I’ll echo food banks. $10,000 isn’t much money for a municipality of more than 100 people, but a food bank might be where that money goes the furthest.

Knowing from my local outfit, while they would of course accept a donation of actual food bought with that money, they can do much more with the money than the food it buys in the grocery shops.

They do that by reaching out to vendors themselves and getting discounts that would put Costco out of business. I once heard that monetary donations being stretched 5x is typical, oftentimes going 10x or more.

Good on you for attempting to parse different meanings out of what was said. Too few people attempt to do so and instead jump all over a misinterpretation.

I share this study as regularly as it seems reasonable in spaces outside the realm of car free living. While I’ve had some nice exchanges with people that hadn’t given it thought, it does seem to be met with aggravation more often than not.

Primarily individuals making multiple trips a week more than a hundred kilometres and they don’t want to have to recharge every day. I’ve pointed out they would typically charge at home overnight, but then more edge cases chime in of course. If a person refueled their current car after every trip they made, it would be a quick resolve in opinion to the benefit of this study. That’s exactly what I did once upon a time and I downsized as soon as I could.

Perhaps understandably, it’s difficult to envision a different way of living for someone that has been unknowingly entrenched in anything, let alone something as dominating as cars are.

It does tend to be the case that these people don’t know what they’re doing. My understanding is that medical doctors, and professionals like yourself, are more commonly against this type of punishment and refuse to participate.

Most people don’t even consider things like this. That’s why companies keep getting away with it. It’s not the customer’s fault.

Know what I like about coal? If some falls off the sleigh, it’s just another rock, not an explosion or dish soap advertising campaign.

All those other problems with coal? Still bad, but maybe not as bad as non renewable alternatives. Really annoying we didn’t go full steam ahead on sun and wind the moment they became possible.

I realise this is a parody, not a cover, but it immediately came to mind when I saw this post.

Slip n Slide by the Beastie Boys.

I could. Presumably so could the others commenting on this post. But then what are we to do about the privacy or tech illiterate people we’ve carried to Signal over the years?

It’s easy to winge about just doing what you perceive as the optimal solution. It’s more difficult when you need to navigate the path to get there from where we are now.

I understand disliking those things. I dislike them too. What I don’t understand, is associating those things to every car enthusiast.

Off the top of my head I can think of about a dozen enthusiasts I know that drive politely, don’t purposefully make their vehicles louder, and don’t make alterations like removing converters that result in worse emissions.

One of these enthusiasts has a few Japanese imports that have barely enough power to drive on the highways, and he certainly wouldn’t be passing anyone in those things. Another regularly rebuilds Honda engines and transmissions. One drives a car that I swear has been on its last leg for a decade, but he maintains a couple racing cars and gets his fun out on the track. A few I know have switched from combustion to electric cars. They’re still car enthusiasts.

We shouldn’t be painting every member of a group with the same brush as would be used for its most extreme members. You and I don’t want to be referred to as stupid bicyclists because some people that also ride bikes have a habit of cutting lanes, hopping sidewalks, and riding across private lawns.

‘Car enthusiast’ is such a non specific term, as can be seen in this very post. These people don’t deserve to be judged by the actions of street racers, for example. It’s like judging an entire nationality or race or language or diet solely based on the worst individual that ever was any of those things. To do so is rather shortsighted.

People don’t change their positions just because you act nicely

For what it’s worth - which may well be nothing but I’ve written this much already - I have myself experienced people changing their minds when approached with open arms, after multiple brutish attempts had failed. Even if trying kindly fails nine times out of ten, that’s still better than failing ten times out of ten with a brutish method.

Cars are an appliance.

Wouldn’t you think a toaster an appliance?

Do you think the people in this post have any decision making power over the type of infrastructure that gets built in their respective municipalities? Your comments here don’t show someone that wants safer biking through their city, just fruitless yelling at the wind.

Join an advocacy group in your community to pressure your councillors for modal separation. If there isn’t such a group, start one. Start a bike bus for your local elementary school. Start a bicycle based trash collection service for your neighbourhood. Do anything other than shit on people that may not have another option than driving due to their infrastructure. Antagonizing people only serves to harden their position.

Showing up to a huntering lodge and shouting about veganism isn’t going to help the cause. Instead, try inviting them to a barbeque and have plant based sliders for them to try.

Do you have a long commute or take road trips often? I ask because I used to have an hour commute. I enjoyed my car, but to your example, I enjoyed it only when I ‘wore’ it.

After I realised I didn’t enjoy the car when I wasn’t driving it, I realised something else. 90% of it’s life, 85% of my waking life, and 95% of my time away from work, it was just sitting somewhere waiting to driven again - not being ‘worn’. So I sold it and got something much cheaper in every way; to purchase, maintain, insure, refuel, etc.

Once I’d downgraded, it was funny to me how many people I knew were asking me if I were okay, as if I lost the nice car in a divorce or something haha.

I gotta say, it’s wild behaviour to come into a vehicle appreciation post and call them toasters hahaha.

Your bike is an egg timer, but if you’re passionate about egg timers then so be it, enjoy that countdown. When you find yourself in an artisanal grandfather clock festival, keep the egg timer in your pannier.

Likely situations where a person will be okay this month so they send another $20 or so and maybe a few months down the line, they are the one that needs a bit of help.

It’s like the proverb, “it takes a village”, only commoditized.

Ah see if only I had your genius those years back. I do still have that Blackberry, maybe I’ll get a new battery and set it up again.

To my surprise, you’re right. Brigades letting buildings burn didn’t happen - at least not by company decree.

The most I’d ever looked into it was to see what those plaques looked like. I appreciate you countering the idea, it led me to an interesting read of this correction article that seems a great summary of what really occurred.

Primarily it seems they all just worked together for reasons that, after reading them, are painfully obvious and I can’t believe I hadn’t considered even the first one.

• preventing fire spread from buildings uninsured to those insured
• quick efficient response was good advertising for the insurance company
• resolving fires in uninsured properties is an act of charity and displays goodwill

It’s pretty obvious Krommidas has met an unfortunate fate. This law on the books about assuming an individual dead only after being missing for three years is surely meant for when a husband goes out for cigarettes, not when all the worldly possessions of a person training for a triathlon are left waiting by the water.

The judge’s Ballotpedia is lacking recent information, but in 2017 he ran in an election under the republican banner so just based on that, it’s not surprising to me he chose to follow the letter of the law here as doing so will ultimately benefit the republicans on the ballot come November.

The protected infrastructure is great for bicycles but the secondary benefit of reducing the crossing distance for foot traffic by almost half is my favourite part of this type of redesign.

I did this with a Blackberry a while ago, but it destroyed the battery after a year unfortunately.

Might be fine if the charging could be stopped and resumed at a lower point. Maybe even a dumb solution like one of those holiday light timers to only charge for a couple hours a day would work. Damn, I should have done that.

Edit - Turns out, this just isn’t true. Thanks to Teft for the correction. Details in another comment.

Once upon a time fire brigades were private entities operated by insurance companies. When they heard of a fire nearby, they’d roll up and only take action if the plaque on the building had their company name on it. Domestic authorities these days certainly resemble that behaviour.