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Holy crap, the condition of that old thing!

Incredible.

That's a pretty special combination

Someone who was trying to make a point about energy consumption in the most offensively stupid way possible, presumably.

Or perhaps the point is that some fraction of that seventy are like, near enough to actual slaves, and that the brutality of colonialism never really went away; it's just shifted form to something vastly more insidious.

It's not just energy consumption, it's the goods the corporations provide to us.

If you, a well-off westerner, find offense in the suggestion that you're benefiting from the subjugation of many others, then perhaps I can interest you in a subscription to one of Rupert Murdoch's 'news'papers

I did notice that, and it made me think of the difference between say, Christian and Christianist... Haven't seen driveist before. (Shouldn't that be the spelling?)

And it put me in mind of that driver/rider distinction which struck me about ten years ago. Seemed so damn obvious once I'd thought of it - I was immediately taken with the political dimension of what a rhetorical shafting and con-job that cyclists have copped for a century, being on the wrong side of that coin; it's enough to provoke militant fury. Particularly in the light of increasing sustainability pressures... Someone worked out the average westerner effectively has about seventy slaves, but if you drive rather than ride most of your way, it has to be fewer than that.

What I can't understand is that as far as I've seen, nobody else seems to have noticed it and made an issue out of the misnomer.

Go, the French left!

https://jacobin.com/2024/06/france-popular-front-macron-le-pen

Lots of envy for their electoral options.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xouEd5cVE8

Better chuck up a pic

Yeah nah, prohibitive :(

Aging people thinking it was better in their day shocker.

Nuance ignored on the way to clutching at the chance to fashionably hang shit shocker.

Music is better than ever, I said.

You know what else has improved over the years? Capitalist arseholes doing capitalism.

There was an episode of South Park where Cartman was ostentatiously doing that all over the place... Trey & Matt really know how to take the piss.

By the way...

'Driver' is a bullshit term. Cyclists are drivers. Motorists are riders.

That's a mad price. How much would shipping to Oz add to it though? (I don't need the stem and bars)

This broken insta link business is a pain in the arse. I got one of mine to sort of work like this - highlighted it and one option in the resulting menu on my phone was open in insta

instagram.com/reel/C7eavRnIH­yB

Ugly AF, seems very cheaty. Dude looks heaps aero on it

@JurekB
Okay, this is weird - if you copy and paste the link, it works, but it doesn't if you click it.

instagram.com/reel/C3ov9Y7J4Or

Peak testosterone in a hand tool

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3ov9Y7J4Or/?igsh=MThqZmU5NG9peTVzcw==

The best TCR - 9/8" steerer, English BB, prettiest frameset except for the ISP version of this generation, which doesn't ride as smooth. Pity about the external cables, but if 1st-gen Propel is anything to go by, good thing it wasn't internal. Proper weapon. Should be able to build it to 6.5kg without any exotic bits.

Should take 25s just fine, might even be able to squeeze in 28s.

I submit that testosterone-crazed dudes breaking the speed limit is an all but inescapable fact of life, and that everything possible should be done to steer them out of hideously brutal wankpanzers and into/onto the lightest possible vehicles to minimise their menace.

CHEERS MATE 

<3 :D

(some extra text so the D in my :D isn't demoted)

Had one of those come into the shop in my last couple of months as a mechanic... Those Maguras are rad.

Is he literally that blinded by his own bias?

Given the amount of reality it's increasingly necessary to ignore in order to remain a creature of the Right...? All such jokers went stark raving barmy by the turn of the century, surely. A functioning intellect requires a diet of facts, not a hunger strike.

If they are on fire at the bottom of the abyss, I think you'll be okay to piss on them - there'll be so many folks happy to join you in pissing on them, that you can enjoy how the Tory Scum have a brief moment of hope as the deluge of piss douses their pyre, only to have that glimmer of hope dashed as they soon drown, accompanied by a vast chorus of 'so I heard you like to take the piss'

Is there already a thread of this sort? If not, post your bullshit filter fails here.

Came across this vid on Insta; looks like it was originally 16:9 or maybe even 4:3, seems to be some middle eastern city. Given the oddness of the footage and the short shrift given to human rights in some places, I'm having a hard time understanding what I'm seeing... Is this really some poor fucker being catapulted to his near-certain death off the top of a skyscraper?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5m9QHLgDb9

If it's real, why even bother with the net on the top of the other building? Some sort of modern test for witchcraft? If you land on the net, then you must be a witch and then we cut off your head? And given the effort necessary to set this up, you'd think there would be better footage of it than this, right? And perhaps a write-up of the event somewhere... Not sure what the search terms would be though.

If fake, then how and why was it faked? The shot would have included pretty much every physical object in view, right? Otherwise it would've been too hard to convincingly add the CGI to an obviously hand-held shot. So that's a lot of trouble to go to either way. And why would you make it look so haphazard and ad hoc? If it was an ad or something, why doesn't it seem less authentically sketchy?

Anyone have a take on this which makes the slightest amount of sense?

Lolwtaf