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- Comment on "Science isn't political!" 1 day ago:
Everything is political, and there has never been a time that proves that better than now.
- Comment on Me watching someone on Lemmy getting cooked for having the same opinion as me: 1 day ago:
Or they can communicate just fine but ride on a pike of assumptions about the other person that aren’t true so they just keep talking past each other.
- Comment on Me watching someone on Lemmy getting cooked for having the same opinion as me: 1 day ago:
WTF are you doing standing back and letting them get roasted? Get in there!
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Vegan here, no not really. The energy industry just needed a scapegoat for soy subsidies and overproduction.
- Comment on Bet you wish you had one of these in your car 1 week ago:
I never understood how one was supposed to clean one of these out.
- Comment on Adulting 1 week ago:
This is in my city.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It was really funny about a decade back watching the entire bike industry acknowledge friction coefficients all at once, and suddenly the tires all went from 24mm/90psi to 38mm/40psi. All because the roadies started riding on gravel.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Steel is real. The road feel difference between carbon and steel is negligible, steel is usually way cheaper, survives a whole lot longer, is more often built to widely compatible standards, is fully recyclable, and in my humble opinion just straight up feels better under you on a ride. As for weight, unless one is a pro race cyclist there is never any reason to chase gram shavings, you will almost always lose more weight and go faster by working out your own body. But FWIW my steel frame is 19 pounds and competes on weight with most carbon builds.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
There’s a bell curve. If you burn out too quick you’re not gonna get nearly as much cardio, and the torque required to move a real clunker is extra stress on your joints. Plus it’s just not as much fun, cycling is a sustainable exercise largely because it’s fun. But it’s very true that a good workout bike can be had for $100 if you look. My two workout bikes were both built in the 90s (They’re fancy but that’s besides the point).
- Comment on Shoutout to yall 1 week ago:
Governance isn’t “someone else”, it’s all of us organized. We’ve already bought into the propaganda of rugged individualism, by design it doesn’t work, all it nets is the self-loathing that I don’t think you realize you’re now uncritically projecting onto your entire species without even considering that I might fundamentally disagree with such cynicism. I’m not interested in circling the drain with people trained into preoccupation with personal, there are real things that can be done to cut off the problem at the source. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle must be aimed by our collective effort at concentrations of power.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
The cycling community has a word for those guys: Freds.
- Comment on Shoutout to yall 2 weeks ago:
Littering is fucking gross and people who pick up trash are heroes but let’s also also consider how much of that trash generation was ever necessary or even convenient in the first place. If your consumable product has two or three layers of wrapping, or even one if that layer is of marginal utility, then maybe we should be rethinking our use of those things until the people who are manufacturing them are convinced to the same degree. Or something.
- Comment on Shoutout to yall 2 weeks ago:
One of my biggest gamble wins: Guy in van at a stop sign threw an empty cigarette pack out of his car window right in front of the path of my bike, I picked it up and tossed it back through his window right into his lap as he’s mid-way through lighting. His surprise breaks not into anger but a self-effacing chuckle and he shrugs his shoulders at me in acknowledgement. Do not try this.
- Comment on Shoutout to yall 2 weeks ago:
A lot of cities have been convincing themselves through selective studies that removing trash cans makes people litter less, because those cities don’t want to pay for updated cans or sanitation service. Which completely neglects the majority of people who don’t litter, do use trash cans, and pay a lot of tax money for government services like sanitation.
- Comment on Fascism bad. 2 weeks ago:
I credit an intense compassion for animals and resulting veganism to my autism.
Just wanted to put that in the thread without making it a direct response to anyone. Sometimes it can be incredibly alienating and disconcerting to encounter people online who say they can’t be vegan because they’re autistic. It’s a very diverse spectrum with a multitude of manifestations, and I’d like to go on record as proof that it swings toward the positive and not just the negative.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 3 weeks ago:
She’s a lefty twitch streamer who’s usually on in the mornings, mostly does reacts to current event stuff with some light context discussion, is one of the people Ethan Klein has tried to bully with lawsuits.
Th3Discourse with Majority Report contributor Brandon Sutton is another cozy lefty morning twitch stream.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 3 weeks ago:
I’ll stop yelling at the cloud when it stops tripling my electric bill!
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 3 weeks ago:
The only place I hear anything about that guy is on lefty podcasts and streams, I tend to avoid most social media so I’m not exactly tapped in to that shit but it kind of feels like the reactive coverage is his biggest boost. I tune in to chapo and hasan and friedland and denims and seder and holy shit I’m so sick of hearing about this irrelevant fucked up kid.
- Comment on Finally, taxpayer dollars put to a good use 3 weeks ago:
NYPD all wear cameras, they cant present it as evidence if they want to be taken seriously.
- Comment on Finally, taxpayer dollars put to a good use 3 weeks ago:
So yeah, zero mention of rocks.
And I wouldn’t take the fact that the cops went to the hospital as evidence of anything, that is very by the book whenever NYPD wants to claim assault on an officer.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I remember the first season or two that it was out, it was too stressful for me to watch. I had just never seen any fiction until that point which had that level of consistent, nonstop manic trainwreck quality to it.
- Comment on In the Green Zone 3 weeks ago:
Hypnotize / Mesmerize easy listening version.
- Comment on Sell your RAM, and quickly go from COD to the real world. 4 weeks ago:
Looking at ebay for guns cheapass but fully functional AR-patterns seem to start around $400 these days.
- Comment on Next round on you! 4 weeks ago:
You’re about to get mad at him for taking so long but then you realize it’s only because he was having trouble carrying a dozen pints.
- Comment on Word up 4 weeks ago:
They were so expensive at their peak and I’m convinced it was due almost as much to raw amount of material as it was their popularity.
- Comment on Word up 4 weeks ago:
No no, I voluntarily moved on to skinny jeans around 2005. Don’t worry, I eventually voluntarily moved on from those too.
- Comment on Annon relfects on W doing it for the love of the game 5 weeks ago:
Yet it was on the same descending progression we are on now, relatively speaking it felt the same then as now, and if we continue down this spiral without annihilating ourselves the next one will make trump look just like dubya.
- Comment on Annon relfects on W doing it for the love of the game 5 weeks ago:
> Created ICE
> Created TSA (No fly list, porno scanners, etc)
> Created the Patriot Act
> Created No Child Left Behind Act (Left lots of children behind) > Lied to invade Iraq (Hundreds of thousands dead, inspired ISIS, Abu Ghraib)
> Lied to invade Afghanistan (Hundreds of thousands dead again)
> Botched Hurricane Katrina response, domestic humanitarian disaster
> Emboldened a wave of evangelicism that dulled American culture for years
> Normalized state torture in the west at Guantanamo
> Halliburton > Vice President shot a guy
> Greatly expanded NSA domestic surveillance and FISAThese are just the big ones off the top of my head, I could go on.
- Comment on Annon relfects on W doing it for the love of the game 5 weeks ago:
It’s definitely leveraging the present moment to create a myth of relative harm that serves to sanitize the past.
- Comment on Annon relfects on W doing it for the love of the game 5 weeks ago:
Katrina