I don't think that's how it works when you're talking about death rates.

Yes, for the people that survive, they will see an average and statistically significant increase in lifespan. On the other hand, more of them will die as a direct result of their travel mode than for people that primarily drive. (I.e., you're more likely to die in a bicycle crash--any bicycle crash--than you are in any given car crash.)

There's no good way to make riding a bicycle 'safe', because you can't surround yourself with crumple zones, restraints, and air bags (although you can get airbags for motorcycles, but weight and breathability is less of a concern on a motorcycle). Helmets are about the best you can do, and compliance rates with helmet guidelines on bicycles are pretty low.

Don't get me wrong - I fully support bicycles as a way of commuting and most general transportation, and want to see more infrastructure developed towards that end. But we also need to be realistic about the risks.

Money existed before there was an intricate system of laws and regulations. Money existed before there were fiat currencies, backed by nothing except a gov't's promises. The fact that bitcoin doesn't have those doesn't make it any more real, or less real, than any other thing used as currency. It has value because people believe that it has value.

Gold is much the same way. Gold has an intrinsic value for making things that conduct electricity (particularly because it doesn't corrode), but all other values exist because it's both relatively rare, and people have decided that it's pretty.

Hmph. Might explain why gunpowder prices and availability is poor right now. I can only find Accurate 2230 in 1# canisters instead of 8# jugs, and other powders just aren't available at all. Vihtavouri--made in Finland--seems to have the same issues. Primers are pretty easy to find now; they were out of stock everywhere for the first two years of the pandemic.

All those same things apply when you compare actual bicycles to e-bike though. An e-bike is a half-measure, at best.

So, mass murder...? Isn't that what Newsmax is tacitly calling for, just in the other direction?

At current exchange rates, about 0.000029. That's going to vary slightly from day to day, in much the same way that the price in Euros, or Japanese Yen will vary if the price is in USD, because currency valuations fluctuate comparatively.

I remember a time the GBP was worth about $2.50 US; it's currently more like $1.30 US. Euros used to be worth considerably more than US dollars, but it's very near parity right now.

As I said, money is an abstraction, it's not a real thing. European labor didn't used to be more valuable than American labor, and now it's worth the same. The abstraction that money is has drifted farther away from the reality that it's supposed to reflect over time.

“Taking away the mayor’s law license is meant to discourage lawyers from representing clients like President Donald Trump or anyone else who is willing to take on the prevailing political establishment,” he added.

The majority of attorneys that have represented Trump in his civil and criminal trials have not been disbarred; only the ones that are committing crimes have been. The biggest discouragement to lawyers had been Trump's unwillingness to pay the legal bills he owes, coupled with Trump's unwillingness to follow legal counsel.

The bylaws also prohibit going shirtless or in a bikini in areas away from the beach, a ban that was introduced several years ago in Barcelona to little effect as offenders are mainly tourists who fly home without paying the fines.

That's easy to solve. You confiscate the passport until the fine is paid. Or arrest them and hold them without bond as a flight risk. The last time I got a speeding ticket--about 15 years ago, I think--I was in Ohio, and driving home to Illinois. The cop took my license, and said they'd mail it back once I paid the fine.

Quick edit: I'm not talking about cash bail here; that's a separate issue. Bond can be refused when a suspect is deemed to be unlikely to show up for court, such as the suspect being a foreign national. This happens regularly, and isn't particularly controversial. A person that is a citizen and resident of a foreign country is very likely to skip out on criminal penalties, therefore they shouldn't be permitted to leave without paying their criminal fines.

My brother in Christ, all money is fake. Even gold coins are 'fake' money, because all money is a social construct used to represent an abstraction of value added through labor.

Tough read.

Good stuff.

It's hard to understand why reactionaries seem to think that anyone would want to be trans- if they had any choice in the matter at all.

Germanotta, a Manhattan resident of 25 years, said [...] “You’ve got to understand that there are millions of Americans that don’t register their guns, me being one of them. [...]"

See that? That's admitting to committing a felony. In NYC, you MUST register each and every firearm. If Germanotta has firearms that she hasn't registered, that's a felony.

This is something you abso-fucking-lutely do not ever say in public.

As I've been saying, the people on the political left need to get strapped, they need to train, and they need to organize. Laws and cops aren't going to protect you, esp. when most cops are on the side of Trump. All of the laws trying to ban guns and prevent most citizens from owning them are going to do is make it ever easier for the boot of the authoritarians to crush you.

You need to take that power back, and remind the police that they only get to enforce laws by the consent of the people.