[i love cars] I don't need a Tesla to take big loads

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Jokerpilled Drudge: Jan 27, 2010; by Pragmatica

Sphyre posted:

https://twitter.com/BrentToderian/status/1533458186589483009

turns out that ebikes are actually even better than acoustic bikes

been saying this

# ? Jun 6, 2022 01:20

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# ? May 27, 2024 15:45

Smythe: Oct 12, 2003

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

Walking and loving are good for you and they're free, which is why people are always trying to make both of them illegal.

Like you and a partner could be totally broke but you could spend a whole day off work walking around your town looking at stuff, followed by going home and boning, and wow you just had a whole healthy day of entertainment and self care that didn't cost you a goddamn dime

true..

mawarannahr posted:

rich man plays with money, poor man plays with wife � Turkish proverb

wisdom

# ? Jun 6, 2022 02:11

ArmedZombie: Jun 6, 2004

Sphyre posted:

https://twitter.com/BrentToderian/status/1533458186589483009

turns out that ebikes are actually even better than acoustic bikes

# ? Jun 6, 2022 02:22

TeenageArchipelago: Jul 23, 2013

mawarannahr posted:

if we get everyone in america to walk and contract alpha gal, we’d get farther than by doing most else that gets funding. praying for you

Lmao, I'm sorry to say that they were all dog ticks, and the internet is telling me that lone stars are the ones that you have to worry about there. Between alpha gal allergies from those and lime disease from deer ticks I'm thinking that being outside of my protective armor of mowed lawns and giant parking lots may be too dangerous

# ? Jun 6, 2022 02:25

leftist heap: Feb 28, 2013; Fun Shoe

Lastgirl posted:

marathon running to hunt prey as they tire themselves out

this style of hunting was basically invented by some idiot biologists and has absolutely no evidence for humans actually doing it lol

# ? Jun 6, 2022 02:58

mazzi Chart Czar: Sep 24, 2005

Atrocious Joe posted:

Miami was flooding yesterday and carbrain led lots of people to strand their cars in flooded streets
https://twitter.com/jpetramala/status/1533049771761537024?s=20&t=89rD3CHt2qrZ2M2d0Zkt3w

PBS made a really good series called shrinking cities and here is a link to the miami episode.

https://www.pbs.org/video/sinking-cities-miami-bcdxzj/

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# ? Jun 6, 2022 04:02

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN: Jun 26, 2009

TeenageArchipelago posted:

Lmao, I'm sorry to say that they were all dog ticks, and the internet is telling me that lone stars are the ones that you have to worry about there. Between alpha gal allergies from those and lime disease from deer ticks I'm thinking that being outside of my protective armor of mowed lawns and giant parking lots may be too dangerous

if you had dog ticks you are a dog and safe from deer ticks which affect deer

# ? Jun 6, 2022 04:12

Ardennes: May 12, 2002

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

Walking and loving are good for you and they're free, which is why people are always trying to make both of them illegal.

Like you and a partner could be totally broke but you could spend a whole day off work walking around your town looking at stuff, followed by going home and boning, and wow you just had a whole healthy day of entertainment and self care that didn't cost you a goddamn dime

It doesn�t into peer pressure/narcissism enough: better get a giant suv then have to go to the gym so you don�t die of a heart attack.

# ? Jun 6, 2022 05:01

Ihmemies: Oct 6, 2012

TeenageArchipelago posted:

I went on a walk through a grassy field the other day and got 20 ticks on me so it's a real land of contrasts

I bought new British army temperate weather trousers. I found they are impregnated with permethrin. Maybe you can buy similar products elsewhere?

It is a horrible poison which will kill everything, but at least it will kill any ticks too.

# ? Jun 6, 2022 05:23

Rauros: Aug 25, 2004; wanna go grub thumping?

leftist heap posted:

this style of hunting was basically invented by some idiot biologists and has absolutely no evidence for humans actually doing it lol

i ran down an impala as a grad student :shrug:

# ? Jun 6, 2022 06:17

Minera: Sep 26, 2007; All your friends and foes,
they thought they knew ya,
but look who's in your heart now.

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

The human body isn't designed for running all the time, or pedaling, or any other such thing. It's designed for long distance walking. Walking is the ideal exercise for the animal that humans are.

the human body isn't designed to do poo poo, it just happens to be better at walking than some of the tree dwelling monkeys that came before it

# ? Jun 6, 2022 06:22

Smythe: Oct 12, 2003

Minera posted:

the human body isn't designed to do poo poo, it just happens to be better at walking than some of the tree dwelling monkeys that came before it

it�s designed to kick your rear end, specifically.

