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I love everything about the idea of riding a motorcycle up until the point where I have to share the road with DC area drivers, much like how I love the idea of learning how to hunt up until the point where I actually kill an animal.
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Jun 7, 2019 00:36
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The only time I don't wear a helmet is when me and my wife putter down to the movies at 30 miles an hour max, half a click down the road. Otherwise it's full face, carbon fiber super duper helmet that is worth a small fortune as I have very little functional brain left.
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Jun 7, 2019 00:39
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CommieGIR posted:Bike rider groups have been arguing for ages that being forced to use them drives down ridership. Except you're a lot less likely to hit your head if you don't get hit by a car. And you're a lot less likely to get hit by a car if there are tons of cyclists out there on safely designed (re: slow car traffic) streets. Having cyclist/pedestrian oriented streets makes for way safer riding in general, on top of lowering other health issues because cycling is great for your health. Anecdotal, but I would wager the lives saved by increased health due to more cycling/walking would far outweigh those lost to head injuries on bicycles or walkers getting mowed down by cars. I guess my point is that most of the problem here is cars as evidenced by say comparing transportation and street design in the Netherlands to your average US city, let alone car oriented sprawl.
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Jun 7, 2019 00:39
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pantslesswithwolves posted:I love everything about the idea of riding a motorcycle up until the point where I have to share the road with DC area drivers, much like how I love the idea of learning how to hunt up until the point where I actually kill an animal. Sounds like wildlife photography is right up your alley. Just as expensive and difficult as hunting, but without the threat of death.
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Jun 7, 2019 00:42
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DoktorLoken posted:Except you're a lot less likely to hit your head if you don't get hit by a car. And you're a lot less likely to get hit by a car if there are tons of cyclists out there on safely designed (re: slow car traffic) streets. Having cyclist/pedestrian oriented streets makes for way safer riding in general, on top of lowering other health issues because cycling is great for your health. Anecdotal, but I would wager the lives saved by increased health due to more cycling/walking would far outweigh those lost to head injuries on bicycles or walkers getting mowed down by cars. If you fall off your bike or have an accident on your bike at any speed above 10 MPH, you risk a TBI. So no, still need to wear a helmet. Bikes are still medium to high speed vehicles.
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Jun 7, 2019 00:47
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As someone who probably had their life saved by a bicycle helmet, wear a loving helmet whenever you're riding.
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Jun 7, 2019 00:58
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A Bad Poster posted:Sounds like wildlife photography is right up your alley. Just as expensive and difficult as hunting, but without the threat of death. Depends on what you’re trying to shoot.
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Jun 7, 2019 01:13
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A Bad Poster posted:As someone who probably had their life saved by a bicycle helmet, wear a loving helmet whenever you're riding. Same. Including a rather memorable (thanks to the helmet) “that car that just tried to run me down now has a huge dent in the door, how did that happen?”. My head made the dent, or specifically my now cracked helmet, which is why I can still add and spell.
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Jun 7, 2019 01:17
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honestly if you're not wearing a helmet it's pretty clear there ain't poo poo worth protecting
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Jun 7, 2019 01:33
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A helmet saved me from probably getting a concussion once. My parents would have had a fit if they'd ever caught me not wearing one.
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Jun 7, 2019 01:41
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Handsome Ralph posted:https://twitter.com/pptsapper/status/1136456314740232192 I always like to break out these quotes: Joseph Stalin posted:Without American machines the United Nations could never have won the war. Nikita Khrushchev posted:I would like to express my candid opinion about Stalin's views on whether the Red Army and the Soviet Union could have coped with Nazi Germany and survived the war without aid from the United States and Britain. First, I would like to tell about some remarks Stalin made and repeated several times when we were "discussing freely" among ourselves. He stated bluntly that if the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war. If we had had to fight Nazi Germany one on one, we could not have stood up against Germany's pressure, and we would have lost the war. No one ever discussed this subject officially, and I don't think Stalin left any written evidence of his opinion, but I will state here that several times in conversations with me he noted that these were the actual circumstances. He never made a special point of holding a conversation on the subject, but when we were engaged in some kind of relaxed conversation, going over international questions of the past and present, and when we would return to the subject of the path we had traveled during the war, that is what he said. When I listened to his remarks, I was fully in agreement with him, and today I am even more so. Georgy Zhukov posted:Today [1963] some say the Allies didn't really help us ... But listen, one cannot deny that the Americans shipped over to us material without which we could not have equipped our armies held in reserve or been able to continue the war.
