That’s more or less what I plan to upgrade to eventually if I get a lot of value out of the one I just bought. There’s so much great camping within an hour’s drive, and minus the lack of bike lanes it seems like it’d be much more fun to bike those canyons than do the really stressful drive.

I ended up going with this level 15 ulock with a secondary steel cable until I can afford one of the really nice angle grinder-resistant ones: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08M6HST7G . That, a hidden GPS tracker, and an alarm system were all immediate purchases. I’m mainly banking on being secure by parking next to more expensive bikes though. That has kept me safe with my current bike and a basic ulock since 2020.

They really understate Mozart. My favourite scatalogical composition of his is “Lick My Ass Right Well and Clean” where he compares his ass to nicely buttered roast meat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leck_mir_den_Arsch_fein_recht_schön_sauber

Super pretty choir piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkNePP0DX1A

E-scooters seem like so much fun, but like the skateboards and hoverboards I wouldn’t feel safe going as fast I already do with a manual bike (25-30km/h). That’s the minimum speed I need for commuting. The e-bikes aren’t much more expensive for something I can comfortably ride at 45km/h over uneven paths with hydraulic brakes and shock absorbers.

This youtube channel has great in-depth reviews where they run all the bikes through the same trials: https://www.youtube.com/@ElectricBikeReport . I kept going back to them for every bike I was considering. Converting was an option but my current bike is a $450 super basic commuter that I got at the start of COVID anticipating those supply shocks. The price would be about the same if I got a conversion kit and replaced the components that give me trouble at lower speeds than the 45kph I’d be biking at. Plus if the electrical components fail I’m out of a bike entirely. Instead I’m keeping that bike as my backup/rainy day/guest option.

From what I was reading it seems like the window for sales is largely October-January. If anything you’d get a better deal than I did around New Years Day. This is definitely a purchase to research heavily and invest in. I ruled out so many models where they cheap out on brakes/throttles/safety features/batteries/motors, basically any of the <$1000 dropshipped ones on Amazon. A lot of brands either lack service centres entirely or didn’t have local ones for my potential 30kg deadweight. Most normal shops either charge a premium for ebike repairs or can’t service them due to the battery. It took me a week of obsessively comparing what I could get at $1300 versus the $1000 or $2000 models left, which of the different classes would be the best compromise between my needs, and which was most likely to last at least 5 years without a costly repair. From my research my Xpress 750 model is like the bare minimum of what you should aim for in terms of price/features/quality/support/chance the company will stay in business post-tariffs. The only better options I found were $1800-2100.

A few of the webstores use Affirm as a payment processor with 0-7% APR. My 6 monthly payments work out to like $240~ on that $1300 bike, $35 in interest, for the best compromise between cost and features/quality/customer service I could find <$1500. Still super expensive, but even minor repairs to my car cost enough that I think I’ll genuinely save money from the investment if it cuts my car use down to a couple times per month. Everything car-related is also skyrocketing in price so I’m dreading sinking any more money into that unnecessarily.

(https://lectricebikes.com/products/xpedition-single-battery-blue) This cargo series seems super nice and utilitarian. I was really considering this model (https://blixbike.com/products/packa-electric-cargo-bike) but the only payment plans are at 15% APR so it’s $133 in interest over 12 months of $144 payments.

No clue yet. It’s still shipping since I could only get a payment plan if I bought it online from them.

Follow-up question: Are you literally a baby in a diaper?

but I don’t see why I can’t also be proudly straight

Ignoring all the power dynamics reasons why this is nonsensical, what does straight pride look like to you? What exactly are you being denied in terms of self-expression or inclusion?

Make Royals Romanovs Again

Pizza Hut has faced similar boycott pressure after its Israeli franchise shared images of soldiers with its items in January.

Calls for a boycott intensified in May after a Pizza Hut branch in Israel posted a Facebook ad mocking Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli prisons.

Fucking demons.

Cum status?

I wouldn’t be able to do the impound jobs. So much of their work seems to be repossessing the cars of people too poor to afford the loan or some other cost.

Cybertrucks are the purple heart given to survivors of family court. The enemy made you pay child support but you’re the cool parent in your big cool truck. Everyone should have to look at your big cool truck and how cool and big you still are while driving it.

I love how it’s like a mosquito light for fascists. I’ve now seen like 6+ of these full Trump wraps: https://i.redd.it/i0lu3057ddvd1.jpeg . In my area there’s one advertising a pool supply store, a Trump one, and an unwrapped one that already looks older than my almost-decade-old car. You have to be a particularly clownish kind of antisocial to own one and the reputation will only become more self-reinforcing.

Holocaust Harris will secure living space even if it takes nuclear war.

Cum status on the three stupid-ass bozos?

edit: three stupid-ass bozos and a fourth dummy who didn’t know he was dead until a doctor told him. That is absolute dingdong behaviour and his cum should not be preserved.

Huh, so Jesus was crucified in the pokemon universe. I wonder if one helped the Romans do it.

Wholesome and sillypilled