In other news … Bear shit found in woods.

Down the chip shop, apparently

I use AirVpn as they allow port forwarding and are reasonably priced. They are no logs and allow payment through non-bank methods

What makes you think I was even involved?

How dare you accuse me of such nonsense!

If that were the case then people would be so well behaved considering that people post everything to social media nowadays.

Or maybe this psychopathic piece of shit knows HE would behave if he was being monitored again proving that every accusation is really just a confession?

Wasn’t that also one of the episodes of “Tales of the Unexpected”?

Edit: Yup! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb_to_the_Slaughter

That incident with Bob the scaffolder

It separates the wheat from the chaff in my industry.

Is that the old, or new school?

I pull my bed covers over my head and huff my own farts until I see stars then the universe lets me know that I’m correct about everything

The price increases over the last few years have been constanant

It’s years of wanting IT on a shoestring budget and a “just get it done” dictat.

Pee is not stored in the balls but it collects in a bend in the tube just behind them.

Despite owning the equipment for years, most men don’t know this so never give it a squeeze after urinating then wonder why they have pissy pants

There’s a couple of people on SM I follow who use them.

There’s a street photographer called Bleg who always explains to people that he is using them to record the interaction.

Another is a guy that feeds several cat colonies on his mail route (first class whiskers) so he can use both hands to stroke and feed the cats.

Another is a guy called AsamaPOV that visits small family run restaurants in Japan and like the first guy, always explains and asks permission.

They’re examples of nice people but the scope for abuse is so wide

There’s a guy on tiktok called Huskistaken (yes, i know) that demonstrates repeatedly just how useless chatgpt is.

The first video of his I saw was him playing a clip of altman stating that it doesn’t have a timer and chat gpt countering that it does.

He then gets it to start a timer to time his long it takes him to run a mile and almost instantly tells it to stop. It tells him it was +7 minutes!

It’s not a ring, it’s exposed an industry

I can’t keep up with all the acronyms. Does AGI mean ‘Anal Girth Ingestion’?

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?

Oh no! Won’t someone think of the children!

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