I suppose bikers will go for routine checkups and respond to the doctor, “Jeez, I’ve been riding for ten years and nobody ever told me it was dangerous!”

The lessons are the same from every public health concern: risky sex, obesity epidemic, smoking. Badgering people is really fucking annoying for everybody involved - so annoying that they’ll have worse healthcare outcomes in general - and basically nobody will make lifestyle changes because of it. The most you can do with non-structural solutions is get people to take prophylactics or wear a helmet.

Your risk of death is 100%. I drive a convertible even though it is much more dangerous than a sedan in a rollover or T-bone. Many of us here shoot guns, do direct action, have no health insurance, etc. As long as they’re registered organ donors, why should doctors hassle bikers? Bikers know the risk better than the general population, they just want it more.

Bicycle deaths per mile: ~10 per 100M miles Motorcycle deaths per mile: ~20 per 100M miles

IMO this shows that they’re more dangerous, but primarily because you can go a lot further on a motorcycle. Basically 100% of the danger from riding a bicycle comes from cars. In contrast, it’s quite practical to kill yourself on a motorcycle without external intervention. So, if you have already chosen a mode of transportation, behavioral choices on a motorcycle offer much more control over where you fall within that mode’s risk spectrum. Wearing a helmet and taking a class make way more difference on a motorcycle, and that’s borne out by the contributing factors to fatal accidents /u/nat_turner_overdrive has posted elsewhere in the thread. Seems quite possible that the per-mile risk of a motorcycle rider doing everything right is comparable to that of the average bicyclist. Biking in cities is stupid dangerous of course, every cyclist I know has been hit, but that’s a problem with cars not an intrinsic thing.

i joined a socialist org for mass politics hopium, and also did enough networking in anarchist/mutual aid circles to find a couple promising direct action projects

misinterpreted as

trying to learn about the period but struggle with how dense it [the period] can be at times

IMO no, for two reasons:

• reading code is harder than writing it. If the AI writes you a standard implementation, you still have to read it to make sure it’s correct. So that’s more work than just doing it yourself
• AI will produce code that looks right. Since it can’t understand anything that’s all it does, next most likely token == most correct-looking solution. But when the obvious solution is not the right one, you now have deceptively incorrect code, specifically and solely designed to look correct.

I’ve never used Copilot myself but pair programmed with someone who used it, and it seemed like he spent more time messing with the output than it would have taken to write it himself.

No TikTok, no Kaspersky, I’m excited to live behind the Great Firewall of America.

simply show them your phone background, the BRICS waifu picture

Nice work! Get your “user testing” time in and enjoy.

seems like it’d be hard to get reliable data on this. anybody here in the fentanyl business? im not a cop :)

yeah I think housing first usually. car as housing was a reasonable idea, I’m not gonna knock the plan too much, but clearly it didn’t work. IMO it is actually kind of hard to buy a cheap car that works on a tight timeline. Especially because budget wasn’t $4k, it was like $2k. Needed to be enough left over to pay for gas/insurance/repairs/parking tickets until she was able to get a paycheck. Takes a lot of time on the internet, multiple meetups, negotiation, possibility of getting robbed, etc. I think calendar time 2 weeks last time I bought a shitbox, and the clock is ticking at $90+ a day if you’re in an SRO hotel or something.

I have no experience with halfway houses and stuff, every institution that theoretically gives people free housing that I’ve interacted with here has been pretty bad unfortunately

how any lump sum payment could uplift somebody out of homelessness.

it can certainly happen but the stars have to align on a very single clear cause. I helped a migrant family like a month ago who got pulled over with a gun in the car, which made the county impound it until they could pay $2k to get it back. Doordash was their only source of income so they couldn’t pay rent and no longer could sleep in their car either. Local jail support org was able to get them a couple days of hotel while we tried and failed to get their car back with bribes, and ultimately I and some other contributors were able to give them like $600 for their first month’s rent in another state. At that point they almost immediately found two under-the-table jobs and became self-sustaining. They’re probably still precarious but at least they’re housed now. Really nice folks with a cute toddler.

But the thing is they had good connections in the immigrant community which allowed them to get an apartment without proof of income, and to quickly get those jobs. Two adults getting min wage can make rent so they literally just needed the starting capital. It’s harder for a person on their own because the kinds of job you can get at a moment’s notice generally don’t pay enough to live without a roommate. Idk I think that all we can say is that allthetimesivedied needed something other than $4k - maybe just more capital, maybe a different kind of thing.

not a good car but a car, unless the market is locally fucked in Portland. In Chicago for instance I see several 07-09 Sentras with ~120k for $3k on Facebook Marketplace which would get you from A to B for a couple years. Nicer than my last car, there’s probably some $2k shitboxes still

unfortunately it is more of a webnovel: His Soul is Marching On to Another World; or, the John Brown Isekai

lmao i’m sorry guys the ArXiv people are drawing arbitrary lines in a sea of dots again

in their defense it is hard to get good data when you’re paying people on the internet £1.50 for an 8 minute trial (total cost: £300). Would have been better and much funnier to go to a real car meet and have an attractive grad student ask who wants to get their dick measured

also 2 of the 6 sports car pictures are the same Porsche lol

unfortunately the hippie shit costs more. Likely the assembly lines are easier if they don’t have to worry about it separating. But since we live in hell world it is entirely possible that hydrogenated fat and/or sugar are less expensive per gram than roasted peanuts

shit post. peanuts are eaten because they’re the cheapest nut. hot dogs and bologna and glorious USSR sausage are eaten because they’re cheap. in every culture people eat what’s available. the presence of these foods in American culture is not because of a successful advertising psyop, it’s because they’re cheap! once they become expensive ideology keeps them there sure.

I take particular offense at this poster apparently not understanding peanut butter. Natural peanut butter isn’t chalky, those scary hydrogenated fats are just to make it so you don’t have to stir. Natural peanut butter will separate and there’s a big old layer of PEANUT OIL sitting there. It’s full of fat already! That’s why it tastes good!

imagine getting rear-ended and it’s a fucking senator. I would snap

Actually a funnier example is music. Meat is Murder was a good album but Morrissey sucks and they’re making a lab grown Morrissey. You think Morrissey sucks but you only listen to folk punk anyway? Well fuck off lol, who cares