It’s pretty fun so far, and I haven’t even finished the training levels.

heh.

…polished environments and character models…

No more triangle titty. ;_;

…Or helping the homeless, and making the streets safer.

By adding more transportation options maybe. 🤔

For me, a “normal” distance is ~8 km one way, but only because most of that is through a converted train corridor that’s completely separated from vehicle traffic. I wouldn’t like to do it if it was bicycle gutters all the way but I guess I wouldn’t mind if it was the only option. There’s also two rather substantial hills on my route which can really kick my butt if I missed some sleep or something.

Assuming 17 km total (~8.5 km one way), good infrastructure and minimal incline; totally doable. If you haven’t ridden a bicycle in a long time, let yourself have extra time to take breaks and remember to bring snacks so you still have enough energy to work. If it’s 17km one way, that is also totally doable but would require more physical preparation (and snacks). You can check incline on google maps; should show you a little graph when you set bicycle as your mode of transport.

If you’re in North America or somewhere where cycling to work is considered super cray cray progressive; I would also suggest getting a brightly coloured cycling jacket, helmet and front/rear lights; though, might not be that important in some European cities like Amsterdam.

*Also remember to pack an extra tube and tire change tools with you unless you go tubeless of course.

Why did you have to look? Now the magic that keeps it all together has been dispelled. :(

Today, on the history of memes…

Hello there, fellow kids. [real]

Is that a Disco Elysium reference? :D

I don’t think they make them anymore… I’m fairly sure I had the same one you’re talking about (slight oval shape, button on the back), I lost it a few days ago (I didn’t put it on right) and when I went to get another one there weren’t any there, not even on the website. They only had the $60+ which serve the same purpose for 3x the cost. :(

“If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there’s no progress. If you pull it all the way out that’s not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven’t even pulled the knife out much less heal the wound.”

-Malcom X

An apology, is just words if there is no action to back them up. Though of course, I don’t know whether or not there has been action taken by the government in the pursuit of reconciliation. If there is, it’s unfortunately not mentioned in the article.

For me at that time, the “inane” activities were sleep, rarely I had time to go on my shitty computer some evenings.

but do you watch television? A sports fan? Do you go out for entertainment, ever?

At that time in my life, no, to all of those. I was literally almost homeless.

They certainly can, though the proper term is bias. In that respect, something I find particularly egregious is ARI’s use of loaded terminology in it’s articles describing the ‘issues’ it’s ostensibly doing surveys on (“Culture wars”, “Canadians not convinced”, etc.). These are the first thing users see when they navigate to the website which almost certainly influences their opinions before they even start the survey. Even if the survey is emailed to them, some of them will likely navigate to their site anyway to brush up on facts.

Another potential issue (though this is present in all psychology/sociology research; majority of psych papers are done on university students), is that their sample population is only people that have taken the time to register in their forum. Even though they’re ostensibly paid for it, there aren’t many people that will do that, or even think of it and given how some of their articles are titled I can get a fairly clear picture of the kind of person that would want to make an account on that website.

Lastly, I’m not a psych major, but when a paper’s methodology section basically amounts to “We surveyed random users on our website at this date” and nothing else of substance, I tend to not take it seriously.

Not surprised a newspaper picked it up though. A really good clicky headline, and they didn’t even have to think it up.

Also:

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/angus-reid-institute/

Labelled mid-right because of the terminology they use.

•́ε•̀٥ *Waiting for the psych major to correct me on something.

Oh, I get it. You’re just trolling, but poorly. Have some imagination at least…

Populist campaigning strategies and poor education made this possible.

Your personal opinion ≠ everyone else’s opinion

Get your head out of your ass and look around for once.

and an apathetic and disengaged voter base willing to look the other way.

In my opinion, and personal experience, it also has a lot to do with not having enough time and energy to think about anything other then putting food on the table, or even where your next meal is coming from. Certainly there are people that just don’t give a fuck, but I think that would be the minority if more people weren’t living paycheque to paycheque.

He did. …I suspect cryonic techniques need to be further developed to ensure acceptable levels of microbiotic populations.