Man everything you wrote here sucks and I'm sorry you've had to experience all that. Riding isn't a "if" you crash, its a "when" you crash thing.
Even still, I find it preferable to being in a box isolated from the environment. Then it's just more detached television. Being a part of the environment helps me feel alive.
I hate how loud the bikes gotta be. I'm right there with you, trust me. If there were more riders and people were just intuitively aware of bikes, like in SE Asia (it doesn't need to be a river of riders, just more commonplace than now), then I think we could move past it towards something rational.
Currently it's the best I can do. I'm a sub of this community, I fucking hate cars, hence, riding whenever possible as I don't have the option of public transit to cover my bases in my area. I've been the guy trying to keep riders conscious as they lay in the pavement, more than a few times. It's not a fond set of memories. And I really don't want to take a turn either.
Riders don't necessarily like their rides that loud either, and obviously they don't need to be, except it's their number 1 defense on the road.
Drivers do not pay well enough attention, and especially in America, aren't used to having riders all around them, or even ever consciously looking for riders. If a motorbike isn't heard, it isn't seen, and that creates a scene.
Let me tell ya, after being almost hit 5 dozen times even tho my bike is the loudest thing within 100m I can come off not giving a single fuck about anybody on or near that road either, but it's not out of some crassness, it's about me not being murdered by every Lexus or Mercedes that's too important to be bothered to use a turn signal or check their fucking mirrors.
It FLABBERGASTS me that people get on internet forums knowing anyone could be from anywhere and have ulterior motives and not run everything thru the very basic filter of "qui bono", which is latin for Who benefits? The double tap is "Follow the money."
If the opinions put across lead to a conclusion that politically oppositional countries would find beneficial...guess what...you're talking to someone on their payroll. Or worse, you're talking to useful idiot doing the job for free.
I've called out hundreds of shills over the past few years. Hundreds. The only rational way to look at opinions online is askance.
There's a new word for you, it's personally my favorite, so remember it, use it, love it, spread it, and apply it to the internet. And tell others to do so as well.
Progress is never a flat line. Incrementalism only exist to erode our rights, not gain them. Rights are cemented hard and fast with a pen stroke. Incrementalism is the 10000 lawsuits chipping away at it one nib le at a time. 50 years of that and look, Roe gets overturned.
Which is why their trying to knee-cap the internet.
Experience guides my way; anything a politician says before or after "think of the children" has nothing to do with actual childrens safety and everything to do with undermining your constitutional rights
Man that audio/video of Bibi saying genocide would continue and they were gonna level Gaza because the American people have given them a blank check and full support ..yea ..that was everything I expected from that fascist.
And as fascists (and corporatists; tho any difference is arguable) always do, he said the quiet part out loud, insinusting Israel's stretched past their compacity while invigorating the anti-genocide (which I would hope is all of us, but clearly isn't. I don't see how a moral person rationalizes killing 20000 children) center/left to bolder action against Biden.
The news getting out of Bibi's forces beating down the Orthodox in Jerusalem for protesting is indicative of a few things, mainly that dissent at home is greater than his propaganda machine can keep the lid on. His propaganda machine has been busch league, AT BEST. Obviously lying with AI generated photos. Idk about you, but I can't believe a single thing that comes out of a zionists mouth. If the world didn't stop their aggression, I think we all know full well they would've killed every single Palestinian down to the last.
Zionist has become as negative a word to me as Nazi. The only difference being pro-jew or anti-jew. I spit at them both.
Yea, I reject the naming convention here entirely.
Sexuality is a spectrum. And, like you are insinuating, where someone falls on that spectrum can change with time (sorry pray-away-gay folks, this can't be forced = simply put, we like what we like).
Where you land on that spectrum, NO ONE should give a shit about. Focus on your own genitals and the genitals you are trying to please and the extent of your total genital thinking should end there.
Sometimes there are lifetimes of experiences to explore in sexuality, for some people, it's cut and dry. All the options in between are just as ok as well. With that context I don't see justification for the impoliteness of not minding my own fucking business
This is an interesting take on group dynamics that I hadn't considered before. its like coming at it with a playbook. I can see it now..."OMAHA, OMAHA"..center proceeds to fumble, lol
The people who the bank would payout, with the 20% fractional that they hold in reserve?
