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> It isn't realistic to counter a biking accident with claims that people are sacrificing their kids and that they are idiots for biking Who said that? Again, people seem to be rea…

> The fact is you don’t know who this parent is. You have made the assumption that they are taking unacceptable risks. What on earth are you talking about? Who the heck is the pare…

> The easiest thing the USA could do to make cycling safer without investing a cent in infrastructure is to adopt the rule that by default if a car hits a cyclist the car is at fau…

I don't run the world and neither does the OP. I don't even live in San Francisco. It's not our fault that things are this way, and it's really dumb to blame us for pointing out fa…

The OP didn't shame anyone. Why are you making this wild accusation? Read what was written. No shaming is there. You seem to be reacting to something you ascribe to the OP, but the…

Danger is a matter of degree. There are plenty of places where the risk of getting hit by a car is lower than in SF.

Most of San Francisco is not really dense either. Outside of a few well-known areas the entire place is a suburb.

This is not victim blaming. Nobody blamed cyclists here. It is a true and obvious statement from an observer that cycling is dangerous in San Francisco.

It's sad to see this comment being dogpiled by trolls, including the standard and annoying responses like "wrong takeaway" or "bad take" or the sarcastic "how dare people do X", or…

What I'm saying is that the things the people who work at Internet Archive care about may not be the same as what end users care about. I think the end users care mainly about the …

I'd bet that most people who care about this issue are primarily worried about losing the Wayback Machine. If that goes away, a lot of internet history will be lost forever. All th…

Disclaimers are not a guaranteed release from liability. Especially in the case of libel/defamation law, and especially in the UK and Australia, where even true statements can get …

It's not the Internet Archive's job to be the first one to try to resolve fair use questions like this, and attempting to do so put the organization's orginal core mission at risk.…

What authority? It doesn't take much karma to vote or flag. Well under 100 points IIRC. Past that point, having more karma has no effect on what you can do on the site.

What makes you think everyone is mega rich there? VC firms have a lot of employees making normal salaries just like every other company.

All you provided is evidence that people moved away from San Francisco during the pandemic. We all know that. Many of the people who left could have afforded to stay and chose not …

People leaving is not the same as displacement. Many people chose to leave during the pandemic for a variety of reasons, including tech workers moving away to work remotely. After …

That link doesn't really have any data and it's not from a credible source. It's also an 19-year-old article. An entire generation of San Franciscans have been born and become adul…

Digital cameras are not a niche. They constitute almost the entire global camera market. There are other review sites, forums, print magazines, etc. One website going away is not g…

Who are the people who were displaced, and where did they go? This is all very handwavy. Why do you believe this narrative without concrete facts?

Wrong thread?

It's not wrong to be concerned about that in a property market where values can double in a decade. In fact it would be foolish to buy property in such a market unless you are rich…

It's not like there won't be somewhere else to read camera reviews. Someone else will fill the gap.

It's not even selling fancy cameras. It's reviews of digital cameras that are all either obsolete or about to be. Much of the data is only of historical interest. Amazon is not run…

I know for sure it did. SF was famous for it for decades. It's even worse now.