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    I do not agree that parental figures don’t matter. There is a bond between parents and children that is simply special - however, parents don’t have to be bio parents. Insert screenshot from the post, where one of kid’s parental figures got filled in by an “outsider”.

    Ok, I think I phrased it the wrong way. I don’t think it’s necessary for a child to have exactly two parents of opposite genders. I think a much healthier way to be brought up is to be parented by a diverse group of people (maybe 5-10), each with their own identities, interests, and skills to learn from.


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    This is just how the societal structure works nowadays due to atomization, the death of extended family and the local community.

    Before all that happened, people actually interacted with their close neighbors (who were also often family members) on the daily, forged relationships and trust with them. It wasn’t a question of “bringing trustworthy adults into a child’s life”, it was actually “bringing a child into an already existing close-knit community”. Common everyday tasks (one of them is looking after children) were often shared between community members so that noone got overwhelmed.

    Of course there are many benefits to modern societal and tech advances too, it’s a fucking miracle that a single mother can raise a child at all, with little or no family support. 200 years ago the child would be dead or sent off to an orphanage.

    I say we should combine the powers of both: bring back the local community to raise children together, and keep the technical progress and societal guardrails we’ve made to make it a lot easier.


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    I feel like what a child needs is some sort of close-knit community to interact with daily, not just parents. It could be the extended family, it could be the neighbors, etc. This is how children grew up for most of the history of our species, hell, I’d guess most mothers throughout history didn’t know who the father is at all. The idea that a child is raised exclusively by the parents is an extremely novel invention forced upon us by western individualist culture.

    Genders or “parental figures” don’t actually matter here, what matters is interacting with different people, forming personal relationships with them and learning from their positive traits and behaviors.







    1. Spying on you (yours doesn’t seem to do that yet, but see pt.2)
    2. Getting hacked because the domain it communicates with wasn’t renewed and got hijacked by scriptkiddies

    Overall I’m quite excited about smart home stuff, but it must live on its own isolated network with some device I have full control over as a bridge to the internet (home-assistant+tailscale or a similar setup). No “IoT” device should have direct internet access, ever.



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    You are right, I was working with outdated info. Just last year there was a study that showed the body doesn’t compensate metabolically for the exercise and the added calorie burn is not offset by conservation elsewhere. I can’t find the source of my misconception, but I guess it was widespread enough that they ran a study to disprove it.


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    The human body will burn calories pretty much either way, and if you let your body adjust to daily riding your resting energy use will go down. If you want to be healthy you need exercise either way. Given all that you can consider the energy required to ride a bicycle for a medium distance daily to be virtually free.






  • Also, will OSM - OrganicMaps\CoMaps will introduce any time soon ability for public transport routes?

    I don’t think there are any current plans for it. It’s actually really difficult to get right.

    OsmAnd kinda cheats and doesn’t have any scheduling information, basically it assumes that the transit comes often enough that it doesn’t matter, which is fine in bigger cities. However, if your bus comes only twice a day it will be an issue.

    There’s an open-source app for public transit called Bimba. It is a bit janky, and it requires you to be online for proper routing, but it does work for many cities. It still needs a lot of polishing before I’d consider it done, and actually I’d love for it to just become an OsmAnd plugin at some point.


  • I’ve managed to locate the exact place from the screenshot (there was enough identifying info for an overpass query so you might want to consider improving opsec if it’s a privacy concern).

    I think the reason why walking prefers to go the long way around is because the path parallel to the secondary road is marked as highway=footway, and walking algorithms generally prefer those over other types of paths. It is assumed that highway=footway is tended to and therefore more pleasant/fast to walk on compared to a general highway=path, which is just something that is maintained naturally because of people walking there. I guess surface=mud on the shorter path might also play into it - routers will generally penalize worse surfaces and instead suggest you to walk on firmer ones.

    If that shorter path is actually “official” in some way and is pleasant to walk on, consider changing it to highway=footway, otherwise the router is probably behaving correctly by not sending you down a muddy shortcut.