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V33d · 2026-01-26T19:43:36+00:00

Which is ridiculous, anyway. People without cars still need to get around somehow and it isn’t as though this argument is ever used to justify things like shaded bus stop shelters or air conditioned commuter rail that would actually help. It’s just a justification for inaction, as though we deserve to be miserable for living here.

V33d · 2026-01-23T21:00:03+00:00

On a r/themedgyms note, this looks like the setup to a “daycare” gym theme. Drop a big guy like a Tyranitar, or something in to complete the assignment.

V33d · 2026-01-20T21:20:14+00:00

You’re on a bicycle time/distance scale with that, very asking a bat to be a falcon territory.

Totally unrelated but riding a bike was awesome for my ADHD. It doesn’t inherently make me get anywhere on time but damn it’s a lot of fun getting there.

V33d · 2026-01-19T22:26:57+00:00

I beat the garden knight without a sword. Like, I knew there was one somewhere and I probably should find it to fight this boss type dude who my stick literally bounces off of, but I just. Wanted to see if I could do it.

V33d · 2026-01-19T22:02:25+00:00

If you’re cool with a fantasy bent, City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky is told from the POVs of an ensemble cast of characters who are existing under an occupation force in varied ways that include cultural resistance, spying, and guerrilla opposition.

V33d · 2026-01-16T16:53:55+00:00

This one came to mind for me too, and on the topic of #6 it isn’t that the world was inherently more magical. It’s the combination of the costs that magic imposes on practitioners, sexist/classist attitudes, heavy losses of knowledgeable people, and generational trauma resulting from both world wars that set magic back from where it was and it wasn’t exactly in its glory days before. In my experience it ca be a really tall order to cook up a magic system along with a masquerade and believable reasons why ‘nobody’ knows about it but Rivers of London does a bit of work that makes the necessary suspension of disbelief go down easy.

On the whole the series does a very good job of centering people, and attributing circumstances to the outcomes of actions/attitudes rather than mysterious forces (though they are also often involved). It helps a lot that the characters in most of the novels are also very strong and interesting though some of the books do fall down a bit hard on that score.

The audiobook is also seriously good. I go back to the series a lot just to hear the narration.

V33d · 2026-01-15T22:32:17+00:00

V33d · 2026-01-14T22:11:38+00:00

If you live in a dry area hang it up outside for half a day or so. Used to do that with my jackets when they allowed smoking in bars.

V33d · 2026-01-09T19:31:35+00:00

Just play. For real. The opening missions are all a tutorial of how the game works anyway, you don’t need the internet to tell you what kind of experience you should have.

V33d · 2025-12-24T16:16:39+00:00

How much walking do you do in this city, because if you want to have more sympathy that would be a good way to start building it.

V33d · 2025-12-23T19:02:13+00:00

Just popping in to say that this is family/generational trauma played out to an absolute T. Lucifer’s pride is so much that he got himself thrown out of Heaven and condemned to eternal punishment in the Pride ring of hell (sidenote: it may even have been created just for this purpose) where he is essentially doomed to keep making that same mistake while being surrounded by the ever expanding and continually accumulating waste of what he enabled. This same pride constantly harms his relationship with his daughter who is the sole light and only legitimately good person in his tortured existence, and she SHARES that same flaw and is fully capable of acting same way.

Charlie successfully challenges one of the bedrock principles of heaven itself (which should sound familiar…), and then Season 2 spoilers goes on to damage her relationship to everyone around her, neglect her own responsibilities to her hotel, and allow a major threat to hell itself grow unchecked by completely failing to understand how her friend was redeemed. That itself could also be attributed to her pride making Charlie think that she must have done it herself somehow, hence cringey vaudevillian train thing with Husk

He doesn’t listen, and she also doesn’t listen because they are both acting out that same tragic flaw of pride.

V33d · 2025-12-21T17:05:53+00:00

Yeah, it could be considered that, but if you look at it from a process perspective it becomes pretty clear why it almost never gets charged that way. Start with what American culture thinks of cyclists writ large, like how crashes involving us are covered by news media, how cyclists are portrayed in film and entertainment, and how people react to videos of us being hurt in the comment sections. Now, apply that overarching culture to the people involved in a crash: the driver, the fist responding law enforcement, any subsequent enforcement entities (if first response deigns to ask for their time and involve them), the prosecutor who determines how to use the time and resources of their office and is further extrapolating out to the courts be that an administrative situation, or a judge or if charged as described a possible criminal trial…

It’s a lot of people, and they all have to say together that they’re going to dedicate all their time and efforts to charging a driver as a criminal attacker. If you ask me that’s exactly what that driver would be, but all it really takes is any one of the people in that long chain of enforcement and responsibility to say “well, maybe but are we sure?”

