If project 2025 gets implemented, he won't have to worry about voting again anytime soon.
John Oliver made a funny and stomach-churning video on it, which was probably one of the most horrifying videos I think I've seen. Reminds me of some of the diseases that cause such horrible organ damage, even if you survive the disease, your organs are permanently ruined. The MILF manor parts were also...interesting, lol.
If I were you, I'd grab an ebike before tariffs on them go up. It can be a major gamechanger in a city. Saves a lot of money on gas and parking fees if you just want to hit the beach/park/commute to work. Kicking myself for not buying one sooner. Radpower, Juiced, and Aventon have pretty affordable options, and my car has been pretty much left alone most of the spring and early summer.
Grabbed one for $1,200 and have put 624 miles on it in the past three or so months.
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One of the images that has haunted me for years was a big protest over an important event that warranted a serious discussion and protest. But in the middle of it, someone broke into a nearby restaurant and made off with an entire cheesecake. Broad daylight, right in front of news cameras, their pale-ass face giving no fucks in the world.
Fucking opportunists. They used to come every year and trash parts of the city during protests. Whenever they'd get arrested, they'd always be from neighboring states, never locals. It generates a massive amount of ill-will and casts legitimate protests in a bad light.
Regardless of outcome, though, the most important thing we can all do is vote. Get everyone you can to actually turn out for local elections, state/province/territory elections, and national elections. Protesting is another tool between voting.
The Great Filter is the idea that, in the development of life from the earliest stages of abiogenesis to reaching the highest levels of development on the Kardashev scale, there is a barrier to development that makes detectable extraterrestrial life exceedingly rare. The Great Filter is one possible resolution of the Fermi...
I think there are many great filters, but I think one of those filters is fighting over limited resources and wars. Perhaps limited to humans/earth, but I doubt it. Nukes, dropping rocks from orbit, and theoretical (but possible) weapons like black hole bombs are all going to tempt irrational beings to take someone's stuff.
We have to be extremely careful that we don't accidentally trigger a weapon that is going to kill or dramatically cripple our civilization before we become a truly interstellar species. There is so much to learn out there, while so many people are currently focused on the wrong things such as minor conflicts or what children aren't allowed to learn.
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help identifying an alleged bike thief who, on Wednesday, shoplifted bolt cutters to steal a boy’s e-bike.
Aren't people sick of war? The last thing I would want is another war tearing my country apart. Lebanon has had terrible things happen to it in the past. Just...chill. Nothing good will come from war.
The latest evolution of the Air city e-bike brings an all carbon-fiber frame and fork, a new motor and instant power delivery, and advanced anti-theft tech
Looks cool, but constant connectivity is a non-starter. We've seen what happens when the company's servers go down when they go bankrupt. You end up with a bricked bike.
Good luck getting people to waste a ton of gas and time going into the office every day. Even before the pandemic, everyone was already using teams for meetings virtually. I think we had physical meetings a few times a year at most, and even then, some people were virtual.
Google can't even block yiff with safe search, lol. AI has incredible difficulty with evaluating furry porn. Which means that Mitch McConnell is going to live out his final days looking at anthropomorphic hyenas that could benchpress a fridge and have 11 inches of freedom, lmao.
Generations of southerners and people in the central US are going to be looking at considerable amounts of yiff if conservatives have their way.
Looks like critical thinking deteriorates above 72f/22c. Crime swings higher. Lowering your core temperature seems to help, even if you live in a climate with unavoidable heat.
The main reasons I've seen from vegans for not eating meat seem to be all about the morality of eating a sentient animal, the practices of the modern meat industry, and the environmental impact of it. And don't have anything to do with the taste of meat....
I'd definitely eat it, especially over ecosystem-destroying meats and dirty meats. Especially if they can work on the price. I'd like to see more farmlands and public lands reforested and taken back to nature.
