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[quaawaa]

Oakland...

The drivers are probably Niggers. Half these bikers will scream not to call the cops on Blacks, while the other half will want to shoot them.
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Whatever happens, the negative outcome and inconsistent values will not be mentioned again with the biker and the incident ignored.

Picture of the perp from the video:

 

[Dalkgalbi]

Note that the Idaho Stop says that cyclists can treat a stop sign like a yield sign, it does not mean that they can ride through an intersection without slowing down and looking both ways. Idaho Stops are also illegal in California.

Source (Archive)

Funny, I've always heard that kind of stop called a "California" stop, especially when I was living in Idaho.

 

[CFC-12]

What all this is likely going to lead to is midwits thinking they are urban planners and pushing for stupid shit they heard from some fucker on YouTube, and the rest of us having to suffer because of it.

This thread is legitimately some of the best counterarguments I've seen to these urbanists on the entire internet. Good work boys, but fuck if that's not a little concerning.

Have you ever noticed that their ideal walkable cities are always examples in more temperate zones where heatstroke is not a risk? I guarantee you if you magically transposed Amsterdam to have the same weather as New Orleans then there would be a lot fewer bikers.

Shocker, bikes are popular somewhere it almost never gets below freezing and almost never experiences sweltering heat.

You know, you actually very well COULD get away with relying on a bike for transportation year round in that case, especially if you're just tooling around town. But Jason is being disingenuous as fuck by trying to promote it as something that'll just work anywhere and not something that works because Amsterdam has the Goldilocks climatology that facilitates year-round bike riding. The dude's from Canada, for fucks' sakes. He knows good and damn well how cold it can get in the North.

 

[Spob]

"Why can't Texas not build gigantic freeway interchanges and look more like the Holy Netherlands... oh wait"

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

Shocker, bikes are popular somewhere it almost never gets below freezing and almost never experiences sweltering heat.

And it better be a very flat area. Valleys? who have heard of those?

 

[Markass the Worst]

And it better be a very flat area. Valleys? who have heard of those?

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By sheer, pure coincidence, the Netherlands is also mostly flat. Go figure.

 

[CFC-12]

Oh boy, I found a fun website that allows me to dunk on solar and wind power even more!

It's called Electricity Maps, and it's a map that shows you the various nations of the world, their rates of electricity generation, and crucially, what technology was used to generate the electricity. Some nations and regions of the world have actually managed to cut the carbon content of their grid quite a lot. How have they done that? Solar panels and wind turbines??? Let's find out. We'll start with, say, Iso New England.

So you can see it shows a graph displaying how much power is being generated and from what source. But that's just at the present, let's set it to 30 day mode.

So, baseload nuclear power, supplemented with small amounts of solar and biomass, some hydro, and a shitload of natural gas. That weird grey tumor above February 3rd is oil power. I know they had some very cold weather there around that date, thanks to some dude I follow on YouTube from there, so most likely it's some semi-decommissioned oil peaker plant that they only turn on for emergency power when demand spikes. So, you get how this works now? Cool, great. Let's look at the energy mix of some other grids.

Here's just across the border in Ontario. This is consistently one of the cleanest grids on the map. The lion's share of the mix is nuclear, with hydroelectric a distant second. Wind generation seems fairly inconsistent and solar may as well not exist. Natural gas seems to be used only at peak times as well.

Here's Finland. Again, strong showing from nuclear and hydro. The biomass line is wider because garbage incineration for electricity is more common in Euroland. The sort of tan yellow line is good ol' coal. This one's starting to show us how much of a problem wind power is at grid scale. It's not a consistent, day-in-day-out source of energy. It's a boom and bust cycle, like the stock market. Some days it's generating shitloads of power and some days it's functionally useless and is supplemented with good ol' dirty coal power. Oh yeah, and solar doesn't even register on this one.

This is Quebec. I don't feel as if I need to explain this one.

Here's France, another country typically touted as having an exceptionally green electrical grid. Are you starting to notice a pattern? This is the first chart where solar power isn't just a blip.

