@aqua-letifer said in The folding electric bike: @doctor-phibes said in The folding electric bike: What we really need to cycle to work is either genuine bike paths, or a lot less cars. I'd say only sometimes! D.C. is one of the greatest and safest cities to ride a bike in precisely because of the congestion. There's a critical point at which the traffic starts to work in a cyclists' favor. Yeah, fair point. The worst kind of cycling is in busy, fast-moving, traffic (i.e. 30mph and above), which is what I'd have to face.

If you want to get a ton of responses on YouTube, one of the best way to do it is to find 10 things that really geeky people like, and say you don't like them.

lolz

They should've named the article "Video of Kavanaugh's assault has been found!" which would improve the chance of it being read. Anyway... call me a simpleton but if they need a "line in the sand", one could argue when the heartbeat is detected instead of the pain/viability line in the sand.

Saw a reindeer up close the other day, forgot they have webbed feet.

Projectile coffee.

I used to play in the street from time to time. Nobody ever accused me of miming to a really good player

@george-k truth

The view at 0:40 makes me think this should be called the Vader Jellyfish!

Your out of your league. Says the representative who has no grasp of possessives. My God.

If the hammer slips, you must acquit.

I agree - the Oregon Ducks, just really a middling team, almost fell backwards into the 4-team playoff.

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Yeah, I guess there were no shopping carts handy. Too bad, he called their bluff- not only a bad thief, but a really bad gambler too boot.

Glory Days! Well they'll pass you by Glory days, in the wink of a young girl's eye Glory days, glory days

Our dog is so old, she can smoke and join the army. Gonna be drinking age soon enough.

@jolly said in The new CEO of Twitter: @xenon said in The new CEO of Twitter: @jolly said in The new CEO of Twitter: @xenon said in The new CEO of Twitter: @aqua-letifer said in The new CEO of Twitter: @xenon said in The new CEO of Twitter: @jolly said in The new CEO of Twitter: That would be the case if Twitter was a small shop that held a dozen people. If my name was Stalin, I would love the way Twitter is currently set up. Facebook, too. He who controls the information, controls the public. But you're the one arguing that the government should send them a notice saying: "You've become too powerful, we set your rules now." Well intentioned rules to begin with, for sure. Also - let's look at the actual issue with censorship. Let's take the Hunter Biden stories. The real problem was not twitter blocking links to articles. I read many many articles about the censorship. The real issue was left-leaning sources not reporting on it. Regulating social media doesn't fix that. Right. What you're really talking about is implied consensus through coercion. But the problem is that social media is the explicit tool used to enact that coercion. It's manufacturing consent. What's hilarious to me is that this is one of those bizarre scenarios in which conservatives would whole-heartedly agree with an idea formulated by Noam Chomsky. Agreed. But I think we'd have to get very heavy-handed with government intervention if we were to try and legislate that coercion out of existence. Social media allows groups of ideologues to coerce others. Twitter is just the tool of the day. I think we need to learn how to deal with the impulse to coerce. This is what happens when you decentralize media power. Again, public square. There are multitudes of things you can and cannot do in a public square. This is not rocket surgery. We've had this stuff 99% figured out since the 19th century. It's simply not that hard. Practically what you're saying is that large online forums must have zero moderation - outside of illegal acts. Not quite, but you're getting warmer. I guess my perspective on no censorship online is informed by places like 4chan. Online forums without moderation can devolve into filth pretty fast. (Filth is not necessarily illegal)

Thanks for bringing the true meaning of the holiday spirit to the forum. I've forwarded the link to my daughters, just to remind them what it's really all about,