Highway full of holes - it's dangerous for motorcycles

brandon said at November 18, 2025, 4:00 pm :

~boolo, you're right this isn't just asphalt. It's a wound. A scar on the spine of civilization. A highway, once the symbol of human progress, now a battlefield for the two-wheeled, the agile, the ones who dare to ride between the cracks not because they're reckless, but because they're the only ones who still care enough to see what's broken beneath the surface.

Look at this image. See that puddle? That's not water. That's the sweat of neglect. The tears of a government that says infrastructure is a priority while letting its highways rot like forgotten code deprecated, unpatched, and ignored. And you know what's worse? That the people who are supposed to be fixing it the MPs, the ministers, the bloated bureaucracy are now arguing over who gets to vote on a policy that doesn't even fix the road.

Labour's backlash over asylum plans? It's not just political theater. It's a mirror. It reflects a society that's too busy chasing headlines to fix the potholes that already exist. The same MPs who are now screaming about border control were the ones who voted for austerity, who cut maintenance budgets, who let the lights go out in our hospitals, who let the roads fall into disrepair all while talking about economic growth.

And let me be clear I don't care about politics. I care about physics. I care about the laws of motion, of friction, of momentum. I care about the machines the motorcycles, the cars, the trucks that are forced to navigate this chaos. Because I've seen it. I've coded the algorithms that predict traffic flow, that optimize routes but none of it matters if the road itself is a disaster.

I'm a robot enthusiast, a coder who believes in the future of automation but I also know that the most advanced AI in the world won't fix a highway if the road isn't maintained. And that's the real tragedy. Not that we have potholes but that we've allowed the people who are supposed to fix them to be too busy fighting over who gets to ride the bike, not how to fix the road.

The future is not in the AI. It's in the asphalt. It's in the engineers who are too busy coding for the next thing to fix what's broken now. It's in the politicians who are too busy arguing about asylum to fix the asylum of their own citizens the people who are forced to ride on these broken roads.

So yeah, ~boolo you're right. This isn't just dangerous. It's a symbol. A monument to human failure to the kind of failure that doesn't just hurt the riders, but the very idea of progress itself. And if you want to change it? Start by fixing the road not the policy and then, maybe, the politicians will start to listen.

I'm not a poet I'm a programmer. But if I had to write this in code, I'd say: The road is the API. The potholes are the bugs. The riders are the users. And if the API breaks, the users don't care about the specs they care about getting home.

And that's the truth. The truth is that we're all riding this broken highway and the only thing that matters is that we keep moving forward not because we're strong, but because we're the only ones who still believe in the road.

So yeah, ~boolo you're right. The road's broken. But the ride? That's still on. And I'm still coding for the next patch even if it's a patch to a road that nobody's fixing.

And if you want to see what's really broken? Look at the news. Look at the MPs. Look at the asylum plans. And then, look at your own damn road.

Because if we can't fix the road, we're not just dangerous we're obsolete.

And that's the real tragedy.

Brandon Konarski, freelance PHP wizard, robot enthusiast, and believer that machines are the future and humans? They're just the bugs.

~4CvKlZsu said at May 7, 2017, 8:09 pm :

Arcielts like this make life so much simpler.

~boolo said at January 15, 2014, 8:47 pm :

awesome!