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similarly hosed up story about people trying to serial killer with their car: https://www.king5.com/article/news/...4d-07df9cf6f047 quote:
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Ham Equity posted:So, while they perceive this as what is happening, it is most likely not. The way the brain handles long-term memory is that it retains things that are important, and dumps things that are not; think of your long-term memory as your hard disk, and your short-term memory as your RAM. If it's a thing you have done a bunch of times before that you really didn't learn anything new from this time you did it, as soon as you're done, your brain takes the short-term memory of that drive and basically erases it, assuming you don't need it. memory does not work this way lol
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you have two minds, one in front and one in back. the one in front does all your active control, mental imaging, and powers your reasoning. the one in back does the passive activities like breathing, managing your gait, and other physical functioning. when the mind in front gets comfortable enough with an activity that it no longer needs to actively manage it, the task is passed off to the mind in back, but front-mind can still recall the task, like when you are reminded to breathe, or when your flow-state driving is interrupted by a red light
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Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:why would I let a red light interrupt me rear mind is probably gonna signal front mind when you see a red light just in case its brake lights. but i suppose there are drivers out there whose rear minds handle emergency maneuvers too. in fact people have so much variety that there are certainly people who never use one of their minds at all. ive long suspected that the two minds are capable of some kind of cognitive atrophy, and its likely that you can be born without one or the other, like the poor losers with aphantasia
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Brb gonna rear mind driving while I front mind texting with the buds.
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Mauser posted:Brb gonna rear mind driving while I front mind texting with the buds. if youre skilled you can pass off texting AND driving to the rear mind while you use your front mind to eat a bowl of cereal and put on makeup
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scary ghost dog posted:if youre skilled you can pass off texting AND driving to the rear mind while you use your front mind to eat a bowl of cereal and put on makeup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJtxMnvY3_4
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https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2nDL9JLLKy/ Whole-rear end video about a lane barrier for car traffic, but holy moly look at that bike lane...
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silicone thrills posted:another article noted this the the 3rd time this month that this happened It’s endemic now. The transportation secretary will note with glee that “the overwhelming number of deaths, over 75%, occurred in people who had at least four citations for vagrancy. So really these are people who were housing-insecure to begin with. And yes, really encouraging news in the context of the American way of life.”
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I skimmed through an article about a hit-and-run that killed a teen walking home at night some 14 years ago (it's paywalled and archive.is seems down again, but anyway it's long and I don't really like the writing style). It goes on about how it took the combined efforts of a hundred+ cops and investigators to figure out whodunnit and it was someone in the town who did all kinds of poo poo to avoid getting caught. They hid the damaged car on their property in a hidden compartment in a trailer, bought another similar-looking car and swapped some (but not all) of the VINs, etc. At the end some people are partly relieved by the closure that the perpetrators were found and will be given (relatively) lengthy sentences before mentioning the irony that if the driver had just remained at the scene and called 911 he likely would have faced next to no consequences. The victim was walking home in the middle of the lane on a country road with an 80km/h speed limit and died instantly. I found the contrast interesting with so many other hit and run cases where cops barely give a poo poo, especially if the victim happens to survive. Maybe this one "accident" was unavoidable in the sense that the driver had no time to stop or swerve but there's basically no reflection on why this keeps happening and how to stop it. All we're left with is a cautionary tale about spinning a web of lies to avoid taking responsibility, which would make for good fiction if you're into that sort of thing but is a lot more depressing in reality.
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Precambrian Video Games posted:I skimmed through an article about a hit-and-run that killed a teen walking home at night some 14 years ago (it's paywalled and archive.is seems down again, but anyway it's long and I don't really like the writing style). It goes on about how it took the combined efforts of a hundred+ cops and investigators to figure out whodunnit and it was someone in the town who did all kinds of poo poo to avoid getting caught. They hid the damaged car on their property in a hidden compartment in a trailer, bought another similar-looking car and swapped some (but not all) of the VINs, etc. At the end some people are partly relieved by the closure that the perpetrators were found and will be given (relatively) lengthy sentences before mentioning the irony that if the driver had just remained at the scene and called 911 he likely would have faced next to no consequences. The victim was walking home in the middle of the lane on a country road with an 80km/h speed limit and died instantly. No kidding about the prose style, it's really odd and melodramatic. The bit about a hundred cops working for fifteen years had me intrigued, but in like almost all cases of this sort, the cops came did nothing for fifteen years except harass somebody who didn't do it and then somebody called their tip line and said "hey, this is the guy who did it and the car is on his property."
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/goodkidbikecity/status/1779012823177396486?t=v6wcc57ZXuv0JZ_9qp68eQ&s=19 wow evs have cut oil usage by almost 1%!
