I’m at 5.8 miles walking a day so far this year. You can be not sedentary and also alive.

On an unrelated note. What you’re doing is not making people more likely to ride a bike.

What I’m saying, and what I said, is not going to be the deciding factor of whether people ride a bike. This is what’s wrong with the internet. Well meaning people believe other people aren’t intelligent enough to decide for themselves. I believe the technical term is “white knighting”.

In a way, it’s similar to the “woke” controversy. You’re afraid once people read what I wrote about dying on a bike, they won’t be able to decide for themselves if a bike is for them, just like conservatives think seeing a same-sex embrace will turn their child gay.

The truth is, human behavior is a lot more behind the scenes than it’s probably comfortable for you to imagine. It feels right to point to one moment as the moment you decided to ride or not ride a bicycle, but it’s absolutely not true unless that one moment was deeply traumatizing. Stop treating strangers’ words like trauma, we don’t agree for reasons we may or may not be aware of. Neither of us is as important as you’re imagining.

Those stories of one person changing the world? Convenient and wrong. It was movements of lots of people. Movements built offline of people who spent face time planning real things they actually were going to do and then executing those plans.

So I appreciate you believing I have the power to dissuade people from riding bikes by telling my absolutely true story of almost dying on a bike, but it’s as big a waste of your time as me typing this thing you won’t fully understand (see what I did there?)

Statistically, you are twice as likely to die riding a bike vs driving.

I’m glad you are not a coward, I heard only cowards can die riding a bicycle.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6431a1.htm

And what of the trucks and people texting? I straight up saw someone doing a FaceTime while driving 2 weeks ago. I’d be hesitant to drive a small car, let alone a bike.

I used to be an adventurer like you. Then I almost took a 3 ton truck to the knee twice in a week and hung it up. I got a family.

Just fill your time by being the guy who replies “unfortunately this niche group of people I don’t belong to can’t use your advice” on every ask post reply. Some people really get a thrill out of it.

Like for instance if someone asks how they can stay hydrated and somebody replies water you could say “unfortunately some people don’t have access to clean water”, and then just let the upvotes roll in because it’s technically true. It’s going to make you feel worse in the short term because you’ll know what you’re doing, but you won’t recognize that right away or maybe ever so it’s probably a viable strategy for a month.

Name a time when people wanted to work. Did slave owners want to work?

Everybody’s like : we need to build more apartment complexes and duplexes. No, we need to outlaw landlords.

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123-45-1234 and nocr-edit-card-ssta-rtwi-th9!

Hey good for you, nobody should care they put ads in email because you have a temporary solution where you don’t see ads and Adblock gets your data.

What’s your social baby? What’s your favorite credit card number?

Gmail has ads in it. They’re stealing your data and training their D-tier AI on your emails and still showing you ads and you just take it.

Ah, the efficiency of the private sector.

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There always will be a divide between those who use technology as a means to an end and those whose end is technology.

If you think I’m taking a “side” with that statement you’re the latter.

If you think that’s a dig at anyone it’s probably because you think people care what phone you have, or that I’m trying to sneakily insinuate that you’re not doing anything by installing another flavor of Linux so you can get your dock to line up perfectly the way you want it to.

If you think people care what phone you have it’s probably because you know people who do.

If you think you have to be around those people I’m here to tell you I don’t know anyone who cares about what phone I have.

You’ve been a teenager who can’t vote and also someone who went to the mall in the past with a same sex partner and got dirty looks from older conservatives within the last few months. You live in a city with rolling blackouts in America.

As a teenager below voting age you know groceries are a luxury now compared to the past. Everything leads back to third party voting with you, again a teenager below voting age who went to the mall with someone you were dating as a social activity.

You are really bad at trolling.

So you’re challenging me to tell you what I think of you doing what I suggested?

Sure. Like if you enjoy doing that stuff it would be totally worth it I’m sure.

There is a particular kind of person who prefers setup and config to doing anything with a computer, and it’s hard to hide my disdain for that sometimes but that doesn’t make it wrong. It also doesn’t mean I’m doing anything with a computer. We’re biased towards ourselves, I get that.

Like, we just put a dog down so I was thinking about my own mortality and how much time I have in life. It’s not a lot, and the idea of making sure an email address is functioning today sounds like hell.

I’m leaving the original statement up because I don’t think enough people walk back hasty statements online.

I print a few exceptional photos a month to save.

I sell my time for like $30/hr. How much money would self hosting cost me vs a data leak where my information was actually used? I have a feeling it’s more.

It’s a nice hobby and I’m sorry I ruffled feathers with my opinion.