The Extreme 600 and Sport 600 models are hailed as the most powerful street-legal electric bikes, with up to 852W of peak power.
That’s really not that much. I’m sure it’s a very high quality bike, but for raw power, you can get several times that from Chinese ebikes. They don’t really care about the regulations, and there are bikes with several kilowatt motors. Although the line between “mountain bike” and “motocross bike” start blurring a tad at that point because the motors and batteries increase the heft of the bike a bit.
I’d still definitely take the McLaren, as I’m sure they’re engine is far superior and 500+ watts properly utilised is quite sufficient.
Body positivity is such a strange concept to me. There’s efforts to reclaim words while simultaneously calling them bad if used as an insult. Ideally, people wouldn’t be offended by someone describing their body with common descriptors, but socially there is so much value attributed to certain body types that it’s almost...
So you’re saying there is ZERO DIFFERENCE in physical attractiveness between the two pictures I posted?
Jesus you’re bitter. You should look into psychedelic assisted therapy.
They will only pretend to like you so they can get money, things and chores from you.
I’ve been offered money to have sex with women, several times.
Weird how they’ve given me money, things and done my chores if they only want those things from me, huh?
The reason you feel that way is that you’re a bitter misogynist who writes things like “that’s for ugly chicks”, while actively pretending attractiveness in men doesn’t exist so you don’t have to face being an “ugly chick” yourself.
Yeah, it’s true golddiggers exist, but if you stop being such a massive cunt you might one who isn’t.
But that’s all in your future, as I’m pretty positive I’m talking to a teenager who’s annoyed that his crush liked the boy with the more expensive phone or a newer vehicle of some sort, something to that effect.
Well, this might be personal experience, but imo, radiohosts and bands on the radio used to affect me a whole lot more before. Now it’s more youtubers and hot music videos on YouTube.
Even just with MTV being popular there was way more incentive to have not just a song, but a music video of it, so you could possibly get it on TV as well.
So I get how “video killed the radio star” would be a thing. But now that podcasts are quite in (for like the last decade or something idk), you could have those legendary radio hosts again.
The loaded language having an “intention” doesn’t mean that intent is necessarily consciously realised by the speaker.
When I waa growing up, the f-slur for gay men was used pretty liberally without it having any related meaning to us. We didn’t hate or even dislike gays. It was just “something people said” and we picked up on it and used it.
Now I have to say that a lot of those people really did turn out to be homophobes, but as it was a rural village, the chances were high anyway.
The point I’m making is that speakers can spread the “intention” or connotation of a phrase without even ever having understood it’s meaning.
People just don’t want to think about stuff that doesn’t affect them or that they can’t change.
Yeah, I understand this, and that’s part of the problem. People think they can’t affect change, so they don’t want to think about change, so they say things like “we can’t change things, it is what it is” and then someone who still had hope (but looks up to the speaker) loses their hope of change, and also starts using said language.
Accepting defeat is certain defeat.
Ofc in a lot of conversations, it might not be political at all. Sometimes you can’t change things, as you have no agency. Like we used a lot of these semantic stop signs just as coping tools in the army. Digging a well into frozen ground, manually, in -20C… “it is what it is.”
But it is exactly loaded language. It’s just that not every use is malicious or political. They can be mundane and arbitrary criticisms that are quelled as well.
If two twin sisters who are both 18 years old and they both want to marry eachother I think legally they should be allowed to do it because what they’re doing isn’t hurting anybody....
Your guess is wrong, and the exact same reasoning rapists and pedophiles use.
“There was an entire forum of baby rapists, so it must be common and therefore moral, people are just afraid of the social stigma”
You should see a psychiatrist, honestly. If there’s nothing wrong, then you can keep your incest-fetish, but if there is something wrong, surely you’d like to know about it?
So just to make sure you’re using that logic indiscriminately, you’d consider me using heroin as not being immoral, right?
No, there’s not necessarily any direct harm to other people, but it’s probably classifiable as a mental illness to be attracted to one’s siblings sexually, so it’s more than likely harming you, which is why society would seek to offer you help.
“I disregard any thoughts of morality until I’m confronted with such”
Yeah I can see that.
you are doing is only harming yourself and not other people
Is it though?
Because it’s rather well documented that abuse of substances affects others as well. No-one lives in a void. We all interact.
Homosexuality is incredibly common and there’s no harm in it, and there’s actually several observed benefits for social species (that’s not to say either of those always happens, but in certain situations and certain species it can be beneficial to the species).
You should be tipped off that there might be something harmful if you need to take extensive care to avoid a danger inherent in the activity. (incest babies.)
So the incest being considered a mental illness by society argument isn’t a valid argument
Yes it is, because it is very directly harmful to the species unless you make certain there is no chance of conception. And to make that sure just wearing a condom or even wearing a condom and the sister being on the pill wouldn’t be enough. Even a vasectomy wouldn’t be enough, as it’s not 100% effective. It’s more than 99.99% effective, but not 100%. Even adding a hysterectomy (removal of the uterus) wouldn’t make it 100%, as ectopic pregnancies are a thing, and there exists medical cases of ectopic pregnancies having survived. Maybe only one or two, but documentedly it has happened.
