there's quite the b-story to arhus12's comment about assigning cars the sentience of a horse
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You're missing out. The chinese got the better dental plan, but true pros do it for the russians - their non denominational christmas partys are insane
you do this voluntarily?
The whole thing is pretty consistent if you're on board with "Working 80 hour weeks at the puppy kicking factory vs. starve to death" is a free choice. Friedman here isn't wrong about the quote, he's much more wrong on a much deeper level
It truly is incredible how the Wehrmacht, composed of nothing but unwillingly conscripted medics, truck drivers and radio operators, managed to take over so much of europe
germany is kind of internally balkanized in the sense that it's a very much federal euro state. this also means it does not work, which at least I think contributes greatly to everyone going "welp, time to hitler"
It's the mind product of early twenty swedish men, so perfect intersection of having little qualms about showing hog (swede) and finding dicks funny (guy in his early 20s)
this is part of what I like to call accounting extremism where it makes sense on paper, if you save 0,01 eurodollars a pen you probably save like 5000 eurodollars a year or so. It's just it does not consider anything that does not fit neatly into a single line KPI in an excel table, like "does this organisation still work"
You can trace the EU back to the 1952 coal and steel common market agreement. Hell, the EU does this, EU day is on the day that one was signed, not the actual EU. And it'll always be that, at heart.
I also think one of the funnier facts about the EU is that all its greatest fans constantly tout the Schengen Agreement as this grand thing, dissolving borders and such. And it is cool, don't get me wrong, but it also predates the actual EU and isn't actually linked to the EU.
tiktok is the only format where creed excels because it has good soundbites, but terrible everything else. "Hold me now I'm six feet from the edge and I'm slipping" makes a good 10 second soundbite to suggest something more in the style tiktok and other very short form content has, where the idea isn't a whole video about it, it's the suggestion, the vibe of a very particular situation
so is that dr. pilk? drilk pepper?
Pictured here is a Van Raam, who make some other bicycles for people with disabilities, but they're hardly the only one. I think it's cool people are doing things like this. They are, sadly, rather pricey.
You get a nice box in the back or whatever but it's not really THAT much bigger than a box you could fit on any old regular bicycle
You can plop like two children there but then you can do that with Long Johns and 3-wheelers and such, too and ALSO you have the fuckoff-big box. They don't really seem all that shorter than comparable versions either.
Anyone got one or know why someone got one?
A Randonneur is a long distance travel bike just for context.
The VSF stuff is usually solid, albeit entirely too heavy, but I gotta say, a randonneur in british racing green? I want one.
Just noticed I've never heard them discussed here. Surly basically invented them and called them the Corner Bars, but given it's "bits of metal pipes" you can get some without the name branding now. They're supposed to give you like a drop bar-esque experience except without changing out all the controls and most likely drivetrain, so if you ever wanted to try one, maybe this is interesting for you. You might have to readjust some cables or hydraulic lines.
I post this here because I feel like "how do I convert my flat bar into a drop bar" is a very common question in the bicycle world and while it is possible, it is often sort of not very advisable unless you like wrenching on your bike
Been meaing to post about this, this a reconstruct of some fossil in the Rhineland-Palatinate which, for obvious reasons, made quite the rounds on the german internet for a while
I mean look at it. It's great. Reportedly the scientific artists responsible for this picture was quite pleased with it getting meme'd
Correct, yes I do, stop reminding me because then I am reminded of all the times i have to hear some drivel about rules based international order, rogue states or racism from someone who doesn't
Yes, this is from /r/fixedgearbicycle
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