Wahots

Wahots, 8 hours ago

1997 was at least 15 years ago. ;)

Wahots, 9 hours ago

Hungary needs to get their shit together, or Ukraine will be the least of the worries when they are shown the door or have funding slashed, lol.

I can guarantee life in the EU is better than that of a vassal state of Russia.

Wahots, 1 day ago

He is then believed to have continued by saying in Italian that there was, in the Church, already too much of an air of frociaggine (fag***, according to Gtranslate)

Goddamn, apparently I’m missing out on the good shit at church, wtf. They better be at pride this year. 🏳️‍🌈

Wahots, 1 day ago

I kinda assumed people understood the messages behind Battlefield 1, Death Stranding, and Helldivers 2, lol. Most of the messages are telegraphed pretty clearly.

Wahots, 9 hours ago

ITT: old people that have had one bad experience with bikes and ebikes, but know they can’t ban bikes anymore so they go after ebikes. Probably knowing several or more people who have either been injured or killed in car accidents.

Pedestrians, bikes, and ebikes are all on the same side: making sidewalks and bikelanes bigger and safer for a more walkable city without cars. Especially in car centric american cities where no normal person will ride a normal bike up steep hills or extraordinarily long commutes where ebikes excel. Or towing gear and groceries.

Wahots, 8 hours ago

I don’t live in NY, but I used to drive everywhere because the buses are slow AF (1hr+ to go less than seven miles) and I’m not walking 14+ miles up hills to see friends and family. Ebikes are used here to get up steep 18-28% grade hills. Because of ebikes, I’m able to run errands that I used to have to drive to, for pennies in electricity instead of $70 in gas and $30 in parking. The vast majority of all bikers stick to the bike lanes where available and obey the 15mph limits unless they are in lycra. But lycra types aren’t riding ebikes anyways, lol. Incredibly, one of our family friends got pulled over for getting clocked at 40mph on a traditional road bike.

It’s really annoying, though. If I ride in the street, I get honked at by cars for “going too slow” as the ebike can only do 20mph sustained. If there are no bike lanes, biking on the sidewalk is the only safe option on stroads and 35mph bridges. There’s this massive gap in infrastructure where bikes usually get tossed the scraps of “just use the bridge sidewalk even though it’s only 24 inches wide”.

Cars routinely park in the bike lanes here, too, forcing most riders into the street because of Amazon drivers or people pulling into hotels and putting their hazards on. Some riders specifically avoid the bike lanes here because they get the worst lights at traffic stops (eg, one 15 second light every few minutes while cars and pedestrians get green lights and crosswalks for much more time, incentivizing people to ride with cars or crosswalks).

I think the most relevant solution is to significantly step up funding to ensure that most roads have wide sidewalks and generous, barrier-protected bike lanes where people cannot get doored and landscaping isolates pedestrians from the bike lanes. If Japan, France, and the Netherlands can do it, so can we.

Wahots, 1 day ago

This is well written. On the last point, not just the democracies are struggling either. All the autocratic nations are also having big (and even scarier) problems such as major population crashes in the next 30 years (no more young people), economic rot that would make 2008’s great recession look pretty fucking chill, or systemic problems that have no peaceful, easy solutions.

Wahots, 2 days ago

Vote. He’s not allowed to turn this country into a “shithole country” in his words.

Wahots, 3 days ago

A bidet, an ebike, a tongue scraper.

The first means no more clogged toilets, no toilet paper needed, and a fantastically clean ass always.

Also comes with side benefits like being able to eat the hottest foods imaginable, not getting hemorroids or healing those ones you may already have, being able to wipe your ass with two broken wrists (if you mountain bike or are old), not getting forever chemicals on your asshole, and having an ass that your SO won’t think is disgusting.

A commuter ebike, because it allows you to travel 1-45 miles stupidly easy, which saves a staggering amount of money on gas (uses pennies of electricity), parking fees, and wear and tear on your car. Side benefits include not being absolutely enraged in traffic, occasionally beating your own drive times in a car, and not having parking anxiety at popular destinations such as beaches, parks, downtown shopping, or ferries. Provides a decent amount of exercise as it basically becomes an exercise bike when the assist is turned off.

It also will allow you to get up hills without getting sweaty.

Tongue scraper- removes plaque from your tongue in cakes. Way better than mouthwash. Leaves your breath much fresher after meals. Works best at night, but also can remove bad morning breath. Get a small metal one. Dramatically changes your breath quality and makes your mouth feel cleaner. Great if you plan on doing some kissing.

