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[Xarpho's Return]

That's really not moral grandstanding. It's a legitimate issue of personal autonomy and the right to due process if the powers that be are trying to lock you up.

The right to refuse consent to medical treatment if they can't pony up proof that there's some kind of harm involved is pretty basic. (Hell, I think it's a human right to refuse treatment against medical advice. I don't know why we have that right when it's a physical condition but we don't when it's a psychological condition. I guess intuitively it's "scarier" when some guy is talking about necking himself versus some other guy just deciding to drink himself to death.)

It's like vaccine mandates, but shrinks have even less evidence. At the very least there's physical evidence that covid is real. Not to say that I don't believe crazy people exist, they do. But psychiatry starts off in the inherently shaky field of, well, thoughts and feelings, and on top of that, the field has a shit track record of massive fuckups.

No one is going to touch O'Connor v. Donaldson now or try to touch it because they don't trust the State with that much power, especially the fact that they could make you a criminal at the stroke of a pen.

However, there's a lot of post-2000 stuff that makes the problem way worse than it should be.

Back on subject, this particular train has been seen before in this thread but I'm aghast at how somehow can praise this seat (nevermind the whole aspect of using a train) as "better than a luxury car" without irony.



I've seen chairs at garage sales with less wear than this.

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[quaawaa]

Back on subject, this particular train has been seen before in this thread but I'm aghast at how somehow can praise this seat (nevermind the whole aspect of using a train) as "better than a luxury car" without irony.



I've seen chairs at garage sales with less wear than this.

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My car seat is the comfiest chair I’ve ever sat in by far. It’s better than a $1000 office chair.

Modern luxury car seats have so much adjustability that they can perfectly conform to your body and they’re heated, ventilated, and massaging. Some even have speakers in the headrest. No train seat comes anywhere close to being as comfortable.

If a company converted them into furniture, they’d cause every other office furniture manufacturer go out of business.

 

[Thiletonomics]

My car seat is the comfiest chair I’ve ever sat in by far. It’s better than a $1000 office chair.

Modern luxury car seats have so much adjustability that they can perfectly conform to your body and they’re heated, ventilated, and massaging. Some even have speakers in the headrest. No train seat comes anywhere close to being as comfortable.

If a company converted them into furniture, they’d cause every other office furniture manufacturer go out of business.

And even some mainstream car brand seats are very comfortable as well, i.e. Nissan's Zero Gravity seats. If only the rest of the stuff in their cars (namely the infamous CVT, and the VC-Turbo that doesn't have much better fuel economy and is prone to failures) weren't complete trash though.

 

[Bonesjones]

If a company converted them into furniture, they’d cause every other office furniture manufacturer go out of business.

Gamer chairs are just racing seats with padding. The problem with office chairs is always the bottom seat is built cheap as shit with too much padding on the back. Instead of being made like a car seat or mattress with a spring base and dense but soft foam.

 

[quaawaa]

Jason went on a rant about snow in bike lanes:

Spoiler: Images in Tweet

Even when they plow the bike lanes, he's still mad:

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Maybe you could just GO AROUND the STOPPED tow truck and box truck?
There are no semi trucks in the picture:

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The snowplow can't plow that spot because of the bollards, which urbanists constantly demand be placed everywhere:

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I love how the thumbnail shows an unplowed street.
Apparently unplowed bike lanes are bad in Canada but good in Finland:

Spoiler: Video

Spoiler: YouTube

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[Xarpho's Return]

Apparently unplowed bike lanes are bad in Canada but good in Finland:

Yeah, I was going to say, "didn't this faggot go on record and say that snow/ice is perfectly fine in 'bike-friendly' areas?"

 

[Dante Alighieri]

I have no issues in the winter because I have a nice car. Get rekt Jason

 

[Apple Porcupine]

Remember a little while back when every urbanist flipped their shit about NYC pulling the plug on congestion pricing? Well it turns out that's back on now:

Source, Archive

Urbanist Twitter reacts:

Pic from a reply (why are troons and this topic so intertwined?):

Personally I think less people is generally economically disadvantageous but whatever. Also a lot of these tweets have hidden replies:

Gym of life doing wonders:

They're bringing signs to... celebrate? Seems like an opposition move but whatever.

Some aren't as happy:

 

[Marvin]

Eyyyy, I recognize some of these faggots...

Urbanist Twitter reacts:

This is Milhouse in a dress:

They're bringing signs to... celebrate? Seems like an opposition move but whatever.

Good ol' Gersh Kuntzman:

 

[quaawaa]

This is why NYC’s congestion has been getting worse despite its population declining:

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The government creates a problem and then bills you for the “solution”.

 

[Spooky Space Kook]

Eyyyy, I recognize some of these faggots...

This is Milhouse in a dress:
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Good ol' Gersh Kuntzman:

Why is he at half mast??????????????

 

[CFC-12]

On a tangent, but I feel like the Green energy movement shills/community almost wants its own thread, considering how much of a keystone it is in the current globohomo order while being scammy and carbon-intensive in reality.

I've posted about this before probably hundreds of pages back by now but it could definitely use its own thread.

