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  • We are trying to build a better infrastructure, where pedestrians enjoy safe and pleasant walk, cyclist enjoy safe and pleasant ride, commuters do commute, etc. In order to achieve that, it’s important that the spaces are predictable. If you’re in a shared space, you expect a bicycle, if you’re in a pedestrian area you shouldn’t be on a lookout for fast things. Same goes the other way, if you’re on a bike in a shared space, you should expect pedestrians be everywhere and should always be on a lookout, but if you’re riding a designated bike road, you should be able to enjoy the ride, not crawling with pedestrian speed dodging around.
    If this rule doesn’t work, the infrastructure doesn’t work. You can’t expect people using cycling infrastructure for commute if they can’t be sure infrastructure is usable, so they wouldn’t, so everyone is riding cars and we’re back to square one.





  • It is indeed due to the lack of medical knowledge. The thing is, so called “generational wisdom” is basically a synonym for lack of knowledge, medical or otherwise. When your go-to source of knowledge is the elders from your community, it stops you from seeking more relevant, and almost certainly more correct knowledge. Community isn’t smart, community is dominated by people who are speaking the loudest, the community consensus revolves around certainty, and people who know the most tend to be least certain in their language.






  • Nalivai@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldA man can dream
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    21 days ago

    Americans, in general, are incredibly apathetic about the elections. I don’t have exact numbers at hand, but every research that I saw indicates that very little amount of people actually vote in every general election, and there was like a single digit percent of people who both remember that locals, primaries, and general exists.
    I don’t blame progressives in red states for failing against the crushing machine of authoritarianism, in a theocratic regime it might be outright impossible to win. I’m blaming Americans, all of them but especially progressives, for throwing away the unique mechanisms of democracy they had in favour of dreaming of firebombing a wallmart or yelling at strangers on the intetnet.
    Ever since I become interested in the American politics, I can’t get away from the stream of anti-election rhetoric, that seem to culminate in, well, this.
    You all are at fault proportional to your share of power that you didn’t use.


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    21 days ago

    If only you could spend a portion of this emotions on fight or flight. But alas.
    But hey, not throwing stones here, I myself was born in Russia of all places, and I also spent first half of my life thinking that being angry online and trying to convince fellow countrymen that fascism isn’t great actually will do something. You’re only learning what “collective guilt” means, I was born with it, molded by it.


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    21 days ago

    Do you see them running or crying online?

    All the time, I watch one right now.

    Houston is already one of the most diverse and progressive cities in the country

    Tell me you’re from Texas without saying the word Texas.

    You cant even stand

    I’m not from your dumpsterfire of a country, I’m one of those undesirables that you collectively voted to never let in. It was mostly you, the southerners, so diverse you keep voting for the worst rightest candidate ever since the 3/5th compromise. I guess I need to thank you for that, otherwise I would’ve been right there with you, doing jack shit to prevent fascist uprising.