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by Fricken 3y ago
Sounds better than going forward 120 years into the future at the rate we're going.
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by Fricken 3y ago
Going whole hog with an unsustainable technology is not reasonable, never was.
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by Fricken 3y ago
Quite the opposite. Automakers passed the responsibility on to people who don't even drive.
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by Fricken 3y ago
For even longer it's been clear that any collective (or state for that matter) is made up entirely of individuals. In this case millions of individuals who can't help but give tens of thousands of dollars to the fossil fuel indust
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by Fricken 3y ago
I've read those numbers, and my anecdotal experience more or less corresponds to them. I know plenty of people who acknowledge climate change and think it is serious. They've all had their whole lives to make climate conscious lif
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by Fricken 3y ago
>People by and large understand and ask for and vote for solutions to this. They really haven't, no. Corporations don't want to take responsibility for their actions, governments don't want to, and big surprise: individual
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by Fricken 3y ago
Reason is slave to the passions. If it doesn't resonate at an emotional level we don't care. It doesn't matter if we understand. We also have to give a fuck, and clearly we don't.
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by Fricken 3y ago
Young men have a genetic proclivity for getting their asses handed to them in war. It's surprisingly easy to order men to their deaths when they're convinced it's to protect their tribe from some other tribal threat. We'
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by Fricken 3y ago
I'm imagining myself going heli-skiing without the need for a helicopter, a flying chairlift that can take one to any part of the mountain, but I can imagine that too. I wonder how reliable it is. Presumably there isn't much real-
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by Fricken 3y ago
Cars are the leading killers of kids in America.
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by Fricken 3y ago
Those are the ingredients for factory produced bread. You need to go live in a higher density neighbourhood that can facilitate a local bakery. The bakery I (sometimes) go to sells 3-day fermented artisanal hand-made sourdough baguettes for
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by Fricken 3y ago
There is a variety of cargo cages on the market designed to support drybags on the forks, however the majority require that your forks have the proper mounts: https://bikepacking.com/index/cargo-cages-anything-bags&#x2F
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by Fricken 3y ago
What did the UN Secretary general say the other day? He said "Humanity has opened the gates of Hell", which, I think, is a much more sensible and down-tempo way to phrase it.
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by Fricken 3y ago
If something was going to change their mind it would be changed by now.
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by Fricken 3y ago
Well, cars are noisy, dirty, expensive to both individuals and taxpayers, they clog up roads, and are inherently anti-social. We have a climate crisis, an obesity crisis, and also a mental health crisis, and bikes serve to alleviate all tho
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by Fricken 3y ago
Getting a car started in those conditions is time consuming as well. Then you sit in a cold car freezing your ass off while waiting for it to warm up. On a bike it takes about as long to get the blood flowing, and once acclimatized the ride
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by Fricken 3y ago
Yes, I directed it. It turned out well enough, and it had a decent run on the festival circuit. As someone who grew up watching NFB shorts, it's kind of nice having something in the archives.
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by Fricken 3y ago
Orson Welles couldn't get his movies funded. Van Gogh never sold a painting. Mozart was near broke most of his career. The list of great artists who struggled to fund/sell and generally make a living off their work is so long it&#
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by Fricken 3y ago
Here's my contribution to the NFB archives: https://www.nfb.ca/film/snow-warrior/
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by Fricken 3y ago
-20°C is plenty comfortable to ride if you know how to dress for the weather.
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by Fricken 3y ago
I also had a 2 year sedentary period, following an injury, in which I slowly but steadily accumulated an extra 25 pounds. When I decided to do something about myself I first had to get fit, and when fit enough I took that weight off over 5
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by Fricken 3y ago
I completed an 8 day bike tour a week ago and came back less 8 pounds of weight I was doing my damnedest to not lose. I just couldn't eat enough. My metabolism was jacked up like a hummingbird, it has only in the past couple days coole
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by Fricken 3y ago
One pet peeve of mine is ice cream being measured by volume. Similar dairy products, such as yogurt, sour cream, and cottage cheese all go by weight. The problem is that cheap ice cream is full of air. The volume is irrelevant unless you kn
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by Fricken 3y ago
Here's a letter signed by Marc Andreesen, one the major investors in this project, to the mayor and city council of Atherton, where he resides: >I am writing this letter to communicate our IMMENSE objection to the creation of multif
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by Fricken 3y ago
I think you have a dismissive attitude towards meat. There is more elegance and complexity in a single cell than anything man has made with our own hands.
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by Fricken 3y ago
Yeah, You're way off your game when you're drunk. I learned that lesson the hard way a few times over in my early 20s (though not so hard that I needed a trip to the hospital).
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by Fricken 3y ago
We called those "baby drops", and flipping back off the swing seat as it comes forward we called "cherry pickers". I'm 46 now, I can still do both. Once you've learned them, they're easy.
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by Fricken 3y ago
Same goes for you idiots
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by Fricken 3y ago
Self driving cars are just another rent extraction scheme from billionaire venture capitalists.
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by Fricken 3y ago
The civilians should be more obedient while we work on new and devious ways of extracting rent from them.

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