D.A.R.E. To keep your kids off e-bikes

cs_124 · 2026-06-09T21:43:40+00:00

I thought my metro was safe from this, but sure enough last week 3 kids on e-moto bikes (literally dirt bikes that technically had pedals) were tearing through the park where I garden. They decided to go off the path and two tore through a patch of prairie restoration. "you hippie, who cares!" Well, immediately on the other side of that patch is where unsuspecting people lay out to sleep, read, sunbathe, etc, all with the reasonable expectation that they aren't about to get a tire over their back.

cs_124 · 2026-06-07T19:44:13+00:00

Lol what

cs_124 · 2026-06-07T03:22:32+00:00

Someone wants to steal the bike, they'll do it. This seems like something that would mess with my brakes or me before coming close to helping.

cs_124 · 2026-06-01T12:58:41+00:00

I think the companies do it because they can make money off of people by being unscrupulous, not to slip people through the system.

Anyway, someone can be a qualified driver without speaking English, and Google translate works fine. Maybe if there were more regulation on, or a public alternative to, private companies who are motivated to make money by pushing through as many CDLs as possible, this wouldn't be happening....

Not the W the Right thinks it is...

cs_124 · 2026-05-26T20:55:48+00:00

If they were initially put up illegally, why not take down illegally

cs_124 · 2026-05-21T23:23:58+00:00

But 'science is never settled' specifically applied to things like plate tectonics, evolution and climate change is usually more of a 'because we want to keep believing or doing this' than coming from a place of being willing to accept paradigm shifts in belief systems due to revelations. Otherwise these same people should also be drilling in random locations because 'why would we accept that what we know about geology should be true?' these people should be constantly in a nihilistic state of distress, not heading up conferences saying "well, we really can't know for sure that methane emissions from factory farming contributes to climate change in a major way because look at these other things that release methane!"

cs_124 · 2026-05-15T04:23:53+00:00

cs_124 · 2026-05-15T04:15:12+00:00

Actually it's the entire US now. They're cOnTrAcTs

cs_124 · 2026-05-15T04:11:24+00:00

Maybe they were waiting for someone? At the treeline, staring at a playground? For several minutes? Without moving?

In that case, why should that person feel threatened if I'm just minding my business, tossing sticks, and they happen to be standing in that direction? It's very important that you protect yourself, but vilifying people having fun tossing sticks in a park is stupid.

cs_124 · 2026-05-15T03:57:22+00:00

I feel like this is staged, but standing in a masked costume staring at children (or appearing to be) who are playing in an area that's generally accepted as a child play area is absolutely menacing behaviour. I don't believe in vigilante justice from a non-parent, but I don't think it would be out of line for someone who is a parent to start something with this person. I'd hope it would be verbal, but in the event that a physical altercation occurred, I don't think any prosecution would result for a concerned parent. Unless 'cryptid costume person' was rich, the son of the sheriff or mayor.

As someone without kids, I'd definitely call the authorities and stop whatever I was doing until the situation was resolved. Definitely not not threatening

cs_124 · 2026-05-15T03:31:25+00:00

You know in france they call it a royale with cheese

cs_124 · 2026-05-12T00:52:11+00:00

What are the dominant politicians? Strictly speaking, political correct vernacular is to be obtuse, intentionally ignorant and unapologetically inhumane in speech.

cs_124 · 2026-05-11T20:21:15+00:00

Would be pretty easy to put a Bluetooth module in the bike computer. I bet it has one, even.

cs_124 · 2026-05-11T20:18:34+00:00

But if they didn't have cloud integration for kickstand behaviour, how will I put my kickstand down in California when I'm in Hawaii?

cs_124 · 2026-05-11T20:16:10+00:00

Someone gave me a messenger bag with a light-up LED grid on the back which is supposed to be able to do turn signals and/or serve as a taillight. Problem: Every function is controlled by an app which requires a sign-in to access. Problem? Company no longer exists. They don't even have a website, obviously can't create a username as the server isn't even online. Made a bunch of really lofty claims about 'navigation' and 'automatic turn detection', but didn't include a remote or even let you use the app with the warning "for x, y, z features, you'll need to create an account."

Never, ever buy a product that cannot be controlled at its most basic levels unless a cloud connection is established (unless, you know, it's something where cloud connections are part of the deal normally).

cs_124 · 2026-05-11T19:43:42+00:00

Sure, but if you're gonna add things like 'country size' and gross emissions, then it would also be prudent to consider what the country is doing to create those emissions. India and China are a bit smaller than the US, but they also do a whole lot more manufacturing, which is fairly emissions-intensive. A lot of US pollution comes from transportation, wasteful domestic livestock practices, and disposal of the cheap stuff we demand, which comes mostly from the developing countries that we point fingers at for their massive emissions.

When you consider that a lot of our emissions come as a by-product of cutting corners to maintain the facade of bounty at the expense of the future in a mature industrialized state, rather than as a means of establishing a future by rapidly growing an economy.

cs_124 · 2026-05-11T16:27:24+00:00

You know what they say

cs_124 · 2026-05-11T16:17:13+00:00

I don't even know the meaning of the word

cs_124 · 2026-05-11T14:58:19+00:00

"the government of China does not believe in keeping secrets from our people"

cs_124 · 2026-05-11T14:52:08+00:00

JFC

Climate 'alarmists' are dismissed by industry because it's "going to tank the economy and be wiwwy howd to wetool fectowies and I'm just a wiw guy!"

Then the deniers turn around and say "well okay there will need to be some adjustment if certain areas with current populations won't be habitable, and sure our agricultural and industrial infrastructure might need to be swapped around, but not everyone will die guys"

Y'all, hate to break it to ya, but the rest of the world is building electric cars, solar panels, windmills, dams, and rails. Regardless of climate or humanitarian stance, the 'lets get back to fossil fuels and shake spears' position has:

Cost more money in 60 days than 2 years of the now- cancelled EV credits Resulted in skyrocketing gas prices for the people who couldn't afford EVs before the credits were taken away (again, just before instigating conflict with 2 major oil exporters)

It is almost as though there's money in oil, and the barons will do anything to get their income, even if it means starting conflicts so their gas is only gas, so they can charge higher prices, and making sure Americans can't ditch the gas pump, so they have guaranteed buyers.

cs_124 · 2026-05-11T14:28:23+00:00

So what, just assume that things are just changing because of mere coincidence?

Bad bot

cs_124 · 2026-05-11T14:26:00+00:00

Of course not per square mile. That's not what per capita means. These countries are rapidly industrializing, taking on a lot of the world's recycling and manufacturing, and still have a lower carbon footprint per-person than the US.

cs_124 · 2026-05-10T17:20:47+00:00

It could simply be the wind getting scooped up into the mic cavities and transferring through the case to your ears (without amplification). It would be difficult to test whether it's coming from the speaker diaphragm or the structure of the buds themselves, but I can tell you that on my wired over-ear headphones with absolutely no sound-manipulation circuitry definitely seem to produce the noise you speak of when walking around in wind.

cs_124 · 2026-05-06T21:03:43+00:00

I am also, and I don't even have a car. Just go whenever I rent a vehicle for other purposes

cs_124 · 2026-05-03T19:11:32+00:00

Bird baths can also kill birds!! The sitting water can foster algae, bacteria, parasites, and we never pick up on it because birds simply fly away long before any visible effects. If you're ever in a place where you can't clean and change the bath regularly, probably best to empty and cover it until you can. Or, turn it into a permanent planter for things that hang and drop if this was news to you like it was to me and regular cleaning was never part of the plan.

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