My brother’s girlfriend had HPV, so he went to get himself the HPV vaccine. There is a fee to pay (nothing much, something like €87) but it’s completely free if you’re in one of the “at risk” groups.
“What does that mean,” he asks. “It’s free if you’re gay,” he’s told. “Ah. Would I have to like, prove it, or…?” “Just put in a check mark here.”
My brother is in no way, shape or form attracted to men, but also he’s stingy as it gets. So now he’s officially gay. Congrats bro.
“Doctor, give it to me straight” “You sure, there’s a fee” “… Give it to me gay”
So, this will likely get ignored and I'm scared of actually sending asks off anon, but here goes, since the feedback on the navigation ui desktop has been so overwhelmingly negative already, with complaints about it being too crowded, too claustrophobic, and essentially just like twitter, which pretty much no one here likes, will you be listening, ending the test and letting the dashboard stay as it was, or will you be forcing an overwhelmingly unpopular change on us anyway?
the new design is an experiment. it’s not out to everyone. we do these experiments so that you can provide us with feedback, and so we can see if updates like this cause actual behavior changes. please do send in your feedback to Support.
personally, i found the change really jarring at first as well. it took me a few days to get over that, as someone who’s been using this site almost every day since 2009. however, i’ve been using the site with this new layout for a couple of months now, and i cannot believe it ever looked different. now i don’t want to go back to the old layout, tbh. but that’s just me.
i do hope the people having such a negative knee-jerk reaction give it a few days and see how they feel about it then. when we changed the reblog UI design back in 2015, it was like the sky was falling for the first week or so, and then everybody forgot the dashboard ever looked any other way. now we look back at that blockquote-reblog time like it was a joke. i hope we can say the same about this.
Dutch people are like “we don’t need to wear a helmet when we ride our bikes, because unlike in the barbarous United States, we have simply outlawed traumatic brain injury”
solid asphalt only hurts to fall on if the road it makes up was designed primarily for cars
Most serious road bike injuries are not falling off but instead being executed by a semi truck. Which helmets also don’t really help.
That is true in America as well. The helmets still help with the other stuff.
The other stuff doesn’t really exist though - adults cycling on flat surfaces almost never just fall off, or cycle into walls etc. The kind of cycling that a normal person using a bike for transportation does is just not the kind that gains much benefit at all from a helmet.
