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how does the brain work?
how is the brain working ?
I base in a place absolutely requiring free movement both foot cycle boat n carr selling condos n upward costs for beach housing. Roads wrok good increase from 25000 to ? 400000 winters and growing over 40 years. The Interstate I75 jams during rush hour winters,,,,caws there's a bend in it. Mostly the beef is space vs vehicle numbers n no adequate planning but very strongly local attitudes, ethnicity, or in J's area country folk in town. I can go to Naples largely well off NYorkers n trade positions on the blvd no problem where I base mostly retired Ohioans some Illini and the local menial servant class...like driving thru molasses. Safe but gripppy. I whiz thru their clots like a sharp knife thru a hot turkey. 75 miles away, Miami everyone seems either on drugs or drunk doing a speed test for Ferrari. No give and take flow thru traffic only me first you die we'll get you for that .... |
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frustration with bikes and cars (was: how does the brain work?)
nil wrote:
Ive seen cyclists come up beside a car stopped in traffic and actually KICK it. That's the spirit! I've seen a pedestrian do that, once, but that was while under the influence. I guess it is the sort of thing that happens when you get scared. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 |
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frustration with bikes and cars (was: how does the brain work?)
On Wed, 03 May 2017 03:02:23 +0200, Emanuel Berg
wrote: nil wrote: Ive seen cyclists come up beside a car stopped in traffic and actually KICK it. That's the spirit! I've seen a pedestrian do that, once, but that was while under the influence. I guess it is the sort of thing that happens when you get scared. I once walked over a car that stopped in a crosswalk - as a kid. |
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frustration with bikes and cars (was: how does the brain work?)
nil wrote:
I once walked over a car that stopped in a crosswalk - as a kid. Cool -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 |
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Very healthy. We have 3 cyclists not capable of rational civilized activity or thought and self identified.
YOU ARE WARNED do not ride close to, share tools with, or lend money. |
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frustration with bikes and cars
For your reference, records indicate that
Duane wrote: I think it's more the sense of security from being wrapped in all that steel. I don’t see the connection between being safe and being an asshole. I suspect, for example, that long haul truckers aren’t in a rage most of the time they’re on the road, and they’ve got the most steel wrapped around them. But they’ve *also* got a connection with a community of fellow truckers (historically through CB but I’d guess they use newer tech these days). Commuters are just a different animal. Almost entirely non-social, despite taking the same daily route year after year. Vehicles specifically built with entertainment centers in them and *also* to reduce outside noise. Few ways to engage other nearby drivers that *aren’t* rage-inducing. The anonymity of the steel cage is a bigger factor than the security of it. -- "Also . . . I can kill you with my brain." River Tam, Trash, Firefly |
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commuters on the road are the commuters watching tv n mowing the lawn for a barbecue.
how else ? is there a morphology from lairva to transit ? |
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On Wednesday, May 3, 2017 at 1:24:47 PM UTC-7, Doc O'Leary wrote:
For your reference, records indicate that Duane wrote: I think it's more the sense of security from being wrapped in all that steel. I don’t see the connection between being safe and being an asshole. I suspect, for example, that long haul truckers aren’t in a rage most of the time they’re on the road, and they’ve got the most steel wrapped around them. But they’ve *also* got a connection with a community of fellow truckers (historically through CB but I’d guess they use newer tech these days). Commuters are just a different animal. Almost entirely non-social, despite taking the same daily route year after year. Vehicles specifically built with entertainment centers in them and *also* to reduce outside noise. Few ways to engage other nearby drivers that *aren’t* rage-inducing. The anonymity of the steel cage is a bigger factor than the security of it. In my experience long haul truckers are the safest people to be around. They don't want to slow down but they sure as hell don't want to be stopped and ticketed either. I believe that there is a note of learning to drive properly among many commuters as well. I asked an American/Chinese why Chinese drivers are so bad. He said that in China you have to fight for everything that you can get including the simple space to live and that carries over to their driving here. So perhaps in a generation or two that will lighten up. The real dangerous drivers are the white people that have been kicked around so much for the last 8 or 16 years as being nothing more than doormats for the rest of society. These people are enraged virtually all the time now. I can see the only fix is to actually ticket these people with extremely heavy fines for the slightest infraction. Go 10 mph over the speed limit and get a $500 fine. Go 15 mph over the limit and be arrested and your car seized and taken to jail or to court for a $1,000 fine. This would greatly increase road safety and in the end would actually increase the safety and after it sank in would actually speed commutes as without people cutting in and out there would be far fewer wrecks. |
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