I hate to be the bearer of bad news but this isn’t unique to just the dumpster truck owners.
I’ve seen people try to drive away with a couch mounted vertically in the passenger seat of a convertible (with no straps or rope of any kind).
I lost track of how many people roped their doors shut through the windows on their vehicles while strapping a 75 inch TV down to the roof of their Honda CRV.
The general population has an unbelievably poor understanding of physics and honestly I think we need to let more people die due to darwinism again. Saving the village idiot with modern medical standards has really just allowed them to get older and come up with even worse ideas. Sometimes they procreate and spawn in some new physics challenged shitlings that will be finding their way into your local ER with some self inflicted stupidity any day now.
Well hang on now. You have no clue where I stand on education.
I think all of our teachers need to be better vetted and paid. Proper education of future generations should be a top priority of any society.
That being said I think we both know there are certain people that will still not learn anything and they will still be repeat idiots until they do actually win a Darwin award or some other illness finally takes them.
I would be fine letting them learn harsher lessons and not get saved once they are legal adults.
As someone who grew up in a small farming town and now lives in the GTA fuck almost everyone with a pickup truck because it’s all for show ain’t no one slinging gravel or wood or a beat up generator somewhere like when I grew up. It’s all faux rural cosplay shit.
My bike has more mud on it than most off road vehicles and tyres are only 700x35c IIRC, may have been 37/38? Hybrid/Trekking bike, Boardman MTX 8.6, the suspension is most useful on the terrible roads we have in places.
It also has more mud on it than half of the bikes I see with tyres that are like 8cm thicc. Usually only see those in urban environments. Often go on gravel or dirt trails and there is the occasional muddy puddle. Nothing really extreme enough to need a mountain bike for.
There is a big difference between not using “shared” resources to save idiots that endanger themselves and others repeatedly and eugenics.
I’m saying maybe we just don’t give that guy that decided to ride a motorcycle with no helmet at 2 times the speed limit for the third time all the bags of universal donor blood on the way to the hospital.
There’s less of a difference than you believe there to be. In principle, you’ve said the biker that rides without a helmet has proven themselves too dumb to live. You state that you believe we should allow more stupid people die, because our society has A) limited resources and B) removed or lessened the natural filter (risk of death) that accompanies stupid activity. You state that this has led to a situation where stupid people are procreating and the stupid offspring of stupid people are showing up in ERs, demonstrating new and heretofore unseen misunderstandings of physics. If we let more stupid people die, hopefully some of them will not have bred yet, and we, as society, can course correct back to nature, where stupid critters tend to die more frequently than intelligent critters (which is a huge assumption in and of itself).
To be clear, despite my facetious comment earlier, I don’t actually think you’re a Nazi, or a racist, or any of the other things that proponents of this pseudoscience were back in the day. The tricky thing about eugenics is that, devoid of context, it sounds pretty fucking good. And, despite no one using the term anymore (thanks, Hitler), there are absolutely eugenics advocates out there today, and many of them aren’t even necessarily bad people! A few years back, FDA approved gene therapy treatments for folks afflicted by sickle cell anemia. This is, essentially, eugenics in action, and, other than the most die-hard slippery slopers, you’ve not got folks distributing torches and pitchforks because of some light genetic editing, especially when the tech has allowed eugenicists to bypass the most ornery methods of gene manipulation that previous advocates used: namely sterilization of certain populations.
So, I get it. You’re not advocating preemptive death camps for idiots, or a sterilization device on motorcycle fuel tanks if you start moving without a helmet on. Therefore, you don’t feel like your argument is based on eugenics. However, it is, and you can either become comfortable with that notion, or you can reexamine your line of thought and come up with a different hypothesis. Neither option is any better or worse than the other.
As an aside, to continue using your asshole biker example, there are tertiary benefits to attempting to save their life to best of our society’s ability, if you’re looking for silver linings. Skills practice in a “live-fire” environment for the folks trying to save him, for one. Sure, maybe, in your estimation, this biker didn’t deserve all the effort to save him, but maybe the sweet old lady with a TBI the week following does deserve to live, and the surgical team noted some process improvements during their work on the asshole earlier.
I wasn’t talking about it from a “they are passing down bad genes” kind of way. It was more of a “I have lived around these families and it is a taught/learned behavior.”
Some of these kids who’s parents also have a lackluster understanding of physics and/or the consequences of their own actions learn this sort of behavior from their parents.
If the parent had died prior to making and teaching their future children then that removes a person who is continuing the pattern.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but this isn’t unique to just the dumpster truck owners.
I’ve seen people try to drive away with a couch mounted vertically in the passenger seat of a convertible (with no straps or rope of any kind).
I lost track of how many people roped their doors shut through the windows on their vehicles while strapping a 75 inch TV down to the roof of their Honda CRV.
