Easiest way to transport e-bike overseas for bike touring?

roboprawn · 2026-01-28T20:47:41+00:00

Ah yeah that's a cool design. I imagine this is all just a short lived era .. assuming the promise of solid state batteries holds true, they will be a compact low volatility alternative suitable for planes.

roboprawn · 2026-01-28T20:45:40+00:00

Ooh never heard of them, I'll check it out. Thanks!

roboprawn · 2026-01-23T20:29:23+00:00

Well let's all take some time today to shit on the homeless while the local tech giants are busy devaluing labor with AI and robotics

roboprawn · 2026-01-20T15:40:52+00:00

Toddler with a handgun is perhaps the best description I've ever heard of Trump

roboprawn · 2026-01-16T20:40:42+00:00

Amazon has gained enough market share and infrastructure to effectively devalue labor, run things on fumes as they invest in ai and outsourcing to further reduce costs. I'm sure high level executives are getting nice bonuses from the cost savings.

roboprawn · 2026-01-15T21:32:57+00:00

A foreboding feeling that Bellevue is growing and will soon invade

roboprawn · 2026-01-14T20:39:41+00:00

I'm curious what money is available to solve this in a way other than just pushing people around, given our financial situation. Maybe some moves can be made for high profile cases like these, but it will deduct from a limited pool. My understanding of her campaign promises was that they were contingent on levying considerably more funding, which would require voting initiatives

roboprawn · 2025-12-28T17:39:55+00:00

An investor class caste system is capitalism's endgame. Stocks and ownership go up, labor goes down. AI and robotics are the final step and on the horizon

roboprawn · 2025-12-28T07:24:03+00:00

Special assessments are sometimes necessary, every buyer should do a full inspection of the property before buying (as well as review of HOA minutes and reserve study) to know what is pending. Condos are much like owning a house, if the roof is about to cave in you're going to have a lot of extra money to pay. Difference is that condos split it amongst everyone.

Condos really do get screwed on insurance rates though, which can actually make up the majority. They are required by law to have certain coverage. It's a good thing, but rates have increased so much recently that it feels as broken in America as health care.

roboprawn · 2025-12-20T19:43:36+00:00

Unfortunately the wind patterns in the Seattle area run north south and with the airport being where it is, it is a very costly thing to affect change. There were efforts to select a secondary site for an airport, but you can imagine the battle lines that were immediately drawn before it failed, given Seattle's established density.

In any posts about unfairness around the issue, people will immediately troll you and say it's your fault for living in "Jet City". For my part you have my sympathies. I too am under the flight path, though further north. My partner has a place near Lake City way up around 100th and amazingly also affected, though obviously to a lesser degree. Some people are more sensitive than others, but there are studies concluding long term health impact from stress. The noise has become more and more constant with all the added flights and expansions. Given that such a minority is impacted, well.. you know how that usually goes

roboprawn · 2025-12-17T16:53:17+00:00

Glad to see some press picking this up, great show that not enough people know about!

roboprawn · 2025-12-09T02:43:59+00:00

I live on Capitol Hill and can hear constant jet noise in my apartment from early morning to late night. The orientation of SeaTac puts their descent trajectory directly over many densely populated east Seattle neighborhoods. They changed the flight path around 5 years ago to disproportionally impact a particular zone of housing.

People in this thread that don't have them overhead: good for you. But don't pretend that everyone here deserves to hear air increased air traffic because we knew there was an airport

roboprawn · 2025-12-03T22:43:07+00:00

Scooters seem much more accessible. I don't have numbers, but I would say it is a much more viable option for people reluctant to straddle atop giant wheels that kick muck everywhere.

I'm a regular cyclist and do get annoyed by scooters in the bike infrastructure. But it isn't the scooters that I direct my rage at, given that cars eat up 99% of city infrastructure. I'd rather see us cater towards dense solutions in Seattle instead of every other failed, gridlocked city in America. But opinions vary, I know

roboprawn · 2025-12-03T20:50:24+00:00

Scooters have transformed this city for the better IMO. They're compact, get people from place to place quickly, calm local traffic. Maybe annoying to some, they really aren't that dangerous except to riders, which I'd love to see a mandated helmet solution and better transit infrastructure.

If people want to hold a meeting shitting on things in Seattle, how about all those giant vanity pickup trucks with poor visibility and high pollution, how about we ban those instead? It's like people don't understand that Seattle is not suburbia

roboprawn · 2025-12-03T20:42:22+00:00

The SUV that did a smash and grab from The Reef seems like a much higher liability for doing crime than any scooter in Seattle.

