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Try out various ebikes! I use the Transit app which has a bike section that should try and put you on the safest routes in your city. If you buy a bike with a rack, get a pannier or two, they can carry groceries, laptops or beach supplies no problem. Many places with little car parking have bike racks, such as parks, beaches, and small businesses.

Invest in a good ulock or thick chain for protecting your bike! Doing a 20 mile trip to work could be a bit ambitious at first, but start with smaller bite-sized trips, and work your way up (or supplement it with commuter buses or regional rail, if there are options. Bikes + Transit go together!)

Oooh, decorative, or do you plan on eating some?

Get some Himalayan blackberry and English ivy in there too, to really fuck things up.

Oh, you'll get them. Peppers fruit insanely quickly.

If you can't go prone, the recoil just wastes ammo. Especially if picking off smaller targets. Firing in controlled bursts can be useful!

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I like foldables, but I won't be getting another one until Samsung and other OEMs dramatically overhaul their design and durability. When a ribbon connector went bad, they required repair companies to replace the two screens and hinge, a $600 repair on a phone worth $400. The ribbon connector is a 20¢ component, if that. I ended up getting a Motorola on sale for $250 that can do most of what high end flagships can do.

If it were me, I'd still change it. That sounds like something is wearing out, not something you want to surprise you when you are traveling downhill at speed.

We tried Bromptons, but they are a bit too small for my buddies and I. We demoed one and shrieked with laughter as my friend kept hitting the front tire with his toes, his heel on the back rack, and was unable to make it up a steep hill next to the store. His indignation and the dorky high vis vest the store had him wear only made it even more hilarious.

But man, did that bike fold up nice and small. We were impressed by that part!

My neighborhood is nearly as big as your commute! I'd just get an ebike (or cargo ebike!), it's completely transformed the city for me. We've unintentionally gone on 72km trips as the bike makes it easy to do. I fill the gaps with buses and rail using an app called Transit, which is made by a small dev team out of Montreal.

They must be mounted to poles just like traffic lights. Then, people can't mess with them. Or just do my favorite method: narrow the shit out of roads until it is physically impossible to speed. Make the sidewalks and protected bike lanes massive, and the curbs lined with beautiful, reinforced steel poles painted to match the city they are adorning.

Throw around some steel planters that burst with flowers and trees, and also happen to weigh over a metric ton. Add BRT lanes with buses that carry cameras that automatically ticket cars in the bus and bike lanes. These problems are quite solvable and have been solved in NA and EU cities already.

The best thing is that these changes open a city up to being walkable and really pretty, especially with lots of greenery and landscaping being put in on previously busy roads. We have giant granite boulders and native plants on several of our major roads, now. It's done wonders to control speeding. :)

I always recommend this site: https://theteahouseltd.com/

We've visited them in person and their tea was so fantastic that even non-tea people loved it. They ship worldwide. I tend to order in bulk these years.

Only one tea has ever come close, and it was a small Asian restaurant out of Vancouver, BC. This store has dozens of amazing varieties.

We just have an instant hot water tap. Can't live without it, haha.