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Give me a break. "Hacking" and tinkering with bikes doesn't mean they have to be loud. Nobody's opportunities are being curtailed by asking them to be considera
by retube 4y ago
Give me a break. "Hacking" and tinkering with bikes doesn't mean they have to be loud. Nobody's opportunities are being curtailed by asking them to be considerate of others and socially responsible.
And anyway, in my experience, most owners of loud bikes are ratbags or deliberately looking to provoke, like the guy across the road who revs his bike at 1am and wakes up the whole street. I can assure you he's not a "hacker", just an inconsiderate dick.
- nonrandomstring 4y ago> Nobody's opportunities are being curtailed by asking them to be considerate of others and socially responsible. Nobody suggested their opportunities are being curtailed by being asked to consider others and be socially responsible. But their opportunities are limited, which leads to infantile acting out, and that was the nub of my comment. Sometimes ones opportunities are constrained by social factors. Like growing up in a chavvy estate with mates who are all total muppets. Or being peer-pressured into having a "smartphone" when you're 10 and wasting your life on TikTok or whatever. Modern life gives the young less and less to work with. Random factoid: Alexander the Great had conquered all of Asia by the time he was 23 - at that age most Barry boys are still living with their mum.
- dang 4y ago"Please don't fulminate." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html