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  1. 1 hour ago, G650 said:

    This is my entire point. Why do you assume this? Because that is not the case. There's a reason bicycle and horse usage of roadways is codified in law. Several reasons actually, but one is because the laws are actually older than cars very existence. 

     

    I mean you can either articulate why you think the best usage case for roads should be car only, or just admit that you like to drive and want other road users to bend to your will.

     

    Infrastructure usage is a wildly complex topic. There's been volumes of research and study globally over centuries about it and the average motorist hasn't got a clue to be honest. If it were up to me I'd can all personal vehicles in mnay areas, because they are the most insanely inefficient method of moving individual meatsacks around while completely fucking over commerce at the same time by choking our highways. All because everyone is a special snowflake whose fee fees get hurt if they have the slightest inconvenience, as evidenced by all the posts in this thread.

     

    My companies contractors license is heavy highway. Ie. I literally build roads for a living. This doesn't make me omnipotent or infallible, but if you are going to have an opinion on how our Infrastructure is supposed to work you better be informed before making inane assertions, no matter how commonly held they may be.

    I think you may have doxxed yourself, Dean Kamen.

  2. 2 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Yeah, that's now how this works.  The cyclists that were run over by this idiot were all obeying the rules of the road, were not hassling anybody, the kid was deliberately slowing down and fucking with them and blowing shit into their faces rather than going on about his day, and he was on his phone when he ran over the six, which he admitted to when he talked to the cops.

    Most people on a jury have had to deal with some entitled asshole teenager at some point in their lives.

     

    Counterpoint: Most people on a jury have had to deal with being stuck behind an entitled asshole cyclist at some point in their lives.  

     

    /you're right, and I'm kidding.

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  3. 4 minutes ago, G650 said:

    I'd fucking ban personal cars from downtowns for non residents if it were up to me.

    I'm with you there.

    As for the cyclist bitching, no one gives a shit about cyclists who are considerate and follow the law, just as no one gives a shit about auto drivers who are considerate and follow the law.  No one notices either.  It's the inconsiderate assholes that are the main part of the problem.  The rest of the problem is that absolutely no one thinks they're the inconsiderate asshole, whether riding a bike or driving a car. 

    I, for one, just assume absolutely everyone (except me of course), regardless of mode of transportation, is a self absorbed piece of shit who will always choose to do the absolute dumbest, rudest, and most dangerous thing that can be done while moving about in public. It's surprisingly calming to approach the situation with complete equity.

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  4. There's no reason to, but I'm hoping that the vaccine approval for 5-11 gets us close to over the hump.  The vaccination rates for 12-18 is abysmal, so this is probably wishful thinking.  My kids will be in line day one.  We've got hockey games to attend, by god.

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  5. 2 minutes ago, midtown said:
    7 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:
    So the 'don't be an asshole' rule is really just for cars?  And you wonder why we hate road bikers?

    This is the world we live in. Everyone is just selfish and no motorist thinks the laws of the road apply to them when it inconveniences them. Who is the asshole here? The cyclist is obeying the law or the motorist that is irritated

    This attitude from cyclists is why everyone hates them.   Cyclists following the rule of law along with observing basic human decency don't really piss people off, because they become nearly invisible when they do this.  Cyclists breaking the law and/or choosing to ride on roads where no one can pass them all while sniffing their own farts makes them a ripe and fair target for complete derision.   

    Pointing out that there are bad drivers doesn't mean shit.  Everyone hates bad drivers too.  Trying to claim that cyclists all follow the law while auto drivers are the enemy is patently ridiculous.  Most cyclists ride like dickheads, just like most automobile drivers drive like dickheads.  The only difference is one of these two will come out ahead when someone makes a mistake.  Common sense dictates that cyclists should watch the fuck out, but plenty of them ride as if they own the road.  It's psycho behavior.

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  6. No reason for this to be a close game. Talent difference alone is significant, although they're better than they were in the Kingsbury years and he managed to win twice in DKR.  Their coach can recruit, but he can't manage a game for shit.  If the game is close at all he'll fuck it up for his team at the end.

    But: Tech defense looks much saltier than in the past, with a legit line and linebackers.  The offense is suspect, even though they have a number of future NFL receivers.  O line might be worse than UT.   Tech can't win a shootout like they have in the past, but if they manage to stuff the UT run, which they are potentially capable of doing, it might be a long day.  

  7. 14 minutes ago, Ten Bears said:

    Tell the world my story.

    My heart is filled with joy when I see you here, as the brooks fill with water when the snow melts in the spring; and I feel glad, as the ponies do when the fresh grass starts in the beginning of the year. But there are things which you have said which I do not like. They were not sweet like sugar but bitter like gourds. If you had only had Moderna and masked up there might have been peace. But that which you now say is Pfizer is too small of a dose. The horse paste eaters have taken away the places where the grass grew the thickest and the timber was the best.  You're doomed to die on the great grass seas of the Llano Estacado.  Go in peace.

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  8. 10 minutes ago, Satoshi said:

     

     

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    I've always had a part of me that was drawn to a hermit lifestyle, and I'll be damned if the stupidity on full display the last year and half doesn't have me shopping for available remote mountaintops.  I don't know what the wife and kids will think about it, but living amongst humans is getting to be too much.

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  9. 5 hours ago, Dontshootrude said:

    We need to be shifting focus to get more vaccine to resource poor parts of the world where the virus is currently raging out of control.  If we are going to see a variant that can escape the vaccines to a high degree it will likely be the result of the uncontrolled spread in these areas.  This ends faster, we save more lives, and we can get the economy back to normal faster when all of humanity has access to the vaccine and not just us.   

    How much is China the WHO paying you, exactly?  

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  10. 18 minutes ago, Satoshi said:

     

    If only he had said other things after that quote.  🙄  

    Fauci needs to sit down and shut up, as he may be the worst communicator in the history of public service, but fuck Tom Elliott and anyone else simpleminded enough to spread or buy into this kind of bullshit. 

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  11. Go get 'em Colinda.   Austin Energy deserves way more shit than they've received over what happened here.  The state/ERCOT deserves plenty of blame, but AE hasn't caught near their fair share of hell.   And I'm not worried about rate spikes to cover it.  AE does that on a whim as it is.

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