Espercially for the judicial system there has been literally nothing done ever as of now and there is basically 0 awareness for how it shapes the country

Crucialy I have nothing for or against Opera as an art, what pisses me off is that it’s seen as “high culture” and subsidized to no end

Is there any constellation in which the opera gets to be leftist? I feel like it’s either hideously expensive or alternatively subsidized by tax money on the basis of it’s “high culture” despite 90% of people not having any interest in it

Given the track record of the Cybertruck I assume the microscopic debris caught on the edges of that sticker / paintjob will cause that entire trunk door to rust off in a matter of weeks

“Huh? No, I don’t think that’s accurate. This is not a meme that anti-abortion social conservatives would find funny. This is a meme for ‘players’ who are misogynist in a lot of other ways, but generally support legal abortion.”

It’s different offshoots but I feel like the root cause for both is controlling women(s bodies).

Now I wouldn’t trust either mentioned subreddit to have that sort of analysis on account of why would you and just blurring everything together into it’s all the same does, at least for me, miss how I’d say traditional anti-abortion conservatives and the PUA-Dipshits attract a very different sort of people.

Also honestly i’m not sure there isn’t some sort of RETVRN to the traditional values of cheating on your trad wife all the time á la Don Draper.

Honestly good litmus test, if you got a Thinkpad that means somebody seems to listen to IT on what to buy which does bode sort of well for a tech job

I think deep down they know it’s wrong so they lash out when confronted with their own cognitive dissonance.

Am cyclist, can confirm

Isolationist Hitler sure is an interesting take on anything and everything downstream of the idea and should definitely be taken seriously

The whole argumentation line of “my personal choice” genuinely just falls through on every conceivable level and argument and anybody using it should basically be disregarded except for very rare edge cases

I don’t think this means “Etiquette (please and thank you)”, I think this means “Etiquette (look at this rube using his crab fork to grab pasta, what a yokel)”

so did lenin actually keep bees or is this 1970s communist OC

[REDACTED] - Matt Christman, 2018

reverse accelerationism lol

I am so jealous, I always wanted to try a NuVinci/Enviolo, especially on an acoustic bicycle but I can only find them in expensive ass e-bikes here. How’s the power loss?

What do you need it for?

hi-vis isn’t inadvisable but I want to point out that the issue most often isn’t car drivers literally not being able to visually see you, it’s that they either don’t look at all or alternatively their brain scans for “cars” and seeing none assumes this means “clear”. Some defensive, but confident riding can help with this, albeit you’re still admittedly on the short end of the stick

I got a back rack with a wire basket so I can get groceries, it’s so keener. I’ve been racking the web for a front basket/rack seeing as my frame has some pre-set screws for one, but the company I bought it off doesn’t seem to have one available, maybe not in Canada. I found a few that may but it’s a pretty expensive risk for a basket that may not fit, those things can cost a pretty penny.

Just jury rig that shit with some zip ties honestly. Maybe some metal affixings with old tube on the hang points to not scratch your shit. I got a collapsible wire basket on one side of my rack and it is so, so, fucking good man.

I just ordered a studded tire now that it’s getting colder, I intend to try and bike to and fro as much as possible.

Studded bicycle tyres are fucking hilarious to see other people witness because no one knows they exist. Car drivers look at me in awe as I pull a 15° corner lean at 30kph on my bicycle, wondering how I’m not eating shit. It takes like 5 minutes of not trusting them before you’re ready to huck yourself down a bobsled track. So much fucking grip.

this always seems kind of dumb until you realize every road was cobblestone and the metallurgy to produce chains wasn’t quite mass market ready and then it makes perfect sense. The big wheel both serves as gears and also makes you just roll over most gaps in cobblestone

I feel this. What helped me was making it an errand, even if the car was nominally faster. But time spent biking is exercise, which is good, time sitting in a car just burns money.

Or you could go for the coffee-ride. Ride somewhere, get a treat, ride back. Just to have a goal.

Alternatively you could just go for something like wandrer - there’s similar services. Some gamification here helps.