What would you do in this situation?
>>2077892The Jiro documentary was like 15 years ago and you're still mindbroken about the idea of walking into a Japanese restaurant in Japan and encountering Japanese people who prefer to speak Japanese, meanwhile at home you're openly advocating for heavily armed government death squads to run around shooting people for speaking Spanish in public
>>2077907Ahh, the weebtranny reveals xirselfWho's the one mindbroken when you read so much bluesky BS into this
>>2062901Chicken bros...
If everybody reclines, everybody still has the same amount of room. Except maybe for some retards in the back, but they are back there for a reason (I am one of them).
>>2062901spam BBC thread online
The great debate
>>2076278Planes don't need parachutes, they can glide. Using a parachute gives you far less control than simply being able to perform an engine-out landing. Imagine if you panicked and threw the parachute only to find out here are power lines directly underneath you and there's literally nothing you can do about it. If you simply looked for a proper landing area within your glide range instead you could've avoided such a scenario. A parachute if anything is just the manufacturer admitting their plane is shit and that they don't trust the engine not to die in a bad circumstance.
>>2076324you have 0 flight hours and it shows
>>2076324>Imagine if you panicked and threw the parachute only to find out here are power lines directly underneath youHas that ever happened in the entire existence of the Cirrus CAPS system?
>>2071623did you know my boy springer?he installs radios or some shit there.t.umd grad
>>2076339There have been zero car crashes involving me during my entire existence and I still wear the seatbelt. Checkmate, atheist.
If I went around in the heaviest most inefficient shoes possible to make a statement, people would rightly think I was a tryhard, trying to show off how strong I was, or otherwise basically see it as impractical, quixotic, or foolhardy. Normal people prefer lighter shoes that are more comfortable and efficient. Especially elderly women, people who aren't fitness freaks, etc.Yet if I do the same with a bicycle, all the urbanists want to suck my cock for being "practical". With bicycles, riding something comfortable, efficient, that doesn't ride like a boat anchor, is tryhard, show-off behavior. The least practical bike is seen as practical down to earth stuff for normals, and the most practical bike is seen as status-seeking show-off sports equipment for the very strong. Casuals belong on bikes that convert most of your pedal input energy into rattlecan noises and heating up the tires. Bikes that are reasonably effective at "bike things" are classified as competitive hobby gear.When did this mentality take root and who is responsible?
>>2076171Why you don't buy american ? Are you Hands ok sir ?
>>2076173
EPISODE 10: THE NEON BETRAYALEXT. VENICE BEACH BOARDWALK - GOLDEN HOURThe sun is dipping low, casting a heavenly, honey-baked glow over Venice Beach.MAKO leans against a wooden piling, looking like a man who has achieved enlightenment through board shorts. Next to him is The Big Kahuna. Calling it a bicycle is generous; it is a moving museum of iron oxide, held together by structural rust, bumper stickers, and purely good vibes. The bamboo wind chimes dangling from the handlebars clink lazily in the breeze.His SandDash app chimes. A high-priority, ultra-premium order.THE CARGO: A single, $38 "Deconstructed Matcha-Avocado Toast" (the avocado, the bread, and the matcha are all in separate, environmentally friendly, extremely fragile glass vials).THE DESTINATION: An influencer photo shoot at the very end of the pier. Sunset is in exactly nine minutes. The lighting waits for no man.Mako nods to the ocean, taps the Big Kahuna’s rusted top tube, and sets off.THE CATASTROPHIC UNSPOOLINGMako is making great time, cruising past the outdoor gym at Muscle Beach. He decides to give the Kahuna a little extra juice to beat the setting sun. He stands on the pedals, puts his weight into it, and—SPROING-CLANK-TING-TING-TING.It doesn't just snap. The Big Kahuna’s eighty-year-old chain violently disintegrates, exploding into a cloud of red dust and showering the pavement with brittle, fossilized metal links.Mako coasts to a sad, pathetic halt. He stares down at the pavement. The chain looks like a crushed pretzel.MAKO(Falling to his knees)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
