'15 Minute Cities are taking my individual freedom to drive my car!!1!' In fact, most car driving: ⛓️ is a dependency 🚧 is built on decades of state intervention 📈 makes people captives of companies 💸 results in huge household costs 🏞️ externalizes on society/environment

Tadej Pogačar is just better. 🤷‍♂️ #TDF2024

"Just push the 'Update All Windows Devices' button, Akimov! How hard can it be?"

It's criminal not to have full coverage of the queen stage of the biggest race in women's cycling in 2024.

'You cannot use streets to socialize!' Dutch start-up #Amsterbarretje: 'Hold our #Heineken 🍺 '. Using upcycled wood to reshape existing street furniture into cozy tables. See: linkedin.com/company/amster…

A lot of problems in life are solved by going for a walk. • Stuck? Go for a walk. • Tired? Go for a walk. • Stressed? Go for a walk. • Anxious? Go for a walk. • Nervous? Go for a walk. • Frustrated? Go for a walk. Solvitur ambulando: It is solved by walking.

After years of #carsharing, I am considering buying an #OwnCar. But before I decide, I have a few questions to confirm that this is the right solution for me. Please help me out in this thread 🧵:

Stunning custom bikes of 2024 😍👇 We've been treated to some beautiful special edition bikes this year 👀 📸 Getty Images

Un'automobilista ha aperto la portiera senza guardare se sopraggiungesse una bici, Remco Evenepoel l'ha presa, è caduto, è finito all'ospedale. Probabilmente l'automobilista avrà detto non t'avevo visto. Va sempre così: i ciclisti sono invisibili ilfoglio.it/sport/2024/12/…

breakthroughs of 2024

When there's a crash between a person operating a motor vehicle and a person riding a bicycle, the default position should be that the person operating the motor vehicle is responsible.

This is the best video describing Car Brain I've seen.

Oh no we hate all these parenthesis (from the clojure haters), in the meanwhile I opened a random OSS rust project and saw this

NY City's congestion charge after one month: 👻 1 Million cars disappeared ⌚️ Rush hour traffic delays down 59% 🚍 Bus ridership up 6-21% 🚇 Metro ridership up 7-12% 💰 Expected daily revenue of 3 Million $ ♥️ 'We love it!' Source: fastcompany.com/91272434/a-mil…

Everyone needs to be a bit more like Diocletian

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

Howard Luks MD I read of the dead trees in the biosphere 35+ years ago. Tho not overly intriguing, it remained on my mental microfiche. Now, I find it perplexing how such knowledge, the reaction to stimulus & the necessity of stimulus, is stored in cellular structure.

Yesterday was the last day an AOL modem picked up the line for a dialup customer to log in to the Internet. It is an end of an era and frankly a few hundred still used the service knowingly. I still have a BBS running for dialup AI and Bitcoin access.