NYTimes headline style is a toxic influence on journalism.

It would be funny if they didn’t actually have any of it and were just pestering the industry. But they did release all the metadata, and spotify seems to think it’s legit…

One of my favorite memories is inviting both my best friends and coworkers to a metal show at Saint Vitus, both groups hitting it off and making new friends, chatting with the bands at the merch table, and eating enough pizza to vomit on the sidewalk the moment I stepped outside.

Try out manual music discovery, it’s dope!

Old man yells at cloud

Yeah it’s kind of embarrassing but in my experience the number one rule of VPN kill switch schemes is that they will fail to trigger. Sometimes twice, after you fix the discrepancy that caused it to not trigger the first time. Fucking docker being too smart for it’s own good… Me being too dumb for my own…

UPS drivers > FedEx drivers. They get better safety training and their drivers get more manageable delivery loads so they’re not as harried. They’re also less likely to use the bike lane as a staging area for resorting all the boxes from their truck (Though UPS is still occasionally guilty of this). I’ve come very close to death as a result of bad FedEx truck driving multiple times, but I’ve never felt like my life was on the line around a UPS driver.

Ugh I’m so sick of this bullshit narrative, that is not the full story. Copy/pasting my take on this from another thread:

Local media has been trying to frame this issue as a Republicans vs Democrats story because it’s treating ODOT priorities as a foregone conclusion, I find it incredibly frustrating and disingenuous and dangerous.

Up in Portland, Democrats are also fighting ODOT waste every single year as we repeatedly smack down proposal after proposal to widen the section of I-5 that cuts right through the center of Portland’s east side neighborhoods, a folly that would exceed at least two billion dollars. I’ve likened ODOT to a titan that does Attack On Portland at least once a year, it knows only highway expansion and it will never stop it’s assaults even though we keep defeating it.

These regressive highway expansions are ODOT’s greatest price increase pressure. Maintaining and replacing infrastructure wouldn’t yet require us to double the gas tax (Regardless of the fact that we probably should anyway, this is just about baseline need), but expanding highways sure does.

Urban Democrats protest by stumping at planning meetings and pushing back on local boondoggle highways. Rural Republicans protest by threatening a tax revolt and showing up at the state capital. I wish local media would acknowledge that we’re ultimately protesting the same waste, tenuously allied in the same fight, and examine ODOT’s budget priorities. When Republicans complain that ODOT should stick to maintenance and fixes, they’re right. We do transit through other agencies that often don’t even touch gas tax. ODOT is a highway monster, by design.-

Specifically, that clear policy needs to include funding and planning for micromobility infrastructure. I want to emphasize, the real important missing piece here is infrastructure.

This is something that even the bike-friendly European nations seem to be struggling with at the moment.

Ever been to The Netherlands? Whole dang country is cycling in a 20mph zone without a helmet.

Yeah helmets are excellent for cycling sports like road racing or downhill mtb, situations where the crash is caused by something below the bike and you go over the bars head first. They don’t make much of a difference in most cases when you’re being hit or going under an automobile at speed.

Meanwhile, like every other US state New Jersey has made absolutely zero effort to include these inevitable vehicles in any road or transportation planning whatsoever, guaranteeing that every time one is used it’s either getting in the way of a driver or bringing a motor into an otherwise non-motorized space. Thereby generating legislation that ensures the “maximum pain” period of increasing adopting with zero infrastructure support lasts as long as possible.

Amsterdam is not doing that. Amsterdam is currently considering banning ebikes from certain parks and pedestrian areas, specifically.

As your link explains the proposal is just to ban them from parks and other low-speed pedestrian areas. Amsterdam hasn’t banned cars, they’re not about to ban ebikes.

The irony of the idea that cyclists are “taking lanes” can only come from the mind of a motorist ignorant that roads in North America only started getting paved with smooth asphalt due to a campaign by what is today The League of American Bicyclists. It was only due to the hard work and advocacy of cyclists that roads ever became hospitable to colonization by machines in the first place. If motorists were ever honestly adamant in their demand that no lanes ever be “removed” then it would mean undoing every single car lane.