br3d

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[–] br3d 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Yeah, here in my part of Wales there are bodies piled up in the street and everybody is unemployed since they changed the speed limits. FFS, what a fuss about a minor change that makes our streets fell nicer

[–] br3d 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No way is something that size transmitting video all the time, or even processing it on board to upload summaries. The battery would last about an hour

[–] br3d 13 points 1 year ago

He's also a figurehead who announces whatever the government of the day tell him to accounce

[–] br3d 2 points 1 year ago

Flipboard sounds a lot like what you're looking for

[–] br3d 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Probably not. This sort of project is used by bad-faith actors, and naive policymakers, to justify not taking urgent action to curtail emissions. There's a good case for saying it would be better if this sort of piffling demonstration didn't exist, because then it would be harder to delay action on emissions

[–] br3d 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Because we have a lot of history. If we're doing an historic festival it would be more specific about the period, not just some homogeneous "past". But that said, such festivals are quite rare anyway

[–] br3d 5 points 1 year ago

Even the anti-speed-limits Welsh media were reporting that hardly anyone turned up and the protests didn't have any real effect on the roads.

[–] br3d 37 points 1 year ago

"I CAN THINK OF ONE JOURNEY THAT NEEDED A CAR THEREFORE ALL JOURNEYS NEED CARS" Jesus

[–] br3d 3 points 1 year ago

There are 7 billion people. How exactly are we going to have a system where they all try to be the highest?

[–] br3d 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same in the UK. Very curious how all over the world, governments created exactly the same tax loophole. I can't think which highly resourced industry might have been involved in "advising" them

[–] br3d 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes! For a moment I seriously was trying to decide if scunting was a word

[–] br3d 3 points 1 year ago

I've not ridden them myself, but a friend of mine swears by them, and I've watched him ride across some sketchy surfaces and down some steep hills in icy weather. Get the ones with tungsten spikes

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