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enamel is for when you need iron's thermal or body-panel-smashing properties but are cooking with tomato or walking in wet weather or a place where they salt the roads
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Greg12 posted:enamel is for when you need iron's thermal or body-panel-smashing properties but are cooking with tomato or walking in wet weather or a place where they salt the roads Tell us more of your opinions about public policy and settlement patterns.
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Back in the big city, 30 seconds after leaving for a walk and a driver nearly runs over my wife and I coming out of a townhouse parking lot. Just... didn't see two people directly in front of her car. Later a guy driving a UHaul is stopped at a red light and yelling at an older white dude in a car in the next lane, calling him a crazy crackerjack moron etc. The light turns green and UHaul guy floors it to get out in front, then turns his head to look back and continue yelling with his foot on the gas.
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AnimeIsTrash posted:I don't know what that poster is talking about. You can do that at most intersections unless there is explicitly a sign that says "no turn on red".
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eXXon posted:Later a guy driving a UHaul is stopped at a red light and yelling at an older white dude in a car in the next lane, calling him a crazy crackerjack moron etc. The light turns green and UHaul guy floors it to get out in front, then turns his head to look back and continue yelling with his foot on the gas. congrats, you encountered a mastershakeman in the wild.
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Dec 18, 2022 03:05
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I like waiting for a green before turning right just because it makes people mad 
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Greg12 posted:enamel is for when you need iron's thermal or body-panel-smashing properties but are cooking with tomato or walking in wet weather or a place where they salt the roads im always cooking with tomatos
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Not sure if I'm able to articulate this correctly, but do any of you feel like I do, that 'highway lane etiquette' and being overly concerned about it are symptoms of carbrain in people who would otherwise be right there with you complaining about lovely drivers? I'm talking about "stay out of the left lane except to pass, I don't care if you're doing the speed limit!" I hear this a lot from friends who drive, who are otherwise competent and calm drivers who yield to cyclists and pedestrians. I'm recalling a video from many years ago, someone was filming from the passenger seat of their car as a bunch of idiots in supercars went racing down the DVP. The discussion around the video was full of "hey gently caress her for being in the left lane, she's just as much of a danger as the street racers." It doesn't make sense to me, and when these same people rage about someone not moving right to let them pass, they tend to leave out the fact that they're like 60 over the limit the entire time they're on the highway. I think it's a more benign but still present symptom of the insular feeling people get when they're inside their rolling cage. gradenko_2000 posted:I like waiting for a green before turning right just because it makes people mad I used to do this with the motorcycle (and occasionally when I was cycling) after too many people would try to creep around me. It's actually taught in MSF courses around here that if you're making a right turn you should basically have the bike pointed diagonally across the lane.
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uhauls seem like bad news. most people don’t drive vehicles like that, especially not fully loaded.
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Mister Speaker posted:I'm talking about "stay out of the left lane except to pass, I don't care if you're doing the speed limit!" I hear this a lot from friends who drive, who are otherwise competent and calm drivers who yield to cyclists and pedestrians. I'm recalling a video from many years ago, someone was filming from the passenger seat of their car as a bunch of idiots in supercars went racing down the DVP. The discussion around the video was full of "hey gently caress her for being in the left lane, she's just as much of a danger as the street racers." i usually stay in the right lane because it's faster than the left lane here in california 
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Dec 18, 2022 03:31
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Its like trying to explain to people how there is a finite limit to the amount of cars able to use an interchange. Rushing down to the exit and merging in doesn't help anymore than forming a 5 mile line of cars, just making everyone mad and probably slowing down the line.
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Dec 18, 2022 03:32
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Slower traffic should stay in the rightmost lanes but most European highways are probably two lanes in each direction, not three or four, and don't have weird features like occasional exits on the left, express lanes, HOV lanes, etc.
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Dec 18, 2022 03:36
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rode my bike for the first time in a year (pedestrian supremacy) and my rear brake was weird. like I think the pads are fine but I had to squeeze the lever more than I used to and it was slow to "spring back" when I let go what happened to my bike who broke my bike ill fix my bike
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lobster shirt posted:im always cooking with tomatos look at little mr italy over here
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cool av posted:rode my bike for the first time in a year hell yeah uncritical support for all cyclists
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Xaris posted:well that is literally the law in most countries/states. Yeah, that's true and that's sort of why I feel it's difficult to articulate. Yes, they're right that you should move over and let the insane person doing 160kmh by, but the way the complaint is often levelled I just get an overwhelming sense of "get the gently caress out of my way I'm the protagonist of reality" like I never get the impression the response is "yeah so this slowpoke was in the left lane so I stayed a safe distance back and ended up stuck behind him doing 100 the entire way to Orillia."
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I need to air up my tires and see if my crippling fear has chilled out a little. I mostly walk everywhere and bus and gently caress i really do want to bike.
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silicone thrills posted:I need to air up my tires and see if my crippling fear has chilled out a little. I mostly walk everywhere and bus and gently caress i really do want to bike. for what it's worth I basically never take a left turn on a bike and always just get off and walk across like a pedestrian it got beaten into my head that getting to where I'm going alive is more important than anything else
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gradenko_2000 posted:for what it's worth I basically never take a left turn on a bike and always just get off and walk across like a pedestrian are things like traffic lamps and crosswalks mainly for decorative purposes where you are, too?
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gradenko_2000 posted:for what it's worth I basically never take a left turn on a bike and always just get off and walk across like a pedestrian lol im literally afraid of hills and i live in seattle. I bought a bike with the intention of conquering my fear but it only seems to get worse as I get older and I just ride my brakes the entire time. Bike luckily was bought mostly with a work fitness stipend so im not like out a ton.
