RoidingOldMan

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[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 57 points 3 days ago (14 children)

So to replay what he just said, but with some coherence:

Epstein was scouting Mar-A-Lago for underage girls, because he knew Trump hired underage girls. Then it happened enough times that Trump himself, a billionare with other problems, heard about it. Trump then directly told Epstein "get outta here."

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Read the link people! It's legal in 6 states! Why am I still getting replies saying the same thing?

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Except for the 6 states where it's legal. Like in the link I posted. Because it is safer than not. But IDK why I expected people to read the link.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 66 points 6 days ago (9 children)

Do I get to pay 24% less social security tax?

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

https://web.archive.org/web/20160723102129/http://www.arch.ksu.edu/seamon/fajans.htm

These Berkeley Professors bring up an interesting idea. Not so much mentioning safety directly. But they mention 2 different possible routes, one with more stop signs and one with more traffic and fewer stops.

While a drop of a few miles per hour may not seem like much to a car driver, think of it this way: the equivalent in a car would be a drop from 60 to 45 mph. Because the extra effort required on California is so frustrating, both physically and psychologically, many cyclists prefer Sacramento to California, despite safety concerns. They ride California, the official bike route, only when traffic on Sacramento gets too scary.

So perhaps adding "stop as yield" changes the calculation for what is the fastest route by bicycle. Which leads bicycles to take safer routes with more stop signs and fewer cars. That could explain some of the decrease in accidents when states/cities pass these laws. Change in bicyclist behavior.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I still don’t understand how running a red lights on a bicycle makes anything safer… Especially for the cyclist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_stop#Safety

A 2009 study showed a 14.5% decrease in bicyclist injuries after the passage of the original Idaho Stop law (though did not otherwise tie the decrease to the law).[15][16] A Delaware state-run study of the "Delaware Yield" law (allowing bicyclists to treat stop signs as yield signs) concluded that it reduced injuries at stop-sign controlled intersections by 23%.[17]

It's safer dude. You asked how it was safer, here are numbers of how it's safer.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

Bicycles are not cars, and should not be treated identically to cars. Your post sounds like you've never ridden a bicycle in a city before. Bicycles stopped at traffic lights are kinda in an impossible situation. Coming to a 100% complete stop means dismounting and putting your feet on the pavement. Briefly becoming a pedestrian in the road. Basically asking people to rear end you, because they don't expect a 100% complete stop either. Red lights become "yield" signs. "Stop as yield" or an "Idaho stop" are known to be safer for everyone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_stop

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Is it possible that dumb people think AI is smarter than they are?

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Have you followed the news lately? “yes, but does anyone care?” legal theory has been a thing for at least 10 years now.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 102 points 1 week ago (4 children)

"Is this career path okay with discrimination? Because I have groups I want to die."

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Looks tiny. Maybe 6 weeks? Younger? He might still be young enough to enjoy sitting on your chest and feeling your heartbeat like a baby kitten.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They aren't okay with pedophiles, they are just casual enough to miss the details. They spent the last decade calling the Clintons and Biden pedos, so they think this is just the left flinging shit. The same sort of shit that the right wing has been flinging forever. They normalized it, and now it looks like everyone accusing everyone of everything.

 

I remember doing this at the Embassy Suits probably around 2002.

 

As I understand it, birth defects are like 99.999% of the time unhelpful. But that 0.0001% of the time the genetic freak is a huge advantage and that gets passed down in the gene pool and thus, over many many generations, evolution.

Alcohol, which is known to increase birth defects, should increase the speed at which that happens. Right? Like playing the lottery with more tickets.

 

Since we're using El Salvador like it's a new Gitmo. Like yes, it would still suck for the people from El Salvador.

But at least people from other countries would go back to their home country. Presumably to be treated far better than El Salvador.

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I'll take it to the bank tomorrow. It's never been raided for quarters. About 6 inches across. Could be $30-$60 in my estimation.

Closest guess gets a reply.

EDIT: It was $79.85

$45 in quarters, $18.60 in dimes, $8.10 in nickles, and $8.15 in pennies.

 

Airfare $19.86 surely way below fuel cost. Who even came up with this system?

 

I was looking for info about the upcoming event. I got a guess about what might happen in the future. Cannot describe how useless this search result was.

Just changed my default search engine to DuckDuckGo. Can't be worse than this.

 

John Wick, Taken, The Equalizer. Too many to name. Saw a preview for The Amateur (2025) which is another one coming out soon. It seems like that's the ONLY justification for killing they can come up with.

Like this is the logic here: "Okay we need an action movie with lots of henchmen to kill, what evil thing can that bad guy have done in the 1st act so our hero is justified in killing tons of henchmen?" So the bad guy does some overtly evil thing at the start of the movie (often unrealistically evil). Then killing people is the rest of the movie. Revenge happens. The end.

I enjoy action movies, but I keep seeing the same revenge-killing movies that feel like copies of each other.

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