# ? Jun 6, 2022 09:43

Minera: Sep 26, 2007; All your friends and foes,
they thought they knew ya,
but look who's in your heart now.

interestingly cars werent designed to be rage murder boxes that poison everything and destroy every urban environment on the planet, and yet

# ? Jun 6, 2022 10:38

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud: Apr 7, 2003

Minera posted:

the human body isn't designed to do poo poo, it just happens to be better at walking than some of the tree dwelling monkeys that came before it

Humans are the only animals that can throw things hard enough to kill, checkmate

# ? Jun 6, 2022 12:37

TeenageArchipelago: Jul 23, 2013

The mantis shrimp is able to throw fists that kill???

# ? Jun 6, 2022 13:46

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud: Apr 7, 2003

That's lethal finger-snapping, not throwing.

# ? Jun 6, 2022 13:56

Xaris: Jul 25, 2006; Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

have we abolished cars yet?

# ? Jun 6, 2022 15:56

Jokerpilled Drudge: Jan 27, 2010; by Pragmatica

lmao r/relationships thread was having an absolute real one when the topic of riding bikes with helmets came up

# ? Jun 7, 2022 03:00

Car Hater: May 7, 2007; wolf. bike.
Wolf. Bike.
Wolf! Bike!
WolfBike!
WolfBike!
ARROOOOOO!

Wearing my helmet when I ride so that they can match my dental records after I get run over in a crosswalk

# ? Jun 7, 2022 03:09

webcams for christ: Nov 2, 2005

Drive Against Depression

A terminal case of Car Brain posted:

I look back now and see that I had been internally fighting myself since puberty, yet it took 28 years for me to take the first serious step towards treating this condition.

The first time I was brave enough to actually speak to a doctor about how I was feeling was in 2008. I remember it because it was just before I headed overseas on a study holiday to Italy. It was my first time overseas, travelling alone for a month and leaving my partner � now my wife � Sarah behind.

Something hadn�t been right in my head for a long time � but I grew up in a transitional era, where us blokes growing into adulthood didn�t want to be vulnerable or share a sign of weakness. That was deemed emasculating.

I remember the 18th birthday tours, where alcohol appeared to numb the numbness. Generally, drinking would go one of two ways � I�d be hyperactive, or completely self-loathing.

I recall one time in particular where I had essentially lost physical control of my emotions, but thankfully a classmate � an acquaintance, more than a friend, but I was thankful all the same � sat with me and talked through his experiences as I laid my innermost feelings bare to someone else for the first time. His parting words where �see your GP�. Oddly, he kept playing a Greenday song that was apparently about suicide� it�s a song I still can�t listen to today.

Upon awaking the next day, I felt the need to cut the sissy crap and harden up�

I finally went to the doctor (ten years after the above conversation) and he talked me through the process to see a psychologist. We had to conduct a mental health plan and he gave me some pills to help me sleep, reserving the right to consider medication at a later date. After feeling encouraged by my bravery, he led me out the door without eye contact, and a flippant, �see you later, David�. With my psyche at the time, this stunted any progress made.

I did see a psychologist he referred me to a couple of times, and then another. But they felt too �text book� to me at the time, so I let my depression lie and focused on my Italian odyssey.

One decision that trip made for me: I didn�t want to be without Sare� and we became engaged shortly after.

2009 was tough, though. I made some bad, alcohol-fuelled decisions, but some good came out of them: I haven�t been �blotto� ever since. It also engaged me with a very capable psychologist, and with her help and my wife�s and family�s support I was able to move forward.

From there, life went into a more stable phase. Sure, there were challenges, but we became married, built a home and had our first daughter, Charlotte. Saint John�s Wort and cups of tea seemed to be enough to calm my mind through the day, though now I think about it there was still that underlying feeling of hopelessness.

Fast-forward to early-2017. By then Ruby had joined our family and I was back in the corporate world� but something was way off. Another distinct memory symbolises that time for me: one Saturday morning, in the kitchen, on the floor and sobbing: �I can�t do this anymore�.

Thankfully, our family GP was wonderful. We did another health plan, but this time with medication from the start, to �build a base level from which we can develop from�. Another psychologist was arranged.

Beyond the health professionals there were a couple of situations that really enabled me to start growing through this phase. And both had to do with driving.

My brother and two close school friends came down to the Mornington Peninsula and took me out for a drive and some lunch. Just being out in the sunshine, sharing some drive time with these long-term friends, and being able to have an open conversation over lunch, sparked something in me. It meant I could face the prospect of working again, of talking to strangers� and reinforced what loving cars can do.

There are many other motoring moments: driving an M3 CSL, windows down on a balmy Bathurst night as I adjusted to the thirst my new medication brought; riding with fellow DAD director David James in his classic 911, hearing its exhaust echo, laughing and feeling alive.