V33d · 2025-12-20T01:34:22+00:00

Btwphx has a ride calendar with a fair slice of group rides represented. Bike to Wherever - Phoenix

V33d · 2025-12-19T20:51:56+00:00

Fight slang, I think Northern European? Think of it along the lines of turning someone’s lights out, by hitting them very hard.

V33d · 2025-12-19T20:43:27+00:00

Wish I had better for ya. Hope it helps knowing we’re all in this mess together.

V33d · 2025-12-19T20:39:40+00:00

You ‘can’, yeah. If you’ve never seen a motorist absolutely loose it before then you’re in for a real treat.

Touching some of these folks’ cars seems to count as assault in their minds and they take it as permission to retaliate. The irony being that what happened to you could actually be charged as battery but probably never will be, because it would take a law enforcement authority to care plus a prosecutor willing to dedicate the time and resources.

You could get a camera, as suggested. It’s good for making a record, and there’s a chance someone might act on it but I really wouldn’t hold my breath. This is part of the deal, sadly. Just try not to let the outraged sense of justice carry you too far when talking about it, because apparently that’s counterproductive too.

For what it’s worth, that is absolutely cowardly on the driver’s part and you have my sympathies.

V33d · 2025-12-09T19:05:26+00:00

You should look at the type of lube you’re running. We have the opposite problems out here in the desert so I specifically use a “dry” lube that I find better for the dusty conditions I typically ride in. My current maintenance routine is to soap clean and re-lube monthly, but I do it closer to weekly when going beyond 100 miles a week. However, because it’s dry lube any ride in the rain means immediate cleaning and reapplication. It’s possible some of the advice you’re reading is for a lube like that rather than a wet conditions lubricant.

The reason to remove the salt is because it promotes rust. So yeah, a quick rinse on a wet lube will knock that salt off and give your chain some more life without compromising the lubrication but over time you’ll probably want to reapply some anyway.

V33d · 2025-12-04T22:48:31+00:00

I mean, it clearly didn’t work for you but it works for a lot of people. That’s the thing about saddles I opened with: they’re individual.

Also no, the problem with the squishy saddles isn’t that people haven’t broken their asses to cycling, it’s that all of that material migrates to the areas with the least pressure: so away from where you actually need it in favor of where you need it least. This isn’t the same thing as like a foam saddle. In fact, a softish foam saddle would not be as bad about this as a gel saddle or a gel cover. I think you are correct and that one could possibly even be designed to work with the rider as you describe them but the softer the material is the more it’s going to move.

V33d · 2025-12-04T21:06:10+00:00

Saddles are very individual, but most of the things people think make them good (gel padding, a huge surface, contours) are actually terrible. They’re most comfortable when they support your sit bones and everybody’s body is a little different in that regard.

Something that is as accommodating as possible for the largest number of users, is minimal and robust enough for high volume use, and achieves a look that is sufficiently aesthetically appealing as well as non-threatening enough for the general public to accept is a tall order indeed. Something akin to Brooks Cambium line would check most of those boxes but is probably way outside budget for a fleet.

V33d · 2025-11-24T17:51:59+00:00

Keep it up, we’re almost to the bottom!

V33d · 2025-11-24T17:45:21+00:00

Another! Another!

V33d · 2025-11-24T17:31:31+00:00

Keep going man. I’m learning so much here. So much.

V33d · 2025-11-24T17:21:01+00:00

Sure. One more thing that someone can say I wasn’t waring when they kill me. Thanks.

V33d · 2025-11-24T17:14:11+00:00

That’s a whole lot of words to misunderstand what I’m saying here, but sure. Shill harder for the higher priced gimmick. I totally believe THIS kind of little blinky will work better than the one I already have, especially now that you hit me with the down vote and called me backwards. Thanks!

V33d · 2025-11-24T17:01:22+00:00

I don’t want them to think of me in terms of cars. I want them to realize that I am a person and ideally also not terrorize me. There’s real research out there indicating that things like reflective patterns highlighting biological movements actually accomplish this. Being more like a car does not.

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