It wouldn’t be difficult to write this script as a darktable plugin, but I imagine you’d struggle to convince the maintainers to merge code to allow for searching or categorising based on a custom metadata tag.

I’m less familiar with other programs, but I don’t see any of the proprietary options implementing this.

There are multiple historic weather APIs available (example), it should be pretty trivial to write a script to read the location and time from the EXIF data of your images, call the API, and them dump the info into a list or back into the image metadata.

Logan

The whole premise was that they’re in danger and need to get to Canada to be safe (the bad guys don’t have passports I guess 🤷), but have to wait just before they cross the border for everyone to show up seemingly for no reason.

👏 Good job. Can you tell me what else is in the picture?

👍 Well done. But we were talking about the cars in the picture.

People would find some way to complain no matter what cars were chosen for the comparison, but the fact is cars have been getting bigger on average.

Car companies want you to buy these larger, more profitable cars. They advertise them much more heavily and push you away from anything smaller.

IMO if you’re riding a bike, even if it has pedal assist, you’re not lazy.

But even if that is the case, what’s wrong with that? Is it not better to have these “lazy” people on ebikes than in cars?

Again, you’re talking about something different. I’m talking about electric pedal assist bicycles (often called an ebike), not electric mopeds.

The term ebike generally refers to a bike with pedal assist, not an electric motorcycle. Pedal assist means you are still exercising and you can set the level of assist you want.

Momentum is the biggest factor in the severity of the crash, and an ebike is never going to have as much momentum as a car. Severe incidents can happen with bikes and they should be sensibly regulated, but it is far less common than crashes involving cars.

God forbid people want to make their city better.

You could just delete your comment when you realise it isn’t actually relevant, instead of just throwing the edit on at the end.

New York’s public transport is heavily focused on getting people in and out of Manhattan. If you’re going between the other boroughs it can be very lacking. A bike can save you a lot of time in certain cases.

If you’re not fit, an ebike is a great way to get started because it allows you to start cycling for your commute before you’re at the fitness level needed.

Because I guess pedaling is too hard for people that live in one of the flattest cities in the world.

Some people, yeah. They might have a longer distance to ride, they might have disability, or just not be that fit. There’s no problem with that.

I’m sorry about your friend but ebikes are so much safer than cars.

Bike rental in the Netherlands is great for certain uses but not for others. You can’t use the OV-fiets as a tourist, and you generally have to take them back to where you got them from.

Docked systems are better, and you can remove most of the cost of the docks by doing the “dockless docks” where you just have to return them to designated areas. This can work for both bikes and scooters.

Companies like bird & lime take advantage of the lack of regulations, but there’s clearly a demand. Cities can take advantage of this by regulating, providing infrastructure, and charging the companies to operate, things already done for cars.

There’s a lack of infrastructure to accommodate rental scooters which cause the problems you mentioned. Having safe places to ride (i.e bike lanes) and designated places to park them would solve these issues. I could also argue that cars do all the same things.

Reducing demand for public transport is a good thing in a developed city. You want there to be more space for people that aren’t going to choose micromobility, which is much cheaper for a city to provide more capacity for.

I’d be interested to see some research into your theory of ebikes replacing more car journeys and escooters replacing more public transport journeys.

I agree with your points on why ebikes are safer, but scooters are also more compact and therefore easier to transport and store when not riding, and the safety issue is really solved by having safe places to ride. Having the choice available is important because different people have different priorities and preferences.

Why do you think escooters are terrible?

If you’re replacing your phone surely it’s better that it doesn’t come with the charger (from an environmental point of view), since you don’t have to ship it back and they don’t have to ship you a new one. And what does it matter if they’re on different ships? It would still be pretty much the same amount of emissions released, which is probably less than the amount needed to drive it to your house. Adding the extra packaging for two separate items isn’t great though, and I agree that as a customer it isn’t great to get less for the same price.