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Jun 7, 2019 02:05
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Vasudus posted:Whenever the health surveillance nerds I was managing would do a safety pull you could always tell which accident was a motorcycle beyond the fact that ICD-10 has a motorcycle-specific injury prefix. Because it was nine or ten linked codes, at least, and they were always serious ones. W61.01XD Bitten by parrot, subsequent encounter
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Jun 7, 2019 02:14
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DoktorLoken posted:Except you're a lot less likely to hit your head if you don't get hit by a car. And you're a lot less likely to get hit by a car if there are tons of cyclists out there on safely designed (re: slow car traffic) streets. Having cyclist/pedestrian oriented streets makes for way safer riding in general, on top of lowering other health issues because cycling is great for your health. Anecdotal, but I would wager the lives saved by increased health due to more cycling/walking would far outweigh those lost to head injuries on bicycles or walkers getting mowed down by cars. But yeah, the biggest safety improvement we can bring to our roads is shifting public norms away from the idea that cars getting from point A to point B in the fastest time possible trumps all other concerns.
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Jun 7, 2019 02:16
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A Bad Poster posted:As someone who probably had their life saved by a bicycle helmet, wear a loving helmet whenever you're riding. Same. I think I posted the story last time this came up but I went over the handlebars going fast down pedestrian bridge overpass thing and slid 10-20 feet on my helmet after landing straight on my head. If I hadn't been wearing a helmet I'd have either had my brain smeared on the pavement or at best had half my face torn off. Instead I just cracked my helmet and ruined everything I was wearing by sliding and bleeding all over it.
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Jun 7, 2019 02:40
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And Ill just chime in and say I agree infrastructure needs to change to allow for more biking and pedestrian traffic. Plus more mass transit. But if you are operating any vehicle, human powered or not, use the safety gear.
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Jun 7, 2019 02:42
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I am a lil late for Killdozer chat, but i got bad news for you guys Killdozer is cancelled https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvl_7_Up7zU TL;DR: Small business owners are insane.
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Jun 7, 2019 02:55
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It was 50C/122F in northern India today.
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Jun 7, 2019 03:02
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Holy poo poo
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Jun 7, 2019 03:10
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i literally went over my handlebars on my bicycle today trying to show off for some girls lmao, i wouldnt have hit my head (still had my helmet on!) cause I caught myself before I did but still
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Jun 7, 2019 03:13
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my first day doing clinicals for my paramedic cert we had a dude airlifted in he was popping wheelies on a 6 lane highway, did so right past a cop doing a speed trap, and fell back, slid 100 feet on blacktop, gravel, and dirt. wearing a pair of levis dude had sanded his rear end off. wear safety gear
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Jun 7, 2019 03:28
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Helmets are great. I lock my bike under a set of stairs and every loving morning I bang my head on the stairs after I finish locking up but I don't give a poo poo because helmets rock.
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Jun 7, 2019 03:30
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Vasudus posted:It was 50C/122F in northern India today. Balmy. The only benefit of seeing similar numbers in Iraq was that it was like walking into a roasting oven. I don't even remotely envy that poo poo in any other environment, let alone the slightest hint of humidity. Climate migration is gonna be wild.
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Jun 7, 2019 03:32
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:my first day doing clinicals for my paramedic cert we had a dude airlifted in I went down at 70 and walked away because I wore full gear. If I hadn't been I would have literally erased my dick on asphalt.
