ramjambamalam

I'm sorry, I thought we agreed that better cycling infrastructure is better for all road users, including drivers. If we don't agree on that, then I understand that you won't agree with my subsequent points.

I also don't see how an overpass or an underpass would negatively impact drivers at all...

Why do you present a false dichotomy again, this time between cyclists crossing a dangerous road without stopping, or coming to a complete stop? I can think of at least two or three other solutions off the top of my head:

1. Lower the speed limit of the road and improve visibility so that commuters can see one another.

2. Place a yield sign so that drivers are legally required to slow to a speed at which they could safely stop if necessary.

3. Build an overpass or an underpass so that the lanes don't cross on the same plane.

If we can agree that the current infrastructure is suboptimal, let's focus on improving the infrastructure rather than assigning blame. Improving the infrastructure helps all road users.

And there is, except in cases where it isn’t.

In my experience as a driver, pedestrian, and cyclist, is that good cycling infrastructure is the exception, not the rule. Do you really think we generally have good cycling infrastructure in Canada?

The alternative is expecting a vehicle doing 60km/s to stop on a dime.

That's a false dichotomy. What if drivers were simply required to slow to a crawl (yield) at certain intersections, rather than cyclists having to completely stop to press a button, and then wait for the light to change?

Can you imagine if cars treated every red light like it was a yield?

Yes, I can, because that's how most drivers treat stop signs. I don't like generalizing drivers or cyclists, but "jesus it's like some of them go out of their way to avoid safety measures" could apply to all types of road users. Heck, just ten minutes ago on the drive home from the gym, some idiot in a car pulled out in front of me from a drive, into a busy, snow-covered street at the bottom of an overpass and I had to brake heavily to avoid turning his passenger side door into a modern art sculpture.

I feel like the safest driver on the road in my '69 Boson GT.

I'll take a shot at de-escalating this thread...

What you're remembering is reasonable because you were a kid and probably biking on a sidewalk, which is generally not what commuting cyclists use. I (and perhaps @frostbiker) are thinking of a crossover at a multi-use trail which are designed for cyclists to commute along.

Surely if you want people to drive less (which is a good thing for all commuters, especially those who drive!) then wouldn't it behoove municipalities to design infrastructure that's conducive to efficiently cycling, right? To me, having to stop at every single road crossing is incredibly discouraging. Can you imagine if every light on your commute was red?

Gisela Kaplan, an emeritus professor in animal behavior at the University of New England, said the magpies in the video aren't actually showing deference to the owl sculpture, they are making territorial calls to try to scare it away.

They do the same shit for Google search results. Search weather or stock tickers with a Chrome user agent* and you get a rich, interactive chart of the weather forecast or stock history. Search with another mobile user agent and you get a static snapshot of the weather or stock price at an instant in time.

There's even an extension for Firefox for Android which changes the user agent for Google searches to Chrome, to get the rich content.

* just a user agent, not an actual browser, which proves that it isn't about browser capability, but rather abusing their monopolistic market position in search to further their web browser's market share. Sound familiar, Microsoft from the 90's?

How are the new portals in Portal: Reloaded different?

Uh, in that case, I'll take two.

The Daixin ransomware group is despicable and I hope they get what they deserve.

That's a problem with the shell though, not the filesystem. It doesn't matter which files filesystem you're using; most interactive shells use spaces as token separators and therefore spaces in filenames need to be enclosed in quotes or escaped.

Make sure some of your backups are kept offline (so that they won't be encrypted along with everything else) and also test that they work regularly! Otherwise they might not do what you think they do.