isn’t a spot to post pictures of my butterscotch telecaster. 😉 Kidding aside, I came here to say this too!!

Agreed, would be nice to have a place to vent frustrations when Vegas inevitably wins the cup this year (Sharks fan)

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1. Oh absolutely I do. It’s just lurking there threatening the environment we all live in while we fight amongst ourselves about other stuff, constantly getting more and more alarming. Great.

2. After the entire state of CA introduced “catching on fire non-stop” as one of it’s seasons, I’ve mostly been focusing on my transportation patterns. I’ve become pretty anti-car and pro-transit, and I’ve decided against driving a car for any trips shorter than 5 miles, which accounts for over half of car trips in the US. We still have my girlfriend’s car that we use for longer trips outside of the citys transit network, but we’re living very car lite now.

3. We recently relocated to a city, mostly for walkability, but the climate here is a little cooler too which is a nice change from the triple digit summers we were getting in the suburbs too!

4. I think we can but dread that we won’t. I’m not super well versed but we keep blowing past the warning signs and the climate change we’re feeling now. Even if we were able to cut our emissions to 30% of what they are now, we’re still projected to exceed the 1.5C limit, and even that would be an incredible, even unbelievable win.

5. From what I’ve seen (not a lot!!), carbon recapture seems pretty inefficient and uses a lot of energy that could be leveraged elsewhere. Is it a waste of time? Not sure. It would depend on what the costs of R&D are to get it to something that actually scales, but in it’s current iteration it’s useless imo.

6. Honestly? I don’t know what to make of them. Seems fair, but also sounds extremely unlikely to actually happen, and probably something that should be sorted out after we actually have better solutions in place for slowing/stopping climate change.

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I think part of it is building support and having conversations with people you know about ways you might improve your town, or why its important that we rethink how our towns and cities are layed out and connected by transit.

Imo the danger with an article like this is that it doesn’t really address the fact that EVs are ultimately in support of a status quo of car dependency that isn’t compatible with a sustainable future, so even when we do improve the tech it shouldn’t distract from the long term goal of reducing car dependency.

Best of luck! Everyone starts somewhere and I bet the statistics on how many people are hired for roles perfectly in line with their background are pretty surprising.

Where my relay fam at