no, it isn’t. You are not supposed to walk on train tracks and there are no train tracks next to every house.

absolutely this.

If you walk into the knife, someone is running around with, then its your fault?

and car infrastructure

Some people put those fears into your head to create a divide between us. They want you to see close calls with cyclists and be mad about it. So that you don’t see this:

If you hate my cause because i called out that your feelings are fueled by propaganda, the die was loaded from the start. Propaganda uses hate. I bet you are not telling me the city you are describing because it is a car infested hell with one ineffective bike lane.

there will always be bad and good examples in all the groups. You can’t blame an entire group. I know a couple of MAMILs and they are all very careful, friendly riders.

Wearing helmets saves lives.

encouraging people to ride bikes with or without a helmet saves more lives. Cars are the real danger, even with a helmet.

I am sorry about that. My place isn’t perfect either and we get a couple of deaths every year. Cycling isn’t accepted by all car drivers, but it is a normal concept anyway.

But i am happy not to live in the USA for example.

The only people who saw the real agile were people in a ski resort.

I saw it. And it was much more subtle and surprisingly simple as soon as we finally got everyone involved to really try. Suddenly it felt to many like ‘what had been so complicated before?’

classic public service inefficiency. If they made the lanes a little wider cars could drive here too. But of course they forgot that.

this is exactly anti-bicylce-propaganda. There are by far more deadly accidents involving cars and trucks than involving bikes and pedestrians. You are afraid of the wrong thing. Also you are describing the results of car focused infrastructure, that hasn’t been effectively planned for cyclists nor pedestrians. The dutch people are not much different than you or me, they just made the infrastructure right and assimilated it over the years. The close calls you are describing look harmless in the video, when you realize that even if there were an accident, not much would happen. But we still get many car-related deaths. Do you see what i mean?

Which city are you in and what does the car infrastructure look like in the street you are describing?

yes, people counted and compared. This plus trams has waaay more throughput than a usual car intersection. Check out not just bikes video on that topic with various combinations and graphs, and get mad at car infrastructure with us!

i hear people talk and laugh. That is what i want a busy street to be like.

German here: you can use “Führer” only with specific other context. There could be for example “Gruppenführer” -> the leader of a group. Or “Anführer” -> could be the elder of a tribe. If you clearly use it in a neutral context, no problem.

But if you use it just like that, it will immediately raise concern if you really meant to say it this way.

It would only be a financial drain if you were sending that money back home.

Only if you limit your view to your nation. ‘Back home’ across the border it would most likely also buy food etc. And that would be fine.

The real drain is the infinite black hole of the rich guys pockets. That is where all the money is. Don’t blame people who send money to their loved ones to help, just because there is a border.

its nice as a console. boots right into steam, start game with controller, bam. Since you can get Lutris games added to your steam library, there are so many game and platform options available.

bad: yeah you need to tinker around with a couple of games so they run right. Some only start with the specific proton version, some just take very long to start, some dont like the steam overlay, etc. But once you have them set up, its the best.

Doorbell rings. Pavlov: “damn i forgot to feed the dog”

Unabhängig davon ob sie wichtig sind oder nicht: warum gehen wir davon aus, dass die Evolution hier fertig wäre? Vielleicht entwickeln sich Nägel in Zukunft ja noch weg. Jetzt grade ist doch nur eine Momentaufnahme

ok, ein paar Eier zerschlagen! Übrigens ging die Verkehrswende in den Niederlanden damals auch nicht einfach so. Es gab Shitstorm, Bürgermeister haben Morddrohungen bekommen etc. Die konservativen werden alles gegen Veränderung tun, da muss man durch.

I appreciate Taylor Swifts achievements, but come on guys… Catherine_the_Great

1. Seized Power with Surgical Precision: Orchestrated a coup against her unpopular husband Peter III by winning over the military and elites. He was dead within days and she ruled unchallenged for 34 years.

2. Mastered Identity Politics: German-born, she rebranded herself as Russian: converted to Orthodoxy and learned the language and then used it to rally national pride and loyalty.

3. Talked Enlightenment, Ruled Autocracy: She courted philosophers like Voltaire and Diderot, published liberal-sounding reforms (Nakaz), and branded herself as a “philosopher queen”, while keeping tight control and strengthening the nobility.

4. Turned lovers into loyal lieutenants — military commanders, diplomats, advisors — then replaced them when they weren’t useful anymore.

5. Expanded Without Overextending: Catherine outmaneuvered rivals in wars and diplomacy: took Crimea through influence, took parts of Poland through alliances, beat the Ottomans by maneuvering.