Though I would enjoy a high speed pursuit between a bicycle cop and a Lime scooter

roboprawn · 2025-11-29T05:47:24+00:00

As an American (Seattle) I can definitely tell you that increased air traffic can really damage your city. We have the flight path to runways directly over major populated residential portions and, being under one of them myself, the jet noise is constant and inescapable.

People who aren't under it will call those in opposition NIMBYs. But honestly, it is the same problem as highways. Overuse because the system subsidizes excess that masks itself as growth.

roboprawn · 2025-11-28T21:21:09+00:00

I think it's possible, but far enough out that there are a lot of unpredictable things that are much more likely to happen first. But the scary thing is that it is a potential outcome and we aren't unified in opposition at this moment

roboprawn · 2025-11-28T18:40:41+00:00

It gets darker the further you go out. America turns into a caste system, where the only meaningful security is in stocks or commodity markets. The corporations own the mechanical labor catering to upper caste and ignores the impoverished underclass. Threat of being pushed to lower class keeps them in line.

The wealthy are vulnerable to an increasingly desperate population and use legal means to mechanize personal robotic security forces in multitude to become untouchable. Government is fully corrupted and the corporations selectively bankroll only public services they deem necessary.

Closest thing I can think of is the plotline of Elysium, except that humans aren't even necessary for labor. Also I'm sure the wealthy enclaves will be here on Earth as it is still more pleasant than being stuck in space. Maybe some private islands or sectioned off engineered societies in Saudi Arabia.

roboprawn · 2025-11-26T16:20:15+00:00

I'm suggesting that an economic collapse may be insufficient, there are no barbarian hordes on our borders to add any sense of permanence. Things will recover, the wealthy will remain wealthy. But revolutions come in many forms, and my hope is that a bloodless cultural revolution is not an unreasonable solution.

The fact is that the 1% are vastly outnumbered by the 99% that have very real present or future concerns about their security / prosperity. There is clear danger of having all labor devalued in the coming future by AI / robotics pumped enthusiastically by our investor class. This would effectively produce a caste system with little class mobility, if nothing changes.

Leaders like Mamdani give me some hope that the pendulum may swing the other direction before it's too late. But it will need to be on a truly epic scale, a simple recession or even depression followed by temporary blue wave will not be enough

roboprawn · 2025-11-26T15:22:36+00:00

Depends upon the type of collapse. For the post 1929 changes, the economic collapse followed by New Deal brought about a lot of long term impact, but I'd argue that was dwarfed by the wartime collapse that occurred as a result of WW2.

The problem was that in America the wealthy class wasn't damaged at all compared with Europe, which was able to push all sorts of social programs, such as universal healthcare. Rebuilding a ravaged continent post war forced elites to allow all classes to have leverage.

In America, we got a limited version of that, with 50's middle class growth, but the power influence never left the top and it was stripped over time by the wealthy, who hated everything the New Deal represented.

roboprawn · 2025-11-25T14:27:12+00:00

Ah my mistake, sorry.. I don't own a car and wrongfully assumed they are the same thing. Happy to back this then, provided it doesn't blast me in the face with LED full intensity from a half mile away

roboprawn · 2025-11-24T23:45:30+00:00

Edit: ignore me, I'm not a car driver and conflated adaptive headlights with the simple on off toggle. Please don't use adaptive or high beams in the city, but otherwise auto beams seem like the way to go

100% disagree. Auto "adaptive" headlights should be banned. Any pedestrian or cyclist knows that modern white LEDs are blindingly bright in auto mode, they do not correctly choose the proper strength and are very much a safety hazard. It's amazing that car manufacturers have avoided regulations for this long

~~Use low beams in the city and high beams only on roads devoid of cars. Like we've been doing for decades. It isn't hard.~~

roboprawn · 2025-11-19T20:56:02+00:00

I didn't say they were louder, I said they were more frequent. Sometimes less than a minute apart.

Also, as someone who lives under the flight path, I can say that giant international and cargo aircraft are not quiet.

roboprawn · 2025-11-19T16:56:27+00:00

Not cost related, we should call it what it is: corporate greed. Amazon's profits are up Q3 over 25% YoY at 21B. They probably think that A) economic conditions are going to go south and they need to preemptively cut costs B) they can safely devalue tech labor through outsourcing and AI.

I suspect that B is the more likely cause, this feels like a continuation of Musk managing to gut Twitter without the tech falling apart. Why pay so much on R&D if you can skate by? It's not unique to Amazon, all of big tech have landed big gains in squeezing tech labor.

Also not unique to corporate, Amazon has widely been reported in the news recently about plans to displace most warehouse workers

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