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Clark Nova posted:biden has nothing to do with this, you're paying taxes to the actual government: exxon-mobil I'm not, because I haven't bought gas in months. So I want my $100 a month.
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https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/2022/08/19/elderly-woman-drives-car-onto-second-floor-mall-escorted-out/7844945001/ This woman was apparently so out of it that she drove her can into a mall, but none of the police told her to get out of the car?? They just helped her drive back out??? What the gently caress!
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If I were one of those cops, I would simply drive the car back out myself. Except I'd be a cop, so instead I'd do the laziest thing and let the senile driver potentially run over some people or drive off the ledge.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/2022/08/19/elderly-woman-drives-car-onto-second-floor-mall-escorted-out/7844945001/ Cops don't want to be filmed being mean to grandma.
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malls are ableist in a lot of ways, perhaps a driving lane is needed. i know i wish i had a car when the kiosk salespeople approach me!
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Also too bad prices are sticky, whoops
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McCracAttack posted:Cops don't want to be filmed being mean to grandma. https://twitter.com/DavidBegnaud/status/1268892701585530880
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If you rear-end someone then literally the only explanation is that you were following too close for the conditions.
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that is true, you should always leave enough distance between yourself and the car in front of you to safely come to a stop without hitting them if they suddenly slam on their brakes. rule of thumb is what, three seconds in sunny/dry conditions?
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that's da MINIMUM
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Fitzy Fitz posted:If I were one of those cops, I would simply drive the car back out myself. Except I'd be a cop, so instead I'd do the laziest thing and let the senile driver potentially run over some people or drive off the ledge.
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Also if you crash into anything then the only explanation is that you were driving too fast for the conditions. Doesn't matter if it starts out as a brake check, a child running out from behind a parked car, or a police barricade.
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best kind of rear endings are at stoplights where the rear end in a top hat is clearly assuming that the driver in front of them is going to run a red light
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I love leaving a safe amount of space and then getting aggressively tailgated because some shitass thinks all that space ahead means I could be going faster
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lobster shirt posted:that is true, you should always leave enough distance between yourself and the car in front of you to safely come to a stop without hitting them if they suddenly slam on their brakes. rule of thumb is what, three seconds in sunny/dry conditions? at highway speeds like they are doing in that crash you should rule-of-thumb leave 10 car lengths between you and the car in front of you. it's trivial to judge this because there will be ten cars between you and the car in front of you on most highways at most hours of the day.
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oh hay car wreck story and elderly driver story, those are the best. i was stopped at a red light when i was hit. this was very confusing because i had checked my mirror and the car behind me had stopped already. in fact an elderly woman had gone full speed into the stopped cars hard enough that that car 3 back plowed into the car 2 back, into the car behind me, into me. we all pulled off to the side but she was completely out of it and just sitting there and then her car started moving when she passed out so i had to get into a moving car and hit the brakes for her so she didn't roll into oncoming traffic and die this is the best possible system and it's critical that we make sure our elders have the freedom to get around by making more car, car everywhere, asphalt oceans. how would they get to their doctors appointments if they didn't have car, huh? why do you hate nana, you monster.
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a spandex wearer cyclist told me ebikes like mine go too fast, told him i dont have it turned on
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Blockade posted:a spandex wearer cyclist told me ebikes like mine go too fast, told him i dont have it turned on turn on your motor
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Blockade posted:a spandex wearer cyclist told me ebikes like mine go too fast, told him i dont have it turned on pretty wild how mad people are at spandex
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:pretty wild how mad people are at spandex *looks for controversy section on Wikipedia* oh yeah? what about the environment! quote:In 2014, it was noted that most clothes containing spandex end up as non-recyclable waste once they have been worn out, because fabric blends containing spandex are difficult to recycle.[14] This contributes to the pollution of the environment.
