They’re allowed to go fast on a cycleway. It’s a road for cycling. The entire point of the path is to have a place where they can ride at speed. It’s a separated path for people to bike fast on. When you cross a cycleway, you as a pedestrian have the responsibility to check for cyclists.

Pedestrians don’t always have the right of way. A cycle path is like a road for cyclists. No matter what speed a vehicle or bike is traveling at, there will be a minimum stopping distance. If you as a pedestrian just throw yourself in front of a bike or vehicle without thinking, then you are responsible. There is no speed they can travel at that someone couldn’t get hit if they just walk out directly in front of them. Hell, you as a pedestrian have a stopping distance. If you’re walking at normal speed and someone just jumps right out in front of you, you’re going to run into them.

Was the cyclist traveling at a legal speed for that path? If so, then the liability is likely on the pedestrian. The cyclist needs to not be going so fast that they won’t hit someone up ahead of them using the path, whether walking or biking. That is something they can and should be reasonably prepared for. If there is a blind turn, they need to not be going so fast that they can hit someone around the bend. But that is a reasonable hazard that can be prepared for. Or if there is a marked crossing, cyclists also need to not be going so fast that they can’t stop in time for people crossing there. But on a straightaway, and someone just comes out of the brush at a random location, not looking, and throws themselves into your path? No, you have no liability there as a cyclist. That isn’t a hazard you can reasonably prepare for.

You are basically arguing that it should be illegal for people to ride bike at all, as there is no minimum speed that you can avoid a collision if someone is just going to throw themselves out in front of you.

If this were KSP, I would drop the station with the kerbonauts inside, just to see if any kerbals manage to cheat the physics engine enough to survive reentry and landing sans parachutes.

Seriously. God could have resolved the whole situation with an easy flex. Honestly he has really poor emotional control issues. Let’s imagine how he could have handled the situation better.

So he’s there. He’s sitting there on the mountain, watching them spend years building their tower up. Finally, after decades of effort, the tower is nearly complete. As the last exhausted mason finishes the last stone, he looks out, near eye-level with God. He’s about to ask God, “not so great now are you?”

But before he can, God looks on amused. Then he just laughs, taps his foot, and the mountain he’s on instantly grows a hundred times taller. The mason, and all the humans, suddenly know just how comically beneath they are to God in ability.

That’s how you put a mortal in their place without being a dick about it.

Now let’s cook the inflation data by adding goods substitution!

Thanks!

Hard to say. Could be style choice or a phenomenon like pareidolia. On the other, the Egyptians certainly had experience carving up the dead, and the process had great religious significance.

We accept that you as a trans woman are indeed, a woman. Here’s your hijab. And you damn well better be straight!

If you’re gay and you sleep with a woman, then you will burn in the PIT! Repent sinner! For such a vile act, only Christ can save you! You have gone against God’s plan for you! It is a mortal sin for a gay man to sleep with a woman!

Blahaj: Goes out of its way to defend chasers and transphobes at the cost of a significant portion of lemmy’s trans users

What did they do?

I want to see the woke religious bigot.

God wants trans people to transition! In fact, he DEMANDS it! If you’re trans and you don’t transition, you will burn in HELL for all Eternity!

I mean there is a helmet that’s even stupider, or perhaps just more tragic.

WARNING: Extremely NSFL - features a device built for self-harm.

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Let me introduce you to US Patent #1183492A Albert Pratt’s Helmet Gun.

It’s just positive racism. No different from thinking Asians are all good at math. Positive racism is still racism.

I mean I ate a lot of soy, and mine shrank…

Of course I also injected a ton of E… And later I got a vulva installed… But I did simultaneously eat soy!

I want to run for president on the platform of dismantling the imperial presidency. Basically “I am going to force Congress to rein in the power of the White House. They’ll either take these powers from me, or they’ll die in the camps.” I’ll give them plenty of opportunities to take these evil powers away from me. But if they don’t, they’re being wielded against Congress directly.

Well, not just any orbit…

They’ll strap guns to the robots, legally declare the robots to be police officers, and allow the robots to use lethal force to defend themselves. We’ll have robot officers pulling people over in traffic stops, and they’ll be just as trigger happy as human officers. The robots will be programmed to screech, “I’m in fear for my life” as they take a human life.

Don’t forget the Roman human sacrifices that they insisted totally weren’t human sacrifices!

The Romans made a big deal about not performing any form of human sacrifice. They saw it as barbaric. And yet, a culminating part of any Roman triumph involved something that was human sacrifice by another name. You ever seen recreations of a Triumph in a movie, where they’re escorting captured war prisoners bound in chains? Sure, some of those ended up as slaves. But a fair number of those marching were marched in front of the Temple of Jupiter and executed in front of it in an elaborate ritual ceremony. But no…it totally wasn’t a human sacrifice to Jupiter!

Give me a break. The Romans were no different than the Aztecs. The Aztecs were just a little more flamboyant about their human sacrifices.