As I’ve been making an effort to replace apps with the browser version of the service. It’s so abundantly clear that companies don’t want you using their website.

Even if they don’t outright cripple functionality, they’ll hound you endlessly to install the app.

It’s infuriating to say the least.

A driver murdered him, not a sentient SUV.

Trump freed 1500 criminals who wanted to kill elected officials in a terrorist-style seige of the capital.

But yeah, go punish a national hero.

every website I’ll ever visit and have visited in the past might be a threat

In that sense, you are right. However, there are ways to cloak your IP address and location.

Privacy is a massive rabbit hole depending on what threat you are trying to protect yourself from. Sometimes, the effort (and the stuff that breaks along the way) isn’t worth it.

If location implies an area extending 300 km in either direction, does it really matter? To most people, not really.

Location could also imply IP address-based location, and not necessarily GPS.

Hey NYC drivers, just purposely cause traffic. Sit in your car in the middle of the road - by the tens of thousands. You let him take one thing from you, and you’re giving him permission to take everything from you.

Finding new lows, eh?

LOL. I saw a video of a guy (don’t know where) who has an “armed cyclist” shirt with a shit ton of lights and reflective stickers all over his bike. I’m sure nobody close passes him now!

Seinfeld is a more “family friendly” option.

But Curb Your Enthusiasm can be put on an endless loop, and I’d still laugh my ass off at every episode.

According to the actual Aluminum Association, only 43% of aluminum cans shipped within the United States are recycled.

Not only that, but unless you can guarantee that a significant portion users will recycle those aluminum cans, they are significantly more energy intensive to manufacture compared to single use plastic bottles.

Time feels way faster as you get older.

It’s also pretty grim that the people you know are either dying, dead, or have a life altering illness that comes out of nowhere. I feel like there’s a funeral in my family once a month, rather than once every decade.

Just snuck up on everyone without warning! 🫣

Hardly any biker in the Netherlands wears a helmet

Yes, but:

1. Head injuries are extremely common in the Netherlands.
2. Since a large number of bike accidents do NOT involve cars, riders should still wear a helmet to keep their brain safe.

With the increase in e-bike use, especially among the older population, injuries in the Netherlands have gone up dramatically, so there’s only so much that infrastructure can do.

We do still need safe cycling infrastructure to separate us from cars as much as possible, but it’s not the panacea that many of us believe it to be.

I’ve never understood why bike lanes aren’t protected as a form of accessibility that people with mobility devices benefit from.

Where I live, there are a LOT of people in mobility devices using bike lanes, and it pains me to see them forced onto the roadway because of some asshole parking in the bike lane.

Accessibility tends to be an easy win, because only the biggest shills would be against accessibility infrastructure.

Like getting mad at curb cuts, handicapped parking, wheelchair ramps would be insane.

Make it so bike lanes are protected under the same umbrella, because they should be.

The bike lanes were installed two years ago as part of a $1.5 million, in response to serious crashes in the area.

These MOFOs don’t value the lives of cyclists, so why should cyclists value the windows or mirrors of these future parked cars? 🤫

Whoa, what the actual fuck. They are 100% doing that by choice.

For example, this comes up on duckduckgo search:

And clicking on that link suddenly gives this, as if it never existed:

To make sure this wasn’t just old search data, I went to the internet archive.

As of Jan 20th (the last archived copy), that About page was still up. So, it got taken down in the last few days.

You can say that’s a coincidence, but good luck trying to explain that among 100 other things that Nazis did these past few days.