There are cheap electric bikes out there (at least much cheaper than a car). No need to be an athlete.
Disabled people are among those who suffer the most under car dependency. There should exist public transportation to go to parks for everyone, including disabled people.
Not to mention disabled people can get a free annual pass to all national park/land/wilderness and most (if not all) states you can get free passes to state parks as well.
There should exist public transportation to go to parks for everyone, including disabled people.
Yes that would be wonderful.
Unfortunately that world doesn’t yet exist.
Let me know when the light rail, or even a bus goes from Seattle to the Hoh Rainforest.
At the rate the light rail is expanding, maybe 2250.
Maybe a bus by 2075?
There are cheap electric bikes out there (at least much cheaper than a car). No need to be an athlete.
Actually motorcycles are still more performant (greater ranges, better suspension, greater speeds) and cheaper than the kinds of eBikes you are talking about, capable of making a 100+ mile journey.
One of those kinds of eBikes is about 1/4 of my yearly income from SSDI.
Before rent, before food.
Not that it would matter anyway:
How is my crippled ass, who literally cannot even balance on a stationary bike, due to the nature of my injuries, nor grip the handle bars, who would topple over within 30 seconds…
… who can barely walk 10 minutes at 1mph in braces and with a cane before I have to lie down, not sit down, lie down…
How am I gonna ride this eBike 160 ish miles to the Hoh Rainforest? Up a literal mountain range?
…
I am not in favor of car or ICE dependency.
Far from it.
But you are acting like all your proposed ideas just… already exist. That they could basically magically be implemented at the snap of a finger.
This is nonsense.
You have to actually transition to the new paradigm in a way that doesn’t just immediately fuck over people who are the edge cases that are not compatible with your vision.
Oh I am very aware and compassionate towards the dire state of mobility in the US. It’s just that you were dismissive of biking as if it had inherent insurmontable problems, whereas alternatives to cars are viable but have been suppressed politically.
Second point, it is not realistic to bike 3h one way to go to a far away park. But the question would be: does it make sense to go that far for a single day getaway? Wouldn’t it make more sense to have nice spaces in or around cities that people could go for an afternoon, but not expect to have true natural reserves commodified? People should have the right to accessible natural spaces, but the priority of reserves should be the nature, not the people. A massive presence of humans does damage.
My entire musculature system needs to basically be reconfigured, retrained, now that all the fractures have healed.
My PT told me oh yeah, your nervous system has gotten so accustomed to being in constant pain that you basically go from a background level of 8 out of 10, which you now find generally tolerable, to 10, which you find immensely painful, whenever… well pretty much any tendon or muscle on your right side goes ‘‘just slightly’’ out of its safe range of motion.
Don’t even have painkillers, by the way. Just ibuprofen and acetometaphen.
I’ve been immobile, literally bed ridden, for the past 6 months, barring the excrutiatingly painful PT routine, hobbling to the bathroom/shower (got a shower seat), and microwaving soup or whatever.
Typing these messages is quite painful, but it does actually count as part of the PT if I use the right position/grip.
I will probably be in aquatherapy for at least another 3 months, if not 6, or 12.
A local charity drives me to and from the visits… which i hobble out to the car in my braces, with my cane.
… You’re not gonna theory craft your way into a more effective mobility solution for my entire life situation than myself and my doctors, unless that involves cashapping me several thousand or tens of thousands of dollars.
Frankly, that does not sound like 2 functional limbs. Now consider that it would be easier for your charity team to drive you around if there was less traffic. Meaning the more healthy people cycle, the less traffic there is (assuming there’s bike infrastructure, which is much cheaper than car infrastructure) the better you can get around. Alternatives to car driving even helps people who are actually dependent on the car.
Dude, I’m truly sad that you felt like you had to explain your issues with them. These guys acting like asshats think that they’ll be healthy forever and have money no matter what. That might be true, but it also might not. I think these diehard bicyclists have too much testosterone or something. I really don’t know what it is, but they act super smug and entitled when it comes to bikes vs cars.
I’m used to casual ableism in general, but these folks have some weapons grade, fucking Clydesdale, Belgian Draft level high horses they rode in on to this discussion.
Normally when you just point out… hey disabled people exist, 99% of people go, oh fuck, shit, i forgot… good point…
Years ago I noticed a trend on Seattle based subreddits that… there’s a lot of just unbelievably perma online debatelord bullshit culture going on.
