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Why are there 3 guineas? A complete guide to Guinea, Guinea-Bissau and Equatorial Guinea youngpioneertours.com/guinea-g…

Why are there 3 guineas? A complete guide to Guinea, Guinea-Bissau and Equatorial Guinea β€” Young

Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, and Equatorial Guinea: what’s the story behind this confusing nomenclature? Why are there three Guineas? Here's our guide!
Morgan Bourven (Young Pioneer Tours)

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Ukraine's Withdrawal From Anti-Personnel Landmine Treaty Could Haunt Generations sputnikglobe.com/20250629/ukra…

Ukraine's Withdrawal From Anti-Personnel Landmine Treaty Could Haunt Generations

Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a decree formally withdrawing Ukraine from the Ottawa Convention on anti-personnel landmines. The move coincided with the exit from the treaty by countries along NATO's eastern flank, including Poland and the Baltics.
Sputnik International
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over_clox

I was 16 when I busted my face open from a bicycle ramping accident, without a helmet. I ripped my chin flesh off my jawbone when that happened.

I've always wondered what's the deal with helmets having that visor part in the front. If I had been wearing one of those when that happened, it would have pushed my head further back and broke my neck..

I'm still alive today, because I wasn't wearing a helmet.

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FartsWithAnAccent

I'm still alive today, because I wasn't wearing a helmet.


presses X to doubt

Helmets (at least when properly designed) absorb impacts and even rotational force with MIPS.

Also, if you're doing jumps, you should be wearing a full face MIPS helmet.

Not only would you not be dead, you might've come away completely unharmed (minus a dead helmet).

A MIPS+Spherical helmet (Bell Super Air R) saved my life last year too.

Don't be a dumbass: Wear a helmet.

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over_clox

Yo, even the emergency room was surprised I didn't break my neck. The only reason I didn't was literally because I didn't have a helmet on to push my head further backwards.

I survived a concussion and facial injuries, no broken bones. I would not have survived a broken neck..

I did stop doing jumps after that though, counted myself lucky, not stupid.

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Miles O'Brien

It's like when someone goes on about their friends mom's college roommate's sister's cousin was in an accident and the EMTs and hospital definitely told them they would have died if they were wearing their belt or they died because they were wearing a belt.

K. You're still wearing it or you're getting the fuck out of my car. End of discussion and if you want to keep spouting dumb shit everywhere then we have nothing more to talk about.

Helmets save lives. Period. Anyone saying otherwise is an idiot.

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over_clox

Of course I wear a seatbelt when in a vehicle, but we're not talking about seatbelts nor passengers to even kick out. We're talking about a bicycle, my bicycle in my case, which I'll ride however I choose.

I'm 42 now, been riding bicycles since I was 4. As long as I keep the wheels on the ground and don't do stupid stuff like ramping, I have never once hit my head.

Sure I've busted my knees, shins and elbows a few times doing flatland balance tricks, so if I went for protective gear, I'd go for the gear I actually need, shin guards, elbow guards, and kneepads.

If I was so worried about any little chance of busting my head, I'd wear a helmet every time I walk up and down the stairs. Hell, a friend of mine just last month missed a single 4" high step coming out of a gas station and busted his head wide open and needed 10 staples.

Point is, you can trip and fall practically anywhere, even just on foot. With that said, why don't pedestrians wear helmets? They're just as much at risk, especially if walking near or across road traffic..

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over_clox

I don't even ride my bicycle over 15mph, unless I absolutely have to for some reason. I don't race, and at absolute max my single speed low geared BMX bike can only achieve is 24mph, which I practically never ride that fast.

Read my other comments, my usual cruising pace is ~11mph, and when I do BMX flatland tricks, those are only usually around a mere 5mph. I don't ride any faster than my feet can stop me in a pinch. Brakeless rider here no less.

Try watching a BMX flatland video or three, flatland isn't about speed, its about balance. Sure some riders like to speed, but not me, I just like to cruise and pull some occasional bike tricks.

You might as well insist that the Olympics make ice skaters wear a helmet, equally as dangerous at such low speeds.

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over_clox

You're right, I'm no Olympic athlete.

I think outside the box, have no brakes, and don't even need shoes.

Don't try this at home, but it's almost the 4th of July, so I might as well share. Yes this is me...


