Nice! I hope that it works out well for you! Mine is still holding up beautifully

Where do we get an invite to this discord server?

I’ve been using the beta for a while and there’s a lot of great stuff in this one!

Hyperbole and other superlatives are very common forms of lying, because “everyone” knows that it isn’t literally true, so if you call it out you look like a pedant, but it still has a greater emotional impact than an honest representation of the situation, so it’s a lie that gives the desired outcome of painting your picture without the risk of reputational damage if you are caught in the lie

We’ve so far only used this setup for getting to/from the airport, not actual touring, so we just store it wherever we’re staying. The second case strapped on top is kind if cumbersome, if we were going to get into bike/plane touring I’d probably want a second Cyclone

The price of housing

Reddit has twice in the past (2017 and 2022, I believe April 1 both times) made r/place - an open canvas where anyone with an account could place a single pixel in a color of their choice every 5 minutes. It's a fascinating social experiment, and was a lot of fun seeing images emerge, and communities spring up around coordinating efforts to make their mark. Doing it again at a somewhat random time only a year after last time is clearly an attempt to distract from the multiple reasons people are currently upset with Reddit, and it also clearly isn't working, judging by the general tenor of anti-spez (Reddit CEO's username) sentiment

Yeah, I've definitely wished for that, it's a pain to carry around since it's both heavy and awkward. There is actually already a pair of axle holes on the back - you can put the wheels there instead of the center for pulling the trailer by hand, but you can't do that if the wheels are packed away. You might be able to jerry rig inline skate wheels with the same axle without waiting for a new version, but I haven't gotten around to trying that.

I just made a new post with an Imgur link with photos from a trip by Brompton we did, https://lemmy.world/post/1733017 is the Lemmy.world link, I'm not sure if there's a cleaner way to link to individual posts currently

Data privacy isn’t to protect you from getting caught doing wrong things, it’s to prevent malicious actors from having the information to manipulate you. You don’t want phishers to have access to your life details that security questions ask about, even if each one is nothing to hide. You don’t want scammers to know where you went to school, who your teachers were, and what clubs you were in to build up a convincing backstory for their facade. You don’t want someone who wants to get something out of you to know who is important to you and threaten or impersonate them. It’s not about having something to hide, it’s about hiding personal details from those with malicious intent

I’d be shocked if they hadn’t heard that before

I think your final statement is backwards. The world was car-free not very long ago in the grand scheme of things. We’ve never been fully vegan. I agree we should eat fewer animal products as well as driving less, but just because it was easier for you doesn’t mean it’ll be easier for society at large.

I had similar issues and deleting and re-adding my accounts fixed it

Is that available in the browser but not the app? If it isn’t in the browser I’d guess the lemmy servers don’t expose it via the API yet

They did end up replying to the message, so I'm now a co-mod on the space

Does that make French PHP?

It’s the Radical Design Cyclone IV Chubby. It isn’t cheap, but I love it! I’ve used it to bike to/from the airport, and then the wheels come off and I can put them and my Brompton inside and check it. I’ll post more pictures of that at some point when I can dig them up and if I remember I’ll comment a link here

I sent a message to the mod asking, I didn’t want to clutter the posts of the sub itself

Yep, Ritza 25 Tiger thread 0.6 Aqua

Based on a quick google search there is: https://www.frozenark.org

My wallet wore out about a year ago. I liked the general shape, but was looking for a fun project, so instead of buying a new one I made a similar one, first out of paper, then scrap canvas, then scrap leather, then a final version from Walpier Buttero with edge paint and hand stitching in an accent color. I designed it in Inkscape, and laser-cut the pieces, including the holes for stitching, which allowed me to get very precise stitches. Not pictured - several paper/staples iterations on the pockets tweaking the pattern to my liking

That’s where “as if they were yield signs” and not “as if they weren’t there” comes into play

No one (at least effectively) thinks it’s ok to keep cyclists waiting indefinitely - they just don’t think about the cyclist experience at all. Bad intersections are windshield bias at its peak

Coloretto is one of my favorite simple games, and has a good 2-player variant

I see half a dozen older posts, but all of them are a couple weeks old

Cosplay is one example. There's a handful of NSFW 'cosplay' communities, one not-very-active one on blahaj, and one squatted on .world by a user who is also squatting a whole bunch of clearly NSFW communities and has never posted or commented anything anywhere, and named themselves "@Moderator." Laser cutting, Inkscape, some book fandoms are examples I was (and to some extent am) actively engaged with on Reddit where communities exist, but are far from a critical mass.

At a bare minimum it should be called 'local subscribers' to make that clear if there are technical reasons making a total number difficult

That's one alternative that would allow people to request a community exists without just making an empty community, and leave it to people who want to participate and actively moderate to create them

This is why I like the term "Windshield bias," a very common issue is talking about a space/experience someone has only experienced from behind a windshield, and getting someone to have a different experience can help cure that

"Windshield Bias" is a term I think needs to be more widely-used, because it's more of a description of the issue than an insult

I'm not saying there are no good reasons to make a community without posting, but when that's all a user has ever done, and they've done it dozens of times, I have a hard time assuming they're just trying to help the fediverse thrive.

The Licanius Trilogy - there are some heavy cliches, especially with the 'fantasy needs weird names' trope, but also some very good novel ideas, and the overall plot ties together very nicely

It might not be for anyone, but each book is a super-quick read, so I'd strongly recommend at least trying Unsouled if you are at all interested. If you don't like it, you can stop. If you do, you probably can't.

One suggestion I saw was auto-deleting communities that are still empty after a week, incentivizing new mods to upload something, not just squat names that were popular subs in hopes of I guess having some sort of power if they pick up?

Or just have communities delete themselves if they are a week old and still don’t have any content. That would help a bit with the mod squatting I’ve seen where some account makes dozens of communities with names of popular subs but hasn’t ever posted anything anywhere

Lurkers are fine, but they shouldn’t be making communities. If you make a community you owe it at least a post or two to not be empty

Honestly no, I was mostly subscribed to smaller subs, and only the general communities here really have a critical mass. I’m definitely interacting more with general communities, but I really miss communities around niche interests.

I have hope that they will be here with time, but for now there’s a bunch of empty communities with no posts and a mod who has never posted anything anywhere, just made a few dozen communities with the names of popular subreddits, and even many the communities that aren’t in that situation have 3-4 posts and a couple dozen subscribers

Strongly agree, Skull is super simple to teach and even to make a copy, and can have great group dynamics. I don’t think it works with 2, though, but it’s small enough that having it as an option is reasonable

Currently apricots

This one doesn’t, but the one I rode in front of today in a parade does!