I know there was some massively stupid meta drama with there being like dueling Seattle subreddits and I think a third one at one point?
Its like tankie levels of utter certainty that anyone who could ever disagree with them on any minor issue, or even the precise language or framing talking about such is obviously a bad faith shit disturber employed by the CIA to detract from the… whatever worldview it is they have… which they also just… assume you already know all the details of… before you ever talk to them.
My guess would be these people are basically trauma molded by that, and brought it here to lemmy.
…
I ran into another person yesterday in some other thread, a meme about jesus telling people to cut off the tips of their dicks.
I threw in some historical background about why it is that… that’s really only an American Christian thing.
… and some rando is like ‘oh my god. i just got here from reddit and I am SICK of people obsessing over male circumcision, its not that big a deal, why are people here like this too, not a good look lemmy!’
Told im Ive been using lemmy for over a year (recently switched over to dbzero because yargh mateys!)… and I’d never even brought up this topic before.
He replies that he is going to rebutt any discussion of male genital mutilation anywhere he sees it!
… And I laugh at his hypocritical understanding of the word ‘obsession’.
…
Maybe we need like some kind of resocialization, decompression zone, type of comm.
Gotta unlearn the hyperdefensive reflex, the undo the antisocial personity disorder that happens when you OD on toxic corpo social media.
… Either that or if these people actually ride bicycles, and don’t just debatelord about them on the net…
One good T-Boning on a bike by a car running a red at 30 mph and they’ll be about as fucked up as I am.
I was there for 4 Seattle subreddits, lol. Those guys were Doug, CharlesGrodinFan, Rainier?, etc. Doug found me over here awhile ago.
They were trolls, I’m pretty sure Rainier was a legit Russian troll. He would change personalities during the weekends and forget entire discussions, so I think his account was a russian account. He kind of admitted it early on once, before they all got better at it. Too bad, he was super smart and funny. The rest are Maga trolls.
As for the bicyclists, I think they might be doing this type of shit (same as in this thread). I’m not 100% that they’re legit bicyclists.
“Once we isolate key people, we look for people we know are in their upstream – people that they read posts from, but who themselves are less influential. We then either start flame wars with bots to derail the conversations that are influencing influential people, or else send off specific tasks for sockpuppets (changing this wording of an idea here; cause an ideological split there; etc).”
The goal is to keep opinions we don’t want fragmented and from coalescing in to a single voice for long enough that the memes we do want can,…
They were trolls, I’m pretty sure Rainier was a legit Russian troll.
Wow, that just activated a bunch of unpleasant memories.
Yeah, I concur, that guy was a legitimate Russian troll, and yeah Doug I remeber being the most ludicrous infuriating asshat.
As for the bicyclists, I think they might be doing this type of shit (same as in this thread). I’m not 100% that they’re legit bicyclists.
Every actual avid bicyclist I ever knew irl is basically the exact opposite of a person who would… you know, spend all their time on an internet forum?
Granted, this was about a decade ago now, but… I remember actually having to explain the concept of an internet forum to a few of them… ‘wait, its like a blog, but … its like… everyone’s blog?’.
As for the troll tactic, yep that defines it perfectly.
Manipulate social dynamics by identifying and trolling influential thought leaders, as opposed to just bullying randos. Make group cohesion impossible with constant petty drama bullshit to defame people.
… pretty sure the internet was basically a mistske at this point rofl.
… The thing being discussed here is the problem of parking passes being used as your ticket in to a national park.
The suggestion was… have you considered bicycling?
… Presumably, bicycling to and from the park, so as to avoid using a car, and the parking pass.
… It is 160ish miles from Seattle to say, the Hoh rainforest park.
Up a literal mountain range.
I think you climb up about uh… yeah, very steep hills, most of the way, up from sea level to 5330 ft, a total of about 11000 feet travelled uphill and 11000 ft traveled downhill in the whole 18 hour journey.
Sure, put your bike in the car, drive it there, ride it around the park, go home in the car.
But then you’d still be using a car, and its parking pass.
… You can’t expect everyone, muchless disabled people… to just put in 18hrs of strenuous bicycling to get to a national park, which currently has no real public transit method of getting anywhere near it from most actually concentrated population centers.
Yes everyone who ever wants to go to a truly set aside, lovely natural park is a Tour de France level bicyclist.
