[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 83 points 1 month ago

SF public transit sits at half a million per day ridership so I'm looking forward to being crammed into a car with about 333 other people

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 74 points 1 month ago

Mandate of Heaven (foreign)

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 75 points 2 months ago

It's insane to me that so many people seem to have a concept of legal loopholes informed entirely by like non-specific-pop-culture. As if it's magic incantations that get power to fuck off instead of like a purposefully built system.

Here's a hot take: all the sovereign citizens and equivalent in other nations are just the average persons general ideas about how the law works cranked to 11. Basically everyone believes in the magic incantation, they just overshot a bit.

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 81 points 2 months ago

I'm genuinely pretty sure the DDR Museum in Berlin is run by socialists who want you to notice this, I swear to god that entire fucking place makes 0 sense otherwise. All the stations are like this, they're describing something good that nominally west germany did or still does but then describe it as bad because the communists did it, it ends with you looking at ginormous flat which it tells you cost the equivalent of 50€ per month or something and that nobody but the the richest 5% of the country could afford in Berlin today, before letting you out via the gift store full of DDR nostalgia to buy. Even all the most unpolitical, co-worker-belief-system people I've went there with caught on to it.

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 81 points 4 months ago

this is a mass shooting, going by commonly accepted definition

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 65 points 5 months ago

Just for the sake of discussion, this is an odd thing to do, right? To repurpose monuments? I feel like you either tear them down wholecloth or have them around as some sort of memorial. To have national pride in a monument, except that one bit, seems so odd.

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 71 points 7 months ago

We're about to get the worst op-eds in recent history in german newspapers

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submitted 8 months ago by 7bicycles@hexbear.net to c/movies@hexbear.net

I mean he's not a leftist. I'm ignoring the constant sexual harassment and latent homophobia that seems to permeate the entire show and pretty much every character here and also that he's like a huge dick, but all his criticisms of people, the system and the world are oddly leftist. Never really noticed when I watched it back in it's heyday.

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How the fuck is all western MREs 30€-a-meal tacticool m4 extrem trail hike: school schooter edition when, going by sold out online listings, I could get a chinese self heating hot pot for like 5 eurodollars?

These things would be insanely convenient to just toss in my bike bag and have a warm vegan meal on a cold days bike ride

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submitted 8 months ago by 7bicycles@hexbear.net to c/music@hexbear.net

When the spotlights to out I'm invisible,
I'm a superstar, baby, you can google that,
My guest bathroom, full of my trophies,
neon coloured outfit so nobody misses me,
broken voice, because I'm talking way to loud,
I've gotta be an individual, otherwise they'll change me out
I'll stand on a table or start to throw fists
Why again is the conversation not about me?

I wave with both arms like a shipbroken man,
if everybody isn't looking I'm not really there,
I have 3 siblings but I am only child,
The only thing, that shuts me up is:

Applause, Applause, Applause,
Applause, Applause, Applause,
Applause, Applause, Applause,
is Applause, Applause, Applause,

Applause is a drug, the first hit comes free
Straight from the delivery room my first word was "me"
"Mama, watch jump this" she says "Super, dear"
"There is no boy on the world that does it as well as you"
Crayon-paintings nicer than the garbage at the louvre
Gold medals for my first attemps maneouvering,
I stare at my watch as soon as other people talk,
and because I can't be seen I'm afraid of the dark

I wave with both arms like a shipbroken man,
if everybody isn't looking I'm not really there,
I have 3 siblings but I am only child,
he only thing, that shuts me up is:

Applause, Applause, Applause,
Applause, Applause, Applause,
Applause, Applause, Applause,
is Applause, Applause, Applause,

My Therapist looks at me and says "mh-mh, aha"
I look forward to my funeral because I'll be the superstar,
Name your children after me and also some streets in berlin,
For this behaviour, they prescribed ritalin, today

Applause, Applause, Applause,
Applause, Applause, Applause,
Applause, Applause, Applause,
is Applause, Applause, Applause,

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I've posted about the buffallo before, which is like a relief aid bicycle for poor nations, but here's Seth of Berm Peaks reviewing it, with details I didn't know hitherto. I posted about it before and it is fascinating to me so here you go.

To give context on seth here, he's quite obviously not a comrade, but he's also not a shit. Ad sponsors, yes, but I'd argue he always does point out you don't need all the expensive shit, it's just nice.

I think this might come as close to the nigh-perfect general purpose post-apocalypse vehicle as you can get. Seems thought-through. But read the other threads for possible critcisms on it.

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There's twelve subsequent parts annoyingly made without a playlist but dude's killing it with these

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submitted 8 months ago by 7bicycles@hexbear.net to c/music@hexbear.net

Apparently an adaption of an old yiddish song, arbetslose marsh. You can hear the similarities.

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 66 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Feels prudent here, quoting from Wiki

The bicycles are custom designed for law enforcement use. Many manufacturers of bicycles offer police models, including Haro, Volcanic, Trek, Cannondale, Fuji, Safariland-Kona, Force, and KHS.

Never buy one new of those manufacturers. There's enough other manufacturers out there that this is very easy to do.

EDIT: Fuji especially by the way, they made big news during the BLM protests that they wouldn't anymore and then quietly resumed it after. To no surprise to anyone but still, if the jellyfish have you beat on spines you deserve ire

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You'd think we're all terrible online debatelords but I don't think any of us could beat 5 consecutive comments of "I see you have no more arguments left, good sir, and shall now disengage" while they're too raving mad to actually pull through

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submitted 9 months ago by 7bicycles@hexbear.net to c/urbanism@hexbear.net

If you read the general internet it's all mobbed up guys stealing cars from law-abiding single mothers for no reason at all but then again if I believed the general public about parking violation enforcement here in germany I'd come to the conclusion they're the new jews.

So how bad is that whole privatized towing / enforcement thing, really? Is there an actual problem beyond "it's a private company" or is it mostly carbrain tears?

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 86 points 9 months ago

consider, however, not dying in a minor fender bender is gay. why you trying to stay alive, to have sex with men?

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You plug this into your bicycle dynamo and out comes electricity to charge your shit with if you're going at least 12kph ~7,5mph.

Very cool for people who do multi day bike tours and having tested one personally: Yeah, rules!

You might have to do some finnicking with a powerbank that doesn't require you to replug it after it stops charging - I mean you're gonna go below 12kph eventually - but hey, you get some volts out of it to keep your phone or whatever other tech going if you're on a multi day ride with sparse outlets

Here's some data if you're into that sort of thing

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submitted 1 year ago by 7bicycles@hexbear.net to c/memes@hexbear.net

I am the downtrodden working poor elitist rich urbanite

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In which some bozo was doing 65kph in a 50kph zone and plowed through a red light that was red for 23 seconds at the point of impact where he killed an 11 year old girl that was crossing it

He got off with 9 months prison suspended and a 6 months driving ban as he argued "the red light was green in his imagination"

motherfucker if that was the case you should be banned from riding a bicycle, too. The fact that this keeps happening and none of the aggrieved parents ever just fucking whack any of thse psychopaths should be considered an enduring miracle by the church

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 88 points 1 year ago

Really feeling the "high priests of capitalism" on this one

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 65 points 1 year ago

What internal logic is this whole thing operating on?

You start at "I want to bang 14 year olds" and work backwards from there

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 66 points 1 year ago

Love to see we've arrived at "Oh just because he was in the Waffen-SS he's a nazi now"

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