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gradenko_2000 posted:Love that the war on cars has escalated to bringing back the anti-tank ditch wow, some tankie you are
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BonHair posted:Our friends the bollards have a new partner: the bus ditch. Basically you need to be bus width or two wheels to pass. It went up shortly before Christmas and has claimed 20 cars already. This rules.
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Jan 4, 2023 19:40
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gradenko_2000 posted:Love that the war on cars has escalated to bringing back the anti-tank ditch all warfare is ultimately trench warfare
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silicone thrills posted:Have literally met people who say poo poo like "I love my commute because its my ~ me ~ time" and im like bruh I sit on a bus and I can read, listen to music, play my nintendo switch, text chat with my friends on the phone..." and theyll look like ?????? because they just apparently thought you couldnt do anything on a bus or train??? they're reading, listening to music, playing nintendo, texting and chatting as they barrel down the freeway and are confused that you think they aren't doing those things for some reason
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Jan 4, 2023 19:49
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Clark Nova posted:they're reading, listening to music, playing nintendo, texting and chatting as they barrel down the freeway and are confused that you think they aren't doing those things for some reason All simultaneously mind you
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Jan 4, 2023 20:27
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Clark Nova posted:they're reading, listening to music, playing nintendo, texting and chatting as they barrel down the freeway and are confused that you think they aren't doing those things for some reason don't forget vlogging
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Jan 4, 2023 20:30
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yeah too bad about this and the fascism, because he designed some great furniture
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actionjackson posted:yeah too bad about this and the fascism, because he designed some great furniture Nominated for least stand-up guy
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Jan 4, 2023 21:26
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the ultimate accelerationist
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BonHair posted:Our friends the bollards have a new partner: the bus ditch. Basically you need to be bus width or two wheels to pass. It went up shortly before Christmas and has claimed 20 cars already. it also looks like that if you had a truck(my reference personally is a '99 ford ranger so light truck for sure) with clearance you could just take your time through it and it would work too, I really want to see a truck(something modern and expensive) eviscerated on one of these
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Jan 5, 2023 05:34
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happily, truck mindset precludes just taking your time through it
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Jan 5, 2023 05:42
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what is the best way to quickly put a bus ditch in a road without a big road crew or anything? asking for a friend
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Clark Nova posted:happily, truck mindset precludes just taking your time through it more people need to play Snowrunner
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Jan 5, 2023 06:04
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Polo-Rican posted:guy in Ferrari sees some bikes, gets furious and destroys own car very cool we let people drive wildly unsuitable fashion statements like this in public
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Jan 5, 2023 06:12
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went for a run today, saw a stupid SUV partially blocking the intersection...as i crossed i pointed towards the stop line he was in front of and said "get behind the stop line", so he could trigger the light to change. guy honked at me as i ran in front  you loving dummy
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Jan 5, 2023 07:46
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It's amazing how many movies and tv shows fail the bikdel test: Has to have at least one bicycle and it needs to be ridden by a named character
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Jan 5, 2023 13:38
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:what is the best way to quickly put a bus ditch in a road without a big road crew or anything? asking for a friend C4 cratering charges daisy chained together
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gradenko_2000 posted:more people need to play Snowrunner 
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I fight cars I work in the social services, and a lot of the people we work with have a lot of regrets. I've asked our case managers to have their clients come out and watch me fight. As I fight cars, time runs backwards. As I punch the mirror off a Subaru, your life runs in reverse. Scars becomes wounds become chances to exercise better judgement. I fight cars. Like most people, I enjoy fighting in the mornings, before it gets to hot. Unlike most people, I've been pushed over by a Honda Fit. I fight cars. Sometimes when I am fighting, I think of those zen fountains that absorb a drip drip drip of water down a bamboo tube before finally tipping over and dumping their contents into a pool. Each pebble I chuck at an F150 is another drip. I think, that fountain would call me a pussy. I fight cars. But I know where I have been. Six months ago, I didn't fight. Six months ago, I had heartburn bad enough to keep me from sleeping through the night. Six months ago, I waited to cross the street until there were no cars coming even when I had a crosswalk. And six months ago, fighting an Escalade felt impossible. I fight cars, and I have ways to go. But I can sleep. I feel alive. I can fight any motorized vehicle up to the size of a short bus, and I lose every time. Sometimes I get discouraged. I compare where I am to where other people are. But all that matters is where I am compared to where I was. Once something good becomes something you are going to do for the rest of your life, the pace becomes less important. I know that my drip drip drip will amount to that deluge, eventually. Someday I will fight a monster truck, and lose.
