There is a theory that sanctions against a country with a tyrannical ruler hurt the common people more than the oligarchs / dictator. But eventually they do make life more difficult for that ruler

He had such a way with music. I saw the “we are the world” documentary and it was amazing to be a fly on the wall and watch him work with all those musicians

Imo it’s a waste for police to pull anyone over for this, unless they’re actually a danger to someone. Biking and being on the phone is way safer than driving a 1000 pound battering ram with limited visibility doing the same.

I used to bike like this when I was a teenager, and I try not to now. If someone was in the crosswalk, I’d slightly adjust my speed and path to pass behind or in front of them as space allowed, just like they were any other obstacle. Because I didn’t realize how unpleasant it feels to be startled by a bike going past, or even if you know they’re coming it’s still uncomfortable that they’re going fast.

As a biker it took me a lot of life experience to realize that even if the situation was perfectly safe (I’ve always been in control and never hit anyone), pedestrians are not unreasonable for disliking bikes riding fast in their personal space.

But in a lot of countries, bikes have to be like pedestrians sometimes because the bike infrastructure is so spotty or non-existant. You’ll try to use the bike path but it just ends. Or there’s so safe way to turn left, or whatever.

But in other places, like Berlin, Germany, old people will yell at you if you’re biking in the wrong place and it’s pretty great because there’s usually a good bike path right there that you could be using.

PS. In my walking experience, bikes are way more likely to see me if I’m crossing a crosswalk than cars. Sometimes cars drive right through when you’re waiting to cross, where a biker will usually acknowledge me and let me cross.

I didn’t see anyone else say this so I’ll chime in: when I’ve had to keep bulky things on a keyring (a CPR pocket mask comes to mind) I’ll put it on its own small keyring and then hang that on the main keyring with the keys. It isn’t a perfect solution, but it helps a lot.

Why does this read like an ad for cybertrucks for people who would want to run over deer

My sister and her friends use Reddit now for things that they never did before.

I hate feeling like the things I called about (3rd party apps, my comments not being used in AI, etc) just don’t matter for the majority of people, and Reddit is being rewarded monetarily for getting rid of people like me.

I loved the one with downloading martial arts directly into your brain

Too much in the open source community is people saying this is great! Always has been. You shouldn’t crap on people being honest about the problems that have existed, because track record is important

Isn’t telegram a for-profit company?

Great because I hated matrix 1, hopefully two will be better

Red, the blood of angry men

I used to buy Macs when I was a teenager and young adult, but finally grew tired of the “my way or the highway” approach to design.

Windows is guilty of this too, but it’s more subtle, but getting worse all the time with w11.

Linux has more of a “you break it, you buy it” approach to design lol

This is what I use

I use nextcloud notes because I already have nextcloud and my needs are not that sophisticated

You’re right if I get a virus I’m pretty cooked. Except I think to set 2fa up on the attacker’s device they’d need the phone authenticator to set it up the first time, so hopefully they couldn’t do it unless they used my computer remotely to login to websites.

But the password manager locks after 15 min and you have to put a pin in to unlock and decrypt.

I’m not sure what brute force mechanisms it has against the pin.

Re-entering the 2fa each session is annoying but it’s way better than having to do it on each individual site from my phone.

This might make sense in the primary, but not in the general election. The more the popular vote skews toward Harris, the more indefensible Donald will seem when he tries to claim it was stolen.

Also fwiw I wouldn’t feel comfortable voting Jill Stein, there’s a lot of podcasts I’ve heard saying she’s basically a grifter at this point.

I love storing 2FA in the password manager, and I use a separate 2FA to unlock the password manager

Perhaps less AI in Mozilla?

I remember touch