The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
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The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
3d ago
In an ideal world we'd fly people in from the Nigeria, India, etc and fly them back with a fat stack of cash from US wages, but the US won't do that.
Why is that better than the traditional solution of using Mexicans?
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
3d ago
Aella is rich; she could easily afford to support a kept man or a house husband if she wanted, as countless men have done for their wives and mistresses throughout history.
It's not like the reverse is unknown; "huge tracts of land" isn't just a euphemism for boobies.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
3d ago
In this case, refusing to enforce the law while actively tyrannizing lower levels of government and citizens who object appears to be quite viable.
Yes, but they already did that and they'll do it again regardless of what Trump does.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
3d ago
High school students are not included in the unemployment rate.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
3d ago
Who is harassing anyone? If people are on some public forum talking about how Aella is a degenerate whore or whatever, and she reads that, it's not harassement.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
3d ago
For my part, I'm disgusted that so many people seem to think it's okay to cyberbully celebrities.
Talking shit about people is not "cyberbullying".
The knowledge that thousands of people who barely know anything about you have decided to hate you as a social activity is damaging to the human mind. It's cruel to do that to someone.
No one has any right to be liked, or even not hated. You have no moral right to control what other people think about you or what opinions they express of you.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
3d ago
Found Gannon's case, number is 2412CR000495 if the link doesn't work. It's not up to date though.
National Grid, of course, sucks balls.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
3d ago
Even major cities which have tried to prioritize driving as the primary transport modality fail, because it doesn't scale.
LA did not try to prioritize driving. It neglected it. This has been true for decades -- LA has long been held out as an example of a place which built out its road infrastructure and had terrible traffic, but that whole time it has in fact been near the bottom in terms of road infrastructure per capita.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
3d ago
Yeah great plan, let's see how that's working in cities which have leaned that way like LA..
Los Angeles has fewer miles of roadway per capita than any urbanized area in the US with 1,000,000 people or more.
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/statistics/2020/hm72.cfm
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
3d ago
That would be far too few roads for a dense city. NYC roads (including on-street parking) are 24% of the land area -- 36% in Manhattan -- and doesn't have enough.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
3d ago
The road capacity of downtown cores is fixed. The population, as more and more towers get built, is not.
The problem there is too many people in too little space. I spent some time recently in a couple of cities MUCH less dense than NYC (one was less dense than my suburb, in fact), and things were far more civilized. You could bike, you could drive, you could walk, all without being jammed.
Switching cars to bikes doesn't solve the problem of scale, it just delays it. Back in the 1980s, when China was much poorer, they still had traffic jams -- they were bicycle traffic jams. And in places with winter (which includes NYC), it doesn't help much at all, because bicycles are terrible in winter, and you need things to work in bad conditions as well as good.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
3d ago
we designed a huge majority of the land use of the built environment for only one modality of transportation
Horse and carriage, here in the East. The pavement's gotten better, the rights-of-way often haven't. Driving's just a lot better than cycling for most things. You can carry more stuff (and passengers), you're protected from the weather, it's harder to steal a car, you don't get tired doing it, etc. Downsides are it's bigger, takes a lot of space to park, and creates more traffic.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
3d ago
But I don't see it. I just don't. What I see is ever-growing burdens placed on those who create value, to the benefit of an ever-growing proportion of those who do not. I'd call it injustice if that made sense to anyone nowadays, when "justice" means that those who don't work are sustained by those who do, forever, no strings attached. Until society as a whole produces nothing but parasites and their sustenance - and then either collapses or finally puts a stop to these dynamics, much later and more grievously than had it been done earlier.
Yes. Of course, Ayn Rand expressed the same thing in Atlas Shrugged, and all it got her is infamy and some really terrible movies.
