Now, what really bothers me these days is all the extra dog walkers, each of whom wields a potentially vicious animal that's allowed to range over a ~10-foot radius. Then they look annoyed because they have to reel in their precious lunging beast so it doesn't physically attack me on a public right-of-way. It's as if I'm trespassing on their portable 20-foot circle.
So what you're really saying is that dogs make the perfect social distancing enforcement so that others won't get too close to you!
Now we're all riding bikes, just like the chinese. Coincidence?
Where you all the bike parts come from? Coincidence?
Google killing off everything that doesn't become hugely popular seems to be biting them in the butt here.
Any sane company would look at the huge list of defunct Google services and those that didn't take off at all, and want to be sure they're going to make some money for their troubles.
I think they learned that trick from Microsoft.... Microsoft has a history of just suddenly pulling the plug on anything that isn't a huge success...and usually screwing over their partners in the process too.
The only thing I see is that Democrats are Proving that many Republicans were right all along. And that is scary because many of the accusations from the Democrats are also accurate about the Republicans.
I don't think that politicians on either side of the aisle are free from blame here. They have both ratcheted up the rhetoric, mudslinging and outright smearing, slandering and name-calling. The American political system is so polarized now that it's dysfunctional. It's time to throw them all out and come up with another system whatever that may be. These politicians spend more time fighting and squabbling among themselves instead of getting things done for the American people. At this point socialism might actually be more efficient... The current system is a tremendous waste of time, money, and resources. As a Canadian I'm baffled by American politics and wonder why you all have put up with it for so long. Something needs to change. They can't put their differences aside to work together anymore. There's no respect at all like there used to be and without that there's no cooperation between the two parties.
That's because it is. After the National Socialists, and the International Socialists, and the Chinese copy, and the Venezuelan crisis... eventually even the most hard-headed figure out that when a politicians wants the government to take over entire industries in the name of socialism, it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that it's not going to end well, not even in "nicer" countries.
Except so-called "National Socialism" a.k.a what the Nazis called themselves is pretty much the farthest thing from actual socialism that you can get. It's fascism not socialism... Fascism is extreme right wing authoritarianism. Socialism is generally left wing. There are politicians on both sides of the fence who I would consider to be extremists whether or not they try to smear their competition by accusing them of being extremists....
I think drivers classify anything on the road which impedes traffic as less than human.
I chalk that attitude up to selfishness and impatience. Motorists incorrectly assume that somehow they should always be the first class traffic on the road merely because they exist. Roads were built for legal vehicles and a bike is a legal vehicle in many areas. It's not cyclists' fault that traffic planners have neglected and ignored them completely in many areas. As a cyclist I do my best not to be an asshole and to share the road with car traffic and not impede anyone unless I have no other choice but to do so in order to stay safe. Sometimes there are hazards on the road that force me to do so. I am legally allowed to do this in such a scenario but I do it to stay safe not to be an asshole and I get out of the way as soon as I am able to do so. Primarily among these roadside hazards are parked cars. Speaking of eliminating impediments I think we should eliminate all car parking on arterial roads because it takes up too much previous road bandwidth that should be reserved for moving vehicles (including bikes). That should be the priority in congested cities not car parking. We subsidize that way too much already in urban downtown areas and should stop subsidizing and effectively rewarding people for using the more inherently selfish and inefficient method of transportation in congested downtown urban areas.
Their idea of an offer you can't refuse is an offer... and you'd better not refuse.