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by nerdbert 3y ago
For me it's that aspartame tastes absolutely horrible. I can always pick it out in a drink. Can't stand it.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Does not sound like you have ever been anywhere near a combat situation. You don't know who is going to need to be able to drive something at the drop of a hat. And the more fiddly and complicated something gets, the more likely it is
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Admittedly I live in a large, dense Dutch city, but the small number of people I know in the city who have cars only use them for DIY shopping and occasional weekend trips, not for everyday driving. People have enough disposable income to b
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by nerdbert 3y ago
How much time have you spent here? That doesn't jibe with what I see at all. There are so many more giant truckish cars in France, Germany, and the UK than I see here in the Netherlands. I'm looking out my front window now and I s
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by nerdbert 3y ago
This idea that cars - which are a vastly more expensive and often slower way to get around cities - are by fundamental nature of the working class while bicycles belong to the elite, borders on the absurd. It's only this way because No
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I definitely want more housing near my land. It means more restaurants and shops that I can easily walk to, more likelihood that my friends will live in easy walking distance, etc.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> People with families need cars We have kids and since moving somewhere with good cycle infrastructure and convenient city planning I have never missed having a car. It works fine with cargo and individual bikes.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Bike theft is a fairly big thing here in Amsterdam but insurance is easy to get and affordable. For more expensive bikes they insist on certain types of locks, etc., and it's possible that simply following those requirements is enough
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by nerdbert 3y ago
There are few things in the world that I love more than riding a bike in a seriously dense megacity. Zipping past everyone is such an exhilarating feeling. Everywhere I go I rent a bike.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I've ridden the Citibikes with the gearless hubs, and I assume they wouldn't install something that breaks down easily, but it's so hard for me to imagine that something like that isn't a maintenance headache waiting to
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by nerdbert 3y ago
As someone who bikes in the touristiest Dutch city of them all, we aren't going to hit you. It is possible to do something so monumentally stupid as a pedestrian that you get hit and nobody could have helped you. That thing is to start
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by nerdbert 3y ago
"go too far" in what sense? The posting bots ("The words in your comment are in alphabetical order! I have read 4534654573657 comments and yours is only the 425834061th one in alphabetical order! Isn't that interesting?&
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by nerdbert 3y ago
It's so infuriating to use. Impossible to get the context of a comment when you have clicked to it from a notification. The "back" button follows a completely useless, near-random stack of things you have done in the past. An
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Exactly my experience and why I haven't signed up for Lemmy. I don't know what the hell any of those communities are and why/how I should pick one particular one as my home base or whatever, and not getting involved at all se
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by nerdbert 3y ago
You think no nefarious actors have ever used coded messages or even one-time pads to communicate via phone and email before the digital age?
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by nerdbert 3y ago
These laws were in the works for ages before Apple proposed its CSAM scanning tool. That was an attempt to get out ahead of it and neuter the pressure for those laws. But there was so much opposition that Apple's strategy failed.
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As a cyclist, they sort of can, it requires proper separated bike infrastructure, comprehensively linked. Still have to deal with cars at some intersections, and on streets that are so narrow that their full width from curb to curb is only
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I used to cart three kids around in a cargo bike, now they are old enough to cart themselves in their own bikes.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
The "bubble" is a place where planners worked hard to make things work well. There's nothing magical about it. Political and technical decisions make the difference between people having to waste time and risk everyone's
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Takes me 5-10 minutes max to get from my kitchen to the supermarket and back home, on foot. The streets are safe due to low car usage so if I needed something else while cooking, I could send my kids on their own from when they were about s
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I buy fresh food daily. Fruits and veggies from whichever stall in the local street market has the best options, bread from the baker, meat from the butcher. Packaged goods from one of the many supermarkets within easy walking distance. It
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I have two children of my own and am responsible for another. They all fit in a cargo bike when they were younger and now ride their own.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Most people aren't performing musicians, regardless of whether or not I have been one. I don't follow your logic. However, in any case, I do have a good friend who is a performing musician (classical). I often go to gigs where he
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> As mentioned in the article, they can get in the way of first responders. I don't think that's justifiable and should be something that these companies prioritize However I also don't want them sideswiping a cyclist in a
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> Cool, you have an affordable, tenuously waterproofed, chinese mass produced e-bike, it's your only available mode of transportation, you need to go into the office for a meeting, and it's raining. Welcome to hell. It's
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They work for the majority of people of all ages who live in cities where the infrastructure has been properly built to accommodate bikes. Most people rarely need to haul anything and can use carshare when they do. I've demoed a multis
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and (4) because they don't have a removable battery so people are always charging them in annoying places like common stairwells or with a cord through the mail slot of the front door.
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That sounds rough. Normally the guy at my corner does them for me within a few hours if it's something quick. If he's busy or on holiday I'll go to one of the other five or six bike shops within a few minutes' walk of th
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Change your payment method to one based in the EU and it becomes an EU Apple account.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I recently got the battery in my 6-year-old iPhone replaced by Apple for, as I recall, €55. Just brought it in and they did it, no applecare. Made the phone as good as new, I hope to use it until OS security updates stop, which should be at

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