twblalock

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by twblalock 3y ago
> It isn't realistic to counter a biking accident with claims that people are sacrificing their kids and that they are idiots for biking Who said that? Again, people seem to be reacting to something that was not said by anyone in
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by twblalock 3y ago
> The fact is you don’t know who this parent is. You have made the assumption that they are taking unacceptable risks. What on earth are you talking about? Who the heck is the parent here? I am merely defending someone who is being dogpi
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by twblalock 3y ago
> The easiest thing the USA could do to make cycling safer without investing a cent in infrastructure is to adopt the rule that by default if a car hits a cyclist the car is at fault. That would obviously be an unfair and dumb rule becau
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by twblalock 3y ago
I don't run the world and neither does the OP. I don't even live in San Francisco. It's not our fault that things are this way, and it's really dumb to blame us for pointing out facts. Is it now also victim-blaming to te
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by twblalock 3y ago
The OP didn't shame anyone. Why are you making this wild accusation? Read what was written. No shaming is there. You seem to be reacting to something you ascribe to the OP, but there is simply no logical path from statements in the OP&
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by twblalock 3y ago
Danger is a matter of degree. There are plenty of places where the risk of getting hit by a car is lower than in SF.
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by twblalock 3y ago
Most of San Francisco is not really dense either. Outside of a few well-known areas the entire place is a suburb.
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by twblalock 3y ago
This is not victim blaming. Nobody blamed cyclists here. It is a true and obvious statement from an observer that cycling is dangerous in San Francisco.
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by twblalock 3y ago
It's sad to see this comment being dogpiled by trolls, including the standard and annoying responses like "wrong takeaway" or "bad take" or the sarcastic "how dare people do X", or the standard European ci
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by twblalock 3y ago
What I'm saying is that the things the people who work at Internet Archive care about may not be the same as what end users care about. I think the end users care mainly about the Wayback Machine.
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by twblalock 3y ago
I'd bet that most people who care about this issue are primarily worried about losing the Wayback Machine. If that goes away, a lot of internet history will be lost forever. All those copyrighted works that IA was lending out won'
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by twblalock 3y ago
Disclaimers are not a guaranteed release from liability. Especially in the case of libel/defamation law, and especially in the UK and Australia, where even true statements can get you in trouble, putting up a disclaimer may not give yo
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by twblalock 3y ago
It's not the Internet Archive's job to be the first one to try to resolve fair use questions like this, and attempting to do so put the organization's orginal core mission at risk. They should have let someone else take the r
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by twblalock 3y ago
What authority? It doesn't take much karma to vote or flag. Well under 100 points IIRC. Past that point, having more karma has no effect on what you can do on the site.
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by twblalock 3y ago
All you provided is evidence that people moved away from San Francisco during the pandemic. We all know that. Many of the people who left could have afforded to stay and chose not to. That is not displacement. Proof of displacement requires
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by twblalock 3y ago
People leaving is not the same as displacement. Many people chose to leave during the pandemic for a variety of reasons, including tech workers moving away to work remotely. After all, why stay in a city when everything is closed when you c
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by twblalock 3y ago
That link doesn't really have any data and it's not from a credible source. It's also an 19-year-old article. An entire generation of San Franciscans have been born and become adults since that article was published. Even if
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by twblalock 3y ago
Digital cameras are not a niche. They constitute almost the entire global camera market. There are other review sites, forums, print magazines, etc. One website going away is not going to obliterate the world's ability to review one of
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by twblalock 3y ago
Who are the people who were displaced, and where did they go? This is all very handwavy. Why do you believe this narrative without concrete facts?
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by twblalock 3y ago
Wrong thread?
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by twblalock 3y ago
It's not wrong to be concerned about that in a property market where values can double in a decade. In fact it would be foolish to buy property in such a market unless you are rich or something limits tax increases.
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by twblalock 3y ago
It's not like there won't be somewhere else to read camera reviews. Someone else will fill the gap.
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by twblalock 3y ago
It's not even selling fancy cameras. It's reviews of digital cameras that are all either obsolete or about to be. Much of the data is only of historical interest. Amazon is not running a charity or a public library. It's fool
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by twblalock 3y ago
I know for sure it did. SF was famous for it for decades. It's even worse now.
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by twblalock 3y ago
If an increase of wealth creation is a problem for a city, that city is being badly run. It's pretty obvious on the ground in SF that the homeless problem is fundamentally a problem of mental illness and drug abuse. A fairly large port
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by twblalock 3y ago
Austin certainly isn't handling it well. We had affordable housing in California in the past without any pie-in-the-sky stuff like land-value taxes.
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by twblalock 3y ago
If you are going to make up a fake birthday and you think you might have trouble remembering it, picking a nice round number might make it easier.
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by twblalock 3y ago
Some may be, but all I know is that some definitely aren't.
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by twblalock 3y ago
The single-pedal braking can be turned off in the settings. I have no idea why coasting and hovering over the brake is ever a good idea in any circumstances, but if you really want to do that, you can.
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by twblalock 3y ago
Almost everything electronic is overpriced in the EU because of high taxes.

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