• HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org
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    Apparently this works best with a slightly larger atomic bomb decoy and a Thailandese number plate.

    But on a more serious note, it is insane how much car traffic is becoming an arms race. The whole trend of heavier and larger cars is because people think they are more menacing and increase their chance of survival.

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    And that’s why I have a replica M18A1 claymore mine attached to my sissy bar. “FRONT TOWARD ENEMY”, short for “please don’t rear-end me”.

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    Years ago, our town meeting was discussing adding bike lanes after a couple recent fatalites that summer.

    A lawyer got up, and pointed out that a. Cars counted as deadly weapons for ‘assault with a deadly weapon’ in our state’

    B. Assault was defined as threatening someone, you didnt need to actually harm them.

    C. Our state did consider assault with a deadly weapon as an acceptable reason for using lethal self defense.

    And that maybe we should just add in the proposed bike lanes before cyclists all started carrying hand guns for self defense against reckless drivers.

    I still use that attorney when I need one.

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    This whole thread feels like a honeypot designed to get me to say something prosecutable.

    I love all of you.

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    I am living in Vietnam right now, and this is actually a common item to be strapped to the back of a motor bike out for delivery. The tanks here are 1/3 taller with the valve sticking out as the tank is sideways on the bike back seat behind the driver. Always makes me cringe when I see it especially with how unsafe drivers are here.

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      Southeast Asian motorcycle culture is fucking insane.

      They have no concern for their own wellbeing whatsoever. It’s insane. Vroom vroom.

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        It really is absurd as the horn is the first thing people reach for versus the brakes. In fact I cringe daily as massive busses or truck fly through busy intersections and only hit the horn and never the brakes. Then there are all the people on scooters pulling out onto busy roads and not shoulder checking at all. Just a horn maybe and pull into traffic hoping others accommodate. They don’t always and this there are many traffic fatalities and a lot of injuries many avoidable. Oh…and the many people scooting in the wrong side of the road which is extremely common still here in Nha Trang despite the laws saying it is illegal now.

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          The one and only time I was on a motorcycle in Thailand and the dude that was driving just fully fucking zoomed into oncoming traffic I vowed to never do it again. It was insane. And it’s just totally fucking normal there. People die ALL THE TIME.

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    [off topic]

    There’s a character in the novel ‘Snow Crash’ who rides a motorcycle with an atomic bomb in the sidecar.

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      My favorite quote from the book:

      Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martialarts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.

      Hiro used to feel that way, too, but then he ran into Raven. In a way, this is liberating. He no longer has to worry about trying to be the baddest motherfucker in the world. The position is taken.

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        I won’t quote the whole passage, because it’s far too long.

        In ‘Cryptonomicon’ the protagonist has a metaphor for how his lady love broke through all his barriers.

        It involves him needing his wisdom teeth removed, but no dentist will take the job because the teeth are so badly situated. It takes him years to find a Brave Young Dentist who will accept the challenge.

        BTW, avoid Stephenson’s latest book, ‘Polostan’ it’s unreadable

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      You forgot to mention the part where the nuke is also tied to his heartbeat, so when he dies, everyone dies

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    They’re actually fairly safe to transport. There are trucks full of them in a lot of countries where that’s commonly used for cooking.

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      When I was starting studies at a technical university, we had a safety instruction day. And we were told that when handling high pressure technical gas tanks on a carriage, they must never ever be moved without being chained into an upright position. Because these bottles can have a very high pressure, and if they fall and the valve breaks off, they not only act like rockets, but they also gain enough speed to fly straight through concrete walls.