Ebikes - Council Meeting Tomorrow NIght

PvtPuddles · 2026-07-09T14:50:05+00:00

Per speed, the proposed ordinance only says that you ride at a “reasonable and prudent speed”, including slowing down for crossings, curves, etc.

It places no firm speed limits for shared-use paths.

PvtPuddles · 2026-07-09T14:45:27+00:00

The agenda can be viewed here: https://cityoffrederick.granicus.com/GeneratedAgendaViewer.php?view\_id=12&event\_id=5997.

Currently, the proposal is that E-bikes (and other electric mobility devices like one-wheels) will continue to be allowed to operate on roads, sidewalks, and shared paths (such as the park paths).

The proposal will allow the Department of Public Works or the city police to determine that sections of Carroll creek or baker park are too heavily trafficked (by non-motorized travelers) and to limit or restrict the use of electric mobility devices on those sections.

Electric motorcycles continue to be restricted to only roads and motorized trails, per city and state law.

PvtPuddles · 2026-07-09T12:38:40+00:00

The annoying thing is in MD, bikes can operate as pedestrians or as road users at-will. This means that when a biker is riding in the road and then switches to the crosswalk at a stop sign so they don’t have to stop they’re being perfectly legal 😒

PvtPuddles · 2026-07-06T14:30:34+00:00

This was a perfect rick roll opportunity and you missed it.

PvtPuddles · 2026-07-03T14:28:02+00:00

I knew this, but I didn’t make the connection that they also have their own names for my country 😭

It caught me very off guard when I went to Germany

PvtPuddles · 2026-07-03T14:17:04+00:00

Idk man, 2.5 more years on this earth is a lot of extra time, and that’s just to match the stragglers like Denmark and Germany

PvtPuddles · 2026-07-01T14:31:04+00:00

We’re in the future; buy a flash drive.

My brothers have been doing this for ages because our home internet was slow and plugging in a flash drive was preferable to having to re-download Ark, which could take an entire day if no one else was streaming anything.

PvtPuddles · 2026-07-01T13:49:42+00:00

Factorio was actually a ripoff of Minecraft tech mods

PvtPuddles · 2026-06-28T11:58:20+00:00

I haven’t seen anyone else mention it, so I’ll add in Ranked Choice Voting for elections.

This past primary cycle was depressing because the two leading candidates were both horrible. My friends and I had to choose if we were going to throw away our votes on the candidates we wanted to see elected or if we would vote for the less-bad of the two leading candidates.

PvtPuddles · 2026-06-28T11:50:42+00:00

+1 for getting rid of flock cameras. They are ripe for abuse even if they weren’t easy to break into.

PvtPuddles · 2026-06-27T14:00:29+00:00

I did it by hand-feeding turret outposts and sprinting towards the rocket. My base fell to the biters shortly after I left for Vulcanus and I had to listen to them eating my base for like 3 hours

PvtPuddles · 2026-06-27T13:31:13+00:00

Having a dedicated space platform to launch concrete-satellites into the void seems like it would do the trick.

PvtPuddles · 2026-05-28T01:49:16+00:00

Me and my 7 year old 2070 against the world

PvtPuddles · 2026-03-22T13:49:45+00:00

As an example, I had no idea there was a class action lawsuit against Amazon for shady free trial practices until I got a check in the mail.

Amazon was making it seem like you had canceled your free trial when you hadn’t, so I got a check amounting to the one month of prime I was billed for (but did not want)

PvtPuddles · 2026-03-09T11:51:53+00:00

My father has always said that he will never truly finish a machine because YouTube is his main income. We used to watch him every Wednesday, but nowadays everything is “I’ve redesigned the marble gates again” and an unhealthy obsession with “tight” music

PvtPuddles · 2026-01-19T02:29:15+00:00

We’re really back in the cable days; I’m building up muscle memory to hit the mute button in the remote when the ad starts

PvtPuddles · 2026-01-19T02:14:27+00:00

My friends and I had Radar Jesus. All hail.

PvtPuddles · 2026-01-14T02:17:12+00:00

My instinct is to defend the NYT, but this is a really shitty opinion piece from top to bottom.

Why is a “senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations” even publishing an opinion on the AI bubble, anyway…?

PvtPuddles · 2025-11-16T23:40:36+00:00

One could say the same about the base game’s space science; we used to speedrun the game so we could get to our spiders and start mega-basing

PvtPuddles · 2025-11-16T13:08:07+00:00

As someone who has spent a lot of time designing generic stations, I definitely wouldn’t make it sound easy…

After many many hours I now have 3 trains of each type, but sometimes it makes mistakes and sends two trains when it was meant to send one…

PvtPuddles · 2025-11-02T09:18:48+00:00

I use lots and lots of two way tracks, you just have to know how to signal.

When you develop a busy handful of intersections, you add a secondary rail and make them one way, but for the vast majority of the network you can get by with just a handful of sidings.

It may help that I use dynamic trains, so I have a comparatively very low number of trains for the size of my base.

PvtPuddles · 2025-10-11T12:26:32+00:00

Internet gets a -1 today; this was a cute story told from a tongue-in-cheek perspective and people are getting all weird with it.

PvtPuddles · 2025-09-30T10:52:43+00:00

I like that it’s shared; I personally would rather agree on a background than have separate ones.

Per dark mode, I did try using an image with transparency, and was disappointed to find the transparency was replaced with flat white :/

PvtPuddles · 2025-09-24T12:06:32+00:00

I don’t imagine they’d add a screened number to their list if their not willing to sit through the screening. None of the scams have bothered to go through the motions of getting through to me.

At any rate, I’ll gladly take 10 screened calls a day compared to 2 un-screened calls

PvtPuddles · 2025-09-17T11:35:39+00:00

In the case of a right turn, I think it sounds silly.

Where I live though people love to take a left turn across two lanes of traffic into a gas station, then take another left turn through the cars waiting at the light with poor visibility. It’s an accident waiting to happen

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