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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Prep the downvotes.

    I live in a larger Canadian city. I used to commute via transit. Sometimes the bus driver would stop abruptly. Every time the driver needed to stop the bus hard - twice a month - it was a bicyclist driving erratically, like cutting off a transit bus or, in one case, brake-checking the bus.

    I’ve almost been hit twice - same intersection, different days - by a cyclist running the red, shooting through the crosswalk I was on, and cursing me out for it.

    I have an idea as to why drivers worry about more bikes on the roadways.

    I’ve been abroad. I’ve seen segregated bikeways where there’s a ribbon of green space between bicyclists and cars. This works really well. What they’re doing here Does Not .

    But the reverse is true, and this is why I do not envy bicyclists : they’re gonna die on these metro roadways where they are mixing bikes and cars and tractor-trailers and buses, and fast. I have no desire to be someone else’s lesson on blind spots.





  • I can win this.

    I live across from level1 trauma center with an active helipad, and across from a busy freight rail line where trains are required to sound their whistle as they traverse the level crossing underneath the skytrain (like a subway but elevated like the Ell) station, as tractor trucks pulling off the highway need to cross under and over to get to the industrial recycling plant.

    At any one time we could hear road traffic, subways whooshing to a stop, a helicopter, ambulances, police escorts, fire trucks, and a 100db train whistle about 200 feet away. The guy driving the 3am train is a continual dick as he stands on the bleeding for like 10 seconds.

    Sounds rough. But we got triple-pane windows and now all but the whistle is gone. And the highway is Canadian so it’s no big deal.

    So forget the last paragraph. Do I win? ;-)







  • I find it’s exactly identical to MSWord, but from the mso97 days before the Ribbon bollocks. I used o97 Word because it was like win3.1 Word … word-perfect? It’s been a while.

    But, TL/DR, LOWord is like Classic MSOffice from when it didn’t suck. This will not help you adjust, but hopefully the knowledge that you’re going back to a better era of UX could help blunt the pain.

    Go carefully, and have your favourite vice handy to goose the positive reinforcement loop.