Barefoot brakeless footjam (July 4th, 2014)

Occasionally I'll practice a few tricks barefoot, this is about as hard as it gets. When I put my shoes back on, suddenly things seem easier for some reason...
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over_clox

Did you miss my point about the visor? If I had been wearing a helmet with a visor when that happened, the extra protrusion from the visor sticking out from my forehead would have pushed my head back about an additional 20 degrees and would have snapped my neck.

Did anyone catch the actual article about the helmet recall? Those helmets have... visors

I never said helmets are a bad thing, I said helmets with a visor are a bad thing.

Either way I still would have busted my chin open, that was the initial main point of impact, and I don't see too many bike helmets out there with chin guards.

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FartsWithAnAccent

You are operating under multiple layers of ignorance and frankly, I just don't have the energy to correct everything you've said but suffice it to say:

1: Properly designed visors will actually protect you and most definitely will not "break your neck".

2: There are literally hundreds, if not thousands, of bicycle helmets with chin guards. I would strongly encourage anyone doing jumps, downhill, or even e-bikes at higher speeds to get a good MIPS full face helmet and wear it every time. If you're going to go faster than 25 frequently it's probably even time to get a DOT/SNELL certified moto helmet.

You don't know what would have actually happened if you were wearing a properly designed helmet because you chose not to wear one, which was an objectively foolish decision no matter how you try to justify it.

I have no interest in debating this further though, believe whatever you like: It's your brain to protect (or not).

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over_clox

I was 16, you think I was thinking much back then? Like I said, I've since quit ramping. My current bike's cruising speed is about 11mph, and is a single speed geared low where even at absolute max it simply cannot exceed 24mph.

I'm not into racing, If I'm not cruising around 11 to 15 mph, I'm doing BMX flatland balance tricks probably around a mere 5mph.

I do thank you for the thoughts and advice though, but you're assuming I'm going way faster than I usually do. If I somehow manage to hit my head doing anything at 5mph, I'll just retire from riding altogether.

I'm nowhere near as skilled as these riders, but I took lots of inspiration from these professional riders. Note what the pros don't even use in flatland...

Enjoy the video clip, or not, up to you. Have a good day.


2012 JoMoPro BMX Finals & Best Flatland Trick - Official Highlights

The pro finals at JoMoPro 2012 showcased 10 of the best riders in the world competing for $3,000. With money up for grabs, along with valuable points towards...
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over_clox

I'm pretty sure that's part of the general design intent yes, but you'd have to know the exact angle of my impact. Chin first, left side, dragging upwards, from about 6 feet in the air, tire level, which means my head started off about 9 feet in the air. It also jammed my glasses into my forehead, which is how I know the angle I hit. It only takes about 7 pounds of force to snap a neck, and I impacted chin first with all ~150 pounds of my body weight from pretty high up.

I could have largely avoided the chin/face impact if I had put my arms and hands out in front of me, but I would have ended up with broken arms and my handlebars stuck through my gut instead.

Yes things would have went differently if I had been wearing a helmet, perhaps could have been better, perhaps could have been worse. No way to truly know, and I'm damn skippy not about to try it again.

The reason that happened was because the ramp wasn't secured to any sort of frame, it was just a sheet of plywood laid on a ~4 foot high dirt mound. There were 4 of us taking turns ramping, and as my front wheel came off the ramp, the next friend was just hitting the ramp behind me. That caused the plywood to flex, pushing my back wheel upwards as I was leaving the ramp.

I had a whole second or so to say "OH SHIT!" and decide whether to keep hold of the straight handlebars or not. I didn't want my handlebars stuck through my gut, so I held the bars.

Anyways, from that sort of height, chin/face first, I don't think a helmet would have made all too much of a difference. But if I had been wearing a helmet with a visor, my glasses probably wouldn't have been jammed into my forehead, which would have meant that my head would have been pushed back at more of an angle. Even the ER doctors noticed that.

Not saying it's right, but in my 42 years of life, I've never met a bicycle rider that even owns a helmet. To even obtain a helmet, you gotta ride to another city to even get one. And the intersection at that Walmart is one of the absolute most dangerous intersections out there for bike riders. So oddly enough, its safer to avoid the only place we can even get helmets.

TL;DR - I was 16, doing stupid shit and ramping a rigged up ramp with 3 other friends, and nobody out there wore or even had helmets. What did I learn? Don't do stupid shit, don't ramp, keep the wheels on the ground. So I switched to flatland.

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune and the Senate GOP finally grew a spine and sent a message to the unelected bureaucrat trying to tear apart President Trump’s big, beautiful bill.

