The real safety move is to not put yourself in situations where you're going to collide with the least dangerous class of commuters.

I suppose you feel similarly about the dangers bikes pose to cars?

Running with ANC headphones on is like driving with your eyes closed. Safety is a two-way street and it's everyone's responsibility to maintain a basic level of situational awareness.

Literally just looks like some trash sitting on their desk. Well done if that's the goal?

I love it, although if you're not into urbex or didn't grow up with brutalist architecture (soviet union, east germany, even parts of Zurich downtown) I guess in that case you don't really have anything to tie it to and without that connection it just looks like a piece of junk.

The two about death are the only ones that matter. You also get a huge pass on a lot of social expectations for being a foreigner, especially if you make even a small attempt to conform and be polite.

Oddly enough it's not the first time I've seen their perceived recent drop in quality blamed on this. Just weird that it's happened twice - wonder where this narrative is coming from.

No, their quality has been dropping since the acquisition; it's just now gotten to the point where it cannot be explained away.

It's not just gotten to the point it can't be explained away. The best technical articles on the site have been the bio-horror shock material they pump out every month, and it's been that way for years.

When they started doing car reviews where "GM didn't pay for this car review, they just paid for a car review." everyone should've clued in.

I'm a senior dev and not sure I could answer that offhand.