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It was tumbling in the wind of a Transstar truck

Are you sure it's not getting better? This morning, my Pixel updated to take away all my corners again. It's been what, 4 years since they last made everything rounded and bubbly? My wifi bar and cellular bar are now different stacks of noodles. Improvements nobody knew they needed.

He got invited to the Bush Whitehouse dinner and they were surprised Colbert roasted Dubya

They are genuinely bad with anologies and empathy. That's how they got to be conservative. Everything taken at face value, nothing they haven't experienced is real. Fascists are people named Mussolini. See? This isn't 1930s Italy, so this isn't fascism

You mean TRN for the manufacturer stamp? Edit, nvm, I guess it's the comment about reading the bullet

I'd say just as you can run your own server cooler (turn it off when not needed), Netflix servers are going to wind down during low demand and run lower power. But while you're picturing you last laptop as a server vs a data center, try to picture every household out there running their own "server" the same way. Some are watching, some aren't. I think OP's question is more appropriate, comparing streaming to broadcast rather than streaming vs local storage. Besides, how'd you get that data? You transported physical media or downloaded it from a server.

In a perfect world where bicycles were in traffic or dedicated bike lanes, following traffic rules? Sure. However, spend a few minutes in the city and you'll see reckless "bicycles" operating like lawless low-grade motorcycles. They move like a vehicle or pedestrian, whichever is most convenient in the moment. Wrong way riding, ignoring red lights, blasting through crosswalks, and scraping cars often. Ignoring bike lanes, disregarding bike lane traffic, weaving between people pedaling.

Obviously, I'd rather improved bicycle infrastructure to largely keep bicycles, cars, and pedestrians separate. They operate at 3 different speeds and maneuvering rates. Mixing bikes and cars in a more open area is one thing, where better visibility and less traffic pattern complexity makes mixing the two a predictable inconvenience. Having them split and swerve jammed traffic like they're a Brazilian on a moto? Way more of an issue.

I'm sure speed was already an issue before e-bikes, but it was less prevalent because you had to use actual muscle to speed. ~~Low-speed motorcycles~~ E-bikes made that accessible to everyone.

I don't see much crossover in the car/e-bike travelers. If you look for normal cars with T### plates, they're uber/lyft/etc app cars. They're traveling out of the city. They're hauling something. Subway use is very, very prevalent where the traffic is the worst so the e-bikes are filling short trip roles or bad public transportation routes. So I don't see slower bikes convincing many riders to drive a car. Some, but statistically few.

I have motorcycles. They're road-legal, registered, insured, and capable of all legal USA speeds. They could only do 25mph in the city at best, splitting and filtering. You wouldn't want them to go unregistered and lawless, right?

Anyway, banning the sale of speedy bikes just means Tony from Brooklyn will suddenly be Tony from Bayonne selling off-highway track bikes. Or they'll have defeatable limiters. And Amazon will still thrive. The ban won't do shit, enforcement needs to step up. We know proper bike lanes and bike etiquette aren't coming anytime soon

"Kinetic" with a hard "T" like posh Brit is saying it to the queen? Everyone I've ever heard speaking US English pronounces it with a rolled "t" like "kinedic" so the alternate pronunciation still reads like it'd have a "d" sound

Who had info saying that it was a long distance shot?

But like, you can't just delete someone's wealth, because they can't just rebuild an empire from scratch. These self-made billionaires are so strapped for cash, charitably speaking, because they need the capital to fund future charitable investments. Don't you want to get a trickle of charity more than once? That's why they can only donate like 10mil a year. Also partly because humans are really bad at estimating the difference between 10mil and 400bil. It's like a factor of 40. They'll be drained of wealth after 40 years at 10mil a year.

Oh wait. Hold on. 40 years... 10 mil/year... So 400 million.... If we froze their wealth of ~390bil, by the end of this scheme, they'd have.... ~390,000,000,000- 400,000,000 =~389.6bil.

OK nevermind fuckem

No, it'd take at least a 3rd heinously rich guy to wipe the 1.8tril USD student loan debt. Don't be ridiculous, 2 can't pull it off.

He mocked McCain for his war-related arm disabilities. For the voter base, that should have been the end of it.