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2w ago

I Took Not Just Bikes Cycling in London | Evan Edinger

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1mo ago

Milk, bread prices to increase within weeks due to war in Iran
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Zagorath @aussie.zone 1mo ago
Welp, time to hoard milk and bread I guess.
I honestly think articles like this are irresponsible reporting because they create panic and invite precisely the kind of hoarding that will make the problem more likely to occur.

1mo ago

It's totally a free pawn, Bobby.

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Zagorath @aussie.zone 1mo ago

i’d say descended from fish doesn’t count as fish

You can’t evolve out of a clade.

1mo ago

Israel said it targeted Hezbollah, so we went to the site of a strike

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Zagorath @aussie.zone 1mo ago

Not trolling. A genuine Nazi. They support Israel's invasion specifically on the grounds of "lebensraum".

1mo ago

Israel said it targeted Hezbollah, so we went to the site of a strike

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Zagorath @aussie.zone 1mo ago

Reminder to everyone that the person No1 is talking to here is a Nazi.

2mo ago

YouTube Premium is getting pricier

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Zagorath @aussie.zone 2mo ago

Cool. I stopped paying for it back when it was still called "YouTube Red", during one of their many crackdowns on creators' freedom in the name of benefitting advertisers. I dumped it and installed an adblocker, and eventually YouTube Vanced and its successor Revanced.

2mo ago

Google's AI doesn't seem to understand preferential voting

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Zagorath @aussie.zone 2mo ago

Oof. Lumo wrong too, in a different way. There's no federal electorate of Aspley. The suburb of Aspley is in Lilley and Petrie.

2mo ago

Google's AI doesn't seem to understand preferential voting

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Zagorath @aussie.zone 2mo ago

Stop looking to LLMs for answers

You don't look for it. Google shoves it right there where it's unavoidably the first thing you see.

2mo ago

Official NASA photo

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Zagorath @aussie.zone 2mo ago

The “critique” is a non-issue pushed mainly by uppity Europeans

fwiw I've seen it most often from Latin Americans.

2mo ago

Official NASA photo

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Zagorath @aussie.zone 2mo ago

The first woman (Christina Koch), non-white person (Victor Glover), and non-American (Jeremy Hansen) in deep space. And Reid Wiseman.

2mo ago

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Zagorath @aussie.zone 2mo ago

I worry about this sometimes. I don't ever want to be seen as speaking "for" minorities I'm not a member of, but I do want to be seen speaking "up for" them. And I worry about finding the right balance. I don't want to speak over them, but do want to help make it clear that I support them and I am opposed to those who are opposed to them. I don't want to be MLK's "white moderate".

2mo ago

Government says people can 'make the call' on work from home amid fuel supply concerns

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Zagorath @aussie.zone 2mo ago

Higher speeds increase fuel consumption

I believe most cars are at their most efficient at city cruising speeds of 50–70 km/h. Because there's a trade-off between air resistance and the efficiency of the engine & gearing.

2mo ago

ABC journalists to strike for first time in 20 years with widespread news disruption expected

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Zagorath @aussie.zone 2mo ago

Yeah that's a fair point actually. Nicely done.

2mo ago

ABC journalists to strike for first time in 20 years with widespread news disruption expected

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Zagorath @aussie.zone 2mo ago

You're trying to argue with a Nazi. It's not worth your time.

2mo ago

ABC journalists to strike for first time in 20 years with widespread news disruption expected

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Zagorath @aussie.zone 2mo ago

I don't care what a Nazi wants.

2mo ago

Government says people can 'make the call' on work from home amid fuel supply concerns

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Zagorath @aussie.zone 2mo ago

You'd think it's obvious, but every time any government or council tries to do something to improve public transport options or bike paths, both of which also take cars of the road and make it easier for drivers, people come from all over to complain about how they have to drive and therefore it's a bad idea!

2mo ago

Government says people can 'make the call' on work from home amid fuel supply concerns

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Zagorath @aussie.zone 2mo ago

Reduces demand and reduces the amount of traffic on the roads, which has the dual effect of further reducing demand (since the trucks themselves get places faster and more smoothly, using less fuel) and also improving operational efficiency because trucks arrive sooner and more predictably.

2mo ago

Australia’s new physical activity guidelines won’t shift the needle – here are 4 better ideas

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Zagorath @aussie.zone 2mo ago

my ex wifes friend had two first year high school kids, lived 800m in a straight line with a footpath, to their door, the kids refused to walk and she drove them everyday. They’d literally wait longer then walking home

There are multiple possible issues here. Partly, it very much could just be teenagers being teenagers. Lazy and difficult for the sake of it. And parents should man (or woman) up and just make them walk. Walk with them, if you have to.

Which brings me to the second possibility. Habit. If they're not in the habit of walking places, for example they never walked to primary school and they're being expected to suddenly start walking as of their first day of high school, that's a pretty big leap. Not easy to deal with now, but the parent should have been walking with them more often earlier.

At 800 m, it's unlikely that the infrastructure even could be so bad that I'd find it reasonable to drive, but even for a short distance like that, a nice walk would make it so much more pleasant. Nice wide footpaths where you can walk side-by-side without needing to squeeze up to let someone past. Having priority at minor intersections (made clear via wombat crossings) is ideal, but at least having smooth, wide kerb drops. Nice shade cover. It's a lot easier to get people to walk if the walk is pleasant.

2mo ago

Australia’s new physical activity guidelines won’t shift the needle – here are 4 better ideas

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Zagorath @aussie.zone 2mo ago

One problem with that is how expensive community sport—especially children's sport—has become.

Yes, people could just go out for a run. And as a runner I'd be ecstatic if everyone did. But social sport is a far more realistic option for getting most people off the couch, because it's a double-whammy of exercise and social fun.

2mo ago

Australia’s new physical activity guidelines won’t shift the needle – here are 4 better ideas

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Zagorath @aussie.zone 2mo ago

The trick is that shaming fat people doesn't help anyone. It's more likely to cause a fat person to end up eating more because it's emotional eating, than it is to actually be the cause of them finally getting in shape.

I don't think the most extreme forms of "big is beautiful" are great. But fat acceptance in the form of "you shouldn't be made to feel shame for being overweight" is a necessary harm reduction strategy.

2mo ago

Australia’s new physical activity guidelines won’t shift the needle – here are 4 better ideas

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Zagorath @aussie.zone 2mo ago

You're definitely not entirely off the mark. It's difficult, and our councils especially are insanely corrupt and useless.

But it's definitely not true that you'd need to level the city to fix it. There's a lot that can be done comparatively easily.

I would start by laying down ground rules: apart from motorways, no road should have more than one lane in each direction (temporary lanes at intersections, such as turning lanes, excepted) unless that road first has unidirectional safe, separated bike paths on both sides, with priority at the vast majority of intersections. Existing roads that violate this should be fixed at the first possible opportunity, such as the next repavement or intersection upgrade. All new motorway at train extensions should include separated cycleways parallel to them, similar to the Kippa Ring line or the Deagon Deviation and Gateway North Bikeways.

We need to develop a set of design rules that seriously prioritise the comfort and safety of pedestrians and cyclists. And engineers need to be held to them, much like they are in the Netherlands. Deviations from the standards may be permitted, if backed up by evidence, but they open themselves to risks of professional liability if they do so.