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40,000 people a year die in car crashes, but people are getting worked up over the motor the size of an orange that puts out 1HP, if that.

For a mountain bike, it means components strong enough and shocks big enough to roll over a melon-sized rock without crashing or going over the bars. Great for lift-operated parks, or singletrack in the backcountry. But yeah, $3500 for a city bike that is not a cargo bike is crazy to me. I'd be worried about it all the time.

Yeah, I've given up on bootloaders long ago. After I broke my last phone, finding a decent mid range phone with expandable storage, a headphone jack, stylus and nice colors was pretty nice. The cameras are decent, and the processing power is fine for most stuff. The only time it slows down is if I'm cropping and editing a video or screen recording, which is a pretty seldom thing.

I got Motorola with a headphone jack, and I use it surprisingly often. All my Bluetooth stuff has fallen apart faster than my wired stuff.

Those fake astroturf fields and yards people are installing are actually quite toxic. In addition to heating plastic to high temperatures and baking it under powerful UV light each summer, the plastics and rubbers used for them are usually from sources like car tires which are full of PFAS to resist fires, wear, UV, etc. Those leach into surrounding areas whenever it rains.

Stereotype? It's nearly a universal truth at this point. Whatever they campaign against, they are doing. The list of people who are actually truthful and not sex predators, cheaters, bi/gay/CD or watching porn that they advocate banning would be shorter.

This is still the best lifeline people have ever got from a lethal disease. As long as people keep up on the injections, we still might be able to keep HIV from spreading.

Honestly, I want one, but I also can't throw around more than $45k, it needs to be AWD, and have a 2" hitch mount for mountain bikes.

The market is coming, but I'm trying to also drive only when strictly necessary to places where I cannot bike or take transit.

Slightly tangental, but I learned that I was allergic to shellfish! I was wondering why I felt sick immediately after eating foods that were mixed with shellfish or contaminants. Knowing makes life a heck of a lot easier.

Edit: a bidet, to give you a better answer!

Not to mention no universal healthcare for meds or doctors, and antiquated laws making it legally impossible for parents to help kids once they turn 18. If they have profound mental health disorders or addiction problems, they are fucked.

So many stories of people caring for their child with terrible health problems/addiction, only for them to fall through the cracks once they turn 18 and can't care for themselves. :(

This app seems like a privacy nightmare if you create profiles for people. I can guarantee you this type of app is going to get people to commit suicide after rumors abound about them. This seems perfect for cyberbullying and stalking, especially if you can get push notifications whenever they are nearby.

Who greenlit this shit? People would lose their minds if there was a male equivalent for women. (Which is also a terrible idea). Thank God I'm too old and queer, Jesus. What a terrible development for society.

Water is insanely powerful. As others have said, it could help you get tired swimming. It will not save you if you get pinned, or trapped in hydraulics, like the deadly ones at the bottom of weirs (those low dams, extremely dangerous. You get maytagged until you drown)

The best thing is to not live in flood plains or ecologically risky areas if you can. Research flood maps before moving somewhere. Extreme weather events will become more and more common as the planet deteriorates, unless we dramatically change our emissions, which is not a priority, apparently.