Some things have changed, it used to be fueled by cocaine and hopium.

Someone tell Metro Transit. They make changes to my local bus route every few weeks and it’s annoying.

Lemmy does have markdown support for tables but I’m at work so I can’t look it up right now.

I saw the one in the 2000s in the theater. I thought it was fun and the subterranean dinos were neat, but apart from that it wasn’t very memorable. But I’ve read the novel and… I’d say the exact same thing about the novel. So it’s a great adaptation. Verne is fun, but Wells had something to say.

Not illogical. I was talking with a friend one night under a tree and had one fall on my face. Super gross.

U2 was a test run.

If it’s locked at a bike rack, a hidden battery can be a perk, ebikes are targets for theft.

Iirc one of the devs left? Action Retro mentioned it in his video on the new Macs. I don’t really care enough to find out more.

I’d seriously consider it if Asahi Linux wasn’t going through a bit of drama right now and won’t get to it for a while. I need a tiny laptop for writing though. If I could find an old 11" MacBook Air that would be great but I don’t think they’re worth what they’re selling for on eBay and finding one cheap locally hasn’t happened for me yet.

Texas and Florida haven’t banned it yet.

I ended up saying fuck it and walked my ebike the rest of the way up the hill. I almost died of embarrassment.

I’ve thought about doing food delivery on my ebike for UberEats to make a little extra money, similar bullshit gig job structure.

Don’t forget the not actually public transit! Back when I worked at Disney and went to the parks with friends on my day off, we’d decide which park we’d end at, park there at the start of the day, and just take buses or the monorail to go between parks.

Motorcyclists also believe a loud exhaust makes them more visible to drivers - to what degree this is true is debatable but sometimes the motivation is not pure malice like with cars.

I got worried seeing the headline, but this bill on the surface doesn’t seem that bad, it’d probably affect class 3 ebikes and maybe cargo ebikes though (are those sometimes over 100 pounds?). The guy who wrote the bill isn’t great and I’m worried the bill would have some unforseen consequences though.

Also the article is kinda awful, it mentions things without finishing thoughts about those statements and reads like one of my comments on Lemmy after I’ve eaten an edible.

I live in a city with that kind of temperature variability and I commute by ebike about nine months of the year since I can’t get studded tires for my bike and my route just isn’t safe without them. That said, I’m only traveling about 40 minutes each way (~7.5 miles) - I’ve done rides of 90 minutes each way and there’s absolutely nights I want to keep riding rather than going straight home, but there’s also nights I’m happy to get home and have a bowl of soup. That said, I know of at least one lemming who does that kind of commute but I think she lives somewhere with less extreme winters and I think it’d be weird to tag her for this lol.

Also at that kind of distance you’re looking at range issues if traveling at full pedal assist on most ebikes if you can’t charge at work.

… And this is assuming your car commute time isn’t due to traffic gridlock. Although I assume you’d mention it if you lived somewhere like that.

Beautiful weather and sunset we had tonight though.

Report it on the Minneapolis 311 app, usually bike lane parkers are gone by the time someone finally shows up to investigate, but they use the reports to direct infrastructure improvements to try to keep this from happening again.

I had some asshole parked in the protected bike lane on my ride home elsewhere in Minneapolis tonight and I really should have reported them but I didn’t.

Probably when it becomes about protecting the public, and the shaming is to prevent harm to others. Is it okay to dox the rapist Brock Allen Turner (and sex offender registries in general)? How about doxing brownshirts in Nazi Germany (and those they’ve inspired)?

I think this would fall under a public safety situation, and at least some of the pushback to this is rooted in how normalized traffic violence is in the US. There was a woman killed by a driver in a hit and run in my city last week, driving should be treated much more as a privilege than a right in urban areas where there are other options. I don’t love the privacy issues potentially enabling this doxing though.

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