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FrequentFlats

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Bike user, despite the objections of hydrocarbonistas. Ding ding losers, weeeeewooohooo! Recovering Brit, 🇳🇱 resident.

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FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · Nov 11

Impractical by bike, impossible in car.

BBC News - China roads blocked by thousands of cyclists in night quest for dumplings
www.bbc.com/news/article...

China roads blocked by thousands of cyclists in night quest for dumplings

It started as a social media trend but brought traffic gridlock between two cities.

www.bbc.com

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FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 11h

Ed Balls

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 23h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 11h

Did one of them hit a sign?

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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · 2d

And here is the percentage of the world's land area setting a new all-time monthly maximum temperature record in each decade:

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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · 2d

Around 78% of the world has seen all-time maximum monthly temperature records set since the year 2000, with 38% set in past five years alone. In a new analysis over at The Climate Brink I take a look at where and when records were set: www.theclimatebrink....

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FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 15h

Subject to arcane design and regulation.

For example, why is it possible to speed? Why is it possible to do burnouts? Press the accelerator and brake simultaneously? Drive without headlights at night? Leave it running unattended? Fill the tank with the engine running? Etc...

FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 16h

That's not so much an issue because I know to check my blindspots at a junction.

The issues are 1. when I don't know something is hidden and it's not obvious I need to check. 2. People who don't even realise they need to check.

Compulsory retesting👍

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 1d

You can be the safest, most attentive driver in the world and still pose a massive risk to other road users. That’s because cars and car dependency are inherently dangerous.

This doesn’t mean you’re a bad person if you drive, but I do think that drivers should acknowledge their role in this system.

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FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 17h

If you are going to drive (I do) you have to accept responsibility for all harm.

It's not even down to "they didn't follow the rules and I did", that's the binary fantasy made by car-brain selfishness.

It's down to choosing to drive a 2,000kg vehicle at 50kmh with soundproofing and blindspots.

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FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 17h

Those are professional qualifications though. Not GCSEs and A-Levels or academic degrees like a Masters.

FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 2d

I live in a country where there are few shared paths compared to the number of bike paths.

And ebikes are, on the whole, limited to 25KMH.

FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 2d

The argument goes that if you can ride an acoustic at 25mph, then you're experienced enough to safely ride at that speed.

It's not watertight, because I've known some real boneheads.

But the converse argument is just as true.

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Board-Certified Rat Bastard @coprofish.com · 2d

This account is going dark

In practical terms that means I will not post or boost other posts WITH THE EXCEPTION OF AID REQUESTS

I will still use the site passively and might drop the ocassional like but that is it

Today I will respond to comments on this post and outline my reasoning

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FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 2d

Like a disentangle puzzle! Happy Christmas, careless trucker!

FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 2d

I'm only surprised she hasn't received a pardon already.

Or an unexplained CCTV blackout.

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Casper @casperh.bsky.social · 2d

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FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 2d

I don't think Mr/Ms Pretty Blue Bike is going to be upset by that!

If they were Dutch, that'd be polite parking!

FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 2d

That's the thing, by the time you've had your first job after graduation, it's way more important to demonstrate how much important stuff you've been trusted with.

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FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 2d

It's more of a demonstration of how out of date (and unfit) the British education system is.

More funding. Ta.

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tallboy66.bsky.social @tallboy66.bsky.social · 3d

A driver obeying the speed limit of 30 mph did this or an e bike

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FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 2d

Another scratched car. What an irresponsible place for a barrier.

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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 2d

A million in-car texters beg to differ

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 5d

This is a hill I will die on.
youtu.be/fDvxq7IF1W4

LED replacement bulbs for cars are bad and you shouldn't use them.

YouTube video by Technology Connextras

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FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 2d

Even stock LED headlamps dazzle me, even on regular flat roads (I live in NL where there are more speed bumps than hills).

In my car I have mine adjusted to "heavy load in the rear" to minimise other people's experience of it.

FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, it has to be more of a router bug if it soils the sheets on exposure to errant devices.

But I have to have a router connected to the internet.

FrequentFlats @frequentflats.bsky.social · 3d

I connected my Bosches to the internet twice.

The first time one of them crashed my router (known issue🤷), the second time I did it for a software update (it didn't fix the router issue).

Now there's nothing wrong with the software (as far as I care!) I'm not connecting it to the botnet again!