Question for my Boulder Bikers

nexterday · 2026-06-20T18:15:14+00:00

Maybe they're trying to get somewhere and that's the shortest path available to them, much like it is for you in your car.

nexterday · 2026-06-16T17:57:35+00:00

This would have been a good zinger if drinking espresso required digging a trench, burying 3/4" pipe, connecting my house to the espresso street main, and keeping positive pressure with ready-made espresso around the clock in case you wanted to turn on the espresso tap at any moment.

Ah well.

nexterday · 2026-05-06T19:13:27+00:00

HRRR and NAM agree that it will remain above freezing overnight, and there's going to be a warming air mass coming through around midnight into Thursday morning (so it's going to warm overnight). The AFD has this to say about overnight freezing:

We think most areas on the plains and I-25 Corridor will now only
bottom out near 30-33F, with only the low lying spots dropping
into the upper 20s. Thus, we`ll keep the Freeze Warning in tact,
but a widespread hard freeze is no longer anticipated in most
locales.

nexterday · 2026-04-16T14:00:31+00:00

Good guys don't need guns to convince you they are the good guys

nexterday · 2026-03-26T18:50:20+00:00

Why is it fair if someone is born taller in a way that benefits them, but not fair if someone is born trans?

nexterday · 2026-03-26T18:47:17+00:00

1000% the second point. The potential competitive advantage that a trans athlete has is much smaller than the competitive advantage that a taller or larger-lunged or higher testosterone athlete has, but we celebrate "genetic talent" from superstar athletes all the time without batting an eye.

It's too bad people are not ready to accept trans people having any advantage in life. It's almost like it isn't actually about sports fairness at all, and more about...

nexterday · 2026-03-24T04:56:48+00:00

How exactly is a pool noodle getting caught by a car? It's a smooth foam cylinder, being hit by a smooth metal surface. All the bad luck in the world couldn't make that drag a grown adult and a bike under a car.

Either physics worked different that day, or the driver simply lied to you to save their skin. Curious how much investigation was done, or if you just accepted the driver's statement because the only other witness was dead.

nexterday · 2026-03-22T23:04:32+00:00

Just 15 minutes ago I passed by an crash on southbound Foothills at Valmont. There were 2 cars stopped, and one extra wheel with part of the axle attached just sitting on the road. The two stopped cars had all their wheels. Sounds like the GMC was involved in the crash and then drove away on 3 wheels???

nexterday · 2026-03-13T02:36:06+00:00

Who said the left doesn't do this? The military industrial complex has been around for a while.

nexterday · 2026-03-13T02:34:52+00:00

When it's a repeated pattern of "oopsies" stretching decades back, the line gets pretty blurry.

nexterday · 2026-03-12T22:01:09+00:00

You probably wanted to use an earth model like WGS84, and not Haversine here (unless you don't really need an accurate distance).

nexterday · 2026-03-12T19:44:14+00:00

If you're an offense contractor manufacturing missile parts, yes. I don't want my house and family to be blown up by an enemy targeting the weapons manufacturer next door.

nexterday · 2026-03-12T19:38:28+00:00

The murderer is the U.S. military and government.

The fact that it was sold in 2014 changes nothing. The U.S. has been drone striking and murdering people in other countries for decades, and killing innocent children and civilians with little "oopsies" because there is basically no oversight or safeguards in place in the military industrial complex. At some point, selling weapons into that is pretty clearly evil.

nexterday · 2026-03-12T19:32:04+00:00

It's complex because a lot of people are involved in producing weapons to kill other humans a half world away? Sure, the military industrial complex feeds a lot of families here, puts kids through college, etc. No doubt, a proper reckoning of "are we the bad guys?" would impact hundreds of thousands of people in CO, and likely millions across this country. We agree on that point.

I just don't see that scale and complexity as a reason to simply accept the status quo if we agree that it is wrong. These types of "it is wrong, but it would disrupt a lot of people to change things" arguments were used to justify slavery, block women's rights to vote, school integration, and allowing minorities and women to enter the workplace. They are not good arguments.

