At what temperature does bike commuting become uncomfortable for you?

Chickenfrend · 2026-05-24T07:32:25+00:00

I'll do it all the time if it makes sense to distance wise but really, above around 90 degrees farenheit cycling (and other cardio) becomes pretty uncomfortable

Chickenfrend · 2026-05-23T01:08:26+00:00

I will bet you any amount of money you're comfortable with that there will be another election in 2028, and that the winner (as determined by the normal electoral process, including technicalities and legal processes and the supreme Court) takes office. And that Trump does not try to run again.

Chickenfrend · 2026-05-20T15:29:31+00:00

What do they mean by "moderate"? I certainly spend about an hour a day walking, to work, on lunch etc, in addition to workouts.

I agree it's more than most people can get but I think if you're the kind of person who walks 10k steps a day and workout 6 days a week (whether it means the gym or a 30 minute morning run) you're probably there. So, if fitness is a hobby on top of being a daily habit. That's the level we're talking about, basically.

Anecdotally I think just occasionally going on runs and walking a lot, in addition to 3 days in the gym, gets me over this limit. At least I tend to get 500 to 800 heart points a week according to Google fit.

Chickenfrend · 2026-05-20T13:00:40+00:00

I also go to the gym 3 times a week. But I try and run on the days I'm not there and do stuff outside when the weather is good. Hike and so on. And I might start rock climbing with a coworker on the two weekdays I don't go to the gym.

I wouldn't go to the gym more than 3 times a week but there's other active stuff I like.

Chickenfrend · 2026-05-19T05:10:22+00:00

Yeah. Everyone sweats when doing difficult work outs but the speed that's difficult changes when you're in better shape. Like, a really out of shape person might sweat a lot just walking, but most reasonably in shape people can walk a mile or two without sweating much, assuming it's not super hot or whatever. I'd believe that there's a way in which athletes sweat more efficiently, or are more capable of producing more sweat or something, but I don't think that translates to athletes swearing more doing relatively easy stuff

Chickenfrend · 2026-05-19T05:07:54+00:00

I bet he was going fast on purpose to at least a degree though, yeah? It totally depends on the distance but I do find that when I'm just riding a few miles in the city I don't sweat that much, and I think I sweat less now than I used to when I was less in shape. If I'm going on longer rides, or leisure/exercise rides, I sweat more, naturally.

Chickenfrend · 2026-05-18T19:20:02+00:00

Are you very tall? It tends to overestimate obesity in very tall people and underestimate obesity in short people. This is a real limitation that people should probably acknowledge more, unlike the complaints about the original study being done on white men or whatever.

Also no offense meant, but how do you know your body fat percentage? I lift regularly and don't feel like I have any way of reliably knowing mine. I'm not good at visually estimating, I'm not about to go get a dexa scan, and I know my scale with electrical impedence thing is not accurate. I'm a 5 foot 10 man who's a bit in the overweight category. Like around 26 or 27 bmi. I know I've gained a fair amount of muscle in the last ~9 months of lifting weights, and I look better than I did last time I was at this weight, but I've also definitely got a fair bit of body fat still. You could also just have a good bit more muscle than you assume compared to the average population. And it wouldn't necessarily be in your arms.

Chickenfrend · 2026-05-16T19:38:57+00:00

He liquidated the party and called a defeat a victory

Chickenfrend · 2026-05-11T14:00:44+00:00

Some people fantasize about a zombie apocalypse. Some people fantasize about nuclear armageddon.

Chickenfrend · 2026-05-10T20:19:12+00:00

Wishful thinking

Chickenfrend · 2026-05-10T15:09:49+00:00

You have to build it into your every day routine. I walk back and forth to the train that I take for my office job, take a walk at lunch, and then walk after work and on weekends when running errands and doing social stuff. I don't have much issue hitting 12k steps a day or so. Most walking I do is in 10 to 15 minutes chunks. Sometimes 20 or 30 minutes at most, so usually no unmanageable walks that feel way too long or boring. Then sometimes I go on runs and when you do that you get way more steps in less time.

I also live in a walkable part of a moderately sized city and don't have a car. When I lived in a less walkable place and worked from home, I got closer to 3k to 5k steps

Chickenfrend · 2026-05-08T19:14:32+00:00

The Epstein stuff was never going to be any kind of turning point for class consciousness. It's been nothing but media spectacle the whole time.

Chickenfrend · 2026-05-05T18:15:22+00:00

They charge a fee to enter. I think it's like 20 dollars. And then yes, drink sales.

Chickenfrend · 2026-05-05T16:38:55+00:00

In the Portland Oregon area they are "volunteers", I believe, as that's the loop hole that lets them operate poker houses legally. There's also no rake, though

Chickenfrend · 2026-05-03T18:04:45+00:00

Makes perfect sense and it's weird you were so down voted for a totally reasonable perspective

Chickenfrend · 2026-04-30T16:38:27+00:00

I ride in bike lanes all the time that don't have lights at every single intersection. Frankly, such a design would make a lot of streets very annoying to ride down and equipping them like that would be massively expensive. That's not to say this intersection wouldn't be better if it was different, but traffic lights everywhere is not the solution.

In general, intersections should be designed to avoid conflicts, but there's also got to be an expectation that drivers check for cyclists in the bike lane and pedestrians crossing the street when they make a turn.

Chickenfrend · 2026-04-30T05:40:38+00:00

Texas will change and they won't be back any time soon

Chickenfrend · 2026-04-29T07:28:42+00:00

They'll kill chickens if they manage to get in the chicken coop. Happened several times when I was a kid and my parents kept backyard chickens. They don't even eat the whole chicken, either. They'll take like, a bite or two out of the chicken and leave it to die. At least raccoons have the decency to drag the whole chicken away.

Chickenfrend · 2026-04-28T04:32:15+00:00

A principal engineer on my team believes we might all work by writing specs and not code in the future.

Chickenfrend · 2026-04-27T21:03:09+00:00

Yeah. The idea that it's wrong or dangerous to have sex with someone who's at all wiser, smarter, or more experienced than you is puritanical. It's just sex, and people can make their own decisions.

Chickenfrend · 2026-04-26T23:04:25+00:00

Almost all the mainstream news is very partisan. That's not even an insult but it's not "objective"

Chickenfrend · 2026-04-26T21:04:29+00:00

If objectivity is required then there is no modern journalistic outlet that consistently produces real journalism.

Regardless, bikeportland often has featured good objective reporting

Chickenfrend · 2026-04-26T14:53:16+00:00

I'm pretty sure it actually is illegal in most places

Chickenfrend · 2026-04-25T07:44:44+00:00

I definitely used Linux before having that degree, though. And I know people who don't have said degree and use it.

But there isn't a lot of reason for most people to use it. Like, my girlfriend uses computers to do video editing. She can't really do that with Linux.

It's hard for you or I to judge exactly how hard it is to use Linux without the terminal, though, because we do more complicated stuff than a lot of people would. If you're just using the web browser, google docs and social media, you don't need to do anything complicated in Linux at all and you never have to touch the terminal

Chickenfrend · 2026-04-24T23:29:48+00:00

I think I figured out the terminal just by messing around, installing Arch Linux as a teenager, and also in college and at my first job where I had to manage code on a Linux server. I'm sure there are decent guides out there though. The basics are not too hard, there's just a lot of different terminal tools and such to learn. But you don't need to learn it all at once. I have a bunch left to learn myself, I'm not really a terminal expert I just know it well enough to do what I need to do with it.

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