The fire truck doesn't have to fit in the bike lane. But they must have proper clearance so that the 4.5" hose doesn't kink.

Understandable...but I think the point of this article is that people aren't doing this on purpose. Clearly this bike lane that isn't a bike lane is seen as the cushion needed, and the city hasn't done anything to let people know this is incorrect. I'm not advocating for people parking in front of fire hydrants, and…

The city painted the parking area terribly and defined the No Parking Zone in a way that implies people can legally park in front of the first hydrant - check out a different angle: http://goo.gl/maps/zZ3mr There's really no reason that one should blame the drivers for parking in marked parking spaces when there's a…

Wait so they have markings that the area behind this last car is a no park area, but decided to not extend that out 15 or 20 feet?

In what way is OSX more efficient than Windows? It doesn't use less resources, battery life isn't higher, it isn't any different in speed, they both scale up well with large multi-core systems.

Really man? Come on.

It's Luc Besson, so we should probably just flip a coin to decide.

No! I love flan. It is the cake part that is foul. And you know, #TeamPie.

I have seen this morality test turned around, and found it good for late night drunken philosophy discussions:

One question I always wanted Nolan to answer about Inception— Why did he settle on a horrible name like "Dom Cobb?"*

If we accept the premise that the director's vision is the truest form of film, then Deckard is a replicant. Ridley Scott has stated a number of times that Deckard is a replicant. The most recent time I saw that affirmed was last night when I was viewing the bonus material on the Blade Runner Ultimate set (which I…

...don't be that guy.

Gonna take issues with two of them because that's my job being a geek online:

Wait, LOTR is too verbose but Dickens gets a pass? Don't get me wrong, I love Dickens, but on a 1-10 scale of verbose he's pretty close to 11.

If you can cook risotto in 20 minutes, you either 1) are doin' it wrong or 2) have some bum-ass risotto.

People can be oppressed on any pretty much any basis you can think of. Oppression does not need to exist on a societal scale to exist. If someone is discriminated against for being cisgender on even the smallest scale, they are being oppressed, within that context, for their gender identity.

No, they don't imply that. Nothing in those terms implies that. Nobody is using them in that way. Again, you are arguing against usage that doesn't exist. The implication you are reading is of your own creation. The terms are about oppression, but not about effective oppressive forces that affect society as a whole.…

Saying something exists does not equate to saying that it is super prevalent and is an effective oppressive force in society. Even in response to what's said on tumblr, nobody is claiming that. You're arguing against a strawman. It's not as black and white as that, and what you're doing is exactly what I'm talking…

Whoa, didn't mean to offend you or intend to blame anyone (other than the large businesses who underpay employees, cut their hours and blame that on shoplifting customers because they are an easy target and it sounds better than saying "we are cutting your hours because we are cheap bastards and don't want to give…

Oh fucking hell.