I will not sit idly by while the journalistic integrity of the NEW YORK POST is besmirched!
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 27 April 2023 12:47 (one year ago) link
Re the second article, I have my own qualms with some of the fat pride movement, but that certain types of products are pushed more in certain neighborhoods is undoubtedly true and most certainly a secondary or tertiary result of racial capitalism
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Thursday, 27 April 2023 12:50 (one year ago) link
Well since the ultimate reason they’re cutting this extra music lesson elective (not the regular music class) in fourth grade (not any of the subsequent grades) is budget deficit, I am sure that the editorial board of the NY Post will advocate for increased funding for the arts in elementary schools and less emphasis on teaching to standardized testing, right? Right??? Cmon man alive don’t take that bait.
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 27 April 2023 12:55 (one year ago) link
Disappointed that the publishers of "Headless Man Found in Topless Bar" lacked their usual nuance in this article
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 27 April 2023 12:56 (one year ago) link
Tabes otm
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 27 April 2023 12:57 (one year ago) link
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Thursday, 27 April 2023 14:11 (one year ago) link
how uncool
― michel goindry (wins), Thursday, 27 April 2023 14:16 (one year ago) link
How’s gun shopping going man alive
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 27 April 2023 14:54 (one year ago) link
fair enough on NYPost bait -- although it kind of sounds like the director tried to shield his decision with some extremely vague, almost bureaucratic language invoking white supremacy when it was really all budget cuts (or else he's just really bad at clarifying why offering this elective was not inclusive or equitable)https://news3lv.com/news/nation-world/school-board-director-clarifies-white-supremacy-remarks-made-during-budget-talks-olympia-school-district-osd-washington-state-music-program-shortfall-band-strings
Of course, but how is not wanting your own kids to consume those products white supremacy? Are parents in those neighborhoods who don't let their own kids have the products also part of white supremacy culture?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 27 April 2023 18:54 (one year ago) link
I don't believe the interviewee in that article is saying what you think they're saying.
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 27 April 2023 19:06 (one year ago) link
I didn't really get that from the substack, tbh?
the focus seemed more on the idea that there's a stigma against parents who allow their children to consume more juice than the AAP suggests, as if it makes you a bad 'parent', and how they feel the anti-juice movement is based in misinformation (I can't speak to that as I'm no nutritionist), and ignores some of the root causes of why juice is so popular/sought out in general. Yeah, there are a few criticisms against parents who are strict on juice (the virtue signaling comment being one), but nothing that suggests you're a white supremacist.
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 27 April 2023 19:09 (one year ago) link
xpost DC otm
man alive fell for Facebook rage bait and that’s the director’s fault
― Everybody's gonna get what they got coming (gyac), Thursday, 27 April 2023 19:10 (one year ago) link
police the shit out of dudes riding actual fucking motorcycles down the sidewalk imo
would support an e bike ban & enforcement if that's what's giving ppl license
― A street taco cart named Des'ree (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 00:47 (one month ago) link
Scooters too
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 00:47 (one month ago) link
i mean knock it off for sure but i don't think anyone's life should be severely impacted for riding their ebike or scooter down the sidewalk
your stupid fucking harley is where i draw the line tho
― A street taco cart named Des'ree (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 00:55 (one month ago) link
I mean, I wouldn't advocate for arresting anyone (unless they injured someone else), but heavy fines would not be out of line.
Hell, you're not supposed to ride a non-motorized bike on the sidewalk.
I do recognize, though, that riding on the street may be more hazardous.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 00:59 (one month ago) link
if we're talking scooters and ebikes, i'd stop at a warning BUT SERIOUSLY KNOCK IT OFF
crushingly hefty fines for motorcyclists would be appropriate imo
― A street taco cart named Des'ree (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 01:12 (one month ago) link
just a little ticket, a lesson in how to just be normal
― brony james (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 01:20 (one month ago) link
I have a push scooter and a bicycle (both unmotorized). Normally I ride in traffic on the street, but there are certain places and times where it just isn't feasible.
There is a severe power imbalance between a Ford F-150 that is going 40 miles per hour and me on a bicycle. I feel like I should be allowed some wiggle room on the whole "I do not wish to die horribly" thing.
