Showroom7561

I have never encountered a water bottle getting chipped or leaving shavings.

I've heard of people complain that steel bottles that use steel tops "scrape" together when you are using the lids, and that can cause metal particles to shed into the water.

That's one of the reasons why most steel bottles have plastic lids.

Hey, OP.

Did you end up getting a bottle?

I'm currently looking to replace my plastic cycling bottles with stainless steel or titanium, but where my default would be Klean Kanteen (yes, American, but their values are second to none), it's hard to find high-quality, lightweight (for cycling!) bottles around.

I'm almost tempted to buy titanium bottles from Aliexpress and call it a day.

Nah, I respectfully disagree. Here's why

Older people (often with mobility issues from a sedentary lifestyle) obviously would object to more walking.

The biggest risk to seniors while out of their home is going to be large, fast moving vehicles (i.e. cars). Car-free projects, especially like what we've seen in Montreal, make their life much, much safer and far more accessible. It expands on areas where they can move, even with a mobility device, and ensures that they won't be run over at intersections.

Lower income people see the argument as a waste of time that rich people worry about. They are too pre-occupied with trying to survive. They also consider the inconvenience of longer commute times if they work in the area. The extra 15 minutes walking time for their shifts at multiple jobs is a killer.

Car-free projects, which would include more affordable, accessible ways to travel, would benefit low-income people the most! Someone who can't afford a car, really couldn't care less if roads are being widened for cars. They do care that the money spent on car-infrastructure isn't going to better public transportation, affordable shared bike/e-scooter programs, infrastructure that they can safely navigate without a car, etc.

I'm just really surprised by the data, however, I'm sure other data points (in the study) could explain these figures.

The solution isn’t speed limit enforcement, it is road design.

I would generally agree with this sentiment. However, the behaviour of drivers these days goes well beyond road design. It's rabid entitlement, often aggressively so.

As an example, we design intersections so that vehicles can STOP and then proceed when safe. However, I very frequently see people ignoring stop signs and red lights. We NEED enforcement here, and no amount of acceptable* design will help.

*by acceptable, I mean something that NIMBYs won't complain about... which is often the biggest barrier to road design intended to keep speeds low or roads safe for other users.

And yes, road design helps. But we need to also make sure that those who ignore road design and legal speed limits are fined, and that's what speed cameras do - by the tens of thousands per location. Have them pay for better road design 🤭

What on earth is going on here? Seems like the opposite of what you'd expect?

As shown, the lowest income group (0-50 k CAD) was more likely to oppose car-free projects.

The cynic in me wants to believe that it really separates this large, heavy motorcycle from "e-bikes", because reporting on some of this stuff tends to be really vauge and misleading.

We've had "e-scooter" crashes where the article will show a mobility scooter, but the public knows "e-scooter" as those things people stand up on and behave badly on (from their perspective). Without distinction, you're throwing the wrong vehicles under the bus (no pun intended).

There's probably some SEO "hack" involved, too.

Either way, as a user, it's infuriating.

So it acts like an adult child with deeply anti-humanist traits? What could go wrong?

I guess the days are numbered for those YouTube jackasses on Surons creating havoc on California roads.

Davis said that over the last two decades, most of the terror attacks in Canada have been perpetrated by ideologically motivated violent extremism.

“We’re not talking about al-Qaida and Islamic State. We’re talking about anti-Muslim, ‘Incel’ or anti-government extremists..."

So, right-wing domestic terrorists?

So many:

• Unsubscribe links that are magically broken.
• Newsletter popups when you're trying to view content.
• Websites that are paywalled coming up in search engines.
• Broken shopping cart payment systems.
• The fact that it's an assault on your senses to browse without an adblocker.
• "Sign in to view content" for articles, posts, etc.
• Banking sites that time out after a minute.
• likewise, shopping cart sessions that expire before you're done shopping.
• AI generated articles that don't even sound like they're referring to the right topic.
• Recipe websites that have a 15 page story for each recipe without a way to skip to the actual recipe.
• "Endless scrolling" that prevents you from accessing links at the bottom of the page.
• Business websites that don't list an address.
• "Password must be short enough to guess."
• "How did we do? " emails.
• Automatic newsletter sign-up.
• Desktop websites that act as if you're on a phone (i.e swipe through grocery filters instead of scrolling through them).
• Unreadable, archaic, and/or low-contrast fonts.
• "This content is not available in your country."

I could list dozens more. 😮‍💨

Oh, oh. Anyway. 🤷‍♂️