Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦

electrify coffee
electrify beer
an electrified future
is deliciously near

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And 100% with you on the “going to lose my mind/what are we even doing?”

Sounds like something I’ve heard re climate change…

Well I guess it does if you just take it all at face value that it’s all capitalism and that the major anti vaccine push is all about selling crackpot cures and now pharma is like well ok we can also get in on that too with some based on science that work but make $ too

Also I thought part of the “problem” with vaccines was that it was just big pharma propaganda 🙃.
None of it makes sense.

Ebike as a second car replacement is an amazing use case. We would 100% have a second car if it wasn’t for the bike (and it would be a hard case to give up the one car we do have given our lifestyle)

Paper title “Burrito taxis: the environmental impact of food delivery apps compared to private vehicles and home cooking under different scenarios”.
This would be a fun class wide assignment for a LCA course

Electrification of 2 and 3 wheelers is one of my favourite climate actions (all that avoided air pollution too!)

Paper title “Burrito taxis: the environmental impact of food delivery apps compared to private vehicles and home cooking under different scenarios”.
This would be a fun class wide assignment for a LCA course

New research idea - LCA of burrito taxis vs individuals driving to get burritos, including the ebike variation and the burrito “shared ride” where the delivery app groups deliveries. Include induced demand, and variation in vehicle type plus potential avoided food waste.

Now I’m craving a burrito.

More generally I think the ven diagram of people who look down at burrito taxis and people would would find it normal to get into a car to go purchase a burrito has a non zero overlap.
But e-bikes are good in both cases, and if you want someone to bring you a burrito it’s better if it’s via ebike.

My burrito taxi hot take is a non insignificant portion of burrito taxis replace someone going out in their own car to make a trip to buy a burrito and whatever helps replace the burrito car ride (like a burrito ebike) is a good thing.

Alberta rat control investigating possible rodent sighting in Calgary | CBC News The province is seeking to maintain its famed rat-free status, as it launches a thorough investigation into possible roof rat sighting in the Inglewood neighbourhood.

🎶 there are no rats in Alber-ta and the streets are filled with cheese 🎵
(This makes no sense with the substitution of rats for cats but it’s what I think of every time I hear a story about our lack of rats)
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After my breast cancer diagnosis I had to get used to the idea that there were often no answers that were completely set in stone. I had to hold multiple contradictory ideas in my head such as:

#cansky

1/5

probably not much consolation but you could be doing even worse without the adaptive cruse or at higher speeds.

I wish there was a better way to tell the projection what kind of driving you are doing, it uses some kind of average vs the slightly lower you will get when going above 60/65 mph. This is one thing that Tesla (ugh) I think does well because it integrates with the map.

on a recent longer drive we found driving style made a big impact on range. one of the car drivers (not named here) got almost 2x the range of the other by using the adaptive cruse control and driving slightly slower/less acceleration.

The funny thing is im often accused of hyperbolizing by my family, but I do it where its appropriate, in the confines of my own home.

Transportation Data

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Signed - someone who has anxiety about making decimal place errors in public writing.

map showing the percent of people that cycle to work by neighbourhood in Calgary. For the area around Marda Loop the percentages are 4-10.6% and maybe(?) one in the 3-4%

This 0.005% is either a made up number or an even stranger decimal point error as the number for communities around marda loop is mostly 4-10.6% which would be 3 decimal places.

Reminder to sanity check the placement of the decimal point and even have someone else check your math for numbers you put in a public op-ed.
For the case of marda loop and neighborhoods around this percentage would mean 1 person.

I famously misspelled “Asia” in a crossword puzzle more than once but at least I don’t confidently claim I know how to spell things.

i already have a team of actual PhD-level experts in my pocket. it’s called bluesky. i love my little collection of pocket nerds.

I have a true story about a table of math phds that failed at splitting a restaurant check after trying twice before they realized they had miscounted the number of people at dinner.

pretty good deal for someone looking for a cargo trike to join the as yet to be formed Calgary trike club. You can have this up and running for the winter (sadly it is coming)

trike trike trike

ive always wanted to see how those ride. but I dont need a second cargo trike

be ready for it to become your new personality

I just like to pretend it doesn't rain in the central valley (hence no need for a fender) because there was an extended drought when I was growing up there.