TheMechanic

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[–] TheMechanic@lemmy.ca 27 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Tearing out extra lanes that do nothing but encourage more traffic, adding protected cycling lanes or reducing road speed are seen as extreme by those that made the decisions that have created the infrastructure we have. In reality these are compromises.

'Share the road' is not a compromise. Sharrows are not a compromise. Jaywalking laws are not a compromise. Victim blaming is not a compromise. Media dehumanising pedestrians is not a compromise.Nobody ever fucking considered anything else but cars, drivers and the car lobby when installing these things.

Now tearing it out city centers to focus on humans and humanity is extreme?

[–] TheMechanic@lemmy.ca 16 points 9 months ago (7 children)

I was buying from ebay because I didn't want to support Amazon. Now what?

[–] TheMechanic@lemmy.ca 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The Russian mobilised from prisons are trucked to special units made up of criminals who are sent straight to the front line to die in human wave attacks.

These are small unarmored units with light weapons only. They are sent in waves consisting of many small groups of around six across a long area of frontline. They die in huge numbers and if they turn around and retreat they are killed by other Russians themselves, in what is known as 'blocking units'.

The entire point of their deaths is to spread Ukrainian soldiers and widely as possible and to constantly test the Ukrianian fortification for weakness.

If they find any, bigger infantry units are sent with support from a light armored vehicle with heavier weapons.

This tactic also applies to other people Russia considers disposable. Ethnic minorities such as Buryats, or poor people from rural villages.

[–] TheMechanic@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you add an extra step of bullshit it makes it all squeaky clean. Everyone knows that. Like hydrogen, or electric cars, or biodegradable plastics or or or...

[–] TheMechanic@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

She was such an addict she even went for Nelix's viscous delta quandrant seed blend.

[–] TheMechanic@lemmy.ca 126 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Nearly 320K in the normalest units.

[–] TheMechanic@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Nearly every single small town was built on a backbone of rail. They could at the very least put back what was stolen.

[–] TheMechanic@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The excuse for buying these compensators is they need them to tow. And yet I've rarely seen one ever used to tow. I saw this juxtaposition in my local area:

https://imgur.com/a/XGVLduk