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I know someone who was killed by this exact situation. No other injuries (that I'm aware of) for anyone else in the car. Their skull was broken

I've lived there for most of my life and was riding my bike at around the same time and my experience was very different. Every day I'd have people purposefully try to run me off the road while I was biking and some cities in LA don't allow you to ride a bike on the sidewalk. Your experience definitely depends on which part(s) of LA you're in

These are the problems that I've noticed with the messaging apps that you just mentioned. There are other problems that are driving the people in my circle away from Signal, so if no one else is using it then I don't see how it will benefit me. I'll keep the app because a couple of people in my circle are still using it, but its utility has diminished now. Thank you.

Yeah, I've never been happy with the fact Signal requires phone numbers as an ID. Beyond the privacy issues, there's also issues that I've encountered when someone used Signal (on iOS) and then stopped using it. Once they stopped using it, others who were still using Signal weren't able to message that person anymore outside of group messages. Honestly, the whole thing is a mess. Thank you.

In my experience, nothing beats solving problems. Even if you get help via solution manuals. I went from being a B/A student to top of my classes (engineering) by solving many problems. I would do my homework and then go back before exams and redo the homework twice for a total of solving the problems 3 times. Never failed me. I actually managed to get a perfect score from a professor who wrote notoriously difficult exams where a 50% to 60% was curved to be a B