Phlogiston

This is an interesting inversion of the fascist doctrine that the enemy are both really strong and also really weak. Only here Trump and co are applying to themselves – they’re both super powerful and the only hope and also completely weak and ineffectual and always being led astray by the deep state or poor guidance from their own lawyers.

I wonder if this will work as well on their followers.

this feels like the prisoners dilemma playing out on the front page

The screen on my X just cracked and we’re hoping it holds together long enough to get the new usb-c model. Since we plan on keeping it that long again I’d like to get everything to the same cable.

this is important. e-bikes displace regular bikes and pedestrians.
they could displace cars & motorcycles. but that would take a cultural shift in addition to a technical shift.

for example in my neighborhood tons of kids are now riding ebikes around. instead of regular bikes. and they’re dumb (read: young and haven’t bashed their head enough yet) kids so they make the existing walking and bike paths dangerous with their “three up and reading texts while riding too fast” behavior. (I’m not joking; true scary event while walking the dog). They are mostly smart enough to avoid playing in traffic (drat!) which means they’re causing pain for pedestrians and not cars.

As far as I can tell (small sample size) once one of them gets a car they switch and drive their car at speed while still looking at their phones. Presumably the rich kids get electric cars.

I’d vote heavily for more and better bike lanes on all the surface streets. Or a city ordinance that lets them ride their ebikes in traffic like mopeds. Perhaps stricter speed limits on the cars to make this safer. These would be cultural (legal) shifts that help ebikes displace cars.

This makes sense — but if nobody knows it there is lots of room for confusion.

“Boost” seems more like “updoot” than “retweet“. Perhaps more importantly why would one retweet a comment? Rather than a post?