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  1. Comment on Anyone here like motorcycles? in ~transport

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    yeah, I'd maybe do it in an emergency to avoid getting hit or something but there's way too much debris and stuff in the shoulder to ride any distance there. Lane splitting is legal and normal...

    yeah, I'd maybe do it in an emergency to avoid getting hit or something but there's way too much debris and stuff in the shoulder to ride any distance there. Lane splitting is legal and normal here though and I once calculated I've racked up 25k miles actively splitting.

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  2. Comment on Anyone here like motorcycles? in ~transport

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    When I moved to San Francisco I decided driving a car in this traffic was going to suck too much so I learned to ride and have been getting around pretty much only by motorcycle or on foot for 25...

    When I moved to San Francisco I decided driving a car in this traffic was going to suck too much so I learned to ride and have been getting around pretty much only by motorcycle or on foot for 25 years.

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  3. Comment on When was the golden age of the internet to you? in ~tech

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    You could also realistically participate -- it wasn't weird to host your own website or operate a small scale chat server or MUD or whatever, and surveillance advertising hadn't yet risen up...

    You could also realistically participate -- it wasn't weird to host your own website or operate a small scale chat server or MUD or whatever, and surveillance advertising hadn't yet risen up because the corporate world didn't yet see the internet as something worth devoting much effort to. So there wasn't endless invasive ad-ware and spam.

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  4. Comment on Confused, uncool, and nowhere to scroll: The internet has become hostile for millennials like me in ~tech

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    It feels a bit like the natural end state of all social media is to devolve into a bland, soulless corporate mouthpiece and/or to become a ghost town.

    It feels a bit like the natural end state of all social media is to devolve into a bland, soulless corporate mouthpiece and/or to become a ghost town.

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  5. Comment on Confused, uncool, and nowhere to scroll: The internet has become hostile for millennials like me in ~tech

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    I tink it goes the other way too - as things die back, they stop being valuable targets for that machine. Flickr is a good example - its heyday was many years ago but it's still around and there's...

    I tink it goes the other way too - as things die back, they stop being valuable targets for that machine. Flickr is a good example - its heyday was many years ago but it's still around and there's not much spam or manipulation because it's seen as not worth bothering with, though for legitimate users there's still some good interaction.

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