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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • It does.

    I find it doesn’t matter though which way you ride: riding on the sidewalk is unsafe.

    When (US) turning right from the right lane, drivers don’t expect you to be coming from behind to the right of them at any speed.

    When turning left from the left lane, drivers don’t expect you to be coming from behind to the left at any speed.

    When backing out across the sidewalk, drivers don’t expect you to be to either side at any speed.

    I’m seeing a pattern here, and it’s that drivers only see what they expect to see, where they expect to see it. I’ve fucked it up myself from time to time, and this leads me to the conclusion that the safest option for biking is to be where drivers are looking: in the vehicle lanes, going the same direction as other vehicles. It’s not perfect because they still aren’t expecting a bicycle, but it’s still the best choice we have.





  • It is interesting but people have different thresholds for what they consider “ads”

    I know Ubuntu took some flak for offering their system — was it Ubuntu Pro? — at their login screen. That’s fine with me, but bothers others.

    Ubuntu again did it with some music store app in their app search results.

    Meanwhile Windows has stuffed Candy Crush, Office, and many others in the start menu over the years. And sometimes it’s not Microsoft but OEMs doing this.

    But is crapware “advertising”? Im not sure but it seems like perceptions have shifted at the same time as Microsoft specifically has pushed more and more intrusive ads, and those have moved further to the “advertising” side of that line between suggestion and spam.