Twice a car has come into the bike lane while I was in it and I swear my heart was in my throat. I was fine both times, but people get distracted and I’m all for barriers

Less traffic routes is usually my strategy as well. Annoying to lose the time, but so much less stressful having less cars around

I live in Montana in a city that is extremely bike friendly relative to nearby states. Still the little bits of friction make choosing to bike difficult. My work commute is 3 miles with a bike path most of the way, and then a bike lane for most of the rest. I biked to work every day this last year (even through the snow) and I loved it, but it made me bitter to how much cars are preferred.

Some of the crosswalks I use are parallel to a 45MPH stroad and I hate crossing them. Cars barely have to slow down to take the huge turns and they never are looking for pedestrians/bikes. I always stop and wait for a gap in cars because the chances I’m seen are just too low. Not Just Bikes has a good video on making crosswalks safer and I wish my city would take notes. One of my friends has been hit by a car 3 times because he’s more reckless on crosswalks than me - I hate saying reckless because it should be a place that’s safe for him to cross - no injuries ever.

In winter the bike paths were sometimes plowed, other times they’d just wait until the next storm. Snow drifts never were plowed. Studded tires are a must. The unreliability was a huge pain. I remember one snow storm came in while I was working and I had to walk my bike most of the way home.

Some of the lights make pedestrians wait an entire light cycle to cross so I’ll leave the bike path to ride in the road just to save time. I know they do it in the name of safety so that bikes cross right when the light is green and are more visible, but it’s hugely punishing to bike commute times, and I would argue that it’s no safer. Cars aren’t going to see bikes either way. I’ve complained to my city twice about one particularly dangerous intersection on the bike path and was told they have a 7 year plan to make it safer. No details how. I hope for once it involves slowing down cars.

Also, for the small section of my commute in the painted bike lane, I’ve been pushed off the road twice by cars. Both times on their cellphones. So I don’t see painted bike lanes as offering any protection at all.

I’m confused… how do all of you handle your merge conflicts???

Why does the sun heat the Earth if space is a vacuum?

If you enjoy science fiction, Ready Player One is super great. Do not judge it based off the movie. Quite different plots. Do skip Ready Player Two though.

How are they doing this though? They just black list any traffic coming from all VPNs they know about?

What if someone in the US were to use a VPN?

Or are they getting location data from the phone itself?

Do geese see god?

Sorry meant to comment on @ggleblanc@kbin.social’s comment. Moved there. I’d definitely use this as well!

I’m pretty sure this is satire, right? Haha, it’s got to be. Will upvote once confirmed

I’m pretty sure this is satire, right? Haha, it’s got to be. Will upvote once confirmed

Linux would be best for reliability. Nothing’s better than untimely windows updates. Also, less power usage. If you do decide to go with Linux you should look into running jellyfin via docker. Makes it super portable and best of all makes it simple to run other docker services from the same machine (nextcloud, trillium, pihole).

You can set up duckdns for free domain names (with a docker service for dynamic IP) and use nginx as a reverse proxy to all your services (if you plan on streaming outside your house)

Rouge-likes and wave based shooters.

Love risk of rain 2, and have played years of zombies. Just discovered vampire survivors

This video gives me hope!! Wild how much push back trains and busses get in the U.S…

I sometimes buy a physical book but end up pirating a copy to my ereader so I can read in bed easier and use the dyslexic font. Makes me a bit sad that the books don’t get those creases in the spine from being read. Just looks like I own a bunch of books I didn’t read

Europe sounds great. Hard to image being able to take rail between major cities/countries! There’s just nothing like that in the US. Extremely limited passenger trains.

It’s definitely on our bucket list to tour Europe. Hard to get a large chunk of time off work though.

Turns out I had pictures of the two bus stops that looked identical to us at the large hub - I posted them in another comment

Found the pictures I took of the two similar bus stops in the same hub that tricked us up. We were looking for the “Metro Silver J 950” stop and thought we found it… Not sure how Bays work, but it seems like that has potential to clear up confusion and even make it easier to walk straight to your correct stop

Wish we knew the stations sold cards! Glad to hear they do. That should be at the top of their web page on where to buy a tap card.

It was sweet how far we could get on public transportation alone. I hope they’re able to keep investing in it

Risk of rain 2 if you’re into FPV rouge likes (I love zombies and any wave shooter game really)

One of my favorite games of all time. The music is 10/10 epic. I’m trying to get 100% completion. Especially amazing with friends to just chill and slay. Mercenary is my go to character. Hard to learn, but rewarding.

I picked up Outer Wilds which is on sale but I don’t think is on the list. I hear it’s amazing so I’m excited to play.