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Wait until you find out about how this is pretty much new home construction anyways.

There was still a comment on the bottom trying to cite the 73% number back to the author lol.

That’s interesting actually, I’ll have to look more into sodium ion batteries to figure out what they’re all about.

Yeah I agree it sucks there arent bike lanes in a lot of towns. In most places it would be absolutely fine to use the side walk, but the center of university towns are congested pedestrian walkways. For the same reason you don’t want to be out on the road on your E-bike, people walking to class don’t want to share the way with fast moving E-bikes. This has never been a problem with regular bikes because people don’t typically sprint them through the middle of campus.

I think the purpose of the E-bike racks is so that students can still commute to campus on their E-bikes. They just dont want them zooming around highly populated pedestrian walkways. Also, lithium battery fires are no joke and people do take these kinds of devices indoors to charge. If this prevents even a single indoor fire, then the policy is sound.

Exactly, I don’t blame the university not wanting them even if they’re off either on account of how they can spontaneously catch on fire

If you have ever been a pedestrian in one of these towns you would understand the danger they pose. People on regular bikes go 10 miles an hour. People on these things go 20 miles an hour.

I wonder if doctors in China/India have more scruples about prescribing opiates. Here in the U.S. they give them to you for just about any amount of pain, weather you asked for them or not. They have given me opiates after I specifically told them I won’t take them because of the side effects. The treatment of pain here in the U.S. is stuck in the 1950s.

Nah mang, when I’m tired I sleep, productivity be damned. Nothing better than being well rested.

Frankly if you cant understand your dog yourself, an app probably wont help. They don’t talk but they are excellent communicators if you understand how to listen to them. This is especially true for dogs and cats but all animals have body language. Birds are special because they have very specific calls per species that you can learn to recognize, but they are so consistent that apps work too.

Apparently he died in 1948, so his name would have probably been pretty funny by then.

“Maybe if you owned a more standard bike, you could find parts for it more easily?”

“Absurd balderdash, I won’t hear of it.”

I have a 20 year old car. This January I had to replace the control arms (bushings were shot), CV axels, and steering knuckle assembly. I did this all myself, to save a few thousand in labor (not joking, thats what one of my friends is paying a shop right now for just the brakes.) Still the price of those parts added up to just under 600. For that budget I could go out and buy a veritable fleet of used bikes from garage sales. Tune them up with tools on hand and a few spray cans of Degreasers and Teflon lubricants they wont even sell you in Europe, and never run out of bikes to ride again in my life. The thing is, I still own a damned car. I resent that I own a car. I won’t try to argue that a bike has more utility than a car because it would be impossible. However, I will argue to the end of a time that a bike is more utilitarian. We all just don’t live the kind of lives that are compatible with the slower speeds, more difficult travel that a bike requires outside of inner city travel.

My point is that bikes are so much cheaper to maintain in the long run that even if you were doing the same miles, it would come out far cheaper. Just because you have a car that has been cheap to maintain, doesn’t change the simple math of that problem. The average price of bringing your car to the shop once could buy you multiple used bikes from garage sales.

That’s your fault for buying a gary fischer bike. Thats like owning a british leyland sports car and complaining that none of the local shops have parts for it.

Yeah if you discount insurance, oil changes, and gas money; then over a 6th month period you might spend more money on parts for a bike than a car. Maybe.

Consumerist mind set. Bikes don’t tend to break all at once and you can ride a beater right across the country with a hundred bucks of spare parts. A lot of shit you just don’t need and a proper bike is the epitome of that. Also cars require maintenance too, and a hell of a lot more of it and it’s a lot more difficult and expensive. There is probably a whole order of magnitude number of things that could go wrong with a car at any moment.

No, the grid goes down and nobody gets service. The laws of economics do not supersede the laws of physics.

That sign can’t stop me because I can’t read!

(Actually don’t remember not being able to read)

The whole point of writing is that im engaging internally with the process. Words are just words if Im not writing or reading them, completely vapid and inane. Anybody with half a brain who reads can tell writing from output. It has no soul because none was lent it.