FundMECFSNoise Pollution ruins quality of life
WIZARD POPE💫I had to listen to a friend of my gf’s sister talking how she will make her car loud and all that. I really wanted to punch her in the face for being such an absolute dumbass. Why do you need your car to be above the legal sound limit?
Because she either a sadist, a psychopath, and/or a narcissist.
Send her this article: Who Wants a Loud Car? [Psychology Today]
Tell her to get help.
SternIf its any consolation wrt Harley riders, the company is losing customers to old age, and attempts to appeal to the younger generation just get the old one (their existing base) mad enough to protest loudly against it, leading to the rep of it being a weekend warrior bike for grandpa to live his never was (as opposed to has been) biker fantasy. Not gonna stop a particular brand of pencil-dicks from making their cars loud and obnoxious, ofc, but still, take w’s where you can.
Ex NummisSouth Park completely nailed the “removeds” episode. That was one for the ages.
JoeBigelowMods are Bikecurious
AllNewTypeFaceThat also applies to the 1960s British youth subculture
South Park completely nailed the “removeds” episode. That was one for the ages. Aww c’mon, are we really worse than Reddit when it comes to censorship? Goddammit… Seems the “removeds” won.
Can you reveal what’s behind the censorship enforced by Lemmy.world without triggering it?
Alternatively I would suggest you look for another instance that isn’t draconian.
HumaniusI’m assuming he is talking about the biker gang episode, in which case he is probably talking about the F-word (as in, the slur against gay people)
I think having a filter against slurs is not unreasonable
Context is key though. I’d say allow everything and let the downvotes be a filter.
Lemmy is still relatively new, and you grow the audience you nurture.
A lack of moderation means that racists, bigots, general assholes, etc, will find an easier time settling on this platform.
And I’ll be honest, if that would be where Lemmy is headed I’m not sticking around to see it turn into that cesspool
I’m personally quite happy with the level of moderation I’m seeing on lemmy.world. It’s not overly heavy handed, but it seems to generally be applied where it makes sense to apply. Essentially the “don’t be a dick” rules of the forum days of old.
OpenStarsSomewhat.
If the poster themselves removed it, then no - these usually shows up as “deleted” rather than “removed” (but not always). Sometimes apps that don’t properly pay attention to the removal request can still see these, but I know of no effective way to view these routinely, short of spinning up your own instance and archiving not only every post and comment but also all of their edits as well.
For mod removal, you can check the modlog (for your instance here, or the one for Lemmy.World, both of which theoretically should show the same contents, but in practice they don’t for whatever reasons). Note that is the entire modlog for the entire Fediverse, so it requires filtering to find the specific post/comment that you want to know about. The Lemmy devs could help people see the modlog much easier, but they don’t. They don’t seem too big on such democratic efforts, and very often simply ban people outright, from the entire instance including communities they’ve never once visited, if you ever criticize what they say or if you say something that they do not agree with. Though they did recently release a feature to allow mods to do this - further increasing the power of the establishment, while leaving common plebes like us to have to filter the modlog (which also can hide the identity of the mod who removed it).
Ergo, I would not hold my breath waiting for this feature. At least not on Lemmy, but perhaps from the more democratically-managed PieFed or Sublinks or Mbin or such… I could really see that happening for those?
Edit: oh but for text like the “removed”, hell no, that’s also a lost cause - at least, again, on the Lemmy codebase, unless you use an instance that decides not to implement the language filtering.
while I actually loved that south park episode and their point that words (that word specifically) change their meaning over time, the “answer” they came up with is a joke of course. A joke that only works because bikers are upset and confused by the ‘real’ meaning of ‘flag’. If the original meaning didn’t exist it couldn’t be used to hurt the bikers’ feelings, it relies on its existing meaning to hurt them.
You cannot forcibly change what words mean. No matter how hard Trey and Matt wish they were iconoclasts and as much as i appreciate them? They REALLY aren’t as clever as they think they are. What they did, if they had succeeded would just allow CHUDs to yell ‘flag’ at homosexuals and pretend they were calling them bikers, so it’s a good thing it flopped.
