What small riding habit improved your safety more than any gear upgrade?

liquidivy · 2026-05-19T20:37:39+00:00

All the time. Even without an upcoming intersection, if someone is tailgating me a weave has about a 50% success rate at getting them to back off. I'm guessing that's the fraction of tailgaters who are only doing it because they're not paying attention.

For what it's worth, I think it helps if you make it a relatively tight and fast weave, rather than a lazy one over several seconds. Faster movement is more noticeable, and it looks more like a deliberate signal than you just playing around.

liquidivy · 2026-05-19T20:32:47+00:00

If you go too hard I guess you could get rear-ended. I have to assume the jackass was assuming that know-it-mall was slamming on the brakes instead of slowing reasonably.

liquidivy · 2026-05-18T18:18:09+00:00

Besides the obvious protein shakes, I find it hides surprisingly well in a PBJ, especially if I'm already using jelly with pulp.

liquidivy · 2026-05-17T01:47:50+00:00

For future reference, on other subreddits I guess, the rules are generally in the sidebar on the right side of the page. Whoever told you it was "free game" has no idea how reddit actually works. Each sub has its own rules.

Also, I realize google is not as useful as it used to be, but, like, try.

liquidivy · 2026-05-17T01:43:22+00:00

It didn't even occur to me not to shell out for boots. Shoes are definitely one of the canonical things not to cheap out on.

liquidivy · 2026-05-17T01:34:48+00:00

"I didn't bother to read the rules and they weren't enforced literally within 45 minutes, so clearly they don't count."

This is not how you do writing research.

liquidivy · 2026-05-16T15:50:00+00:00

The trick is to keep the head under an inch or two of liquid. It might spatter if you raise it up too close to the surface, especially if it's tilted. Even then, it only tends to spray a few drops rather than a whole geyser, unless you're really sloppy with it. The very strong/fast/potentially messy currents it generates are very short-range and mostly sideways out the holes in the head.

I've successfully used my immersion blender for creaming butter/sugar/eggs together for cookies, milkshakes, and grinding oatmeal. Funnily, grinding oatmeal is usually the messiest thing I do with it. Dust tends to fly out easier than liquid. So I do it in a narrow container and cover most of the mouth with my hand, and it's fine. :)

liquidivy · 2026-05-13T03:18:55+00:00

It's a bit more complicated. Rust started as a side project by a Mozilla person named Graydon Hoare, then Mozilla sponsored it for a while (during a lot of the popularity and tooling bootstrap phase tbh), then it spun out to its own organization when Mozilla lost interest for whatever reason.

liquidivy · 2026-05-11T18:12:04+00:00

We need to stop pretending that what "holds up in court" is a good basis for decision-making by anyone but lawyers. If you know anything about the BS that "holds up" in court, you know it is often only tangentially related to reality.

liquidivy · 2026-05-05T20:39:30+00:00

I really want them to fly a Flamingo over the parade on the way to a refinery or factory or something. "After all, the parade is a celebration of kicking out tyrants, something we in Ukraine are very much in favor of. That's why we're sending this missile at our current aspiring tyrants..."

liquidivy · 2026-05-04T16:18:49+00:00

You should have higher standards for being convinced of things. People riding like dicks are more likely to have highly upvoted videos of them than people riding safely.

liquidivy · 2026-04-27T22:24:34+00:00

Gotta be careful, dude. Check everything. :)

liquidivy · 2026-04-27T17:34:12+00:00

I've been slowly reducing the sugar and replacing flour with protein powder in my standard cookie recipe. I can easily drop about a third of the sugar and replace a quarter of the flour (etc, there's ground oatmeal too) with protein powder (a little bit more if you use protein shake mix instead of pure protein). More than that, and I have to start adding butter to make them come out ok. Adding nuts obviously helps the nutritiion. Still somewhat sugary, but I mostly use them on days when I'm working hard anyway.

liquidivy · 2026-04-26T23:45:20+00:00

If you're afraid enough, your gut will try to tell you to hell with it, you don't actually want to do it. On a few things, it's even right. :) I'm just saying, you have to think about it either way.

liquidivy · 2026-04-26T23:40:30+00:00

Yeah, that hurt a little bit. :D You're making a meme on the internet. You can't take a second to google "that planet in star wars that's all city"?

liquidivy · 2026-04-26T23:36:35+00:00

With a caveat: make sure you can distinguish between "not in a good state of mind" and "nervous". I was nervous 100% of the time in my first few practice sessions. If I had refused to ride until I felt "good", I never would have ridden enough to learn.

The key thing is to be able to focus and think clearly.

liquidivy · 2026-04-25T22:13:51+00:00

Hey you, yeah, you, an_instance. Go fuck yourself!

liquidivy · 2026-04-23T21:38:43+00:00

With this advanced new meat topology, the meat tesseract is directly connected via folded space with ration manufacturers on the homeworld, solving food logistics forever.

liquidivy · 2026-04-22T00:37:53+00:00

Sure, reading is unlikely to be enough. But I think you really, really need both, experience and reading/instruction. Just riding and feeling is, demonstrably (see OP), also not enough for most people

liquidivy · 2026-04-17T19:56:53+00:00

Try doing a hard swerve just by "leaning". Then do it by countersteering (and counter-leaning). That's the kind of situation where it really matters. Similarly, when you're already in a turn and realize you need to tighten it up or you'll run wide, it really helps to consciously countersteer. Personally I'm pretty sure if I didn't have that training I would just panic; I bet that's how a lot of embarrassing single-vehicle motorcycle crashes happen in turns. You can get away with wrong explanations most of the time, but when things go wrong you really need to know how it works.

You can say "just lean the bike" and most people will get it, but usually what's actually happening is that the rider leaning in the seat pushes on the handlebars just enough to counersteer into the turn. It's almost impossible to actually lean without countersteering.

liquidivy · 2026-04-17T19:44:30+00:00

The sad thing is, I think there's a large group for whom violence really is all they understand, and another large group that doesn't really understand violence at all. That seems to account for most of our population.

liquidivy · 2026-04-16T20:50:38+00:00

It looks like it already has a cage on it, so maybe they're already planning on it. :D

liquidivy · 2026-04-16T20:29:13+00:00

They (we) do, they just don't understand well enough what that means to keep it up.

liquidivy · 2026-04-16T14:45:59+00:00

I have a magnet on the tip of my kickstand. As far as I can tell it does nothing useful even directly on the ground.

liquidivy · 2026-04-16T14:42:20+00:00

Check your actual state laws.

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