7bicycles [he/him]

Considering you said you’re german, I think the whole Idea of “Ehrenamt” and subsidiaries of it runs counter to the entire system that has been built. If we monetize everything, I think it’s fine that people get paid for taking time out of their day and bodies to do good shit.

Basically, don’t do unpaid labour in this system?

One of the worst things you can do to the environment folks. Don’t bear children. Don’t invite another being into this madness and suffering.

As is continuing to live so why don’t you follow through on that line of thought here

Like me personally or like societally?

was the handlebar fine tho

Yeah I’d argue this is probably true for bigger pets but the LD50 of stuff on your 2lb guinea pig is hit shockingly fast. Gotta watch out for the small, furry comrades

Buy the cheapest version of it and of you use it enough to either break it or figure out what parts of the design you don’t like it’s a good sign spending a little extra on a better version isn’t a waste.

Agree’d, albeit with the caveat that if it’s about screws, you wanna spend at least some money on the part that actually connects with the screws, so, the bits. Doesn’t really matter all that much if your harbour freight e-motor on your drill burns out, if you fuck up all the screws on whatever you’re working on with shit bits that’s gonna be a hassle.

But even then, that’s like “pay more than the $0 free offer on alibaba” territory of spending. After that, the dimensions and tolerances are fine, it’s just gonna be longevity.

Most stuff on a bicycle for the average person unless it’s carbon, plastics or electronics. Including safety stuff. Some caveat if you wanna huck yourself off a mountain or do like 100kph descents on your roadbikes.

But for the most stuff? The cheap shit works absolutely fine because at it’s core it’s bits of formed metal with threads attached connected by steel wires. Very hard to fuck any of that up to the point it becomes dangerous. I keep seeing parts being rated as SAFETY LEVEL 5 E-BIKE READY as if the metal rod that is my handlebar usually disintegrates once I hit the ludicrous speed of [checks notes] 25kph. Your $2 Alibaba Special V-Brakes are, at worst, gonna have garbage springs so it doesn’t return to not-braking great, but you’re not gonna like snap them in half even if you were a gorilla riding a bicycle.

I’m not arguing pro ICE cars over EV cars, I’m arguing against cars, be they EV or ICE

To get anywhere close to the grid being considered decarbonised (I’m ignoring carbon capture here because that’s not going to happen at any meaningful scale unless we geoengineer shit) all of the materials, all of the manufacturing and all of the building and maintenance would have to be run on renewable energy. Like from the mines of Australia over to all of the plants in china to assembly, for every component.

And to have it make any difference at all, you have to do it within the next 30 or so years. And then there’s still the tyres, also you gotta do the entire shit again for the very climate friendly processing of building roads that withstand cars for give or take a season, extra challenge mode due to the increased weight of EVs. And also then there’s still the tyres.

hopefully the battery tech and infrastructure investments will help pave the way to better solutions.

We’ve already got those, it’s called trains and bicycles, former have been EVs for like a century

3. a self-fulfilling prophecy of pitbulls having a bad reputation and actively being sought out by people who want vicious dogs and who will treat their dogs in such a way as to encourage that behavior.

I’m pretty neutral on dog genetics but tbh it still ends you at the same conclusion; not everyone should just be able to get the dog that kills you

Even if ChatGPT was literally a perfect copy of a human being it would still be 0 steps closer to a general intelligence because it does not fucking understand WHAT or HOW to actually do the things it suggests.

What if we AI passes the turing test not because computers got intelligent but because people got dumber

I understand your vision now

Explore might be pushing it but there’s the old 3rd Gen AA title Darkest of Days where you you’re a timecop and get to mow down american civil war formations with your future machine gun

I feel like Battlebits gets pretty close to this?

TF2 Competitive

the grind got so shitty the logistics players actually went on strike

you ever wonder if there was like a short outlier on national core strength during that era?

I feel like there’s a great vibe difference in people collecting things that are unintentionally rare and those that collect intentionally rare things

To stick with the given example: I think some guy collecting vintage Mockbas would be a lot cooler than some guy collecting the newest limited edition sneaker.

I know the feeling and also I’m curious, what’s the difference here? What choices present themselves?

I mean that’s at least usually by choice. You don’t tend to accidently be a landlord for long.

But like, I dunno, call center cold calling people or something? I’m not sure telling people feeling horrible about having to do it that it’s real and valid. Like sorry for them but also let’s not pretend here, we’ll never get to solving it otherwise