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gradenko_2000 posted:for what it's worth I basically never take a left turn on a bike and always just get off and walk across like a pedestrian not sure wher eyou heard that but as a driver i'm pretty sure getting to the next light in the shortest possible time is more important than anything else
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cool av posted:rode my bike for the first time in a year (pedestrian supremacy) and my rear brake was weird. like I think the pads are fine but I had to squeeze the lever more than I used to and it was slow to "spring back" when I let go what happened to my bike who broke my bike ill fix my bike prob just need to adjust the tension on the cable if it’s a lil loose
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Got a nice little surprise at the end of my ride, my very own <car hops two curbs and crashes through a plate of glass>. There were like 7 cops mulling around doing nothing useful.
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mawarannahr posted:are things like traffic lamps and crosswalks mainly for decorative purposes where you are, too? I posted a couple of pages back that while the Philippines did implement a bunch of bike lanes over the last two years*, everything has opened back up, and we're already sliding back to "maybe motorcycles should be allowed on bike lanes" and "maybe we should abolish bike lanes entirely because it's just taking up lanes that cars could be using" so while there are traffic lights and crosswalks, it's still risky a lot of times ___ * when we entered into a hard lockdown in 2020, absolutely all public transportation was ended, and even private cars and motorbikes were subject to strict internal border controls. People took to riding bikes (or walking) purely because the government literally did not people any other choice to get around. In some ways it's a demonstration of how sufficient political will can end car culture, but then car culture did eventually come back
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gradenko_2000 posted:for what it's worth I basically never take a left turn on a bike and always just get off and walk across like a pedestrian i stopped riding my bike a couple years ago when we got a bike room in the building and it was out of sight out of mind but i never rode on any road with cars i walked the thing 2 blocks home from the bike path every time cause its not worth the risk. gonna have to get my kid a bike at some point and saddle up again for her but i kinda just love walking a lot and would rather do it instead until the car is outlawed. Real hurthling! has issued a correction as of 04:09 on Dec 18, 2022 |
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silicone thrills posted:lol im literally afraid of hills and i live in seattle. I bought a bike with the intention of conquering my fear but it only seems to get worse as I get older and I just ride my brakes the entire time. riding brakes down long descents is bad. they need a heat difference to convert your kinetic energy into thermal energy, and constant rubbing causes heat to continuously build up. breaking in harder bursts with a cooldown between will keep them fresher and prevent fading or damage.
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cool av posted:rode my bike for the first time in a year (pedestrian supremacy) and my rear brake was weird. like I think the pads are fine but I had to squeeze the lever more than I used to and it was slow to "spring back" when I let go what happened to my bike who broke my bike ill fix my bike There's a bike mech thread in I think The Great Outdoors but if hydraulic discs: there's moisture or dirt in the line and you need a bleed. If mechanical: try adjusting the cable, if it's still bad change the cable and housing (not just the cable, they work as a unit).
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jetz0r posted:descending on a bike is one of my favorite things. the bike is my trusty stead, she can handle more than i can, all i have to do is be confidant and guide her within both our limits. Yes I get that but sometime after I turned 30ish I got unreasonably afraid of hills. Same thing happened to me with snowboarding. I have to basically take anti anxiety meds or drink to let go enough to not be having a panic attack and shaking the entire time. I was a bomb down the hill on my bike kid and jumped out of trees and flew off the swings kid. Idk somewhere along the way my brain went "ah gently caress u are totally mortal as gently caress"
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mawarannahr posted:
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actionjackson posted:where do i boast about my car Isn't there a whole forum for it? Something like automotive insanity?
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Your brain flipped the "I'm old and my bones will shatter from a fall" sense a few decades too early. Although I've seen plenty of people never realize they are old and out of shape, then proceed to destroy their knees trying to reinact the athleticism of their teens. But for real people can develop phobias at any age. Allergies too. Unlike allergies, I think phobias are very treatable. It's the one thing cognitive-behavioral therapy is really good at. Something really high like 90% phobia remission.
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nomad2020 posted:Its like trying to explain to people how there is a finite limit to the amount of cars able to use an interchange. Rushing down to the exit and merging in doesn't help anymore than forming a 5 mile line of cars, just making everyone mad and probably slowing down the line. Zipper merging is more efficient than trying to merge into one big line and also doesn't lead to people throwing tantrums when the person who didn't recognize that they had just passed the tail end of a five mile line of cars has to get in line.
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Weembles posted:Zipper merging is more efficient than trying to merge into one big line and also doesn't lead to people throwing tantrums when the person who didn't recognize that they had just passed the tail end of a five mile line of cars has to get in line. This works as long as the interchange is below capacity, above capacity you're just playing around. E: Just glad the bus gets it's own lane on the parts of the interstate I go. nomad2020 has issued a correction as of 06:22 on Dec 18, 2022 |
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nomad2020 posted:This works as long as the interchange is below capacity, above capacity you're just playing around. Even above capacity, a merge point can still run slower than the theoretical max capacity - which is what happens when you try to merge into one line. It's been studied a lot and zipper merging always turns out to be faster.
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I think we're getting lost in the weeds. This would hardly be an issue if people smartened up and got on the bus with me. VV Teamwork makes the dream work! VV nomad2020 has issued a correction as of 07:19 on Dec 18, 2022 |
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Dec 18, 2022 06:49
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nomad2020 posted:I think we're getting lost in the weeds. This would hardly be an issue if people smartened up and got on the bus with me. I agree. The best way to solve a problem is to not get into it in the first place.
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nomad2020 posted:I think we're getting lost in the weeds. This would hardly be an issue if people smartened up and got on the bus with me. yup
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