That happens too, but then the issue is that they don't realize which side is the bike lane and just need to notice it. I'm dumbfounded by people saying that they'll continue to do something that's against the rules and seems to be harmful for them in this city, where I have a large success rate at e.g. asking drunk people to stop dragging a potted tree away.
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I'd expect that ability to use transit without preplanning (due to well planned transfers and dense enough timetables) trumps it being free as a strategy for increasing utilization (and making it the standard way of getting around). I don't really have good evidence for it: the anecdotes I have are very different (free public transit in smallish touristy towns in the mountains vs. transit that you rarely need to care about the schedule of in large cities) and I don't know much about how these things changed over time.
Do you have any suggestion where/how to look for evidence on this question?
@trinsec I've just had someone literally tell me that she's walking on the bike lane to avoid being hit by a bike, _while acknowledging that it's a bike lane_.
@m0bi13 O, ten termometr tam nie jest głównie do kompensacji termicznej czegoś innego (barometru?)?
Jak? Sam zegarek jest wyraźnie cieplejszy od otoczenia, bo go grzejesz ręką. Żeby naprawdę mierzyć temperaturę otoczenia albo musiałby mieć ponad jeden termometr (w różnych miejscach zegarka) albo coś jeszcze dziwniejszego. Sądzisz, że robi coś takiego?
@BethanyBlack oh, so at no point were people trying with plasma alone?
re: covid, diabetes
@timorl or rather, the trend convinces me more than the correlation
re: covid, diabetes
Yeah, this is the part that convinces me more. I found that amusing, because usually an attempt to actually study a correlation on an individual level instead of something related to "pitacy and ocean temperature are correlated" is more convincing, but here is the other way round.
I continue to be confused by the receive to where flip's mass is as a reason for its stability. Is expect that you'd care about c-o-gravity to c-o-buoyancy distance for roll stability and about cross section at surface level for stability in room and in vertical motion (because, respectively, that controls the changes in buoyancy caused by waves and horizontal drag forces exerted by waves). Is there any reason location of mass directly (i.e. other than via the c-o-g vs -b distance) affects stability?
covid, diabetes
Amusingly, what makes me believe this result more is the population statistics (of a larger than the preexisting trend would imply increase in t1 diagnosis rate in children): otherwise I'd be very suspicious of the lack of attempt to consider that onset of diabetes is not instantaneous (so having more exposure to the family doctor will pull the time of diagnosis earlier; I couldn't easily find how quick it is) and the somewhat confusedly described attempt to exclude cases where the diagnosis of diabetes was first (reading between the lines, they seem to have 3mo resolution and there's at least a bit of a reason to expect exposure to COVID to be higher around the time one is diagnosed with diabetes, because that involves lots more contact with people).
@phil The wikipedia description states that the way stinging nettle works is by injecting that acid using tiny pointy things. This seems to be confirmed by squashed stinging nettle no longer stinging (you can even eat it raw). If I understand that correctly, applying that acid to surface of skin should not sting.
If you've read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age, I'd be curious whether you'd consider the overt hypocrisy of Neo-Victorians there to a significantly different/special kind of hypocrisy. (The reason I'm asking is that that's the first thing that comes to mind when I think of a society that overtly accepts hypocrisy.)
Additionally, one can get a stove with flame detectors that shut the burner off if there is no flame (unless the user is also pressing the igniter button at the same time). Technically the defectors are pretty simple: they measure electrical resistance of the purported flame.
@harcesz "The name and logo of "NERV" are used with the explicit permission of khara Inc., the copyright holder of the "Evangelion" series, and Groundworks Corporation, which manages the rights to the series." (https://nerv.app/en/support.html). Dodatkowo w jednym z nagrań głos podkłada aktor, który w anime wcielał się w kolegę Shinjiego :)
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