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Cake day: January 10th, 2021

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  • what’s the helmet situation in other countries, especially around ad-hoc rental scooters? I see scooters and bikes for rent here, but no buckets to wear, and I wonder the legality of that too.

    Outside of Australia, helmets are not mandatory and data from there shows it has had a negative effect on not only the numbers of cyclists, reducing “safety in numbers” but also an increase in children with head injuries, because drivers are less risk adverse (“Mary Poppins effect” - drivers give more space & make less dangerous passes around cyclists in everyday clothing).

    The most simple solution to increasing cyclist (and pedestrian) safety is to build better infrastructure. Design roads so that vehicles have to slow for junctions and roundabouts, especially where there’s mixed modal traffic. Prioritise active and public transport over inactive modes. Make cycle, walking & bus routes more direct and make driving routes more circuitous. Discourage driving into town centres and stop building out of town retail parks.

    Back to the topic in hand:

    If anyone wants to claim that “helmets save lives” then why aren’t they advocating them for vehicle passengers, who experience greater numbers and severity of head injuries than cyclists, or for pedestrians who have about the same number, possibly slightly more than cyclists?









  • The US is cooked.

    It has been for quite a while.

    It needs a completely new political system, full stop.

    Absolutely!

    The propaganda is so deep that it may take decades more deterioration before we even get to that point.

    Nope. Just getting people to wake up from the dream state is not enough to facilitate change.

    To get a new political system, the framework of a new one has to be ready to replace it. You cannot just stop capitalism and expect everyone to reach enlightenment and go forth into the future. You’ll just have collapse and the rise of warlords as seen in every country that the US has destabilised beyond a certain point.

    As for seeing through the propaganda, all it takes is instability, a removed (<- they removed a word that is also seen as a slur for Chinese people but the my usage was “a small cleft, slit, or fissure”) in the armour of the establishment, for it all to come tumbling down and we are currently in a moment of instability.

    Trumps regime is not fully in control, they are running around making contingency plans because the orange emperors health is failing and the daily revelations of things like Epstein emails is chipping away at the facade. Even republicans are calling for the full release of the files!

    The party is not a united body.

    The grass roots support is unstable as people can see that none of his promises have materialised: Prices are higher, so is unemployment, the economy is in recession and despite his blathering, nothing is trickling down to those red cap wearing poor folk but corporate profits are at a record high!

    People can’t live on vapours and they’ll soon come down from the high.