Mercedes driver sentenced to 30 days in jail for beating a cyclist unconscious after he complained about his parking in a bike lane

Please don't learn from this. Jail and prison are synonymous in most of the English speaking world. The article also doesn't use the word jail and the English wikipedia article on Prison in Ukraine uses "jail" as a synonym for "prison". As far as I know "jail" as specifically pre-trial remand is a strictly American thing, and this didn't happen in America.

Why assume his tone is rude? He made two statements that seem factually correct and weren’t rude. Remember that this is the internet and tone doesn’t exist. If you read it as rude maybe that’s a you thing and not a them thing.

I like cars. Love driving. I still think cities should be walkable and have good public transit. In fact I prefer driving outside big cities.

Fuckcars has always been "fuck car dependence" mostly.

You can think cars are problem while acknowledging aspects they are necessary in. Off road on a bike is ludicrously difficult, impossible on trains or busses, and dangerous at times on foot.

Acknowledging it as the problem is a fallacy, acknowledging as a tool is important. You use the right tool for the job, not the most convenient. The issue is that we live in a society that sees vice grips as good enough for the job, and anything as a hammer. Using the right tool is important but laziness is easiest.

Literally responded to another comment already: just because I like cars doesn't mean I favour car dependency or car-centric city design. Those are the things this community used to be against, not me driving between towns that will never receive a direct rail connection.

Also subs are a reddit thing, why use that terminology here?

I personally meant 80s, 90s and 00s as my favourite periods, but okay. Let's go with that logic.

The Deutsche Reichsbahn was used to transport Jewish people to concentration camps, and the current Deutsche Bahn is a successor. Should Germans protest trains then?

Actually, matter of fact, Škoda tech was extensively used by the nazis (both Škoda tanks and guns, in fact), so really I can't take the train here in Estonia anymore either, I might catch a Škoda by accident..

For distances outside of bicycle reach, that leaves me Uyghur genocide flavored cars, hypercapitalist corporatocracy flavored cars (South Korea consists of like 3 companies, one of them being Hyundai and Kia), Hirohito cars and buses (some bus services here use Isuzu), or nazi cars and buses. Or I guess Mussolini cars and Trump cars, but who wants anything Italian or American anyway.

If you consider historic ties of different companies to dictatorships that ended 80 years ago, you can honestly be left unable to use any mode of transport other than a bicycle, depending on where you live. Don't get me wrong, I love bicycles, I used to willingly cycle 15 km to gym (and then 15 km back) as a teenager instead of taking the bus. But a lot of the time, bicycles aren't practical, and nearly every car, train or bus company has been at some point connected to some dictatorship.

That's what any rich and entitled person would say.

A former boss of mine who owned his (very large and expensive) house plus three other houses that he rented out, plus 51% stakes in two companies which were both worth at least €10mio each also claimed that he's "upper middle class" and that the things he feels entitled to are just what regular middle class people are entitled to.

The video you linked had a clip of the assailant with what looks like a mansion and several luxuries from a previous video. It definitely seems like this is a rich person.

What about the video makes you think he is not rich?

No it doesn't, you don't have to wait for it to empty and remove the stem. Just loosen it a bit.

Tire stem/valve tool

It may put bikers in danger though, because you force them to move out of the bike path into the car lane.

blocking a bike lane isn’t likely to put someone in immediate danger

If that were true, we wouldn't need bike lanes in the first place

They yelled at them of course! /S

In response to

Cyclists should keep a nice, long screw in their bag

One violent attack doesn’t justify an arms race.

You can choose whichever you like but I’m more comfortable risking getting run over by one than the other

Importantly this was in a city.

• car traffic was constant
• they had just gone down to one car lane to support a bus lane and bicycle lane - stopping in the car lane would have been out in the middle of everything and a much bigger obstruction I would have been standing in the bus lane to change my tire rather than the sidewalk
• because of how busy, Nobody was going to be zooming by. cyclists were not at risk

And how does that work against a fighting dog? Sure I can see it working on a small dog but not really had a problem with them. At least rabies isn't a problem here I suppose.