As cool as it would be if “bundle of sticks” stopped being a slur, the slur itself is not the problem, the intent is. Intent behind calling bikers ‘flags’ is to make them feel like you’re calling them homosexuals, relies on homosexuality itself being a slur. The end. No debate. Full stop. It doesn’t even change anything, its hurting feelings RELIES on the meaning we currently agree on. Feel me?
According to Wikipedia, that slur is really only used in the US and Canada. If you go to the UK and say it, they will hand you a cigarette.
And that bit of fun was handled by a plot in “arrested development”. MR F!
ddittyTotally agree on all counts. As a teen when it originally aired I thought it was funny for the reasons you outlined (Trey and Matt’s intent) but yes in 2024 it just isn’t okay anymore (if it ever was at all) and I bet Trey and Matt agree and wouldn’t make that episode today
IonAddisI’ve been thinking of getting a motorcycle, and Harley has no entry level bikes So new riders try a Honda or Kawasaki when young and broke and build brand loyalty to that, I’m sure.
Not surprising Harley is dying. All their stuff is so expensive you never get to figure out if it’s good or if they’re coasting on reputation while quality goes to shit or something.
The only reason really to get a Harley is to… Get a Harley. There are other bikes that are cheaper, more powerful, more comfortable, more reliable, and objectively better in most regards.
yeah but are those other bikes a Harley???
Fucking good. I so hate Harleys.
Hopefully the incel crowd will succeed in branding them as ‘too woke’ or whatever and once the boomers are all dead, that’s it
You’re misunderstanding those numbers. The current older generation is boomers which got their name from the baby boom. People don’t have kids like that anymore so everyone including retail stores will see drops in body count. If anything will kill them off its going to be their pricing. It is SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper to go with nearly any other brand.
Jacked up trucks with a Carolina squat and just headers, with four 14” woofers in the bed, up and down the road at 4am. Epitome of human trash.
Annoyed_🦀 I hate ICE motorcycle/moped for that. They’re by default loud, louder than ICE car, and sometime people will mod it even louder for “safety” because they weave dangerously and want people to know they’re there. It’s the reason i appreciate electric motorcycle, they’re so damn quiet.
Sasha [They/Them]The safety isn’t about lane filtering so much as just intersections, but yeah it’s a rubbish argument and any biker making it should shut the fuck up if they don’t wear hi-vis on every ride
No, i genuinely mean weave, at high speed, because they will came in in 90/100kmph in a 60/70kmph traffic and expect people to see them. It’s one of the main cause of high motorcyclist death in Malaysia.
Ah right fair enough, I’m just talking about the situation in Australia
I see many motorcyclists doing this but it is not the majority of riders. I’ve started reporting dangerous driving, aggressive driving, dangerous passes, and high speed drivers to police. On major or regional highways it is often effective as I’ll pass them pulled over later, results in towns/cities are less reliable due to traffic and more route options.
For the bikers I consider it a favour to them, one I called in was practically asking to get flattened by a semi truck, riding the line while tailgating people waiting to pass. Even if they don’t hit anything their erratic driving could cause another driver to panic, swerve, or brake and could cause an accident.
I know your heart is in the right place but please do not report anyone to police for anything. They might be stupid, they might get themselves killed, but you could be sending them to prison if they have a little weed on them.
Weed isn’t illegal in my country. It is also unsafe for them and others to be driving so unsafely and there is no other service that can intervene with them.
I was coming at it from a US perspective. My apologies. Your police probably aren’t nearly as corrupt as ours.
Had a friend who said he was considering removing the exhaust on his bike because it would sound cooler, everyone else in the friendgroup said we would pour sugar in his gastank if he ever did that
Thank you for your service
Sugar in the gas tank doesn’t do anything. You gotta put in the oil fill cap.
Huh, yeah it seems the sugar in the gastank thing is just a myth, won’t sugar in the oil have the same issue then? Sugar is insoluble so it can’t pass through the oil filter, so it’ll just chill in the filter and oil pan?
It will get in the moving parts, melt, caramelize, and seize the engine that way.
Just gonna drop this here. psypost.org/psychopathy-and-sadism-drive-preferen…
blaue_FledermausSome men seem to think their balls will fall off if they don't frequently cause loud noises.
Man, there is a small d man who lives along my street and EVERY F DAY he drives his loud and noisy motorbike. It’s driving me insane!
