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Yeah but it's on LGFSS where five-page derails every fifty pages are to be expected

citizen patrol

Have we already got together and hammered out a sound basis for this? I missed the memo

Everyone's a cunt now and then.

Or all the time depending on your point of view. What do the dolphins think?

idealistically
realistically

Lately I've been wondering if maybe we don't have these concepts arse about, what with that whole cataclysmic destruction of the natural world / downfall of civilisation business

Was cancer 500 paying enough attention to operate his dangerous equipment, stuck behind a stationary bus? Check

Was vendetta Mikey overstepping the line where he enlisted the state in his vendetta? Check

The jury finds that Mikey is a cunt, your honour

Saw some bloke refer to Cheeto Jesus in 2016, busted this out

You can bust out all the hypotheticals you like, but what's the most distilled take on the responsibility of operating a motor vehicle?

The person in control of the dangerous equipment is responsible for controlling it - it's pretty fucken simple. Stuff like ensuring you have right of way, and that the way is clear, before you move off is absolutely fucking basic shit. We don't need a law against phones. We just need a law about paying enough attention to control the dangerous equipment.

I mean what the fuck. It doesn't need to be this hard.

Today it's the thread for exploring nuance:

As the initiator of the Mikey is a cunt derail, I've always been something of a car guy.

But, I've always thought internal combustion and car-centrism are entirely stupid, and am militantly opposed to the marginalisation of cycling.

I'm hard, hard left (I don't believe in the private sector; everything should be governed by everyone), but could also describe myself as a staunch libertarian - there needs to be a law against laws which aren't absolutely necessary.

Mikey is on a mission for a heart-rending reason - all power to him for that (wasn't aware of his backstory), and may he inspire an army of militant defenders of vulnerable road users, but I'm damn sure he's applying faulty assessment criteria.

Anyone who invokes the state against another citizen, and crosses the line between - protecting others from a menace | using flaws in the system to multiply their own menace by the power of the state, can fuck right off.

Through this lens, an act like this puts Mikey in the same basket as the vile corporate filth who own our governments, bringing us this car-dominated burning of Gaia at the stake in the first place.

/mic drop

Using a phone reduces your reaction times as a driver in the same way, if not worse.

What kind of reaction time do you need when stationary, and what if you're too slow?

Oh gee, the drivers behind might get pissed off. Sticklers can get in the fucking sea. Rules have reasons, and it's the reasons which matter, not the fucking rules themselves. Carrying on like the above has any relevance when the dude is stationary is little more than an excuse to perpetuate tribal animosity between cyclists and motorists.

I guess Alec from Technology Connections is honorary middle aged

Hah! That was a great episode; had it on VHS for years

Cashew glue, who knew

110 in Cairns

WTAF

This does not compute in the slightest.

Until this claim I was 100% certain we had uniform national standards for one, but then there's the fact my old man lived there for 15-20 years so I've been there a bunch of times, yet never got wind of it.

???

...Yeah nah, you've gotta be tripping. There's no way.

I'm looking forward to AI translating the more intelligent animals' hatred of us

AFAIK, Oz is supposed to be nominally 240V. I've seen 250V embossed on the odd old thing, and perhaps even 230V a couple of times, but it's 240V here,+/- around 5V any time I've tested it.

If you think Liz Truss did a number on the economy, just wait...

Cancer-suffering 500 dude is on the money: cyclist is a cunt for busting him using phone while stationary. I'd be cool with it if he drove a wankpanzer tho

To be a pedant, pretty much nowhere in the developed world uses 240V now.

Eh? 220, is it?

Fucking Dubai. Fuck that joint. Anyone who goes there is running a risk.

Do not be tempted to yank at it, the key is to keep the pressure on and increasing it.

This is the go, if you don't have a tool you can hook up a rattle gun to. Way less torque required for impact (I guess there are instantaneous peaks that are pretty high, but the torque reaction off the tool is minimal due to its inertia).

Perfect candidate for painstaking superglue reconstruction

Long-press > open in new tab, look at the page, close tab. Fuck the app. I get a similar hassle with Reddit unless I do the above.

If it was me, I'd definitely respace it to 135; the odd measurement it currently has would make me worry the frame isn't straight for one, and for two, less dish on your wheel makes it stronger. Thirdly, it looks like maybe you're running a triple, which 135 would suit better.

I reckon you might be surprised at how ergonomic such a shape could be; if the fundamental proportions are right and the edges are placed where your finger joints fall, it could be totally comfy.

... Looks goofy as fuck though