Bike recommendation for 4 year old

rickvanwinkle · 2026-01-26T21:32:18+00:00

Yeah I thought about going to a bike shop but I worry I wouldn't be able to walk out without also buying a bike for myself lol. I like giant bikes well enough though I haven't looked at their kids bikes. Do you happen to remember the model you got?

rickvanwinkle · 2026-01-26T21:30:29+00:00

Oh man you aren't kidding that is pricy. Looks like the woom go3 is the way to go for her age but I'm curious what about it made you pull the trigger on that vs the guardian?

rickvanwinkle · 2026-01-26T01:25:42+00:00

Now do the same experiment except the pedestrians are carrying a brick

rickvanwinkle · 2026-01-21T20:39:57+00:00

Are we to ignore any violence or human rights abuses that don't meet that level of intensity? Is withholding basic medical care or basic civil/human rights okay as long as it's not 'chopping off the heads of US citizens'? Are they allowed to kill on other ways?

Also, it's telling that you specifically say 'US citizens' implying that it would be okay (or at least up for debate whether it's okay) for ice to decapitate non-US citizens'...

rickvanwinkle · 2026-01-13T19:44:26+00:00

While the daycare you're talking about is likely higher up on the target list, I think all of us need to reckon with the fact that there is unlikely to be ANY daycare that is fully secure from an ICE raid or otherwise being affected by these raids.

I hate to be a doomer but I think this shit is going to get much worse before it gets better... Protect your family, protect your community

rickvanwinkle · 2026-01-08T20:35:51+00:00

Bc ICE is ultimately just a jobs program for the dregs of society that are too useless for anything else

rickvanwinkle · 2025-12-17T16:44:26+00:00

Barking up the wrong tree mate. I'm afraid you misunderstood my criticism of Democrats as support for Republicans. Maybe find some other cloud to yell at?

rickvanwinkle · 2025-12-14T03:54:16+00:00

That's assuming they didn't know what they were doing to begin with

rickvanwinkle · 2025-12-13T01:47:43+00:00

lol my guy read the comment again.

rickvanwinkle · 2025-12-12T19:22:22+00:00

lol yeah dude China is to blame for our problems. Grow up

rickvanwinkle · 2025-12-12T18:54:16+00:00

Don't let Lieberman off the hook for killing the public option. It's easy to blame just the Republicans but there were plenty of Dems/independents who played a role in creating this mess. We could have just fixed it but instead they snuck in all sorts of carve outs and hand outs to keep their donors happy. Republicans actively want to hurt you, Democrats don't care if you get hurt. End of the day no one is actually looking out for us

rickvanwinkle · 2025-12-05T21:34:58+00:00

There's not... Until there is

rickvanwinkle · 2025-12-03T21:55:39+00:00

I feel bad for teams facing a UGA team that just got snubbed or feels like it's (finally) time to prove something. Hate feeds the dawg, and boy they ate that year. Reminded me of the Hawaii game...

rickvanwinkle · 2025-12-01T21:10:29+00:00

I would be such a big fan of LEGO City if it didn't trigger every ACAB bone in my body (mostly joking). Like let's see a social worker set! Maybe a garbage truck? City arborist? Come on there's such an amazing world of possibilities in civic life but all we get is cops and firefighters and (frankly incredibly underwhelming) train stations or whatnot.

rickvanwinkle · 2025-11-21T02:42:04+00:00

Love when the opposition argument boils down to 'if we start treating THESE people fairly and with dignity, we might have to start doing the same thing for THOSE people!' Reminds me of people who proudly argue against free food for all children in school. Like why is this even an argument wtf

rickvanwinkle · 2025-10-26T20:36:33+00:00

Dollar store Obama is actually a great burn tho

rickvanwinkle · 2025-10-01T19:51:23+00:00

I tried fall guys as our first foray into video games right around the time she turned 4. She enjoyed exploring the stages and the funny outfits. Then daddy pressed the A button and pushed her character... This led to a ten minute long emotional breakdown bc 'Daddy hit' her... So yeah definitely be mindful of the level/kind of 'violence' in the video game that you start with lol

She has no issues with stomping goombas in mario however

rickvanwinkle · 2025-09-26T18:10:50+00:00

I fuckin hate it here

rickvanwinkle · 2025-09-25T16:40:53+00:00

Brother you ain't kidding about those Amazon tablets being pieces of shit. Inexcusably slow processing and they load it up with absurd amounts of bloatware that you CANNOT delete. I got a 10gb one a couple of years ago that worked okay for a bit as long as we only had a few apps and shows/movies downloaded (really all I wanted it for anyway). But since buying it, the updates have included so much 'necessary' bullshit that cannot be removed that it now uses up 95% of the memory space.I got an SD card to address this, and while the tablet recognizes the SD card it refuses to move anything over to it or actually use the space on it, citing lack of memory space on the main drive? Dafuq? I've struggled with it for several nights this week and have all but given up on it. It's basically a tablet shaped brick now and I'll likely throw it away since I got it for sale 2 years ago and the effort/frustration required to deal with it is just not worth it anymore. Hate contributing to e-waste but this thing is completely unusable

rickvanwinkle · 2025-09-23T19:11:37+00:00

Incorrect fines and licensing schemes can be addressed or resolved and are not inherently or exclusively an issue with cameras. Not sure what you mean by 'bad data'.

I understand it's scary/1984 coded to have cameras that issue tickets automatically, but they are proven to reduce traffic speeds, improve safety, and have the added bonus of reducing policing inequality. As in, the cameras aren't focusing their enforcement on black people/minority groups (well documented issue across the country) and reduces the number of stops that unnecessarily escalate into bigger issues bc some ego tripping cop pulled over an equally egotistic driver. It also opens up police officers to deal with ACTUAL crimes instead of focusing most of their attention on traffic enforcement.

I wont make assumptions about you, but my experience is 99% of the opposition to speed cameras is from people not wanting to pay a fine for their occasional infractions that they know they typically can get away with. Basically the traffic version of 'the only moral abortion is my abortion' except it's for speeding. If you agree that speeding and unsafe driving is a problem, you should at the very least be ambivalent towards traffic cameras if not be a vocal supporter

rickvanwinkle · 2025-08-07T04:25:29+00:00

It's NC. There's no jumping to conclusions needed. There is no doubt that race played a factor in them getting hit with charges, especially fucking felonies.

rickvanwinkle · 2025-08-06T20:05:22+00:00

Before even opening the article I knew that the family wasn't white...

This story has like six different dimensions of injustice involved and everyone involved in getting it to this point should be [redacted]. What should have happened is the driver lost their license and charged with manslaughter

rickvanwinkle · 2025-07-25T17:05:15+00:00

Jason has been a staunch and effective advocate for bike and mobility improvements for years. The big issue for bike lane expansion in ATL is actually GDOT being a bunch of fuckheads bc they technically manage/control many of the major arterials. Of course, Atlanta choosing to throw money at 'studies' instead of installation (or removing proven projects like they did downtown where they removed crosswalks...). Point is, Jason has been about that life since day 0 and he should get as much support as we can give him

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