THE CORPORATE STEEDDesperation sets in. Mako spots his only salvation: a docking station for the city’s newest bikeshare program, "Omni-Pedal."The bikes are identical, aggressively neon green, and possess the aerodynamic grace of a household refrigerator. They weigh approximately eighty-five pounds.Mako approaches one like a wild animal. He pulls out his phone to scan the QR code.APP PROMPT: Please verify your identity. Select all images with a traffic light.Mako furiously taps crosswalks, traffic lights, and a picture of a fire hydrant, sweating profusely.APP PROMPT: Processing... Please connect a major credit card, a blood type, and agree to the 400-page Terms of Service regarding biometric data harvesting.Mako hits "Accept." The bike unlocks with a loud, sterile, corporate BEEP that completely shatters his aura.THE FRANKENBIKEMako tries to place his beloved tie-dye "Cold Storage" bag into the Omni-Pedal's front basket, but it’s a tiny, shallow plastic tray designed for a single briefcase, not a courier's haul.MAKO(Shaking his head)I can't ride this. It has no soul. It has no basket. It has... an integrated bell. This is a sin against the wind.He looks back at the disabled Big Kahuna. He looks at his cargo. He reaches into his Hawaiian shirt pocket and pulls out a fistful of heavy-duty industrial zip-ties.In a blur of desperate, MacGyver-esque engineering, Mako rips his massive, vintage wicker basket off the Big Kahuna. He completely ignores the Omni-Pedal's intended design, violently zip-tying the enormous wicker basket and the bamboo wind chimes directly over the digital display screen of the neon green bike.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
THE RIDE OF SHAMEMako mounts the Omni-Pedal. He pushes down on the pedal. It barely moves. The bike is so heavy it seems to generate its own gravitational field.He tries to shift gears. There are only three speeds: "Molasses," "Quicksand," and "Wet Concrete."MAKO(Straining, veins popping in his forehead)This... isn't... cruising! This is... crossfit!He pedals furiously down the pier. The Omni-Pedal's solid rubber tires aggressively transfer every single bump in the wooden planks directly into Mako's spine. The bamboo wind chimes are thrashing around like they’re in a hurricane. Mako is sweating through his shirt, his bucket hat flying off his head, his face locked in a grimace of pure anaerobic agony.THE DELIVERYWith exactly ten seconds left of usable golden hour light, Mako crashes the neon-green, wicker-basketed monstrosity into the railing at the end of the pier. He is panting like a golden retriever in August.The INFLUENCER is waiting, tapping her foot.Mako, trembling from the exertion of pedaling an eighty-five-pound smart-bike, reaches into the wicker basket. He gently pulls out the three glass vials of deconstructed matcha-avocado toast. They are miraculously unharmed.INFLUENCER(Snatching the vials)Finally! The natural lighting was about to literally die.She looks at Mako's bizarre, neon-green-and-wicker contraption.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Anyone here into it? Or even just into collecting models of trains. This shit is so expensive only codgy old boomers partake.
>>2078200also this graveyard with some more wagons and all that outside the frame. This one seems to have a stiffy
>>2078201bonus weird ass motorist digger >inb4 OTmake a ge
>>2072723>Pretty neat design but sounds like it was quite limited in its usefulness.Go read about the US railroad gun teams and how effective they were. They would lay a track spur aiming the gun at's target, obviously they wouldn't limit themselves to whatever the track happened to be aiming that gun at. This is something a good team can do in a few hours.
>>2072723>>2078203iirc some of the German ones ran on purpose-built permanent tracks as well, I know the Schwerer Gustav actually ran on two sets of parallel ones and arguably was less of a rail vehicle and more of an artillery piece that was just so huge that rails were the most practical traverse mechanism.
how do i get ahold of die cast construction equipment for cheap? when boomers die, do they just trash all their toys?