Fuck disabled people, why should they enjoy nature?
Two common strawmen in favor of car dependency.
There are cheap electric bikes out there (at least much cheaper than a car). No need to be an athlete.
Disabled people are among those who suffer the most under car dependency. There should exist public transportation to go to parks for everyone, including disabled people.
Not to mention disabled people can get a free annual pass to all national park/land/wilderness and most (if not all) states you can get free passes to state parks as well.
Yes that would be wonderful.
Unfortunately that world doesn’t yet exist.
Let me know when the light rail, or even a bus goes from Seattle to the Hoh Rainforest.
At the rate the light rail is expanding, maybe 2250.
Maybe a bus by 2075?
Actually motorcycles are still more performant (greater ranges, better suspension, greater speeds) and cheaper than the kinds of eBikes you are talking about, capable of making a 100+ mile journey.
One of those kinds of eBikes is about 1/4 of my yearly income from SSDI.
Before rent, before food.
Not that it would matter anyway:
How is my crippled ass, who literally cannot even balance on a stationary bike, due to the nature of my injuries, nor grip the handle bars, who would topple over within 30 seconds…
… who can barely walk 10 minutes at 1mph in braces and with a cane before I have to lie down, not sit down, lie down…
How am I gonna ride this eBike 160 ish miles to the Hoh Rainforest? Up a literal mountain range?
…
I am not in favor of car or ICE dependency.
Far from it.
But you are acting like all your proposed ideas just… already exist. That they could basically magically be implemented at the snap of a finger.
This is nonsense.
You have to actually transition to the new paradigm in a way that doesn’t just immediately fuck over people who are the edge cases that are not compatible with your vision.
Oh I am very aware and compassionate towards the dire state of mobility in the US. It’s just that you were dismissive of biking as if it had inherent insurmontable problems, whereas alternatives to cars are viable but have been suppressed politically.
Second point, it is not realistic to bike 3h one way to go to a far away park. But the question would be: does it make sense to go that far for a single day getaway? Wouldn’t it make more sense to have nice spaces in or around cities that people could go for an afternoon, but not expect to have true natural reserves commodified? People should have the right to accessible natural spaces, but the priority of reserves should be the nature, not the people. A massive presence of humans does damage.
Ebikes/trikes can help for the elderly or some disabilities. Plenty of disabled people can cycle but not drive too.
And plenty of them can’t, and can barely tolerate being in even a mobility scooter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handcycle
Cool.
Anyway, my right wrist, and arm and right leg are royally fucked up.
What about amputees?
People with muscular dystrophy?
People prone to seizures, spasms, fainting?
People with unhealthy hearts?
People who are blind, or deaf?
Is your right arm or your left arm fucked up? If you have at least two functional limbs, there’s probably a way to make this work.
My entire right side is fucked.
My entire musculature system needs to basically be reconfigured, retrained, now that all the fractures have healed.
My PT told me oh yeah, your nervous system has gotten so accustomed to being in constant pain that you basically go from a background level of 8 out of 10, which you now find generally tolerable, to 10, which you find immensely painful, whenever… well pretty much any tendon or muscle on your right side goes ‘‘just slightly’’ out of its safe range of motion.
Don’t even have painkillers, by the way. Just ibuprofen and acetometaphen.
I’ve been immobile, literally bed ridden, for the past 6 months, barring the excrutiatingly painful PT routine, hobbling to the bathroom/shower (got a shower seat), and microwaving soup or whatever.
Typing these messages is quite painful, but it does actually count as part of the PT if I use the right position/grip.
I will probably be in aquatherapy for at least another 3 months, if not 6, or 12.
A local charity drives me to and from the visits… which i hobble out to the car in my braces, with my cane.
… You’re not gonna theory craft your way into a more effective mobility solution for my entire life situation than myself and my doctors, unless that involves cashapping me several thousand or tens of thousands of dollars.
Frankly, that does not sound like 2 functional limbs. Now consider that it would be easier for your charity team to drive you around if there was less traffic. Meaning the more healthy people cycle, the less traffic there is (assuming there’s bike infrastructure, which is much cheaper than car infrastructure) the better you can get around. Alternatives to car driving even helps people who are actually dependent on the car.
Dude, I’m truly sad that you felt like you had to explain your issues with them. These guys acting like asshats think that they’ll be healthy forever and have money no matter what. That might be true, but it also might not. I think these diehard bicyclists have too much testosterone or something. I really don’t know what it is, but they act super smug and entitled when it comes to bikes vs cars.