That is fucking nuts. Four or five motors is insane, and sounds like the manufacturer really cheaped out. My cheap bafeng motor (and entire rear wheel) costs $450. Same torque, and water resistant with an IP rating. $700+ for a motor that has bad bearings and no water resistance and a faulty PCB...
Make your shit more repairable, and don't burn goodwill by churning out motors that fail and turn people off of biking.
Bafeng isn't great on repairs outside of warranty, but at least there are sites that sell replacement motors, planar gears, etc.
This is good, and hopefully for micromobility, too.
I want my current car to be my last ICE car. But my ebike has been so much easier than driving for downtown activities, I'm starting to wonder if I will even need to drive much at all.
I'd probably still want an EV for longer distance travel, but that isn't necessary for day-to-day commuting.
The first queer people here got fired from their jobs and left largely destitute. They were the ones that started the first gay societies and the first protests in front of the White House. Throughout the decades, many were fired, arrested, or died from poor health or deaths of despair.
Someone always has to take the first step.
I recommend reading The lavender scare, it's extremely relevant right now, and I had to keep checking the copyright date because the same shit is happening the same way it happened in the 50s.
I've heard sketchy things about Ride1Up from a bike mechanic in one of my local mountain bike chats. He said something about them using proprietary spokes and the shop having to throw hands with the OEM. Took two months for them to get the spokes mailed into the shop.
That put me off of buying R1U. The two brands I considered buying from were Juiced Bikes and Aventon, both of which I grilled and cross examined closely with their support teams. Juiced seems to be using a fairly good number of relatively off the shelf or replaceable parts. Some third party sites sell stuff like planar gears for the motors, and Juiced itself reuses a lot of parts across its product stack (wheels, displays, batteries (and XLR chargers), throttles, motor controllers, all of which can be bought on the site)
Aventon is a bit less repairable yourself, but has shop support all over. They were committed to keeping batteries for a number of years, but they aren't standardized across the lineup.
In the end, I went with Juiced and have put 634 miles on my bike in the past few months, largely without issue (some of the factory screws were too tight and stripped when I was replacing my motor controller with a more powerful variant. Other than that, no issue)
Yeah, I was on the verge of buying one too. Hearing that made me go back to the drawing board and do a ton more research on what ebikes were more repairable. We really need a right to repair law for ebikes. Most conventional bikes are super easy to repair.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The director of the U.N. World Food Program said Sunday the program has “paused” its distribution of humanitarian aid from an American-built pier off Gaza, saying she was “concerned about the safety of our people” after what had been one of the deadliest days of the war there....
You gotta have a distribution network the same way the heart needs arteries, veins, and capillaries. Without a delivery network, that aid won't go more than the distance some people can walk. The elderly and children would never get it. Those in other cities might not get it. Not to mention how heavy water is. Most can't carry enough for a family of five each day, in a different city.
The warehouses allow them to coordinate food/water/first aid/etc and send it on trucks to distribution centers where it can be distributed equally without stampedes, or the healthiest/most well armed simply taking everything.
I completely stopped caring about 2 years ago, I realized I was never going to do anything with my good look and that I will never get into a relationship in my life, so I just figured out "what's the point then, I'm already invisible to women?" And I don't care about my health tbh......
I used to not care that much, but I got stupidly into mountain biking and city ebiking and just injured my knee when I crashed over an unseen curb in the dark. Now I'm getting biking withdrawal and serious FOMO as I stay inside while newly made bike friends are out biking. I feel like....itchy from not getting outside and really doing stuff with friends. My goddamned knee better heal up ASAP, lol.
I didn't even know I could even get this antsy as I only picked up city biking recently. Now I feel like I'm chained to my apartment and car and the vanishinly rare $30/hr parking spots in the city, lol.