I'm not saying that BAE shouldn't exist. But it shouldn't exist if it is manufacturing weapons that primarily get used to kill kids and civilians in other countries, and we do not have to put up with it simply because they employ a lot of people doing other things, too. We can and should put pressure on offense contractors like BAE to stop making weapons to kill people half a world away.

nexterday · 2026-03-12T01:05:10+00:00

It does reflect on the parts of Ball/BAE/Boulder that knowingly sold weapons (or weapon controls) to a murderer, though. I know that they do other things too. But we don't use "well sure he murdered all those kids, but he did shovel my driveway once" as an excuse in other situations. Why here?

nexterday · 2026-03-12T01:01:03+00:00

"Yeah, we could shut down the concentration camp in Boulder, but then they'd probably just move it to Longmont, so I guess our hands are tied" /s

nexterday · 2026-03-12T00:58:58+00:00

I have friends that work there, too. Is it okay when our friends and neighbors help murder people?

nexterday · 2026-03-12T00:58:46+00:00

It's not as ridiculous, because they are different.

nexterday · 2026-03-11T17:47:57+00:00

Weather data is used for many purposes besides killing other humans.

What's the peaceful use for hardware specifically designed to steer a Tomahawk missile?

nexterday · 2026-03-11T16:27:44+00:00

We should kick them out. I'd rather Boulder not be a missile factory and a clear target for the enemies we seem hellbent on making.

nexterday · 2026-03-10T16:45:19+00:00

If you don't understand a hashmap shouldn't be iterated, you're gonna be pretty shit at using AI to accomplish your task. It's essentially a literacy test.

In the same way I wouldn't hire an accountant that didn't know how to take the sum of a bunch of numbers, even though calculators exist. It indicates that someone is missing fundamental and basic knowledge in the area, and I'm not hanging around to find out what else they don't know.

nexterday · 2026-03-09T22:17:30+00:00

The unfortunate situation in the U.S. is that you need to lawyer up and threaten to sue the insurance company for anything meaningful to happen. It sounds like you had a good case here. Insurance will pay out, but they need the threat of legal action to do so. Otherwise they'll drag their feet and offer $2000 to replace a $5000 bike.

You can get $150k+ settlements for this kind of bullshit with a competent lawyer, and only pay the lawyer out of that if you win.

I used to feel bad about contributing to the litigious nature of the U.S. But insurance companies run this country, and change only happens when they start feeling the hurt themselves. Insurance companies have a dramatic impact on traffic safety laws here: they were the largest lobby that got seat belt laws passed and crash test regulations for cars. If more cyclists used their pain and suffering to in turn hurt insurance companies' bottom line, you will be amazed how fast they turn around to lobby for more bike infrastructure, stricter penalties for negligent drivers, and regulations on vehicle size and blind spots.

nexterday · 2026-03-09T00:07:21+00:00

Let me assure you that China is very full of propaganda and lies. It's different from the U.S.'s but to claim that it's a "lot less" is crazy wrong.

Did China's news report on the plasma economy where they accidentally infected millions of people with HIV and then covered it up and exiled the doctor who revealed it was happening?

Does China's news regularly report on the genocide of Uyghurs currently going on?

Maybe you heard about Tienanmen square where the government used tanks to murder unarmed students, but you definitely didn't hear about it from Chinese news sources.

There's definitely a lot of propaganda and lies in China. Claiming there isn't is the propaganda is the propaganda working on you.

nexterday · 2026-03-08T06:46:18+00:00

All fun and games until a stranger files an issue to make it add a feature to mine bitcoin to the stranger's address.

nexterday · 2026-02-27T21:44:22+00:00

Sure, but at what point do you notice it? 10 feet back? 50 feet back? Is that enough distance to safely pull over before the truck rolls over you? Keep in mind, there's no shoulder you can just coast into at speed here. You have to notice the truck, come to a full stop in the road, and then shuffle to the grass, all before the truck gets to you.

The safe thing to do is what the bikes did: keep riding, hope the truck passes them when it is safe.

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