Yea, that'd be the rich people. The rich might lose some money, but the rich are never going to go hungry, not even in this scenario, that's just not how life works.
It's not banks per se that need to go, it's usury, or interest.
Banks can still find profit and not charge interest, see the entire Arab world.
It's creating money out of thin air. Someone's good will isn't good will when you're forced to pay 125 back on 100 loan. That 25 gets counted towards GDP, even tho nothing was created or there's nothing temporal to show for it, lessoning the value of all currency. Usury is skimming off the top, eventually the whole container is empty.
How many felonies does convicted rapist Trump have pending?
You're right, America don't have time for that.
If Trump weren't such a dip shit, he could've sold red MAGA facemasks, establish a new mint to meet his payout, and kept the 11000 votes he needed in Georgia alive and won reelection. Substantially more than 11k Republican voters had died in GA between Jan 2020 and Nov 2020.
His negligence killed his own voters. That's not 4D chess. That's dumbstruck stupidity at the highest level.
For the last 15 years, that I can recall, every year it was reported that more people who are or lean left have been buying the bulk of weapons. The left isnt toothless and honestly, most of the fucks who drove around in Trump trains, bullying on the freeway and what not, would shit their pants if fire were returned their way. Like all bullies, theyre real tough until they meet someone who is, then they're a bunch of chicken shits. Case in point; Uvalde
And it pains me to think it but I do; America's "silent majority", those too afraid to lose what they have to speak out, won't budge until we see a REAL loss.
Take this, entirely plausible scenario.
Trump wins the election, not because people want him, but because the status quo (which is all Democrats can ever offer - they aren't a party of leaders; they're a party of middle managers) is destroying us all, and/or because our support for Israel, as they become the newest genocidal, eternal victim/pariah. Genocidal Joe is a baaaaaad moniker. Trump comes in, 2025 starts getting implemented. To distract, in the name of national security/health war is declared on the cartels, without discussing it with Mexico first and the bombing campaign begins as troops are built up in Cali/Arizona/NM/Texas. Soldiers push out off of America soil. Skirmishes are ran across the border and back again. Keep in mind - any military action inside the states is illegal. Legally they would have to establish a beachhead to invade; but that defeats the softer point of the whole venture, which is to normalize military use around civies. Protests erupt after our military, under direct orders to do, start channeling their inner Israeli and kill every human in sight. Mexican Americans, the majority along the border, grind the 2 largest state economies to a halt. Police are overwhelmed...next thing we know, Tucson doesn't exist anymore, thousands of American are dead, at the hands of our military..
That's the threshold I think it'd take for any fucking Karen or Kevin to realize things have gone to far. I hope I'm wrong.
I hope Shawn Fein can pull it together for 2028 like he's mentioned. I'll be standing in the roads right next to you brother.
Oh I never said no fucking, just no babies. There be ways, Im telling ya, there be waaaaaays.
If we are just cogs in their machine with no chance of meaningful existence; why the fuck should we harbor the cost of our replacements? That's just another subsidy to them, and I cant fucking stand seeing the people who SHOULD pay, MORALLY, have everything gifted to them. It's fucking disgusting.
Well in Seattle, before CHOP, that bitch ass east precinct started all the violence on cap hill, every single night. Then abandoned shop as if they were under attack, which they weren't.
"THE BEATINGS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES"
and those far right terrorists? Yea, those were ICE and BP in unmarked cars, in civilian clothing, pulling up throwing bags over people's heads and throwing them in the trunk. People just walking home from work, not even involved. Pure fucking terrorism. That's what Trump levied against the PNW.
I'm not fucking kidding either. This whole place is fucked, not even worth the paper the bullshit sanitized lies we were raised on.
If there's no respect for the law at the top, why the fuck should any of us have any respect for it?
If you wanna be rich you gotta do what the rich do right? Bring on some fucking anarchy, America's been getting primed since Newt Gingrich for a purge, dumb motherfucking out of touch 1% think they're gonna survive it. How'd that work for em in the movies?
Man everything you wrote here sucks and I'm sorry you've had to experience all that. Riding isn't a "if" you crash, its a "when" you crash thing.
Even still, I find it preferable to being in a box isolated from the environment. Then it's just more detached television. Being a part of the environment helps me feel alive.
