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Just tried commuting on my bike from Santa Monica to downtown Culver City today. I took the Exposition bike path, which was fine until I needed to get off of it to head south.

Google recommended I take National and--lo and behold--there's no bike lane with cars flying past at 55mph+ on blind hills. That's a death trap.

On the way home I left early to avoid traffic. I took Venice Blvd, since it has a protected bike lane all the way until McLaughlin which Google Maps called "bicycle friendly." No bike lane, of course, with cars flying past leaving a foot of distance between me and death. One testy driver in a BMW didn't want to wait the 15 seconds for me to pedal into the left turn lane to get back onto the Exposition bike path, honking and then flying by nearly killing me. Jeez lady, I'm not the city planner. Don't kill me to save 15 seconds.

How does Culver City put zero bike lanes going north to south connecting to the Exposition path? How do these drivers maintain their licenses?

What's a cyclist to do?

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Culver City and the Expo Bike Path (lemmy.world)

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Just tried commuting on my bike from Santa Monica to downtown Culver City today. I took the Exposition bike path, which was fine until I needed to get off of it to head south.

Google recommended I take National and--lo and behold--there's no bike lane with cars flying past at 55mph+ on blind hills. That's a death trap.

On the way home I left early to avoid traffic. I took Venice Blvd, since it has a protected bike lane all the way until McLaughlin which Google Maps called "bicycle friendly." No bike lane, of course, with cars flying past leaving a foot of distance between me and death. One testy driver in a BMW didn't want to wait the 15 seconds for me to pedal into the left turn lane to get back onto the Exposition bike path, honking and then flying by nearly killing me. Jeez lady, I'm not the city planner. Don't kill me to save 15 seconds.

How does Culver City put zero bike lanes going north to south connecting to the Exposition path? How do these drivers maintain their licenses?

What's a cyclist to do?

Helldivers 2 Community Chose to "Save the Children" Over Getting a New Weapon, So Arrowhead Donates to Children's Charity by something_random_tho in c/games

[-] [email protected] 65 points 3 weeks ago

I think the public school system is doing just fine on that front...

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[-] [email protected] 61 points 1 month ago

"Anything you say or do can and will be used against you in a court of law,"

Used AGAINST you, not FOR you. No attorney has ever said, "I'm so glad my client spoke to the police."

Never speak to the cops without an attorney.

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[-] [email protected] 76 points 1 month ago

The problem is they infect the rest of us.

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[-] [email protected] 86 points 3 months ago

I feel personally attacked.

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[-] [email protected] 70 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Crazy how American gov claims the EU is unfairly targeting American companies… if the American gov did its job to break up these monopolies, the EU wouldn’t need to in the first place!

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[-] [email protected] 133 points 11 months ago

Always has been

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[-] [email protected] 82 points 11 months ago

Technically yes, in the same way window tint or requiring a front license plate is.

The law is applied selectively to groups of people they don’t like and used as a justification to pull you over for doing nothing wrong.

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[-] [email protected] 66 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

In other words, it’s similar to a tax in that the money you earn today, by the time you spend it, is worth less by design.

Inflation does has have a positive feature of encouraging investment and spending, rather than hoarding under a mattress. The money is put back into the economy because every day it isn’t, it loses value. If money were getting more valuable over time (called “deflation”), you’re incentivized to treat it like an asset—not a currency—and hold onto it as long as you can (like Bitcoin), rather than reinvest or spend.