Why did bi-level vehicles go out of style?
>>2078244What's the problem? Works dunnit
>>2078249Stations?
>>2078295Just have long enough stations
>>2078295make stations that are 2 cars long on a 3-car train, and make the alternate which cars get to disembark on each station. you learn which cars open on which stations and only take those from yours.
I am interested in a railroad in the midwest of the US. Bidding?ou have been blocked indefinitely from editing because it appears that you are not here to build an encyclopedia.If you believe that there are good reasons for being unblocked, please review Wikipedia's guide to appealing blocks, then submit a request through the unblock wizard or through your talk page. Black Kite (talk) 10:07, 19 June 2026 (UTC)How do you world leaders, make sense, of like the "Kite Runner" you know, if the President of Iraq got to DC, is Boeing helping??
The Electra Townie is apparently the best selling bike in America. I figured it would've been some gravel bike or hybrid but nope, it's actually just a cruiser/commuting bike with a really weird seating position (even for cruiser standards). Anyone ever ridden one? I just got one used for about $150 as a daily urban rider but the weird tube angle is starting to give me second thoughts but I haven't had a chance to ride it yet. What do you velophiles think of these things?
>>2060788Never got my answer on what percentage of bikes it is.....
the only single time i have seen an electra townie irl (i know it was specifically that, it had The Decals) a tranny was riding itlycrafags and dentists get trek or speshJustCrooze™ hipsters are still on fixiesthe spiritually brown and DUI riders are on fat tire ebikessometimes you see lower-middle class "it's a nice day i'll bike it" people on ancient peugeotspoorfags who wanna No Name© Cruise-like Product are all on rusted-out schwinns
An Electra Townie just flew over my house!
>>2076229i hope xhe gets shot down with an ASRAAM
>>2076155Spiritually and physically brown lycrafag here, I have a Felt and a Willier, where do you live? Fixies are popular with the retro (2000s) crowd that is bringing back Ed Hardy because fixies and Ed Hardy are so old that they're cool again
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>>2077884What's the real difference? We're all locked in a tin can for weeks for months.
>get the call that I'm boarding the ship next week>feeling of impending doom returnsSometimes I think whether I regret choosing this career, but on the other hand, the regular 9-5 work also felt miserable.
>>2078239If you are smart and learn everything there is to learn about the equipment and tasks, but lack social skills, communication and context, you can be a great engineer, but only a mediocre deck officer.
>>2066772I got one of these tablet holders to read kindle on my bunk and remote controls to flip the pages and it's a new level of comfortable. I'm reading a lot more. Also to play emulators on my tablet with a controller and watch movies.
>>2078264I got one that's also fully adjustable, can clamp onto surfaces, etc. it drove me absolutely insane because my OCD and autism would constantly see it as slightly off and I would re-adjust it. I'm never buying a full adjustable thing again, I only fixed angles now
(Reposting something I found online:)Things that happened faster than California's high-speed rail project (390 miles/32 years):China's entire high speed rail system (30,000 miles) took 15 years from breaking ground to passengers riding trainsThe entire city of Dubai went from barren desert to gleaming metropolis in 30 yearsiPhone 1 through iPhone 17 (18 years)The Internet (32 years)For what Newsom is spending on this ridiculous train to nowhere, he could:Pay for 200 L.A.-to-San Francisco limousine rides for every person in California.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2077572China is still a developing country so they have less red tape to go through, similar to the USA in the early 20th century or Japan in the 1960s-1970s.
>>2077498>We're building something so amazing that it will take us 50 years to finish! You just can't understand how amazing we are!
>>2072182Seems like many of the gov projects where there's zero accountability, where money bloats up, where government has to keep spending money to make the company profitable, etc. If its failing and has been failing for 30+ years, it should be scrapped. The execs sued, and jailed.