It's just trading one set of obnoxious noises for another and we'd be in a thread about that instead, y'know.
Clearly ppl don't like motorcycles here. Maybe they name should change to fuckcars+motorbikes.
I hate how loud the bikes gotta be. I'm right there with you, trust me. If there were more riders and people were just intuitively aware of bikes, like in SE Asia (it doesn't need to be a river of riders, just more commonplace than now), then I think we could move past it towards something rational.
Currently it's the best I can do. I'm a sub of this community, I fucking hate cars, hence, riding whenever possible as I don't have the option of public transit to cover my bases in my area. I've been the guy trying to keep riders conscious as they lay in the pavement, more than a few times. It's not a fond set of memories. And I really don't want to take a turn either.
Dude, I just ate. Don't make me ..🤢
Riders don't necessarily like their rides that loud either, and obviously they don't need to be, except it's their number 1 defense on the road.
Drivers do not pay well enough attention, and especially in America, aren't used to having riders all around them, or even ever consciously looking for riders. If a motorbike isn't heard, it isn't seen, and that creates a scene.
Let me tell ya, after being almost hit 5 dozen times even tho my bike is the loudest thing within 100m I can come off not giving a single fuck about anybody on or near that road either, but it's not out of some crassness, it's about me not being murdered by every Lexus or Mercedes that's too important to be bothered to use a turn signal or check their fucking mirrors.
It's creator owned. If they're on nebula, they have a stake in it, writ large
It FLABBERGASTS me that people get on internet forums knowing anyone could be from anywhere and have ulterior motives and not run everything thru the very basic filter of "qui bono", which is latin for Who benefits? The double tap is "Follow the money."
If the opinions put across lead to a conclusion that politically oppositional countries would find beneficial...guess what...you're talking to someone on their payroll. Or worse, you're talking to useful idiot doing the job for free.
I've called out hundreds of shills over the past few years. Hundreds. The only rational way to look at opinions online is askance.
There's a new word for you, it's personally my favorite, so remember it, use it, love it, spread it, and apply it to the internet. And tell others to do so as well.
Progress is never a flat line. Incrementalism only exist to erode our rights, not gain them. Rights are cemented hard and fast with a pen stroke. Incrementalism is the 10000 lawsuits chipping away at it one nib le at a time. 50 years of that and look, Roe gets overturned.
Which is why their trying to knee-cap the internet.
Experience guides my way; anything a politician says before or after "think of the children" has nothing to do with actual childrens safety and everything to do with undermining your constitutional rights
Every single time. Without fail.
Man that audio/video of Bibi saying genocide would continue and they were gonna level Gaza because the American people have given them a blank check and full support ..yea ..that was everything I expected from that fascist.
And as fascists (and corporatists; tho any difference is arguable) always do, he said the quiet part out loud, insinusting Israel's stretched past their compacity while invigorating the anti-genocide (which I would hope is all of us, but clearly isn't. I don't see how a moral person rationalizes killing 20000 children) center/left to bolder action against Biden.
The news getting out of Bibi's forces beating down the Orthodox in Jerusalem for protesting is indicative of a few things, mainly that dissent at home is greater than his propaganda machine can keep the lid on. His propaganda machine has been busch league, AT BEST. Obviously lying with AI generated photos. Idk about you, but I can't believe a single thing that comes out of a zionists mouth. If the world didn't stop their aggression, I think we all know full well they would've killed every single Palestinian down to the last.
Zionist has become as negative a word to me as Nazi. The only difference being pro-jew or anti-jew. I spit at them both.
Yea, I reject the naming convention here entirely.
Sexuality is a spectrum. And, like you are insinuating, where someone falls on that spectrum can change with time (sorry pray-away-gay folks, this can't be forced = simply put, we like what we like).
Where you land on that spectrum, NO ONE should give a shit about. Focus on your own genitals and the genitals you are trying to please and the extent of your total genital thinking should end there.
Sometimes there are lifetimes of experiences to explore in sexuality, for some people, it's cut and dry. All the options in between are just as ok as well. With that context I don't see justification for the impoliteness of not minding my own fucking business
This is an interesting take on group dynamics that I hadn't considered before. its like coming at it with a playbook. I can see it now..."OMAHA, OMAHA"..center proceeds to fumble, lol
The people who the bank would payout, with the 20% fractional that they hold in reserve?