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BraveUlysses posted:went for a run today, saw a stupid SUV partially blocking the intersection...as i crossed i pointed towards the stop line he was in front of and said "get behind the stop line", so he could trigger the light to change. I was going for a bike ride once and had to cross a busy multi-lane road. There wasn't a cross walk so the only way to trigger the light was the sensor in the road. But the sensor wasn't picking me up and there weren't any other cars waiting with me so I was a bit stuck. Meanwhile a dude in a Jeep was talking on his phone in a nearby parking lot. I heard him say, "Hang on a minute." to whoever he was talking to then he pulled out of the parking lot and pulled up behind me to trip the sensor. He said he rides his motorcycle through here and that light never trips for him either. A rare good guy story for the thread.
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Jan 5, 2023 13:58
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Did a single one of Corbusier's buildings have a parking space for all the cars on all his loving freeways that went between them all at least FLW's US Acres or whatever just gave every single family a whole acre to store all their cars
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:It's amazing how many movies and tv shows fail the bikdel test: lots of movies have bikes! unfortunately they're movies about children or losers The French Dispatch had a really good short about bicycles, but unfortunately it's just 5 or 10 minutes and euro-centric Polo-Rican has issued a correction as of 17:01 on Jan 5, 2023 |
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Jan 5, 2023 16:45
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they cleared the snow off the roads for their precious cars by dumping it at the street corners, making us pedestrians navigate huge piles of snow and get our feet wet. enough is enough
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Jan 5, 2023 17:20
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:Has to have at least one bicycle
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McCracAttack posted:I was going for a bike ride once and had to cross a busy multi-lane road. There wasn't a cross walk so the only way to trigger the light was the sensor in the road. But the sensor wasn't picking me up and there weren't any other cars waiting with me so I was a bit stuck. Meanwhile a dude in a Jeep was talking on his phone in a nearby parking lot. I heard him say, "Hang on a minute." to whoever he was talking to then he pulled out of the parking lot and pulled up behind me to trip the sensor. He said he rides his motorcycle through here and that light never trips for him either. In a jeep too, wow
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I did my groceries yesterday using my bike Felt good
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CopperHound posted:I think this could use some refinement, because "40 year old virgin" is the first one that comes to mind. Much like how the bechdel test was meant to highlight the near-total absence of lesbian characters in media by drawing attention to how few stories even have women interact at all, the bikedel test shows how few bicycles appear in popular art at all in order to make a further point about how maligned and marginalized cycling is.
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Polo-Rican posted:guy in Ferrari sees some bikes, gets furious and destroys own car "hey man, you can't park there" corbusier not realizing that this means that all the people doing all this work will own cars, too, and they'll live even further away and drive even more, and all his neighbors will need to get around too, and even though there are only 1/10th as many people in the nearest square mile they all have to drive 100 times more every day than the average city dweller. and so now his half hour drive to his office is an hour and a half thanks to choked roads that only get worse despite every attempt to add lanes because each new lane makes it easier for people to live further and further away, and of course they'll have to drive more and more great job dude
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Jan 5, 2023 20:28
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gradenko_2000 posted:I did my groceries yesterday using my bike my major New Years Resolution this year is to use my Bike more for stuff like this instead of just exercise/hobby
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:my major New Years Resolution this year is to use my Bike more for stuff like this instead of just exercise/hobby It's supremely satisfying to blow past traffic and chain my bike at the grocery store entrance while cars crawl around the parking lot.
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:It's supremely satisfying to blow past traffic and chain my bike at the grocery store entrance while cars crawl around the parking lot. Every morning I zoom past the line of cars on the road on my bike. Every morning, even in heavy rain, I laugh at the poor suckers. Then I silently laugh when my co-workers talk about parking and fines and car maintenance. Bikes are cool.
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I hate fixing my loving car. As soon as I fix one thing another breaks.
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Electro-Boogie Jack posted:"hey man, you can't park there" he really was a dumb bitch who made ugly buildings
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we have successfully climate changed vermont so I get to ride my road bike around all winter now I guess. Did a great ride today while listening to Death Panel. Everything is hosed!
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BraveUlysses posted:went for a run today, saw a stupid SUV partially blocking the intersection...as i crossed i pointed towards the stop line he was in front of and said "get behind the stop line", so he could trigger the light to change. I've weirdly started running into the opposite problem regularly: drivers stop their cars too far back so the intersection doesn't detect them and the signal doesn't change. Which normally would be funny, but if I'm biking on the same street and the intersection is only designed to detect the presence of cars.......frustrating! Why do drivers stop their cars more than a car's length away from the intersection?? Why do drivers??
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🥳😆 New project seeks to develop an online driver safety test for people with dementia (source) quote:University of Queensland researchers are working with people living with dementia to develop an online driver safety test that can be performed by GPs in their surgeries.
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I'm sure the dementia patient will relent and turn in their keys after they flunk the javascript driving video game
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