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Do you guys ever have conversations with other people on public transportation, or try picking up girls there?>yet another day riding the subway sharing a car with plenty of cute girls, normal looking guys, and never make conversation with anyone to try to make friends or get a date >it's been like this nearly daily for 10 years >even see the same people getting on and off at my same stop, they live near me, and still never speak to anyone
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>>2046297 I get it a lot less now that I wear big headphones
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>last week of December >another year riding the subway pretty much every day >another year of not speaking to a single person on my ride There’s a pretty young woman with resting bitch face who I see almost every day, sometimes in the morning but frequently in the evening returning home. We live at the same stop. We are on the train for nearly half an hour together. We frequently are even on the same train car. We were both on the train this morning, day after Christmas, when it was pretty sparsely filled. Despite how awkward it would be given we see each other for months and never speak, I Could have struck up a conversation based around Christmas how her holiday was, doesn’t it suck we have to work today when so few people do, talk about living in the same town, etc. Instead what did I do? Walked to the next car and sat there the whole time I’m sure this girl has never even noticed my existence on the train, yet almost every single day I notice her and kick myself how I don’t talk to her. She doesn’t seem to have any visible piercings or tattoos like is common in my area. Probably a relatively wholesome girl. And yet, nothing. I swear riding the subway make me even more miserable
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>>2033072 I do this too. It's also good to wait outside for a while and check they are ok by looking in their house with binoculars.
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Literally just have Game and this isn't a problem. Read some Neil Strauss.
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I'm a Londoner so talking on public transport would get me executed, but a few weeks ago an older woman with an Australian accent walked up to me on the train platform and started talking about how cold it was and how she was surprised I was alright in just a hoodie. We had a little chat about cold tolerance and Australia (I've got relatives there) before the train arrived, we waved to each other as we boarded and then went silent. It brightened my week.
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What the fuck is wrong with these mongoloid slackers? They completely underschedule longhaul trains everywhere outside the NEC so almost no one can use them for shorter trips and then wonder why ridership is in the shitter. Each route should be minimum 3x a day per direction.
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>>2042914 Thermodynamics ftw
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>>2059942 have you decided yet?
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>>1992029 >>2043515 When I was a kid my grandparents lived in Montana so I would take the Empire Builder from Seattle out there at least once a year. Board in the late morning, get a comfy meal in the restaurant, sleep in the bunk bed car, wake up in the early morning to my grandparents picking me up in their random tiny town, extremely comfy desu.
Regarding the monorail, I had a job in highschool where I actually used it to commute from downtown to Seattle Center lol. I can’t imagine it gets used much for work.
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>>1992023 Amtrak is mid, but the local transport in my area going east to west is even worse. If I wanted to travel from Santa Rosa to Sacramento directly by public transit, my only choice would be Amtrak. The county bus line that used to go between Sonoma County and Napa County was canceled in 2018. So the only bus that goes from one to the other is the Amtrak bus. It's slow and costs more than the local bus did, but now it's the only bus on the road. If it didn't exist the only option for public transport would be to travel to San Francisco (bus or train and ferry), then to the East Bay (BART and bus) to board for the train to Sacramento. Marin, Sonoma, Napa, and Solano Counties all have over a million people in total but there is no public transportation system going east to west. It isn't Amtrak's fault the local transport systems have such a hard time bringing people to their train stations.
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I still don't get countersteering, I've been cycling all my life and I don't think about "oh I have to move the bike to the right to turn left", I just naturally follow the path and move the bike and she moves exactly how I want her to Then I learn about countersteering and I'm wondering if I've been riding wrong my whole life
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>>2062575 It's no use. I literally took a bicycle dynamics / physics course in uni but anons ITT will instead insist on their infantile intuition about it.
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Everyone ITT is now manually countersteering
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>>2062618 You know he means single track.
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I just lock the rear wheel while leaning and enter a sick drift, and maintain balance with my body weight alone.
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That cozy, old school cabin photo of a Delta Air Lines L1011 TriStar from the 1980s is getting people talking for one simple reason: it looks roomy. Wider looking aisles, big overhead bins, and that warm lighting that makes the whole cabin feel like a different era of flying. Delta's own history of the L1011 explains why it felt that way. The airline called it "high, wide and handsome," noting a cabin about 8 feet high and 19 feet wide, plus wider aisles and large entry doors designed to make boarding and deplaning easier. Delta's first revenue L1011 flight was on Dec. 15, 1973 from Atlanta to Philadelphia, and the airline ultimately flew 70 of the type, the largest L1011 fleet in the industry. Delta retired the L1011 in 2001, after decades of domestic and international flying, including transatlantic and transpacific routes. And over time, the industry shifted hard toward efficiency and packing more people into each flight, especially after U.S. airline deregulation in 1978 changed how airlines competed. Looking at this cabin, you can see why so many travelers say, "Yeah... they really don't make it like that anymore."
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There is a famous economic answer for this: 1) Government dictated pricing, all prices were set so high that it was "rent" making (above average returns), and airlines only competed on service 2) When airlines were deregulated, prices fell rapidly such that flying became common place and affordable for everyone. For a country as large and spread out as the US, this was the desired social outcome as the government promoted transportation as a public good 3) With prices competitive, planes were "right-sized", firms merged until it reached a natural monopoly number, and features priced accordingly 4) The ultimate proof in the pudding is empirical evidence over the past 40 years that shows air transportation becoming extremely affordable (compared to historical prices), almost everyone can afford to fly, and flying is no longer a luxury or once-in-a-lifetime experience. If you don't like the race to the bottom, simply pay for premium cabin. Premium cabin prices today mirror what similar service cost way back when, regardless of name.
