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Speed limits for cyclists are completely pointless and unworkable.
What’s happened to this forum that a member could even countenance such a bonkers idea?

i dream of being able to cycle at 20mph

Have you considered cycle t̶r̶a̶i̶n̶i̶n̶g̶ coaching?

Unsure why speed limits are there to protect the self?

Primary purpose is to protect non protagonists surely?

Also:

Fuck brakes, pass me a banger and a can of skol, you bike radar idiots.

Just catching up here, but

Some of the rider behaviour in Richmond Park (which I assume this is about) is genuinely fucking awful...

is spot on.

Same in Regents Park. I'm experienced so it's water off a duck's back, but some of the "pace-lines" are fucking chop suey and pose a genuine danger to less experienced cyclists. Absolute nodders to a man (it's always blokes) giving no space and cutting in before their back wheel is barely clear.

Some particular clubs were a problem even before covid and the changes.

Too many cyclists (and clubs, which is even worse) - particularly in London - who think the sport was invented in 2020. Zero road-craft, etiquette or clue. Too busy cutting about in pastels.

Unsure why speed limits are there to protect the self?

Mainly others, yes. It’s not ideal design, but speed limits are also used in places where the risk of losing control or traction is increased. Perhaps not as much in the UK, but certainly in other countries it’s not uncommon to find a road that drops its speed limit due to unlevel surfacing or steep corners, helping alert drivers and prevent them from endangering themselves (and others).

It’s a tangential point in any case. If consenting, informed adult cyclists want to be reckless with their lives and property, I’d say let them; but they shouldn’t be allowed to put others in immediate danger because of their hobby.

So speed limits for tandems then?

All cars can have non driving occupants...

Is trump a bit fucked? Obviously he’ll never do any time but his case seems like it’s very much against him

Just one juror needed to aquit isn't it?

I'd say it's more about trying to make reputational damages stick nationally with voters than the actual crimes at hand (this one being the election interference or tax avoidance,? I forget which is which)

Even if he does get jailed he'll still win.

Burn the whole thing down....

Also Biden is tanking his support with the young and minorities because of his support of Israel,
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/us/politics/biden-trump-battleground-poll.html

Trumps basically a shoo-in

election interference or tax avoidance

Falsification of campaign finance records.

Max sentence 4 yrs.

Misdemeanour so requires unanimous jury decision.

Do I understand this correctly- the illegal migration act stated that those arriving here through a non sanctioned route would not have their application processed, they’d be left in limbo or sent to Rwanda.

But- it’s deemed illegal in NI (last couple of days news), so does this mean that if an asylum seeker heads to NI they can force the government to process their application?

Why is the USA such a big Israel supporter

Military location

If Trump goes to jail, I guarantee you, some of his looney supporters will be rioting on the streets.

Also evangelical Christians
https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/05/rapture-fear-evangelical-americans-church-miller.html

As a child, I was taught that I might live to see the end of the
world. I learned how to see it coming, too: How the nation of Israel
was “God’s timepiece” hitting marks on a prophetic timeline, how the
machinations of the Catholic Church and the United Nations would soon
come to a head and form a one-world government, how God would be
driven out of America’s public square as people looked to other things
for salvation.

Also lobbying
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIPAC
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/01/friends-israel

AIPAC is prideful about its influence. Its promotional literature
points out that a reception during its annual policy conference, in
Washington, “will be attended by more members of Congress than almost
any other event, except for a joint session of Congress or a State of
the Union address.” A former AIPAC executive, Steven Rosen, was fond
of telling people that he could take out a napkin at any Senate
hangout and get signatures of support for one issue or another from
scores of senators. AIPAC has more than a hundred thousand members, a
network of seventeen regional offices, and a vast pool of donors. The
lobby does not raise funds directly. Its members do, and the amount of
money they channel to political candidates is difficult to track. But
everybody in Congress recognizes its influence in elections, and the
effect is evident. In 2011, when the Palestinians announced that they
would petition the U.N. for statehood, AIPAC helped persuade four
hundred and forty-six members of Congress to co-sponsor resolutions
opposing the idea.

So many tinfoil hat conspiracies about this, if you’re ever really bored and not easily swayed they’re a good read for giggles.

Reality is 97% maybe more what @Soul said, same for Ukraine and South Korea and probably others.

There are approximately as many Jewish people living in the US as there are in Israel.

If you were to believe Twitter, all the big Trump supporters believe:
Grand replacement theory
Covid was a hoax
Bill Gates and vaccines are about mind control
Biden is a paedophile and shouldn't be president because of his son's "crimes"
Any support of Palestine is treason
Muslims are taking over the US

@andyp Not all Jewish people are supporters of Israel.

There are more white, Christian Zionists than there are people in Israel. Zionism is essentially necessary for the rapture ("the belief in the Jewish right of return, based upon the Old Testament covenant made by God with Abraham"). So the white christian evangelical loons can be saved and the Jews perish. In America, those same white evangelical Christians have A LOT of money, which the people in power like.

Anti-Zionism has been framed as akin to antisemitism. Which according to the numbers, is opposite land. Most Zionists in the world want to see Jews in Israel so the rapture can happen, which will then wipe out all the Jews or force them to convert to Christianity.

Is this satire?

What makes you say that?