And why should I? Facebook is one of the most privacy invasive sites on the planet. They even create profiles for you if you don't have one, which is creepy as fuck. I do not want a single personal detail of mine to end up in that mongoloid alien's grubby hands.
This is like taking a photograph of a bum eating out of a garbage can and thinking "Wow, this city is great, even the homeless people get free food"
Well, what's there to protect?
I guarantee you this woman is thinking "I wish I had a car":
I was just about to ask. What about that design makes it different? It's literally still just a street out in the open. You would think there's some ingenious design like a covered bike lane or something, but no, it's just a woman riding a bike one handed carrying an umbrella.... Something you could already do any where really.
Wasn't their a post a week ago or so saying it's too hot and humid to bike?
The proper city design is that taking the car is impossible or prohibitively expensive, and public transport is full of hobos and druggies. So you'd rather cycle in the rain than do that sort of shit.
Do these people have some sort of complicated nerd reasoning why wearing a helmet is bad, or are they just too scared to admit that it makes you look like a DORK who gets ZERO PUSSY on his GAY BIKE???
Their excuse is that it adds friction to riding a bike which causes fewer people to cycle and that the health benefits of cycling outweigh the risk of hitting one’s head.
This might be an effective argument against helmet laws, which I could actually understand. It is not at all effective argument against why YOU do not wear a helmet.
It's the same for activists demanding speed limits here. They can't do anything on their own, they want to be forced. See, here in Germany you can, sometimes at least, drive as fast as you want or can on the Autobahn. Green activists hate that and constantly demand speed limits, citing safety, greenhouse gas emissions, and comfort as reasons. But the average speed on the autobahn is already sub 130 kph, so a limit won't do much since even when there's no limit few people faster than that. Our autobahns are also quite safe compared to the surrounding countries because we have strict license tests and so on. Nobody forces you to max out your speedometer, you can just chill at 110 kph. Which I often do, because it saves a lot of expensive gas. But these people? They can't do that, they need others to go slow as well because they feel uncomfortable when someone goes fast. They cite how chill it is in the Netherlands with speed limits, but never mention how unchill it is in Italy where they also have speed limits, but also very shit drivers all across the board. It's not the speed they're driving at, it's the people driving. In Italy I get overtaken on the right a lot even when going at the speed limit because people are maniacs here. In Germany? Never happened.
There’s a similar thing with general aviation flights - the only speed limit that exists is you have to stay below 250 knots below 10000 ft. This is why airlines climb steeply to 10000 feet and then climb more slowly to cruise, by the way.
You missed this comment:
Guy really thinks the few thousand additional deaths will make the graph of millions look any different. These people really don't understand orders of magnitude, do they?
All those paragraphs and he's still unable to comprehend why people move to suburbs. Absolutely insane, he's this close to the truth
The Big Mall is a known accomplice to Big Oil and Big Car.
They don't understand anything, full stop.
Wow...32,000 deaths a year.
that's Clapham Junction in south London, which for various reasons (mostly involving rivalries between Victorian railway companies) has been a colossal mess from the start - it's not a central terminus, yet in order to serve all the different lines it has 17 platforms, which is more than most of the central stations in other Britbong cities have
Slightly off topic but can you elaborate on that a bit? Why is it optimal?