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GW Hayduke

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  1. Lulz. Science has been using mice, monkeys, rabbits, dogs, and cats as test subjects since before Fauci's grandma had that twinkle in her eye.  Connecting Fauci to some instance somewhere in the world is exactly the kind of right-wing misinformation we have come to know and love.  WhY dId FaUcI hUrT sPoT, dAdDy?1??

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  2. 5 hours ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said:

    I think most people underestimate what it takes to survive in the wild. Yeah, our ancestors lived off the land, but game was plenty in those days. They had a full powder horn and could hunt for food without worry and plant crops at whatever homestead they set up. Even then, the wilderness was small, and they could count on running into other folks fairly regularly. Some of whom would know of them or their family.

    If he is out there and still alive, it is somewhere where he can scavenge for food in dumpsters or steal from caches that backpackers have left for upcoming hikes. The chances that he knows enough about primitive weapons or snares and has the ability to actually use that knowledge are pretty slim. Otherwise he would have been posting that stuff all over social media before now.

    All he needs is some basic camping gear (which we know he has), a big enough stock of beans and rice, and a fishing pole.  A 5 gallon bucket of rice and a 5 gallon bucket of beans could last him two months.  If he is at a place he could reliably fish, probably add a couple more months.  

  3. 9 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

    Also, @GW Hayduke, why do you not view commuting as commerce?

    I'm not sure what the question is about.  

    My overall point is that state law allows a cyclist to travel on our roadways and gives them as much legal right to a travel lane as a vehicle in most circumstances.  The false belief that cyclists must stay on the far right side of a lane is not supported by the law and actually invites additional danger.  The actual mechanics of how a cyclist should use any facility is dependant on the specifics of the corridor.   All of that applies to recreational riders along with commuters.  

  4. 2 minutes ago, phdhorn said:

    Huh?  TxDOT routinely builds standard lanes from 16' to 18' nowadays (why would they make a law with an exception that is not an exception??)

    Why would TxDOT ever build a 16 or 18' wide lane?  That is literally crazy. The widest they currently build is 14'. 

    The typical width of existing lanes is less than 14'.  14' is a recent design standard, and most of our network was built decades ago.  10' wide lanes is most typical for existing facilities.  These are the situations we are talking about - 10' wide lanes and no shoulders.  A facility with 14' lanes is a new facility. A new facility would also either have wide shoulders or a dedicated bike lane.  

  5. 3 minutes ago, phdhorn said:

    This is pretty clear. That's the rule, not the exceptions which you included, and it applies to all cyclists, tandem or not.  Rule (4) only applies to narrow roads, and there are a lot of them where cyclists ride but in general the great majority of roads with vehicular traffic aren't those.

    A cyclist cannot ride two abreast, nor in the middle of a lane, unless they can ride at the normal speed of traffic, with those exceptions in the code.

    Yeah, and those exceptions give a rider the right to an entire lane, to ride in the middle of it, when the lane of any width is "too narrow for a bicycle and a motor vehicle to safely travel side by side" even when going slower than traffic.  In virtually all situations, a 14' wide lane (which is the widest lane TxDOT builds) is too narrow for both a bike and car to travel side by side in the same lane.   

  6. Just now, Judge Roybeanbag said:

    Don’t be an asshole, just because you are allowed to.  Unwritten law.   

    It isn't about being an asshole. It is about traveling safely on a corridor.  In most cases it is entirely unsafe for both a cyclist and an automobile/truck to share the same 10-14 foot wide lane.  That is just a fact and reality.  A cyclist that does not ride the middle of a lane invites a truck/car to ride in the lane, invites an unsafe condition. 

  7. 5 minutes ago, phdhorn said:

    The law is quite clear that bikes are allowed to share the road with motor vehicles, but not equally in most cases, unless they can keep up speed at all times with the normal flow of traffic.  Check back to my post or look up TTC Sec. 551.103, esp. (a) and (c).

    I don't think the law implies that at all.  There is no obligation to travel the same speed as a vehicle, except when riding two abreast.  A cyclist traveling slower than the vehicles still obtains full right of a lane.  A rider can't take up an inside lane unless passing or making a left hand movement.

     

    (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a person operating a bicycle on a roadway who is moving slower than the other traffic on the roadway shall ride as near as practicable to the right curb or edge of the roadway, unless:

    (1) the person is passing another vehicle moving in the same direction;

    (2) the person is preparing to turn left at an intersection or onto a private road or driveway;

    (3) a condition on or of the roadway, including a fixed or moving object, parked or moving vehicle, pedestrian, animal, or surface hazard prevents the person from safely riding next to the right curb or edge of the roadway; or

    (4) the person is operating a bicycle in an outside lane that is:

    (A) less than 14 feet in width and does not have a designated bicycle lane adjacent to that lane; or

    (B) too narrow for a bicycle and a motor vehicle to safely travel side by side.

  8. 4 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    This is…perfect. 
     

