I’m a mountain biker and judging by my exposure to other mountain bikers I’d say many of them would claim that I ride the wrong kind of bike (e-assist FatBike) and I wear the wrong kind of gear (hiking clothes, combat boots and a heavy backpack)

As I said, feel free to disagree but at least disagree with their actual point - not your interpretation of it.

It’s unclear to me what your personal opinion on pickup trucks has to do with any of this. I’m talking about fairly representing people’s views. I don’t know what it is you seem to take issue with.

Going slow doesn’t make the wheelbase shorter. Forcing people to drive onto the lane of oncoming traffic is bad infrastructure design.

That’s not what the guy is complaining about. It’s a perfectly valid point that with a longer vehicle you have to cut into the oncoming lane or your rear tires will hit the curb.

Feel free to criticize people you disagree with, but at the very least you should criticize what they’re actually saying rather than your unfair interpretation of it.

Escape competition through authenticity. No one can ever beat you at being you.

The fact that you want to spend 100 bucks that you dont have on something you don’t need probably explains the lack of that 100 bucks in the first place.

This has to be a bait.

Who I bought the house from told me to look after one specific plant that she said she would’ve taken with her if she could’ve. It got crushed by the weight of snow the next winter and there was nothing but a stick left.

I like seeing how my “meadow” keeps getting more and more diverse each year since I stopped mowing that part of the yard. In the fall I mulch it all with the mower and then let it grow freely again the next year. Last year I bought a bag of hundreds of flower bulbs and just dug them in randomly all over.

I think some people take their yards a bit too seriously. For me it’s my playground. I just throw stuff at it and see what sticks.

No, the trees will definitely get burned if my house catches on fire.

A lot of “smart” has been traded for fun and convenient here.

I live next to this old granny who does nothing but tidying up her yard all day every day and it’s flawless. I bet she secretly does some stealth weeding on my side as well.

I did some work at construction sites and worked at a place that imports plants and flowers. Just few weeks during the summer.

Yeah, this platform is a based on a subreddit as well. Not a place anyone stumbles upon by accident.

They must’ve bought it here on a trailer as it’s quite narrow street and no airport anywhere near.

I’m tempted to conclude that actually paying for the service is the key factor here, but I’m not sure. It’s a highly self-selected userbase after all - people who joined the platform specifically to have these kinds of tough conversations.

Perhaps it could work on a free platform as well. I guess the major difference is that getting banned comes with a real monetary cost and you can’t just create a new account in two minutes and go back to being obnoxious.

It also incentivizes the admin team to keep the place in a state where people are willing to keep paying. In this case it’s the userbase they need to please - not the advertisers.

Andrew Camarata and Foresty Forest are the first two that come to mind.

I joined a subscription-based social media platform recently that’s focused on intellectually honest and good faith discussion about pretty much anything. I never thought a bunch of strangers could act that civilly toward each other online. The contrast to other platforms like Lemmy cannot be overstated. No outrage, no grandstanding, no smug and dismissive responses, and no insults whatsoever. There’s plenty of disagreement there, but it’s all handled the way you’d expect adults to behave.

Don’t know whether it’ll stay that way, but I’ll enjoy it while it lasts.

My old army canteen has worked just fine. At the gym I use an old plastic orange juice bottle. Makes literally no difference to me for as long as it holds water.

I don’t believe in free will either but that doesn’t imply that I think decisions aren’t being made. You’re simply just not authoring those decisions - at least not the way you think.

We do things for two reasons: either you have to or you want to. There’s no freedom in neither one.

It’s a subscribtion based platform and has nothing to do with crypto. It’s effectively a subreddit turned into independent platform to escape everything that’s wrong with reddit.

Right. Well add cynicism to the list of reasons why this place is so depressing.