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  • US Ambassador to NATO: "China couldn't fight the US if they tried. Most of the military equipment on display was technology most likely stolen from us or our allies."

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  • I don't mean it as "they should do this because it's cool and good"

    I mean it as "they won't even use the experts they have" and I find that funny. They have people who have spent their entire lives learning how to do these things and instead pick some random chud because he's more loyal

  • Get an E-Bike

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  • I think you've mistaken my comments if you think I'm trying to make e-bikes sound bad or something. When I made that comment, I looked up how much a few bikes weigh and found several articles that said e-bikes typically weigh about twice as much. Obviously this isn't applicable across the board to every bike, but there's really no way to make that kind of comparison without using rough averages or doing way more research than I'm prepared to do.

    Again, I'm just saying if we are going to compare the emissions of e-bikes and bikes then we should make the comparison for everything. We're already talking about a pretty small number, so even if it only requires 1.5 extra trips or whatever there would be a difference.

    Also, a container ship isn't the only thing required to get a bike to people. Trains, trucks, and planes are used as well. If the truck going from Seattle to North Dakota or whatever has to make a second trip or 1.33 trips or whatever, that is an increase in emissions. I'm not sure why we are going back and forth on this because it seems incredibly obvious that this would have to be accounted for to make an accurate comparison.

  • US Ambassador to NATO: "China couldn't fight the US if they tried. Most of the military equipment on display was technology most likely stolen from us or our allies."

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  • I like how this guy with literally no experience in international relations or military strategy or really anything even tangentially related to this kind of topic is taken seriously. He never won an election (not even a primary), was basically a low level corporate lawyer and business owner, and Bush made him the US attorney for a district in Iowa. Now he's the US ambassador to NATO because uh...he licked the right boots?

    The GOP is fucking flooded with war criminals, at least put one of them in charge of this kind of shit

  • Get an E-Bike

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  • I mean, it's more than just the batteries. E-bikes weigh about twice what a regular bike does. So if the max capacity is 1000 bikes it would be 500 e-bikes (made up numbers here). To ship the same number of e-bikes would take two separate trips.

    I know sea freight is very efficient, but there's no reason not to account for the difference if we're making the comparison?

  • Get an E-Bike

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  • The only thing that just seems wrong is the manufacturing emissions of e-bike versus analog bike. E-bikes weigh more, so shipping them around has more emissions as well. I think it's probably very close, but like you said, it depends a lot on what the food is too..

    Idk, I rarely trust emission numbers because a lot of companies fake that shit in various ways and many of the numbers are self reported.

  • Get an E-Bike

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  • Can someone explain how an e-bike is better than a regular bike?

    They're basically the same thing, but one has a battery and requires charging (burning fossil fuels in most places) and the other doesn't. E-bike almost certainly requires a replacement battery way before a regular bike would ever need to be replaced.

    Is it like...the person on a regular bike breathing more heavily and needing more calories? Surely this adds up over time, but is it really worse than mining lithium and charging using fossil fuels?

    Edit: I found a very detailed article on this. Reading it now, but I think my guess about calories is correct based on this table

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

  • Gronlandic Edit - of Montreal

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  • Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games is one of my favorite songs ever. Feel like I've been listening to it regularly for 20 years.

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    Cw:transphobia, billionaire babble, lunacy, stupidity. In what world are transgender folks a celebrated group?

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  • There's a certain 1% of the population that could use a few more hate crimes imo

  • did you know 90% of Balatro players quit just before they hit it big?

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  • The game has changed a lot over the last couple of years and I stopped playing it, but Rogue Adventure is a mobile deck building game like that. I found ways to play infinitely and ended up only giving up on a high score because I got tired of playing the same round. Also got to a point where the difficulty was so ridiculous that I would lose in one turn without the perfect cards.

    I guess I was playing it during development or something because that game changed so damn much. It was a special interest that got stolen from me. I try to go back sometimes, but it never has the same feel.

  • AI is destroying education

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  • eight em dashes? Either this person is trying their best to write like a journalist or they used an LLM to write this article

  • This ad from 30 years ago. How close is it to reality now

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  • Yeah that's wild. Even in a major west coast city I can find burgers under $10 at a bunch of local places. One place does a burger, fries, AND a beer for like $8 during certain times. I'm not saying you can't find burgers for $15 or even $25, but I probably just don't go to those places and have no idea.

    In my experience, the bigger the city the lower the prices for food if you know where to look. Touristy areas and chains will usually be very expensive, but the dive bar in the middle of a random neighborhood is half the price.

  • Reform MPs completely absent from Commons statement on 'grooming gangs'

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  • Rightwingers complaining about CSA but not actually doing anything about it is basically a tradition at this point. Even when they do something it's likely driven by racism or some other bigotry.

    Wouldn't surprise me if most of the highly vocal, but inactive politicians are guilty themselves.

  • This ad from 30 years ago. How close is it to reality now

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  • Doesn't seem accurate at all.

    Burger and fries is like $7 from in n out.

    New Camry is 30k.

    I have never really gone on a vacation that wasn't just like camping or staying in shitty motels/hostels, but you can get flights from the US to any major city in Europe for under 1k and even decent hotels aren't more than a few hundred a night, so even on the high end with food and everything it couldn't be more than 5k unless you're just being ridiculous.

  • NHL Hockey Review - Game Informer Issue #1

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  • There was a Space Jam game for SNES that was pretty awesome too

  • If China had a foreign legion that took old-ass trans women, I'd sign up in a heartbeat for these uniforms

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  • I want one of the hats, but I cannot find any replicas

  • My Marxist Creator Tiktok Tierlist

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  • I can't figure out if Rathbone sucks or not, but I get a vibe and I've seen a lot of people suggest he groomed a student of his. Hard to know what's real given it's mostly just internet rumors.

    I had the same concern with Madeline Pendleton, but actually saw enough of their content (and posted about it here) to figure out they are legit. Plus it turns out some of the people smearing Pendleton were literally being paid by the DNC sooo..

    I never see Rathbone anymore, figured he caught a ban or something.

  • our trains are shit.

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  • How did they make it slower wtf?

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  • Graham Linehan arrested over Twitter posts inciting violence against trans people (CW: TERF shit)

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  • Strange that they'd say both of these things 🤔

    Yeah lol fuck those entitled popped collar frat shitheads that were born into wealth and have zero compassion, oh and did I mention their racism

    https://hexbear.net/comment/6446890