Photo of an estimate from a local mechanic? And same with you - take all the physio you need and bill the hell out of them. Hope the knee’s settled down now but an expert opinion might spot something long-term that can be corrected now.

Sorry to hear :( Feels like we’re all one momentary lapse of concentration (usually someone else’s) away from a life-changing coming-together. I’ve lost track of the situation with the shifting sands of ICBC and what they will/won’t do these days, but can you claim against them for a) any out-of-pocket medical expenses (eg physio) and b) damage to bike/helmet?

Ahhh right, sorry - must read more carefully - I see you’ve already said ICBC will cover the helmet. If you get the bike in for a mechanic to look over & give you an estimate then presumably they’ll cover that as well?

someone high up had a shitty idea and told engineering they had a month to figure out how to make it real

Ever see that Simpsons episode where Homer gets to design a car? Always reminds me of that.

It’s also pointy as fuck. Mobile guillotine.

North American trucks in general are death on four wheels for pedestrians, cyclists etc. The tall vertical leading edges hit pedestrians in the hip and torso and then toss them under the wheels.

In the EU there’s regulations about this stuff, designed to ensure that people are hit (ideally not hit at all, but you know what I mean) in the legs and thrown up onto the hood. Plus regulations about spacing underneath the hood to the hard engine components which allows for a certain amount of cushioning deformity when the victim hits the hood. Would love to see that sort of thing regulated in North America but not a chance in hell of it happening.

so it would not be a surprise if Reddit administration or spez personally decides to usurp those mod teams.

There was some comment about “we’ll do whatever’s necessary to keep reddit online” so I think the implication there is that if high-traffic subs went dark for an extended period then he’d evict the mods and replace them with his yes men.

Personally I think the subs should go dark for 3 days each & every month. You can still run a successful community with those restrictions but it’s a pretty visible signal to investors that hey your userbase hates you and is itching for the opportunity to leave your sorry ass.

You can’t expect parents to let their kids WALK to school can you? It’s not safe - there’s so many cars around! 🙄

Maybe a possible help here is Lemmy’s federated nature? I wonder if it works like Mastodon.

If a certain instance is obviously the source of a significant proportion of the troglodytes then I wonder if their users can be blacklisted from a single community (maybe mod tools could do it??) or if their entire instance would have to be cut off from everywhere else.

It’s gone pretty much as you’d expect:

#1 doubling down on everything and saying “I’m sorry that you were upset about this”

#2 ignoring the untrue allegations he made about the convo with a 3rd party developer and calling him out for having recorded the convo instead

In this case they do actually link to a source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-08/smoke-sends-northeast-solar-power-plunging-by-50-as-wildfires-rage

I guess they’ll be calling for more coal power stations now to help them through the climate crisis?