wayfarer
1mo ago
financial/institutional merger involving two families
yes, and it is still quite distinct from "men trade resources and services for sex"
wayfarer
1mo ago
Are you claiming that in a normal, healthy, average relationship man does 100% of childrearing and woman is there to provide sex?
Or are you claiming that in a normal, healthy, average relationship there are no children?
In a normal, healthy, average relationship, men trade resources and services for sex.
where and when it is supposedly the situation?
AFAIK it was never ever in no location considered the way you claim
In a normal, healthy, average relationship, men trade resources and services for sex.
That is not healthy or average relationship and it is not normal.
Even in the most radically transactional view of relationship this claim is simply wrong.
For start, relations where woman contributes solely sex in exchange of stuff are in fact simply prostitution.
wayfarer
1mo ago
Even in the Netherlands, car travel is twice as popular as bicycle travel
for all travels or for travels where bicycles make sense?
cars are clearly better at long distance travel, this does not make them better at commuting 2 km
I am not asking people to walk 90 minutes to work. Simply use public transport or drive for long distances like almost everyone else.
at short distances cycling is typically faster, more pleasant, cheaper and healthier than public transport
wayfarer
1mo ago
Yes, the valid answer here is "Imprison or murder or otherwise incapacitate whoever setup this. Or at least attempt to do so".
Not going along their insanity. And note that promises that they will not do both anyway seem to be not trustworthy.
wayfarer
1mo ago
Well, it is fixable for some values of fixable: build enough parking and roads to allow this to happen. Effect is that your city is now 50% parking by area and 20% roads by area.
This may be overall desirable outcome for some and worth benefits of everyone getting by car everywhere.
wayfarer
1mo ago
get tired doing it
depending on context in modern world getting some exercise can* be benefit, not a problem
*obviously, not always
wayfarer
1mo ago
It seems that most of the people shaming her, from my read at least, clearly enjoy looking down and judging someone harshly, seeing themselves as better than her.
I see no problem with doing it with each of these groups (prostitutes, openly slutty people, celebrities, twitteroids, stark-raving-mad twitter haters). Though probably better to avoid doing anything more than minimal amount of it. And even that may be spend more productive on other things. But promoting or celebrating either is definitely terrible.
there's a way we can employ shame in a truly good way as a society?
Yes. You cannot legislate everything. If you need detailed law and call police because someone took all the cookies at family event then things went really wrong. The same for someone proud about being a prostitute and promoting it. Or spending time mostly on performative prostitute hating. Or doing business on either.
wayfarer
1mo ago
I also don't see cars on the sidewalk driving aggressively towards pedestrians outside of rare one off events.
Also for cyclists it is one off events, and cumulative danger is vastly greater with cars/trucks given that in collision they will squish pedestrian - while cyclists may cause deadly harm to pedestrians but it is absurdly rare
(for life-altering but not deadly harm - cars on sidewalks also cause greater danger than cyclists)
wayfarer
1mo ago
It's not safe and it is illegal and bikes break the law at much higher rates than cars do (with the exception of highway speeding for the obvious reasons).
why you think that yield on stop is bad and highway speeding is good?
wayfarer
1mo ago
Because people aren't qualified to determine what is or is not safe.
So why you feel qualified to say that Idaho stop is not safe?
wayfarer
1mo ago
OK, then it is not as simple as
If a cyclist is in an accident it will always be their fault (...) get hit by a car and die.
but few people are psychos
well, the problem is that just few can cause unacceptable damage (though such rule would effectively outlaw bicycle use anyway) and enough psychos have cyclist obsession for it to happen on day one
wayfarer
1mo ago
Yes, outside denser urban areas cars are going to be much faster. Noone is cycling between cities because it is faster than car.
wayfarer
1mo ago
EU bikes stop assisting at 25 kph, about 18 mph or so.
EU bikes are supposed to do so. In practice most don't, some are openly described when available for sale as capable of 50 km/h
wayfarer
1mo ago
Depends on size. It will range from "minor annoyance/breaks monotony" to "cycling is not going to happen at all".
wayfarer
1mo ago
Yeah, many e-bikes are basically electric motorcycles driving on sidewalks and cycleways.
wayfarer
1mo ago
sounds tempting but it would cause problems with at least drivers deliberately causing accidents to murder cyclists (currently rare but would become more common if it would be legal)
wayfarer
1mo ago
Bicycles are in many cases and uses strictly superior to busses and trains, while comparison with cars is more mixed.
That is why they often compete with those. Also, many strong areas of bicycles are more appealing to people with limited or no car access.
wayfarer
1mo ago
by "cyclists being complained about in this thread taken together" I meant entire comment tree, not only specifically comments you authored
If you value your time
Note that humans need some exercise anyway, by cycling you also do this. So effectively time cost may be zero or extremely low, if you planned to exercise. I guess in theory you could drive/order deliveries and do some high-intensity-training and be more efficient with your time overall.
If I cycle somewhere I can spend less time on gym or similar (that I would probably not do anyway and would get diabetes already and be standard issue land-whale, cycling is for me the primary way of exercising at all)
If you value your time, buy whatever you need and get it delivered to you.
I am not able to deliver dentist to my apartment. The same goes for many services and products. For example best pastry shop in my area is not offering deliveries at all. And deliveries often require 20+ minutes waiting time, this is more than enough to get somewhere and be already eating. And sometimes you need to wait for hour or more and you get food that needs to be reheated.
Do you really want to be all sweaty from a bike ride when you're going out to lunch?
heavily depends on local climate I guess, I can imagine in some cases it could be unavoidable. I am probably not going to cycle in Dubai if I would have misfortune to be there.
If it's still there. Huge numbers of bikes are stolen in the US and elsewhere. They're innately easy to steal.
for commuting you do not luxurious bicycle worth stealing (if you live in hellhole where people will steal everything nailed down and then steal nails that may pose problems, but if you cannot leave low-end bicycle for two weeks at bus station then something went wrong)
wayfarer
1mo ago
I think the risk to pedestrians seems minimal and bikes should just fully share the sidewalk with pedestrians.
note that it requires wider sidewalks, and as soon as total cycling+pedestrian traffic is dense you are better of with dedicated footway and dedicated cycleway
wayfarer
1mo ago
When you're going 120 and they're going 80, it's like dodging obstacles at 40, it's fun.
are you aware that you are causing more danger than all cyclists being complained about in this thread taken together?
wayfarer
1mo ago
how it solves
Busses are almost always slower than cycling on the periphery
?
Also, cycling in cities is faster than buses also in city centers.
wayfarer
1mo ago
Rich countries should have well-functioning public transport in urban centres which is apparently missing in America.
well, cycling is useful if you are getting from or out of urban centers and when public transport routes fit poorly where you want to get
Nevertheless, cycling shouldn't be needed in a rich country.
cycling is both faster and cheaper than cars, public transport and walking (if you value your time at more than Eastern European minimum wage, cycling costs per km are minimal if you are not forced to cycle at roads with 100km/h speed limits)
Yes, it is not accessible if your city has no proper infrastructure, for people disabled and/or so fat to qualify as land whale. And in cities which are more vertical than horizontal. But that leaves plenty of use.
IT freelancing may disagree, unstable short-term work is acceptable for some if it pays N times more.
N depends on situation, but for extreme cases can become hilariously large. I assure that many would be fine with 2 weeks of work and then ??? if you get yearly wages in that time of work.
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