The idea that there should be some sort of social insurance for construction workers who lose their legs doesn't seem too unreasonable, even if I might oppose it. When that extends to disability payments for the congenitally lazy or "who made poor life choices to some degree"... well, shit. I don't want to work either, and I didn't get the benefit of those poor life choices the other people made, so why the hell should I be paying for them? Thing is, there seems to be a slippery slope from the reasonable to the unreasonable, and no one with any power is interested in building a fence across it.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
3d ago
Meh, I've seen support and defense of her, probably here. She's just being a drama queen. (Worst I've called her is a dirty whore, and someone who brags about not showering, sells sex for money, and associates with the sort of people who like wordplay is kinda asking for that)
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
4d ago
This isn't "twisted" logic. If the lane is too narrow to pass legally in, then cars have to merge to the other lane (or wait) anyways. Riding in the centre makes the cyclist more visible, and ends up being safer, while not disrupting traffic more than they otherwise would by being on the right.
None of that changes the meaning of "as far to the right as practicable".
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
4d ago
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when I see a bicycle I take care to slow down well behind him and wait for a LARGE open space in traffic to pass him in the opposing lane.
Why? Bicycles are typically considerably slower than slow motor vehicle traffic, they're shorter, and they're narrower. You can pass them with much less space than you could pass a typical car. (The people demanding 1m of passing room should be laughed at; if your ass is that wide you shouldn't be on the road. Just don't hit me or push me over with the airstream)
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
4d ago
Most of Manhattan has no "side streets" in the long uptown/downtown direction.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
4d ago
But where I am at least the combination of "where practicable", minimum 1m passing distance, and lane widths means that it's virtually always legal to take the lane, as it's too narrow for a car to safely pass within it.
The ability of cars to pass legally does not affect the practicability of riding to the right. That's the cyclist-advocate logic I'm referring to.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
4d ago
It is not safe or practical to pass on it.
It's not safe or practical to pass a bicycle on it, particularly when the bicyclist is going slow on the uphill parts? Or drivers are just too timid to do it?
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
4d ago
I knew what video this was before I clicked on it. It's a classic.
Yep, and aside from the actual crashes, quite representative.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
4d ago
And a cyclist taking the lane isn't even illegal! (In most places)
In most cases, the law requires the cyclist ride as far to the right as practicable. I realize that there's a twisted cyclist-advocate logic that claims this allows taking the lane in pretty much any circumstance (e.g. if the cyclist feels it would be unsafe to pass them), but I don't buy it. I ride somewhat to the left of any debris and only take the lane in rare circumstance. Most often when traffic has slowed to the point that I'm keeping up, to avoid a car riding alongside. And I move back over when traffic speeds up again.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
4d ago
If you're driving merely to get from point A to point B, taking less time is a win. If you're driving for pleasure, faster is more pleasurable. (And the same goes for cycling)
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
4d ago
It's criminal (as in you could be sent to Rikers Island for it) to ride on the sidewalk in NYC, and (surprising many) both legal and occasionally required (e.g. to get onto the George Washington Bridge bike lane) right across the river. In some places it's legal for children but not for adults. It varies a lot by jurisdiction.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
4d ago
Sharing the sidewalk becomes absolutely worthless for cyclists at some fairly low pedestrian density easily exceeded in Manhattan.
and I think it's just because they don't like going as slow as you sometimes need to go on a sidewalk to be safe
Correct, because a big point of using a bike instead of walking is to go faster than walking.
But it is often what they are asking drivers to do: go slowly for the cyclists safety on the road.
I disagree with those cyclists too. But it's mostly not cyclists pushing for lower speed limits in Manhattan, it's pedestrian safety advocates. When cycling I'd rather mix it up with car traffic in Manhattan than pedestrian traffic; yes, it's nuts, but driving in Manhattan is nuts too, and walking there isn't exactly a calming experience. The basic problem is too many damned people in too little space. I recently spent some time in some European cities of far lower density (and size) and all modes of transportation (driving, cycling, walking, and public transit) were far better. I've spent time in dense European cities and that's not the case there.
I'm fairly sure there were some dissolute losers living large on their wives wealth, even if that wasn't the usual case.
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