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  • Cars are faster, cover long distances which are just infeasible for bikes, are more comfortable, can be used in bad weather, and are needed for people with disabilities.

    In many cases the long distances were created by cars. Cities worked fine before cars. But cars demand so much space that cities became spread out.

    A solution to this problem is to repopulate city centers around the country by replacing parking lots with mixed use buildings.

  • In the US, we weigh ourselves in pounds. But nutritional information about food is in grams.

    Imo, the fact that the numerator and denominator units are incompatible isn't a big deal since the message "eat .08% percent of your body weight in protein each day" is not the intuitive way to think about how much to eat. It's much easier to use a unit in the numerator that is common measuring nutrition and a unit in the denominator that is common for measuring body weight.

  • The electric interurban railways in America talks about the history of electric passenger trains that connected American cities particularly in the Midwest. Lots of fun maps of the networks and they describe how all the companies failed.

    Thought it was written with a 1960s carbrain perspective, the information is interesting

  • (Your comment is hidden on the main post weirdly)

    I assume you mean you can't see it on discuss.online

    This is because that server defederated from lemmygrad.ml see https://discuss.online/instances for a list of instances that discuss.online blocks. This also means that op cannot read this thread.

  • If enough states decide to give their votes to the winner of the popular vote, this would solve the problems of the electoral college. A fair number of states already agreed to the popular vote compact. We just need the big Republican states to agree. Which probably will happen after a Democrat wins the electoral college after loosing the popular vote.

    The way politics are trending, with more white Democrats and non-white Republicans, the electoral college advantage for Republicans is fading.

  • I wouldnt bike on that painted bike lane across a right turn slip lane designed to make cars slow down as little as possible coming off the freeway

    There should be a protected bike lane in the median with a dedicated signal where the diamonds cross