Alcoholicorn
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- Comment on Induced Demand 1 day ago:
The question isn’t do helmets reduce the risk of head injury, its “is that reduction worth the inconvenience given this situation”, for example for most people, walking around their own home has a low enough risk of head injury that a helmet isn’t worth it, while riding a motorcycle is, if you have anything to protect.
The total number of accidents and population in those cities helps. The fact that Denmark doesn’t have a helmet law suggests to me that people are expected to have the judgement regarding the risk they’re actually taking.
- Comment on Induced Demand 1 day ago:
Are bike accidents really dangerous when you’re protected from cars and we’re talking about single gear bikes that barely go 10 mph?
- Comment on Induced Demand 1 day ago:
Some bike models have a helmet that sits in the basket, and is supposed to unlock with the bike. But the lock never works, and I asked a worker about it and he was like “don’t worry about it”.
I think nobody bothered to use the helmet because there’s dedicated, usually separated, bike lanes almost everywhere. And then there’s a giant sidewalk you can ride on if you want to go even slower.
- Comment on Sitting in traffic 1 day ago:
Literally the only people in vietnam who use their indicators and take care to avoid bikes. I’m more comfortable lane-splitting between 2 buses than being within 100 feet of a construction vehicle.
- Comment on Sitting in traffic 1 day ago:
shitty big vehicle that is constantly jerking and rumbling
So get better mass transit. Metros in most of asia are comfortable enough to take a nap and significantly faster than cars, and at least in Japan even the buses are smooth enough I can nap.
crowded around strangers
Imagine how much less crowded it would be if so much space wasn’t wasted on car infrastructure.
- Comment on Induced Demand 1 day ago:
Pedestrianized infrastructure tends to be denser since they don’t need parking lots. It often requires more effort to get in your car and drive and park than just walking 100 feet in a place without cars.
China has rideshare bike parking basically on every street, and it costs like 2USD/mo so you can almost always just get on a random bike and use it to go even just 100 feet to get to the subway or bus entrance.
- Comment on What??? Nativity scene with a crucifix in the background? 2 days ago:
Chekov’s Cross.
- Comment on Like a Soulslike bonfire 4 days ago:
In both cases, the gap in the doors is half an inch so you can see who’s shitting.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 4 days ago:
Depends where you are, but I’d advise against presenting as Chinese, chinese tourists have such a bad reputation sometimes you see signs like “no spitting in the dish sink” or “do not put toilet paper in dust bin” exclusively in chinese in hostels. Which indicates behavior expected of Chinese tourists
Across asia, I get curious looks rather than any hostility. I kinda winder what the american was doing that drew so much attention, if they weren’t making it up for content.
- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 1 week ago:
If the DNC gets their way, it’ll be your only option. Then in 2030 we lose congress again and 2032 we get another Trump.
- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 1 week ago:
Thats not going to happen. The small capitalists and other cult members are simply going to stay home on election day if Trump continues to fuck up.
If the dems do manage to materially improve people’s lives, or at least create the perception of helping them, then the dem base will come out to vote.
The only way the dems could fuck this up is if they run on centrist bullshit chasing republican votes, again.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Wait until you learn about the UN’s role in the Korean war.
- Comment on Anon argues on reddit 1 week ago:
But everybody mocks the man-child who has single-handedly disproven the myth of meritocracy while being so unlikable even other pedophiles stopped inviting him to their parties.
That guy must have his hands full.
- Comment on Anon argues on reddit 1 week ago:
Lol how did you get that dedicated of a hater?
- Comment on Antiwoke Straight of Hormwin 1 week ago:
How bad would the radiation actually be?
- Comment on cigs w/o u 1 week ago:
Come to Asia.
- Comment on Everytime 1 week ago:
- Comment on What the fuck is going on with Iran and what will happen next? 1 week ago:
The leader we just killed had issued a fatwa against nukes. Whether the new leader will see things the same way remains to be seen.
- Comment on What the fuck is going on with Iran and what will happen next? 1 week ago:
Its not quite accurate to say bombing alone, yhe only condition Japan had when they tried to surrender before the bombs was the emporer, and that would have gone away as the Soviets got closer.
- Comment on Finally, an optimal monitor configuration! 1 week ago:
Where are you getting so many 1:1 monitors?
- Comment on 18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft? 1 week ago:
God that must have been bleak, watching the USSR collapse, congress burning on TV, followed by years of hunger and finding out you might get sent to die for some oligarchs in Russia in Chenchnya.
- Comment on Anon misses flash 1 week ago:
Adobe went from “You should implement your entire website in flash, see how modern and unique you can make it!” to “We’re terminating flash in a year”
- Comment on Old Yeller Style 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Old Yeller Style 2 weeks ago:
She then tried to kill a goat, maimed the goat, and realized she didn’t have enough ammo so she goes to her car to get more ammo, while the goat is wailing in pain infront of a construction crew.
Then she has to explain to her kids what happed to their pet puppy and goat.
Then she used this anecdote to show what a great leader she was in her book.
- Comment on A modest proposal 3 weeks ago:
Right wingers literally think the US won every single war its fought. Even when it accomplished none of its objectives.
- Comment on Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst 3 weeks ago:
Any northern country is disqualified as they know how to drive in snow. The worst drivers have to be a place that doesn’t get regular snow and rain.
I’ve had people say Vietnam is the worst, but everyone rides slow, are riding from a very young age, and are prepared for literally anything to happen on the road at any minute. The issue isn’t skill, it’s that they’re on hardmode, riding overloaded crap bikes with crap rubber while simultaneously texting, smoking, and drinking. They perform much better than I could in the same situation.
- Comment on Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst 3 weeks ago:
You got at least a month before irregular rains, and 2 months before the wet season actually starts.
- Comment on Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst 3 weeks ago:
Florida literally has a monsoon season where it goes from sunny to pouring to sunny around the same time every day for like 4 months.
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 3 weeks ago:
But she never would say no, you know, because of the implication.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
“No you can’t consent to that”
