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cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/34370513
Anon likes bikes
I can't drive because I am neurodivergent and traumatized, so I get panic attacks when I drive. It's too fast, too much power and responsibility and my schizoautismo brain shuts down not knowing what to do. So I ride my bike everywhere.
i have adhd and i'm terrified of driving, well, i'm terrified of other people driving. if i knew everyone played by the rules that'd be fine, if i knew everyone didn't play by the rules i'd also be fine. but in my country i'm expected to assume everyone follows the rules and blindly trust people do as expected or i'm "disrupting traffic". fuck that! i wouldn't trust a random stranger with keeping an eye on pet rock let alone my life!
pretty much everyone in my life tells me i have to get over that fear but i'm not in a hurry, i've got my electric bike and i'm happy
I cannot figure out what some people are doing in their cars when I'm on my bike. I've been hit before, both with it being my fault and not. I'm getting better at familiar strips of the area. People don't realize life can be fundamentally different if you leave your little pocket of reality. Drivers in NY are not the same as drivers in AZ.
I'm worried. This comment is a coherent thought. Are you ok??
I always am
Bingo bongo I like morrey mongo! Flarstiloppos! What is this ghost in my heart? A machine gun blessing in the disguise! This is my perfartmance fart and I ain't nothin but a hound dog to all you hater hogs. We are all one and Jesus lives in my butthole rent-free!!!!!!
Jesus cannot live rent free in your ass because he lives rent-free in my ass every night and day. Plus he's black, and you're too racist to love that throbbing dark meat.
See, you're saying random shit. I'm being honest. There's a difference between you and me, and that is why I am Anonymous, as my phone's keyboard's predictive text tells me to tell you, boy.
O holiest of holies! I am repent of this situation but I don't know what you think about me but 😭
I love you. I don't know what you're doing, but either authentic or you're not, so which is it?
I am the real master of none and puppet to all the Christmas songs, but you, you are the real mccoy of blasting asses and chewing bubble names. All the flamingos in the land bow to your ghostly cock mastery and diddling of chipmunk housewives who live by the bay of pig-fuck.
We all know who the real big fish is here right? 😍
The third or fourth or fifth party we're talking to, or all we all you? I could totally be this whole conversation and be both sides of it, y'know? I could be you, bro. You could be me, but y'know, you hold on to that delusion of a self.
The dark knight will kick your fucking brain in two my brother man. That will be the day of sadness for us all to be happy about, and thus the cycle of becoming shitty at writing not a sense has begun left unchecked by the cocks who run this county government. Those sons of bitches have been living the change they want to be in this world, and that hurts every little kitten who ever done fucked a cow. I mean it's tragic that the leftover kolkuttamites have gone longing for fart ghouls without treasures in site, not at all. Gone are the days of blasting hog dicks without paying first. It's a grand masterpiece of design by the powers of the nepheline bigotry messengers of the deep cock huntress wag doggies of Krist Khe Kedeemer!!!
Muahahahhahahahahahhahahahaha
Edit: also my account is .0028 nanoseconds old and this is fun for everyone!!!
I ain't never fucked a cow, just large women, and I'll do it again for the sake of bringing Jesus Christ into their hearts and souls.
I fucked every cow I ever seen. I was flying over the country the other day, and I'll be damned if I didn't have to go back and track down thousands of he-cows so I could sex them up with the mormon Bible thumping Dick humps. It was sick brah and also bad as good.
You shouldn't have sexual relations with animals unless they consent, bro. Thems the rules.
I made the fuckin rules and I say cows is hot! It's done been a hot minute since you said Jesus is your bitch. You good bruh
I know
I know your lord carnally.
And there 8nt a got dam thing any fuckin surgeon can say to my mom about it
I'll fuck ur mom's ass in front of doctor if she she needed someone to do that to save her from bowel cancer or some shit
You and me both bruh?
This schtick getting old now? I can out-weird you if I want to. It's just dumb and I'm nearly done with it. Maybe one more deranged manifesto. Something about fart horses, who knows. Then I'm out.
You do you, I'll do me, and we'll meet back here when we wanna touch each other in a profound way as Jesus Christ touched me in a Mormon church the other week, and that was when I was touching myself!
Too scared of my ADHD to drive.. Too scared of my ADHD and other cars to ride a bike :x
I can bike alright, it's just a trillion degrees here every day
Air conditioning.
Air conditioning is why the car is so popular.
Nah, I wanna ride a bike and get to work good and sweaty. It instills fear in my enemies
There have been hot days where friends met me at a bar and asked me ”Weren’t you hot on a bike?” It was only then I realized the day was considered hot, because I had wind cooling, and they had a metal greenhouse with solar gain.
That only works if by "hot" days you mean "comfortably warm". For actually hot weather, it's gonna have to be evaporative cooling (sweat) and even then it gets pretty uncomfortable unless you're going at a leisurely pace IMO.
It's all kinds of comfort. Comfort to only walk a little when you arrive. Comfort of being "safe" while others are endangered (by you). Comfort of only pushing a pedal with minimal force, instead of propelling yourself. Comfort of having all your shit with you, like a miniture house/oversized backpack. Comfort of keeping a distance to others, being able to hide all you flaws with your carry-on personal space while othering everybody else. Comfort of being sheltered from environment while driving (+ AC), actively worsening the environment.
It might not be a bad idea to get some kind of insurance in the alarmingly likely event some jackass hits you and drives off either oblivious or indifferent.
Not only are bikes one of the most efficient forms of transport, they might be the most efficient form of powered locomotion, period. A human being on a bicycle is far more efficient than anything in nature.
ETA: Unless you consider e-bikes a separate category, since they (can) add regenerative braking on top of everything else.
I don't think most e-bikes have regen braking... Maybe the really expensive ones might...
e-bikes a separate category, since they add regenerative braking on top of everything else.
Actually, the vast majority of e-bikes do not have regenerative braking.
Because on a bike, you don't actually tend to use your brakes very much or very often. And even when you do use the brakes, you're slowing a smaller mass down from a lower speed (compared to cars with regen braking). There's just not much energy there to be harvested from regen braking. Which makes it generally not worth the extra money, weight, and complexity to include a regen braking system.