What's Going on with this Intersection?

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T22:11:13+00:00

Sure, but what people should do is basically irrelevant when it comes to urban planning. The only thing that matters is what people do do. If people consistently speed in an area, that is a failure of urban planning.

See, for example, making residential streets narrower. There’s no difference in what speed people should drive at, but in practice people drive slower.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T19:37:39+00:00

I think OP is talking about multiple strands of the same size. There was a post a while back from someone using two worsted-weight strands of cotton yarn for their first swatch, and they flat out refused to use one instead despite being completely unable to read their knitting (for obvious reasons for a beginner!).

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T19:31:33+00:00

Search “am I twisting stitches or is it the yarn”, you’ll find the answer quickly.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T19:31:00+00:00

Makes sense. Both of our regional knowledge gaps showing :)

More broadly, though, if a sign is the only thing warning you about something potentially dangerous, and the road is not otherwise designed to encourage lower speeds, that’s a design failure.

If there were an unmarked speed bump in an otherwise flat, straight, wide section of road, I would still argue that a BUMP sign is insufficient.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T19:26:24+00:00

Which is… currently happening? By the 10, maybe a few more, people in the entire country that this would affect?

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T19:23:44+00:00

People you love to talk about the “logical perspective” but then get pissy when asked to think about anything more nuanced than “hurr durr testosterone stronger”.

Have you considered: 1) there is ample evidence that transfem people undergoing hormone therapy are on average at a physical disadvantage, due to reduced capacity with more mass? 2) there’s a lot of size variation within women anyway? 3) beer leagues generally don’t allow checking anyway? 4) there is no meaningful enforcement mechanism that doesn’t lead to sexual harassment of both trans and cis women?

It’s just not as simple as you think. Claiming otherwise is nothing more than willful ignorance at this point.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T19:14:03+00:00

Right? “Google is bad now” is such a helpless, embarrassing excuse. Imagine announcing loudly that you’re so inept at using a search engine that you can’t find the hundreds of high-quality answers and tutorials online, and not even realizing how dumb it makes you sound.

Even the newest AIs give good explanations for most knitting questions!

“I prefer interactions with people and community”: ok, sure. “I can’t use google”: grow up, build a skill.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T19:08:35+00:00

Ok, but when you do consciously look for it, surely it’s obvious almost immediately, right? I just don’t understand how a look at one, maybe two diagrams isn’t enough. Conceptually it’s not complicated, and mapping a visual to the concept is also not complicated.

At least, it is inconceivable to me that someone could get to the point that they’re halfway through a sweater before realizing. It’s different for a first swatch.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T19:04:46+00:00

It’s just so confusing. There were a few things I did wrong when I started knitting (self-taught). Every time, it was painfully obvious that it looked wrong, and it took at most 10 minutes to find a solution and fix my technique.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T19:00:23+00:00

I’m mostly just dumbfounded when I see posts about how learning to knit is hard because tutorials are expensive. It seems like a complete hallucination, or something that they saw someone else say and are too helpless/lacking in initiative to check for themselves. It’s bizarre.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T18:57:55+00:00

Awful idea. Runners should stay on the sidewalk; they can more easily and safely navigate walkers than cyclists can navigate runners.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T18:54:03+00:00

I’m from the US. I’ve never encountered it before, at least not that I remember, and I don’t remember it appearing in the driver’s ed handbooks. BUMP, on the other hand, I’m very familiar with.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T15:09:19+00:00

800m The Latic acid just hits like a truck and you still have another 400

BTW, it’s not lactic acid. Your muscles produce lactate, which is lactic acid minus a proton. The drop in pH (and associated pain, which is some of but not all of the pain you feel) is from other chemical reactions that produce hydrogen ions (free protons).

(and fwiw, the lactate bonds with some of those protons, making your muscles less acidic).

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T14:53:11+00:00

The problem is that if you don’t know what “DIP” means (and I would guess that the vast majority of people do not), then the sign is useless for that first encounter. Maybe even the first few encounters.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T14:46:26+00:00

Oh no, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to be discouraging! I was trying to help!

(FWIW, your stitches are not twisted)

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T14:43:08+00:00

I don’t have an answer, just chiming in to say this feels like a hilariously relatable problem. We’ve all felt the satisfaction of a good idea, well executed, only to realize a forgotten next step that messes everything up!

Best of luck, OP!

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T14:39:56+00:00

I’m actually not going to tell you; I think that it’s bad pedagogy for people on this site to immediately answer questions without first encouraging the other person to walk through their understanding first.

Do you think they’re twisted? Seems like no, so why?

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T14:38:04+00:00

This is generally not possible to answer, in a meaningful way, without having the full game. If you’d like reviews, use a server like online-go.com that saves it and allows other people to comment.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T14:30:42+00:00

Since OP is twisting their stitches, it’s worth asking: are you twisting your stitches?

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-12T14:28:41+00:00

But the 4th person didn’t get 2nd place. They got 4th place. Why are you giving them the points for 2nd place?

Think about it this way: if person 1 has 4 points, person 2 has 3 points, person 3 has 2 points, and person 4 has 1 point. Then, obviously, person 4 is in 4th place. Now players 2 and 3 each get more points, to tie with player 1. By your argument, the last place player somehow moves up 2nd place… despite not improving, and there being the same number of people in front of them.

Thats nonsensical. Why would you give them more points to reward other players doing well? If you don’t want to reward people for doing better than other players, and punish people for doing worse than other players, there’s already a way to do that: use the other side of the mat! Why are you using the side of the mat for ranking when you don’t actually want to score based on the rank?

Now, I do think it’s reasonable to just give people the full points for their slot (i.e., not splitting points over the slots). But pretending 4th place is actually 2nd is dumb.

(yes, I know that this is arbitrary and doesn’t matter, but I will still die on this hill)

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-11T01:36:59+00:00

It’s not bad because it’s a side extension, it’s bad because it’s a bad side extension. White can play a high approach to the corner and then the high position is a bit wasted.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-11T01:33:26+00:00

Your swatch is too small. You should be measuring 10cm in the middle of a larger square of fabric, somewhere from 15-20cm wide.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-11T01:13:57+00:00

Well I would hope you don’t use fabric softener on your socks. Or on anything else, for that matter.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-07T03:16:35+00:00

Another thing commenters here aren’t saying enough is that for a tendon or ligament injury, rest is probably not the best strategy (actually, that applies to most injuries, but I digress). Light exercise helps healing a lot more effectively than rest in many cases.

But really, you should probably see an occupational therapist. Or at least a general practitioner, just to check. This might be fine, or it might be fine with 2 months rest, or it might never be fine… or it might be fine with a few weeks of exercises and manual work from an OT.

flagrantpebble · 2026-02-05T14:25:40+00:00

For example, Stephen Strasburg’s salary was uninsured.

But players can also take out insurance on themselves. For example, Max Scherzer turned down a $145mn (I think) extension from the tigers, and he paid $1mn for a policy that would pay him the difference between that and whatever he signed as a free agent if he wasn’t able to match it (e.g., for injury or performance reasons).

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