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I am very typical earthling. I like earth food and earth drink and earth sports and earth media. Im all about earth things because I am so typical and earthling. so typical as to be very boring and not worth investigating or looking into because I am definately from earth.

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I live in burbs and use cycle for transit. collar burb though and our public trans is good to.

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im in a collar suburb of chicago.

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just pointing out im in the midwest but yeah the reason I took pains to mention collar was to let it be known how close it was to the city. it borders it. that being said biking was great when I lived in lisle which is near napervilled and when at urbana which is in the middle of the state. so im not sure at what level you consider it a suburb. from your description a bike would be perfect for fast food and grocery trips (maybe doing a daily one over whatever 15-20 bags is for you. for me that many bags would be monthly). I would say the gym but you could cancel that and save the doh if your biking. work is doable but not for the average joe (although the subject here is e-bike and that would be perfectly doable). that would take some dedication. also I don't only bike for transportation. I think maybe you thought I meant for all transportation. the point of the original posting article is that folks with an e-bike will use it on the shorter trips rather than driving where they might not bike otherwise. it reduces car use, it does not replace it.

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I highly disagree in the sense of most people. Everyone I have known in the situation have put it towards a house or it was so low they just took the cash for bills. I think most will keep it in investments if its quite substantial maybe but many people die having already had to sell off assets and reverse morgages and all kinds of things.

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I think low payouts will though. its likely there will be thousands of low payout for every significant one. Its much more common. Some folks get into the lucky position where all said and done it cost them money or at least a lot of their time with nothing really to show for it. but your right its being pulled out of the market as the money is needed or even sooner in those cases. So it won't be a sudden it but more of a slow constant drain.

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yeah. doing a bad job could even save lives. it would be a moral duty to screwup /s (yes I know that is not how it works)

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its a shame as the forest city seemed neat.

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I agree its stupid but the original idea was larger and had a transit system going down it. I think that was the concept. To sorta maximize transit as you did not need to branch it off to go to various places.

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yeah. I was just pointing out there was a reason. I have been thinking about it in the back of my head today. How valuable is it and is it worth it. When I look at my city metro its basically a hub and spoke and what you see is that most of the spokes are around 15-20 miles out from downtown and I know they have been extended so I think closer to 15 for the original spans. Im thinking this gets to what that other lemmy user said. Having a commute where you go from the end of one spoke downtown to the end of the other would stink. Since there are multiple spokes that are mor places to live that are sorta in that magic 15-20 mile distance. Our metra is similar but goes way farther out but also has way fewer stops. So it can be farther out without being to bad. All the same those branches tend to stop once the commute from downtown is about an hour or so. Im guessing that really the circular city type thing is the way to go and likely why most are like that barring natural barriers like oceans or whatnot.

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I understand the concern about the future and we have seen overbloated projects have issues. In the long run though I will use what works best for me and only get into philosophical comparisons if im making the choice between relatively equal options.

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I guess linux as its more likely to be a phone.

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I live in the chicago area and prices have doubled at least. Even on the cheapest stuff. Many things are 3-5 times higher. I don't know where you are shopping?

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I don't even know of any in the chicago area anymore. our meijer closed up before the pandemic hit. I actually have sorta the same issue. I am pretty aware of the increase in most items but rice and beans keep for long and so I don't buy them often. Im not sure of the price of them back when I was not fretting over my grocery bill. I only really buy lentils though as they are easy to make in the rice cooker.

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the economy is not great but he has changed the trajectory. it took obama two terms to normalize after bush jr and unfortunately it was not so great that trump did not make it way worse. ironically mostly by not continuing gradual interest rate increases which forced the severe ones now.

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most of the increases were actually before this last year. im not sure that is the best time frame. at least for me the big effects where seen in a year or two of inflation but its tapped down now comparatively.

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economy was by no means good under trump. he overheated it by bullying the fed to lower rates when they should have been gradually raised as was happening at the end of obama. maybe dropped a bit after covid but one reason covid response was what it was is because rates were already at 0

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main problem is it should not use any examples of actual stuff. it should all be trained on licenesed anime.

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its worse living in a condo. The chance everyone will put in appropriate things 100% each week to the recycling dumpster is pretty much nill and then it gets mixed up in a truck with the other area condos. I wash my stuff but am almost certain its all going to landfills.

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What really gets me is when I was young there was little to no plastic and we had plenty of convenience food with mainly paper, glass, and metal.

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I can see it. The main thing would be a company willing to provide support for the system hoistically. Bonus if they can get places like frys and micorcenter to treat it the same as a windows machine.

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plugin hybrids to me are an important step. If it can do 10 miles without starting to use gas and the person plugs it in they will use very little gas.

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I mean for myself I could not plug one in and if you ever have dealt with a community like a condo getting permission to one off is only overshadowed by trying to get the place to improve the infrastructure overall in impossibility. I sorta hope incentives or regulations come along to make such changes easier.

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well and thats a bit easier than a building style. I can't just run something in the garage. I kid you not but a guy had insulation put above his unit in the attic and they spent condo funds to have a lawyer go after it to remove it and when he fought back they had a guy take the insulation out. its freakin nuts!

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it beats dealing with the airline companies.

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the other side of the coin is then its the "truth" mainstream media is hiding. ¯_ (ツ)_/¯

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