Wahots, 3 days ago

There were bug chasers during the pandemic, too. >_>

Wahots, 3 days ago

Were you employed in the ICU, by chance? :p

Wahots, 3 days ago

The whole part about “its safe to stare at the sun for 5-15 minutes if you are white or half an hour if dark skinned” is going to land them in serious hot water when people start going blind or accidentally poison themselves or others with similar queries about food, mixing cleaning products, or medicines.

Or even something as simple as it spitting out the wrong temperature to safely cook certain foods.

Wahots, 3 days ago

You gotta have reliable baseload energy. Traditionally, that has been hydro in blessed regions, coal and gas in other regions, and nuclear if your country has the funds to do so.

The key is to always have baseload power for dark winter months, weeks of bad weather, or heat domes and forest fires, where you may find yourself not having sun or wind for extended periods of time with incredibly high demand on the grid (for AC!).

My two cents is that nuclear energy is worth it for clean, reliable energy that doesn’t hose all of your rivers. We will need some hydro for water reserves and power, but a diverse energy mix that doesn’t rely on hydrocarbons is the way forward, imo.

Baseload of hydro, nuclear, geothermal. Solar and wind with battery storage, pumped storage, green hydrogen. Rooftop solar. Greenscapes in cities to keep heat down and absorb rainwater so it doesn’t mess up combined sewage pipes.

Heat pumps and proper insulation for homes and buildings. Ebikes for short range commutes of 1-45 miles. Puts a lot less strain on the grid than EV cars, too.

Wahots, 4 days ago

If it were me, I’d go for it. I have even bought used x570 mobos with no issues. I’m still daily driving it, and it’s now under waterblocks. Mobos are pretty bombproof compared to the 00s.

Wahots, 4 days ago

This is what worries me about the tariffs. I’m all for supporting American companies, but I don’t know of any making ebike motors, motor controllers, throttles or battery packs. Even Grin Tech in Canada is using Chinese parts.

The most important thing is getting people off cars for short trips of 1-45 miles. Making ebikes affordable helps us decarbonize for a fraction of the cost of what an EV car costs. You can get an Aventon ebike for as low as $1,000 USD. More ebikes from Juiced Bikes on sale go as low as $1,150. And those aren’t even subsidized by the government, even though ebikes make a lot more sense for cities over EV cars.

Until there’s the capacity to drop in American motors to replace Bafeng motors and american batteries to replace Samsung cells, I don’t see this helping people get off of ICE motors and oil.

What will happen when someone’s motor breaks in 2026?

Wahots, 5 days ago

Poor woman. Jesus, that is nuts. Reminds me of Regular Car Reviews’ video on the PT Cruiser where he said something along the lines of “Everyone is just a few bad scrapes away from driving a PT Cruiser.”

A bad stroke, a marriage that fails, an inability to work, and suddenly, you are cashing in your retirement and living in a van down by the river.

Wahots, 4 days ago

They are gonna lose that fight against her, lol. They didn’t have snowmobiles, planes or electric mobility scooters in the late 1800s either, haha. And yet, those are allowed. Banning cars is a noble goal. Banning clean forms of transit while still allowing ICE vehicles is kinda crazy.

Wahots, 5 days ago

Jesus, didn’t know they controlled the devs behind DRG. Their newest spinoffs looked very…generic. This probably explains why. :/

Really dislike games companies being listed on the stock market. Seems to corrode them from the inside out.

Wahots, 4 days ago

My ebike: the default flat pedals. (Good for stopping at lights and when cars veer into the protected bike lanes.)

My traditional enduro mountain bike: crank bros mallets, a clip in pedal.

Wahots, 4 days ago

I have a mighty need. (Would love to see a fat tire compatible rack, and some higher walls for wave protection on lakes)

Wahots, 5 days ago

“If someone is on the fence I’ll just tell them some unfettered shit like Pete Buttigieg wants to ban halogen headlights or mud flaps and they’ll throw their credit card at me. It’s like taking candy from a baby.”

Lmfao, I know it’s satire, but this is so dead on it almost stings as well. The 90% Medicare reimbursement thing was the same way.

Wahots, 6 days ago

Gotta network with people!

Wahots, 6 days ago

I’m sure there’s some small game that technically invented it, but was rather obscure. TF2 was the first mass market hero game I can think of. I guess TF1, in some respects.