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NEW: Senate GOP Discovers Spine - Puts Three Key Provisions Including Defunding of Medicare for Illegals Back In "Big Beautiful Bill" Following Parliamentarian Ruling | The Gateway Pundit | by Cullen Linebarger

Β  Β  Β  Β  Β Β Senate Majority Leader John Thune and the Senate GOP finally grew a spine and sent a message to the unelected bureaucrat trying to tear apart President Trump’s big, beautiful bill.
Cullen Linebarger (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)

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Continued Russian-US Talks Prove That Putin Doesn’t Think That Trump Duped Iran With Diplomacy thealtworld.substack.com/p/con…

Continued Russian-US Talks Prove That Putin Doesn’t Think That Trump Duped Iran With Diplomacy

Andrew Korybko- Skeptics might speculate that he’s playing β€œ5D chess” as part of some β€œmaster plan” to β€œpsyche out” the US but that doesn’t make much sense.
thealtworld (TheAltWorld’s Newsletter)

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Finally getting some structure. After 1 year of pushups and then bying more and more equipment, adding exercises along the way

Until I had no structure. So today I just wrote down all the exercises I wanna do. Splitting them between Dedlift squats and benchpress

It was a lot easier once I wrote them all down. So today was my first training with my new schedule.

-Deadlift
-Biceps dumbbell hammer/curl
-Lats pull down and seated cable row.
-chin ups
-Ab wheel

Great feeling

#NALC

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West Starts to Understand Its Inability to Inflict Strategic Defeat on Russia, Lavrov Says en.sputniknews.africa/20250629…

West Starts to Understand Its Inability to Inflict Strategic Defeat on Russia, Lavrov Says

Kyrgyzstan (Sputnik) - Russian top diplomat Lavrov is on an official visit to Kyrgyzstan on June 29-30. In addition to meetings with Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov and Kulubayev, Lavrov will also attend a meeting of the Council of Foreign...
Sputnik Africa

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100000 people participated in Helsinki Pride yesterday (according to police reported Public Service broadcaster YLE's Swedish language desk, while their more reactionary English language desk chose to describe it as "thousands of people").
yle.fi/a/74-20170086?origin=rs…

Here's a video from YLE's Swedish language desk:

Tens of thousands march in Helsinki Pride parade

Rainbow flags and festive attire filled the streets as the procession made its way through the city centre.
Yle News
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AsozialesNetzwerk Sektion KΓΆln

That trick seems to be getting more and more common in German news media as well: You read "thousands" in the headline, and then sometimes in the article you read that it was tens of thousands or even a couple hundred thousand, or the article also just says "thousands" and you have you look up the actual number elsewhere.

I mean yes, technically 100k is a multiple of "thousand", but WTF? It's as close to lying as they can get away with.

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Not content with possibly blinding her in one eye, NSW police have, inevitably, charged Thomas with crimes for protesting outside a company supplying parts for the F-35 the Israeli state is using to commit war crimes.

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ABC News

ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.
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slackbastard

Notably:

'Arrest documents for one of the five people charged, which were obtained by ABC News, included a reference to a protester being outside a "place of worship".

SEC Plating is across the road from Teebah Islamic Association Mosque.

Earlier this year, the Minns government broadened anti-protest laws to include places of worship, as part of a suite of laws passed to crack down on "hate speech".'

The laws were introduced after a spate of attacks upon Jewish institutions in Sydney, later revealed to be the result of a c00ked plot by a local criminal syndicate apparently intent on exchanging infos about the crimes for more lenient sentencing.

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'Over summer, organised crime cast a terrifying shadow over Australia.

The Jewish community in Sydney was left reeling β€” shaken by a wave of attacks that culminated in the discovery of a caravan packed with explosives and a list of Jewish sites.

NSW police have maintained that the crimes are connected, that a mastermind has orchestrated more than a dozen attacks.'

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The suspected criminal mastermind and the "fabricated terrorist plot" | Four Corners Documentary

Over summer, organised crime cast a terrifying shadow over Australia. The Jewish community in Sydney was left reeling β€” shaken by a wave of attacks that cul...
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Iranian commanders laid to rest in mass funerals across country english.almayadeen.net/news/po…

Iranian commanders laid to rest in mass funerals across country

For the second day, Iran holds mass funerals nationwide for military and civilian martyrs of Israeli aggression, amid chants against "Israel" and the US.
Al Mayadeen English (Iranian commanders laid to rest in mass funerals across country)
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