Welcome • User Guide
ToS • Privacy • Canary
Donate • Bugs • License

©2025 Poal.co

1.4K

(post is archived)

[–] • 6 pts

So after they learn to balance after a couple weeks, we would have to buy them a whole new bike with pedals, rather than just taking off temporary training wheels that can be reused on any bike. Seems like a huge waste to me.

[–] • 1 pt

Or, buy a bike with pedals, take the pedals off while they use it as a strider, and then put the pedals back on when they've got it figured out.

[–] • 1 pt

That would be a better way, than recommending parents to buy a bike with no pedals, chain or gears which costs likely the same amount as a normal bike. Or you know, keep using training wheels which are very cheap and easy to add/remove, and can be adjusted higher or lower to give varying degrees of support and safety as the child learns.

[–] • 1 pt

That's what we did with our kids. Meanwhile their friends used training wheels and took far longer to be able to ride independently. Removing the unnecessary training aid speeds up their skill development by a huge margin.

[–] [deleted] • 4 pts

In some European cities, for example, urban planners have gotten rid of traffic lights and road signs to make streets safer—an idea that runs counter to conventional traffic design.

Now imagine how safe streets would become by removing Mexicans and Negroids from the streets.

[–] • 1 pt

I'm a technical manager and look at tons of code people write. I notice that everytime I look at change logs I notice that code is always added, never subtracted. I often reject pull requests with a comment saying, please refactor your code and remove half of it. The puzzled responses are hilarious.