    Yet they constantly are, and are 75% of what people are complaining about. As noted several times, it’s the delta in speed that is the issue.  People would be bitching just as much if it were assholes imitating Tiger Woods while driving their golf carts on these roads. 

    The triggered angst against cyclists here is blaming them for "not following the rules or disregarding traffic laws" although very few here know the actual rules or laws or blaming them for "taking up an entire lane and causing inconvenience."

    The DT heads here are triggered about bikes taking up an entire lane irrespective of number of lanes.  See the comments throughout this thread.  The DT head, the subject of this thread that tried to roll coal, was triggered on a 4 lane facility.  He was likely triggered out of selfishness driven by ignorance, which is also reflected throughout this thread.

    It is true there are some very low income folks that don't have access to a vehicle and are forced to ride on a high speed corridor with only 2 lanes and no shoulders.  That really sucks for that person.  They should probably just walk.  It is not a common occurrence though.

    Roadies that train with mileage and commuters that use bikes for transit to/from work do not frequent those type of facilities, except in very limited rare cases.  The reason they don't frequent those corridors is that they are dangerous, but when they do ride those dangerous corridors it is for limited stretches and to get to safer corridors. Either way, the law still allows them to use those facilities, and that triggered angst against those limited number of riders is driven by selfishness.  

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  9. 15 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

    Yeah Big Macs, obesity, and bikes don't really correlate here.  I don;t rage on a guy on a bike because it reminds me I need to get more fitness.  I'm not envious of you sport, neither are 99.99% of the rest of us..  2 Bikes Taking up half a lane and causing traffic to back up behind them is my main gripe. That, and bikes blowing thru intersections, and where I work that's almost a daily occurrence .

     

    The lengths you guys will go to to justify your hobby is funny.

    Yeah, your main gripe is selfishness.  It definitely isn't your obesity.  

    The reason two cyclists take up an entire lane, the reason one cyclist takes up an entire lane, is because that is the law and that is the safest method of travel.  When there isn't a bike lane or a safe shoulder, a cyclist should take up an entire lane.   It is unsafe for a cyclist and an automobile to use/share the same lane.  It is the law that the automobile change lanes to move around the cyclist. A cyclists not taking the entire lane is inviting a vehicle into his lane and is inviting danger.

    The reality is a lot of our roads have shoulders and an increasing number of them are getting bike lanes. Cyclists do not typically need to use vehicle lanes on those corridors; however, they do need to merge to the left to make turns at intersections, etc. on those type of corridors.  The reality is that on 4 lane corridors without a bike lane or safe shoulder, a cyclist is entitled to and should for his own preservation take up an entire lane, forcing vehicles to move into the middle lane to pass. Not all vehicle drivers are ignorant to that fact, but those on the DT board should get on board with this.  Cyclists shouldn't typically be on high speed corridors with only two lanes and no shoulders.  Cyclists should be on and take up the entire lane on lower speed two lane corridors with no shoulders.  

     

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  10. 7 hours ago, boilerhorn said:

    I'll save everyone the effort and put the 7 bullets here:

    1. Greener - no CO2 emissions
    2. Plus no gas money
    3. You get tons of exercise
    4. Parking's rarely a problem
    5. More social (stop riding and talk to people you pass - HUH?)
    6. They are cheaper (citing the $100 mech-shit variant you buy from Target)
    7. Yes to helmets, no to insurance.

    Good stuff here.  

    I think most of the bicycle hate isn't about cyclists following traffic laws.  The angst is because too many DT folks are fat and selfish.  They feel they have a right to drive the speed limit while smashing a BigMac into their face, so having having to drive 20 mph and be reminded of their obesity is some kind of triggered tyranny.  Dangerous stuff actually.  Too many instances of road rage, bicycle victims, and coronary disease.  Get off your fat ass people.    

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  11. 7 minutes ago, Dr. Beeper said:

    You’re missing the point because you’re not using your brain. Roads today wouldn’t be built without cars. There is no equality amongst cars and bicycles. 

    That is a dumb point. Your facts are wrong also. We have a legal system that gives cyclists full rights to most lanes. I understand your feelings don’t care about the law, which is probably why you have a dumb point. 

  12. 46 minutes ago, Dr. Beeper said:

     

    Dumb argument. Roads were made for walking Romans but more so for Romans on horseback. Roads here were built for horses, and then cars. They were never built with cyclists in mind and they aren’t now. 

    This is the dumbest thing I’ve read today. Roads are designed for automobiles and bicycles.  Our laws are also structured that way. 

    Your facts are wrong, and the point you are trying to make is dumb.

  13. On 9/28/2021 at 4:31 PM, Brisketexan said:

    Gotta tell ya.....while I may roll through a stop sign in my neighborhood from time to time, I generally don't flat-out blow through stop signs and stop lights, especially in a way that  forces cross traffic to yield to the light/sign runner, yet I see it happen with cyclists all the damned time.

