More sense than cannon teens? What makes more sense than cannon teens?

Which of these have military presence by the Russia? Most?

That presence is in the process of disappearing, which will mean action for all those countries…

His answer would have been (and this is a fact):
“Bicycling is extremely good for one’s health. When there are more hills, the health benefits get even bigger. Do you not care of public health? Why are bicyclers not important to you?”

Most of the time I’ve been arguing with people on moronic SCAFT-based solutions, the reaction has been: “But this was done for safety! You bikers are an impossible and reckless bunch. It’s about your safety, and the safety of all the light traffic”

(“light traffic” is the phrase used to mean the combined pedestrian and bicycle traffic. As opposed to “traffic”. Which is people going to their work and doing other important things.

Oh, check this one out. It’s somewhat near to where I work, and used to be on the fastest way to where I used to live :)

Of course, the photo flattens the climb. But, go along the road and look at the height of that rock, comparing it to the height of a car. They made sure to route the bicycle path over the highest point of the hill. A bit more to the left or right, and there would have been much less hill. Also, along the road, there is a spot where the railings are a bit higher, because there’s a outdoor excercise way passing undeneath the road by a tunnel. Of course, the bicycle path comes back down from the top of that rock to the bottom of that ditch to reach the intersection for the tunnel. And then you climb up again! Hooray!

Oh believe, there are other ones among us two who share your sentiment!

…new?!

https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCAFT

Shortly put:
A traffic design philosophy where officially the goal is to separate cars and pedestrians fully, building cities so that you can walk between places completely without being obstructed by lanes built for cars in any manner.
An important part of the SCAFT design philosophy is also that moving outdoors is important. For that reason, a SCAFT-designed area has circular paths for jogging, and bicycle paths are designed to make small detours in order to go over hills instead of past them, so that bicycling would be a more efficient form of physical excercise.

A core thought enshrined in SCAFT is that moving within one’s own neighbourhood happens exclusively by walking and moving between neighbourhoods happens exclusively by car or public transportation.
Walking and bicycling are seen purely as forms of physical excercise; a hobby. The idea that you could ride a bicycle to work is diametrically opposed to the SCAFT design philosophy.

The effect has been that cars have relatively fast roads to use for getting from district to another and are fully separated from other forms of traffic. In practical terms this is a system for reducing all distractions to driving your private car within urban city structure. Since inter-district traffic does not happen by muscle power, those are given very little thought. This has caused a lot of deaths when car drivers used to driving in their own peace have not remembered to think about existence of bicycles when turning. Their ways are elsewhere and very important thoroughfares cross the cars’ routes in very unintuitive places. Because the bicycle routes were never designed as a sensible network and bikes take routes over points where two districts’ physical excercise infrastructures intersect each other.

Helsinki has cars and sidewalks everywhere, but it still isn’t really walkable. A very typical distance from where people live to where any necessary services are is 10 to 15 km. That’s a 2½ h to 4 h walk. per direction.

It’s a bicyclable city, but even that just barely. And that requires a rather fast bicycling speed, which causes its own problems, especially since we had the SCAFT street design philosophy for a long time, promoting an idea that riding a bicycle is just a form of being a pedestrian.

So, you can definitely have a city that has sidewalks everywhere but is still not realistically walkable. The core of the city is, though, but living there is expensive, so in Helsinki only the richest have the privilege to live in a walkable city.

EDIT: Found a random Youtube video that showcases the walkability of Helsinki very well. It begins in a suburb and takes the shortest way to a hipster area near the centre of Helsinki. 24 km. Could be walked, but not many want to. The city is applauded for being very lush and green. But. The distances are a very slightly little bit excessive-ish?

Hm, ok, true. It doesn’t show in the hashtag search on Mastodon :( It does work just fine from PieFed, although there they have a specific field for writing tags. This one doesn’t get found with #carryshitolympics (now, this comment, however, should!)

Also, I guess it should work even from Lemmy if the hashtag is in the title because that becomes text in the Mastodon post? Probably?

But whatever. Life is. :)
Still, if anyone is posting such images from PieFed, it would be cool to tag them with that to spread the good word!

Could you tag the original post as # CarryShitOlympics ? (Without the space after #)

It definitely deserves the viewers that would gain it!

Tää Rajavartiolaitoksen aiheesta julkaisema video on kyllä melkoista katsottavaa ihan vaan tiedotuskonseptinakin! Näkyy, että Rajavartiolaitoksella on katsottu Ukrainan videoita aika tiukasti. Mikähän tämän videon tyylissä on sellaista, mikä olisi epätyypillistä Ukrainan asevoimien julkaisemille videoille? Hienoa kyllä :)

I would not say a trailer adds stability. The connection between the bike and the trailer is somewhat flexible, so there’s a constant yoink-yoink going on when you are going up even a moderate uphill. And the physics of pulling a trailer also mean that sometimes the trailer begins a small downhill when you’re already on the flat. That means, you suddenly get accelerated as the trailer reaches the dip and rolls down it, pushing you forwards. Also when you need to stop fast, the physics are a bit different than when you are riding just a bike.

The difference is not huge, but if something, it makes holding the balance a little bit more difficult.

Isn’t that something the admins can just disable? It needs to be disabled every time the Lemmy version is updated, but so what? It’s not a huge amount of work to do so!

True, but the chaos is coming anyway. The earlier it begins, the less destructive it will be.

That’s a different operation, though. At least for now USA’s behaviour is more akin to what they did in Iran than Iraq or Afghanistan.

The difference to the mayhem they caused in Iran is that here USA wouldn’t need to worry about implanting a successor.

HUR will be handle that a thousand times better.

In Putin’s case they don’t need to. There are competent people around who will be able to handle that. Moscow isn’t that far from the border of civilization.