Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family

@rhiannonrevolts nice!

@netkitty *picks you up* hi kitten!

@platypus i usually don’t approve of individual responsibility framework environmentalism but that ones fair tbh

@compostablespork i think i have a decent sense of direction but its very much not map based!

If you showed me a route on a map I’d probably remember like, the first three turns tops. But I can wander around NYC all day and know the whole time which way I need to go to get back to where I’m staying, like a compas needle or a homing beacon in the back of my mind

@rhiannonrevolts yeah oven temp gauges going funky at lower temps is part of why I haven’t attempted drying fruit myself. I hope it works out!

@rhiannonrevolts oh neat! What temp are you drying at?

@human_dude my understanding is that human babies are born comparatively earlier in the development process than animals that begin walking shortly after birth

So its not so much ‘is it beneficial for babies to be born with undeveloped coordination abities’ but ‘can we safely extend gestation to the point where they’d have that mobility’

idk I hate that I had to move to the most aggressively aggressively anti-pedestrian place I ever lived and I hate that everyone thinks this place is fine and normal, actually. And I hate that they’re right about it being normal even if its absolutely not fine because literally anywhere planned after the fifties is either exactly like this or worse

The frequency with which otherwise seemingly reasonable people complain about bikelanes or streeteries (park-lanes temporarily converted into outside dining as part of Philly’s COVID response, many restaurants put theirs in loading docks, aka not even legal parking spaces in the first place) because, bikes are *so* annoying & they’ve lost a few parking slots is unreal

@ljwrites it really feels that way, walking through them!

I sat thru three full light cycles the other day at an intersection before I realized the walk signal was a dummy — the one if the turn lanes would always have a green arrow into the crosswalk when opposing traffic was stopped

If you thought that was oddly precise, I watched a near miss version of that scenario play out on Tuesday (the SUV swerved and almost hit the bus I was in) only to have to get off two minutes later & backtrack two intersections that were only marginally more safe before I could get to my doctors appointment

I can’t drive for medical reasons. There’s never going to be 3000 pounds of steel protecting me from other cars. I just have to live with this, and hope that maybe someday enough people will give a fuck that we can actually change things

@urusan@fosstodon.org I've been told this is an unreasonable wish so, you know

@urusan@fosstodon.org yeah part of that calculation was me assuming increased maneuverability means it'd be more likely to clip me than hit full on

but yeah obviously my optimal world is "never being forced to cross streets where cars are going 50 MPH and there's no safe crossing"

okay if most people were driving arcimotos I'd probably be a lot more comfortable sharing the road with cars

like getting hit by one of those at 50 mph would still fuck me up, but it probably wouldn't kill me like a SUV

@mythologybot thats a pretty extreme response

@pagrus clustering?