not to go to bat for the swedes but the fact that "your word means something funny in english" is a mainstay of even international english speaking community is just absolute american cultural victory
my own nations superiority does usually seem to include the ancient Egypt, Rome or Greece as per the founding block of civlization that we trace our superiority to, sometimes the Vikings, too.
[Easy - Failure]: Just randomly fire half of all people. This entire organisation is rotten to the core at exactly the lines or every second randomly selected person. From the ashes you will be sure to make your lean, mean, governing machine.
Mandate of Heaven (foreign)
Going to bat for Viveks plan in my dreams of becoming one of those bureaucrats that got a no show job by way of the system forgot their existence mostly
Has this guy ever worked
going with a hard no on this one
There seems to be some fun crunches in the number, I assume having to do with historical and therefore age reasons as they're not just evenly / population based spread out but you got like WV and NC both sharing 232, among other, separate number rows so I assume this would also do things like "fire everyone under 50 from WV" or so
you gotta keep up the figleaf and elon basically already broke that by only accepting applications from twitter blue users
I've been mulling over a design for a public book box in my head for the past 4 weeks or so and I've stumbled onto this problem despite having 0 engineering background or other relevant experience just by thinking about how weather would interact with it so I feel confident in saying this was a management decision
My Grandma always says "As long as you have onions, you can make a meal"
I really wanna know what working definition of europe was used here. I feel like Eastern Europe especially with that "weird" soviet times liberated women holdover vs. modern development would skew this in one direction or the other
Crucialy I have nothing for or against Opera as an art, what pisses me off is that it's seen as "high culture" and subsidized to no end
Is there any constellation in which the opera gets to be leftist? I feel like it's either hideously expensive or alternatively subsidized by tax money on the basis of it's "high culture" despite 90% of people not having any interest in it
“Huh? No, I don’t think that’s accurate. This is not a meme that anti-abortion social conservatives would find funny. This is a meme for ‘players’ who are misogynist in a lot of other ways, but generally support legal abortion.”
It's different offshoots but I feel like the root cause for both is controlling women(s bodies).
Now I wouldn't trust either mentioned subreddit to have that sort of analysis on account of why would you and just blurring everything together into it's all the same does, at least for me, miss how I'd say traditional anti-abortion conservatives and the PUA-Dipshits attract a very different sort of people.
Also honestly i'm not sure there isn't some sort of RETVRN to the traditional values of cheating on your trad wife all the time á la Don Draper.
Honestly good litmus test, if you got a Thinkpad that means somebody seems to listen to IT on what to buy which does bode sort of well for a tech job
Isolationist Hitler sure is an interesting take on anything and everything downstream of the idea and should definitely be taken seriously
I don't think this means "Etiquette (please and thank you)", I think this means "Etiquette (look at this rube using his crab fork to grab pasta, what a yokel)"
I got one of those surly cornerbars (offbrand) and they're fucking great, would recommend to everyone. Easily the most comfy handlebars I've ever owned.
Also currently trying to piece together the perfect small size at most medium weight bicycle EDC pouch to chuck in my panniers so I can field repair my entire shit and also help other people.
Pretty sure I'll put some bar ends in there just to slap them into random bicycles so people don't core sample themselves. I am the velocipedal crusader, you will be saved from doctors having to extract a tubular 21mm cross section of yourself so they can figure out what the fuck you managed to lose because you didn't think to put 50 eurodollarcents of bar ends on your stuff.
Just basically anthing that isn't recreation, hobby, education for educations sake and such. Just your job and household chores, repairs, errands if they're not hobby related and such
Cygnet ladies pneumatic safety bicycle ca. 1898 Stoddard Manufacturing Company, Dayton, Ohio
via cool twitter channel CoolBikeArt https://x.com/CoolBikeArt1/status/1843370334445265344/photo/1
Monster Energy Drink can turned human, Sam Pilgrim, is back again with a cool bicycle idea with literally 0 possible downside
Honestly love the guy. I'll excuse him being a public nuisance in any and all cases on account of how much he is the pantheonic ideal of dudes rock.
