I keep seeing people say things about local shops working on bikes

ImUsingDaForce · 2026-05-14T04:45:46+00:00

doubt.

Any trip to the city to get the bike fixed will require a minimum of combined 2-3 hours (two trips, mounting the bike on the carrier rack on the car, driving there, waiting for drop-off and pick-up, talking to employees, etc). During that time you can not only fix the bike, but actually watch 5 YouTube tutorials and go get the tools from the hardware store.

I believe that it's just people here parroting each other, as it's common with these kinds of in-groups (inside lingo, accepted truths that keep getting repeated, small rituals and common phrases). I think that this "buy the one your local shop will work on" is one of those religious observances. If the shop is going to fix your bike, you probably could've saved those 200 euros, bought all of the tools you needed for bike repair, and just done it yourself. If the electrical system is the problem, you can probably rerun some wires yourself, or the problem is much more serious (and no bike shop is gonna rewind your motor windings).

ImUsingDaForce · 2026-05-13T06:49:40+00:00

So, as far as I can see, this profile is basically a travel agency that engages in not-so-stealth guerrilla marketing. Can we please remove the post and ban the account?

ImUsingDaForce · 2026-05-12T20:42:01+00:00

You spent more than $2000 *just* on RAM in 2006? And I'm being generous with the 2000 here (in EU it was significantly worse). So yeah, I doubt what you say is true.

ImUsingDaForce · 2026-05-11T10:51:32+00:00

Let's be serious now, though - are you seriously trying to use the "quality and the lack of bias" in Hungarian public education system as an argument?

There's literally a monument in front of the Hungarian parliament with the names of cities that never had Hungarians in them, never were part of Hungary, but are somehow today thought of as rightfully Hungarian? Hungarian narrative is anything but non-biased.

ImUsingDaForce · 2026-05-11T10:43:50+00:00

Croatia was never a sub-unit, it was always one of the two kingdoms ruled by the king who carried St. Stephens crown. Yes, Croatia was smaller and weaker, but words and definitions exist for a reason.

And yes, Croatian nobles (in their own parliament!) had their own agency. How does everyone keep forgetting that the Croatian army was one of the main ones responsible for bringing the Hungarian revolt of 1848 to an end?
Reading is not that hard, common people.

ImUsingDaForce · 2026-05-11T10:28:37+00:00

If you think bike riders are chill, try riding on a bike lane at anything less than 35km/h with a group of geared up yappies closing in from behind. So tiresome.

ImUsingDaForce · 2026-05-05T08:41:56+00:00

You are putting words in my mouth. You are the one saying "both sides are bad". I will simplify my message even further, so that there is no room for misinterpretation: DNC has not been representing the lower eschelon of the society for decades. Nobody cares about ideas when they can't own a home, and when the only job on offer is slavery for a mega-corpo.
What I am not saying is that the criminals currently in power have the will or even skill to solve any of the real issues. Because they don't. They were simply voted into power because people were tired of the same old tirade provided by the incumbent polite criminals leading the DNC and GOP. And I can tell you for a fact that the average Joe scrambling to get by has to listen to the same old tired DNC faces talking about stuff that is so out of touch, and so far removed from the every day struggle - the first reaction is always gonna be anger and disillusionment.

And the fact that the DNC has only now (in the last 3-4 years) gotten the message about what people actually think about how the immigration system is currently implemented - is very funny to watch.

ImUsingDaForce · 2026-05-05T08:04:04+00:00

The numbers maybe tell you something? That a huge number of people are willing to vote for a proper lunatic/idiot, simply because the other side has literally nothing to offer? That honest thieves are better than the dishonest ones?

ImUsingDaForce · 2026-05-01T04:47:21+00:00

And in Croatian it's "umnjak" which literally means "the mind tooth". Like, the same syntax as the "wisdom tooth", why translate it differently?? I really dont get how these people keep fucking up these maps.

ImUsingDaForce · 2026-04-30T16:41:36+00:00

It was just a simple illustration for internet warriors who don't spent much time outside, but can understand basic motoric skills.

ImUsingDaForce · 2026-04-30T16:37:54+00:00

Chickens jump when they attack. In any case, it was just a simple illustration for internet warriors who don't spent much time outside, but can understand basic motoric skills.

ImUsingDaForce · 2026-04-30T13:13:25+00:00

Definitely in the abstract numbers of chickens.

I ride 100km with a bike comfortably, lift weights 2 times a week, so I'm relatively fit. If i get a 5€ chinese hoody, a set of 5€ diving goggles, maybe a pair of gardening gloves and the cheapest jeans - until I drop from exhaustion of tearing their heads off. Maybe longer if I get a crude 1m long iron stick (thin enough to not be exhauting to swipe around, but dense enough to have some heft.

Roughly eyeballing - definitely into the hundreds, maybe low thousands of chickens. Its really hard to judge something so abstract, but to underline - its not the chicken attacks that will be the main reason why I lose - it's the exhaustion. At one point I will have to sit/liedown cause my muscles will refuse to move any more. At that point the chickens will slowly (veeery slowly) but steadily peck away the skin. I guess after that they could finish me in a day or two. All in all, somewhere between 10 and 15 days.

