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!

Also largest owner of arable farmland in the US

It’s beyond that. It’s surveillance software

Every Israeli is now a legitimate target

They are supremacists that see everyone else as dogs to be abused and killed.

It’s why Israel has no future and needs to be wiped from the map and only spoken about as a shit stain on the underpants of history

There are some that still give Israel the benefit of the doubt and showing that a humanitarian flotilla trying to deliver aid are kidnapped in international waters, strips away that.

Israel has, and will always be a piece of shit and definitely revel in it, but those who stand on the sidelines with their “two sides” arguments are now shown that they are morally complicit

• signal to noise ratio

It feels a bit like how Reddit was prior to the digg exodus when overnight pun & lyric threads, ascii art and terminally shit one word responses appeared.

There is the awareness to the benefit of building slowly will bring, rather than having a an uncontrolled mass exodus, that risks little to no integration to the current curated culture.

• Transparency

You can see who the mods are and a mod log and currently, people are giving time to grow the communities rather than welding power.

• Quality content

It’s not the same stories getting posted by karma farmers or by bots. It’s more curated.

• Interactions

They’re more conversational than adversarial

And if you paid any attention to those reports, you would know that the vast majority are where those people have been critical of the UK or other govts actions, especially surrounding Palestine and none have gone further with the exception of Asa Winstanley. The only reason the police have visited those people is because zionist like complaining about nothing until they get their own way.

The one that the commentor here was responding to was a clear case of inciting violence. The same with people like the constantly crashing out Graham Lineham, who was arrested by police because he was inciting violence against a protected class.

So while the UK govt is infringing on peoples free speech, its not the ones who are getting all the publicity. Theyre just a bunch of whining fuckwits who want to be able to threaten people without consequence.

Please do try to keep abreast of the situation rather than stomping in with big boots and looking like a fucking idiot.

The UK is imprisoning thousands for their tweets.

What an absolute loads of bollocks.

There has recently been 1 woman jailed for her tweets where she admitted to inciting violence, not because of free speech issues.

These libertarian wankers love citing that sole case (and make out that it’s “thousands, I tell ya!”) but will overlook that several Just Stop Oil protesters were jailed for 4 years just for holding a zoom call and anti-genocide protesters are being arrested and charged with terrorism offences just for writing on a bit of cardboard.

And it’s about 10 years too late.

It’s about 5 years ago that they deleted comments from anyone saying “fuck the 5 mods”

No child chooses to be a bigot, a zionist or a fascist. It’s environmental.

We’re not the monsters!

After shoving their noses in it, they have to dig every body out of the rubble.

And that’s why every zionist is a legitimate target. They are fascists and deserve no quarter.

Check his videos about poisoning AI scraping with respects to music (he’s a musician professionally)

I ask why they lock the door on the toilet.

They usually splutter about social norms etc and I point out that it’s a social norm they mind their own fucking business about my affairs

CEOs still haven’t learnt to keep their mouths shut because they keep getting shot!

Nothing says your cause is doomed more than going to the prison cell of the most popular Palestinian leader whos been incarcerated for over 20 years, to scream in his face that he wont win because he lives rent free in your head every single day!

They’re all scrambling because they know public opinion has swung so much that they are in danger of it moving to seeing that Israel has no right to exist and it really shouldn’t any longer. That it is an apartheid state that will invariably wipe out Palestinians and then will move onto its expansionist ambitions of taking over Lebanon, Syria and the Sinai.

BRICS is making headway with that.

The US empire is already in decline. What it’s allies need to work out is when to jump ship