Homo Homini Lupus Est

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Cake day: October 1st, 2023

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  • People suffering(?) from the triad just need love…oh come on. Try telling that to one of countless victims of people with the triad (or part thereof). They might have some meaningful insight.

    You might be one the rare occasions that actually sees a problem there and may also be seeking help. Congrats and my heartfelt apologies if that’d be the case. Seriously.

    But whatever, you’re surely entitled to your own opinion. The triad is just a theory anyway. Like evolution. It’s just circumstantial evidence. If you dismiss that and maybe even the whole DCM/ICD, okay. One could surely argue about the degree of perfection in those.








  • I’m GenX. We kinda grew up with humor like that. Where you could joke about absolutely anything. But we weren’t all monsters. We probably just weren’t sensitized enough that many topics actually really happen and affect peoples lifes and even trigger them. Many of us learned better, some gave that shit to their kids.





  • OK sure, if you have the infrastructure for bikes, it’s the better choice most of the time. Here we totally do not have those. Some streets have a bike-lane, but only for a short while and the street would be the least place I’d like to drive. As you said, people aren’t that careful with cyclists and I’d be highly vulnerable. Dedicated bike-lanes that are NOT on a “normal” road, I’ve yet to see there (that are more than just some alibi)

    In the city it’s actually even more feasible for bikes than rural. Simply because traffic is mostly standing still or extremely slow. But rural is a nightmare. People drive like total arses. It’s mostly 100kmh limit on bad visibility curvy narrow roads and locals rarely even stay below that max speed. Even at night. It’s dangerous to drive a car there, let alone a bike. We have a house in a nice forest far away from people, but we’d shit our pants in a bike there. Locals are thinking that the road belongs to them alone. Usually it’s “ok”, as you rarely ever see other people, but when you do, they, too, drive like maniacs and then you meet on said narrow road in a tight curve at night…

    Our neighbors, the dutch, have it waaaaaaay better. A bike would be really really useful there. Lanes all the time, people respect bikes and are more careful, if they even meet. That’s awesome. We are in bike-midage…




  • You’re totally right, kinda. But isn’t your conclusion way more dangerous than actually driving the deadly metal-box yourself? Being a pedestrian or, even worse, cyclist, you’re a highly vulnerable squishy flesh-thingy surrounded by deadly murder-boxes.

    The safest people out there are bus- and truckdrivers. I mean truck-trucks, not those murican abominations like the rams and f150s and the likes.

    Personally, I rarely drive faster than 80kmh (50mph). Even on the highway where people go totally bonkers all the time. We should have a speed-limit on highways…