Frame made out of bamboo, pictured here is a My Boo that touts a partnership with a fair trade social program in Ghana to make the frames.
It's supposed to be more ecological, for obvious reasons. Weight on one is about 15kg, which is pretty good for a kitted out city bike.
I can't speak to longevity of this and whether it actually pans out vs. say, a steel bike that you keep welding back together, on account of these haven't really been around too long. It's held together via a composite glue made out of hemp and resin, so at least they're following through here I suppose.
Reviews I've read is that the ride quality is really nice, being stiff yet compliant in the ride cases as to not make it a boneshaker.
Price of these is, obviously, fairly high, these'd run you around 3000€ euros, I'd argue a comparable bike made out of traditional materials would run you maybe 800€ new. But I'd argue it's more a proof of concept.
I also sell to individual customers but you're gonna either have to be a pretty good runner to keep up or rather more dexterious so you can cycle next to me. Close passing cars and bike lane parkers get a nice squirt of mustard on the roof
Pictured here is the new spacecamper, usually a business for converting vans and such into campers, for cargo bikes.
I'm kind of undecided on this. It feels very convenient, unless you have an ultralight tent the weight of your bike, and your supplies and the tent and the bags and whatnot seems sort of the same as this stuff.
What do we think about the concept? Cool idea to incorporate your bicycle into your sleeping arrangement for trips or dumb playtoy?
How hard is that shit?
I'd like a control panel of nicely haptic buttons for some of the Arma 3 side features, Lights on/off, Engine on/off, Chaff, Smokelauncher etc.
From what I gathered researching it's basically just building a box, soldering some switches to a micro controller and bob's your uncle. I feel 80% confident I can do those things - am I missing something? Anyone ever build their own "sim"-control-deck?
Pictured here is a Van Raam, who make some other bicycles for people with disabilities, but they're hardly the only one. I think it's cool people are doing things like this. They are, sadly, rather pricey.
You get a nice box in the back or whatever but it's not really THAT much bigger than a box you could fit on any old regular bicycle
You can plop like two children there but then you can do that with Long Johns and 3-wheelers and such, too and ALSO you have the fuckoff-big box. They don't really seem all that shorter than comparable versions either.
Anyone got one or know why someone got one?
It's the Kenyan Kalendjin for marathons and then also the most noam-chomsky-as-of-today-looking rich white guy on a 10.000€ bicycle. Interesting split!
A Randonneur is a long distance travel bike just for context.
The VSF stuff is usually solid, albeit entirely too heavy, but I gotta say, a randonneur in british racing green? I want one.
I'm curious. I know where my life diverged and where I would've been a car guy otherwise, would be interested to see what the dealio with other people is or whether they even ever thought about it
Been meaing to post about this, this a reconstruct of some fossil in the Rhineland-Palatinate which, for obvious reasons, made quite the rounds on the german internet for a while
I mean look at it. It's great. Reportedly the scientific artists responsible for this picture was quite pleased with it getting meme'd
Correct, yes I do, stop reminding me because then I am reminded of all the times i have to hear some drivel about rules based international order, rogue states or racism from someone who doesn't
It's a bicycle, also it's a boat, also it's a camper.
One off concept vehicle for now, but you can pre-order one for 18.000€, which I can't tell if it's expensive for a bike, or like reasonable for an amphibious vehicle, or pretty good for a camper.
Here's a look at it by some youtuber
I cross the border on this and immediatly 3 different police jurisdictions get into a shootout over what kind of licenses I need to operate this thing. I am taunting them the whole way by riding in shallow water, further complicating the situation.
Man I want one.
Scholars have discussed this issue for eons, if I bolt a DshKA to a cargo bike, is it a technical? We need to find an answer
How the fuck is all western MREs 30€-a-meal tacticool m4 extrem trail hike: school schooter edition when, going by sold out online listings, I could get a chinese self heating hot pot for like 5 eurodollars?
These things would be insanely convenient to just toss in my bike bag and have a warm vegan meal on a cold days bike ride