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by InSteady 3y ago
Since we're talking about e-bikes, more and more of them can maintain 20 mph with or without pedal assist and some can get up to 27 mph with pedal assist. But either way, you'd have to be a snail-pace rider for a 2-minute car ride
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by InSteady 3y ago
This is true, but ROI on improving infrastructure and city-planning to revolve more around bikes and other alternative forms of transportation is going to be way higher in the long run if done thoughtfully. Especially as e-bikes continue to
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by InSteady 3y ago
I almost convinced myself you were talking about Portland, Maine because what you're saying doesn't fit at all with my experience here. We get one stretch of 3 days of snow per year on average, usually 2" or less when it come
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by InSteady 3y ago
You are being a bit reductive. For understandable reasons: the articles actually are repetitive and not terribly information-dense. This is because most of what sciences has uncovered about the microbiome so far does not translate well to j
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by InSteady 3y ago
Color me not shocked that some philosophy major has carved out a fiefdom on wikipedia and jealously guards it against all would-be contributors.
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by InSteady 3y ago
Life is finite, life is short. It can also feel quite long in certain stretches, particularly when you are in any kind of agony (whether physical, emotional, or in your case philosophical). But ultimately it is quite short, especially compa
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by InSteady 3y ago
The problem comes when a significant number of people believe, whether correctly or incorrectly, that acquiring more money/power/etc (and sometimes specifically more money than their neighbor, family member, rival peer, etc) is wh
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by InSteady 3y ago
I'm surprised no one in this thread is talking about urbanization. I guess the trend has slowed little bit in recent years from it's breakneck speed, but by and large people are still shifting from rural to urban on the average an
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by InSteady 3y ago
Never let the archaic and reactionary nature of the legal system become your sole argument in a debate about ethics.
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by InSteady 3y ago
No you don't understand, if I have a single gripe or nit-pick about an article then the headline is automatically clickbait. Now lets talk about the headline ad nauseum instead of discussing the issues at hand (rinse, repeat for every
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by InSteady 3y ago
Wordiness is not always a virtue. The absence of your specific phrasing does not imply what you seem to think it implies. If you read a headline and make a bunch of assumptions that is on you. This is beyond criticism of clickbait and getti
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by InSteady 3y ago
>You could also frame it as "prevent the mass murder of children". You could if your notions of the world are informed by superstitions and ancient dogma rather than science. >A headline about this data in another state may
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by InSteady 3y ago
In some people's view, this is not an issue to pussyfoot around over. The states trying to criminalize personal healthcare decisions certainly aren't. What a dystopian nightmare it would be to be a single mother barely above the p
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by InSteady 3y ago
The truth is that anti-abortion states have made it extremely clear that they are willing to go to great lengths to criminalize personal healthcare decisions (one of the most important ones a person can make in their life). They will use th
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by InSteady 3y ago
Plus when people do take the time to thoroughly refute misinformation, it's getting easier and easier to drown out any signal that starts spreading with a cacophony of noise from bots.
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by InSteady 3y ago
Shit take. Young people make mistakes. So do full grown adults. This person isn't asking for your sympathy in any case, merely raising awareness of risks that sometimes (often in some circles) get glossed over.
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by InSteady 3y ago
It is indeed all speculation at this point, but that doesn't mean we can't use intuition and educated guesses to minimize risk and hopefully build on cultural wisdom regarding psychedelics until the science catches up (which I exp
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by InSteady 3y ago
Since we have began keeping records in the late 1800s, there have been 26 confirmed deaths from cougar attacks in the US. Which is not to say one shouldn't be smart and aware of the situational risks of any activity, but calling it &qu
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by InSteady 3y ago
Gold star for using the term scofflaws. Residential speeders are bunch of no-account ruffians if you ask me.
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by InSteady 3y ago
They may well go hand in hand. Through social media we are all bombarded with messages about how fucking terrible everything is on a daily basis. Unless you are incredibly selective about your social media usage, you can't spend 10 min
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by InSteady 3y ago
Yes people glance at their phone while walking. Just like drivers glance at their phone while driving (or fiddle with those stupid touch-screens that are ubiquitous now). But just like there aren't many drivers who would stare intently
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by InSteady 3y ago
I'm acutely aware of it as a bike commuter. It has saved my neck on a few occasions in the past three years since I have adopted the assumption that everyone in a vehicle is intentionally trying to kill me. It seems like it's a co
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by InSteady 3y ago
The person you're responding to sounds like they are rolling off a litany of automotive industry talking points. Especially the jab about "faulty equipment" in the form of bikes and scooters. Ah yes, we need to quarantine ped
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by InSteady 3y ago
Shame we can't instead invest billions into making public transit, especially the max lines running from the suburbs into downtown, far more efficient as a practical solution for commuters. The Esplanade is one of my favorite bike rout
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by InSteady 3y ago
I see this repeated whenever pedestrian fatalities are brought up, almost like clockwork. Is this really an epidemic of phone-gawkers that is causing a consistent increase in instances of cars killing people for their crime of entering a ro
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by InSteady 3y ago
No one claimed people do this. You have created a straw man-ception. Our awareness of the world is informed by distorted maps, even if it only impacts us subconsciously.
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by InSteady 3y ago
It also lowers serum leptin levels, which the body can interpret as "I'm starving" and send some strong signals to binge on food and stop moving around so much.
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If you read carefully through the study, the lowest dose does not show anything close to maximum effect in several of the most interesting metrics they were testing (shrinking of white adipose tissue cells, serum levels of leptin indicating
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by InSteady 3y ago
According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, it is a big enough concern to recommend safety equipment in exposure at or above 0.1 ppm. So most of the activities / sources on that diagram don't warrant to
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by InSteady 3y ago
I don't have personal experience with this online, but IRL when you volunteer the people you are helping face to face (and others who see your actions) tend to be pretty vocal about thanking you and otherwise showing that they respect

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