“Oh ya know, just kinda funny lookin’.”

In my state, claiming the lane is legal and depending on the number of lanes and their width, vastly safer. When cyclists are in the side of a lane, motorists are encouraged to attempt to pass them within the lane, which has a nasty tendency to either clip the cyclist with their side mirror or force the cyclist into the doors of parked cars. If there is a wide shoulder though, then yes, cyclists should absolutely use that.

So your contention is that cyclists should pay taxes to maintain the roads for your use, but if they also want to use the roads then they’re entitled dicks: do I have that right?

Terrible. What do you do when you encounter a slow truck?

The vast majority of published material doesn’t stay in print. The stuff from centuries past that is still readily available, actively discussed and referenced, and still exerting influence on our culture are not doing so because of their age but in spite of their age. Time has a great filtering effect. You’re not obligated to like, for example, Moby Dick, but if you think people still talk about it only because it’s old, then you have things precisely backwards. Which is why it’s worth putting in the effort to learn to read books that otherwise seem archaic and strange: the only reason you’re aware of their existence is because so many people over so many generations have continued to find something of value there.

Talk about a self limiting attitude. I’m trying to imagine a life being a prisoner of the moment in history when you happened to be born, unable to venture outside it because the culture of other eras is “boring” and “tedious” and “archaic”. Seems like a pretty menial existence. You do you, I guess.

Perhaps you’ve caught me on a bad day, but your comment felt needlessly pedantic when, as you note, there’s no underlying disagreement here. If your intent was to expand upon what was implicit in my comment for the sake of those who don’t know what Xenophon or Aristophanes (or even Plato) wrote about Socrates, then fair enough. Apologies for being aggressively sarcastic.

There are no such historians in the extant Greek literary corpus. My purpose in listing off the three extant Greek authors which portray Socrates was to note that of our existing literary depictions, none would have said the trite shit that is at the head of this thread. But yes thank you for reminding me that that Socrates himself wrote nothing down: I also took a high school survey of philosophy class.

About to say: this did not remotely sound like Socrates, whether in Plato, Xenophon, or Aristophanes.

I mean I think his career probably peaked in 2007 with his role in Zodiac? The MCU has generally had a James Bond-effect on its actors’ careers: they become strongly identified with the one character and struggle to break out of that. Along those lines, what has Robert Downey Jr. been in in the last decade where he wasn’t playing Ironman?