Great Britain. Again, the weakness of relying on wind shows. Though wind power can generate up to 50% of the nation's demand on some days, on others it barely meets 10%. I'm sure someone out there is about to say "WHAT ABOUT MUH BATTERY STORAGE?" but... just no. Battery storage is, theoretically, included in these maps. It would be a purple bar if there was enough for it to be visible. But it's such a small portion of the grid even now that it's practically a rounding error. Stop trying to make grid-scale battery storage happen. It's not going to happen.

Just for shits and giggles, I took a look at the Netherlands, AKA Jason's car free valhalla. Ironically a much dirtier grid than his home of Ontario. Wildly inconsistent wind power, but a surprising amount of solar. Still though, primarily natural gas, coal, and even a little bit of oil power. All the better to charge your E-bike with!

Last but not least, California. A place described as almost a perfect use case for solar power. Despite large investments in renewable energy, it still barely provides a third of the state's power, most of which is from solar and hydro. And of course, to supplement it, there's a big fat layer of natural gas. That teeny little purple sliver above hydroelectric is battery storage. It's less than a percent of the grid, and it's only on there for a few days. That yellow line near the bottom is geothermal, though. That's kind of cool.

So, what's the lesson? The lesson is that most of the places with exceptionally clean electrical grids are places that invested in hydroelectric dams or nuclear power decades ago and still rely on them today. The other lesson is that it doesn't matter how many turbines you install or how many solar panels you put up. If the wind ain't blowing and the sun ain't shining, you ain't gonna have any electricity. You're just gonna end up burning a lot of natural gas or coal instead. And no, you can't just handwave the problem by saying you'll install billions of dollars' worth of battery technology that doesn't even really exist yet.

Hope you guys enjoy this post. I don't know how me posting on the CWC forums led to me educating online spergs about energy infrastructure, but these posts are fun to make.

 

[Brabbit Narp]

By all means, continue making these posts. They are both informative and entertaining.

Out of curiosity, I tried searching YouTube for any videos that would engage these NJB types from the opposite perspective, but all I managed to get was more of the same from both these people and mainstream media shite peddling same or similar tripe. I am certain they exist, considering this type of stuff would make good fodder for some wannabe debunker to break down, but I can't find anything buried under what the YouTube algorithm deems to show me. It isn't that much of a surprise, seeing as these types of channels are almost certainly astroturfed to hell and back, with their opposite being buried for one reason or another. But even going just three years ago, you'd find something at least.

 

[singlele]

Fuckcars and NJB might just be some of the most embarassing echo chambers to ever exist, holy shit

It's especially painful because a considerable amount of what they say is agreeable: cities should be designed so that walking, cycling, or safe, reliable, accessible public transportation should be widely available so people aren't forced to drive their cars to get anywhere and high-speed inter-city rail should exist for journeys that are too long to drive but too short to fly (think Chicago to Minneapolis).

I think this is a good thing for this country to strive for, and I think it's definitely possible. Within our lifetimes? Probably not but I'm a firm believer of "better late than never". But it conveys a message that a lot of laypeople (i.e. people who don't read transit documents for fun) can either get behind or at the very least understand in such a bitter, holier-than-thou attitude.

Instead of being a way to advocate for better, more human-friendly cities it's just being used more "America bad Europe/East Asia utopia" shit that Reddit and social media writ large is already inundated with. They act like a high school clique, complete with their own lingo for the out-group.

Texas's HSR plans

I was honestly looking forward to this one since they plan to use the same, brand new bullet trains that Japan does, but last year the CEO quit and it's been complete radio silence from the company ever since. Combined with Brightline West, it would've ruled to have 2 different privately-owned inter-city high speed rail lines open in 2 different regions of the country in the span of 2 years, just mogging the absolute fuck out of CAHSR.

Dallas-Houston bullet train developer vows project is on track, but state officials lack confidence

With lingering skepticism about Texas Central’s ability to build a high-speed rail line, landowners along the route want the company to be more forthcoming about the project’s status.

www.texastribune.org

 

[The ShekelMonster]

And there is really no one calling them out, those blogposts by The Daily Rake are probably the best dismantling of their arguments I’ve seen yet, but it’s also mixed in with Jew-sperging that is likely to turn the average person off.