I think more than anything, you can get into just about anything given a couple great experiences doing something. Grab an ebike or stand up paddleboard and go on some adventures, relationships be damned. You don't have to be in a relationship to have some serious fun on the water :)
Some people are bi+ and just aren't out yet or don't even know exactly what they are. And that's fine. I also believe it's probably a pretty small percentage of the population. Fwiw, you can be in a differing sex relationship and still be somewhat curious about the other side of the coin. I think the worst thing people can do is be ashamed of it, then hide it at all costs where it manifests as this sort of website. Instead of having conversations among friends and spouses and more healthy methods of exploring one's sexuality, such as going to pride events and making diverse, enriching friendships.
Even still, each battery pack and the 6,000lb car put more strain on the mines, factories, and roads. Those resources could be used for stuff like ebikes where you only need a fraction of the power to get the bike to move forward.
EVs have their place, but eventually we are going to have to reckon with a post-car reality. Building trans, trams, BRTs (fast bus lines) and bike lanes will make cities faster to get around, without having to own a vehicle to get groceries a mile down the road. Making sidewalks comfortable and wider will also make stuff feel less shitty.
We'll probably get to a point where you can rent a vehicle if you really need it for remote areas, but day to day, you can pocket that insurance/maintenance/fuel/depreciation money and use it on something else.
EVs are heavy. While they vary by make and model, the sedans like Lucids around Vancouver BC and WA weigh 5,200lbs without any cargo, bike racks, ski racks, or people in it.
Electric trucks (not pickups) are also getting more popular, and will also need to be factored into things like updated crash barriers, bridges, offramps and older city roads built on top of thin concrete structures from the 1900s. It's going to cost cities a lot of money if we don't emphasize a reduction in cars and trucks going forward. We should be pushing rail and bikes harder.
I often take painkillers (acetaminophen aka paracetamol), but I've noticed that it's much more effective if I take them TOGETHER with my ADHD medication (ritalin aka methylphenidate) + my morning coffee. If I don't take them AT the same time, the painkiller is far less effective....
Why does everyone suddenly seem to think it's ok to say the R word again? I feel like I hadn't heard it in years and suddenly everyone around me is using it, and I see it on Reddit all the time. Am I imagining it? Is anyone seeing this? I don't even know what to say when it's suddenly just everyone in a group and everyone acts...
I kinda assumed people understood the messages behind Battlefield 1, Death Stranding, and Helldivers 2, lol. Most of the messages are telegraphed pretty clearly.
I don't live in NY, but I used to drive everywhere because the buses are slow AF (1hr+ to go less than seven miles) and I'm not walking 14+ miles up hills to see friends and family. Ebikes are used here to get up steep 18-28% grade hills. Because of ebikes, I'm able to run errands that I used to have to drive to, for pennies in electricity instead of $70 in gas and $30 in parking. The vast majority of all bikers stick to the bike lanes where available and obey the 15mph limits unless they are in lycra. But lycra types aren't riding ebikes anyways, lol. Incredibly, one of our family friends got pulled over for getting clocked at 40mph on a traditional road bike.
It's really annoying, though. If I ride in the street, I get honked at by cars for "going too slow" as the ebike can only do 20mph sustained. If there are no bike lanes, biking on the sidewalk is the only safe option on stroads and 35mph bridges. There's this massive gap in infrastructure where bikes usually get tossed the scraps of "just use the bridge sidewalk even though it's only 24 inches wide".
Cars routinely park in the bike lanes here, too, forcing most riders into the street because of Amazon drivers or people pulling into hotels and putting their hazards on. Some riders specifically avoid the bike lanes here because they get the worst lights at traffic stops (eg, one 15 second light every few minutes while cars and pedestrians get green lights and crosswalks for much more time, incentivizing people to ride with cars or crosswalks).
I think the most relevant solution is to significantly step up funding to ensure that most roads have wide sidewalks and generous, barrier-protected bike lanes where people cannot get doored and landscaping isolates pedestrians from the bike lanes. If Japan, France, and the Netherlands can do it, so can we.
