hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
3d ago
Because murder is bad and needs to be strongly discouraged, even if I don’t much care for the victims?
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Cashiers and DoorDash drivers don’t do much heavy lifting, at least. Waiters it varies. The guy in the aisle at Home Depot doesn’t need to lift stuff but needs to be on his feet all day.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
I don’t care whether adult cyclists are encouraged in their hobby or lined up and shot for partaking in it. I have strong sympathy for young teens, but those mostly know that ludacris’s traffic mix is aimed at them- I make you move, bitch, get out the way. Likewise I sympathize with the poor who can’t afford cars, but, again, they understand their station in life.
I care about the sidewalks being usable for pedestrians and the road being usable for cars. Hippies should get a haircut and fitness fanatics should avail themselves of exercise bikes and the like if either of them are going to cause problems for the priority groups.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
(I legitimately don’t remember who’s a parent or not, don’t get offended) uhh, have you ever watched a toddler? There’s some picking kids up(that may not want to be) involved, and running after them and the like. And cleaning houses is similar- lots of bending over, moving things out of the way. Neither one is conducive to poor-health based physical unfitness, although they don’t need a power lifter.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Compared to pre pandemic? Yes.
Now they might be worse off due to higher rent, it’s possible. But the price for renting a bedroom from Craigslist randos(which is what most of them actually do) has stayed the same, so I doubt it.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Well yes, everyone who has the option of motorizing seems to pick that option except for a minority of hobbyists.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
The decline in disability payments may also be related to the rise in wages for very low skilled labor.
Now, no one on the construction site was previously on disability. But plenty of cashiers and DoorDashers might have been. And those wages have just absolutely exploded- making Walmart managers seem worth it in comparison to sitting on your butt.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Cashier. Delivery driver. Maybe a waiter, probably the guy in the aisle at Home Depot.
These are not ‘good jobs’ but they do pay better than disability.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
To put the onus on bicyclists, obviously.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Most people are selfish and somewhat amoral, but few people are psychos. Reckless driving/vehicular homicide would remain illegal, too, so the worst offenders would still be arrested.
At the end of the day cyclists simply need to learn to deal with the fact that they’re too slow for roads and too fast for sidewalks, and adjust accordingly.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
In the United States, the average person is a land whale in the suburbs with high rates of petty crime. These facts aren’t going anywhere.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
Any solution for the United States needs to work for fat people in the suburbs or it will simply not work.
Ok, maybe you hate suburbs and fat people, but they’re not going anywhere.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
If I were dictator I would make a law that bikes can go anywhere, but never have right of way. If a cyclist is in an accident it will always be their fault- hit an old lady and go to jail, get hit by a car and die.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
That shit’s all true, but the middle schoolers roaming my neighborhood on their bikes don’t seem to cause problems because they get the hell out of the way when there’s cars, ride on the shoulder if possible, etc.
Cyclists should believe the road is for cars, and they might behave as well as thirteen year olds.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
Trump sometimes makes endorsements when it’s clear which way the wind is blowing; he might be the anointed one by consolidating early support. Or Rubio might. Or Don jr might establish a dynastic principle.
Point is, pointing to Vance as a shoe in right now is not in evidence.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
More or less suburbia.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
Oh I don’t think he’s ever been a serious Christian, or particularly liked Christianity beyond instrumental purposes. But, as you note, he isn’t actually a pagan.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
Eastern Christianity has historically been hostile to shaving, eastern Catholics have the beards too(just typically a bit neater/better sculpted). AIUI modern Russian culture isn’t too hot on male grooming either.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
I knew him before he was on twitter- he’s been a man, the cat girl persona started as a joke and then he figured out he’d get more engagement if he played it serious. I think it was around the time Lukas did his ‘why you should steal a woman’s photo to impersonate one online’ thread. Likewise the paganism is also fake- he realized that getting into it with the Christian nationalists would expose him to an audience that agreed with them on most things, but didn’t want to have to follow fundy Christian sexual morality.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
I live in a neighborhood where there are still young teenagers allowed to go wherever their bikes will take them; these are largely fine, and in neighborhoods where people are poor enough to ride bikes the cyclists seem fine too(the other denizens often aren’t). It’s the ideologues who make it suck.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
People who bicycle because they’re young/poor are largely fine. The bad cyclists are the ones who are committed to cycling as a lifestyle- either for fitness or for environmental reasons. Like, rules apply to you.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
Maybe, but the Greeks also thought this- although in their case it was only used by the messenger.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
Probably not, no, but small business owners do not know this.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
Read through the gospels. Read them slowly, meditatively. Use lectio divina on one of them. And while you're doing it, go to church. There are lots of them; the alien-ness is just a perception. And pray.
Christianity is not something which we shape to suit ourselves. It's something which changes us into the better. Don't worry about a fit, worry about keeping on because the spiritual life is a marathon and not a sprint.
Totally willing to believe most people claiming ‘chronic pain’ are faking it for either 1) a medical marijuana scrip or 2) a disability diagnosis. That doesn’t mean they’re in good health/can take jobs with any arbitrary physical demands.
At the end of the day, blue collar laborers in their fifties are not going to be able to do much if they lose their jobs. Fake disabilities reflect the underlying reality that these people cant adjust to a new set of physical demands.
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