7bicycles

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

Nah, these things go where there is no grocery store anymore at all. All the small village grocers have died out because everybody just uses their cars to go the next biggest town (of 10.000 people or so) where there's 4 stores with bighuge parking lots because the prices are cheaper. Basically every village in western europe has given up every bit of local infrastructure in favour of just using their car to go the next town. This both fucks people unable to drive, so often old women who depended on their husbands to do it for them because patriarchy, and children for obvious reasons. It's also a huge factor as to why so many rural settlements cry about the lack of investments in their communities despite those typicall receiving a rather disproportionate amount of taxes because it's hugely uneconomical to keep utilites running to a village of 200 single family homes where 0 economic activity happens

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 6 points 18 hours ago

I'm long of the opinion that woman has been an unironic nazbol for years

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 16 points 22 hours ago

the BSW are the only ones with an actually realistic view of the Ukraine conflict.

Die Linke used to have this but they caved in to a fairly relentless stream of saying "Russia is a serious geopolitical entity" being taken as "I love and support Putin, personally" because all the libs have long abandoned realpolitik

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 24 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

One of the reasons for her leaving Die Linke was that she figured they catered too much to "bizarre minorities". She now also runs on a plattform of "economical rationality" and never explains what that means

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

a binder (methylcellulose, available over the counter as wallpaper paste)

Sore spot for me maybe but I'd just like to point out if you were to eat a burger on a non homemade bun, with a non homemade sauce and cheese you're likely eating the stuff anyway when consuming burger.

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

and thats all good and Fine to Wonder about Ancient Structures that way.

I mean it's really not but besides that I'd assume they're just memeing

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago

as much as much as wanting a discussion of where the line is between something people need to know and something i care about.

Whether it has impact on direct usage or is important to fixing it. I concede the line is blurry but with this I often refer back to cars, not that it fares much better there, you should know whether the car you're driving is FWD or RWD (or AWD) because it has direct impact on you driving it. Not necessarily in the boring cruising on the freeway time, but when it counts.

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Gonster sounds right. Monness sounds like something from france

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 2 points 5 days ago

GTA IV -> RDR1 -> GTA V.

I think RDR escapes a lot of the stuff because by setting it has to be a lot more grounded and all the societal ills of the time are, to a modern audience, incredibly clear cut as to bad vs. good.

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 4 points 5 days ago

I mean what's the other option given the current situation?

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I'm 95% certain GTAVI's writing will be much better overall

Why?

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

Me personally I think this is sad because it further cements how little children actually exist in the real world anymore

 

It's amazing that all dashcam compilations basically consist of people sending in clips of other people fucking it up and then still end up at at least 30% of being entirely avoidable situations if the driver with the camera just wasn't also hugely carbrained. Most common issue seems to be some sort of my right of way shall not be infringed, my steel steed shall make it so or figuring looking at the road and / or being able to stop your car within the distance you can see is for chumps.

I'll go through it clip by clip for Idiots in Cars Nr. 367, posted a day ago at time of writing. To be clear, I'm not saying it's the dashcam drivers fault primarily in the examples down below but isn't this supposed to showcase other people fucking it up entirely?

At 00:32 you can clearly see the red car, cutting across the lines, no indicator ain't exactly on a vector for the right lane, time to stay the course and not brake

At 01:36 you can quite clearly see, in broad daylight, the bump ahead that the person wrecks on and that's with the shitty dashcam quality

01:59 I don't even think I have to point out how fucking carbrained it is to swerve blindly into the opposing lane of traffic because you couldn't be bothered to just brake a bit and wait all of 3 seconds

At 04:13 you can clearly see the red car from the right moving with literally no possible place to go instead of right infront of the driver, time to acclerate straight at it (HOOOOOOOOONK)

At 08:14 like the person in the white SUV is an asshole but like what did you think would happen here when they overtook you on the blocked lane?

 
 

I thought I'd finally give the game that changed everything a go but jesus christ. what is going on.

 

Full disclosure: I was born yesterday

 

I live near the farmers house to provide the social service of "the farmer isn't alone". I have never talked to him.

But it does mean I am a vital part of food production and every city on earth has to subsidize both my 3000ft² mcmansion and that I park inside a city kindergarden, on a child

 

I'm getting into making shit and seeing as I don't wanna give the empty husk of ZA/UM any money what are some cool Disco Elysium shirt ideas?

I'm a novice so flat colours would be preferred. I'm thinking the RCM Logo and the Mazov Antlers right now but there's gotta be more. A good, short quote, maybe?

I'm not wearing fuck the world or piss fa****t on my back.

 

The story seemed mostly odd to me on account of having all of the stuff happening with basically nothing to say other than revenge is bad (other than to slavers, which, you know - fine).

Making beloved deuteragonist Ellie from the first game a nearly unlikeable psychopath who fucks up her entire life on a revenge rampage and then pitting that against a redemption story of the entirely new character who tortured beloved protagonist Joel from the first game to death right at the beginning is big dick energy.

 

Picture via https://onlinebicyclemuseum.co.uk/1899-military-tandem-tricycle-with-maxim/ which also includes a cool story!

You gotta have those watt bazookas though to use your tricycle technical

Several prototype military tricycles and quadricycles were also adapted for carrying the Maxim, though the ensemble was invariably too heavy to move across rough ground and could only really be used on a road. The tandem tricycle illustrated below was built by Vickers Son & Maxim. It carried two machine guns hinged and mounted at the rear. 1000 rounds of ammunition were loaded into boxes mounted onto long ‘tripod’ tubes fitted to both sides of the tricycle; these tubes were hinged and when the machine guns were ready for firing they became braces to dig into the ground to hold the outfit in place. The weight of the tricycle plus guns and ammunition was 374lbs. It was too heavy to pedal up an incline (though it could be towed by other cyclists).

Especially considering 1901 is like a good bit before derailleurs would become common. This thing's a singlespeed in all likelihood.

 

Lots to unpack on this one folks

 

Now you might think of the people who ride a penny-farthing as sort of annoying on account of it's a penny-farthing, but let me suggest finding them annoying because they ride fixies

 

I'm an avid watercycle commuter but goddamn do I get cut off by yachts much more than anybody else

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