Cities are fundamentally unsustainable locations where basically any resource, commodity, or utility has to be transported in from somewhere, and all waste byproducts of city living are likewise shipped to Somewhere Else. It's incredibly hypocritical how urbanists love to espouse their environmentalist "green" values while failing to understand the inherently unsustainable nature of living in a location where effectively no goods can be produced locally.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

Urban dense areas are super valuable! I support congestion pricing for them all, and getting bigger and higher as you get closer to the center.

Because fuck cities.

 

[JJLiautaud]

Why is he at half mast??????????????

Gender """Euphoria"""

 

[Paper Machete]

I've posted about this before probably hundreds of pages back by now but it could definitely use its own thread.

Cities are fundamentally unsustainable locations where basically any resource, commodity, or utility has to be transported in from somewhere, and all waste byproducts of city living are likewise shipped to Somewhere Else. It's incredibly hypocritical how urbanists love to espouse their environmentalist "green" values while failing to understand the inherently unsustainable nature of living in a location where effectively no goods can be produced locally.

Used to be that the pay off was manufacturing. But so much of that is outsourced that effectively only hospitality and entertainment are the only big industries. Even the businesses that are necessary to run cities are often money sinks. With how big populations are they're sort of a necessary evil as otherwise people would spread out so much agriculture a lot of nature would effectively be killed for the sake of housing them.

 

[quaawaa]

Some updates on Jason's adventures cycling in the Canadian winter:

A fan complains about bike locks seizing up in the cold. Jason tells him to oil it:

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He was almost murdered because a car passed him:

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He doesn't like people sharing his tweets:

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Jason hates that Americans tell him to shut up about a country he doesn't live in:

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He claims to have lived in the US at one point:

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The sheer irony of him complaining about someone telling him that he's "wrong about [his] own country or culture".
Also, you're a Canadian. You will never be a real Dutchman:

UrbanDictionary (Archive)
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He complains about Americans telling him he's wrong about their own country and culture:

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And he eurosplains (or more accurately, leafsplains) to an American about what "yank" means:

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"Americans think Europe is a bunch of medieval villages with the Eiffel Tower in the middle", says the guy who thinks Europe is a three square mile area in central Amsterdam:

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If you like Europe so much, why don't you shut up about North America?

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He's still mad that his fans tell him to tone down the anger or else no one outside the echo chamber will listen to him:

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[dj0449674]

His claim about getting a bike with hydrolic brakes is kind of wrong.

Bikes don't use DOT brake fluid they use mineral oil and that freezes around 10 degrees fahrenheit.

Also two wheels in icey conditions is dumb.

 

[CFC-12]

Used to be that the pay off was manufacturing. But so much of that is outsourced that effectively only hospitality and entertainment are the only big industries. Even the businesses that are necessary to run cities are often money sinks. With how big populations are they're sort of a necessary evil as otherwise people would spread out so much agriculture a lot of nature would effectively be killed for the sake of housing them.

Right on the money. Prior to the industrial revolution, there really wasn't a reason for your average person to go into the city. The whole point of cities, and the reason they were so important during industrialization, was because you needed a central area for transport and material infrastructure for manufacturing, and a high population in immediate proximity to those factories/railyards/power plants/etc to work there. So you'd just build your factory in whatever major population center and whammo.

I mean of course there were still CITIES prior to the industrial age, that isn't a new concept in and of itself. Cities were centers of culture and people living in them typically enjoyed access to better technology and news and things as a result, but with modern communication and transportation systems that's not as relevant as it used to be. Cities grew massively as a result of industrialization, and now that we've decided to basically offshore any meaningful manufacturing jobs overseas there's just not as much reason to have so many people consolidated in one area anymore. You still have service jobs and white collar Dilbert-esque cube farms, but that only gets you so far.

But then of course we have to ask if we really WANT the people living in urban bughives to leave and come live amongst us.

Why is he at half mast??????????????

 

[Paper Machete]

But then of course we have to ask if we really WANT the people living in urban bughives to leave and come live amongst us.

NO. They bring their dumb ways with them and romanticize more rural living while not so subtly despising people raised and living there sincerely. Transplants like that are the most annoying.

Related but I always get a kick out of the people who play the whole "but what is there to DO there?" as if the average city goer has the money to do anything interesting on the regular in the city. And as if a more populous area isn't within driving distance for the occasional trip. They have retard levels HCL while not realistically accessing anything the average small towner can't. Hell, even mid size cities are a great option. But it's always the huge metro areas that are a cancer that they judge everything up against even though objectively living there sucks unless you're rich.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

I've posted about this before probably hundreds of pages back by now but it could definitely use its own thread.

Cities are fundamentally unsustainable locations where basically any resource, commodity, or utility has to be transported in from somewhere, and all waste byproducts of city living are likewise shipped to Somewhere Else. It's incredibly hypocritical how urbanists love to espouse their environmentalist "green" values while failing to understand the inherently unsustainable nature of living in a location where effectively no goods can be produced locally.

Politics aside (this includes everything corruption to "road diets"), I have no vitriol regarding cities and have always found them enjoyable growing up. What I don't like is miserable subhumans who lead miserable lives while pretending that cities and the people who live in them morally, economically, and politically better than the rest, and all problems are caused because their ass isn't being kissed enough.

He doesn't like people sharing his tweets:

Uh-oh, might have people comparing things he said to things he said before, can't have that!

"this guy obviously has no idea how big the US is" when I have literally driven across the US seven times.

I don't believe you.