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by Fricken 4y ago
It was eye opening hearing from nurses in covid wards talk about patients who would dent the existence of the disease with their last dying breaths. That's how hard people can deny reality when it scares them.
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by Fricken 4y ago
For a period Waymo was selling it's in-house lidar sensors that it called "laser bear honeycomb". So the headline threw me off, and I was wondering why The New Yorker would care about such a thing.
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by Fricken 4y ago
The debate before leaving on a winter morning is always "Bundle up now and stop 10 minutes into the ride to peel a layer off before getting sweaty", or "Freeze your ass off for the first several minutes until you're gene
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by Fricken 4y ago
I love this site. I've listened to the first 50 playlists about a dozen times each. It's perfect, I couldn't ask for better playlists.
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by Fricken 4y ago
We could also say the analogy is bad because not all of humanity can fit on a bus, but that would be a misunderstanding of what an analogy is for. If Doctorow wanted a perfect analogy for our attitudes towards climate change, then he wouldn
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by Fricken 4y ago
Well, once the event hits the news and it comes out that you sacrificed your saving to save some people, then it should be easy to set up a gofundme and recoup the costs, at least if you're like me and your life savings are paltry. You
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by Fricken 4y ago
This sketch from "Peep Show" is relevant to your argument: https://youtu.be/zFuMpYTyRjw
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by Fricken 4y ago
Michael Phelps is the all-time most decorated Olympian and, when training, he consumes plenty of burgers and pizza. Absurd quantities, in fact. Exercise is far more critical to fitness than nuances of diet. Of course, for many "fit&quo
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by Fricken 4y ago
Different types of exercise have different effects on our metabolism. It's an exaggeration to call it "micro-optimization", HIIT does not need to be complicated, just go do some sprints! Me personal experience checks out with
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by Fricken 4y ago
My hand-wavy anectdata checks out with the author's. After a broken leg, I had a 2 year long sedentary period in which I gained 20 pounds. I burned it off using HIIT and it took a little more than a month. I noticed results right away,
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by Fricken 4y ago
During the heatwave I set up an evaporative cooling system by hanging wet sheets in front of open windows on one side of the house. I had a cool draft running through the house, and out open windows on the other side. During the worst part
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by Fricken 4y ago
The vehicle shown has too many wheels to be a bike.
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by Fricken 4y ago
A friend of mine is a quadruple amputee. He can't drive a car, but he can use bike lanes and public transit just fine.
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by Fricken 4y ago
Some are suggesting more reading, and others are suggesting more writing. I propose that it is best to do both, and maintain active feedback loops between the two.
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by Fricken 4y ago
I've done my share of BMX, mountain biking, and winter riding (where minor wipeouts can be common). My last commuting wipeout was a couple years ago when I failed to register a speed bump while going pretty fast. I hit it, my front whe
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by Fricken 4y ago
I've been commuting by bicycle for nearly 40 years, under a broad array of circumstances, and the article's advice checks out with my own personal rules. Although the vast majority of the crashes and wipeouts I've suffered in
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by Fricken 4y ago
You can say whatever you like in North Korea, so long as you're prepared to accept the consequences.
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by Fricken 4y ago
Elon declared himself a "free speech absolutist" not too long ago. He would never do something like this.
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by Fricken 4y ago
The article dedicates most of it's word count emphasizing the need for good cycling infrastructure, but also notes that in Portland, while the cycling infrastructure is robust, ridership has failed to grow beyond a certain rate. Advoca
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by Fricken 4y ago
Shared stressors are how people form deep and lasting bonds. You have to endure an ordeal with someone. The war journalist Sebastien Junger wrote a whole book that emphasizes shared stressors, after spending time embedded with troops mannin
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by Fricken 4y ago
My experience with climbing is that functional core strength is mostly about developing coordination while under tension, and learning to use my core more efficiently for various movements. Moves that feel impossible one session can feel ea
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by Fricken 4y ago
I remind myself that taking transit costs $1200/year. That's what the poor people who can't afford a nice bike do. I don't come anywhere close to having a $1200 worth of bike stolen every year (I'm 45 and have had 7
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by Fricken 4y ago
I ran into old John Hoffman in Owen's last week. 78 yrs old and doing laps on a 5.11c. Has a surprising amount of muscle mass for a guy his age. He just never stopped climbing. Use it or lose it.
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by Fricken 4y ago
My Grade 8 science teacher gave the class a list of trick questions. One was "How far can a dog run into the forest?" "Until it gets to the centre", I said. "Nope" said Ms. Fulara. "It can run into the for
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by Fricken 4y ago
It makes the street seem more dangerous, which prompts drivers to slow down and be more cautious.
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by Fricken 5y ago
I just finished a trip to the Buttermilks, a climbing area on the eastern slopes of the Sierras. I was surprised to discover that the land is owned by the city of Los Angeles, so they can protect their freshwater source that is pumped and p
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by Fricken 5y ago
I have a friend who is a quadruple amputee. For him straws are pretty good. For the rest of us, the solution to plastic straws is not straws. They aren't necessary. Of course, it's all bike shedding anyhow. The real problems are b
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by Fricken 5y ago
You have to be into nerdy things to be regarded as a nerd. Mass culture doesn't count. Their nerdy interest isn't a nerdy interest anymore, it's been taken from them and changed into a popular interest. A hipster is just a ty
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by Fricken 5y ago
What dominates our culture is by definition not nerdy. It was taken from the nerds. The nerds lost. Now they have to go find some still obscure interest to invest their time in if they hope to retain their nerd status, otherwise they'r
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by Fricken 5y ago
It's originally a tongue-in-cheek term, first popularized by British Architects Allison and Peter Smithson. The double entendre was not lost on them. Architects have a sense of humour too.

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