Yea, that'd be the rich people. The rich might lose some money, but the rich are never going to go hungry, not even in this scenario, that's just not how life works.
It's not banks per se that need to go, it's usury, or interest.
Banks can still find profit and not charge interest, see the entire Arab world.
It's creating money out of thin air. Someone's good will isn't good will when you're forced to pay 125 back on 100 loan. That 25 gets counted towards GDP, even tho nothing was created or there's nothing temporal to show for it, lessoning the value of all currency. Usury is skimming off the top, eventually the whole container is empty.
How many felonies does convicted rapist Trump have pending?
You're right, America don't have time for that.
If Trump weren't such a dip shit, he could've sold red MAGA facemasks, establish a new mint to meet his payout, and kept the 11000 votes he needed in Georgia alive and won reelection. Substantially more than 11k Republican voters had died in GA between Jan 2020 and Nov 2020.
His negligence killed his own voters. That's not 4D chess. That's dumbstruck stupidity at the highest level.
I fully agree with you. 2 caveats.
For the last 15 years, that I can recall, every year it was reported that more people who are or lean left have been buying the bulk of weapons. The left isnt toothless and honestly, most of the fucks who drove around in Trump trains, bullying on the freeway and what not, would shit their pants if fire were returned their way. Like all bullies, theyre real tough until they meet someone who is, then they're a bunch of chicken shits. Case in point; Uvalde
And it pains me to think it but I do; America's "silent majority", those too afraid to lose what they have to speak out, won't budge until we see a REAL loss.
Take this, entirely plausible scenario.
Trump wins the election, not because people want him, but because the status quo (which is all Democrats can ever offer - they aren't a party of leaders; they're a party of middle managers) is destroying us all, and/or because our support for Israel, as they become the newest genocidal, eternal victim/pariah. Genocidal Joe is a baaaaaad moniker. Trump comes in, 2025 starts getting implemented. To distract, in the name of national security/health war is declared on the cartels, without discussing it with Mexico first and the bombing campaign begins as troops are built up in Cali/Arizona/NM/Texas. Soldiers push out off of America soil. Skirmishes are ran across the border and back again. Keep in mind - any military action inside the states is illegal. Legally they would have to establish a beachhead to invade; but that defeats the softer point of the whole venture, which is to normalize military use around civies. Protests erupt after our military, under direct orders to do, start channeling their inner Israeli and kill every human in sight. Mexican Americans, the majority along the border, grind the 2 largest state economies to a halt. Police are overwhelmed...next thing we know, Tucson doesn't exist anymore, thousands of American are dead, at the hands of our military..
That's the threshold I think it'd take for any fucking Karen or Kevin to realize things have gone to far. I hope I'm wrong.
I hope Shawn Fein can pull it together for 2028 like he's mentioned. I'll be standing in the roads right next to you brother.
Oh I never said no fucking, just no babies. There be ways, Im telling ya, there be waaaaaays.
If we are just cogs in their machine with no chance of meaningful existence; why the fuck should we harbor the cost of our replacements? That's just another subsidy to them, and I cant fucking stand seeing the people who SHOULD pay, MORALLY, have everything gifted to them. It's fucking disgusting.
If George Soros ever did anything to warrant all the hate he gets he should offer all 5 conservative judges 5mil/yr to retire immediately.
Like, you can't expect them to NOT take it. The rights been selling America out for 40 years now.
Well in Seattle, before CHOP, that bitch ass east precinct started all the violence on cap hill, every single night. Then abandoned shop as if they were under attack, which they weren't.
"THE BEATINGS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES"
and those far right terrorists? Yea, those were ICE and BP in unmarked cars, in civilian clothing, pulling up throwing bags over people's heads and throwing them in the trunk. People just walking home from work, not even involved. Pure fucking terrorism. That's what Trump levied against the PNW.
I'm not fucking kidding either. This whole place is fucked, not even worth the paper the bullshit sanitized lies we were raised on.
I love it.
If there's no respect for the law at the top, why the fuck should any of us have any respect for it?
If you wanna be rich you gotta do what the rich do right? Bring on some fucking anarchy, America's been getting primed since Newt Gingrich for a purge, dumb motherfucking out of touch 1% think they're gonna survive it. How'd that work for em in the movies?