Why can't America get https://x.com/JRUrbaneNetwork/status/2078691711799452134?Why cant we ask how much trains cost? How efficient trains are? How often its being utilized? Why cant we allow private companies to compete and build? Why does only government get control over it? Why cant we do better? Why are we not allowing others to do better?
>>2078057People discuss the costs all the time. For passenger use, trains have a niche where they make sense. Problems come in when train obsessives want to force everyone into that niche. Private companies can never work because they can't acquire the required right-of-way without making use of the government's power of eminent domain. For most, we already have done better with the Interstate system and plentiful airports. No idea what you mean by your last question, though I suspect that answer is still the need for eminent domain.
It's either a container ship or a tanker, both named as blandly as possible.
>>2077198>schooner>galleonread gooner while scrolling the catalogue
>>2077240Revisionist spotted. If we like it - we do it. Discussion over.
>>2077240ask the people with some weird language to name them.Which one do you prefer for tanker ships?>llong dancer>safinat naqila>vaixell cisterna>petrolŝipo
>>2078313llong dancer is the shit
Post your favorite or most used train station or bus stop.Once a year or so I like to start this thread, it usually ends up pretty interesting.
>>2076745Vendome does look like ass above ground but it's absolute kino inside.
>>2076745Do you guys still have phone booths or is that an old photo? if so are they just urinals for crackheads? I can't imagine too many uses for them nowadays.
>>2077177There are still a few kicking around Montréal because the telcos are too cheap to rip them out. These ones, however, are gone.For whatever reason, OP decided to post a picture of Vendôme from 2007-06-06.
>>2073351nice pic, anon. I hope Greece doesnt completely fuck its rail system
Why do they do this? Happened this Friday
>the presence of this lil shit decides if a plane gets completely fucked up
>>2077825She's consenting...
>>2077837wtf ANON NO
>>2075401how could we have ever known this would have happened, liberalsisters? Our actions have...consequences?
>>2077825would
>Carries your ass from Berlin to Stalingrad while loaded with MG42s and Panzerfausts>fags on /n/ still think bloat like gearing and suspension forks is somehow necessary
sus forks are bloat.gearing would have gotten him there faster.
>>2077550many NATO forces are experimenting with full sus e-bike cavalry THOUGH
>>2077550enter the Swiss Army Bicycle
>>2077550you forgot to mention the detail. where the rider of this bike mostly relied on either supporting logistics or requisition. Both of which (You) don't have realistic access to.This explains why the bicycle could affors to be highly unpractical in comparison and waste significant space on trash like 'nades.
>>2078183i wonder why they dont just use sliding dropouts
>learning spanish>start drinking heavily>day labour at Lowes>get into 4mm, 5mm, 6mm hex specs>boss wants me to adjust his handlebar
>>2068462Tom Waits
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>>2070322Who is he waiting for
>>2064898i'd have thought anyone taking a shit at tesco wouldn't really want to commemorate or celebrate the act but whatever ?
yeWax or Oil?What do YOU like better?I don't wanna listen to the youtube silca shills
I can get Schnell machine oil for cheap. Will it work?
>>2077767I wonder if wax rubs off more if you're changing gears vs if you're not
>>2078110literally any oil for any kind of machine will be good for a bike chain. motor oil, gear oil, sewing machine oil, automatic dildo fucking machine oil, whatever.the only caveat is, if it's too thick, it won't sink down into the internal bits of the pins and the inside of the plates, which is the only parts that need it (you wipe as much as you can off the exterior so as not to collect dust, dirt, and grit.)so, thicker oils need to be thinned with diesel or mineral spirits to a medium viscosity so that you can see it rapidly sink down into the links as you apply it.if you use a super light oil like the stuff for hair clippers, it technically works fine but you have to reapply it all the time and it's just not worth it.
>>2078154To drive home the point anon is making, I've literally oiled my chain with everything from olive oil to silicone sex lube
>>2078024Just wipe off the chain with a dry towel after every ride where it got wet.
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