leftist mechanic who doesn’t read theory and assumes Marx was really worried about electrical connections corroding so he’s always talking about dielectric grease

Back in my day, I played the original counterstrike when it was just the most popular half life mod you could install. And we put an onion on our belt, because that was the style at the time.

I can’t imagine how rough being stationed in a rusty hulk on a reef or whatever must be

The Philippine sailors were trying to reinforce a makeshift base in a grounded vessel in what China claims as territorial waters, right?

Nobody’s arguing it’s safe they’re trying to tell silly scolders that they understand the risk and are comfortable with it.

There’s two ways to stop corruption: one involves identifying corrupt officials and punishing them. The enlightened, neoliberal solution is to simply make the law say it’s legal to be corrupt.

I agree, I used to cycle all over the place on the road and I wouldn’t do that any more. Motorcycle gear + moving at the speed of traffic is far safer than spandex, a foam brain bucket, and differential speeds up to 40-50MPH

A majority of motorcycle fatalities have one or as much as all of the following factors: No motorcycle license, no safety gear, and drunk.

I would imagine if this ever actually got into a court there would be a lot of evidence submitted about Ukraine’s sustained campaign to try to destroy the ZNPP nuclear plant with artillery and rocketfire

Surely you understand that everyone has different thresholds of acceptable danger?

just gonna point to one of my previous replies where you probably should have picked up the understanding that your own personal acceptable danger threshold is your own personal danger threshold and isn’t actually a universal thing you can apply to everyone because we’re all different people

But don’t let reality get in the way of your smug redditposting

I think you’ll find I came into a thread and shared some information about how to reduce the chance of injury or death on a motorcycle and you are now repeatedly stating obvious things to me as if the entire world doesn’t already know it. Do you feel the need to tell me the color of the sky, or perhaps how many days there are in a week?

Also, thanks for confirming that this does indeed come directly out of your condescension. Cool!

The fastest car can’t hold a candle to the pleasure of a motorcycle ride on a nice day

the GARDEN

Surely you understand that everyone has different thresholds of acceptable danger? Do you think people who ride motorcycles don’t realize it’s dangerous when they’re doing 70MPH next to 20k lb 18 wheelers in heavy traffic? It’s just so weird and condescending to do this shit. It’s genuinely insulting to my intelligence, which is why I quit going to that doctor. No shit it’s dangerous, but thanks for telling me what I and everybody already know.

And if I were making appointments for life advice he might not have been wasting his time, but it turns out it was an appointment for basic medical checkups not advice on how to live my life or how to get around. He certainly didn’t offer to buy me a damn car, pay for car insurance, pay for maintenance on the car, or pay for fuel, all of which are factors in my choice to get around on a motorcycle.

lmao, I had to see what the context is and it’s hilarious:

“Pre-Trial Chamber II considered that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the two suspects bear responsibility for missile strikes carried out by the Russian armed forces against the Ukrainian electric infrastructure from at least October 10, 2022 until at least March 9, 2023,” the court said. “During this time frame, a large number of strikes against numerous electric power plants and substations were carried out by the Russian armed forces in multiple locations in Ukraine.”

They’re charging them for targeting electrical infrastructure. Which is target number one for NATO and the IDF, coincidentally, and Ukraine too.

If you eliminate people riding without proper gear, people riding without motorcycle licenses, and people riding inebriated, the death statistics for motorcycles get cut by more than half. No doubt it’s more dangerous than driving a car, but if you’re sober, properly trained and experienced, and you wear all the gear, it’s not at all suicidal.

I changed my primary care physician a few years back because literally every time I went in he would waste time trying to convince me to stop riding a motorcycle.

that cat sounds adorable

you may go but leave the nikes