Look I’m as much “fuck cars” as the next guy but riding a motorcycle on a highway is unironically suicidal. I personally know a guy who got in a bad crash on one but miraculously survived; he had a year long recovery period but will have various pain and dysfunction in his body for the rest of his life. I also know some people who did pathology rotations (state medical examiner office, autopsy basically) and the big three categories of bodies coming in were drug overdoses, suicides, and motorcycle crashes.

One of the facebook comments links to a seventh person who died a few days before these on June 18th: https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/motorcyclist-killed-sr-530-crash.amp

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Surely you understand that everyone has different thresholds of acceptable danger? Do you think people who ride motorcycles don’t realize it’s dangerous when they’re doing 70MPH next to 20k lb 18 wheelers in heavy traffic? It’s just so weird and condescending to do this shit. It’s genuinely insulting to my intelligence, which is why I quit going to that doctor. No shit it’s dangerous, but thanks for telling me what I and everybody already know.

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you came into a thread about how a lot of motorcyclists died and now are complaining about how condescending it is to be told that what you are doing is unsafe

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I think you’ll find I came into a thread and shared some information about how to reduce the chance of injury or death on a motorcycle and you are now repeatedly stating obvious things to me as if the entire world doesn’t already know it. Do you feel the need to tell me the color of the sky, or perhaps how many days there are in a week?

Also, thanks for confirming that this does indeed come directly out of your condescension. Cool!

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Not eating vegetables 200 micromorts

Drinking once a week 100 micromorts

Hate doing cardio 500 micromorts

Riding a motorcycle 27,000 micromorts

Bad sleep hygiene 300 micromorts

someone who is good at risk management please help me budget this i am going to die in two years

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The fatality rate for motorcycles is about the same as small planes, anybody arguing that it’s safe is not very smart and they just want to be as annoying as possible before they bite it.

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Nobody’s arguing it’s safe they’re trying to tell silly scolders that they understand the risk and are comfortable with it.

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