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   jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2024 06:19:30 JST jwz

   Read this at my funeral.

   For nearly all of my life, I've known how I was going to die. Not from cancer, or diet, or drink, but by being crushed under a car. I will be mangled and bleed out painfully. The driver, distracted on their phone, will say that I "came out of nowhere". The police and the DA will call it an "accident". There will be no consequences of any kind. Except for my death, of course. [...]
   https://jwz.org/b/ykV3

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     Esteban K�ber :rust: (ekuber@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2024 06:19:29 JST Esteban K�ber :rust:

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     @jwz non-cyclists that are confused by activism think that activists are attracted to cycling, when the reality is that becoming a cyclist very quickly radicalizes one into becoming an activist. Nothing crystallizes strong opinions as being frequently threatened with death by at best indifferent and at worst aggressive and antagonistic people.

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     xmlns="Dan" (divclassbutton@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 01:14:42 JST xmlns="Dan"

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     • Esteban K�ber :rust:

     @ekuber @jwz https://unevenearth.org/2018/08/the-social-ideology-of-the-motorcar/

     This essay crystallized it in my head. People who buy cars believe they are buying the right to go faster than anyone else. When stuck behind in vehicle traffic they don't mind, those people bought the promise too after all, but a cyclist is sabotaging the promise the motorist paid tens of thousands for.

     Though they would deny it if asked, all motorists see cyclists merely existing as an act of aggression and act accordingly.