It was this experience that led to the purchase of my own little car, a Renault Sport Clio Cup 182 that I had wanted since it appeared on the cover of Evo magazine in 2005, chasing a V10-powered M6 around Scotland.

Today, the Clio is still with us. It�s a part of the family.

I am now with a psychologist who has rare insight, who has taught me what mindfulness actually means in a practical sense, and the petrol in my veins still burns hard.

For me, it�s a combination of medication, exercise, support structure and cars that get me through each day. That mix can be different for everyone, and that�s what we�d like to help you with.

Our plan is to engage with sector specialists to connect our community with the right mental health service. We are in the process of identifying these people and applying for grants to deliver the project. We feel our role is to give the community a platform, through our events, and then steer them on the path to stronger mental health.

Enjoy the freedom of driving with us.

Adam Davis
Founder
Drive Against Depression

# ? Jun 7, 2022 11:33

BIG-DICK-BUTT-FUCK: Jan 26, 2016; by Fluffdaddy

not wearing a helmet is a total vibe, like smoking cigarettes or unprotetced sex

# ? Jun 7, 2022 12:12

Jokerpilled Drudge: Jan 27, 2010; by Pragmatica

BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:

not wearing a helmet is a total vibe, like smoking cigarettes or unprotetced sex

not really and also it's the emphasis that is terminal car brain. Also people don't post "dont smoke ciagrettes." over and over lmao get real you loving clown

# ? Jun 7, 2022 12:35

genericnick: Dec 26, 2012

Jokerpilled Drudge posted:

not really and also it's the emphasis that is terminal car brain. Also people don't post "dont smoke ciagrettes." over and over lmao get real you loving clown

Which reminds me, has anyone tried one of those head airbag things?
Pros: easier to transport if you switch between bike and trains a lot.
Cons: Expensive as gently caress, no way to test if they'll actually do what they are supposed to do.

# ? Jun 7, 2022 13:03

Jokerpilled Drudge: Jan 27, 2010; by Pragmatica

genericnick posted:

Which reminds me, has anyone tried one of those head airbag things?
Pros: easier to transport if you switch between bike and trains a lot.
Cons: Expensive as gently caress, no way to test if they'll actually do what they are supposed to do.

�349!!

my buddy had one and it seemed OK but also expensive to recharge and acquire in the first place. Switching to a Hovding is a bit of a nonstarter for me

I have an EVT mirror strapped to my helmet and it would be hard to give up the convenience of being able to spot my potential murderer without twisting my neck every time I hear those car tires coming for me.

# ? Jun 7, 2022 13:11

Cup Runneth Over: Aug 8, 2009; She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate

webcams for christ posted:

Drive Against Depression

*deep breath*

you should k

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# ? Jun 7, 2022 13:26

Deadly Ham Sandwich: Aug 19, 2009; Smellrose

webcams for christ posted:

Terminal car brain

what the hell

# ? Jun 7, 2022 13:42

mystes: May 31, 2006

If you ban cars just think about all the depressed people who only derive pleasure in life from pointless driving that you're going to hurt!

# ? Jun 7, 2022 13:45

Clark Nova: Jul 18, 2004

in our socialist utopia we can have a special car zone where older folks who hate their family can go sit in a car and have some alone time. the cars will be sitting in a parking lot with their engines removed, or maybe on electric rails like in jurassic park, endlessly circling the drive-thru at an abandoned starbucks

# ? Jun 7, 2022 14:16

BIG-DICK-BUTT-FUCK: Jan 26, 2016; by Fluffdaddy

Jokerpilled Drudge posted:

not really and also it's the emphasis that is terminal car brain. Also people don't post "dont smoke ciagrettes." over and over lmao get real you loving clown

# ? Jun 7, 2022 14:18

Electro-Boogie Jack: Nov 22, 2006; bagger mcguirk sent me.

it's very hard to get most americans to distinguish between the helmet as a physical object - a styrofoam hat which can provide modest but real protection against certain types of injuries in the event of a crash - and the helmet as a rhetorical device, where it's invoked to shift responsibility for america's atrocious road safety from traffic planners and car manufacturers and drivers to cyclists.

everyone got really mad at that guy who tried hawking bullet-proof backpacks after the 872347823489th school shooting, rightly recognizing that this represented a surrender on gun violence and acceptance of the inevitability of school shootings. instead of trying to stop them please just face to bloodshed, buy this product, help some guy make money off the rot, and hope that little timmy will catch some shots in his protected back when the shooter shows up at his school.

helmets are the same thing, but for bikes. i wear one every time i'm going to be in mixed traffic for more than a few blocks, which is basically every trip I take, but it's hard not to see the constant 'wear a helmet, it'll save your life' poo poo as an attempt to say that staying safe is your personal responsibility just in case this is the time the SUV driver looking at his phone and speeding through a red light on a street without a protected bike lane veers into your path, instantly killing you.

