More recently there’s a mayor of some town (in Texas, iirc Kansas) that’s facing deportation and multiple felony charges for voting in elections as a non-citizen.

I’ll link to the story posted on lemmy if I can find it!

Found it! https://lemmy.ml/post/43029958

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what’s the helmet situation in other countries, especially around ad-hoc rental scooters? I see scooters and bikes for rent here, but no buckets to wear, and I wonder the legality of that too.

Outside of Australia, helmets are not mandatory and data from there shows it has had a negative effect on not only the numbers of cyclists, reducing “safety in numbers” but also an increase in children with head injuries, because drivers are less risk adverse (“Mary Poppins effect” - drivers give more space & make less dangerous passes around cyclists in everyday clothing).

The most simple solution to increasing cyclist (and pedestrian) safety is to build better infrastructure. Design roads so that vehicles have to slow for junctions and roundabouts, especially where there’s mixed modal traffic. Prioritise active and public transport over inactive modes. Make cycle, walking & bus routes more direct and make driving routes more circuitous. Discourage driving into town centres and stop building out of town retail parks.

Back to the topic in hand:

If anyone wants to claim that “helmets save lives” then why aren’t they advocating them for vehicle passengers, who experience greater numbers and severity of head injuries than cyclists, or for pedestrians who have about the same number, possibly slightly more than cyclists?

Oh no! Won’t someone think of the children!

Also largest owner of arable farmland in the US

As well as emotional regulation from an early age (would massively reduce male violence)

Every Israeli is now a legitimate target

They are supremacists that see everyone else as dogs to be abused and killed.

It’s why Israel has no future and needs to be wiped from the map and only spoken about as a shit stain on the underpants of history

There are some that still give Israel the benefit of the doubt and showing that a humanitarian flotilla trying to deliver aid are kidnapped in international waters, strips away that.

Israel has, and will always be a piece of shit and definitely revel in it, but those who stand on the sidelines with their “two sides” arguments are now shown that they are morally complicit

So the deal is that Palestinian hostages will be released but with no press, no fanfare, nothing but Israeli ones are the opposite and guess what the complicit western media will be filling their pages with?

It’s usually preceded by some storming of beaches, marching across the region before holding trials and hanging people.

You youngsters always want to skip to the end when there’s plenty of killing fascists along the way!

don’t handle well The pedal assist on the lime bikes in London are notorious for kicking in at inappropriate times and causing riders to lose control.

Doctors in A&E use the term ‘Lime bike leg’ for the crush injuries they see because the bikes weigh nearly 30kg and are akin to motorbike crash injuries.

This is compounded by the level of riding and handling skills of those who use those bikes being almost non-existent. My own experience of those riders is that they never shoulder check before moving into a space, just a cursory glance to the floor next to them. They frequently dump them in places where they block pavements and make accessibility for those needing it most, a lot harder.

Every successive British govt had been too pig-headed to walk back any of their decisions

No child chooses to be a bigot, a zionist or a fascist. It’s environmental.

We’re not the monsters!

After shoving their noses in it, they have to dig every body out of the rubble.

And that’s why every zionist is a legitimate target. They are fascists and deserve no quarter.

Poor naive child. Who do you think appoints the board of governors?

Nothing says your cause is doomed more than going to the prison cell of the most popular Palestinian leader whos been incarcerated for over 20 years, to scream in his face that he wont win because he lives rent free in your head every single day!

They’re all scrambling because they know public opinion has swung so much that they are in danger of it moving to seeing that Israel has no right to exist and it really shouldn’t any longer. That it is an apartheid state that will invariably wipe out Palestinians and then will move onto its expansionist ambitions of taking over Lebanon, Syria and the Sinai.