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Increasing plausibility tends towards correctness.

For anyone who’s been paying attention, “unexpectedly” is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

“Hey Chat, I feel pretty bad, here’s my symptoms. It’s expensive to go to ER, but should I see a doctor?”

Can’t advise you buddy, but here’s some OTC meds that have paid for placement. Been nice knowing you and good luck!

People ride analog pedal bikes all the time in places with road traffic and they impede that traffic when they are going slower - I’ve known more people hurt because someone tried to pass them when they’re departing a traffic light or needing to turn across traffic than from falling down while going “too fast”. It’s frequently more than getting yelled at when multi-ton vehicles intentionally pass by you so close you feel the wind push you away. Being able to go about 35mph puts you at a pace where someone in a car stuck behind you is much more likely to exhibit a little patience.

EBikes are popular and growing like crazy, especially outside the US. There’s somewhere over 30 million in India alone, estimated to double in five years. Their presence is not going away, even in the US, but it takes serious time and desire to get protected bike lanes built. Where I live there’s 6 grocery stores within 3 miles in either direction - and all on the other side of a 4 lane road. You end up riding in the road for part of the trip, and it’s more dangerous from relatively heavy traffic if you’re going 15 instead of 35 for even that short distance.

Because if a eBike meets already well defined federal class specifications it is considered a eBike, and not a motor vehicle, and other than setting reasonable speed limits in high foot-traffic areas, local regulations do nothing but complicate life.

“E-bikes with throttles should not be refereed to as e-bikes”

This is simply wrong and does a disservice to the growing eBike interest. The US-federally defined classes are proper and while IMO overly limiting (max speed should be 60kph and still classified as an eBike as it’s simply safer in traffic), they adequately classify what is an eBike and what is not, and having a throttle does not make something not an eBike, but max speed and power.

People have this urge to classify their limited version of what something is by how they use it with some desire to belittle others, and want to limit everyone else who have completely different requirements and capabilities and desires. eBikes in most US states can be ridden on sidewalks, in bike lanes, in traffic, on trails, and across a grassy meadow. There is no justifiable reason to require someone to have different eBikes to be able to do all those things with comfort and safety and capability and utility when a well engineered eBike can do all of them. That they might be safer with circumstantially restricted speeds, such as overtaking pedestrians, etc. again does mean multiple eBikes should be mandated to be able to do each of them.

In the US, hopefully the next administration will buy a vowel and realize they need to set federal standards and eliminate this hodgepodge state and county and city and park and street and neighborhood capricious variety of who can ride what when and where, and with what gear and at what times and for what reasons. If decisions are made that no one under 13 can ride an eBike, and then only to school until you’re 16, and you must wear a helmet until at least 19, then at least there will be consistent rules for people to argue for and against.

Classic good cop bad cop.

“My post assumes that AI won't improve much beyond its current state, which seems like a safe prediction.”

Say what?

Use any and all the rules of grammar and punctuation as needed for clarity, structure, (and the Oxford comma) and tone — but no more.

Man, at this point, if I was planning to visit the US for World Cup, I’d just suck up the expense loss and watch it on TV like all the poors.

Eric didn’t die - he just went home.

You are if I’m doing your code review.

“you’ll get spam from other sources until the end of time?”

So … ops normal?

“The citation seems to have been included in many lower quality papers—likely due to laziness and sloppiness rather than an intent to deceive.”

Yeah … no. If you use a citation and you didn’t read the article yourself then it is absolutely intentional deception, and it should be treated as such.

It would be nice to be governed by any intelligence.

“Finally, no mention is made on the levels of THC in the general population of those driving cars.”

How do you propose gathering that particular data?

Asked to comment, Carney’s office stated that they were mildly unconcerned.

“How an elephant got in my pajamas I’ll never know.”

Half of me says this is not true.

That’ll save all the spam callers a little time not checking and then ignoring it.

Legal matters are all about pedantry.

“Take athletics. Americans love sports, and that cultural centerpiece is being corrupted in an orgy of greed and speculative ferver.”

Professional (and collegiate) athletics has always been corrupt - now it’s just more visible.

The only thing needing abolishing is the advertising of gambling.

Yeah, I’m not following on the split angle, unless cells are somehow more efficient if not perpendicular to the sun.

Same, regarding LG slowly occupying all the home appliances spaces. As long as they behave like a good guest in my home I’ll keep buying their stuff.

That’s going to separate force-applied from force-required while riding - a much more comfortable pedal action.

The way I read it is if you use throttle-only you can reach 20 mph, but then if adding pedal-power you reach 28 mph. The pedal is probably not generating sufficient force to add 8 mph, but it’s telling the control system to do that.

Would you trust Tesla’s management if they said they assumed liability?

Optical filters have been around for awhile, including anti-lasers for cameras, though only for a few years.

Commercials should have to be done with no audio. Make Mimes Great Again.

That’s how it happens.