That Berlin preschool number seems high

All prisons or American prisons?

this is the David Attenborough documentary on thermostatic backlash in a population of undecided voters

crookedtimber.org/2012/05/30/i...

This kind of analysis seems underserved since most people either reverted to forever masking or never masking. The middle ground is appreciative.

Fun paper but "it's not anecdote because we say so" is an objectively hilarious, weird and wrong paragraph to have in a paper like this.

As I've said, I actually support the limits on micromobility, but they have to be paired with ones that are the same or slower for cars. I've long called for 20 across the board on anything that moves in NYC. A system that vilifies ebikes and suggests we're more dangerous than cars is insane.

This toot brought to you by finally admitting org-mode does what I want it to do, and I just have to configure it to my precise needs

This came up last night in the modern context of blaming the French for structuring post-war Germany to have excessive duplicate bureaucracies, unlike their shining efficient centralized Parisian state 😢

Ah, so cities large enough for a dedicated Verkehrsbetriebe though they're not their own Land

I don't have the 🇩🇪 political experience to tell if this is just a ploy for press (like the Magnetbahn or nixing the quick-citizenship path) or an actual, terrible, wasteful-beyond-belief thing that could happen in the world we live in. Daumen gedruckt.

Call me a conspiracy theorist but I imagine them rubbing their hands with glee, imagining the modal shift to private Kfz

The sprints lasted 5 seconds each and were on a stationary bike

Same! Big foot gang represent!

My @muli-cycles.bsky.social rack extends back far enough so if I hook an Ortlieb at the rearmost point my foot doesn't hit it. That far back there's only partial lateral support, so heavily-loaded bags aren't immune to infringing on the rear tire or mud guard, tho.

Mind if I ask your shoe size? I have giant feet and this is a problem for me on most bikes.

This struck me: "half of newcomers travel by transit, which is much higher than our overall mode share of around 10%"