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  • I’d rather not. Not sure if you can view the mod log for other people’s accounts, but if so it’s easy to spot from mine.

    I’ll say that I have some sympathy because dealing with internet randos is painful soul-sucking work and it’s easy to default to the ban-hammer, but…

  • It does.

    I find it doesn’t matter though which way you ride: riding on the sidewalk is unsafe.

    When (US) turning right from the right lane, drivers don’t expect you to be coming from behind to the right of them at any speed.

    When turning left from the left lane, drivers don’t expect you to be coming from behind to the left at any speed.

    When backing out across the sidewalk, drivers don’t expect you to be to either side at any speed.

    I’m seeing a pattern here, and it’s that drivers only see what they expect to see, where they expect to see it. I’ve fucked it up myself from time to time, and this leads me to the conclusion that the safest option for biking is to be where drivers are looking: in the vehicle lanes, going the same direction as other vehicles. It’s not perfect because they still aren’t expecting a bicycle, but it’s still the best choice we have.

  • I associate that term more with archaic Christianity (Joan of Arc and other old saints spring to mind) much more than Islam.

    I think the phrase hits the exact intersection of nationalism, militarism, false hero worship for people who are just doing a job, and theocracy that in combination I find deeply repulsive, no matter which specific religion it is.

  • It depends.

    Were they killed in the line of duty? Did they make a choice that is at bare minimum well-intentioned? Or did they just happen to be there and died by bad luck?

    Firefighter dies trying to save someone from a burning building? Sure, okay. Dies in a vehicle crash while responding? Maybe.

    Dies by someone else’s actions and is never aware of any possibility of a choice? That’s not any sacrifice, let alone the “ultimate” sacrifice.

  • That’s not victim blaming, bud. To the contrary.

    Webster’s, definition 2:

    martyr: a person who sacrifices something of great value and especially life itself for the sake of principle

    That leaves aside the religious overtones of the first definition.

    If you are treating deaths due to terror attack as anything other than tragedy, there is something deeply wrong with your society.

    To suggest that it is in any way voluntary, or intentional for the sake of religion, is disgusting.