AchtungDrempels
@AchtungDrempels@lemmy.world
- Comment on Pros / cons of riding a bike? 2 weeks ago:
Broken collar bone, the classic.
Sorry if i came off rude, i am just so over people claiming that every kind of cycling is dangerous and all that can save you is a helmet.
I mentioned in another comment that there is a dutch study that finds the helmeted rider to be more than 25 times more likely to end up in a hospital. 25 times more likely. Obviously roadies and MTBers. I am absolutely not saying people should stop road or mountain biking, even that is not all that dangerous and practitioners don’t all end up dead or crippled sooner or later.
But if a person is just casually cycling without a helmet, they are doing much more for their safety than those sporty riders with helmets. Somehow this then always gets countered with “i know someone who fell on his head while stationary and is now being spoonfed by his loved ones. No, he didn’t have clips / clipless pedals”. Made up bullshit in 99.9% of cases, i have seen this in almost every helmet topic i have read.
- Comment on Pros / cons of riding a bike? 2 weeks ago:
Wear a helmet for whatever activity that you’d like one for, just don’t call people stupid and silly if they have experiences and conclusions.
- Comment on Pros / cons of riding a bike? 2 weeks ago:
There is also this interesting dutch study, where somehow helmeted cyclists were 25 times more likely to end up in a hospital. Of course the reason for that never comes up as something problematic from the side of our solely safety concerned citizens, they will congratulate you for your new speed record down that hill.
- Comment on Pros / cons of riding a bike? 2 weeks ago:
And your friends don’t get annoyed?
I hope you also posted one of those wonderful “today the helmet saved my life” topics on reddit so the community could get together for their daily service.
- Comment on Pros / cons of riding a bike? 2 weeks ago:
I also don’t wear a helmet when i walk down the stairs of my appartment. Is that stupid and silly too, or for some reason just fine? I don’t think riding a bicycle, which you learn at three years old, is necessarily a dangerous activity.
- Comment on Pros / cons of riding a bike? 2 weeks ago:
the religiosity with which people proselytize helmets is misplaced.
It’s feel very much religion like, but also an online phenomenon only. IRL the helmet discussion goes like this for me: “You don’t wear a helmet?” “No.”
The topic coming up is super rare too, while on every picture of a cyclist without a helmet on the internet you got all these comments from helmet fundamentalists going nuts over it.
- Comment on Pros / cons of riding a bike? 2 weeks ago:
Not really for casual cycling and commuting.
- Comment on Pros / cons of riding a bike? 2 weeks ago:
No it’s not. Believing the helmet is the sole saviour is stupid.
- Comment on The lemmy.ml Problem 3 weeks ago:
Where did it go, where did you post it to?
- Comment on The lemmy.ml Problem 3 weeks ago:
I wonder what your “call out” looked like that then actually got you temp banned from all those communities, have you laid that open anywhere too?
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
That’s a really hungry carnist.
- Comment on Any plans to refederate with lemmygrad when client side instance blocking will be available? 5 months ago:
Yeah i see. I didn’t ask because i wanted to read more political discussions, i am just interested in the pigeon community. It’s small but seems nice.
I guess i should have read more through the original topic where lemmy.world admins announced the defederation, they say in there somewhere deep in the comments that they would not refederate. At first i only read that they said they’d be blocking now (then) and not wait for client side blocking to be implemented, so i thought i’d ask.
- Comment on Any plans to refederate with lemmygrad when client side instance blocking will be available? 5 months ago:
If i’m not mistaken you should be able to block instances now i have not had a look at it because lemmy.world is still on v 0.18.
- Comment on Any plans to refederate with lemmygrad when client side instance blocking will be available? 5 months ago:
Oh, i thought that was introduced with v 0.19? And that is what lemm.ee is running on?
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- Comment on How have you personally found the Lemmy community compared to its competition and other social media? 5 months ago:
I may have made a rude comment that is visible on my first user page but that is generally not my style.
I also did not complain about lemmy being toxic, or more toxic than reddit, i said that compared to reddit, i am seeing a lot more angry people and toxic discussion because i look further than just my niche interests since they have hardly any traffic. That is still my honest take on the topic.
- Comment on How have you personally found the Lemmy community compared to its competition and other social media? 5 months ago:
I am reading a lot more toxic discussion and really angry people here on lemmy than i did on reddit, which makes me sometimes think i might be at the wrong place. I blocked some of the communities that pull american politics in my feed but still. On reddit, i was good reading just my niche interest subs, but there is very little traffic here for niche stuff, so i end up reading the crazy talk too.
- Comment on Unable to upload photos/photos disappearing? 7 months ago:
I can’t upload photos either.
- Comment on Can’t make a photo post 9 months ago:
Pretty sure they are just not allowing image uploads right now, nothing to do with image size i’m sure. Would be neat to have it mentioned somewhere though.
- Comment on Can’t make a photo post 9 months ago:
This also affects uploads for, say, an icon for a community.