You gotta have reliable baseload energy. Traditionally, that has been hydro in blessed regions, coal and gas in other regions, and nuclear if your country has the funds to do so.
The key is to always have baseload power for dark winter months, weeks of bad weather, or heat domes and forest fires, where you may find yourself not having sun or wind for extended periods of time with incredibly high demand on the grid (for AC!).
My two cents is that nuclear energy is worth it for clean, reliable energy that doesn't hose all of your rivers. We will need some hydro for water reserves and power, but a diverse energy mix that doesn't rely on hydrocarbons is the way forward, imo.
Baseload of hydro, nuclear, geothermal. Solar and wind with battery storage, pumped storage, green hydrogen. Rooftop solar. Greenscapes in cities to keep heat down and absorb rainwater so it doesn't mess up combined sewage pipes.
Heat pumps and proper insulation for homes and buildings. Ebikes for short range commutes of 1-45 miles. Puts a lot less strain on the grid than EV cars, too.
They are gonna lose that fight against her, lol. They didn't have snowmobiles, planes or electric mobility scooters in the late 1800s either, haha. And yet, those are allowed. Banning cars is a noble goal. Banning clean forms of transit while still allowing ICE vehicles is kinda crazy.
Searching for product recommendations has become harder and harder over the years. I used to google or browse reddit for reviews, used them to create a shortlist of products and then actually dig deeper and compare them....
What's the most stupid trend (or fad) you participated in yourself?
Those Assassin’s Creed, Resident Evil and Death Stranding iPhone ports have bombed ( mobilegamer.biz )
Canada to Curb China EV Imports as Trudeau Responds to Biden Move ( www.bloomberg.com )
With a joint review of Canada’s free trade agreement with the US and Mexico coming up in 2026
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How to make an EV tire that won’t pollute the environment ( www.theverge.com )
Arizona toddler rescued after getting trapped in a Tesla with a dead battery | The Model Y’s 12-volt battery, which powers things like the doors and windows, died ( www.theverge.com )
What do you think the Great Filter is?
The Great Filter is the idea that, in the development of life from the earliest stages of abiogenesis to reaching the highest levels of development on the Kardashev scale, there is a barrier to development that makes detectable extraterrestrial life exceedingly rare. The Great Filter is one possible resolution of the Fermi...
Jeffco Sheriff: Man shoplifts bolt cutters from Walmart to steal kid’s e-bike locked up in front of store ( www.denver7.com )
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help identifying an alleged bike thief who, on Wednesday, shoplifted bolt cutters to steal a boy’s e-bike.
OP: "This is my most advance moon photograph EVER it consist of 81000 images and over 708GB of data." (see comments.)
From the other place: https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1dmibwd/this_is_my_most_advance_moon_photograph_ever_it/...
Thousands of Iran-backed fighters offer to join Hezbollah in its fight against Israel ( apnews.com )
Penile cancer: 6,500 amputations in Brazil in a decade ( www.bbc.com )
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Ridden: ADO Air Carbon – The Lightest, Smartest e-Bike Designed for the City ( www.autoevolution.com )
The latest evolution of the Air city e-bike brings an all carbon-fiber frame and fork, a new motor and instant power delivery, and advanced anti-theft tech
Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else” ( arstechnica.com )
Poor owl
The return of pneumatic tubes ( www.technologyreview.com )
Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws ( www.engadget.com )
Miserable, Aggressive, Dull- How Heat Affects the Brain - The New York Times (Free article) ( www.nytimes.com )
Looks like critical thinking deteriorates above 72f/22c. Crime swings higher. Lowering your core temperature seems to help, even if you live in a climate with unavoidable heat.
Ukraine just held its first Pride event in years despite Russia's continued invasion ( www.lgbtqnation.com )
Vegans of Lemmy, would you eat lab-grown meat?
The main reasons I've seen from vegans for not eating meat seem to be all about the morality of eating a sentient animal, the practices of the modern meat industry, and the environmental impact of it. And don't have anything to do with the taste of meat....