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>be a clown who picks some budget airline for being 25 $ cheaper >wonder why flying was different in the past
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>>2062055 >300 for NY to LA Christ thats cheaper than taking a bus
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>>2062434 Yeah, and it's actually a bit conservative. You can go from NYC to LA for significantly less if you don't care about the actual airport you go out of. There's a reason Greyhound is dying.
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>>2062036 absolute kino interior
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my environment is poisoning me im in kc area can anyone rescue me ill go anywhere in the world with you
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>>2062656 Do you have a purdy mouth, boy?
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>*combines the aggressive solipsistic entitlement of an exurban helicopter parent SUV karate lessons karen with the sanctimonious humblebrag better-than-you instagram mentality of a childless upper middle class urbanist in your path (literally in your path because it's in your physical path being as expensive and space-hogging as an actual car, while being as slow and annoying and needy and pointless and "look at me" as a dutch bike, in everyone's path) in your path* >*heh, nothin' personnel kid, as in, look at these kids of mine that I am effectively using as human shields, so give me everything in return for nothing or you're a monster and I will have you cancelled for not buckling immediately and catering to my massive sense of entitlement, kid* When did cargo bikes go from being a crusty, get-it-done, no-nonsense niche improvised delivery tool for reasonable humans, to being the single most punchable conspicuous consumption fashion accessory in the history of wheels? Also, cargo bikes hate thread, and yes I took my meds thanks for the reminder though
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>>2042821 >When did cargo bikes go from being a crusty, get-it-done, no-nonsense niche improvised delivery tool for reasonable humans, to being the single most punchable conspicuous consumption fashion accessory in the history of wheels? Cargo bikes have always been more expensive, the attitude you describe is probably more of the heavy "urbanist" push that really started a few years, using cargo bikes as some sort of gotcha when someone talks about when you need to carry something beyond yourself and whatever you can carry on a milk crate tied to the back of your bicycle; yet no one seems to show you theirs or anything beyond stock pictures on flat, even surfaces.
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>>2062035 That's like saying "rolexes were always more expensive", nah, you could buy 20 rolexes for the price of a cheap new car back then, now for the price of a new car you can buy one, if you suck off your AD's wife's boyfriend once a month for a year first
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>>2042821 >and yes I took my meds thanks for the reminder though You might need a higher dosage.
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>>2052871 Fixed by front pannier racks.
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If i take a class that teaches about boat repair at community college. I can afford to repair a boat.
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>>2055795 Unlike those other modes (bicycle notwithstanding) you can actually find a car thats cheap to own and run- hell you can buy a Chevy Cavalier with pocket change. Cheap to Insure, good on gas, parts still available or easy to find at the pick-and-pull and you can wrench on the street or a WalMart parking lot- all things that dont apply to boats or aircraft.
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>>2057035 >What necessities should I include Shipbuilding expertise should be the first thing, I'd imagine
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>>2054274 This is one of the most canonical questions where the answer is: "If you have to ask, you can't afford it."
Boats are stupid expensive.
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>>2062590 As a matter of fact, the origin of that quote was in response to someone asking JP Morgan the price of his yacht.
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I was thinking of picking up one of those cheapo Aliexpress carbon forks, but my buddy probably rightfully talked me out of it due to safety concerns. Where should I buy an affordable carbon fork in 26" for rim brakes (in Yurop)?
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Is it really a bad idea to buy $60-80 chink carbon forks on AliExpress?
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>>2058082 The consensus seems to be: "They're all right if you don't take them off the road." I did not get a first-hand report of one breaking ever, though.
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>>2055053 hylix sounds like a real brand
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>>2052080 buy an entire bike off of your craigslist/kijiji/fb marketplace equivalent and drill speed holes in it
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>>2052100 I saw one of those for sale on fb marketplace, they're apparently real
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if i buy even one more thing that is broken right out of the box i am going to start killing
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>>2062533 it's not rubber cement, it's "vulcanizing fluid".
whatever little tube comes with a patch kit always has worked for me, but you can buy big cans of it when you run out. I put some in a nail polish bottle for my patch kit and keep the can at home. the brand I bought is called Hornet Tire but as long as it's called vulcanizing fluid or cement it should be cool. I just got the cheapest on scamazon
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>>2062533 there are new tubes made of thermoplastics, "TPU", but they're bright colors. they use different patches. also there's latex, don't know anything about them/never used.
ordinary black rubber (butyl) is still the same, the patches are still the same.
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>>2062385 >>2062386 NZ and JPN are both equally expensive ticket-wise but cycle touring Japan has always been my goal
I kinda want to start with someplace easy though. I know for a fact that Japan is very mountainous since I've done a few rides there
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Why did hydrofoils never take off?
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>>2059698 they just don't consider it a separate language lol, their cowboy yankee yapping is sometimes as undecipherable to an english speaker as the worst cases of scottish accent. for me as an esl, at least.
ukrainian is indeed a bit beyond just an accent, but for the most part it's just russian that's trailing a few patches behind. it retained (and added) a bunch of unique words that russian instead nicked from other languages over the last few centuries, and it also kept its sound closer to old russian; but at the same time it also lacks some optimisations that russian lanugage has made to be less of "every rule has a list of exceptions and every exception has its own exception" (and it's still very much that, don't learn those languages, you will suffer). russian and ukrainian speakers can easily understand each other for the most part, and the rest of the meaning can be got out of context. out of all post-soviet republics' languages, only belorussian comes as close.
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>>2044074 They were foiled.
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>>2055572 why does every russian over 20 have alcoholic eyes
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>>2062562 have you seen how much vodka they drink?
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