there’s a lady around the corner who complains about hoodlums playing their music too loud out of their cars and blah blah blah. that’s all me on my bicycle, i started when i heard her complain about children playing.
skateboards are intentionally loud… softer wheels and better bearings, putting little plastic skid guards on it will make it about 4x quieter….
nobody does this.
that’s why people go nuts over skaters practicing the same trick over and over….
i used to skate and do this so i can’t get mad, but things could be more considerate and get less harassment
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(repeat for 2 hours at 10 pm)“No fear” and then being afraid of the slightest change like just not being aggressive towards LGBT…
The only thing about me like this is that, in the last couple of years, people driving around with loud obnoxious cars pisses me off. I’d swear it didn’t used to. Now, though, when the night outside my house sounds like a motherfucking speedway because some asshole a half-mile or further away is speeding in his shitbox at midnight or later, it does make me wish the cops would get him.
Then there’s the assholes (there are at least two, one is a shitbox pickup the other a motorcycle) whose exhausts are so loud that when they drive past my house they set off a neighbor’s car alarm. Mind you, the car alarm NEVER goes off otherwise. Until this bullshit started, I didn’t even know they had a car alarm at all. The shit is just that fucking loud.
Back in my day (lol, it’s true though) we had overpowered subwoofers and skinny kids were actually damaging their lungs with them. I’d still take that over this stupid “My car is loud as fuck but will never be as powerful or as fast as a fucking nazi tesla. Look at me! Look at meeeeee!” bullshit.
Loud bikes are a safety feature in America where theyre practically invisible to drivers.
Extremely loud passing noise is temporary. Lung damage is permanent. I’m not sure what I am trying to say here.
Obviously you’re instructing OP to pump chlorine gas into the cabins of loud vehicles.
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shipplane bias.
fuck you’re right i need 22 inch woofers on my ebike give myself rectus excavatum while i ride around
Wow. Those wings sure get hit a lot. They should really make sure they are well armored.
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This is actually a Japanese WWII psyops paint scheme that made one Japanese plane look like dozens.
And also trick americans into thinking the war is over.
I thought it was to trick Americans into rejecting chicken pox vaccines.
The rich love it when you pit young against old, black vs white, Muslim vs Christian, urban vs country and academics against labor.
Judging by the car in the background, these are not boomers, but gen-xers.
Yeah, if we’re going to assume that an entire age cohort is some sort of philosophical and political monoblock, we should at least get the cohort right.
Boomer is a state of mind.
Might as well be at this point.
I mean it has been since “OK Boomer” became a thing.
Shhhhh! We don’t exist. Remember?!
That’s cos the kids posting this stuff aren’t smart enough to tell the difference. For them “boomer” is just a term for anyone older than themselves and I wouldn’t be surprised to see it starting being used for millennials.
the whole concept of categorizing everyone by 2 decade increments at birth is stupid….
the Boomer generation made sense as there was an event that cause a baby boom and such….
there’s no single thing that ties gen x, millennials, zoomers or whatever together….
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i am somewhat fond of the “oregon trail” generation for everyone that remembers playing that game on computers in elementary school….
and the whole information age coming online was a big unifying event for the kids growing up in it, distinct from previous and future humans….
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but like, “people born from 1980-2000” is absolute horseshit and just another way “the man” uses to divide and conquer us.Okay, boomer.
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Back in my grandma’s day her sister drank a bottle of something in the barn and died. Back in my grandpas day he lost all the fingers on one hand in shop class.
And I can confirm “kids these days” is the general mentality of them now, and yet the shit my grandpa did as a kid/teen would of landed him in jail or on a list today.
Haha we got fucking head injuries and it was fine because we could afford to raise an entire family on one salary from the spatula factory and that only requires 67 IQ points.
A few head injuries wouldn’t separate you from the leaded gasoline poisoned brains of the masses.
Coming of age in the 1970s was peak Selection Bias.
Either Vietnam got you or the poisoned air and water got you or AIDS got you or traffic fatalities got you or poverty got you or you lived just long enough to tell your kids and grandkids that things were better when you were young.
It’s why a good chunk of older folks tend to be on the wealthier side. The poors get forgotten and don’t get to live as long to tell stories about how it really was.
Wait! Are you telling me The Simpsons is satire?
If “we” were white, male, straight, lived in the US immediately following WWII when every other developed country’s economy had been absolutely devastated, and still had a lot of the union strength and worker protections that had been put in place during the great depression.
See also: the far too common news report of parents being charged with crimes for letting their children play in the yard or walk to stores.
From 1975 to 2015 “deaths are down 92 percent among children ages 15 and under, and down 44 percent annually across all cyclists.” – https://www.bicycling.com/news/a20043115/kids-bike-fatalities-down-92-percent-but-theres-a-catch/
“You” personally might have survived, but about 12-13 times as many kids died from “No helmet, no fear”. (At least very least, 2x as many did.)
Ignore deaths and just do brain damage statistics. It will all start to make sense.
“Thus, the decline in bicyclist mortality among children might be attributable to fewer child bicycle trips rather than a result of safer road conditions,” the report reads.
I believe the comparison was between to “good old days” and “now”, so the 92% number remains valid, even if there are multiple contributing changes.
But, sure, maybe the 44% number is closer to correct.
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Cycling market nearly collapsed entirely in peak boomer years. Coincidence?
Are we all just going to ignore the fact the kid pictured is clearly too young to be a boomer?
Could be just barely a boomer. She looks maybe 8 or 9 years old and that car in the background is early '70s. If this was 1973 and she was born in 1964, she’s a boomer.
Back in my day kids played outside! Go to the park! Get some sun!
Good thing they turned the park into a parking lot for the newest CostCo/WalMart/Whatever. But why are all these kids playing on the road! I Can’t even see the younger ones, why are they so short they can hide behind my oversized SUV!
Or, more commonly, the park is still there, but kids can’t go and play alone. Society’s expectations have changed and a kid is supposed to have a parent watching them constantly while they’re outside. And, if a kid does go and play and gets injured or killed, the blame lands squarely on the neglectful parents who will now be charged with a crime.
A lot of them didn’t. They were also murdered, raped, and kidnapped at a tragic rate.