    I don't care if a cyclist rolls through a stop sign on a neighborhood ride with nobody coming from any direction.  I care a lot when I'm at a downtown intersection, have a green light, and have to jam on my brakes to avoid killing a cyclist who just blew through a sign/light, or if I saw him coming and realized what he was likely to do, I just stay put and let him blow through it because it's what I expect them to do.  There's a reason that motorists all have these complaints: it's because cyclists do that shit habitually and predictably, and create a regular and predictable hazard.

    Again, I don't care if a cyclist or a motorist plays around the margins of the traffic laws.  I care a lot when they give them zero regard and cause me to have to take evasive action to avoid a serious incident.  Cyclists are responsible for an out-sized share of those events.There was this one time where you saw some guy run a red light on his bike, therefore 100% of cyclists are always braking the law. There are some dumb cyclists just like there are dumb drivers.

    The reason cyclists get a bad rep is that they go 15-20 mph under the speed limit and drivers see them as an inconvenience.

    Considering the nature of the story behind this thread, the fact it occurred on a 4 lane facility, your narrative seem rather dumb. We aren’t talking about a drunk college kid on his bike riding down Guadalupe.  This was a group of roadies on ride.  There are a lot of them, and most of them strictly follow traffic laws. It’s like blaming the rape victim because of her clothes, or the black guy cause he was wearing a hoody.  Yeah, he shouldn’t have raped her, but we all know why she was dressed like that.  The cops shouldn’t have shot that kid, but why was he hiding his face.  

  14. I must have missed something.  Isn't the 3.5T spending bill going to be fully paid for?  Why are people even discussing debt?  Is the debt concern with this bill just a talking point to fire up the rubes, when the real concern of their puppet masters are that the wealthy will pay for the 3.5T spending bill? 

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  15. 13 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    Why? Because you said so?  They are held in very high regard with people who study those types of things. 

    Yes. Because that is my opinion. Because other firearms with a lower rate of fire provide similar benefit to self defense. Would those who wear No-Fear shirts also hold fully automatic long guns in high regard with those types of things? 

  16. 45 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    *those AR15’s. 
     

    I’m teeing this up for you a bit, but would you like to guess whether an AR15 was used at the WM massacre? The event that finally opened his eyes?  

    So, was he looking for a sound bite during his campaign? Some emotional points in the polls? Or did he just determine that particular rifle was worse than the other sa used to kill all those folks in EP?   Or does he even know the difference? 

    So it sounds like you don’t actually need an AR15?

    IMO there are only a few uses where a semi-auto long gun is needed.  That use doesn’t include home defense.  

  17. Thinking of 9/11.

    Two Guys on Your Head talk about 9/11 and how a social consensus formed with our foreign policy and whether it is a good way to move forward. IMO it is good to be self aware about these sort of ideas. It is only 8 minutes in length.

    https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/remembering-9-11/id845287058?i=1000534931910

    Looking at the raw numbers.

    2,996 people died from the attacks on 9/11. The cost of the war in Afghanistan included over $2 trillion or $300 million per day for 20 years and the lives of 2,448 US service members, 3,846 US contractors, 66,000 afghan military/police, 1,144 allied service members (NATO, et, al.), 47,245 afghan civilians, 444 aid workers, 72 journalists, and 51,191 taliban and opposition fighters. Another way to put things in perspective is to compare the 3k lives lost from 9/11 to the lives lost from covid (600k in US) or to any other cause of mortality.

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/hanktucker/2021/08/16/the-war-in-afghanistan-cost-america-300-million-per-day-for-20-years-with-big-bills-yet-to-come/?sh=73f3fe4a7f8d

    https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-business-afghanistan-43d8f53b35e80ec18c130cd683e1a38f

    https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7014e1.htm

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  18. On 9/2/2021 at 3:00 PM, ChickenSandwich said:

    Well someone is lying. 
     

     

    https://www.spcai.org/news/press/urgent-update-and-action-plan-from-charlotte-kabul-small-animal-rescue-ksar
     

    Appears to be a game of semantics 

    [NOTE: The above-mentioned working dogs are not working dogs owned by the U.S. military, they are contract working dogs that are owned and trained by private companies and are contracted for work that can include military and other operations.]

     

    Hmmm. It appears your SPCA source along with the US military is at odds with Russia Today reporter and the Taliban commander.  I wonder who we should believe?

  19. 3 hours ago, BabaYaga said:

    So you're saying we bumped our troop strength.  Thanks for making my point for me.  Always a pleasure

    You may be the most dishonest poster on this site.  I had thought your main issue was that you were captured by right wing propaganda, but it is becoming clear that you are simply a morally flawed individual.  If your problem was just propaganda, there are solutions.  I don't know of a solution for a fixing dishonesty.  

  20. 1 minute ago, BabaYaga said:

    You keep trying to tap dance on a pin head.  I think on a sports message board you can get away with interchanging "top military leaders" as so many publications have sourced and the term "general".  We have another chicken fucker.  

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