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:pretty wild how mad people are at spandex spandex cyclists have a tendency to oppose cycle infrastructure because they are all rich white office dudes who want to ride fast on the road during lunch breaks and then drive home in their tesla, unimpeded by cycle or bus lanes
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i went for a bike ride today and wore lycra. namaste
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 E: I love being overtaken or kept up with by older people on e-bikes, while I'm lycra-ing on the bike paths (as is the rule here in NL). My late-60s neighbours have all bought e-bikes to extend their range and/or keep cycling for as long as possible. Bobstar has issued a correction as of 10:33 on Aug 21, 2022 |
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The goal is actual infrastructure is that anyone can use it, it is also why “bike gutters” are nearly useless and why most North American bike infrastructure is disastrous. Also yeah the disabled/elderly thing is humorous considering getting on a bus is going to be much easier than drive a car.
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i dunno why... seeing this made me say i hate cars all over again.
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I like that more people are biking. I dislike that ebike riders overwhelmingly have zero sense of etiquette because they didn't ride a bike between age 17 and 50+ and don't get that being overtaken at 25mph on an incline without warning is stressful the far end of the spectrum is the new coastal bike paths in manhattan... complete chaos
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Oh yeah also a cute octogenarian couple got creamed by a driver in my previous town of Easthampton MA and I had to leave the town facebook groups because of the sheer inhumanity of the comments and you can't tell these people they are loving idiots without the fb algorithm burying your post.
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larper posted:I like that more people are biking. I dislike that ebike riders overwhelmingly have zero sense of etiquette because they didn't ride a bike between age 17 and 50+ and don't get that being overtaken at 25mph on an incline without warning is stressful Maybe it's a regional thing, but most of the ebikers I've come across have been just fine. I think it's too easy to end up like the people who cry about lycra every thread and let confirmation bias lead us to making an enemy of people we should be building solidarity with.
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Weembles posted:Maybe it's a regional thing, but most of the ebikers I've come across have been just fine. 
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E bikes are good and cool and I think they will do a lot to get people out of their cars. That said, I fuckin SMOKED an E-biker the other day on the trail it kicked rear end.
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When electric scooters first started appearing, a lot of people were riding them poorly just because... they had probably never ridden them before. Now everyone I see riding electric scooters (or EUCs or whatever) clearly rides them a lot and is perfectly courteous. I think there's the same situation with ebikes right now. Since the number of people who own them is still expanding rapidly, a large proportion of the people who have them at any given time just bought them and aren't used to them yet. Even if some people are being dumb with them right now, I'd still rather that people be riding ebikes rather than cars. And even if a lot of people are just riding them as a leisure activity, it's literally impossible to understate just how important it is just to 1) get more bikes on the roads and 2) increase the number of people who ride bikes even just SOME of the time in terms of changing how people think about bikes and bike infrastructure. If ebikes are the magic that can get the US to a point where a significant percentage of american adults ride bikes some of the time (and can get pissed off at drivers behaving shittily and the state of bike infrastructure) they could be the best thing to ever happen to cycling in the US mystes has issued a correction as of 17:29 on Aug 21, 2022 |
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Even the worst cyclist is probably still better than the average motorist The best motorist, even
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it is a mistake to create a monolithic category out of people identified by some trivial characteristic (whether it's wearing tight-fitting exercise clothing or having an electric motor installed on their bicycle) and a worse mistake to flatten all distinctions within such categories, assigning them all uniform beliefs, behaviors, etc. (e.g., "all spandex cyclists are 'rich white office dudes'" or "all e-bike riders are 17-50 and have 'zero sense of etiquette'"). All you are doing is making yourself angry against a person that only exists in your head. get this: some people own a carbon fiber road bike they use to post KOMs to Strava and also a cargo bike they use to take their kids to soccer practice. An exception is that category of people who use cars, because cars are totalizing. You can be a cyclist but when you're not using the bike you can be something else. cars and the network of support they require are so pervasive through the lives of their operators and the societies we all live in that none of us, at any time, can stop thinking about cars, our cars, that guy's car, the cars in the street I'm trying to cross, the millions of cars that make the air unfit to breathe and the cities impossible for humans to live in.
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Kicked Throat posted:i dunno why... seeing this made me say i hate cars all over again. are you in the uptown area?
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actionjackson posted:are you in the uptown area? that picture was taken near uptown 0:) also paid pilgrimage to this sacred space 
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Kicked Throat posted:that picture was taken near uptown 0:) you should post in the minneapolis thread, it's by far the most active of any of the city ones
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