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 01:30 (one month ago) link
absolutely, you're good. i feel like push scooters on the sidewalk are ok as long as you're not flying and dismount where it's crowded
context for above: i live in manhattan, this started being a thing after ebike laws changed
― A street taco cart named Des'ree (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 01:33 (one month ago) link
seldom enforced ban lifted, to be more precise
― A street taco cart named Des'ree (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 01:35 (one month ago) link
Have seen people on motorized scooters (like actually scooters, not Vespas) cause horrible accidents twice now. People should not be riding those things on sidewalks, period.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 03:12 (one month ago) link
the big motorized ones, nothe little razor scooters and similar are finevespas = fuck off obv
― A street taco cart named Des'ree (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 03:14 (one month ago) link
they shouldn't be riding them on the streets either I hit the tiniest pothole in the history of potholes and biffed it so hard into a tree that I was bleeding from 5 different plaecs
― frogbs, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 03:14 (one month ago) link
100% agree
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 03:14 (one month ago) link
oof sorry
― A street taco cart named Des'ree (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 03:16 (one month ago) link
admittedly it was kind of funny like this was literally the only tree on that road it was like some Looney Tunes shit
― frogbs, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 03:23 (one month ago) link
"Looney, that is!"
https://i.imgur.com/YKDH4dP.jpg
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 03:43 (one month ago) link
a friend fell off a Vespa once and busted his face! well he was more like a sugar daddy. then 3 weeks later he insisted I go for a ride with him and I don't know why I got on. those bends!
― Swen, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 03:46 (one month ago) link
it was real awkward too because I was out with a friend and my wife was throwing a party for the girls while I was out. so like I couldn't just come home all fucked up. we wound up just staying out and drinking beers outside. wound up coming home after she was asleep and had to wake her up and be like uhhh if you see me don't freak out. also should mention she never wanted to ride those when I suggested we should because she thought they were really dangerous
― frogbs, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 03:48 (one month ago) link
omg you just drove like right into the tree, it sounds like
― Swen, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 03:53 (one month ago) link
The few times I’ve been on one of the app rental scooters I have felt very unsafe, like the brakes would fail at any moment or the thing would snap in two.
― from a prominent family of bassoon players (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 03:59 (one month ago) link
yeah so I hit this 2 inch deep pothole and it made the front wheel go all wobbly and I couldn't control it with the handlebar. it started going all topsy turvy and my brain gives my body the signal to just bail and go into a barrel roll but before I can move I hit a curb and just faceplanted into the one fucking tree on the whole block. at least that's what it felt like, but I got my hand out in front of my face so that's what took the worst of it. but it got my arm, my forehead, my stomach, and part of my leg. thought I broke my hand but somehow I didn't. amazingly it did not hurt at all afterwards, I just walked away as both passer-bys and my Apple watch asked me if they should call the police. it sure as hell hurt that night though.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 04:00 (one month ago) link
Omigod
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 04:01 (one month ago) link
froggy baby :(
― A street taco cart named Des'ree (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 12:42 (one month ago) link
I had a similar thing on a bike, just flew right off a hill. a neighborhood woman took me in and dressed my wounds when I was like 11. will never forget her.
― Swen, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 13:22 (one month ago) link
oh no!! that would have rattled me at 11
i stopped riding bikes when in the 7th grade my pal and i walked out of his apartment and turned the corner onto Broadway where a cyclist who had just been hit by a bus was lying dead, with her helmet on in the biggest pool of blood i've ever seen.
about 10 years later my best friend and housemate was working as a bike messenger part time and in a bicycle shop part time. one day on her way home she found this amazing ca. 1950's-60's bicycle someone had discarded. it was banana yellow, really gorgeous and retro. and she said, you walk everywhere, you need a bike, it's yours (we lived in long island then, it wouldn't be like riding in the city, and getting around on foot was a drag)
so i couldn't wait to ride it into town! it was a blast, i felt 9 years old again, and rode it down a steep hill FAST.
and the front wheel went flying off the bike. and i was thrown god knows how many feet onto someone's front lawn (thank god) and like i wasn't seriously injured but it fucked me up a littleand i haven't been on a bicycle sinceso the lesson here is don't ride dumpster bikes, kids.
