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I'd definitely do the disc brake conversion!

Tubeless are nice. Tubeless tire fluid is basically just like blood. When the tire is punctured (assuming it's not a catastrophic puncture) it will automatically reseal and coagulate around the hole. It's typically used more for off-road/downhill mountain biking. Some city bikes also use it, but dealing with a flat is much easier in the city.

Man, the scooter formfactor scares me past 20-25. I'd want much bigger wheels for something that can do north of 30. Imagine getting speed wobbles or hitting a fist-sized rock doing 50.

Thankfully it seems like this is exclusively for track use, but even then, good God that is really pushing the envelope of that formfactor.....

Hope this one holds up better than the last!

Can you swap the batteries and cassette from your old bike to your new one?

Here’s an idea: If we want safer streets, how about we start by addressing the machines that weigh two and a half tons and can hit 100 mph, not the ones that top out at 20 or 28 and are powered by a one-horsepower motor the size of an orange.

This made me chuckle on the train. Hilarious, but true. I like the orange comparison.

Dyson swarm, yes. Dyson sphere, not on our home system. The risks of blotting out your only livable planet's biosphere is too great, not to mention stuff like the dark forest theory.

This is so annoying. Even though I'm not a fan of porn games on the whole, it is extremely irritating that payment systems can decide how and when you can spend your own fucking money. We're not seven, anymore. We can take care of ourselves.

It smacks of the idiotic "babyproofing" of clearly adult spaces everywhere except bars, these days. Antiquated moral panics, just like 1954's lavender scare all over again.

It feels like everything is running on a VM, and the hypervisor is running constantly. Or something odd like that.

Certified hood classic.

I wish that was the case. It's mostly just extreme right lobbying groups like Focus on the Family and the Alliance Defending Freedom, the same groups that control the far right, exert colonial control over impoverished African countries, and generally make the world a worse place for everyone. The same groups that manufactured cases to screw up Dobbs, Wedding cake lawsuits, and death penalty laws for LGBTQ citizens of Uganda.

I was shopping for clothes at a indie clothing place, and they asked if I was wearing underwear when I requested the key for the changing room. I said of course, and asked why. They said they'd had a number of patrons who apparently destroyed merchandise by not wearing underwear or cleaning their ass.

Seared into my memory, lol.

I like the historic versions of dogs vs the modern ones. The modern versions of dogs are a lot less healthy, and it shows. :/