Is that a bicycle path and a dirt running track, or is the desire path in the dirt the official bicycle route and the side road behind the guardrail is for horses or golf carts or something?
TauZero
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Saw an example of correct guardrail usage today, with the overgrown path that some other commenters were worried about.
(Lincoln Highway Hackensack River Bridge in Newark)
Let me tell you one thing, I would 100% rather ride on this overgrown sidewalk than on the shoulder of the 55mph highway without a shoulder. This is the official bicycle/pedestrian bridge crossing. I wasn't sure whether the bridge path is even open or exists, but it does and there were even other people using it. (There is a second mesh fence on the embankment side, more so to protect the bushes than to stop you falling over.)
And then take a look at this other beauty today:
(Weequahic Park Drive, New Jersey)
Correct guardrail usage AND perfectly maintained path! Alas, pedestrian only, but not a problem to ride on 25mph street. Proof that putting the guardrail before the sidewalk is perfectly possible, both legally and practically. (There is a lake down the embankment. Don't walk into the lake.)
I see even the vegan stores use language that is misleading and contradicts itself. e.g.
https://www.vegetology.com/blog/lanolin-and-vitamin-d
Vit D3 (Vitashine) We developed a vegan Vitamin D3 alternative to Lanolin which is derived from lichen
https://www.vegetology.com/supplements/vit-d3-2500iu
Our exclusive, vegan vitamin D comes from lichens: unique, organic plants that are packed with nutrients
Their vitamin is not exclusive and they did not develop it. Vitashine is manufactured by a pharma lab and then sold to pill manufacturers as a powder or white label. Vitashine is also sold at https://www.veganlifenutrition.com/products/vitamin-d3-5000-iu-soft-gels/ and https://imunihealth.com/collections/all/products/imuni-immune-defence and https://www.doctorsbest.com/products/doctor-s-best-vegan-d3-with-vitashine-d3-62-5-mcg-2-500-iu-60-veggie-caps-51402. At best, the only thing "exclusive" is their specific pill brand, but that's not what they wrote. GHT also claims their Vitashine is exclusive:
https://theghtcompanies.com/vitashine/
VitashineTM The GHT Companiesβ Exclusive 100% Vegan Vitamin D3
Looks like Vitashine was developed by UK-based ESB Developments Ltd in 2012 and contracted with Global Health Trax (GHT) to white-label it in the US.
lichens: unique, organic plants that are packed with nutrients
Nutrients useful to lichen, maybe. I don't see anyone chomping on some. None of those nutrients end up in the pill of course, the cholecalciferol is heavily purified. Why imply your pills contain plant nutrients that are good for you?
plants, plants, plants!
Lichen are not plants, dammit! They are a unique symbiote. At best the algae half can be called a plant, the simplest crappiest plant there is. I suspect the cholecalciferol comes from the fungus half though. Respect the fungi kingdom!
There has never been a law that someone selling something must offer the same price to everyone. Outside of some government regulation, like banning discrimination based on a few specific protected groups under the 1964 Civil Rights Act, government-set energy prices on state-granted monopoly electrical grids, annual rent increase percentage caps, etc. merchants have always been free to set any price on any product or to any customer.
In NYC they put parking meters on the sidewalk behind metal bollards. Note that they do not put bollards on street corners at pedestrian crossings. Even in the modern intersection redesigns with the wider sidewalk cutouts, the DOT still only ever uses collapsible plastic bollards at best, if at all. Every time I wait for a crossing light as a pedestrian in one of those brown-paint-only sidewalk cutouts at street level, I look over my shoulder to one of these parking meters up on the curb behind their bollards and awe at how much more protection a dumb piece of metal street furniture gets than the squishy me.
Makes sense to me, but from the opposite direction. In a capitalist market, the price of things is whatever customers are able to pay for them, not what it costs to make them. Everything above cost is profit. (If the cost is higher than what customers are able to pay, then the thing is simply not made.)
If the insurance company knows you've just paid off your mortgage, that means you now have an extra $2k a month in disposable income. You are able to pay for more things, OR pay more for the things you have, therefore this is the best time to raise the prices on you, capture that income back to the insurance company. Short of government regulation dictating specific insurance prices, they will do what's in their interest.
In a truly free market with infinite competition, one insurance company couldn't raise prices arbitrarily because any other would swoop in and undercut it. But when insurance is an oligopoly composed of only a few companies, they can all just raise the price on you all at the same time. Plus, switching insurance is laborious for you.
In NYC, 99% chance it's gonna be a deliverista on an e-bike. So the screenshot is literally wrong. Elsewhere in the country - yeah...
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I see there are the "VegaDELight" D3 powder from lichen made by https://www.nutralandusa.com/, used in SportsResearch brand; "Vitashine" D3 powder from lichen made by https://theghtcompanies.com/ used in VeganLife and Doctor's Best brands; "VegD3" D3 oil from algae made by https://aidp.com/ in a variety of brands. So looks like the options do exist now, though none yet in the 50kIU dose that I need.
Did you link the wrong Garden of Life pill bottle? That one is "vegetarian", meaning cellulose capsule, "vegetable blend" filler, and lanolin active ingredient. They have another bottle though that does say uses D3 from lichen.
Emergency stop: pull to start push to stop. What happens when you stop stopping?
Vegan vitamin D did not even exist 5 years ago, during my last review of the field. There were only hundreds of product comments asking "is this vegan?" met with either silence or admissions that the source is lanolin. Now it looks like some brands did manage to extract cholecalciferol from mushrooms or lichen. The fungus part of the lichen symbiote must be seemingly sufficiently animal-like to produce it. The potency is still very low though, I'd have to pay 20x more to get the same dose. The rest of the companies just slapped green decorations on their design without changing the formula.
This would actually be a great use for GMO - using modified yeast to ferment industrial quantities of ergocalciferol without using animal products.
The guardrail can serve the don't-drive-off-embankment function equally well positioned before the sidewalk. The problem is when an out-of-control car strikes the guardrail at a glancing angle, it takes a long time (by design) to grind down to a stop. This creates a bowling alley effect. The guardrail keeps the speedy car centered right on the sidewalk. Any human bowling pins are toast. Some of the most horrific traffic death videos I've seen involve that. Whole families wiped out.