u/Relevant_Jeweler_214

TL;DR - cop pulled me over and gave me a ticket because I was not far enough into the right side of road (apparently)..I hate how bikes are legally classed here and I'm gonna break even more of the laws moving forward now.
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my state has it so I'm breaking law if I'm not riding my bike in the street, regardless of its a ebike or regular bike. There are no bike lanes here. bikes fall under traffic law for being "vehicles"

in reality, sharing the road with cars causes 20x problems by creating massive friction with all the traffic speeding at 40mph down a 25mph road, which is....alot of people. you can see and feel the tension it causes with these drivers as they have to cope with either going slower for a short time behind me, or having to go around me. I've had people fly by within 3 inches of me just flooring it, I've had people scream stuff as they pass. All just because they had to accommodate me since I cannot ride as fast.

state law also says I also am obligated to ride the right side of the lane, which sadly makes for muppets to fly the aforementioned 3 inches past me to overtake in the most unnecessary ways, since my stance and position in the lane tells them to go ahead and overtake whenever.

But, when I break my laws and mind my own space on the sidewalks, magically nobody is flying around me or cursing me out. they are quiet, and they are 30 ft away from me. I feel better, safer, and they seem less unhinged and agitated on average since I am not bugging them in any way.

now gee......which method do you think I will go with???
this is one of the very rare times I would turn a cheek to the boys in blue (moving forward) and simply do what makes logical sense and works the best. So , after getting this ticket over this, wen I was making an effort to follow their crap law in the first place- Im done. sidewalk only now.

After about 2 months of dealing this person and their insurance, and riding a broken and unsafe bike with a ruined fork/frame. they finally are admitting fault on their client's end. today I received a call that I now am getting $2900 exactly to compensate for my injuries and ruined bike and will have the check next week.

Of course I was quite pleased hearing this, as before they were essentially going with the lie that their driver told the police, which was I hit HER car that was stopped, even though if that was the case, the damage impact would have looked completely different.

Any recommendations? I would like something around 1200-2000 honestly. I don't even need it to go that fast, I just like lightweight frames and comfort to maneuver . I mainly go like 15mph max for very short time frames, so I prioritize quality, finish, and materials over speed.

I had spent about 30 minutes sitting in the parking lot at 9am with no orders to be found and just crashed out this morning. I'm done doing this to myself. this was cool around 2021, I was making a little bit of buck. but to see what it has dwindled to on average, compared to before, is beyond depressing. I cant do it

a solid 5 out of 10 orders will be pure crap orders resulting in less than min wage for that hour of work. like 10 miles one way (about 20 mins if I speed, which is insane I have to break the law to even kinda make it work) wayyy out the zone, for 2-3 dollar tip. just constantly. So one trip like this takes about a solid hour including wait time and traffic etc..you get what, 8 bucks? minus taxes and gas, we are looking at like legit , 5 dollars a hour. foreign people who don't even have legal citizenship make 3x more than this.

the garbage ratio kept getting worse. Zero changes on my end, same hot spot I always use with a bunch of quality, expensive food. just bad luck and ppl are broke, they can barely afford the order itself. lets be honest. You can't get more money that does not even exist to possibly give in the first place. Not being able to tip does NOT stop people from ordering themselves food, we all know that.

on top of that the amount of muppets you have to navigate around on the roads to even make the pay rate make 1% of sense, and avoid penalties yourself, thats time and money wasted. if you walk into a place ran by muppets that treat you like sludge since you are a dasher, and take 20 mins to make the order, only after you arrive. more time and money wasted.

then you gotta navigate some muppets apartment directions he typed wrong, and he wont answer the phone. More time and money wasted there.

its pure hell. every day. Im not putting myself through this and getting triggered every damn day, its stupid, just like the income levels of this service we are expected to carry out. its evil they are okay with this exchange and people buy into and enable it IMO

So just to give some idea here, she was one of those people that watched the alternative half time show at the Superbowl this year and was actively enraged by the regular half time show. basically did not even enjoy the alt show, but as long as she could push away the foreign people (she's racist too)

So my dad invited me to go with him and her to the local farmers market last week. Sounded fun, and she generally is nice and positive around just me and him when there is no TV or radio station or politics to speak on.

But!!! she randomly stated during nice conversation as we were eating at a picnic table (awesome moment, right) that college is a waste of time and it does nothing at all to help you get a better job in life.

