7bicycles

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[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 10 points 6 hours ago

Writing this article for The Atlantic is a constestable point, but I also believe it misses the core of the problem here

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 6 points 6 hours ago

The funny thing about parking for stores is the libertarian approach arrives at the same end goal as the communist one, albeit you do have to be a principled libertarian

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 5 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

I don't think this is as much as specialized knowledge issue as it is that normal people are frightingly technologically illiterate considering how much is computers. I mean this is not a hard concept to grasp at laymans architectural level

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 11 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Supermarkets in germany have started to do this around 2 years back or so. You can park there only for a certain time and if you show a proof of time of parking via a parking clock (it's a whole thing, not important) or you get private company fined. You can clear the fine if you go to the subcontractor with your receipt.

Anyways, it produces some incredible malding in car drivers who are pro private property

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago

I think the last point is kinda what sets Keynes apart from most other capitalist thinkers - the boom bust circle as acknowledged instead of pretending you can make line go up, forever

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

For those frightened of AI, we would enforce the Asimov rules of Robotics

It comes as little surprise but this simply is not how an LLM works or could ever work

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 25 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I think the funnier option would be there's fair & square elections and trump still wins. OECD watched and all. How you gonna say no?

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 14 points 2 days ago

Breaking News: DOGE responsible for the first time anyone ever pays attention to the US Institute of Peace

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

90s steel frame MTB, knock off surly corner bars, done

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They pay for OSM Data because they're making profits off of it you mean

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No, RETVRN to baked in lighting

 

Instead of saying "thems the breaks", say "thems the rim-brakes".

Instead of saying "I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place", say "I'm stuck between an SUV and also another, larger, SUV"

Instead of saying "as the crow flies", say "as the flying pigeon rides"

Instead of saying "bite the bullet", say "mount the schwalbe marathon"

Instead of saying "Cutting corners", say "cutting corners (on a bicycle)"

Instead of saying "Go back to the drawing board", say "Go back to the bicycle workshop"

Instead of saying "It's not rocket science", say "It's not retrodirect chainline"

Instead of saying "no pain, no gain", say "Don't ride upgrades, ride up grades"

Instead of saying "pull yourself together", say "Pull your peloton together"

Instead of saying "best of both worlds", say "gravel bike"

Instead of saying "don't get bent out of shape," say "don't be a steelframe"

Instead of saying "A penny saved is a penny earned", say "a gram saved is a gram earned"

Instead of saying "A picture is worth 1000 words", say "a pedalstroke is worth 1000 steps"

Instead of saying "Add insult to injury", say "add chainless drive to a vanmoof"

Instead of saying "Don't cry over spilt milk", say "Don't cry over spilt sealant"

 

Historically, there's a lot of overlap of companies that did bicycles but also guns. It's basically the same "small scale" metallurgy that makes it work. As I've noted too many times before it's odd that in every apocalyptic scenario nobody ever thinks to use a bicycle, it becomes especially egregious once somehow post apocalyptic gunsmithing enters the mix and still no bicycles. That's the same skillset!

 

It's a disco elysium fancam made so well I consider that segment from 1:05 min onwards to be canon because it is so fucking good

 

Slogan from the german speaking left, now seemingly having largely fallen out of favor, for poking fun at the police and military

 

Haha yeah I'm a huge fan of glock. Runs pretty expensive tho, lol! But quality is worth it. Just joined a "shooters" ;) club. Also a great way to connect with my wife and daughters, to be honest, would've never expected it!

 

Listen, if I was in charge of $random_geopolitical_issue things would've gone a lot differently. Don't ask me what I would've done differently or, god forbid, how. It just would've. I would've done something to set right the injustices suffered by my nation. I am also going to weave and bob any question as to what specifically this would entail, on account of I am not educated enough to make this call, but my trusted advisory council of experts, of which I have 0 idea of how any of them got there or what their qualifications are, would've concocted up the solution that finally propels my state into the global hegemons and makes everybody love me.

 

You got your 5 basic senses; taste, sight, touch, smell and sound

and then you get further into it and there's like position.

And then you get further into it and there's like "position relative to your other positions, removed from everything else"

And then you get further into it and there's like "your hormones do something iunno"

And then, I propse, a bunch of Estonians stumbled upon even more advanced senses by way of inframaterialism. They fucking cracked the code on all the subconsciously influenced senses. They're all your senses filtered through your some parts of your uncionscousness. Shivers is the gut feeling you get when the bar fight turns sour. Esprit de Corps is when you notice your organisational circle acting out. These are common, human experiences!

 

So much of EDC seems to be centered around either surviving alone in the woods for days or alternatively using your tactical pen to stab a terrorist to death and John McClane the building. I'm John Suburban and my EDC includes a gun, a ferrorod and a tacpen with built in seatbelt slicer and window breaker (none of which I ever trained to use, but am assured will use competently after a flip over car crash into a body of water).

Which is a shame, because I think EDC stuff is cool. Little nifty tools! What do the denizens of this here website chapo.chat like for non chud EDC applications?

I'll start off with some favourites,

  • a small AA-powered flashlight by EOLite (self-explanatory I think)
  • a Gerber Dime (basically one of those small swiss army knives but the pliers are a nice touch for a lot of things, like not touching the garbage juice)
  • a keychain presta-to-schrader adapter to reinflate my bicycle tyres at any given gas station, should the need arise

Currently also building a bicycle EDC-Pouch where space isn't limited to pocket size, would love to hear what other people use.

 

I got one of those surly cornerbars (offbrand) and they're fucking great, would recommend to everyone. Easily the most comfy handlebars I've ever owned.

Also currently trying to piece together the perfect small size at most medium weight bicycle EDC pouch to chuck in my panniers so I can field repair my entire shit and also help other people.

Pretty sure I'll put some bar ends in there just to slap them into random bicycles so people don't core sample themselves. I am the velocipedal crusader, you will be saved from doctors having to extract a tubular 21mm cross section of yourself so they can figure out what the fuck you managed to lose because you didn't think to put 50 eurodollarcents of bar ends on your stuff.

 

Just basically anthing that isn't recreation, hobby, education for educations sake and such. Just your job and household chores, repairs, errands if they're not hobby related and such

 

taken from /r/fuckcars: https://old.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/1g1vt88/there_is_no_trolley/

Also it plays onto one of my major I-come-across-a-crank points, societally the trolley problem is solved: it's your fault for being tied to the tracks instead of driving the biggest trolley

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