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Jun 7, 2019 03:33
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Climate migration is gonna be wild. The monsoon in the Midwest has finally abated, or at least it has in Nebraska so we were finally able to finish planting today!
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Jun 7, 2019 03:36
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Meanwhile, in tornado alley (Maryland), we've gone one full day without a super cell.
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Jun 7, 2019 03:40
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ct has been gorgeous and 80s past two days. barely any humidity havent turned the ac on yet
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Jun 7, 2019 03:43
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:ct has been gorgeous and 80s past two days. barely any humidity Tacoma mildly rainy but still warm and sunny. Good ultimate Frisbee weather.
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Jun 7, 2019 03:44
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Montreal finally got a second
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Jun 7, 2019 03:45
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it was 22C in sault ste marie today and its gonna get even warmer all weekend until monday then back to 12 and rainy
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Jun 7, 2019 03:46
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my kinda ape posted:The monsoon in the Midwest has finally abated, or at least it has in Nebraska so we were finally able to finish planting today! This poo poo is wild. Didn't parts of Nebraska go without precipitation for a while? Like over a period of years? Aside from random dumps of winter snow that did gently caress all to restore the water plate. My uncle pushed most of his seed into the ground somehow in April in Illinois. He's had to go back and replant a few patches, but most of the land he works is tiled thoroughly so drainage hasn't been an issue since the 90s on that land. Goddamn I don't miss the grain farm. Dude sounds like he's eating fistfuls of misery, even with outright owned equipment.
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Jun 7, 2019 03:50
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Cugel the Clever posted:This is all 100% accurate, but I still worry about the vocal handful of overly-zealous cyclists that react too forcefully against encouragement of helmet use and helmet laws. On the one hand, they're absolutely right that the most adamant proponents of bicycle helmet laws typically have the ulterior motive of removing cyclists from our roads. On the other, people should absolutely wear a helmet if it's at all possible because the protection from injury is significant. Maybe the most reasonable way to go is mandate helmet use only for anyone doing distance/competitive cycling and just continue raising awareness of the benefits more broadly? Personally I'm against mandating helmet usage at all. Encouraging, sure.
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Jun 7, 2019 03:51
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Wouldn't it all be fukken wild if this climate doomsday stuff happens sooner rather than later Like the storms and tornadoes and snow in June just become more and more frequent I think that would be alright
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Jun 7, 2019 03:54
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Fallom posted:Wouldn't it all be fukken wild if this climate doomsday stuff happens sooner rather than later I don't have kids so I'm down for any apocalypse.
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Jun 7, 2019 03:57
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I shouldnt be surprised Killdozers pilot is a raging asshat, but here we are.
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Jun 7, 2019 04:12
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CommieGIR posted:I shouldnt be surprised Killdozers pilot is a raging asshat, but here we are. ElMaligno posted:I am a lil late for Killdozer chat, but i got bad news for you guys I mean yeah, but also 
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Jun 7, 2019 04:14
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Hot Karl Marx posted:it was 22C in sault ste marie today and its gonna get even warmer all weekend until monday then back to 12 and rainy I heard the coolest thing to do in Soo was to move the gently caress out, confirm / deny? Edit: bush plane museum looks legit though, but I’ve only seen it from the water.
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Jun 7, 2019 04:15
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Fallom posted:Wouldn't it all be fukken wild if this climate doomsday stuff happens sooner rather than later I'd rather we had less human misery myself
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FrozenVent posted:I heard the coolest thing to do in Soo was to move the gently caress out, confirm / deny? I'm only here for work. I'm living out of a motel lol. My house is 8 hours south Some co workers say it's pretty cool but I haven't been. I'm doing some cycling event all this weekend so I might find some new trails or something to kill the time. There really isn't much else to do except fish, and there's tons of that around here. I don't have the patience for that tho Edit: to answer your question, most of the local guys hate living here but also don't ever move away, I think it has to do with all the poo poo you inhale from the steel mill. It was legit foggy for 2km around the plant one day and it was all from the plant. I think this city has one of the highest rates of cancer in all of Ontario
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