Read the link people! It’s legal in 6 states! Why am I still getting replies saying the same thing?

Except for the 6 states where it’s legal. Like in the link I posted. Because it is safer than not. But IDK why I expected people to read the link.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160723102129/http://www.arch.ksu.edu/seamon/fajans.htm

These Berkeley Professors bring up an interesting idea. Not so much mentioning safety directly. But they mention 2 different possible routes, one with more stop signs and one with more traffic and fewer stops.

While a drop of a few miles per hour may not seem like much to a car driver, think of it this way: the equivalent in a car would be a drop from 60 to 45 mph. Because the extra effort required on California is so frustrating, both physically and psychologically, many cyclists prefer Sacramento to California, despite safety concerns. They ride California, the official bike route, only when traffic on Sacramento gets too scary.

So perhaps adding “stop as yield” changes the calculation for what is the fastest route by bicycle. Which leads bicycles to take safer routes with more stop signs and fewer cars. That could explain some of the decrease in accidents when states/cities pass these laws. Change in bicyclist behavior.

I still don’t understand how running a red lights on a bicycle makes anything safer… Especially for the cyclist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_stop#Safety

A 2009 study showed a 14.5% decrease in bicyclist injuries after the passage of the original Idaho Stop law (though did not otherwise tie the decrease to the law).[15][16] A Delaware state-run study of the “Delaware Yield” law (allowing bicyclists to treat stop signs as yield signs) concluded that it reduced injuries at stop-sign controlled intersections by 23%.[17]

It’s safer dude. You asked how it was safer, here are numbers of how it’s safer.

Bicycles are not cars, and should not be treated identically to cars. Your post sounds like you’ve never ridden a bicycle in a city before. Bicycles stopped at traffic lights are kinda in an impossible situation. Coming to a 100% complete stop means dismounting and putting your feet on the pavement. Briefly becoming a pedestrian in the road. Basically asking people to rear end you, because they don’t expect a 100% complete stop either. Red lights become “yield” signs. “Stop as yield” or an “Idaho stop” are known to be safer for everyone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_stop

The police recently had a bond issue in a local election here. The stat I saw mentioned in the debate was that 1 extra police offer was estimated to lower the crime rate by 0.1%. Based on the size of the city or whatever, they think if they added 10 cops, they think they could lower crime by 1%. IDK that seems like you’re spending about a million dollars more annually to prevent a fairly small number of crimes. There are probably other things you could spend that million on that would lower crime by 1%.

Uh unfortunately that would lead to pinning all unsolved murders on homeless people. It would give a financial incentive for a cop to shoot 1 homeless person and blame the other.

They aren’t okay with pedophiles, they are just casual enough to miss the details. They spent the last decade calling the Clintons and Biden pedos, so they think this is just the left flinging shit. The same sort of shit that the right wing has been flinging forever. They normalized it, and now it looks like everyone accusing everyone of everything.

No accountability and a climate of fear is the goal.

Hot take I guess, but this is exactly why it’s NOT a cult. If it was a cult, his followers would be falling in line and he wouldn’t be scrambling for details to satisfy them with. That’s the one way this is not a cult. He tends to give in to the demands of his followers, not the other way around. This particular news story is really pushing the cult tests to the limit.

That’s an SNL joke that made it’s way into Family Guy.

We banned single use plastic bags. So the grocery companies started using EXTRA THICK PLASTIC claiming it was ‘reusable’. Arguably have been polluting even more since we made that switch.

Hopefully we will finally rid ourselves of plastic grocery bags.

Is it a meat smoker?

That doesn’t really address my concern about gluing yourself to things being a dumb way to protest. It relies on people stopping whatever they’re doing because they care about not killing you.

According to the intro, it works by making the moderate viewpoint seem more moderate. So basically the idea is being as extreme as possible so that people will say, “I agree with your point but not your methods.”

While that seems like a stiff punishment for a public nuisance. I strongly question the logic of gluing yourself to a road and assuming other people will stop using it because you glued yourself. That just doesn’t strike me as an intelligent way to protest things.

I checked and Vollyball is, but the other variants are not.

We lost so many good ones when Flash died.

Like Slime Vollyball still works, but we lost Slime Basketball/Bowling and all the versions. And a thousand more just like it that are gone now. https://oneslime.net/

The number will eventually approach 99.9%.

It does have Muppet sex though.

There’s a stage play called Avenue Q

https://www.amestrib.com/story/entertainment/local/2023/11/06/with-swearing-and-puppet-fornication-avenue-q-comes-to-actors-stage-in-ames/71316506007/