Shady Slim
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today's made is that it's our first session cricket training since the end of last season this coming arvo, can't wait to get out and have a hit
**** you blokes are keen. enjoy the hit ladtoday's made is that it's our first session cricket training since the end of last season this coming arvo, can't wait to get out and have a hit
When the NT introduced speed limits on the highway the accident rate went up. Turns out boredom is a bigger killer than speed.So NSW Roads has decided to dramatically reduce the speed limit on a popular motorcycling road nearby, on the basis not much. This strategy has been going on for a decade with no improvement in the safety record funnily enough. But still thanks for taking away another slice of about the only thing I'm enjoying in life while not making me safer.
Road safety is a horrendous field of study, I don't know how many of the papers get published and I've read hundreds, and the real doozeys are in the technical/policy documents that actually guide what people do. I've seen one where one document greatly exaggerated the measure stated in another document, the citation in which didn't even prove what was being asserted. Let's not even talk about the treatment of confounding factors and how bad the data are. The misattribution is staggering, and you'll never guess for what cause. A 0.1 km/h speed decrease being credited with a 29% decrease in casualty crashes in Perth was a great example (e.g. nothing to do with cars becoming a lot safer over the period). The speed change was not even statistically significant. They miss so may real causes to wedge things into their speed speed speed ideology that it's no wonder there's been so little progress. Any opposing paper gets memory holed. Let's not talk about the unproven assertions that work their way into becoming facts.When the NT introduced speed limits on the highway the accident rate went up. Turns out boredom is a bigger killer than speed.
Made
Took 3 KOMs on Strava because I'm fast on a bike
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Ruined
2 guys I ride with got hit by a car at 50mph, with 1 being air ambulanced to hospital with head to toe road rash and a suspected broken knee. Both had rear lights on, driver must be blind and/or massively negligent. The downside is that generally you can actually kill a cyclist in a car and not get prison time in most cases.
the duality of manRoad safety is a horrendous field of study, I don't know how many of the papers get published and I've read hundreds, and the real doozeys are in the technical/policy documents that actually guide what people do. I've seen one where one document greatly exaggerated the measure stated in another document, the citation in which didn't even prove what was being asserted. Let's not even talk about the treatment of confounding factors and how bad the data are. The misattribution is staggering, and you'll never guess for what cause. A 0.1 km/h speed decrease being credited with a 29% decrease in casualty crashes in Perth was a great example (e.g. nothing to do with cars becoming a lot safer over the period). The speed change was not even statistically significant. They miss so may real causes to wedge things into their speed speed speed ideology that it's no wonder there's been so little progress. Any opposing paper gets memory holed. Let's not talk about the unproven assertions that work their way into becoming facts.
Some -distressingly many- are outright fraudulent. The increase in deaths in NT and subsequent decrease when open speed limits were restored again for that brief period was noted at the time. I saw a paper claiming that deaths increased during that brief period - by measuring all NT highways, not the sections that were affected.
In this case none of the four fatal accidents on the road were speed related, and none would have been prevented by the new speed limits. Not least because two were on sections where no change will be made. One was a road rage murder. But they fed the geometry of the road into their guidelines, and because it's a bit curvy we all need to do 60 rather than 100 apparently. No science and no consideration of the actual situation. Apparently one of the local council members is a card carrying lycra brigader and really pushed for it too. I just want to do 100 where I can. There's no one else's hand on the throttle.
Great, we missed youMade : Finished a tough project at work and kept a deadline
Now I can finally get back to my usual routine of wasting time on here.
i didn't actually realize you had to raise a baby on top of lockdown ****eryI became a father last night! ****, what a feeling!
The little fella kept us all up last night crying and decided to sleep at 7 this morning. Gonna have to get used to this, right?
How good is a decent nets session with a mate or twoMade:
- had some time between clients this arvo to finally get a net in with a good mate
Ruined:
- forgot what an absolute nightmare he is on the sidearm (he can barely bowl). genuinely quick and sprays em. Got Badged, twice (the second one completely ****ing the helmet)
oh well - needed a new one anyway!