SARGE

joined 10 months ago
[–] SARGE@startrek.website 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Well, you're certainly entitled to your (wrong) opinion!

Lol it's not for everyone, especially if you started out with goldeneye. A lot of people I play with don't have the same appreciation for it, and that's okay.

And yeah, it's so cheesy, it makes people spontaneously develop lactose intolerance.

But much like the movie Evolution, I don't love it because it's groundbreaking and iconic to its genre. It's fun for me.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 12 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

They’re going to come for FIFA’s club games, or they’re going to come for the World Cup, or they’re going to come for the Olympics, come and see sporting events

Nobody's coming anymore, nobody wants to risk being thrown in a concentration camp because they aren't white and rich and supporting Trump enough.

Getting ANYONE who isn't already actively trying to reduce their own vehicle usage or doesn't use primarily mass transit to pay attention to how much space has been given up for cars is like pulling teeth from a stone.

Even people who have never had a car seem to think cars are the only thing to use.

Getting anyone to even acknowledge the complete lack of travel infrastructure around my area is hard. There are few sidewalks outside the downtown area and a few surrounding residential areas. There are no sidewalks connecting downtown being 4 intersections.

There are two bike lanes that total about 1.5mi, marked on the shoulder of a street as an afterthought, and no penalties for parking in it.

Some of the roads around here don't even have enough shoulder to allow two semi trucks to pass, let alone two cars and a bike.

I'm contemplating making a sign for my bike trailer that says "IF YOU ARE ANNOYED I'M HERE, TELL YOUR LOCAL COUNCIL TO BUILD A BIKE PATH"

I have started saying "bike path" instead of "bike lane" when talking to most people since they get offended at the mere thought of "losing a lane" to cyclists.

I've also thought about making a sign that says "rider is armed and carries a brick" since people literally throw things at me and some have even gotten out of their cars to scream at me.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 22 points 14 hours ago

Just for that, I'm going to NOT use my car when I was otherwise planning to.

I mean, I pretty much only drive now when my destination is too far to bike, but I've biked to other states before, I can do it again.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 15 points 1 day ago

If you want to reenact it, I won't complain.

Heck, I might even go crazy and golf clap a bit.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 7 points 1 day ago

Actual infrastructure dedicated for bicycles and other mobility options would nearly eliminate the "speed difference" issue in most cases.

A nearby city is ripping up one side of their main street and finally putting a physical barrier between the cars and the bikes.

Before it was just a painted line that got completely ignored, then it was the occasional traffic cone which kept getting stolen, then they tried those plastic bollards that are just hollow plastic, which just got run over.

It only took 3 deaths that I know of and countless children being injured.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So just like.... Every other day, but the floor is actually lava.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's actually a common misconception.

It's not because Japanese ninjas are bad at being ninjas, it's just that other countries ninjas are completely invisible to the naked eye.

Obviously we all know we can see our own country's ninjas, but other countries are invisible.

Thanks to years of cultural import/export, most humans can naturally see Japanese ninjas.

So congrats, if you can see a Japanese ninja, you're actually just close to being a weeb.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 1 points 1 day ago

But the economy has never been stronger!

Of course it's held together by billionaires in bunkers trading stocks in companies that no longer exist, and they only have their food storage remaining until they all die, but hey.... The economy!

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 16 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The future we are barreling towards:

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 10 points 1 day ago

Less money on social programs

How dare you, they would never lower them even more than they have been!

They would maintain the status quo, and in 3 years open up an inquiry as to whether a committee could be established to contemplate on the possibility of maybe increasing their budgets by 0.00001% over the next 100 years (which can be canceled at any time for no reason)

Then sit back and pat themselves on the back for being such a man/woman of the people.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago

And then if you don't have a/c, you get blessed with DoT reducing to only -1hp/min instead of -1hp/sec.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 33 points 1 day ago

Why not just tattoo a number on their arm?

I'm sure there's no possibility that subdermal trackers would ever be used in shitty ways.

 

They aren't around anymore as of this morning, but they liked the hoodie and hat and I thought someone might like to see two doggos.

They were both good girls and I miss them.

 
 
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