JMR
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First thing that comes to my mind is videos of stupid kids riding a wheelie toward oncoming traffic. Last possible second, they'll whip it around to dodge the car (flat turn). All while riding on the back wheel. When I corner, I think of it as digging in my rear tire instead of unweighting the front. Plus, it kinda depends on how sharp the turn is and how much speed you're carrying. I don't know if I'm right or not, but I seldom wash out the front tire in corners.
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I didn't watch the video. But, should there be a different approach if you're pedaling through a turn vs. "pumping" through a turn? Maybe that depends on if there's a berm or not? I usually keep my weight back FWIW.
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4 hours ago, AustinBike said:
So orchestrated....Yeah, and Epstein killed himself....
This is Schroedinger's conspiracy. The government is both so inept that it can't get anything right but also so all-powerful that it is able to pull off something of massive scale that involves hundreds of thousands of people who all need to keep their mouth shut and they do it for years....
Or, you can choose Occam's Razor - Don’t question anything. Believe what the media tells you.
Fixed that for you.
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2 hours ago, JMR said:
America seems pretty dysfunctional to the outside looking in.
What I should've said was, "America seems pretty dysfunctional when viewed through the lens of a news camera."
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20 minutes ago, notyal said:
I said something similar to this in response to a post of yours similar to this one months ago. I'm not even ruling out that the virus was man made and escaped from a lab. That's a different layer of this onion that I know I'm not qualified to speculate on. However, the idea that the coronavirus was somehow targeted at America for political reasons is inefficient at best. How do you think that back room planning session went?
Evil Leader: "What we need is a distraction so that we can bring chaos to America."
Mad Scientist: "Great idea! How about a new disease? One that's bad, but not tooo bad. My scientists have just cooked up the perfect virus in the lab."
Evil Leader: "Fantastic! Now all we need to do is go to China and unleash it in a market."
Mad Scientist: "Wait, what? China? We're targeting America here. How about NYC or LA or..."
Evil Leader: "No. China. They will never suspect our plot if it starts halfway around the world."
Mad Scientist: "But what if China isolates it before it reaches global pandemic levels and makes its way over to the U.S.? What about all the other countries it will infect? What if the U.S. sees it coming for months in China and other countries and then effectively bands together as a nation through strong leadership to enact a preventative plan of action to prevent it from becoming a big issue?"
All: (several minutes of hysterical laughter)
Mad Scientist: (wiping tears of laughter from his eyes) "Ok, I was just joking about that last one."
Evil Leader: "Great! So, it's settled then. I need to pick up some fresh bat and pangolin while we're there."
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19 minutes ago, mack_turtle said:
there is no smoke-filled room full of Jews, Illuminati, Antifa, Deep State, Q-Anon
What if there is? All I can say is that I've never seen @TAF and batboy in the same room. Coincidence?
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Ok. I'll say it.
While everyone is laser focused on how our neighbors are going to kill us, does anyone wonder if this is a distraction so we don't look at the real problems? Is there any organization who can launch a pandemic that might be bad, but not that bad? Is there any way to blow it out of proportion? Who is mis-informing whom? Is there an organization who can start riots and destroy things? America seems pretty dysfunctional to the outside looking in.
Asking for a friend.
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1 hour ago, AustinBike said:
Surgery scheduled for 6/30. Watching the numbers go up. Abbott says if the numbers keep going up the first thing he’s gonna curb is elective surgeries.
so I have to wait again because some of you fuckers had to go to Chuck E Cheese?
what the actual F.....
That sucks. I hope you can get your surgery.
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41 minutes ago, notyal said:
As a small business owner in an industry that has been hit very hard by this, I know I'm going to do everything possible to make my customers feel safe. It's really a shame that everyone who wants the economy to get back on track does not share the same outlook and are unwilling to at least do the minimum.
If I came to your place of business, and you required a mask while I was there, I'd wear one. If you came to my place, I wouldn't. This kind of compromise I understand.
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37 minutes ago, notyal said:
This attitude of "you can't tell me what to do. I'm not wearing a mask. fuck it and fuck you too" is the farthest thing from a compromise.
So is the attitude of "Wear the damn mask! You're gonna kill us all, you thick skulled asshole!!"
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8 minutes ago, mack_turtle said:
I don't think you read that whole article, because it only supports your perspective if you don't read past the headline.
You also didn't read the WHO's clarification, probably because it contradicts your narrative. motivated reasoning is a powerful thing.
"The majority of transmission that we know about is that people who have symptoms transmit the virus to other people through infectious droplets -- but there are a subset of people who don't develop symptoms, and to truly understand how many people don't have symptoms, we don't actually have that answered yet," Van Kerkhove said."We do know that some people who are asymptomatic, or some people who don't have symptoms, can transmit the virus on," she said. "So what we need to better understand is how many of the people in the population don't have symptoms and separately how many of those individuals go on to transmit to others.""What I was referring to yesterday in the press conference were very few studies -- some two or three studies that had been published that actually try to follow asymptomatic cases, so people who are infected, over time, and then look at all of their contacts and see how many additional people were infected," Van Kerkhove said.
"And that's a very small subset of studies. So I was responding to a question at the press conference. I wasn't stating a policy of WHO or anything like that," she said. "Because this is a major unknown, because there are so many unknowns around this, some modeling groups have tried to estimate what is the proportion of asymptomatic people that may transmit."Right. And they're also saying things about presymptomatic vs. asymptomatic. I read the article. It's still pretty tough to really know what's going on based on headlines like this. Plus, a lot of the stuff within these articles is fluff. Sometimes quotes are taken out of context. Doesn't mean I'm a sociopath, an asshole, nor a dickhead.