‘The big problem is water’: UK ebike owners plagued by failing motors ( www.theguardian.com )
CATL, BYD To Slash Battery Prices By 50% In 2024. BOOM! EVs Win! - CleanTechnica ( cleantechnica.com )
In Vermont, a Glimpse of a Plant Last Seen a Century Ago - The New York Times (Free article) ( archive.ph )
They found a plant thought to be extinct in the area. The article and people involved are extremely excited about their work. Well worth the read!
Man detained in mental hospital after trying to set up Pakistan’s first gay club ( www.telegraph.co.uk )
Ride1Up slashes Prodigy price to cheapest Brose e-bike in history amid overstock ( electrek.co )
In what could likely be a sign of continued overstocking issues in the North American electric bike industry, Ride1Up has...
UN food agency pauses its aid work at US pier in Gaza over security concerns, in latest setback ( apnews.com )
WASHINGTON (AP) — The director of the U.N. World Food Program said Sunday the program has “paused” its distribution of humanitarian aid from an American-built pier off Gaza, saying she was “concerned about the safety of our people” after what had been one of the deadliest days of the war there....
A military plane carrying Malawi's vice president and 9 others has gone missing ( www.pbs.org )
When you stopped caring about staying in good shape?
I completely stopped caring about 2 years ago, I realized I was never going to do anything with my good look and that I will never get into a relationship in my life, so I just figured out "what's the point then, I'm already invisible to women?" And I don't care about my health tbh......
Why isn't jerking off more valorized as an easy dopamine hit that's also literally good for you?
people have been demonizing it for most of the AD years i think but it's quite pleasant really. are there any proven negative effects?
When It Comes to the Environment, There Really Is No Such Thing as a “Good” Car ( www.nakedcapitalism.com )
Am I ruining my liver?
I often take painkillers (acetaminophen aka paracetamol), but I've noticed that it's much more effective if I take them TOGETHER with my ADHD medication (ritalin aka methylphenidate) + my morning coffee. If I don't take them AT the same time, the painkiller is far less effective....
Ableism
Why does everyone suddenly seem to think it's ok to say the R word again? I feel like I hadn't heard it in years and suddenly everyone around me is using it, and I see it on Reddit all the time. Am I imagining it? Is anyone seeing this? I don't even know what to say when it's suddenly just everyone in a group and everyone acts...
Damages From PFAS Lawsuits Could Surpass Asbestos, Industry Lawyers Warn - The New York Times (Free article) ( www.nytimes.com )
Was this considered 'piracy' back in the day? ( lemmy.zip )
Back when we would record onto VHS, is that considered piracy? Found a super bowl XXXI tape from my Uncle circa 1997. I'm curious lol....
EU ministers fume as ‘outrageous’ Hungary yet again blocks military aid for Ukraine ( www.politico.eu )
A large number of EU resolutions on Ukraine are being blocked by Hungary, said Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis....
Why People Don’t Catch The Politics In Their Favorite Games ( aftermath.site )
The NYTimes is once again trashing the most promising mobility innovation of the 21st century ( lemmy.ml )
Link to original Tweet: https://x.com/DavidZipper/status/1795048724021862898
Americans, what's the plan if Trump wins the election in November? (serious)
Male birth control breakthrough safely switches off fit sperm for a while ( newatlas.com )
The surge in hydroelectric dams is driving massive biodiversity loss ( theconversation.com )
Mackinac Island faces possible legal action over electric bike policy ( upnorthlive.com )
Mackinac Island is facing potential legal action over its ban of many electric bikes.
How do you search for honest product recommendations?
Searching for product recommendations has become harder and harder over the years. I used to google or browse reddit for reviews, used them to create a shortlist of products and then actually dig deeper and compare them....
Ocean water is rushing miles underneath the ‘Doomsday Glacier’ with potentially dire impacts on sea level rise ( www.cnn.com )