Some people put those fears into your head to create a divide between us. They want you to see close calls with cyclists and be mad about it. So that you don’t see this:

If you hate my cause because i called out that your feelings are fueled by propaganda, the die was loaded from the start. Propaganda uses hate. I bet you are not telling me the city you are describing because it is a car infested hell with one ineffective bike lane.

there will always be bad and good examples in all the groups. You can’t blame an entire group. I know a couple of MAMILs and they are all very careful, friendly riders.

I am sorry about that. My place isn’t perfect either and we get a couple of deaths every year. Cycling isn’t accepted by all car drivers, but it is a normal concept anyway.

But i am happy not to live in the USA for example.

classic public service inefficiency. If they made the lanes a little wider cars could drive here too. But of course they forgot that.

this is exactly anti-bicylce-propaganda. There are by far more deadly accidents involving cars and trucks than involving bikes and pedestrians. You are afraid of the wrong thing. Also you are describing the results of car focused infrastructure, that hasn’t been effectively planned for cyclists nor pedestrians. The dutch people are not much different than you or me, they just made the infrastructure right and assimilated it over the years. The close calls you are describing look harmless in the video, when you realize that even if there were an accident, not much would happen. But we still get many car-related deaths. Do you see what i mean?

Which city are you in and what does the car infrastructure look like in the street you are describing?

yes, people counted and compared. This plus trams has waaay more throughput than a usual car intersection. Check out not just bikes video on that topic with various combinations and graphs, and get mad at car infrastructure with us!

i hear people talk and laugh. That is what i want a busy street to be like.

German here: you can use “Führer” only with specific other context. There could be for example “Gruppenführer” -> the leader of a group. Or “Anführer” -> could be the elder of a tribe. If you clearly use it in a neutral context, no problem.

But if you use it just like that, it will immediately raise concern if you really meant to say it this way.

It would only be a financial drain if you were sending that money back home.

Only if you limit your view to your nation. ‘Back home’ across the border it would most likely also buy food etc. And that would be fine.

The real drain is the infinite black hole of the rich guys pockets. That is where all the money is. Don’t blame people who send money to their loved ones to help, just because there is a border.

its nice as a console. boots right into steam, start game with controller, bam. Since you can get Lutris games added to your steam library, there are so many game and platform options available.

bad: yeah you need to tinker around with a couple of games so they run right. Some only start with the specific proton version, some just take very long to start, some dont like the steam overlay, etc. But once you have them set up, its the best.

Sometimes it’s the way we have heated arguments or ignore our differences. Hear me out.

I hate these arguments, but we often just move on. And I guess everybody knows we’ll besties and play games again soon, regardless.

We have been friends for 20 years, since school. Partially growing apart, even politically, there are some troubles we can’t fix. Asshole situations included. But everyone seems to be able to ignore them at some point, and we all get back together for a BBQ, boardgames or the usual new years eve, as if we were still 16 years old.

Having overcome all these things, it feels like nothing can separate us anymore. Therefore, we can talk about absolutely everything, even if it leads to a fight. I kind of makes us open up personally and we can even make fun about it too. Imagine a comedy central roast but then its all over and back to normal.

Of course, the arguments are a bad thing but whenever we have them, i am reminded that I don’t need to worry about it. I don’t have that with anybody else. And mostly it is a fun harmonic group, btw.

Doorbell rings. Pavlov: “damn i forgot to feed the dog”

Unabhängig davon ob sie wichtig sind oder nicht: warum gehen wir davon aus, dass die Evolution hier fertig wäre? Vielleicht entwickeln sich Nägel in Zukunft ja noch weg. Jetzt grade ist doch nur eine Momentaufnahme

ok, ein paar Eier zerschlagen! Übrigens ging die Verkehrswende in den Niederlanden damals auch nicht einfach so. Es gab Shitstorm, Bürgermeister haben Morddrohungen bekommen etc. Die konservativen werden alles gegen Veränderung tun, da muss man durch.

The wording of that message wiggles around a lot. When you read it again, you realize there can be:

• almost every monitoring of online communications (just not ‘general’)
• all chat scanning (just no chat ‘control’)
• everything can be detected (just child abuse will be searched for AND detected)
• sneak peaking at everybody’s chats is ok. (But ‘detection orders’ need a thorough process)

This is the language of some one who knows is guilty

They caught a guy, Lubbe. As far as i know it is not clear why he set the fire as the Nazis never had any evidence. There are 3 theories:

• the Nazis ordered him to do it.
• he was doing it as a communist
• he just did it as vandalism/arsonism

But we do know that they absolutely used it to crack down against the communists–

10 million in the usa? or where?

and the german ones are really skittish too.

Those i saw on the canadian campus just lay next to the side walk, chilling. Fat and grey

it actually creates a lot of traffic jams too. The differences in speed and the goal to drive even faster produce hard braking moments which have a chain reaction. Especially in rush hour, where it matters, we really don’t get anywhere faster.

We are stupid for not limiting speed

congratulations