I have this attitude when biking. In the US. At least I assume everyone has this attitude towards me. I’d rather be respectful to the people walking and piss off the cars. There are just too many times when taking the sidewalk on a bike makes the situation 10x safer for you.

But I’m not gonna be an asshole to people walking. If it’s a busy area. I walk the bike. If it’s an open area where I can see I’ll ride the bike and stop/walk if I see someone ahead.

It’s not often I have to. Usually I just take up the entire lane on the street and bother the cars. But I’ll take the sidewalk for a bit if it makes it significantly safer to do so.

Oh, I also turn off the electric assist on my electric bike when I’m on sidewalks with people. No one wants to hear that noise.

Yes. Cars are 100x worse. But people normalize that because they have to. I want people walking to see bikers as nice and respectful by comparison.

I care. I bike myself. I was walking downtown and some idiot left their bike leaning up against the tree on the sidewalk. Right next to outdoor seating to a small restaurant. Just completely blocking the choke point of the sidewalk. Walking with my kid in a stroller. I could either drop the stroller off the curb into traffic or move his bike to the other side and help everyone else actually walk.

I moved his bike. Which required actually picking it up as the bike wheel was locked. A 50lb electric bike. Not something I’d expect everyone with a stroller or especially a wheelchair would be capable of.

The problem is both. Don’t leave your shit blocking where others need to go.

Its especially annoying because it easily fit on the other side of the tree. I just can’t imagine why someone would leave it like that. But, yeah, some people are just never taught basic manners.

Having a kid now. I realize that there are so so many adults that just never got taught how to not be an asshole. They have a child’s brain.

Don’t worry you don’t have to pay now either. Just use “After Pay” and you can pay $20 extra in late fees. Or don’t. Just keep racking up debt like the rest of society. We really don’t care if you pay anymore. We just want a big $ we can show investors so we can all jerk off to the profits we pretend have real material value in the world that is crumbling around us.

In Seattle we throw those green scooters in a pile blocking the garage exit to the ICE facility.

They have their use cases.

Sometimes in JAV you really just get curious what the fuck is happening.

Nice. I learned about different applications of whisper because I’m a degenerate.

https://github.com/meizhong986/WhisperJAV

Maybe we should have just let AI say the n word.

Took too long to type my comment but basically just said the same thing. Most of these models are the same exact thing with different biases and hard coded prompts to guide it’s behavior.

But grok. It’s obvious it’s just being fed a prompt directly written by Elon. Probably with a mountain of 4chan links to guide it’s behavior.

You can tell the model wasn’t actually retrained too. It’s just being fed a default prompt before answering questions.

It’s like if I start a ChatGPT with “pretend you’re a pirate through this whole conversation and talk like a pirate. Otherwise do everything else as you normally would”.

The phrase itself. Not that I know of. But it’s basically just saying “every <group I don’t like> is like this”. It’s not a whistle. It’s just racism/sexism/etc.

It’s 4 chan behind the keyboard. And Musk is basically a rich child who gets all his world views from 4chan memes.

We get the timeline with the most annoying fucking Nazis.

Actual dark side comment.

Pretty sure they mean million.

Sure. But have you considered that line must go up?

Dude. Like half of our GDP is about selling shit that we pretend exists.

Arrr! The profits do be!

Oh man, you’d be surprised how many Latino white supremacists Nazis there are out there.

Context? Like as a threat to AOC or to ICE?

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Yeah. It really doesn’t have to be political brain rot anymore.

Maybe it’s not in this case…we’ll see. But we’re going to have cases of complete normies going “nothing left to lose” after their loved ones or friends are taken/killed by ICE.

Imagine finding out your partner/kids were taken from their job/school. You can’t. I can’t. There is no law or order that matters to people when the “law and order” are the ones doing it.

And at some point, hopefully, we all realize that those people are the sane ones. The people standing by and watching it happen well…

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.