Also, there is a car that every f day, around 10 am, drive down the street, but his carburetor is open, being stupidly loud! It make me literally sick!
Set the bike on fire.
There was a guy who used to rev his obnoxiously loud bike super early and super late round my way, it was so loud it would leave your ears ringing even inside with the windows shut.
He died in a bike accident and everyone was happy, so many neighbour’s I’ve barely spoken to shared a quiet comment about it.
We do though get a ride through every year from the chapter of the gang he was in because he died ‘a heros death’ according to them as he had been fighting a different group of manchildren on motorbikes earlier that day and they were possibly chasing him at the time.
The family have a shrine to him by the road (not where he died, just near their house) with empty beer cans, burnt out candles, biker patches, cheap plastic skulls, and slogans about how tough or cool bikers are. It’s a fascinating testament to how we form groups and make our own reality, I think he and they really believe that when we saw him on that stupidly loud bike we wished we could be as cool as him rather than everyone viewing him as nothing but an annoyance.
Duality exists. He might have been awesome in a way they saw, even if his loud pipes were annoying to you.
Don’t know if he was, only that you got a limited view of this person, and it seems cruel to degenerate how other people mourn.
I know plenty of people that knew him, sure he was a good friend to some but when your whole personality is egotistical attention seeking through violence and disruption then yeah I’m going to quietly laugh at the irony of a shrine which only serves as a reminder to the locals that their life was made a little better and safer.
adam_yThis is the internet. It’s OK to swear here.
Can we be racist too?
CadeillacMan, I swear there is a small d man who lives along my street and EVERY F DAY he drives his loud and noisy motorbike. I swear It’s driving me insane!
Also, I swear there is a car that every f day, around 10 am, drive down the street, but his carburetor is open, being stupidly loud! I swear It make me literally sick!
Literally eh
The AssmanLet me run out and ask my neighbor, who also carries a gun while he mows the lawn
this is probably a joke but in these times i have to check. fo’ real?
Not OC, but I don’t doubt it. I’ve seen several people strapped with guns walking around their suburban home in my very red state. I saw a guy with a pistol clipped to his gym shorts getting the mail once, just dangling around, falling lower with every step. 2A bros are terrified of everything and panic without an emotional support weapon
InfynisWhen I was a kid, we had a neighbor that would sit on the beach with a shotgun in his lap, to watch kids playing in the lake
Oh it’s real. I used to have a neighbor who would mow with a massive revolver on his belt, and no shirt
if it weren’t so dangerous i’d have loved to see that picture. I get the feeling his revolver was competing with his belly for size. am i right? I’m just guessing cuz if i had a six-pack i wouldn’t want the gun distracting anyone.
Surprisingly no! He was more of the stick-skinny, probably into meth, cut off jean shorts and boots kinda guy
My neighbor is a decent man. I like him. We differ greatly politically but we can have a conversation and find common ground against the rich. My neighbor is not a racist. My neighbor is not a caricature.
My neighbor wears his gun to walk from his porch to mine to talk.
I bet you want to make a comment on it but you can’t. I know my mind wants to come up with a question and can’t. Frankly it seems more likely the gun is there as a conversation piece than anything else like a tattoo.
Have you complimented his gun? I’m so curious!
We talked guns once. I told him I keep mine inside and left it at that.
I’d bet money it’s not a joke.
yeah i’m getting lots of replies with stories showing my city ass i simply have no clue what the 'burbs are gettin up to anymore. Seems we’re not ok.
Sorry, a week later, but yes I have never seen the man without a gun on his hip. Why? Well, my suspicion is that he has a small penis. I base that on him also owning a Harley which he rarely rides but does start and rev up at literally any time of day.
Confused_EmusKC’s got a huge group of crotch rocket and ATV riders that pull this shit at wildly inappropriate times, riding on sidewalks as well as blowing through red lights.
I still think the cringiest noise issue around here though is the neighborhood’s designated shittiest DJ lugging around a huge ass bluetooth amp and blasting his shitty rap music right across the street from my bedroom window.
I swear to god if that thing ever gets in range of my phone I’m connecting and blasting ABBA’s Arrival at full fucking blast.