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fizzle

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  • What do you think is the worst human invention?

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  • That's not really an invention.

    Since the first of our evolutionary ancestors played with a leaf private property had existed.

  • What happens when everyone just moves from discord to the public matrix server?

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  • ... but then they were superseded when a better alternative emerged.

    That's not analogous to discord's predicament.

  • E-bikes are just bicycles with a motor. Therefore, e-bikes are motorcycles.

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  • I think it's just a news story that the people who watch news (boomers) like to hear as it confirms their world view.

  • E-bikes are just bicycles with a motor. Therefore, e-bikes are motorcycles.

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  • Yeah I have a big heavy cannondale cargowagen.

    It's a long tail, so both my kids can sit on the back. System weight is probably 150kg with all three of us on board. By the time we wind up to 25km/h the torque provided by the motor is pretty minimal honestly.

    It's comfortable at 40km/h on a downhill slope.

    I would've already figured out how to remove the limiter if I thought it would be helpful but... I just don't really think it would make much difference.

  • E-bikes are just bicycles with a motor. Therefore, e-bikes are motorcycles.

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  • Yeah I've seen photos of something like this. The one I saw was UK police I think.

    This might work in high traffic areas but where I am there just isn't enough people on bikes to set up something like this.

    If the po-po stop a kid on a bike they believe is illegally modified, just confiscate and impound it where it can be assessed.

    No one cares if a bike can propel you 3km/h over the limit because you changed the tyre diameter. Even if you updated the software to remove the limiter, that's not really going to make much difference to safety if I'm honest. It's the bikes with throttles and big hub motors that spin you up to 20 or 30km/h over the limit that are the problem.

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  • I agree that the trajectory does seem to be full mask-off nazism.

    I also agree that the regime seems to be moving way more quickly than the population generally realises.

    I am in a different information bubble, given that I'm an Australian never having visited the US. It's a train wreck I can't look away from, sorry.

    From the outside Americans do seem to be either very unaware or very apathetic. Every week there are new headlines saying something like "new poll reveals that 52% of Americans worry that the economy may be on the wrong path", when it should be "100% of Americans are absolutely committed to jailing Trump and charging ICE officers".

    That said, I don't begrudge any individual American for not taking action. If the same thing were happening here I would attend protests but I wouldn't endanger myself or my kids. I guess it really depends how close to home things got. If ICE were abducting neighbours that I didn't know, I might be out on the street with a whistle I guess.

  • What happens when everyone just moves from discord to the public matrix server?

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  • They will immediately move back to discord.

    Honestly. Discord ain't going nowhere.

    Sure a few FOSS projects might re-locate, and I hope they do... but we've seen time and again that large user bases are happy to suffer any abuse their corporate overlords want to throw at them.

  • E-bikes are just bicycles with a motor. Therefore, e-bikes are motorcycles.

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  • Sorry you may not have understood me correctly.

    In Australia and most other jurisdictions an "e-bike" is defined by law as a bike with pedal assist up to 25km/h.

    If a bike has an electric motor which is propelling it faster than that, then it is by definition not an e-bike. It's most likely an unregulated electric motorbike, or e-moto. They're incredibly dangerous for everyone involved.

  • E-bikes are just bicycles with a motor. Therefore, e-bikes are motorcycles.

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  • I think this would generate a lot of confusion.

  • E-bikes are just bicycles with a motor. Therefore, e-bikes are motorcycles.

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  • Yeah that's the implication, but it's complicated.

    e-scooters are controlled by a throttle, so I think there's a debate to be had as to whether that's a defining factor.

    IMO the throttle is less critical than speed limiting. Anything you can pilot without a license should be restricted to 25km/h.

    The problem is these limitations can easily be removed.

    That's why I say it really needs proper policing. You need cops on bikes, and some kind of strategy to establish whether a bike is compliant.

  • E-bikes are just bicycles with a motor. Therefore, e-bikes are motorcycles.

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  • Me neither. There's probably several reasons you wouldn't buy a child a proper e-bike.

    Mostly just the cost I guess. A proper e-bike is twice the cost of a home made e-whatever. Also less fun than their friend's e-whatevers.

  • E-bikes are just bicycles with a motor. Therefore, e-bikes are motorcycles.

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  • I'm a bit triggered by this, so let me apologize in advance for the incoming rant.

    You might be kind of right etymologically, but bikes, e-bikes, motorcycles, and likely in the near future e-motos, are specific things defined by law. The confusion between these vehicle classes is causing harm.

    An e-bike is a pedal powered bicycle with an electric motor that assists the rider while pedalling up to 25km/h. You might be able to switch modes between more assistance and less assistance but there is no throttle.

    If you purchase a cheap walmart / k-mart bike, swap the rear wheel with a powered hub from alibaba and strap on a battery from temu, that's not an e-bike. They have a throttle and no limiter and in most cases can propel a 12 year old idiot at 50km/h but some times more than 70km/h. This is not an e-bike and more accurately described as an unregulated electric motorbike.

    The frame isn't built for this kind of stress, and the riders often have no capacity to understand the danger they're imposing on themselves and others - zipping past kids playing and so on.

    It's an emerging disaster in Australia and I imagine other places as well. It's turning the population against e-bikes when they're not the problem.

    We urgently need more appropriate legislation drafted to clearly define the classes of vehicle, and we need police with the right skills and equipment to enforce those laws.

  • Why is no news channel reporting on the school shooting in Canada?

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  • This is pretty dark.

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  • I can't disagree with any of that, but I'm reluctant to agree.

    Yes, it's absolutely true that "going high" and "checks and balances" has absolutely failed. Repeatedly.

    I also agree that republicans are doing everything they can to stack the midterms. I think the plan is, if the swing against Trump is large enough then it becomes extraordinarily difficult / impossible to obscure. My concern here is that if everything goes to plan and Trump can be somehow removed, and then the Dems win a decisive victory in 2028 (?) and you have a Dem POTUS... nothing will be wound back. They'll disappear the tariffs and normalise the economy, and set the stage for the a do-over with the next Republican government.

    You may well be right about violent revolution, but I feel like there needs to be a very high level of desperation for people to organise against an oppressive regime, and I just don't think the US is anywhere near that.

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  • I tend to agree.

    Theres blood in the water and they've thrown her in to try to slake the shark's appetite.

    The whole point of a fall person is to take the fall, and shes doing that well.

  • If you are not in a tech field, what got you into self-hosting?

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  • Nah.

    Piracy was just my gateway.

    I dont have a media server anymore.

  • Police assessing claims about Andrew sharing confidential trade details

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  • Behold, an alleged crime is investigated.

  • Medicine will never be the same

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  • Theres a zombie movie plot here right?

    Like the medicine burns out the human part of the brain and the animal thats left has an insatiable thirst for spinal fluid.

  • Ukrainian Skeleton Racer Heraskevych Disqualified at Olympics Over Helmet Honoring Fallen Athletes

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  • Sadly for this guy, there has to be a line somewhere.

    Its reasonable that athletes cant compete wearing politically incendiary motifs.

    You could argue that these fallen comrades are not political, but you could also argue that they are.

    Allowing him to show the helmet before, after, and during press interviews seems like a reasonable compromise to me.