Tidesphere
@Tidesphere@lemmy.world
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
You know, it probably is confirmation bias, being honest. Though the culture could be terrible. But I honestly for the life of me cannot remember the last time I ever saw a biker stop at a stop sign, or a light. Though I do remember a hand turn signal a time or two though.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
I think those are a lot of good points
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
I could definitely do that, and I probably should.
Also, haha, curb your frustration.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
Like, a lot of their behavior seems to be centered around gaining respect and focusing on having car drivers defer to bikes, while bikes slough off responsibility and behave dangerously.
For example, bike lanes. I, as a person who primarily drives a car, believe that what should happen is that the curb should be extended into the road, and bike lanes put up, on the curb, next to the sidewalk. If the goal is mitigating harm in the event of accident, then placing bikes beyond the curb will be the safest movement, rather than having them be a dedicated lane literally in the road. Having them be, ideally, up on the curb in their own dedicated lane is the safest solution we can come up with. The second, is that if there is no dedicated lane, they should be on the sidewalk not on the street.
We can do the math on collisions. A soft body going under 15 miles per hour with high alertness and high reaction time (a biker) is less likely to collide with another soft body going under 5 miles per hour with high alertness and high reaction time (a pedestrian), and if they do happen to collide, the injury will be very minimal.
But a soft body going under 15 miles per hour colliding with a 2 ton metal machine going 30 mph with lower reaction time (a car) is going to be more likely and lead to far more intense injuries for the biker.
But for some reason bike advocates don’t want the safer option, they want to be in the road. They want to be in the road with the cars while cars give them deference and while also completely ignoring traffic laws that vehicles on the road are meant to be following, including them.
I live in a large metro area, and I have not once seen a biker follow any kind of traffic laws. They don’t stop at stop signs, they don’t indicate turns, they don’t even stop at stop lights. They swerve out of the bike lane, into the crosswalk so that they can count as ‘pedestrians’ and then swerve back into the bike lane once they’ve gotten to the other side.
And given that, legally speaking, if there is any collision between my car and a biker, I am automatically considered at fault because I’m operating a motor vehicle, I want there to be as little chance of that as possible.
Like, I’ve got a long rant going here, but don’t get me wrong, what I want is for my town to be safer for bicycle travel, and for all of us to reduce our dependency on cars for travel, but when I see the way bikers behave it makes it hard for me to believe that that’s what they want.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
Honestly, if you told me bike lobbyists were putting in spoilers to advocate for nonsense instead of clear common sense solutions I would believe you.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
The biggest road block getting in the way of bike activism and expanded safety and spread of non-car transportation is the bike activists themselves behaving inconsistently and demanding strange, contradictory rulesets and concessions.
- Comment on the Home Alone house then and now 2 weeks ago:
God it’s like Marceline the Vampire Queen ate it
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 5 weeks ago:
Fuckin love Mushishi
- Comment on Lomg Sleeve T-Shirt 5 weeks ago:
That’s legit, I’ve been there
- Comment on Lomg Sleeve T-Shirt 5 weeks ago:
“Long sleeved T-Shirt”?
- Comment on When will the all white home with grey floors trend be over? 1 month ago:
Honestly I’ve started thinking the House Reno videos I see online are pure rage bait. I see so many videos of people coming in and tearing out good quality materials, beautiful structures with personality, warmth, and color. They tear all of this out and make everything bland, boring, soulless grey and white. The comments sections are always absolutely flooded with people raging about how awful it looks compared to what it was before and the owners responding all smug like “whatcha gonna do about it? Our place our rules”
- Comment on Breaking: BAD 5 months ago:
Potentially? In my experience people will flame you hard for not liking BB. Usually when people bring it up, if I mention I didn’t care for it, they get irrationally pissed.
One person even tried to tell me that the reason I didn’t like it was “because you’re young yet”. Like mf I’m in my 30s
- Comment on Breaking: BAD 5 months ago:
I stopped after the first season, when they repeated the same plot in a row, I just kinda shrugged and moved on.
- Comment on Scandal 8 months ago:
Oh, word? I never knew about that
- Comment on Scandal 8 months ago:
Definitely not surprised. Just amused that the first of hopefully many reveals
Is this
- Comment on Scandal 8 months ago:
Oh yeah, I am in no way saying he wasn’t up to gross shit.
I guess I just find it funny that Maga is constantly saying “Well what if Bill Clinton is in the Files? What then?”
And this is the first we find out about his involvement.
- Comment on Scandal 8 months ago:
Oh hey Maga was right
Bill Clinton is in the Epstein files.
- Comment on Anon's in trouble 1 year ago:
Am I reading the right article? I read the entire wiki article linked above and, quite honestly, the part you’ve quoted here is the only piece that even approaches being gruesome, and is very medically sanitized. What are people referring to when they say that the descriptions made them want to vomit and all this stuff?
- Comment on What game surprised you with their length? 1 year ago:
With the decision that we needed to play the Kingdom Hearts mobile game to fully understand KH3, I’m starting to not like Square telling us we need to play so many different games to get how KH plot was
- Comment on Is it time to start a campaign against kernel-level anticheat? 1 year ago:
I have not noticed any meaningful change in the amount of cheating that I experience.
- Comment on What game surprised you with their length? 1 year ago:
Final Fantasy 12
I had just come off of FFX while running through all the FF games that I could. With FF12, I got to a point where I had a solid amount of freedom and did a bunch of side quests and stuff. Then the next portion of the story takes you to this mountain, and I thought, ah cool, this looks like “new base” material. They lay out new information about the plot and then the next stop is to assault an air ship.
Kick ass, I think. This is probably roughly the story equivalent of the assault on Bevelle from FFX, you go in, fight your way through, a cinematic happens and the thrust of the story changes, new info drops, motivations change and are renewed just like in FFX.
Nope. You get to the boss on that ship, it’s some dude you have little to no investment in fighting. You kick his ass, he transforms, easy fight, and the game just ends.
I sat in actual open mouthed disbelief. There was no way the game ended there, at what I felt was dramatically and game time wise to be the obvious mid point. And yet, there the credits rolled.
I was so disappointed.
- Comment on Is it time to start a campaign against kernel-level anticheat? 1 year ago:
We could add the fact that they don’t work to the campaign. Why bother using them if there’s just as much cheating happening?