Bad example to use here, Chuck. It was discovered that the dude never had a valid license, while having had plenty of opportunities to get one. I can in fact hate the player when the player is retarded.
Usually the cope when it comes to cyclists especially is "what if we made a driving license harder to get/more expensive". It doesn't work if you're just going to have a bunch of unlicensed drivers running around; you're just punishing people who follow the law.
It's like how crying about gun laws and making new rules isn't going to change the fact that the vast majority of gun violence, the stuff that actually drives up gun violence, is made by people who don't follow the rules.
it wasn't for nothing that in a former workplace (which had had multiple changes of ownership) that management consultants were called "angels of death" by the workforce
That was one of the plot drivers in
Office Space, that they were bringing in "consultants" to figure out who to lay off.
Something hilarious that he used to have a job that used to provide a service even if it was something like "corn inspector". But now he's e-begging online. I feel like this is the ideal world that urbanists are aiming for where no one actually does anything, and everyone becomes an online "personality" with a patreon passing around the same money between themselves.
The problem is he doesn't value someone's time, skill and labor. If you're complaining about the price of someone's work then do it yourself.
I stand by my previous post in that he didn't actually do anything, he's just resentful that he grew up in rural areas.
He admitted he moved to the city because of "the wife's job" and his e-begging suggests that she's the one that wears the pants and controls the finances.
This is always interesting to me. I hear about people posting on the Internet. "My house is flooding, what should I do?" Reddit, of course, says "Call a plumber." No, you fuck, turn off the water. Fucking christ. The number of people who I recommend knowing how to turn off their water, gas and electricity and them looking at me like I'm crazy is way too high.
My outlet makes sparking noises and smells funny... maybe turn off the breaker... What?
I'd like to see the statistics for those that rent vs. those that own, or at least have enough leverage in the former to actually make changes. If you live in some apartment complex where changing a lightbulb is verboten, then there's not really a whole lot of need to do anything related to plumbing, and they sure aren't going to tell you where the emergency shutoff valves are.
As far as home maintenance goes there's a certain level of where you can just watch a YouTube video, buy an inexpensive part, and you're golden. On the other hand, there are situations where you have to call a professional especially if there's a significant chance of majorly fucking up.
They are limited in how far they can pedal. I would say 20 miles at the most as one needs to pedal back.
There is a different scale to bicycling. I remember doing six miles in one direction and felt like I was on the edge of the world. The problem is that the so-called "human scale" isn't very good if you were actually trying to go anywhere without much effort (very sweaty by that time), nor on the "delivering goods and services" metric.
