Hard to say, what's different.
Distinction requires meaning. So does obscurity.
#depol #discordian #mandarin #computerscience
tfr
| Blog | https://dichotomiker.wordpress.com |
| avg. toots per day | 13.1 |
| Mastodon client of choice | Subway Tooter |
| Location | 🌌🌞🌍🇺🇳🇪🇺🇩🇪📍🤯⌨️🎧🎞️🌿字 |
so... what if we just built a basement without any main floor?
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/207-N-6th-St-Canton-KS-67428/2054233133_zpid/
Arbeitsmoral in Deutschland
1. Einer mit Migrationshintergrund soll Laub fegen und ist dabei so wenig ortskundig, dass er keine Ahnung davon zu haben scheint, dass diese Baumscheiben durch Steine begrenzt sind. Bald überwuchert der gesamte Weg. Mit dem Laubbläser (eh zu laut zum Reden) hat er keine Chance, zu bemerken, dass er nur halbe Arbeit leistet.
2. Drei junge Kollegen schären eine Hecke (einer motorisiert, die andern glotzen)
3. Der älteste Kollege schneidet im Schneckentempo allein irgendeinen Busch zurecht, auf den es so genau nicht ankommt.
4. Ich komme wegen eines platten Fahrradreifens später auf Arbeit.
#TIL about #Reticulum, like #Mashable but secure.
https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-reticulum-unstoppable-networks-for-the-people
The Apple Watch has a closed down ecosystem, only compatible with the iPhone. @trusted_device reverse engineered its interfaces and opened it up for compatibility with Android! ✨ WatchWitch ✨ allows you using your Apple Watch ⌚ on Android devices, interpreting your health data, answering messages on the Watch and more.
Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHz8NHMhtLY
Read the full paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07210
New drawing: Hire bike
(Notes on this: https://open.substack.com/pub/diagramclub/p/047-a-hire-bike-blocking-the-pavement )
@daihard @Troggie It's not just an issue for wheelchair users, it's an issue for people with vision loss as well.
Two things can be true at the same time: Cars are given far too much public space AND micromobility has been implemented in grotesquely neoliberal and ableist ways because there has not been the kind of outreach in planning there needs to be. Both many city meetings as well as cycle coalition meetings are not advertised accesssibly nor held in accessible venues.
@daihard @Troggie Whose voices get heard? Well, if it's done inaccessibly, you can guess whose voices are heard.
This affects how micromobility is implemented, who benefits from it, and how. It should be something done accessibly with compromises that are agreed upon with the active involvement of disabled people.
If we want our public spaces to truly be *public*, accessibility has to be a primary concern when creating them.
e-scooters/bikes are *not* a good partial solution if they are now taking up the sidewalks. We already give too much space to cars, and now we're going to give up the rest of the space to people who drive into the city, park their cars, and then clog up the sidewalks too?
@daihard @artemis A problem I've seen is the lack of due diligence from gov't officials approving the annexation of public space by private sector corporations. Yes, users bear some responsibility, but it starts with good design. You can't design for what you hope humans are like, but instead for what they're actually like. Officials approve these systems without holding these profit-seeking corporations to a higher standard. Whoever shmoozes them wins.
The process needs disabled
@daihard @artemis on these sorts of improvements in standards. Because they don't feel as affected by the bad aspects of neoliberal & ableist micromobility systems. Instead, it's fun to completely ignore the point about the accessibiility and safety dangers of a lot of micromobility implementations and instead say "What about cars?" while nothing gets done to improve the micromobility problem.
I just haven't seen the cycling community I am part of doing enough to work on its ableism.
@meganL @daihard @artemis Nuclear hot take but cars are far less ableist than micromobility. And in recent years, everyone has accepted that cars aren't a replacement for public transit. But now we have to have the "micromobility vs. public transit" debate even though it's basically the same debate.
The scooters suck and are more about defunding buses than anything else. I've thought about starting to carry a screwdriver around and disabling their batteries whenever I see them.
@meganL @daihard @artemis Against the oil industry/microplastics? These things are mostly plastic.
Against e-waste? These things are just e-waste.
These things are fundamentally not nearly as environmentally friendly as a regular-ass bus.
Frankly, environmentalists should want to resist their adoption.
@sidereal @meganL @daihard @artemis I'm a little confused by this because the e-scooter schemes here are limited to 20kph, which would not be an unusual speed for a bicycle [1] - so how can they be too slow to mix with bikes?
[1] Yes, some people can ride considerably faster, but you wouldn't be surprised to see someone riding a bike at 20kph.
@daihard @artemis @meganL @Troggie Most streets have way enough space for parking. That should be used for (hire) bikes + (hire) scooters, not only for the too many cars.
The people using hire bikes/scooters/cars have a very aloof mindset about the hire vehicle and just drop it off the second they don't need it anymore – right in the middle of the walkway.
But instead of wasting public money and efforts to cure this problem, it should be completely given back to the companies providing the hire vehicles. Either THEY find a way their commercially parked vehicles are no threat or hassle for pedestrians – or their permit to do this business is revoked.
@Troggie @davewalker
Yep. E-scooters frequently are left blocking *the only space which pedestrians have left*. This is a major accessibility issue! In addition to that, when I lived in an area that was dense with scooters their presence and their users made it more difficult for everyone to walk.
In theory, they are better than cars, but when they are crowding up the only walking space we have left, they are a pain and a half.
@Troggie @davewalker This.
But hey, implying that bike users have the same shortcomings as car drivers will get you yelled at, or even threatened...
In Hannover Germany it would as always look like in the sketch but the reaction is call the cops an push for a scooter ban.
Fscking monster SUV blocking roads or two parking spaces are not a problem, especially those from VW.
VW because partially state owned.
@pierstoval
We weten ondertussen wel dat Mobike fietsen soms op behoorlijk gekke plekken liggen, hangen en staan. Soms alleen, soms met een paar tegelijk. Maar wat Delftenaar Arjan Steendam deze donderdagochtend aantrof op de Wijnhaven, is wel een toppunt. Advertentie wordt geladen… “Is het een kunstwerk van studenten, of zijn het de bewoners van de binnenstad […]
Aitor Zaindari
John Regehr
Weird Estate
John S Russell
jiska 🦄
Dave Walker
Trantion
Josh
martin
Troggie
daihard (he/him)
Megan Lynch (she/her)
Artemis
sidereal
Major Denis Bloodnok
Cavyherd
BlechTerror STOP🚫 🚗-Terror
Cassandrich
priryo
Jesse
LovesTha🥧
Ikeruga
Zoidberg For President
Simon 🌞
Andi Ecke
mariechen
Jonathan Hartley
Wokebloke for Democracy
novaTopFlex
Tor Lillqvist
Susi Arnott
Océane
abovearth
Synapsenkitzler 🌻 🌈