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!

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

Every Israeli is now a legitimate target

CEOs are getting too comfortable again. One needs to be pew-pewed in the streets to thin the herd and guarantee next year’s harvest!

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?

"If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

Roald Dahl, The Twits

I wouldn’t murder anyone but I’m certainty not going to be upset when a shit gibbon gets his neck blown out.

You sound like the kind of person that if someone was getting attacked in the street, you would grab their arms to stop them defending themselves while saying to them that they need to be the better person.

I would happily kick you in the face if that were ever the case

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.

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.

Then do everything you can to stop the violent settler colonial state from continuing that suffering instead of victim blaming

they spent so long trying to make amends

Did they really though? They worked to appease their guilt but never really dealt with the underlying reasons it happened in the first place.

Most of those that did the dirty work during ww2 just went home after and carried on.

Same with the British. Most people have no idea about how or why all the shit in the middle east started or why it continues.

BRICS is making headway with that.

The US empire is already in decline. What it’s allies need to work out is when to jump ship

You have a system that is mostly based on gentlemans agreements from a time when most of them were slave traders/owners.

Similar to the British system, if a cunt gets into power, there’s no real safeguards against them acting cuntishly because it’s a system based on gentlemen agreements amongst the descendants of the Norman aristocracy