I'm finishing the series, hopefully by the end of the month, and then turning it into YouTube videos. Our YouTube channel has received three strikes, cumulatively, and currently has one active. I suspect if my videos on them really take off the channel will be banned, but the videos will be somewhat sanitized both for the YouTube audience as well as the troon censors.

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

www.youtube.com

Honestly, censorship on that platform seems so random. I just got a strike for reposting the Seinfeld anti-tranny joke, but the above is allowed to stay on there no problemo, despite having more views.

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

Oh boy, I found a fun website that allows me to dunk on solar and wind power even more!

It's called Electricity Maps, and it's a map that shows you the various nations of the world, their rates of electricity generation, and crucially, what technology was used to generate the electricity. Some nations and regions of the world have actually managed to cut the carbon content of their grid quite a lot. How have they done that? Solar panels and wind turbines??? Let's find out. We'll start with, say, Iso New England.

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So you can see it shows a graph displaying how much power is being generated and from what source. But that's just at the present, let's set it to 30 day mode.
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So, baseload nuclear power, supplemented with small amounts of solar and biomass, some hydro, and a shitload of natural gas. That weird grey tumor above February 3rd is oil power. I know they had some very cold weather there around that date, thanks to some dude I follow on YouTube from there, so most likely it's some semi-decommissioned oil peaker plant that they only turn on for emergency power when demand spikes. So, you get how this works now? Cool, great. Let's look at the energy mix of some other grids.

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Here's just across the border in Ontario. This is consistently one of the cleanest grids on the map. The lion's share of the mix is nuclear, with hydroelectric a distant second. Wind generation seems fairly inconsistent and solar may as well not exist. Natural gas seems to be used only at peak times as well.

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Here's Finland. Again, strong showing from nuclear and hydro. The biomass line is wider because garbage incineration for electricity is more common in Euroland. The sort of tan yellow line is good ol' coal. This one's starting to show us how much of a problem wind power is at grid scale. It's not a consistent, day-in-day-out source of energy. It's a boom and bust cycle, like the stock market. Some days it's generating shitloads of power and some days it's functionally useless and is supplemented with good ol' dirty coal power. Oh yeah, and solar doesn't even register on this one.

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This is Quebec. I don't feel as if I need to explain this one.

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Here's France, another country typically touted as having an exceptionally green electrical grid. Are you starting to notice a pattern? This is the first chart where solar power isn't just a blip.

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Great Britain. Again, the weakness of relying on wind shows. Though wind power can generate up to 50% of the nation's demand on some days, on others it barely meets 10%. I'm sure someone out there is about to say "WHAT ABOUT MUH BATTERY STORAGE?" but... just no. Battery storage is, theoretically, included in these maps. It would be a purple bar if there was enough for it to be visible. But it's such a small portion of the grid even now that it's practically a rounding error. Stop trying to make grid-scale battery storage happen. It's not going to happen.

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Just for shits and giggles, I took a look at the Netherlands, AKA Jason's car free valhalla. Ironically a much dirtier grid than his home of Ontario. Wildly inconsistent wind power, but a surprising amount of solar. Still though, primarily natural gas, coal, and even a little bit of oil power. All the better to charge your E-bike with!

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Last but not least, California. A place described as almost a perfect use case for solar power. Despite large investments in renewable energy, it still barely provides a third of the state's power, most of which is from solar and hydro. And of course, to supplement it, there's a big fat layer of natural gas. That teeny little purple sliver above hydroelectric is battery storage. It's less than a percent of the grid, and it's only on there for a few days. That yellow line near the bottom is geothermal, though. That's kind of cool.

So, what's the lesson? The lesson is that most of the places with exceptionally clean electrical grids are places that invested in hydroelectric dams or nuclear power decades ago and still rely on them today. The other lesson is that it doesn't matter how many turbines you install or how many solar panels you put up. If the wind ain't blowing and the sun ain't shining, you ain't gonna have any electricity. You're just gonna end up burning a lot of natural gas or coal instead. And no, you can't just handwave the problem by saying you'll install billions of dollars' worth of battery technology that doesn't even really exist yet.

