I like it! I just wish they’d shorten the hood and frunk by a foot and give it a 6 foot bed.

I think the takeaway here should be that meat heavy diets are worse for the environment than you might realize.

The takeaway should not be that cars are only barely worse than bikes.

When you power your bike with your legs, you burn energy. That energy comes from food. Producing and transporting the food to you has a climate impact. Cycling has a climate impact.

Riding a short distance vs riding a long distance is irrelevant. Both systems require an amount of energy per unit of distance. Because the energy is supplied in different ways, there is a different total amount of carbon emitted of per unit of energy. For ebikes, that amount is lower than it is for traditional, human powered bikes.

Here are a couple sources, dickface:

https://www.ebikes.ca/documents/Ebike_Energy.pdf

https://www.bikeradar.com/features/long-reads/cycling-environmental-impact

A watt hour is equal to 0.86 nutritional calories. My estimate of 40 watt hours per mile converts to about 35 kcal. Estimates of the energy taken to pedal a bike are about 30-40 kcal/mile. That checks out!

1 kilowatt hour is equivalent to 860 kcal.

1 kilowatt hour from a coal power plant generates about 1.0-1.1 kg of CO2.

For a typical Western diet, studies suggest that the average emissions associated with food production and transportation can range from about 0.5 to 2.5 kg of CO2 per 1,000 kcal of food consumed. (0.4-2.1 kg of CO2 per 860 kcal)

The ebike generally has a smaller environmental footprint than the analog bike, as most sources of power produce less CO2 than coal power plants and most people eat more meat than necessary, putting them in the higher range of the food CO2 production range.

Unless you’re vegetarian, a traditional bicycle will have a higher carbon footprint than an ebike, due to how inefficient it is to grow and transport food when compared to production of electrical power.

Ebikes are way more efficient than electric cars, too. I calculated that my bike uses about 40 watt hours per mile, compared to about 250-350 for an electric car.

I personally believe that a woman could make a great president. I also believe that America is much more sexist and racist than many of us would like to admit.

No, I’m not a conservative and I don’t think liberals are commies.

Are these polarizing statements? I think liberals would agree with all of them.

My brother in law was still using windows 7 and it had never occurred to him that this might be a security risk. Normal people don’t care.

Oh, you’re right. I really robotniked this one up.

Turns out that researchers get to name the proteins they discover and that the venn diagram of biochem researchers and nerds is just a circle.

Cool form factor, if it can run Linux.

Awesome!

I’m with you on this. If it could come with a privacy-respecting smartphone app hosted on F-Droid, that would be so great.

I did consider the Honda Element but it gets surprisingly poor gas mileage.

Enshitified product exists - > good alternative arises to meet demand - > good alternative becomes popular - > good alternative either becomes enshitified to maximize profits or is purchased by owner of original enshitified product.

The capitalist way.

Complains that bubble needs to pop. Is trying to sell a condo but has it priced too high to attract any buyers. Doesn’t lower price.

My dude, your desire for more money is the bubble that’s holding back the sale.

Your scenario is a microcosm of the whole market.

I never understood why people make comments like “wow, you have too much time on your hands,” as if they themselves don’t spend significant time watching shows and movies or reading - or just sitting on their ass.

“You spent time doing something quirky that you found rewarding or interesting? Well I wish I had some time off from my 24/7 job in the diamond mines!”

Anyway, the caligraphy looks great!

I choose the second option. Can I borrow $20?