They wear masks because their family would be embarrassed by this Nazi shit. Fucking disgraceful cowards.

This is always an interesting point.

It’s hard to believe that any small business in a busy tourist area would see less business with more foot traffic, as they almost always benefit from it.

Something tells me that businesses who are doing worse after something like this, might just have a failing business, and use this as a scapegoat.

They are all over here, specifically at crossings that join MUPs (Multi Use Paths).

But they have made some areas more dangerous because of drivers who don’t stop behind the line. A pedestrian walking slowly might not be hit, but a cyclist going bike speed is at far greater risk of “not being seeing”.

be PREDICTABLE

This is why I strongly support banning on-street parking. Cars that randomly park on the side of the road, big, small, tall, some too far out, some blocking signs, some creating blind spots… they just create unpredictability and randomness for other road users.

Amazing how headlines will say LUIGI THE KILLER, but when it’s about a white, Christian, domestic terrorist carrying out political assassinations, he’s just a SUSPECTED SHOOTER.

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… someone stopped in the roundabout to let a car in.

I wish more people realized how dangerous some nice acts can be.

I’ve been in plenty of situations where someone might wave me on in situations where it really isn’t appropriate or safe, so I have to basically yell at them to continue.

The last thing I want is for a driver with good intentions to be rear ended, and me getting hit. Three people’s day would be ruined, at the very least.

I turned around and gave him the “what the fuck” hands and gestured at the stop sign, and this mother fucker looked at me like I fucked up.

Not long ago, I was going through an intersection on a green… from one bike lane, continuing into the other on the other side of the intersection.

While I had a green, a driver making a left nearly ran into me, honked and did the same “what the fuck are you doing” to me.

It’s pretty amazing that we don’t hear of crashes every minute of the day, because some people quite literally have no idea what the hell they are doing.

Yes, maybe they didn’t know cross rides were a thing, were fatigued and forgot, etc.

This is why people get killed, unfortunately. We had a teenager, riding through a cross ride, and was killed by a driver who didn’t stop behind the line late last year. I visited the spot, and even with a goddamn shrine set up under the stop sign, drivers were still not stopping. I was disappointed, and furious by this lack of care.

I value my bikes far too much, but in my head, I would love to! LOL

My ride yesterday was about 5 hours, across 7 municipalities, and over 130km.

I can say with confidence that there were at least a dozen close calls at intersections and cross rides, specifically because drivers aren’t paying attention.

I had one lady “stop”, and then crawl into the crossing, while looking only to her left (I was coming from her right). I had to stop and ring my bell before she even realized that I was there.

Many, MANY people making turns without checking for pedestrians and cyclists crossing.

And not stopping behind the line happened more times than I can count.

I’ve witnessed a few times people actually driving onto bike paths! Not just bike lanes, but fucking paths, like ones that go through parks and forests! Just clueless about what they’re doing.

Maybe they didn’t know.

Didn’t know what? The traffic rules?

Our local police do squat about traffic violations, unfortunately, unless they are present when the infraction occurs. I’ve got a video of this entire thing, she was in the cross ride for at least 17 seconds. And I’m sure she was on her phone for more than just this encounter.

This kind of lack of awareness is why we have so many pedestrian and cyclist deaths in places designed to be “safe” for cyclists and pedestrians!

Is a cross ride like a crosswalk but for bikes or something?

Yes, you can ride through with your bike. Notice the two green lights above her, those are bike symbols, indicating that I have the right of way to cross. She needed to STOP behind the line, and also not be on her phone (illegal).

The only difference is that a driver would get out of their car, check for damage to their vehicle, and then get mad at the kid! /s

I’m reading the comments about this video, and I think people are missing the point.

It’s not about the Telsa running into the kid. It’s about the Tesla completely ignoring the FLASHING FUCKING STOP SIGN at the side of the bus, which resulted in it hitting the kid dummy.

This could have been a pedestrian crossing, railroad stop, intersection, etc.

These vehicles aren’t “smart” and should not be allowed on the road. Any idiot can have greater awareness than a Tesla.

After reading the article and watching the video of the child who was hit by a cyclist, it seems that the real problem is the on-street parking.

Not surprising, since on-street parking, legal or otherwise, creates a significant challenge and conflict for all road users.

The NIMBYs and planners are idiots for not acknowledging that fact.

You don’t even have to be old. Death or serious illness/injury can affect us at any age, and it would suck if your family lost access to all the self-hosted photos and videos, for example.

“Make it usable” is a great idea.

Sounds good, but if I search “microwave repair” or “improve vo2max” , it comes up with zero results.

That’s the sort of stuff we’d lose if creators don’t move away from YouTube. 😟

Simplify as much as you can.

And remember, if you’re also self-hosting for family, someone will need to take over all that software and digital clutter when you’re gone.

I’ve been trimming as much as I can on my NAS, including only keeping the most important self-hosted software and heavily purging old files and backups.

Educational content is hard to come by outside of YouTube, so it would suck to have to avoid watching those videos because of ads.

But I’ll do what I have to do in order to avoid ads for as long as possible. And I’ll archive important content in the meantime.

10 fucking years? We’ll have flying cars before we have reasonably sized ones.