Bicycling requires strength and endurance.

So does cleaning a house, but that’s “women’s work”.

Is it that you’re in control of a heavier and more powerful machine?

That’s it. You didn’t get it at first because made the mistake of associating manliness with things like patience, strength, hard work, endurance both of toil and hardship; all things that do make up ideals of manliness to normal people. But you need to approach it from the perspective of a wastrel, a weak, foolish, and lazy person who demands the respect and deference of being manly without putting in the hard work—something he has avoided all his life. He might praise hard work in abstract, but he has no discipline for it and doesn’t respect those who actually do it, he just considers them beneath him. To such a person, the defining aspect of manliness and machismo is mastery, mastery over others and their wills, and since mastery through work is a waste of time to him, he turns to shortcuts.

From there, it’s not hard to see where the thought process goes. Since strength is to him based on control and mastery, he picks something that gives him more command over the road in a direct and in-your-face way. The man who drives a lifted Ram 2500 can confront you by running you the fuck over. By contrast, in his opinion, cyclists are entitled jackasses in miniscule booty shorts who can only confront you on the road by screaming “CRITICAL MASS! FUCKING CAGER!” and throwing sparkplugs at your windows. The difference in power dynamic is proof enough to our friend of who the “real man” is.

To take the mentality to its conclusion, the easiest way to gain mastery in general is through authority, and the easiest way to get that, even easier than joining a gang, is by becoming a cop.

Given the number of times I’ve seen cops on police forums and r/protectandserve use terms like “bikefags”, I think it’s just the typical cop disgust of anything they perceive to be weak or effeminate.

“AI’s idea of what constitutes a human face is the kind of face most frequently considered human by AI”

Wallander is a really good Swedish crime show, if you like being depressed.

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Say “go fuck yourself lul” into the mirror to save yourself some time.

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/b/ took a big shit in summer 2007 and hasn’t been anywhere near as good since then, and it wasn’t even good before then. The rest of the site, especially the smaller SFW boards, has decent content if you know where to look. /po/ is one of the best places online for papercrafting and origami, for example

This man is in desperate need of both tar and feathers

What’s more, DVD-RW drives for a desktop PC can be had for under $10 and USB-powered ones aren’t much more. If anyone out there in TV land still relies on DVDs, you should get yourself a drive and rip your local library’s DVDs to your computer. Handbrake is your friend and you can get a DVD down to a video stream with a much smaller file size than the disc image, but you can also still get blank DVDs at any major retailer and make your own copies with all the menus and special features. DVD still works, but it’s 30-year-old technology and paying other people to watch the movies on that format is getting ridiculous, you owe it to yourself to keep DVD expenses to the drive and blank discs from here on out.

Disclaimer for the people who will whine about it: Yes, this copyright infringement. Don’t snitch on yourself and you’ll be fine. I personally recommend and fully endorse violation of copyright law in this way. I advocate that you commit this criminal activity in full knowledge that this makes me an accessory to crime, and I advocate that you commit this crime and others. I do so with the full approval of the MPA and RIAA, whom I unequivocally represent and speak for in absolutely all matters, and they assume all civil and criminal liability for everything I just said.

While I’m all for the possibility of brain-machine interfacing so we can communicate better with our devices

For the folks at home, the commenter I’m responding to is one of the ones who will be the death of us all in 30 years.

Broke: T-Mobile denies new data breach rumors, points to authorized retailer

Woke: T-Mobile denies new penetration rumors, fingers authorized retailer

The point is to use messaging apps as a data collection vector. Once they hit user saturation, they shut it down. That’s what all their product shutdowns are about: they run out of useful analytics.

In other words, you don’t have any idea what you’re talking about, as evidenced by the fact that you refused to answer the question. You don’t get to have an opinion on something if you don’t have the slightest idea of what it is or how it works, nobody does.

Please explain in your own words what you think radiation is and how you believe this kind causes harm. As in, the actual mechanism. This should be good.

My people have a saying about that. When the white field mouse gathers his store of seeds, the blind wolf howls at a new moon. Akuchimoya.

This feels like a Chakotay story

It was me, I decided it. Got a problem with it?

Wanting to reduce the deficit and immigration isn’t fascism.

The devil’s in the details.

Only thing really missing is Wallet and NFC support

It’s for this reason I keep having to temper my recommendation of degoogled Android, because I often forget most people don’t consider that a feature.