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a distracted driver with an expired license and a traffic violation record 10 pages long drifted 6 feet over a solid white line and a rumble strip to kill one of my friends and permanently cripple another. both of them had flashing lights on their bikes visible from two miles away and highway construction-grade reflective triangles on their backs. the driver got rpobation
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Sep 19, 2021 17:48
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Sep 19, 2021 18:11
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indigi posted:drivers are dumb for sure but I’ve seen far more bikers drive directly into a stationary object and wipe out so idk if they’re any better yeah cyclists can be clumsy but nothing is built for them. imagine you're left-handed and trying to make your way in a world that is built for righties. and there are loving righties everywhere and they are extremely aggressive and they move loving fast. sometimes a righty will see a lefty and say "hey gently caress you lefty human being" and sometimes a righty won't see a lefty and then vaporize all of their internal organs.
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Sep 22, 2021 05:24
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i say swears online posted:more car drivers should smoke cigarettes, i drive everywhere with the windows down and i feel a lot more aware with better vision you are blasting your lungs with combustion particulate with the windows down and statistically you are going to die earlier and more unpleasantly
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Sep 23, 2021 05:09
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the bitcoin of weed posted:most of the US gets this 3-6 months out of the year involuntarily and doesn't even get a nice buzz to go along with it, you might as well have a nice cig no by all means, enjoy your smokes. roll your window up tho https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/c-change/news/fossil-fuel-air-pollution-responsible-for-1-in-5-deaths-worldwide/ quote:New research from Harvard University, in collaboration with the University of Birmingham, the University of Leicester and University College London, found that more than 8 million people died in 2018 from fossil fuel pollution, significantly higher than previous research suggested—meaning that air pollution from burning fossil fuels like coal and diesel was responsible for about 1 in 5 deaths worldwide. gay_crimes posted:Highways are super hosed. I've known "car bad" for a while, suburban sprawl is devastating the biosphere, but the local pollution impact I understood was vague and unclear. I started digging in more and recently learned how about terrible ultrafine particles are, and how you're breathing that poo poo any time you're driving or within 300m of a highway. And if you're in an area with nocturnal surface inversions, like LA or Salt Lake City, you're getting extra hosed, because the extent of the pollution plume greatly extends extends at night and can't disperse normally, resulting in plumes extending up to 3000m if you happen to be down wind of the highway or major road. You breathe that in all night, and it easily gets indoors, and most filtering systems won't capture it. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/es5001566 quote:We measured the spatial pattern of particle number (PN) concentrations downwind from the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) with an instrumented vehicle that enabled us to cover larger areas than allowed by traditional stationary measurements. LAX emissions adversely impacted air quality much farther than reported in previous airport studies. We measured at least a 2-fold increase in PN concentrations over unimpacted baseline PN concentrations during most hours of the day in an area of about 60 km2 that extended to 16 km (10 miles) downwind and a 4- to 5-fold increase to 8–10 km (5–6 miles) downwind. Locations of maximum PN concentrations were aligned to eastern, downwind jet trajectories during prevailing westerly winds and to 8 km downwind concentrations exceeded 75 000 particles/cm3, more than the average freeway PN concentration in Los Angeles. During infrequent northerly winds, the impact area remained large but shifted to south of the airport. The freeway length that would cause an impact equivalent to that measured in this study (i.e., PN concentration increases weighted by the area impacted) was estimated to be 280–790 km. The total freeway length in Los Angeles is 1500 km. These results suggest that airport emissions are a major source of PN in Los Angeles that are of the same general magnitude as the entire urban freeway network. They also indicate that the air quality impact areas of major airports may have been seriously underestimated.
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actionjackson posted:thank you for the link, i wanted to pay my respects and also buy a $75 jets polo shirt but you repeat yourself?
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Sep 26, 2021 18:01
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 but it gets me to work on time so it's impossible to say if it's bad or not
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Sep 29, 2021 07:32
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actionjackson posted:congrats to the Squamish on becoming landlords wow, units offered at market rate. transgressive
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Sep 30, 2021 21:53
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Oct 1, 2021 01:01
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i can't find it but years back when i was fresh out of undergrad, i saw a single tweet that made my daily life from that point forward completely unbearable by bringing a substantial portion of it horrifically into focus. it went something like "ah, another day of work! time to sit in my office chair all day before hopping in my car chair to get back to my house chair"
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Oct 4, 2021 00:50
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today this guy unexpectedly peeled out of his on-street parking spot without looking as i was riding along in the bike lane. if i had been even a bit distracted when he did that, i would be in the hospital right now. i don't know if he even saw me at any point during this event, just completely unaware of the person he almost maimed with his 3000-pound weapon.
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Oct 7, 2021 02:06
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e-bikers still have a car heart, and will readily come to the assistance of their motorist brethren the second one of them decides to mist the crowd at the bus stop with your blood
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Oct 8, 2021 06:22
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1. i hate ebikes and ebikers 2. i cannot refute their utility as a transit option ... ???
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Oct 9, 2021 01:17
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huh wonder why a professional culture came about that disdains anybody with a droplet of sweat on their brow
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Oct 10, 2021 20:06
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*my date meets me outside the restaurant, their flushed face beaming at me as their toned muscles glisten under the moonlight* "ugh repulsive!!"