Now, as a plebian blue collar worker myself, I just found that laughable as I have been disproven on that myself many times. I also have a little brother who got his 4 yr degree at one of the top schools in the US, which my dad paid for, and she knows this, so I have no idea why she would say that in the first place even if it was accurate.

I tried saying I think it definitely puts you ahead , application wise, of all the other people who applied and did not go to college. She visibly got triggered, and then I figured out she was pushing that narrative because she was saying that to my cousin's son, who isn't the brightest and most likely was looking for ways to rationalize how "college is a waste/scam" or something like that.

Just thought it was funny af how people let their personal emotions cloud their factual, absolute statements, and they are always biased af of course too when saying these things (she never went to college or did anything as a career, dont even know if shes every worked before becoming a house wife, she's never spoke on anything shes done in her life.)

Hi, looking for this, or any card really that anyone is willing to let go for 185$, excluding $8 priority shipping.

US-OH (sorry did not get title right)

I was casually crossing a neighborhood street on my bicycle that connects to a main road. There is a crosswalk clearly painted as well as white lines for the stop sign.

about 80% across, so I am now roughly in the right lane of where a car would be pulling up. however, I was suddenly slammed on my right side from a car out of nowhere.

TL:DR she snaked out of any sort of responsibility for totaling my bike and really hurting my right knee and right hand as far as criminally, which I thought was amazing. asked chatgpt what to do and they said to hire a PI attorney since the police report was all muddled. I picked a decent looking one in my area and they took the case. I'm now being referred to a chiropractor which I thought was interesting. I read online basically ppl are against PI's because they claim they beef up the case with a bunch of medical bills and treatment / therapy, and then they take a good chunk and its a waste to hire them. I feel like 33% of the total is a good deal to have pros helping me, and honestly this isnt about getting some huge lump amount... but anyone offer any comments on the matter and if I goofed or not? obviously Im gonna get 33% less, but thats better than getting nothing and having to worry about personally advocating the entire thing to boot. its about holding her accountable for hurting me and my bike and lying about it. for example if she had to pay out 10k and I only saw 1k of it I wouldnt even mind.

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driver appeared to have approached the stop sign and not stop behind the white line that you are required to stop at. Therefore she entered the crosswalk at around 10mph or so and struck me on my bike. Maybe she was looking down at her phone, or adjusting the radio, who knows.

for my own safety and for records I immediately began recording on my phone, got the plate, its a lady telling me sorry, admits to hitting me, asks me if I want money etc. doesnt call it in, a unrelated driver sees this and asks me if I need him to call for me and he did.

long story short, lady completed changed her strat once the police began involved and she switched to denying hitting me at all, actually claimed I hit her from what I understand, and that she did not admit nor apologize to me for hitting me. I mentioned I had an entire video of her admitting it earlier, even directly says "I take responsibility, I'm sorry" etc.

unfortunately the male officer directly handling this incident seemed to do everything he possibly could to protect this lady from being officially cited and losing her license etc. so in the end he watched 10 secs of my video, walked away to talk to her, and then at the end concluded nobody would be cited due to "conflicting stories" completely dismissing the fact shes on video, which he heard her admitting on, her car is parked through the crosswalk, her stories change etc, she spoke at the end claiming I made her admit what she did through intimidation lmao, the cop instantly shushed her to stop talking more than she needed to and ignored officially acknowledging that as well.

I reported a channel's live that clearly breaks YT policy, nothing happened.

for context, it was about 5 white American males on a streamyards YT live, this is a fairly decent sized channel, nothing huge...but not some tiny channel either.

One of the guys on the show went into a 5 minute rant , to summarize what he said, he basically said word for word, clearly, that the only solution to the problems with Iran is to "blow up the entire country" . He doubled, maybe even tripled down on his clearly racist rant, as talking about "blowing up" an entire demographic to promote peace is clearly against youtube/google policy.

however when reported, absolutely nothing happens, and the video remains up.

I've known smaller channels get strikes/removed for the tiniest word slip up (not saying this is bad) but this guy can go on a Alex Jones / Kanye-eqsue racist rant , mentioning even using weapons or bombs, and its perfectly fine or chalked up as "comedy" or some other BS. the report will just sit stale indefintely when in reality for everyone else they are processed very quickly

It's not like YT is actually making any money off this guys channel, he gets like 150 live viewers so its not some big loss if they ban him.

Why do certain channels get special leeway and treatment? If A-I mods everything, surely it wouldn't be selective if it actually sees these phrases and statements in the auto-logged text captions? is some wig in googles office just manually preventing these things because the channel has a certain age or video count etc?