Wow, the delay is real LOL I replied from Mastodon but it hasn't shown up here so I'm replying from vger.app and will see what gets here from where and when :-D It's cool that it's possible though, even if it's not super practical.
EDIT to say that this comment showed up on Mastodon basically immediately but my Mastodon comment still hasn't shown up here 1-2 hours later?! Weird??
I have never played Morrowind, I'm currently enjoying the Oblivion Remaster and I would love a remake of Morrowind with those fantastical locations rebuilt from the ground up to look as majestic as they can with modern hardware and, where they make sense, QoL improvements to bring it more in line with Oblivion/Skyrim.
Sadly it came out in 2016 and was as timely then as it is now, some 8-9 years later :-/
Oh man, that rail-to-trail sounds great! I hope it gets completed sooner than later!
Make sure you email whoever is working on that and tell them how much you appreciate their work and are looking forward to biking it! I've written to my local council on a few occasions and told them how much I appreciate what they're doing with specifics about how it effects me personally which can be anything from increased safety, lower environmental impact, improved physical & mental health, just plain fun, or connecting more with your family/friends/community etc. The more they hear that they're having a positive impact on people and their community the more they'll be motivated to push ahead with new projects!
Aren't you basically doing what this shop owner is complaining about? Conflating properly regulated, speed-limited e-bikes (which are mostly pedal-assist) with overpowered, illegal imports that function more like motorbikes (often with a throttle).
Admittedly, the line can blur, especially with unregulated imports bypassing local laws. But in places with sensible regulations, e-bikes are capped at speeds like 25 km/h—slower than conventional bikes can reach, but that’s a good thing, given their added weight and potential for greater harm in collisions.
The battery issue is real, but it’s not unique to e-bikes. Cheap, poorly made power cells plague everything from hoverboards to scooters. The problem isn’t e-bikes themselves—it’s sketchy imports circumventing safety standards.
Nice! My beach is 20km each way as well. 15km if I go by a more direct route but the way I go adds 5km and is marginally safer. Part of the more direct route is being improved this year but it still doesn't quite link up but instead will go out to another beach north of my current fave spot. Looking fowards to having an alternative place to go but it's not quite as scenic as the coastal route I currently enjoy. It does mostly follow a river, so still pretty nice, but the other way you get to see the sea a lot more!
My prefered ride is out to the beach and specifically to a seaside cafe to sit and have a coffee while staring at the ocean! I'm fortunate that as long as I go via town there are cycleways almost the entire way. Also, we have cycleways to neighbouring small towns that are often entirely separated from the road. I still haven't biked along all of them. So in general just explore and get to know any cycleways you may have nearby and see where they take you.
Also don't forget to be a tourist in your own back yard and visit all the places people come from far and wide to see. It's easy to take things for granted just because they've always been there.
Why aren't they made to bring all of them back!? "Guilty until proven innocent" would be an improvement right now because they're deemed guilty without the chance to prove their innocence?! Throwing out "Innocent until proven guilty" and all other tenets of due process is insanity!
They're running the country on a "move fast and break things" mentality and it's madness because the things they are breaking are the Justice system, the Constitution and peoples lives! They're relying on "outrage fatigue" and I get it, that's super effective! I've seen the images of the protests and there's a hundred different things people are mad about but something has to happen quick, before it's too late and everyone who isn't 100% Red WHITE Blue and MAGA gets swept up?!
I know it's easy for me to say this from afar and the protests so far have been truly impressive but they need to be massively ramped up and fast! Because once the system is broken it's gonna be reaaaly reaaaaly hard to put it back together again!
The way I assume it works is that the humans walk a trail or in a particular direction and the dogs run out from that trail several hundred metres to the left and right, massively increasing the coverage area.
This breed of doggo is highly intelligent and highly trainable. I don't know to what extent these ones have been trained but Border Collies can be trained to operate with remarkable precision, basically like they're remote controlled. Look up any sheep dog trial videos for good examples of the intelligence and precision they are capable of working at. They can both follow complex commands and problem-solve on the fly and even be taught to avoid flagged zones that you could mark as you go, which might be areas with delicate new growth or sections that have been covered already.
Come on, CamOWLflaged was right there! :-D
First up, an article about this: https://www.greenmatters.com/news/2018/02/19/2m3wbf/border-collies-forest
It doesn't give much more info other than looking at the share scale of the destruction and the speed at which the doggos can cover the terrain! Looking into it a bit further it's clear that when fires are this intense, they can sterilize the soil, destroying not just the trees/plants but also the seed bank and mycorrhizal networks that help forests regenerate. Plus, by choosing the seeds they spread they can convert areas that were overtaken by introduced species back to native ones. Natural seed dispersal can still happen by wind or wildlife but this can be much slower meaning regrowth is delayed meaning soil erosion can occur. Not all heroes wear capes, some wear leeetle backpacks!
Every single person I've talked to about this, including those that have traveled to the US as tourists in recent years, say they wouldn't currently travel there. The non zero chance of being "administration error'd to a gulag" is pretty off-putting?! What a time to live!