Wizard Hazel

Also waaaay higher odds that someone with a pride flag is actually queer

The signs don’t count for a lot but it is nice to know that *most* of my neighbors wouldn’t call me the f-slur

The book was not good, so that tracks

Whether you have lunch alone has literally nothing to do with whether the food is ultra-processed or healthy. What you’re describing *is* vibes.

Okay, but high-fructose corn syrup isn’t meaningfully better or worse for your health than regular sugar/honey/maple syrup/etc

I’m familiar with the Nova classification. The issue is that it doesn’t correspond to health impacts and is instead based on vibes.

What does that have to do with health? Why does it matter if something is made in a factory?

Sure, it’s just that the agreed-upon definition isn’t useful

*Most* individual foods aren’t healthy or unhealthy. If you eat raw kidney beans or cassava, you’ll have a bad time. That’s why we process them.

If it’s so easy, can you define it in a way that a) categorizes all foods and b) corresponds directly to healthiness of foods?

It doesn’t correspond to actual healthiness of foods—it’s just based on vibes.

It’s a bad proxy for healthiness of foods and it’s mostly based on vibes.

Seems like the right angle here would be to push for the spot closest to the trail to get striped and have the handicap spot be one spot over. That way people in wheelchairs have somewhere to get in and out.

Do motorcyclists get counted as drivers here?

What are you talking about? My electric cargo bike isn’t a bike replacement; it’s a car replacement. It functions the same as an acoustic bike, just with more cargo capacity and more ability for me to show up places without being drenched in sweat.

Rumor has it that people in city government have tried to get them to buy smaller trucks (that could respond faster, meet most needs, and allow for better traffic calming) and they don’t want them

I honestly think it’s just that they like playing with their giant toys

It’s a bike. Not sure why you’re being weird about the semantics.

Yes! I like to ride because it’s fun and environmentally friendly. I don’t need it to also be intense exercise. It’s nice to ride somewhere and show up on in normal clothes, on time, and not sweaty.

Cheapest answer would probably be to get a bike with a removable battery and buy a second charger so you can charge at work—then you only need ~12 miles of range.

You can definitely get an ebike with 22+ miles of range. The difficulty of pedaling without power depends a lot on how heavy the bike is, but hopefully you wouldn’t have to deal with that.

My “normal bicycle” can’t carry 75 pounds of groceries at 19 mph. That’s why I have an electric cargo bike for errands and a hybrid for fun rides.

Realized that my wording might make things unclear—the first “their” is ACT and the second “their” is SHA

Can’t speak on their behalf, but I think it’s that second-to-last bullet point. Their thinking is that traffic calming can make people drive more dangerously.

It also means that anything you add to fortify the food makes it ultra-processed even though fortification is really important for preventing malnutrition

He’d get to nominate one, but his nominee would have to be confirmed by majority vote in both the House and the Senate

My take is that while I’m too much of an avid rule-follower to ever shoplift, putting in an automated checkout means that a company forfeits the right to moralize about theft. At that point it stops being about right and wrong and starts being a business expense that they’ve chosen to live with.

Gonna hazard a guess that there’s not a lot of overlap between tesla owners and the 18-26 year olds who are eligible for the draft

Big ag deserves a lot of criticism but the answer is “do big ag better” not “do small ag”. If we switched to small ag our food supply would collapse.

Excited to see that the task force settled on eventual closure but it’s very funny to learn that the Brew counts Friends of the Jones Falls as a community leader and not Bikemore