I’ve always thought we should have dynamic speed limits on highly trafficked corridors that can react to traffic volume, weather, and time of day. Very few individuals seem to understand what constitutes driving “too fast for conditions”, so we should make it a lot more obvious. I’m sure it exists in places, but it…

Do words have meaning? In what sense is this an SUV and not a hatchback?

Blocking social media from racist boomers is a public service.

And yet...

Possibly. Even still, if you buy a $5000 bike and sell a car you were making payments on, you’ll save a thousand dollars pretty quickly. Assuming an average all in monthly expense of car ownership as $600 (probably low), you’d save a thousand dollars within a year, after which the savings explode.

Just do it. You’ll love it.

Rear derailleurs are a failure point that require maintenance. Having the gearbox sealed in a metal box should require way less maintenance and be way less prone to failure.

Not necessarily. I went from an ebike with a throttle to a cargo ebike without it and I haven’t noticed any significant detriment. Throttles are nice to have though.

Utterly clueless. Take one look at the increase in ebike sales the last few years both here and abroad and you’ll see that there’s a huge market for them.

If you use an ebike for transportation and not as a toy, the savings are potentially massive. I started commuting by ebike 4 years ago and it allowed us to sell one of our cars. We’ve been a single car home since then. I haven’t calculated out the savings in car payments, insurance, gas, etc, but early on I calculated…

I see you were within a mile or 2 of my house. Stop by next time!

The fact that my 2018 vehicle that stickered above $65k and has Wi-Fi and a cellular modem in it won’t be updated from Sync 3 to Sync 4 is really annoying. Why?

Currently higher ed, but before that I worked in: construction, landscaping, food service and manufacturing. The bottom line is that this graph shows the truth: management has been taking more and more for themselves and then whining about not having enough candidates to fill underpaid positions. They want to…

Not buying the woe is me act from employers. If they can’t find employees, they’re not trying hard enough.

Ah yes, a variation of the skills gap myth. If these places are truly hurting for qualified applicants, they should try raising the pay. It is a market after all, right?

The labor force is a market where employers have nearly all of the power except in very particular situations. The reserve army of labor (the unemployed) works to depress wages on behalf of the capitalists. “Oh, you won’t do this shit job for peanuts? Unemployed Johnny over there will! Fuck you!”

I semi-regularly drink close to 32 ounces / 1 liter of water before going to bed and never feel uncomfortable. Full, yes. But nowhere near nauseous.

I ride thousands of miles every year and on our dedicated bike paths, without fail, the fastest assholes are wearing spandex and riding non-motorized road bikes. It’s not even close.

You never know, he might really hate his family.

The key word is “marketing”. Like owners of Tacomas and 4runners and Wranglers and Land Cruisers, the vast majority of owners will rarely if ever take it off road but like knowing that it “could”. Which makes this a much better buy than a Tacoma for most owners. It’ll drive better on road, where they’ll spend the vast…