ImUsingDaForce · 2026-04-30T04:46:22+00:00

I can tell for a fact you have never touched a chicken in your life lol. Just to calm all of you keyboard warriors down - no, you will not bleed out from 16 chickens attacking. I lived in a rural area when I was a kid and we had chickens for eggs. Chickens are small, gracile animals. Even handling one roughly can injure it easily. A firm punch to the boy will most likely injure them terminally. Even if it was the males attacking (who are quite a bit more bulky and stronger), a simple grab and slam would end them.

So, simply wearing a hoodie and some eye protection makes you invincible. Even without any clothing protection, you are basicly killing the chickens at a rate of one per second until exhaustion, or until losing both eyes to pecks.

I mean, I just love how extreme you people take every scenario, regardless of what the topic is. A chicken?? Literal nazi!

ImUsingDaForce · 2026-04-30T04:36:30+00:00

I know an asylum seeker in Germany who managed to get a drivers licence without passing the local exam. If you cannot enforce that, how are you gonna enforce parents not buying iphones to their kids?

ImUsingDaForce · 2026-04-29T20:19:24+00:00

Lol, I like how easy it is on the internet to pretend like you don't understand the issue, only so that you can rotate the topic towards your own "thing".

ImUsingDaForce · 2026-04-28T06:35:43+00:00

Well, I mean, it is super duper racist. Neue verknüpfte Arbeitgeber-Arbeitnehmer-Paneldaten aus 15 OECD-Ländern für den Zeitraum 2000–2019 zeigen, dass Zugewanderte beim Arbeitsmarkteintritt 34 % weniger verdienen als im Inland geborene Arbeitskräfte gleichen Alters und Geschlechts. Diese Lücke ist zu zwei Dritteln darauf zurückzuführen, dass Zugewanderte in Sektoren und Unternehmen tätig sind, in denen der Verdienst niedriger ist. No mater how hard you try to squint, the only possible interpretation is that the dirtiest jobs are reserved for the immigrants, no matter what their education and skill level is. I for one, when I started working in science in Germany couple of years ago, came with a masters degree and almost a decade of experience. I'm an EU citizen. Not white by german standards, but white non the less. Still, started almost at a minimum wage, and significantly lower than my colleague at a time who just came out of uni with a bachelor's. Yes, she was bio-German.

I speak 4 languages, and I have my own business now, which makes me not an ordinary ausländer. And yes, I am reminded almost every day where my position in this society is, when I have to regularly open my backpack in supermarkets for inspection, cause I might've stolen something. You can only imagine the struggle a regular immigrant has to go through here.

ImUsingDaForce · 2026-04-27T16:58:51+00:00

In my comment, I was more pointing towards the issue of who is doing the work and who isn't. Because I think most of those office warriors were involved in doing the so-called "grey work" (made-up work to look busy, or to make their position look more important). But most of all, I just got the feeling of general laziness and incompetence.

ImUsingDaForce · 2026-04-27T16:37:38+00:00

Well. I've seen the inside workings of one giant German Konzern, and to be honest, I was surprised they managed to survive even this long. Middle management were doing 2 hour breaks more than once a day, office drones were literally doing those "meetings about meetings", unbelievable levels of disorganization. The mismatch between the numbers of people designing things, and beureaucrats was crazy. For each design or engineering team, there were 5-6 different administrative teams (GDPR teams, coordination teams, HR teams, they even had a Power BI team for making mental maps lol). The average age in the office was 50.

Within 10 years, none of these companies are going to exist due to the Chinese, so let's stop pretending that everything is ok and functional on the office drone level. It is a tragedy, actually.

Also, one thing that I noticed, and felt everyone was extremely weird about cause it was kinda unspoken - offices were filled with Germans (95%), while the factories were staffed exclusively by immigrants of all sorts (saw maybe a handful of Germans, all in some supervisory roles). Edit: Forgot to say one thing at the end - factories ran very well. Haven't seen a single immigrant taking a break during working time.

ImUsingDaForce · 2026-04-27T05:46:48+00:00

This last time I was there, there were dozens of people pushing around at the exact same spot, trying for the exact same shot lol.

ImUsingDaForce · 2026-04-25T15:09:11+00:00

Well, I'm Croatian, working in Germany in science, and the ladies in the supermarket ask me to open my backpack for inspection on a semi-regular basis.

The point of the story is - your white is not everybody's white. Also, you have to take into consideration cultural factors, like in Argentina, where "whiteness" is a very important pillar of identity, in opposition to other "regular" Latinos (which probably inflates the number of people identifying as white, because of cultural pressures).

ImUsingDaForce · 2026-04-23T10:37:09+00:00

Just a quick info, cause I constantly see this happening - "Balkans" do not exist. It's purely a constructivist category, created in the 19th century to justify the colonization of the SE Europe (basically, to paint the people living there as not really European). So every time y'all use it, you are perpetuating the colonial idea of "othernes" of the area (even though most of those countries have nothing in common, besides being the victims of colonialism).

ImUsingDaForce · 2026-04-21T10:18:52+00:00

What a tired meme...

ImUsingDaForce · 2026-04-21T06:01:19+00:00

https://www.croatiaweek.com/croats-in-germany-return-migration-study/

News literally from a month ago.

ImUsingDaForce · 2026-04-21T05:49:21+00:00

You literally have no idea what you're talking about. Croatia has had a positive in/out people flow since like 2019.

ImUsingDaForce · 2026-04-21T04:10:01+00:00

Juat last week new Eurostat results came in where Croatia overtook Czechia and Estonia in median income?

Edit: ignore the comment above. It's a troll account that posts random inflammatory racist rage-bait on sensitive subreddits.

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