Comments by "LoneTech" (@0LoneTech) on "Not Just Bikes" channel.

I hate signs that interrupt my attempt to read them by trying to hijack my attention and control my purchases. Had to fight the impulse to smash the thing, settled on walking away and never making any purchase there.
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@djbmw1 A few things blatantly off there. For instance, yes, there's a little less insurance enforced by law on slightly augmented humans moving about than for multi-ton vehicles moving at easily three times fast speeds, known for demolishing buildings and zipping off in the wrong direction based on momentary controller or machine lapses. For another, there's no way trying to mash downtown streets under "highways" isn't bad scope bloat - or more to the point, overreach. Blatant party line isn't making you a sensible party here.
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I've been in some scary bicycle accidents. I've collided, fallen down stairs, hit a fence; and came out of it with maybe a few bruises and some bike part to realign. A friend of mine even broke a wrist when a wheel seized, and I've heard second hand of a fatality in a race. Yet the closest I came to dying has been a car driving way over the speed limit through red lights just at the edge of two controlled pedestrian crossings (moments later, he stopped to yell at a left turning motorist for almost sideswiping him as he sped into a cleared lane). To be clear, that driver would have instantly killed me if I had taken one step at my green light, rather than double check for rogue cars. This was in Brussels. The second worst, a truck convoy whose lead car thought a poor visibility curved narrow road with bike and horse traffic was no cause to slow down or leave room. I've encountered one tale of a bicyclist damaging a motor vehicle notably, a bus with plastic back and a poorly routed cable that couldn't take someone stumbling into it. And I've seen several bikes crushed by cars. The most common causes of large damage to cars are stationary objects like stones, houses, curbs and bridges. After that comes other cars. And yet the people arguing for better conditions for cars somehow always start out demanding that nothing be made to slow down, reduce or improve control of cars.
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@lainiwakura1776 Oh, they know that very well. You're just collateral; their business is selling more ads to people who don't want to talk to or satisfy customers.
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The construction business is often astonishingly corrupt as well, with years of extra delays and every time something was catastrophically misconstructed, whoopsie that bit was done by a subcontractor that's already out of business.
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And yet... it's most likely your loved ones you won't see driving these things.
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@derpderpin1568 Sources, please. Shouting things repeatedly doesn't affect their truth but sure makes your credibility drop. I did find several news reports on the case, including little details like the CSC recommendation applying to kids under 10... and the elder kid in the group happened to be aged 10. As a kid, being supervised by an older sibling is perfectly normal. Why is it expected that this bus ride they've trained at for years is suddenly going to turn dangerous when one less adult is on board?
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@amorwasi6034 What a marvellous example. A good friend of mine was once assigned the task of feeding her sister's children because the sister's kids were *starving*, and her own kids weren't. This wasn't from difficulty acquiring food, this was from fad diet delusions, and having close family assist was specifically a way to avoid more drastic measures. That's what those laws are about. Of course such cases are rare, and investigations have to take care not to make snap decisions (like the brilliant inspectors who thought "measure the straw bed where it's most humid" meant "wait for the animal to piss and stick the meter in the pool"). An example of this would be specifically suggesting getting a second opinion if a treatment is disputed. What you're complaining about is really the human equivalent of animal abuse laws.
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They'll keep blaming whatever falls in their sight, of course. What they want is a warlord style armored escort to give them clear roads wherever their whims take them. They want to be the disaster, natural or not. Not the sad little whiners stuck in their box.
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Worth noting, the Swedish version rhymes - "Det finns inget dåligt väder, bara dåliga kläder."
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Management insisted to push known broken code (with specifically disabled safeguards) onto lethal machines and to operate them in public. And then they blamed the victims (that includes the "safety driver"). And they're not even held to the traffic laws.
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@satunnainenkatselija4478 You can absolutely have motorized traffic. Consider driverless electric campus buses, which drive safely and yield. But it should have a reason to be there.
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Being among the best in the world doesn't mean there's no room for improvement. Go ahead, figure out what's wrong and how to set a better example!
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So compare it to the same weeks last year.
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@NotJustBikes Now there is - just to prove you wrong. XKCD #468
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Cities are loud, and cars are ridiculousy loud.
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@squelchedotter That made no sense at all. If you need to make many you have economy of scale working un favour of improving them. It's wasteful and expensive to do it badly.
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AFAICT, they never were conservatives, they're egotists. They band together under a false impression that they've got aligned interests, driven by picking out minorities to attack.
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I don't think I've encountered a motorist who tried to kill me. It was all just a side effect from them completely disregarding safety. I've been run off the road by a truck convoy (so was my mother), nearly killed by a speeding idiot running a red light (incredibly, he then stopped to yell at other motorists for almost hitting him at the next intersection), and more... but they mostly kill by negligence. The hostile acts are typically not meant to kill, but easily could.
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I recently filled in a survey about winter cycling. They wanted to know if the pandemic had affected my habits. I had to check "Other" for reason - because I got sick.
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I felt it at "better than Brussels"... I was about two steps from death there. Had I trusted the green light, I wouldn't be alive. Worse than when I was run off the road by a truck convoy.
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@cynthiamolenaar770 The helmet primarily protects your brain. It may not often make a fatal collision survivable, but it considerably reduces the risk of serious brain damage when you do survive.
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