The general population has an unbelievably poor understanding of physics and honestly I think we need to let more people die due to darwinism again. Saving the village idiot with modern medical standards has really just allowed them to get older and come up with even worse ideas. Sometimes they procreate and spawn in some new physics challenged shitlings that will be finding their way into your local ER with some self inflicted stupidity any day now.
Pretty fucked up that you prefer people dying over just properly funding our education system.
Well hang on now. You have no clue where I stand on education.
I think all of our teachers need to be better vetted and paid. Proper education of future generations should be a top priority of any society.
That being said I think we both know there are certain people that will still not learn anything and they will still be repeat idiots until they do actually win a Darwin award or some other illness finally takes them.
I would be fine letting them learn harsher lessons and not get saved once they are legal adults.
Your eager embrace of eugenics speaks poorly of your own education levels. Otherwise, you’d know the company you keep in those disgusting beliefs.
You’re still comparing what I said to eugenics which it just plainly is not.
Right, you can totally avoid falling into incel ideology by just calling it Darwinism. Big brain move.
You are lost my friend.
I don’t take life advice from people who believe it would be best for those struggling in life to drop dead.
I literally never said that but ok dude.
https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/1hd1hb1/rural_cosplay_is_unfortunately_a_thing/
rural cosplay is very much a thing…
As someone who grew up in a small farming town and now lives in the GTA fuck almost everyone with a pickup truck because it’s all for show ain’t no one slinging gravel or wood or a beat up generator somewhere like when I grew up. It’s all faux rural cosplay shit.
My bike has more mud on it than most off road vehicles and tyres are only 700x35c IIRC, may have been 37/38? Hybrid/Trekking bike, Boardman MTX 8.6, the suspension is most useful on the terrible roads we have in places.
It also has more mud on it than half of the bikes I see with tyres that are like 8cm thicc. Usually only see those in urban environments. Often go on gravel or dirt trails and there is the occasional muddy puddle. Nothing really extreme enough to need a mountain bike for.
Congratulations, you’ve just talked yourself into being a proponent of eugenics. Speak with Goebbels for your welcome packet and fashionable armband.
There is a big difference between not using “shared” resources to save idiots that endanger themselves and others repeatedly and eugenics.
I’m saying maybe we just don’t give that guy that decided to ride a motorcycle with no helmet at 2 times the speed limit for the third time all the bags of universal donor blood on the way to the hospital.
There’s less of a difference than you believe there to be. In principle, you’ve said the biker that rides without a helmet has proven themselves too dumb to live. You state that you believe we should allow more stupid people die, because our society has A) limited resources and B) removed or lessened the natural filter (risk of death) that accompanies stupid activity. You state that this has led to a situation where stupid people are procreating and the stupid offspring of stupid people are showing up in ERs, demonstrating new and heretofore unseen misunderstandings of physics. If we let more stupid people die, hopefully some of them will not have bred yet, and we, as society, can course correct back to nature, where stupid critters tend to die more frequently than intelligent critters (which is a huge assumption in and of itself).
To be clear, despite my facetious comment earlier, I don’t actually think you’re a Nazi, or a racist, or any of the other things that proponents of this pseudoscience were back in the day. The tricky thing about eugenics is that, devoid of context, it sounds pretty fucking good. And, despite no one using the term anymore (thanks, Hitler), there are absolutely eugenics advocates out there today, and many of them aren’t even necessarily bad people! A few years back, FDA approved gene therapy treatments for folks afflicted by sickle cell anemia. This is, essentially, eugenics in action, and, other than the most die-hard slippery slopers, you’ve not got folks distributing torches and pitchforks because of some light genetic editing, especially when the tech has allowed eugenicists to bypass the most ornery methods of gene manipulation that previous advocates used: namely sterilization of certain populations.
So, I get it. You’re not advocating preemptive death camps for idiots, or a sterilization device on motorcycle fuel tanks if you start moving without a helmet on. Therefore, you don’t feel like your argument is based on eugenics. However, it is, and you can either become comfortable with that notion, or you can reexamine your line of thought and come up with a different hypothesis. Neither option is any better or worse than the other.
As an aside, to continue using your asshole biker example, there are tertiary benefits to attempting to save their life to best of our society’s ability, if you’re looking for silver linings. Skills practice in a “live-fire” environment for the folks trying to save him, for one. Sure, maybe, in your estimation, this biker didn’t deserve all the effort to save him, but maybe the sweet old lady with a TBI the week following does deserve to live, and the surgical team noted some process improvements during their work on the asshole earlier.
I wasn’t talking about it from a “they are passing down bad genes” kind of way. It was more of a “I have lived around these families and it is a taught/learned behavior.”
Some of these kids who’s parents also have a lackluster understanding of physics and/or the consequences of their own actions learn this sort of behavior from their parents.
If the parent had died prior to making and teaching their future children then that removes a person who is continuing the pattern.