Hope you guys enjoy this post. I don't know how me posting on the CWC forums led to me educating online spergs about energy infrastructure, but these posts are fun to make.

Lmao, nigger penis

 

[quaawaa]

I was honestly looking forward to this one since they plan to use the same, brand new bullet trains that Japan does, but last year the CEO quit and it's been complete radio silence from the company ever since. Combined with Brightline West, it would've ruled to have 2 different privately-owned inter-city high speed rail lines open in 2 different regions of the country in the span of 2 years, just mogging the absolute fuck out of CAHSR.

Dallas-Houston bullet train developer vows project is on track, but state officials lack confidence

With lingering skepticism about Texas Central’s ability to build a high-speed rail line, landowners along the route want the company to be more forthcoming about the project’s status.

www.texastribune.org

It’s a complicated story, but the Texas HSR was held up by waiting for eminent domain power. Many rural landowners refused to sell which put the project in jeopardy. The train company ended up having a long legal battle where they demanded the right to eminent domain. They eventually won after the federal government classified them as critical to Amtrak, but the court case took so long that they ran out of money. Also, like Brightline, they were planning to use federal grants and loan guarantees to pay for it.

It’s hard to blame the landowners for not selling: HSR offers them zero benefits (as the train can’t stop for them because if it did it would no longer be high speed) but many downsides (noise, dividing the land in two). Rather than try to work out some compromise like building noise walls and bridges or elevating the tracks, Texas Central ran to the government and demanded the ability to just take the land.

 

[Seafarer]

I'm finishing the series, hopefully by the end of the month, and then turning it into YouTube videos. Our YouTube channel has received three strikes, cumulatively, and currently has one active. I suspect if my videos on them really take off the channel will be banned, but the videos will be somewhat sanitized both for the YouTube audience as well as the troon censors.

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

www.youtube.com

Honestly, censorship on that platform seems so random. I just got a strike for reposting the Seinfeld anti-tranny joke, but the above is allowed to stay on there no problemo, despite having more views.

Yeah the censorship on YT is really weird, stuff like the Seinfeld AI based moment gets taken down, but a channel like Leather Apron Club releases a video calling out the chosen people (and not under the guise of Palestine liberation or whatever) and is still up.

As for your upcoming video series, I’ll probably check it out, although it probably won’t give me anything new because I’ve already seen the blogposts.

P.s. sorry you live in Canada

 

[CFC-12]

I am certain they exist, considering this type of stuff would make good fodder for some wannabe debunker to break down, but I can't find anything buried under what the YouTube algorithm deems to show me. It isn't that much of a surprise, seeing as these types of channels are almost certainly astroturfed to hell and back, with their opposite being buried for one reason or another. But even going just three years ago, you'd find something at least.

Ten or even five years ago on YouTube, you would have had Sargon and Thuderf00t types all over this shit. I guess the big channels don't care and YouTube doesn't let the small ones gain exposure.

It's especially painful because a considerable amount of what they say is agreeable: cities should be designed so that walking, cycling, or safe, reliable, accessible public transportation should be widely available so people aren't forced to drive their cars to get anywhere and high-speed inter-city rail should exist for journeys that are too long to drive but too short to fly (think Chicago to Minneapolis).

It's really disappointing. Most of us in this thread I imagine don't actually have any fundamental problems with biking or transit, especially in the context of living in a big city. In areas that dense, transportation options other than cars are logical for most people's daily usage cases. Driving in city centres has been a fucking nightmare basically as long as cars have been around. Nothing is inherently wrong with building a rail line in a place where it makes sense to have a rail line. If someone wants to bike to work, why would I care? As long as they aren't blocking the roads they can bike where they damn well please.

No, the problem comes from these people who have decided that cars are actually an evil force of destruction that was hoisted upon us by Ford and GM against our will, and that people who drive them are dumb and stupid and selfish and actually everything can be done by light rail. The type of people who are absolutely unwilling to compromise on what the future of transportation should be.