I appreciate the sentiment.
I’m used to casual ableism in general, but these folks have some weapons grade, fucking Clydesdale, Belgian Draft level high horses they rode in on to this discussion.
Normally when you just point out… hey disabled people exist, 99% of people go, oh fuck, shit, i forgot… good point…
Years ago I noticed a trend on Seattle based subreddits that… there’s a lot of just unbelievably perma online debatelord bullshit culture going on.
I know there was some massively stupid meta drama with there being like dueling Seattle subreddits and I think a third one at one point?
Its like tankie levels of utter certainty that anyone who could ever disagree with them on any minor issue, or even the precise language or framing talking about such is obviously a bad faith shit disturber employed by the CIA to detract from the… whatever worldview it is they have… which they also just… assume you already know all the details of… before you ever talk to them.
My guess would be these people are basically trauma molded by that, and brought it here to lemmy.
…
I ran into another person yesterday in some other thread, a meme about jesus telling people to cut off the tips of their dicks.
I threw in some historical background about why it is that… that’s really only an American Christian thing.
… and some rando is like ‘oh my god. i just got here from reddit and I am SICK of people obsessing over male circumcision, its not that big a deal, why are people here like this too, not a good look lemmy!’
Told im Ive been using lemmy for over a year (recently switched over to dbzero because yargh mateys!)… and I’d never even brought up this topic before.
He replies that he is going to rebutt any discussion of male genital mutilation anywhere he sees it!
… And I laugh at his hypocritical understanding of the word ‘obsession’.
…
Maybe we need like some kind of resocialization, decompression zone, type of comm.
Gotta unlearn the hyperdefensive reflex, the undo the antisocial personity disorder that happens when you OD on toxic corpo social media.
… Either that or if these people actually ride bicycles, and don’t just debatelord about them on the net…
One good T-Boning on a bike by a car running a red at 30 mph and they’ll be about as fucked up as I am.
Happens every day.
I was there for 4 Seattle subreddits, lol. Those guys were Doug, CharlesGrodinFan, Rainier?, etc. Doug found me over here awhile ago.
They were trolls, I’m pretty sure Rainier was a legit Russian troll. He would change personalities during the weekends and forget entire discussions, so I think his account was a russian account. He kind of admitted it early on once, before they all got better at it. Too bad, he was super smart and funny. The rest are Maga trolls.
As for the bicyclists, I think they might be doing this type of shit (same as in this thread). I’m not 100% that they’re legit bicyclists.
https://archive.is/PoUMo
…there were FOUR?! jfc…
Wow, that just activated a bunch of unpleasant memories.
Yeah, I concur, that guy was a legitimate Russian troll, and yeah Doug I remeber being the most ludicrous infuriating asshat.
Every actual avid bicyclist I ever knew irl is basically the exact opposite of a person who would… you know, spend all their time on an internet forum?
Granted, this was about a decade ago now, but… I remember actually having to explain the concept of an internet forum to a few of them… ‘wait, its like a blog, but … its like… everyone’s blog?’.
As for the troll tactic, yep that defines it perfectly.
Manipulate social dynamics by identifying and trolling influential thought leaders, as opposed to just bullying randos. Make group cohesion impossible with constant petty drama bullshit to defame people.
… pretty sure the internet was basically a mistske at this point rofl.
Plenty of disabled people ride adaptive bikes in nature. Also electric assist bikes exist nowadays so level of fitness is less of a limiter.
… The thing being discussed here is the problem of parking passes being used as your ticket in to a national park.
The suggestion was… have you considered bicycling?
… Presumably, bicycling to and from the park, so as to avoid using a car, and the parking pass.
… It is 160ish miles from Seattle to say, the Hoh rainforest park.
Up a literal mountain range.
I think you climb up about uh… yeah, very steep hills, most of the way, up from sea level to 5330 ft, a total of about 11000 feet travelled uphill and 11000 ft traveled downhill in the whole 18 hour journey.
Sure, put your bike in the car, drive it there, ride it around the park, go home in the car.
But then you’d still be using a car, and its parking pass.
… You can’t expect everyone, muchless disabled people… to just put in 18hrs of strenuous bicycling to get to a national park, which currently has no real public transit method of getting anywhere near it from most actually concentrated population centers.