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KEI chat, got to ride in a few while working on farms in japan. they own and can off-road up mountains too.  also here's me getting pulled over on bike by a boy scout cop for a passport check. he said he saw us on the news and had a fan-boy moment before asking us if we stole the bikes lol. my friend almost got deported on her last day cause she didn't bring her passport with her on our field trip. also we biked there next to the highway cause all the roads have some form of sidewalk you can bike on. 
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after someone ran a red light and killed a high school teacher cyclist, my city has upped the war against cars. last year, they painted divided bike lanes on my road. everyone ignored them, and i was overjoyed this morning to see fiberglass bollards on the inside edge of the painted separator, so all the brodozers are squeezed together and there is an overall traffic calming effect. however, i expect the bollards to all slowly be destroyed and never replaced. 2 were already dead.
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gradenko_2000 posted:rode my bike today i'm jelly
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Mauser posted:Hammer some rebar into the street inside the plastic flex posts breaking out my half life 2 crossbow to implant rebar along the bike lane, and nail some F250s to a nearby building. cheese eats mouse posted:also here's me getting pulled over on bike by a boy scout cop for a passport check. he said he saw us on the news and had a fan-boy moment before asking us if we stole the bikes lol. my friend almost got deported on her last day cause she didn't bring her passport with her on our field trip. also we biked there next to the highway cause all the roads have some form of sidewalk you can bike on. that protected sidewalk/bike lane owns
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jetz0r posted:that protected sidewalk/bike lane owns it’s not even a nice one  through Boy Scout cop I also learned bikes are registered like cars to your name and address and they can look up your registration number on the bike in the field. cheese eats mouse has issued a correction as of 23:16 on Apr 14, 2024 |
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In what world does this solve the problem of cables Can you imagine a street full of these things? https://twitter.com/Clockwisesss/status/1779526704639119484
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Fitzy Fitz posted:In what world does this solve the problem of cables riding the bike underneath with no hands on the handlebars cuz they're gripping hedge clippers snip
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my bony fealty posted:riding the bike underneath with no hands on the handlebars cuz they're gripping hedge clippers It’s called “trail maintenance”, and it’s a civic responsibility.
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I was looking through Minneapolis's street view today and man you can really see some dramatic changes all over the city in the last 5 years. Much of the streetviews are from 2019, and all the aerial stuff is from 2024, and it's amazing how much better their bike (and bus) infrastructure has gotten in the last half decade. Some of the data seems to jibe with that too. https://usa.streetsblog.org/2023/08/01/how-minneapolis-became-a-top-u-s-bike-city
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oh man, doing that on S Broadway in Denver - where they just finished a ton of pedestrian improvements and a two-way protected bike path - was incredibly satisfying
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Fitzy Fitz posted:In what world does this solve the problem of cables As a former teenager, yeah, I'm gonna swing in those. And as a current goon, they're not gonna hold my weight
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Rauros posted:after someone ran a red light and killed a high school teacher cyclist, my city has upped the war against cars. last year, they painted divided bike lanes on my road. everyone ignored them, and i was overjoyed this morning to see fiberglass bollards on the inside edge of the painted separator, so all the brodozers are squeezed together and there is an overall traffic calming effect. however, i expect the bollards to all slowly be destroyed and never replaced. 2 were already dead.
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BonHair posted:As a former teenager, yeah, I'm gonna swing in those. And as a current goon, they're not gonna hold my weight Lol I used to work at a mall with a big parkade, and at one point to get people to stop hanging on the sprinkler lines they covered them in grease and goo and other filth. Didn't stop anyone from trying it but the walls of the parkade were covered in black handprints where people were trying to get the muck off
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Pretty sure this bus stop only exists to troll transit users, multiple people have been killed trying to walk from it over the years  https://maps.app.goo.gl/qtmp5twHFtQBfLZw5
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I took a city bus to get to a park and ride where the intercity bus picked people up somewhere in the south of France, maybe outside of Aix or Avignon, and not only was there nowhere to walk to from this bus stop, but accessing the park and ride required walking along the narrow shoulder of 80km/hr road and traversing a circle with a low fence we had to hop over. Lots of carbrained poo poo still going on in the land of bicycle racing Edit: poo poo this might have been in Narbonne while we were headed to that area. I'll see if I can find it on a map later
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Once you leave Paris and try to get around from other points to somewhere other than Paris it can be a matter of finding a TER/commuter train or sometimes a bus. Commuter trains might not run on the weekend and can be somewhat infrequent. When I was in Dordogne it didn't seem like there were a lot of train options anywhere, but I might not have seen it. In other news, while showing our guest around Baltimore by bicycle yesterday I got to point out the stupid loving cops driving their SUV up the pedestrian area downtown and then a series of three motorcycle pigs riding down the protected bike lane.
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