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[quote=svelte][quote=scaredyclassic]revamp all roadways to accomodate electric bikes; half the capacity for cars, half for bicycles. make it actually feel safe for people, and then watch how many people ride their shortish commutes and errands by bike…cars should be rare, solely for the truly disabled, or the superwealthy, like flyer. ebikes should be the dominant vehicle in SD. Perhaps a $50/day tax for driving a car within SD.[/quote]

I’m OK with that as long as bikes pay for their infrastructure. So much gets paid for by the car gas taxes. Bikers should pay for their bike lanes. Users should pay for what they use.

It is going to be interesting to see how things get paid for once the percentage of electric cars on the roadway reaches a tipping point.[/quote]

I’m willing to do that, so long as we also all pay for the externalized costs…the damage to the environemnt, the relative longevity of bike usage on roads v. cars, the unreimbursed medical bills from crashes, etc.

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yes.

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https://qz.com/1620913/the-best-cycling-hack-is-a-pool-noodle/

pool noodles. i believe in a large profile, but not sure it is the answer to everything.

sorry to hear of the assault you suffered.

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revamp all roadways to accomodate electric bikes; half the capacity for cars, half for bicycles. make it actually feel safe for people, and then watch how many people ride their shortish commutes and errands by bike…cars should be rare, solely for the truly disabled, or the superwealthy, like flyer. ebikes should be the dominant vehicle in SD. Perhaps a $50/day tax for driving a car within SD.

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holy cow. I want to test ride it.

I think you are off on ebike motor limits in CA. throttles by themselves are legal on ebikes, however There is a speed limit of 28 mph for ebike motor assist, which sounds pretty low, but it feels actually pretty fast. In terms of efficiency ona regular bike. 28 mph puts up a lot of wind. However, on a recumbent trike like yours, perhaps witha full fairing, you could probably do in the 40s and not feel buffeted by the winds.

Very interesting project. i am very intrigued by electric minimalist vehicles. i’ve been riding from temecula to downtown san diego, going to the train in oceanside for half the trip. I would prefer a faster ebike, as it’s a lot fo pedaling.

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Always remember, people are nuts.

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[quote=an][quote=scaredyclassic][quote=an][quote=scaredyclassic]maybe it’s more of a venn diagram. weeds, and non-weeds overlap, and in the middle, is humanity.[/quote]
We all are human.[/quote]

Yep. We are all part of one race. the rat race.[/quote]
Nah, some lucky few have unplugged from the Matrix.[/quote]

I’m always careful to get my recommended daily allowance of Blue Pill.

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[quote=an][quote=scaredyclassic]maybe it’s more of a venn diagram. weeds, and non-weeds overlap, and in the middle, is humanity.[/quote]
We all are human.[/quote]

Yep. We are all part of one race. the rat race.

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[quote=an][quote=scaredyclassic]that sounds true. Everyone is a weed or no one is a weed.

Or maybe, if weed then no weed.

but maybe it’s also true that no one is a weed but people are still designated as weeds. The weeding process isn’t to remove actual weeds, but perceived weeds.

Or maybe just the system needs to designate weeds and non-weeds to justify itself. i guess we could substitute the word loser for weed.

kinda like my hillside is covered with california buckwheat, a native plant. My neighbor paid some landscapers a lot of money to tear all his out–weed?

all our ornamental plants are technically weeds.

Ca buckwheat is not a weed. Or is it?

i am thinking of joining the San Diego Bonsai Club.

One of my proudest accomplishments is no student debt for 3 kids; if Biden just gives every debtor 50k, it’ll make me sad. My wife says I shouldnt be so petty.

In conclusion, I’d say no one is a weed.[/quote]
Not `or` but `then`.[/quote]

maybe it’s more of a venn diagram. weeds, and non-weeds overlap, and in the middle, is humanity.

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that sounds true. Everyone is a weed or no one is a weed.

Or maybe, if weed then no weed.

but maybe it’s also true that no one is a weed but people are still designated as weeds. The weeding process isn’t to remove actual weeds, but perceived weeds.

Or maybe just the system needs to designate weeds and non-weeds to justify itself. i guess we could substitute the word loser for weed.

kinda like my hillside is covered with california buckwheat, a native plant. My neighbor paid some landscapers a lot of money to tear all his out–weed?

all our ornamental plants are technically weeds.

Ca buckwheat is not a weed. Or is it?

i am thinking of joining the San Diego Bonsai Club.

One of my proudest accomplishments is no student debt for 3 kids; if Biden just gives every debtor 50k, it’ll make me sad. My wife says I shouldnt be so petty.

In conclusion, I’d say no one is a weed.

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[quote=Navydoc]Oh I know it’s about weeding, but do they have to pull weeds for FOUR YEARS? You know if you have what it takes to get through med school if you can do well (very well) in your freshman chemistry class. If I was going to wash out in the first year I could have used that time to change my education goals to something more achievable. In my case I could have saved 3 years of Penn State tuition. Guess it could have been worse, I could have gone to a place like Lehigh, Muhlenburg or Dickenson and paid 5 times more for the same education.[/quote]

You are the weed. Student debt is the pesticide. The four years is to see if you’re a hardy weed. Life itself is a weed whacker.

I am a very obstinate weed …

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I had a strong urge to Occupy Wall Street, but also felt compelled to dollar cost average into a vanguard fund.

“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”

it’s fun to engage with the youth, but as for me, there’s nothing left to protest against except my own discontent. I wanted a piece of the pie, and I love having a pie in the fridge, but I actually hate eating pie…prefer figs.

“In India it is a tradition for old men to leave their families and seek salvation. This is rooted in the Hindu belief in four stages of life: 1) studentship; 2) becoming a householder; 3) retiring to the forest to meditate; and 4) becoming a mendicant (“sannyasi”).

During the third stage a man is expected to move into a hut in the forest with his wife and perform religious exercises. During the forth stage a man is expected to renounced all his worldly possession and become a beggar and devote himself totally to religion.”

Huh. Maybe lots of old men thru time are like, fuck LUXURY CONDOS. Now it’s probably too crowded in India for old men to be wandering around…

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It’s like a super slow motion car wreck. Or maybe slo motion and nothing happens

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[quote=sdduuuude][quote=evolusd]I have not read too much about this, but I hope that the government will significantly change the way higher education is financed. They’ve created such a huge supply of money to ‘finance’ college with debt, it seems schools have been able to raise prices exponentially, fattened up admin staff, financed capital projects and grew endowments on the backs of college student borrowers.

College system needs to be financed differently, IMO.[/quote]

+1

Classic government problem solving … ends up making the original problem worse.[/quote]

It is a pretty clear example of bad gov action. The least the colleges could do is pay their damn adjuncts decently

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[quote=Navydoc]Will they reimburse me for the debt I already paid back? Didn’t think so….

Education is such a scam. Why did I need three semesters of calculus to go to medical school? If you put a gun to my head and said “solve this integral!” I would say “go ahead and pull the trigger, because I don’t remember how to do it”. But I got my three semesters in! What a waste of my time. I could have learned everything I needed to do well in med school in 1 year, but I got my undergraduate degree! Couple that with the huge number of people who graduate with useless degrees and I really believe we need some sort of education reform. I understand the necessity to “learn to think”, and not all of my undergraduate courses were a waste, but we need to figure out how to do this more efficiently, and therefore less costly. That to me seems much more useful than loan forgiveness.[/quote]

Law schools worse … But really, the degree has little to do with training. It’s just a weeding out process.

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