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Oct 10, 2021 20:18
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indigi posted:this isn’t the kink thread Dolphin posted:when you ride a bicycle is the seat visible these tubby fops have to ask for the powder room as soon as they walk into the olive garden cuz the walk from the parking lot was too brutal they gotta freshen up
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Oct 10, 2021 22:29
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Oct 10, 2021 22:35
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:flexposts are hilarious because they do literally nothing to prevent car murder but will definitely cause a person on a bike to crash they're great if you like to murder to a beat
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Oct 12, 2021 03:16
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Lastgirl posted:reverse skylift y/n? the tumbler? oh you wouldn't be interested in that mister wayne
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Oct 13, 2021 00:05
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Sorry, a driver obliterated a motorcyclist. that's it, we need to make motorcycles louder
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Oct 13, 2021 16:00
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it used to be that you could get robbed by any old independent entrepreneur. now it's just the one conglomerate monopolizing highway robbery
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Oct 13, 2021 20:17
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che loved cycling and could apparently do it endlessly in spite of his asthma idk that's kinda ableist right?
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Oct 14, 2021 03:11
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Riding on flat ground is pleasant and relaxing. Riding on constant hills is like screaming and fighting the entire way. one must imagine the cyclist happy
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Oct 15, 2021 16:44
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i don't really fear death. in some respects, i may actually welcome it? but good loving god i am terrified of one day being killed in the most stupid way imaginable:
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my 2010 hyundai was in the shop for a bit, so i rented a car in order to get around. it just so happened that the 2020 model of my car was available, so i figured i would drive in luxury for a bit and see what bells and whistles they had added to my ride in the intervening years. i hated it! everything is electronic now and half the interface is through touch screens that hosed up my night vision and forced me to keep looking back at the dashboard in order to do the most mundane poo poo like turn the bass down. the suspension was also wayy too smooth. i couldn't tactilely recognize my neighborhood road at all, the suspension perfectly absorbed every bump and rock in the road that i would've normally felt. it was indeed a smooth ride, but a lot of information that i was passively taking in while driving has been completely engineered away. on the highway i felt like i was getting the beginning stages of vertigo, as if i was just playing an immersive VR game rather than operating a vehicle at deadly speeds. i probably sound like a crotchety old man, but cars shouldn't be this smooth. you should know in your bones that you're interacting with a machine in physical space and it should be continually reminding you of that, not providing you the perfect conditions in which to peacefully fall asleep. all cars must be destroyed.
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Oct 25, 2021 00:08
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNrnwTvNJSQ welcome to lead town
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Oct 26, 2021 15:41
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zegermans posted:I goad my coworkers about this all the time, they just shrug and tell me these trucks have sensors everywhere that beep at you if you're about to annihilate an entire family yeah and they're going off all the loving time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm_fatigue
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Oct 26, 2021 19:32
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'overlanders' and people with lifted trucks explaining why their oversized vehicles are absolutely necessary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh6RLOF3FrE
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Oct 26, 2021 20:11
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seeing a lot of videos of cyclists who don't seem to know the real purpose of a U-lock? (drive-by property destruction)
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Oct 27, 2021 16:59
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ArmZ posted:train good. car bad. today: corn on the tracks tomorrow: deer heads on the tracks
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Oct 29, 2021 19:53
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i am going to start writing a horror movie script about a vigilante similar in style to Jigsaw who selects the house of motorists at random every night and recreates the opening scene of Midsommar. the only way to prevent a visit from the Die-oxide man is to destroy your car
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Oct 31, 2021 20:23
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Suplex Liberace posted:Deck myself out in football gear and punish cars in the bike lane with my body and physics. if you ever get bored during your commute, a good way to kill time is to practice removing your u-lock from its frame holster while riding
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Nov 6, 2021 13:18
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:okay but push the strollers around and instead of dodging it out of the way of a dangerous passer let them hit it and maybe they will feel something  except fill it with bricks
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Nov 6, 2021 21:58
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pointsofdata posted:I saw someone posting a picture of the beautiful nature around that picture and saying it's actually not as bad as it looks??? ah yes, the area so beautiful that a substantial portion of the apocalypse movie The Road was filmed there
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Nov 7, 2021 17:13
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i was in the peace corps when the pandemic hit, got evacuated from my country and stuck in some lovely hotel in a DC suburb with all the other volunteers i was in country with. only things around were fast food joints, but sit in dining was closed at all of them. we had just gotten off a plane so none of us had cars, so while we were in a holding pattern waiting for our chartered flights back home, the only way we could eat outside of continental breakfast was to call ubers to take us through the taco bell drive thru
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Nov 7, 2021 20:17
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i tend to avoid going into convenience stores that don't have bollards in the front because the schadenfreude thread has convinced me every store is just a future parking spot for some old gently caress who mistook the gas pedal for the brake and rocketed their entire sedan through the window at 45 mph
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Nov 8, 2021 00:22
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*fumbles with tangled extension cord for 2 minutes* this is loving ridiculous how can i be expected to manicure the ecological desert in front of my house like this? someone get me a two-stroke
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Nocturtle posted:Of course this is just getting back to the main complaint that cars ruined every city built after they became popular and many pre-existing ones too. city fatally struck by vehicle
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