So complete sterilisation would be necessary.
To compare incest to homosexuality is like trying to compare homosexuality to pedophilia. They’re not even close.
Some pedophiles understand that they have a problem. No-one blames them for it, unless they pretend it isn’t a problem, because then it becomes a problem.
So admit you have one and go visit a psychiatrist, for your own health.
Pedophiles are only morally bad person if they go out of their way to molest pre pubescent children or watch actual CP.
Oh only if they “go out of their way” to molest kids? So casual “on-the-way” molesting is fine?
You keep having to willfully ignore things and delude yourself.
You really should see a psychiatrist. If there’s nothing wrong, ofc you’ll get healthy papers. If there is something wrong, you should take care of it, obviously.
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Oh only if they “go out of their way” to molest kids? So casual “on-the-way” molesting is fine?
You literally wrote “if they go out of their way”. You may not have realised the implication, but that’s different from just “having thoughts”.
And no, if one doesn’t act on one’s impulses, it’s not wrong. However, if one was constantly fantasising pedophilia/violence and didn’t seek care, that would make it immoral, as humans we must realise all of us are imperfect, and we occasionally act on our impulses.
If you have violent impulses and don’t act on them and seek help, you’re a moral person, because some of the one’s who didn’t seek help ended up being serial killers, and often the secrecy and taboo of the acts add to the excitement.
There’s a reason we put people on psychiatric holds even when they might have not yet done anything wrong.
I don’t think Dan Harmon is immoral. but if I didn’t know he was a creative genius who had a therapist and because he realises these are fantasies he has, not something he’d do in real life. He talks about it under his own name, openly. I don’t think you’d be ready to do the same.
But it isn’t, because sometimes people are a credible danger to others before they do anything, if they’re not in possession of their faculties, ie suffering from a psychiatric condition.
If you happen to do a crime while under a psychiatric condition, you can use that as a criminal defense, because your judgment was impaired.
Therefore it’s up to society to try and take people to a hold if we deem their judgement to be compromised.
Yes, it’s been used for political means as well, and having an incest fetish isn’t enough to warrant such action. But for say a pedophile who has had trouble controlling themselves before…? Well, they’re usually banned from going to places like near schools and whatnot.
But for someone say with a violent history and a bipolar disorder? If they start exhibiting signs of mania and perhaps aggression, it’d be well within reason to put them on a forced psychiatric hold — for the safety of others — even if they hadn’t “done anything wrong”.
The U.S. military has started moving a pier towards the Gaza coast, a U.S. official said on Wednesday, one of the last steps before the launch of a maritime port promised by President Joe Biden to speed the flow of humanitarian aid to Palestinians....
Yes, you’re right in that it’s probably quite a large one, but for military pioneers who’ve got a fire under their arse, a month is a loong time. (Edit I looked at images and it really doesn’t seem that big. Dk.)
So we can only assume no-one was in such a rush.
I agree with the earlier guy that this could’ve been managed faster, if there had been will enough to do so.
The capabilities of military pioneers are quite literally awesome. As in, generating a feel of awe.
The first Allied bridge across the Rhine- Waterloo Bridge-was constructed by the Royal Engineers, assisted by 173 Pioneer Company, in the record time of 13 hours despite enemy fire and adverse weather. Casualties were light. The building of the Rhine railway bridge and its approaches from Griethausen to Spijk was an important operation. Working with the Sappers, four Pioneer Companies were engaged on its construction and in less than four weeks the bridge, some 2,600 ft in length, was open to traffic.
Id even know why I’m arguing this with someone who’s never talked to or even seen a military pioneer (or “combat engineer” as Americans like calling them.)
Open for traffic as in “now not just for the military, here you go civilians, have at it, no need to go around anymore”.
It is written pretty weirdly but that’s what I’d say, because those portable bridges definitely don’t take several weeks to set up.
The point I think he and I are making is that if it was just about the capability of building such a bridge at full speed, it would’ve been ready sooner. Instead there’s probably quite a lot of politics going on.
Considering the distress in Gaza, I think it should’ve been a bit faster. There’s definitely capability for that, especially from someone like the US military.
If this was some completely different sort of situation and US lives were in that sort of danger, I think it would’ve gone up a bit quicker.
A month isn’t unreasonably long, but I believe it could’ve been achieved much faster in dire need, and I think there is very dire need indeed.
Like if the people making the floating pier were under the same amount of motivation as the people who made the Dunkirk evacuation possible (which means pretty much everyone involved, can’t credit a single party for something like that), I think there would already be a pier.
I’m not blaming the US for “taking too long”, I’m just saying I personally believe (and have lots of that belief based on at least some facts) that it could’ve been done faster.
Nice reply man, super polite. You process trauma in whatever way best suits you, but… You’re making the claim that is essentially “if you’re bothered by traumatic memories, you can just stop thinking about them” which is reductive and simplistic as fuck, and above all very much objectively wrong.
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