Nor am I embarrassed.
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11 minutes ago, mack_turtle said:
your perception is incorrect. it's not about that. objective reality is that it's about slowing down the spread to other people. adjust your perspective to reflect that fact and it will all make sense. otherwise, you can believe whatever you want so long as it does not affect other people. it does not affect other people if and only if you stay in your own house from a few months ago until whenever this is over.
you are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.
What if I never get it? What if you never get it? Why should we waste away hiding at home?
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55 minutes ago, notyal said:
By that logic, I'm immune to lightning strikes. I haven't been struck yet. I was even out in an open field duing a lighning storm just the other day.
It's not about living in fear. It's about having the common sense to come out of the rain.
I get what you're saying. To me, it's about people trying to shame someone into doing something they don't feel is necessary.
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1 minute ago, notyal said:
This is getting ridiculous. How can you miss the point sooooo badly. YOU DON'T KNOW WHETHER OR NOT YOU HAVE THE VIRUS. That is the entire point. You don't know if the person sitting next you has the virus. You don't know whether the old lady in the checkout line ahead of you just contracted the virus because you just sneezed on her.
No. I get the point. Living in fear of something that I MIGHT get, something that has such a high survival rate, seems pretty sheep-ish.
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12 minutes ago, mack_turtle said:
have you been tested? you're asymptomatic now, but what about the next few days or months?
how to you know you weren't exposed and carrying it this past weekend?
do you know you won't be exposed to it in tomorrow? next week?
if everyone with whom you had contact in public was wearing a mask, there's a much stronger chance that you were not and will not be exposed to it. that's how the mask thing works. if other people are willing to do that for you, why are you so selfish to not do it for others? it's a social contract thing.
there's a better metaphor about peeing in public pools, but you seem pretty skilled at missing the point of metaphors, so I won't bother.
I've had no symptoms for months. I work with people that live from Austin to Killeen. None of us wear masks. Went to a wedding last weekend with people from all over. Still don't have a virus. I'm sorry you're so scared. I didn't even cuss at you or call you names.
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Clobber an old lady with invisible nunchucks? That no one can prove that I have? This is getting funny now. Imagine someone who just started reading this. Wow.
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18 minutes ago, notyal said:
It's like you start to make a logical point, but then completely miss the mark. If you didn't know whether or not you were swinging the invisible nunchucks, but all you had to do to reduce the unknown threat was (let's say for the sake of the analogy) wear a jacket. Would you wear the jacket or wait until you clobbered some old lady in the checkout line first?
This is getting ridiculous. I don’t have the virus (nunchucks). That’s why I don’t wear a mask. If you’re afraid, stay home and be obedient. Order your stuff online, or have HEB bring it to your car. You’re responsible for your own wellbeing. Or, you can blame others. It all up to you.
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And, for what it's worth, I'm not anti-mask. If you wanna wear one, go right ahead. I'm not going to chastise you for it. I'll leave you alone. I'd appreciate the same in return.
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5 minutes ago, mack_turtle said:
So if it's not my job to make anyone safe, I should feel free walk around HEB swinging my nunchucks around. if other people get whacked, it's there fault. it's not my job to keep them from getting hurt.
that's exactly what that sounds like. if you don't think you have a responsibility to take some simple, tiny measure out of a sense of responsibility to you neighbors to at least kind of reduce your ability to spread a virus that is creating a pandemic that has brought our very civilization to its knees, you're some kind of sociopath. what the fuck is wrong with you?
Jeez! Calm down... and yes, if you're walking around HEB swinging your nunchucks around, it's my job to avoid you. You have every right to swing whatever you want. Until you hit me with it. Then we'll have a different kind of discussion. However, if you're swinging nunchucks that no one can see, and no one can prove that you have nunchucks, should I stand there and lecture you about putting your nunchucks away? Because you might hit someone with them?
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12 minutes ago, mack_turtle said:
correction: not wearing a mask is depriving others of their right to be safe, relatively speaking, not just to feel safe. if you disagree with that, you're thick and you're an asshole. it's not about politics, it's about stopping a pandemic from taking even more than the 100,00+ lives it already has. it's science, not politics.
Correction, it's not my job to make you safe. Its your job to make sure you're buckled into your high chair.
How many politicians have contracted the virus? Do they have better science?
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18 minutes ago, notyal said:
they are really depriving others of their rights to feel safe.
It's not politics. .
Since when is a feeling a right? Do I have the right to feel happy? Sad? Feeling safe is up to you.
It is politics.
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20 minutes ago, mack_turtle said:
I don't get why this is so hard to understand for thick-skulled morons in this country: wearing a mask is not to protect YOU. it's to protect OTHERS from the germs you might already have. it's so you can keep your germs to yourself. it's not that hard
Is this the Asymptomatic-Thick Skulled morons? The morons who haven't been sick? The ones who feel fine, haven't missed a day of work, and are living their own lives? The ones who aren't at home, hugging their pillows, watching CNN in fear? What is there to understand?
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1 hour ago, olddbrider said:
There definitely needs to be another feature in that area called Slim Jim.
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Theoretically, If I wear a mask It will stop 95% of the bad germs coming out in my breath. That way I can protect you, because I care. But if you wear the same kind of mask, and I don’t wear one, it doesn’t protect you from me. Do these masks have a one way filter? How do we know which side is inhale, and which is exhale? If it’s the same kind of mask shouldn’t it provide the same percentage for breathing in as well as out? It seems like someone is trying to make me feel guilty about something I didn’t do.