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I am in no financial situation to need to think about kids.

Luckily, I don't need to worry about stumbling into kids either.

But that's no excuse for the wrong per 100g price listed, is it?

Child pickiness and Brassicus-Cultivar appreciation aside, I have another:

There were those weird times when things just wouldn't taste right. ~10 years ago I disliked cherries for tasting somewhat like alcohol, and more recently Orange juice tasted soapy to me for a time. Both of these things have since gone away and I'm back to eating just about anything.

Sorry if it wasn't clear, my logic was never "cyclists should be able to bully pedestrians because cyclists are faster"

My logic is: It takes like 10 second for an pedestrian to step to the side, let 10 bikes pass, and then move again like nothing happened. Or literally no time at all if they just don't take up the whole sidewalk and the bikes can pass safely. The cyclist in general also wants to have a safety gap to the pedestrian because a crash is just as dangerous to both parties. That is entirely different to bikes on the road, which need a minute and a lot of energy do accelerate again, and if a crash happens, only the cyclist is in danger, so drivers can get sloppy.

And it does matter that I think it's a jerkish move, because all I saw in your comment was "sometimes, cyclists are assholes". If there is anything more there, let me know, because I can't see anything else in your anecdote.

I take issue with this.

Main point being that, no matter how respectful the appropriating individual is, they are now being judged for actions that they themselves may have never taken.

Secondary point, and I know this is a nitpick, you say "minority" and "non-minority", but those terms can always flip when you change view points. I doubt you would give white people from African Countries a pass on their cornrows for being minorities in their country, and if you did, what if they move to the US?

I think people should be free to enjoy whatever hairstyle no matter the actions of unrelated other people. But what do I know, I'm just a person from a culture nobody wants to appropriate anyway.

Here's a story I have for you: There's this jogger in my city who really is a jerk. Pedestrians always think they have the right of way, stop advocating for walkable cities, he doesn't deserve accommodation. \s

Sorry you had that experience, but while that sucks for you, it is irrelevant: People can be assholes no matter what transportation they choose. I must assume you did everything right then, but you can just as easily imagine a pedestrian asshole in that situation, just by changing the location to a state where cyclists are required to use the sidewalk. Or specifically Denver like in the article, while pedestrians have the right of way in Colorado, cycling is allowed, so 1 pedestrian holding up 10 cyclists for no good reason is a jerkish move.

So I think it is OK to advocate E-bikes here as they put people who live in somewhat car dependant places on the right path, even if a walkable city is the goal.

Elon's commenter: "Trains!"

Elon defender: "But what about groceries?"

The comment you replied to: "Bikes!"

You, for some unknowable reason: "But what if I need to travel 50km to work, see bike people have no brain"

You take a train for that, obviously! You just take bike for anything shorter than 2 - 5km, maybe E-bike if you need/want it, Bus and Metro lines should get you anywhere in your city. And before you ask, if all stations are too far to walk, you bike there. If all of these don't work for you, then you can drive a car on clear roads, because everyone who doesn't need to drive doesn't.

"But there are no good bicycle paths/Light rail lines/public transit stations where I live!" Yes, what I said is unrealistic to do in most cities. But we can work towards it, and that starts by getting the people that can use bikes on bike paths, and the people that can take the train on train lines.

The counterexample to Mexicans and their Sombreros is Plains Indians and their War bonnet (those feather crowns they used to sell as "Indian kids costumes"), whenever cultural appropriation is mentioned this comes up, so I'd be rather surprised if you hadn't heard of it before.

Any spicy takes on that one, or have you really just never heard of it?

Oh, you mean that video, about blind boxes and gachapon.

Seen that one as well, really absurd to see that channel promote "healing your inner child", by buying into something that feels like an amalgam of lootboxes, that ruined online games, and Funko-pops, which cannibalised physical game stores. I read through the comments many times to maybe understand, but it seems few people actually care about the gambling addicts there as well.

I've never played any of those games myself, but here's what I have gathered from a video essay:

You just begin to play it somehow, you get introduced to the Gacha mechanics, and then it's one of 2 ways: Either you spend a lot of money in the game because they are literally designed like Casinos to fuel your gambling addiction, like clouding your judgement how much a round of gambling is actually worth with many in game currencies.

Or you spend time in the game to grind premium resources, and your brain rewards you for it with the thought "at least I'm not spending money", not realizing that the ~~house~~ developer also wins if you do that. An example i giving rewards for players who write strategy guides, something they otherwise would have to pay real money to a developer for.

We really have to hate more on those regulators who failed to protect gambling addicts from candy crush on crack.

Online subscription models, gacha and AAAA price tag games.

Not everyone wants to be a cybercriminal, god knows I'm one of them, but almost every person already has a backlog of games, an old classic that they want to experience again or community favourite that has gotten a lot of mods. Those are all free. And even if you want to spend money on something, why would you spend it on this year's hyped up game when last year's is still just as playable and at a discount?

That being said, I did buy Balatro full price, so I ought to know the answer.

When you forget to upgrade a unit in civilization: