It still does.

“If you don’t have evidence, that the thing you’re claiming happened, it didn’t happen”, is what that phrase is saying. It doesn’t follow, that if you have a pic it definitely did happen.

THW spotted.

Yeah, though I’ve never visited, I’m aware that US traffic is in large parts a hellscape for anything that isn’t a car or motorcycle.

So very different circumstances. Arguably, the solution would be a shifting paradigm in urban planning, rather than fast E-bikes. But the latter is obviously much easier to achieve.

Ah, an important fact I forgot to mention this rule applies to bikes with pedalling assistance, so pedelecs, strictly speaking. Real E-bikes, that can use their motor by flicking a switch always require a license plate. That’s the silly part of the law her, imho. I just added this fact after having written the rest.

If you’re doing more than 15 mph as a long-term cruising speed and 30 mph burst, I have to assume, you’re a fairly fit and healthy person. And of course it wouldn’t feel unsafe for you to do the same speeds with an E-bike. But what you have to consider is, that these bikes are also very popular with people who are not fit enough to reach those speeds unassisted and maybe haven’t even ridden a bike for a long time. When I see some of our elderly citizens using them, I’m pretty happy they aren’t allowed to go that much faster, since they are also not restricted to use roads and often share the way with pedestrians.

What you also have to put into consideration is, that this limit doesn’t mean, that you cannot go faster, it’s just that the assistance shuts of at ~15 mph and everything on top, you have to pedal in yourself. Which is a bit more exhausting, due to the overall heavier bike, but something I regularly do, even though I ride a pretty shoddy 10 year-old bike with less than ideal mechanics.

The overall experience of riding a bike like that is pretty damn great still and not at all as terrible, as you make it sound. You can go your regular cruising speed on flat parts, no restriction for downhill, but you get an extra lift for uphill sections, and what’s the biggest plus for me is the extra acceleration - and ease thereof - when you have to stop at cross-sections and traffic-lights.

It’s all depended on the surrounding traffic and environment a bit, so I’m not saying a carbon copy of that rule would be ideal for the US for example. But even though I’d wish for 3 mph more, it works pretty well around here. And don’t forget that you can simply get a bike with a license plate for anythig beyond those rules.

Just as an inspiration: in Germany the cut-off is 25 km/h (I’ll leave doing the math to you). I think that’s almost reasonable. Personally I’d favor 30 km/h, because that’s a common speed limit for residential areas over here and that would allow them to better flow with traffic.

Drop an m and this still holds up.

There have been a couple interactions in my life where I’ve had to remind people that cornfields, livestock pastures, and even former farmland left to go wild for a few years aren’t nature. They are distinctly and irreversibly human-centric areas, with human-dictated ecosystems and populations.

That’s true and all, and I have few good things to say about modern farmland. BUT the question arises, what is nature? Is it a sort of landscape that is devoid of human influence and is that necessarily better and the ideal to strife for? I don’t think so. In my opinion the human vs nature dichotomy, while a very common idea in many societies, is at the root of the problem. Humans are not distinct of nature, they are a part of it and we have to learn how to behave like that and use our landscape shaping abilities to let nature thrive and us humans in it.

For my part of the world at least, scientist say a hypothetical state of nature would be mostly beech forests, which is a pretty cool forest, if you’ve ever been to one, but it isn’t all that diverse. Cutting down large swaths of that forest and converting it into a type of farmland consisting of more diverse and smaller structures - different kinds of timberland, crop fields, meadows, pastures, orchards and vineyards, villages and hedges in between all of these - historically enabled an even more biodiverse environment, than that hypothetical state of nature.

Most of that diversity had only been lost, when agriculture transformed from a labour intensive small scale business into a mechanized and chemically fertilized industry, with much bigger structures and far fewer hedges in between. We can be thankful, that most of us don’t have to toil as farmers like in the agricultural societies of those days and a regional draught or a bad harvest isn’t as life threatening as it used to be. But at the same time, I hope that we will find ways to balance our agricultural production and use of the land in a more sustainable eco-friendly way. I kinda hope, that agricultural robotics may enable us to go back to smaller field sizes or even find completely new forms of agriculture, that a allow for a more structurally diverse landscape again, that is better suited for coexistence with other creatures.

Or a weird generalization.

There are people who love to complain everywhere and in every age group, I’d say. But you don’t hear the ones who don’t complain complaining.

Perception is biased.

Anywhere, where you can get insects as food. There are dedicated online shops and the only other place I’ve ever found them IRL was a camping/outdoors supplier, they are a very light source of protein. That’s in the EU though, don’t know how insect food is regulated wherever you live.

I never bought it though, I found it pretty expensive, don’t really need it, and I’m a vegetarian anyways. I have tried them at a museum once, though. Pretty unspectacular if you ask me, a bit nutty in taste but also quite dry. I prefer actual nuts as a snack.

I think I’d notice, because I look at the food I’m eating. I suppose ground beetles look different enough from ground pepper.

But I also have a bit of a biology background, so YMMV.

(Also taste, but I don’t know as much about that. Maybe there are pepper beetles, I don’t know about. But there are definitely some poisonous ones I’d rather avoid. )

Someone trying to argue the correct term for something, but than grossly misusing the term ‘manspreading’ is exactly my kind of humor.

I fear there’s a bit of wishful thinking interspersed here.

‘Open Source’ is a term, that means, that the Source code is accessible, but tells you nothing about the liberties that the license grants. There are plenty of proprietary projects that are Open Source in that sense, but with non-free licensing. That might not be how the term was initially used, but that’s just how it is now.

The term FOSS exists specifically to distinguish it from that.

It means ‘free of charge’. It’s an English word, but pretty rare, I think. More common in other languages.

Confusing “FOSS” with just “Open Source” seems like the more typical offender.

At least it’s not a hypersexualized catgirl.

In light of some other replies: the same could be said about having kids.

well yeah. But most phones w/o a 3.5 mm jack don’t have an integrated DAC anyways, so the choice is up to you.

But the storage and the fact that it’s all in a light weight bundle, that’s indepedent of your phone is pretty convincing.

I remember having on, back in the day, that ran on a single AAA battery for a week an was marginally larger than one of these. Unfortunately I tinkered with trying to run it on an external power supply when I knew to little about electronics and ran a few too may Volts through it. Otherwise this thing would probably still work fine. I kinda never looked back since was content enough with my phone for listening to music. But I do have fond meories of those things, and I miss the 3.5 mm jack on my most recent phone, maybe I should reconsider…

What’s the advantage over a smartphone?

Aaand it’s called … ?

Who’s Lazlo? And is it the same actor that played Douglas Reynholm in The IT-Crowd?

If so: I loved that role and need to see this, because that costume looks like he’s playing a sleazy vampire version of Douglas, and that sounds amazing.