Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org
Joined Dec 2022
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This feels appropriate for the second thing I've ever posted to mastodon.
@milesmcbain That is a great way to put it, although unfortunately that's not how it's usually framed. There are too many bike proponents that are like the type of vegans who choose not to eat meat and other animal byproducts, but who also think that the world would be a better place if they could force everyone else to adopt their choices. And when you try to force people to make a choice they don't want to make there is almost always some form of backlash.
But I do agree that you'd probably get a lot more bike paths built (at least in places where they aren't openly antagonistic to them) if all the bike path proponents took your approach! The minute someone starts saying "people should use bikes to get to work or school" the antagonism starts to form. Even people who love riding a bike for excercise (or whatever) generally don't want to be forced to rely on them in the middle of a blizzard or a pouring rain.
By the way, just because some people CAN carry a bunch of stuff on a bike doesn't mean that most people want to do that. When I was younger I used to ride a motorcycle and even with that it was a pain in the butt to transport anything at all bulky. Yes, maybe I COULD figure out some way to break it down and/or strap it to the motorcycle, but it took a lot of time and effort and every time I did it I'd think about how much more convenient it would be just chuck the item(s) into the trunk of a car. And that was on a motorcycle - I can only imagine how much time and effort people would have to spend preparing larger or numerous items for transport on a bicycle!
@Lunatech I suggest you check out the #carryshitolympics tag for inspiration as to what can be transported by bike. The scare campaign just needs a...
@pipistrelle The feed jumps are something I have found in a greater or lesser degree in every #Mastodon reader I have tries so far, including the official web-based ones. It is ridiculous that you can't load more posts without it jumping forward or backward, causing you to lose your place.
@MonaApp Is there a keystroke for loading more posts? The button for it is hard to find, and my feed jumps from 2 hours ago to 10 hours ago. It is...
I will tell you the same thing I have told everybody else I have come across that somehow has in in their mind that bicycles are an answer to anything. Only a small minority of the population really enjoys riding a #bicycle on a regular basis. Beyond that small percentage, the people who ride bikes do so because they feel they have no other better options, or they only do it during the nice summer/fall days for recreation. The problems with #bikes are they do not shield you from the elements, they limit the range you can comfortably travel, it is nearly impossible to bring home a couple bags of groceries or any significant purchase from a bricks-and-mortar store on a bike, and they offer virtually no protection if you are in a collision with a larger vehicle.
But more to the point, when Americans feel threatened with the idea that they might be forced to use a bicycle for basic transportation, they blame the "damn liberals" (even though a lot of people who are liberal on most other issues hate the idea of using anything other than a car to get around with every fiber of their being, though they will not say that to their liberal friends). So if and when Americans get it in their heads that "the libs" are going to try to force them to give up their car and ride a bike, they will vote for the worst Republican running, because they know that one thing Republicans will NEVER do is try to take people out of their cars, they are too beholden to big oil. Nobody ever wants to talk about it this way, but I will bet that close elections have been lost because a certain percentage of voters sees the Democrats as the party that wants to take their car away, and they might even be right to feel that way about some of the far-left elements in the party. Viewed that way, it's not a win/win, it's a lose/lose because it helps elect people who will never expand #BikePaths and who will continue to support the fossil fuel industry, and who are just terrible people in general.
@Alexandrad1 We can create a better economic system with #OpenSource #MicroManufacturing of #MicroMobility to address #Climate while helping unders...
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Secure Copy is a #UNIX standard used to #transfer files from one computer to another. He's how to use the function in #macOS, all via the Terminal window. https://tchlp.com/3knnzFO
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Several million divorces and job firings later, iPhone finally introduces "SMS text unsend." Clearly a product decision modeled after the history of the automobile seat belt or how air safety improves one funeral at a time.
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Chromebooks foisted on students? Teachers monitoring what children do outside of the classroom via nonfree software? Surveillance of children is common, and it's at your child's school, too. Support #FreeSoftware https://u.fsf.org/32h
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Can the NY Times do the "both sides" routine any more absurdly than this, regarding the Republicans' stated intention to sabotage the U.S. and global economies?
The Times' political coverage is consistent journalistic malpractice. It is not going to improve, and that's the saddest part of all.
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"Okay," the teacher said. "You've got your groups. Time to find out which ones fail. All witches, please raise your hands."
No one raised a hand. The kids were confused and told the teacher he'd messed up the game. "Did I? Was anyone in Salem an actual witch? Or did everyone just believe what they'd been told?"
And that is how you teach kids how easy it is to divide a community.
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A powerful lesson - source unknown.
A teacher tells her students, "I'm going to come around and whisper to each of you whether you're a witch or a regular person. Your goal is to build the largest group possible that does NOT have a witch in it. At the end, any group found to include a witch gets a failing grade."
The teens dove into grilling each other. One fairly large group formed, but most of the students broke into small, exclusive groups, turning away anyone they thought guilty.
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As an expert on Social Security explained on my SiriusXM show: Don't listen to GOP's lies that Social Security is on the verge of bankruptcy. It has enough funding to pay 100% of benefits to at least 2035. SS could use some tweaks but the GOP opposed SS from the start and has long wanted to gut it. We can NOT let them! https://youtu.be/Ni-ii9gIt8w
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A great and detailed Bash script cheatsheet 👇🏼
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It's weird, as a librarian, to have to have conversations with yourself about how far you would go. Would I be willing to go to jail for 30 days because I did the right thing and refused to take LGBTQ books off the shelves? Could my family afford me not working for 30 days for doing the right thing? Would I still have a job afterward? Would I be able to maintain my clearances to work with children if I had been to jail for 30 days for not removing allegedly sexually explicit books from shelves?
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@MonaApp Is there a keystroke for loading more posts? The button for it is hard to find, and my feed jumps from 2 hours ago to 10 hours ago. It is not the occasional post, either; there seems to be a large group of posts before and after the ten-hour split. #Mona #Mastodon #MacOS #ScreenReader #Accessibility
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#Google could give EACH of the 12,000 employees it just laid off a $1,000,000 severance and still have $5 BILLION in profits left over from its last quarter alone (Q4 profits were $17B)
Instead, they just dumped 12,000 people onto the job market, which affects everyone, in a society in which such things as healthcare rely on employment.
When are we going to stop giving corporations that leech off us a free pass on civic responsibility?
#layoffs #googlelayoffs #capitalism #corporations #healthcare
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Engineering a crisis that put babies in the crosshairs? It's just plain evil.
#GQP #GQPClownShow #babies #infants #republicans #politics #uspol #uspolitics #news
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This is from Florida’s education commissioner, depressingly. Reflect for a moment on the incredible degree of intellectual insecurity it reveals.
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Taliban has banned women from seeing male doctors AND banned women from seeking medical education to become doctors. This is a sure fire way to kill women. It’s beyond barbaric.
Moreover, Prophet Muhammad (sa) declared education incumbent upon women AND declared medical knowledge as the most worthwhile knowledge. Taliban extremists ignore that entirely—because they fear truth, justice, and empowered women.
Taliban are enemies of all humanity.
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Thirteen years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment.
Today, sold-out politicians block progress on all fronts to appease their corporate donors.
Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.
