Hot take: Accidents don’t just happen. They can be due to lack of skill, judgement, maintaince, road conditions/design, and calling car crashes accidents as if they’re beyond people’s control only serves to help the responsible parties dodge consequences of their actions.

No, but it would be fine to safely drive on grass to get around them, though slightly assholish if its so wet/vehicle so heavy you’re damaging the grass.

Not wrecked, but I was kinda hoping itd be an open diff and get stuck with 1 wheel spinning when they tried to get back on pavement until a kind bicyclist helped weight it down.

The driver is clearly paying attention and not bothering anyone. There are infinitely more common and dangerous behaviors, such as street parking near traffic lights I will condemn before I complain about someone taking a detour to get around an obstruction.

The cars should be driven into the ocean because they are incapable of not blocking traffic. These particular bicyclists are choosing to be as bad as cars and therefore are as deserving of scorn.

Kinda, its incredibly common to have to pass cars, construction vehicles, old folks on mobility scooters, tuktuks, whatever by using the shoulder outside the drawn sections of the map.

Here’s some cows I had to go around because they were using the road yesterday.

Because if you were you’d certainly have had toor seen other people ride on medians or sidewalks to pass dumptrucks or cars or whatever going at 5kmh and not endangere anyone.

Good thing that’s not what he was doing.

Tell me you’ve never left the “always the same map” area without telling me you’ve never lived outside the “always the same map” area.

Eh, nobody was endangered. I’d criticize leaving tracks in the grass, but they’re barely there.

I have to ride on soft shoulders to get by buses, cars, and construction vehicles fairly regularly, as long as its done safely and non-destructively, I see no issue.

That didn’t start with Afghanistan.

The scene from Apocalypse Now with “Anyone who runs is a VC, and anyone who doesn’t is a well disciplined VC”.

They would notify everyone in a village they had to go to the concentration camps, then designate the area a “Specified Strike Zone”, where every man, woman, animal, structure, and crops were considered to be enemies. Some of these areas had arsenic dropped on them to poison the crops via Agent Blue so nobody could move back in.

Before that, in Korea, standing orders for the airforce was to strafe any group of 5 or more civilians, because they must secretly be soldiers.

It is governments which sign the Geneva convention, and the “judges, game theory experts, activists, NGO reps, ethics philosophers, etc” they allow/amplify are ultimately further expressions of those governments.

We come back to “everything is political”, which is 100x more true for technocratic entities that claim to just be calling balls and strikes.

Crater Lake is 7700 years old. The natives passed down an oral history of the eruption that formed it for all that time. Do you think it is entirely coincidence that their story matches modern geologic analysis?

Who the hell can afford to go to a track?

Huh, I will be pleasantly surprised if the same governments whose companies are developing this tech and itching to use it in Ukraine and Palestine support its ban.

When nobody else is around, they speak normally, the way pretty much everybody else talks.

Need to update the Geneva convention.

execs and shareholders only care about growing the player

If this was true, the base version of the 6 year old console wouldn’t cost 650 and the pro 900 USD.