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Leroy Diplowski posted:Too much negativity itt agreed
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Aug 29, 2023 20:29
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Peanut President posted:europe, a continent that builds razor wire fences on its borders and intentionally sinks ships full of refugees is totally welcoming to immigrants You just need to be the right colour, just like Jason Slaughter.
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Aug 29, 2023 20:35
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the NJB stuff makes people mad in a funny way, to me
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Leroy Diplowski posted:Too much negativity itt loser poo poo tbh
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Peanut President posted:europe, a continent that builds razor wire fences on its borders and intentionally sinks ships full of refugees is totally welcoming to immigrants
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Aug 29, 2023 21:22
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NJB is wrong. The upcoming disasters in NA will make cars unviable as more and more infrastructure is destroyed. NA's future is walkable areas.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:I just gave $10 to my local bike advocacy group, so I'm allowed to say we're hosed
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Jon Pod Van Damm posted:NJB is wrong. The upcoming disasters in NA will make cars unviable as more and more infrastructure is destroyed. NA's future is walkable areas. Where there's a will, there's a way. Right now half of all our road maintenance budget is spent on a single enormous highway built to service people commuting from out of town. The car brain will prop up crumbling infrastructure no matter how little sense it makes.
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Jon Pod Van Damm posted:NJB is wrong. The upcoming disasters in NA will make cars unviable as more and more infrastructure is destroyed. NA's future is walkable areas. If necessary, the government will just pour more and more money into subsidizing car driving, and then there won't be money to build the infrastructure necessary to reduce car dependence.
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Dog Case posted:There are lots of cheap bike tires, they're just heavy and won't look nice or be from a company a rando will recognize. There are a ton of affordable options for car tires with more grip in cold/wet/loose conditions, tires with lower rolling resistance, and tires that don’t puncture when they encounter the slightest bit of debris. If you want any of those things on a bike, you have to pay the big bucks. Bike tire manufacturers have for the most part eliminated the middle of the market.
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Jon Pod Van Damm posted:NJB is wrong. The upcoming disasters in NA will make cars unviable as more and more infrastructure is destroyed. NA's future is walkable areas. I'm just looking forward to the Biosphere collapse thread crossover where NJB makes videos about how great it is living >2m underwater.
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nomad2020 posted:I'm just looking forward to the Biosphere collapse thread crossover where NJB makes videos about how great it is living >2m underwater. Can't have roads if you don't have land!
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:the dutch are vile
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lotta drama in the Dutch/NA influencer community lately https://twitter.com/americanfietser/status/1696556338824823166
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webcams for christ posted:lotta drama in the Dutch/NA influencer community lately https://nitter.net/AmericanFietser/status/1696556338824823166#m
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it's hard to believe the guy calling himself 'american fietser' and using albert heijn bags while getting his groceries in america is a bit odd imo
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lmao I live in the same town as American Fietser and talk to him regularly; he's a definite nederboo and I think is taking the criticism of NJB like it's an attack on him, which it kind of is since he basically models himself after Jason and considers him a friend
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Who cares what a bunch of swarthy dutchmen think about america?
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mystes posted:When gas prices were high in 2022 even people in cspam were saying it was important for the government to ensure that people could continue to use cars because otherwise it would be unfair to poor people precarity of the populous is great. you get to immiserate people and then use that misery as its own excuse for not fixing anything
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Jon Pod Van Damm posted:NJB is wrong. The upcoming disasters in NA will make cars unviable as more and more infrastructure is destroyed. NA's future is walkable areas. Walkable prison campuses and work camps.
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:loser poo poo tbh 
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Weembles posted:The way it gets done is by making "complete streets" or whatever it is we're calling good construction these days the default option when buiding or modifying roads. If you want to be able to spend that federal car money on losermodes like walking, wheelchairs, scooters, and bikes, you gotta have a plan that is 1. not too old 2. based on years of community engagement (but not too old) 3. expensive with lots of pretty pictures to impress the feds who review the funding requests, and 4. not just gathering dust on a shelf or in an old network drive--with buy-in from the engineers who draw the construction plans and manage construction I'm griping, but a dumb harebrained idea I had in a meeting is actually becoming a bike trail this year, basically exactly how you described it. Greg12 has issued a correction as of 00:03 on Aug 30, 2023 |
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be on the winning team and advocate for human extinction.
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Greg12 posted:well, the good news is that his beloved new home will be under water by 2100. his home is under the water in 2023. Of all the countries being impacted by climate change, I'd put money on the Netherlands somehow ending up larger out of it.
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anyway a hearty lmao to the post about capitalism and climate change because we're not fixing either of those either. best we've got on the menu for the next few generations is "more capitalism" and "more oil", or "even more capitalism but somehow more bigoted" and "slightly less oil than the guys who said they're pro environment" I fully expect a couple random spots here and there where there's enough rich white people to get recreational facilities while we make minority communities ever more deadly for their residents. And people will point to rich white people getting nice things and call it progress, because libs gonna lib.
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Harik posted:anyway a hearty lmao to the post about capitalism and climate change because we're not fixing either of those either. Correct, they hated NJB because he spoke the truth
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NJB is obviously using reverse psychology to trick disagreeable engineers and city planners into building good bike infrastructure
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Jon Pod Van Damm posted:NJB is obviously using reverse psychology to trick disagreeable engineers and city planners into building good bike infrastructure my god it just might work
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I binged watched a bunch of CityNerd videos I hadn't seen yet and honestly I'm having trouble coming up with reasons not to move to Pittsburgh
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Wolfy posted:I binged watched a bunch of CityNerd videos I hadn't seen yet and honestly I'm having trouble coming up with reasons not to move to Pittsburgh
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The most damning indictment of cycling in the Anglosphere is that people watch that one video about the Dutch grannybike and decide to pay a thousand dollars for one even though they live in Seattle.
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Wolfy posted:I binged watched a bunch of CityNerd videos I hadn't seen yet and honestly I'm having trouble coming up with reasons not to move to Pittsburgh Watch out for the fentanyl cloud
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Jon Pod Van Damm posted:NJB is obviously using reverse psychology to trick disagreeable engineers and city planners into building good bike infrastructure It's not the engineers and city planners that are the problem, I think largely they know what needs to be done but what can be done and what is politically possible are very different things. As with all things the root cause is capitalism. Americans, even leftists who ostensibly hate America, get weirdly defensive when people suggest they should move somewhere better. Like you say death to America but then you want to hug and kiss it when a Canadian tells you to move to the Netherlands.
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Netherlands, the socialist paradise that will finally defeat America. I don't know if I would move to a different country for bikes...at least go to France or Italy, somewhere with better food and weather. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 08:59 on Aug 30, 2023 |
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Blackhawk posted:It's not the engineers and city planners that are the problem, I think largely they know what needs to be done but what can be done and what is politically possible are very different things. As with all things the root cause is capitalism. And if change happens it has to be by locals re-inventing the loving wheel every time, but worse. evil_bunnY has issued a correction as of 11:38 on Aug 30, 2023 |
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Blackhawk posted:It's not the engineers and city planners that are the problem, I think largely they know what needs to be done but what can be done and what is politically possible are very different things. As with all things the root cause is capitalism. Nobody has any loving money.
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Jon Pod Van Damm posted:NJB is obviously using reverse psychology to trick disagreeable engineers and city planners into building good bike infrastructure he's a whitehat PUA, using a combination of peacocking (look at Dutch infrastructure) and negging (america could never do this they're not a dime)
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