China is the king of those.

We don’t like this. But we like trade so we literally won’t change anything.

The west is falling. I pray history will bring justice for Palestine. Stay strong comrade.

Only if the world makes them regret it. I wish I could say that with the mountain of documented evidence (mostly by IDF soldiers themselves) that the history will bring justice for Palestine.

But, I didn’t think we could be 655 days into a genocide and still have the New York fucking Times running articles saying “it’s totally not. Because not enough babies have died yet. Israel could kill so many more babies if they wanted to”.

The one thing that will be true with time though is that Israel will collapse. Fascist Ethnostates are by their very nature self destructive and cannot maintain themselves.

I just want to live long enough to see it fall and the children of Palestinian today be able to serve out the justice to the western world that they deserve.

I want everyone from Israeli officials all the way to New York Times writers to be brought to justice and answer for their crimes.

One day; everyone will ‘have always been against’ this.

And those people that today still spread genocide propaganda will pretend they were always against. It is important we don’t let those demons get away with it.

Maybe a missed free() they’re too embarrassed to document.

Lost any ounce of respect I might have had left for him (which really wasn’t much) and his wife when they started pushing Genocide propaganda for Israel.

Nothing says “rock and roll” like supporting Israels right to genocide I guess.

True rock and roll would be pissing on his grave. Maybe Kneecap can do the honors.

Absolutely. Which is why it’s so hard to get upset at them. I appreciate the gesture. But unfortunately we live in a world of cars. A nice gesture can quickly end with someone getting hurt.

Like, there is no world in which these nice polite gestures between bikes or pedestrians would ever have such high stakes. But sadly cars make it impossible.

That’s what it sounded like. A similar situation to what happens on the 405 here.

But absolutely insane people do it when traffic is actually moving. I understand the “my exit is 300 ft away and we’re all stuck”. Understand it, but would still not be that guy.

Absolutely mind boggling people do this when traffic is moving.

This reminds me “nice” cars that do stupid shit because they see a biker. I just want cars to be predictable. I don’t want them to be nice.

I can’t stand the “oh I’ll stop for you when I’m not supposed to at this 2 way stop” cars.

Like, dude. This doesn’t help me. I have to wait and make sure the the car coming up behind you also stops and doesn’t just pass you because you’re being stupid.

And then now there is a car coming the other way and they aren’t stopping (because they don’t actually have a stop sign).

Can you just drive safe and predictable? I literally WANT to wait here until there are NO cars. Not 3-4 cars I now have to hope stop and don’t kill me.

When people do this I literally just get off my bike now to make it obvious I don’t want their “help”. I’ve had too many times where people doing this have put me in danger. I have eyes. I want to wait until it’s clear.

I want to believe that Houston allows shoulder driving during certain hours. I believe you. But I don’t actually want to believe that many people did that.

On a part of 405 in Seattle we have a “shoulder” that opens for traffic during rush hour simply for the fact that people would use it anyway to get to the exit ahead. So they just made it allowed.

I want believe that’s what happened. But probably not.

Sometimes breaking traffic laws is literally the safer option. The laws are written for cars not people on bikes. Me sitting in the turning lane between a bunch of massive trucks hoping people notice my bike with a flag on the back and remember I’m there when the light changes. Or I ride on the sidewalk and use the crosswalk. Technically one is legal and the other is not (depending on the local laws obviously).

Seriously though. I got the flag after the first time a massive truck pulled up behind me. Realized they literally could forget I’m there their Field of view is so bad.

I really don’t know how they are legal. I mean I do. But they shouldn’t be. Only thing that big should literally require a commercial license and a valid reason for use.

Now with 50% more Hitler!

Dude. Be normal. I’m sharing a story about an annoyance of modern US infrastructure (which is obviously the fault of cars).

I’m confused by what conversation you’re trying to start here. I obviously acknowledge the issues of infrastructure that lead non cars to have to deal with the frustration of a “choke point” in our sidewalks.

I think you may be just interpreted my comment in the least charitable way anyone could. Because, God damn, I don’t think anything you criticized could actually be concluded from what I said.

Not to mention the three word quote you start with. Are you just here to try to disagree with someone that likely agrees with you?

Seriously. Maybe reread this in the AM mate.

I have this attitude when biking. In the US. At least I assume everyone has this attitude towards me. I’d rather be respectful to the people walking and piss off the cars. There are just too many times when taking the sidewalk on a bike makes the situation 10x safer for you.

But I’m not gonna be an asshole to people walking. If it’s a busy area. I walk the bike. If it’s an open area where I can see I’ll ride the bike and stop/walk if I see someone ahead.

It’s not often I have to. Usually I just take up the entire lane on the street and bother the cars. But I’ll take the sidewalk for a bit if it makes it significantly safer to do so.

Oh, I also turn off the electric assist on my electric bike when I’m on sidewalks with people. No one wants to hear that noise.

Yes. Cars are 100x worse. But people normalize that because they have to. I want people walking to see bikers as nice and respectful by comparison.

I care. I bike myself. I was walking downtown and some idiot left their bike leaning up against the tree on the sidewalk. Right next to outdoor seating to a small restaurant. Just completely blocking the choke point of the sidewalk. Walking with my kid in a stroller. I could either drop the stroller off the curb into traffic or move his bike to the other side and help everyone else actually walk.

I moved his bike. Which required actually picking it up as the bike wheel was locked. A 50lb electric bike. Not something I’d expect everyone with a stroller or especially a wheelchair would be capable of.

The problem is both. Don’t leave your shit blocking where others need to go.

Its especially annoying because it easily fit on the other side of the tree. I just can’t imagine why someone would leave it like that. But, yeah, some people are just never taught basic manners.

Having a kid now. I realize that there are so so many adults that just never got taught how to not be an asshole. They have a child’s brain.

Don’t worry you don’t have to pay now either. Just use “After Pay” and you can pay $20 extra in late fees. Or don’t. Just keep racking up debt like the rest of society. We really don’t care if you pay anymore. We just want a big $ we can show investors so we can all jerk off to the profits we pretend have real material value in the world that is crumbling around us.

In Seattle we throw those green scooters in a pile blocking the garage exit to the ICE facility.

They have their use cases.

Sometimes in JAV you really just get curious what the fuck is happening.

Nice. I learned about different applications of whisper because I’m a degenerate.

https://github.com/meizhong986/WhisperJAV

Maybe we should have just let AI say the n word.

Took too long to type my comment but basically just said the same thing. Most of these models are the same exact thing with different biases and hard coded prompts to guide it’s behavior.

But grok. It’s obvious it’s just being fed a prompt directly written by Elon. Probably with a mountain of 4chan links to guide it’s behavior.