7bicycles

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[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 10 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

...we also have brains capable of abstract reasoning, but nevermind that!

Not entirely convinced this is true of the people who claim 2 sharp teeth means we gotta do factory farming

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not defending this guys approach, I'm too much of the opinion that if you think you can blockade fire exits you do not understand their purpose or basic levels of abstraction.

That said, you can have the greatest, safest, armed security guard patrolled bike storage at your place, unless literally everywhere you go also has that, you still want a fallback bike

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 22 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Especially compared to cars bicycles are more often stolen, fucked up, vandalized or just suffer something like a popped inner tube due to road debris. If you actually depend on your bike for transportation, it's not a bad idea to have a fallback

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago

It is if one of your leftist movement is the Antideutsche

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 37 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I do not understand why you would release this. This is going to be pro-Israel PR for like 20% of any given global north nation and and anti-Israel PR for like everybody else.

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago

I do know a few young people are tech/programming wizards but "generally tech savy" people seem to be declining. It's either you're really into it or barely know anything outside popular apps.

I feel like we also got a new kind of guy, the tech-forward digital illiterate. They run most of everything.

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net -2 points 3 days ago

I'm here to report that divine punishment did get served, albeit god has a cruel sense of humor, so that specific whales jaw got sheared off by a speeding ferry, causing it to drown after hours of vocal, agonizing pain

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

Yes, the point is to see something like your birthyear or maybe that good summer in your 20s being described as too old to be relevant anymore stings

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 47 points 6 days ago

The problem is everything Trey Parker and Matt Stone ever did is satire about believing in literally anything except nihilistic libertarianism. It ends you up at this "satire of the americans that's also just what the americans think"

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago

I think I'd play any such variation if only to see how much of a trainwreck it is

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well if the LOONY left could propose a better approach to transportation than eternal arms race of the killdozers I'd sure like to hear it!

 

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

 

Cygnet ladies pneumatic safety bicycle ca. 1898 Stoddard Manufacturing Company, Dayton, Ohio

via cool twitter channel CoolBikeArt https://x.com/CoolBikeArt1/status/1843370334445265344/photo/1

 

I cannot explain otherwise how so many people can nearly hit a vulnerable road user at like 20kph and then be mad when those people are quite irate they nearly just got hospitalized. Like yeah this'd be a nuisance if I was in a car, but I'm not.

Anyways give everyone not in a car a gun so they can retaliate. You may not hit the car, you may shoot periliously close, though.

 

They're like brutalism haters in that while I personally enjoy it, they're not wrong. There's very bad examples of it. But also anyone who gets into hating it a lot seems entirely incapable of producing any evidence for it being so. They're like truffle pigs for getting it wrong. What the Habitat 67 is to architectural aesthetics is "guy getting run over by a car cutting the corner standing still at a red light" is to active transport

 

New and wired: Using "dutch courage" to being overly optimistic about what you can carry on a bicycle and then just doing it

 

man this irish folk song seems weirdly current

 

Monster Energy Drink can turned human, Sam Pilgrim, is back again with a cool bicycle idea with literally 0 possible downside

Honestly love the guy. I'll excuse him being a public nuisance in any and all cases on account of how much he is the pantheonic ideal of dudes rock.

 

Frame made out of bamboo, pictured here is a My Boo that touts a partnership with a fair trade social program in Ghana to make the frames.

It's supposed to be more ecological, for obvious reasons. Weight on one is about 15kg, which is pretty good for a kitted out city bike.

I can't speak to longevity of this and whether it actually pans out vs. say, a steel bike that you keep welding back together, on account of these haven't really been around too long. It's held together via a composite glue made out of hemp and resin, so at least they're following through here I suppose.

Reviews I've read is that the ride quality is really nice, being stiff yet compliant in the ride cases as to not make it a boneshaker.

Price of these is, obviously, fairly high, these'd run you around 3000€ euros, I'd argue a comparable bike made out of traditional materials would run you maybe 800€ new. But I'd argue it's more a proof of concept.

 

I also sell to individual customers but you're gonna either have to be a pretty good runner to keep up or rather more dexterious so you can cycle next to me. Close passing cars and bike lane parkers get a nice squirt of mustard on the roof

 

Pictured here is the new spacecamper, usually a business for converting vans and such into campers, for cargo bikes.

I'm kind of undecided on this. It feels very convenient, unless you have an ultralight tent the weight of your bike, and your supplies and the tent and the bags and whatnot seems sort of the same as this stuff.

What do we think about the concept? Cool idea to incorporate your bicycle into your sleeping arrangement for trips or dumb playtoy?

 

I get why things like hot dogs or bratwurst are readily available as streetfood, it's logistically easy - but so is soup! You need like a pot, maybe two if you're getting crazy with it, maybe some bread rolls and that's it. It's cheap to make, cheap to buy, you could get hot soup on a cold day to warm you up or something like a gazpach or okroshka on a cold day to have a chilling meal. They're stupidly easy to make, all the ingredients basically cost zilch, very easy to adjust for all kinds of different dietary needs if you offer some sort of toppings optionally instead of throwing it all in there.

So why isn't there more soup? It's a style of meal you can find in basically any cuisine yet in all my travels I remember like two instances where I could just get a soup. What drives streetfood and why is soup shafted?

 

How hard is that shit?

I'd like a control panel of nicely haptic buttons for some of the Arma 3 side features, Lights on/off, Engine on/off, Chaff, Smokelauncher etc.

From what I gathered researching it's basically just building a box, soldering some switches to a micro controller and bob's your uncle. I feel 80% confident I can do those things - am I missing something? Anyone ever build their own "sim"-control-deck?

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