I'm a very experienced urban cyclist. I've used a bicycle as means of transportation ever since I was 8 years old and cycling 5 km to school. I haven't driven a car regularly since I last lived with my parents at 19.
I am super careful and defensive when I ride my bike. I respect the laws that make me safer, and bend those which don't. My head is on a swivel. I generally feel comfortable even riding on busy roads with high speed traffic.
Despite all that, I still get a close call or two every single day I ride my bike. No matter how vigilant you are as a cyclist, it only takes a moment of inattentiveness from a motorist for us to get injured or killed.
I really don't understand calling people one dislikes "cocksuckers". I personally love anyone who sucks cock. They're doing good in this world, unlike Cory Booker.
Some people are definitely 100% gay, and some and definitely 100% straight, but I agree in that I think the majority of people could potentially be attracted to people of all genders.
People who suck cock are much more beneficial to society than fascists and Zionists. The comparison is frankly insulting to all of us who perform fellatio.
I yearn for people to let me just read the goddamn instructions. Give me 5 minutes with the booklet and I'll be good, or you can ramble for 15 minutes trying to explain it and I still won't understand until like 3/4 of the way through the game.
Agreed! Most bike lanes end up being nothing more than a painted bicycle gutter.
What we truly need is dedicated cycle paths adjacent to busy roads, and low-traffic, low-speed streets in commercial or residential areas where cyclists and pedestrians are prioritized over car traffic (see the Dutch city-planning concept of autoluw)
You'd think they'd, I don't know, google the artist before granting the permit? Even outside of fascists, there are plenty of performances I'd feel are probably inappropriate for a public park, even some I'd personally enjoy.
It's wild to me that they'd grant a permit without doing any research into the people performing/organizing.
I read their comment as proposing to aim for potential self-sufficiency. That doesn't necessarily imply isolationism. Developing homegrown options isn't mutually exclusive with global trade.
It can just mean having domestic alternatives to assert our sovereignty in case, say, a fascist movement takes over the government of our largest trading partner with who we share the world's longest border, or something like that. Purely a hypothetical, of course.
Not particularly, and while I admit this can seem hypocritical, the verb "to google" has just become a generic trademark.
When someone says band-aid, or kleenex, or jello, I think of bandages, tissues, or gelatin desserts, not of a specific brand of these products. Same goes with "googled", it just means "searched the web" now rather than specifically using Google.
Yeah I've noticed this user basically inserts a "kagis" into like 2/3 of their comments, it always slightly irks me because it makes me feel like I'm getting advertised at. I've never felt the need to proclaim which search engine(s) I've used to research any particular comment on Lemmy, and I find it odd that the one person who does so regularly is doing it for a paid service.
Apart from that, their comments are usually pretty good, so I'm not accusing them of shilling or anything, but I find it super peculiar.
I'm really thankful this event was cancelled, but honestly quite infuriated that their permit was approved in the first place. It shouldn't take public outrage in order to not have fascists preaching their hateful rhetoric in public parks.
A few years ago some drag queen friends of mine received death threats before a performance in this very same park. Queer and other marginalized peoples don't deserve to be faced with violence in a city-approved public performance.
I used to pirate movies my older neighbour wanted to see and burn them on blank DVDs because she felt way more comfortable having discs than streaming. That could be an option if you have a tech-averse person in your life you care about.
She had a bunch of empty cases too, and would make customer covers for each movie with a sharpie and a piece of paper.
I'm a very experienced urban cyclist. I've used a bicycle as means of transportation ever since I was 8 years old and cycling 5 km to school. I haven't driven a car regularly since I last lived with my parents at 19.
I am super careful and defensive when I ride my bike. I respect the laws that make me safer, and bend those which don't. My head is on a swivel. I generally feel comfortable even riding on busy roads with high speed traffic.
Despite all that, I still get a close call or two every single day I ride my bike. No matter how vigilant you are as a cyclist, it only takes a moment of inattentiveness from a motorist for us to get injured or killed.