# ? Jun 7, 2022 14:22

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud: Apr 7, 2003

it happened again

That's pretty clearly a crosswalk. No charges! lol

where the crash happened

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.458...!7i16384!8i8192

# ? Jun 7, 2022 14:29

Polo-Rican: Jul 4, 2004; emptyquote my posts or die

half the reason i wear a helmet is so that when / if I get flattened by a tractor trailer, the comments on the gothamist article won't be all like "no helmet :smuggo:

# ? Jun 7, 2022 14:30

Electro-Boogie Jack: Nov 22, 2006; bagger mcguirk sent me.

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

it happened again

That's pretty clearly a crosswalk. No charges! lol

where the crash happened

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.458...!7i16384!8i8192

if the pedestrian had been in a car, this wouldn't have happened

# ? Jun 7, 2022 14:31

mystes: May 31, 2006

Polo-Rican posted:

half the reason i wear a helmet is so that when / if I get flattened by a tractor trailer, the comments on the gothamist article won't be all like "no helmet "

They'll find something

No reflector
No lights
No hi Viz clothing
No gorilla suit

# ? Jun 7, 2022 14:34

Polo-Rican: Jul 4, 2004; emptyquote my posts or die

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

it happened again

That's pretty clearly a crosswalk. No charges! lol

where the crash happened

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.458...!7i16384!8i8192

this poo poo makes me mad. world's lowest-effort crosswalk to allow people to cross from the bus stop to the YMCA, but no pedestrian path to enter the YMCA beyond walking down the road. and no sidewalks of course

this person might be alive if they actually built an entrance for people arriving on foot:

# ? Jun 7, 2022 14:35

Gunshow Poophole: Sep 14, 2008; OMBUDSMAN
POSTERS LOCAL 42069; Clapping Larry

Electro-Boogie Jack posted:

helmets are the same thing, but for bikes. i wear one every time i'm going to be in mixed traffic for more than a few blocks, which is basically every trip I take, but it's hard not to see the constant 'wear a helmet, it'll save your life' poo poo as an attempt to say that staying safe is your personal responsibility just in case this is the time the SUV driver looking at his phone and speeding through a red light on a street without a protected bike lane veers into your path, instantly killing you.

I mean, I get your premise from a rhetorical perspective but also lol there�s a zillion things that are not cars that will gently caress you up just because you�re moving fast and falling

youre "personally responsible" for having shoes on that if you step on broken glass somewhere it won�t shred the gently caress out of your feet, it�s an environmental hazard germane to the activity you are performing

# ? Jun 7, 2022 14:38

Electro-Boogie Jack: Nov 22, 2006; bagger mcguirk sent me.

Gunshow Poophole posted:

I mean, I get your premise from a rhetorical perspective but also lol there�s a zillion things that are not cars that will gently caress you up just because you�re moving fast and falling

youre "personally responsible" for having shoes on that if you step on broken glass somewhere it won�t shred the gently caress out of your feet, it�s an environmental hazard germane to the activity you are performing

helmet use rates are almost nonexistent in countries where cyclists are incredibly safe compared to here, because they've put the work into making sure that the environment is safe for cyclists. if you're mountain biking down a cliff or something sure, wear a helmet, but someone going a few blocks to the store or dropping off their kids at school absolutely should not need a helmet to do it, and the constant societal pressure to wear one exists because we haven't put in the work to make it safe to do so.

# ? Jun 7, 2022 14:41

Jokerpilled Drudge: Jan 27, 2010; by Pragmatica

Gunshow Poophole posted:

I mean, I get your premise from a rhetorical perspective but also lol there�s a zillion things that are not cars that will gently caress you up just because you�re moving fast and falling

youre "personally responsible" for having shoes on that if you step on broken glass somewhere it won�t shred the gently caress out of your feet, it�s an environmental hazard germane to the activity you are performing

I dont think you do get it, at all!

# ? Jun 7, 2022 15:03

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud: Apr 7, 2003

Polo-Rican posted:

this poo poo makes me mad. world's lowest-effort crosswalk to allow people to cross from the bus stop to the YMCA, but no pedestrian path to enter the YMCA beyond walking down the road. and no sidewalks of course

Once a driver turns you into paste at a crosswalk like that, it's their word against a dead guy's too. All they have to do is say "he crossed against the signal " and no charges, that easy.

# ? Jun 7, 2022 15:16

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# ? May 27, 2024 15:45

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud: Apr 7, 2003

why is everyone hooting and hollering about helmets

# ? Jun 7, 2022 15:17

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