― A street taco cart named Des'ree (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 19:15 (one month ago) link
I used to work on a farm picking beans in the summer holidays, when I was 13 I used the money to buy a mountain bike. there was a fairly steep road just up the road from my house, which was a dead end so didn't have a lot of traffic, so I used to speed down it over and over, until one time the front wheel hit a manhole cover and launched me over the handlebars. I split my head open and a similar thing happened, a man came out of one of the houses and checked I was OK and went and got my mum. I remember there being blood all down my face so it must have been horrible for her. had to go to A&E and they glued my head back together, I still have a slight lump there (it's under my hair though so can't see it). had nasty road rash on my back which took weeks to heal. it didn't put me off riding a bike but I didn't race down that hill as fast as I could any more.
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 19:48 (one month ago) link
iirc it tooks ages to find a replacement wheel for the one that buckled so I couldn't ride a bike for months anyway
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 19:49 (one month ago) link
wow guys intense stuff!
i feel personally that i would not do well like in an emergency room, i'm not the best with blood
― Swen, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 20:26 (one month ago) link
I used to work on a farmpicking beans in the summer holidayswhen I was 13 I used the money to buy a bikethere was a fairly steep road just up the road from my housewhich was a dead end so didn't have a lot of trafficso I used to speed down itover and overuntil one time the front wheel hit a manhole coverand launched me over the handlebarsI split my head open and a similar thing happeneda man came out of one of the houses and checked I was OKand went and got my mumI remember there being blood all down my faceso it must have been horrible for herhad to go to A&E and they glued my head back togetherI still have a slight lump thereit's under my hair though so can't see ithad nasty road rash on my back which took weeks to healit didn't put me off riding a bikebut I didn't race down that hill as fast as I could any more.-John "Cougar" Mellencamp
there was a fairly steep road just up the road from my housewhich was a dead end so didn't have a lot of trafficso I used to speed down itover and over
until one time the front wheel hit a manhole coverand launched me over the handlebars
I split my head open and a similar thing happeneda man came out of one of the houses and checked I was OKand went and got my mum
I remember there being blood all down my faceso it must have been horrible for her
had to go to A&E and they glued my head back togetherI still have a slight lump thereit's under my hair though so can't see it
had nasty road rash on my back which took weeks to healit didn't put me off riding a bikebut I didn't race down that hill as fast as I could any more.
-John "Cougar" Mellencamp
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 21:20 (one month ago) link
to crosspost with the "what would you be like at 16?" thread - I think the Florida law banning everyone under 16 from social media is probably a good idea. I mean it's not really enforceable and will likely make no actual difference but I am starting to really believe that teens spending time on Insta or Tiktok really does mess with their value system in a way that is really bad for their mental health
― frogbs, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 21:25 (one month ago) link
I have had some dire bicycle accidents— flown over handlebars, taken huge skids, been doored— but I will never stop riding a bicycle. I love it so much, it is the only mode of transport I truly adore.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 7 March 2024 02:36 (one month ago) link
i laughed _way_ too fucking hard at this
portland is a really bike-friendly city. unfortunately my cerebellum is not bike-friendly, as in i can't ride a bike, so i wind up walking a lot. no idea if i could use one of those lime scooters or not. never tried.
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 7 March 2024 06:38 (one month ago) link
i'm on team "ban all cars" but while that's an uncool belief, it doesn't seem particularly _conservative_.
There's an Old World conservative worldview that I could see it slotting in quite easily with here in Europe. In the US, not so much.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 7 March 2024 11:04 (one month ago) link
Ostentatious car love is definitely conservative coded in the Anglosphere
― from a prominent family of bassoon players (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 7 March 2024 13:09 (one month ago) link
Same everywhere, it's just there's also an ecofascist counterweight.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 7 March 2024 13:12 (one month ago) link
My paternal grandfather, who was decidedly conservative, used to say, "I can afford the gas, I'll drive whatever I damn well please." As though being able to afford to drive a gas-guzzling beast was the only consideration.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 7 March 2024 14:51 (one month ago) link