Considering you said you’re german, I think the whole Idea of “Ehrenamt” and subsidiaries of it runs counter to the entire system that has been built. If we monetize everything, I think it’s fine that people get paid for taking time out of their day and bodies to do good shit.
Basically, don’t do unpaid labour in this system?
One of the worst things you can do to the environment folks. Don’t bear children. Don’t invite another being into this madness and suffering.
As is continuing to live so why don’t you follow through on that line of thought here
Like me personally or like societally?
I switched from Shotcut to Kdenlive as it seemed a lot more feature rich to me, still FOSS obviously
Most stuff on a bicycle for the average person unless it’s carbon, plastics or electronics. Including safety stuff. Some caveat if you wanna huck yourself off a mountain or do like 100kph descents on your roadbikes.
But for the most stuff? The cheap shit works absolutely fine because at it’s core it’s bits of formed metal with threads attached connected by steel wires. Very hard to fuck any of that up to the point it becomes dangerous. I keep seeing parts being rated as SAFETY LEVEL 5 E-BIKE READY as if the metal rod that is my handlebar usually disintegrates once I hit the ludicrous speed of [checks notes] 25kph. Your $2 Alibaba Special V-Brakes are, at worst, gonna have garbage springs so it doesn’t return to not-braking great, but you’re not gonna like snap them in half even if you were a gorilla riding a bicycle.
you ever wonder if there was like a short outlier on national core strength during that era?
I feel like there’s a great vibe difference in people collecting things that are unintentionally rare and those that collect intentionally rare things
To stick with the given example: I think some guy collecting vintage Mockbas would be a lot cooler than some guy collecting the newest limited edition sneaker.
I know the feeling and also I’m curious, what’s the difference here? What choices present themselves?
I always figured if any given app wants my contacts it’d scrape and upload them somewhere so I always say no, but I see the use case now
I don’t get the advantage, android already tells you “This app wants access to your contacts” or whatever?
Useage of roller suitcases is now bound to a license and it gets taken away if you do some inconsiderate shit like blocking off half the walkway with it behind you to gawk at a sign or run over peoples feet with it
Could probably further this to most things around having 0 spatial awareness but that one the most
Thanks, I’m already thinking of ways I am off the mark though, like how things like race science and eugenics have been the “academic” position in the past.
That was very useful to people. It’s not like a majority, even those disliking academia, will trust no scientific study or something, they just don’t trust the ones they disagree with politically
And do you notice any etiquette trends like I describe in that one part?
Absolutely, yeah, allthough it has little to do with type of vehicles and seems to be entirely down to location of the zebra crossing.
Coming from some video editing as a hobby from Windows Movie Maker over pirated Sony Vegas, OpenShot and Shotcut to Kdenlive it’s an incredible piece of kit. It has fucking working motion tracking! For free! And it works very well! Insane to me!
Also OSM usually beats Apple and Google by a mile when it comes to route planning for bicycles. I think it’s one part techbros being eternally car brained and one part if you’re a cyclist the chance you’re the kind of crank to contribute to things like OSM is exponentially increased.
I reformated that so much I forgot to include my dissatisfaction was mostly with e-bikes and the associated electronics lmao
But yeah, bottom brackets are ridicolous. Only reason we ever moved away from BSA was cost cutting and now that everyone and their grandma has creaky high end bikes people just return to BSA anyways.
I tell you, if I ever become emperor of a country it will have the world largest bicycle industry and everything is in absolutely standardized parts
yeah the whole dang teenagers and their bluetooth boxes always struck me as odd. I mean not that it’s not dick behaviour but considering we allow sports cars to annoy everyone in like a 1 mile radius when the owner decides to compensate for whatever it feels odd that there’s this focus on people listening to music
I feel like every new comfort feature on a car is solved legally by still having the person at the wheel responsible and since now the computer does it (well enough maybe 60% of the time) you see way more of an increase in stuff like too bright lights, missing lights cause the rain detector isn’t working and things of that nature because people just assume the car will take care of it
To add to this, I feel this with recent updated road laws here to make them more “cycling friendly”, a trend that laws keep getting written that are either impossible to enforce the way they’re written or nobody gives a shit either. Basically just making the question of liablity easier after the fact. Which seems sort of like a very shit proposition for road laws to me
“The Computer never makes a mistake” is true and also probably responsible for people believing LLM-hallucinations uncritically