 

[quaawaa]

Tire Extinguishers aren't so much fun when it's your vehicle's tires that are being extinguished:



Without any hint of irony, /r/fuckcars blames this on carbrains hating everyone who doesn't drive:

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They downvoted anyone who pointed out the irony of complaining about bike tires being deflated after advocating for car tires to deflated/slashed:




Note that the bike tires in the OP were deflated and the car tires were slashed.

Several comments in /r/vancouver says that there is a crazy person slashing car tires in the neighborhood:



/r/fuckcars post (Archive)
/r/vancouver post (Archive)

 

[The Noise]

Tire Extinguishers aren't so much fun when it's your vehicle's tires that are being extinguished:

Used to browse this sub a bit because I like the idea of more public transportation in America yet recognize that building a train from Dipshit Nowhereville to Crime-Ridden City has a lot of budgetary and population problems associated with it.

Stopped browsing after a ton of the posts started advocating for terrorism/tire-slashing and thinking that straight up banning all cars is a reasonable, achievable goal. Redditors make it hard to support any normal policy position when they take things to the stupidest extreme possible every time on every issue.

 

[CFC-12]

Used to browse this sub a bit because I like the idea of more public transportation in America yet recognize that building a train from Dipshit Nowhereville to Crime-Ridden City has a lot of budgetary and population problems associated with it.

Stopped browsing after a ton of the posts started advocating for terrorism/tire-slashing and thinking that straight up banning all cars is a reasonable, achievable goal. Redditors make it hard to support any normal policy position when they take things to the stupidest extreme possible every time on every issue.

It's really the massive inherent flaw of any political sub on reddit. They usually start out well intended enough, but once they reach that critical mass of terminally online diehards who can downvote and block out more rational, level-headed discussion, they're free to propagate any stupid extremist beliefs they please. Normal people get drowned out, and extremist cunts focus the subreddit around their ideologies. I haven't used reddit regularly for years now at this point but I saw it happen numerous times while I was posting there.

The whole upvote/downvote/karma system and the way it works is really just the Achilles' heel of that website. It's so easy for a group of just a couple hundred people or so to control what content is even visible on a subreddit.

 

[quaawaa]

Tire Extinguishers aren't so much fun when it's your vehicle's tires that are being extinguished:
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Without any hint of irony, /r/fuckcars blames this on carbrains hating everyone who doesn't drive:
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They downvoted anyone who pointed out the irony of complaining about bike tires being deflated after advocating for car tires to deflated/slashed:
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Note that the bike tires in the OP were deflated and the car tires were slashed.

Several comments in /r/vancouver says that there is a crazy person slashing car tires in the neighborhood:
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/r/fuckcars post (Archive)
/r/vancouver post (Archive)

It got reposted (archive) and got 6200 upvotes:

They still don't have any shame:









Note "liberal" here means "non-communist":





Someone calls them /r/SelfAwareWolves material and it goes exactly as you'd expect:

 

[Xarpho's Return]

It's really the massive inherent flaw of any political sub on reddit. They usually start out well intended enough, but once they reach that critical mass of terminally online diehards who can downvote and block out more rational, level-headed discussion, they're free to propagate any stupid extremist beliefs they please. Normal people get drowned out, and extremist cunts focus the subreddit around their ideologies. I haven't used reddit regularly for years now at this point but I saw it happen numerous times while I was posting there.

The whole upvote/downvote/karma system and the way it works is really just the Achilles' heel of that website. It's so easy for a group of just a couple hundred people or so to control what content is even visible on a subreddit.

From the clips seen here, even as a few months ago a significant, upvoted comments were still considered reasonable approaches. Guess this will go the way of /r/antiwork where all reason has long been driven out and you either get complete retards or people advocating for a totalitarian police state.

 

[singlele]

From the clips seen here, even as a few months ago a significant, upvoted comments were still considered reasonable approaches. Guess this will go the way of /r/antiwork where all reason has long been driven out and you either get complete retards or people advocating for a totalitarian police state.

Speaking of /r/antiwork, what're the odds of a /r/fuckcars mod getting interviewed on Hannity or something and making a complete ass of himself, like what happened to /r/antiwork? I get that they're two different levels of insane and delusional but the /r/fuckcars interview could still have a very strong cringe factor. Plus the fallout on the sub would be funny.