Besides the fact that all drivers in NL were cyclists once (very little schoolbuses or car-lines at elementary)

The point is even if you have a very bicycle centric legal and safety cycling policy, like the Netherlands, it doesn’t automatically mean it is the safest place to cycle. Therefore, maybe it isn’t the best example to copy policy, laws and road design from.

We’re starting to do this in Victoria, and I love it. Even as a driver because I know where the cyclists are going to be, when they’re allowed to go, and how they’re going to interact with traffic, when the have to.

I think this would not jive well with the whole “innocent until proven guilty” thing we have here. Still, the end result (better protections for cyclists) should ABSOLUTELY be in place.

If you find yourself on a slowly raising Belgian drawbridge, it’s best not to waffle.

grossly misinterpreted abortion polling data but because he works at the NYT, anti-choicers think they have a point now.

I also feel like there needs to be more broad acknowledgement in the broader media conversation of the absolute fact that people will go to prison on murder charges for having miscarriages if abortion is banned, and the absolutely insane self-censorship you would have to do to try to protect yourself from having that…

Bingo. It’s too narrow in general for how people really drive and the average width of cars, but that line does draw you in. They could have made it out of something with more give that would just bounce back. Like the old slot car guardrails. 

This is a lawsuit waiting to happen, at least it would be in the US.

That’s going to be an unpopular opinion. I had a Lexus with a heated steering wheel for 4 years and my spouse asks if every other vehicle we consider acquiring has that feature.  Any vehicle without heated seats wouldn’t be considered.

I don’t know how to submit a potential story, but PLEASE report on this case: Judge won’t recuse himself in ex-Notre Dame coach Ryan Ayers’ trial (southbendtribune.com)

Sorry if this isn’t allowed but a friend of mine produced a fantastic series of shorts that are a workplace comedy about abortion, they do exactly what is called for in this article: normalize, normalize, normalize! It’s called ctrl alt delete and I think it’s lovely, it was nominated for an Emmy!

Cardboard boxes and LED lights?

Can’t the next season of this show just be Thunderdome style?

he’s an entrepreneur, which makes me think he’s some asshole libertarian, BUT, he says he doesn’t like to talk politics on a date, which make me think he may not be a libertarian......

anyway, as a librarian, stay away from my library, Peter.

Anderson Cooper is already practicing tough love on his son Wyatt saying that he will not be leaving behind an inheritance when he dies.

The comparison to Cats is deeply unfair as the screening I saw in NYC a few days after Christmas in 2019 was of the most joyfully deranged interactive movie going experiences of my life. It probably helped that the audience was packed with drunk gays and gals having the times of their lives experiencing the…

Except Pelosi is retiring the Speakership next year, and many of the others are roughly her age and won’t stay in those positions too long either. I guess AOC can always serve a term or two as a Senator, then come back to the House and run for Speaker. Then return to the Senate and run for majority leader. Then run…

I hope no one knows who I am through my kinja account. The last thing my constituents need is more ammunition against their Prime Minister. 

How exactly am I “defending murder” by saying that at the time of her disappearance, no one knew anything aside from she was missing?