This is about electric ones, that are registered as bicycles but can go 45 km/h.
You can buy one of these for around 1k, and it’s a long button press to reconfigure it from the legal 25 km/h, assistance only, no throttle, “EU legal” configuration to the 45 km/h, throttle active “US legal” config.
This is just one story and by no means universal, but I thought it might interest you based on what you’re saying.
Societies can get mental illnesses and trauma collectively. During the closing years of WWII, on the Eastern front, incidents of Soviet soldiers raping local civilian women was widespread. There was a common trope of “hide your women” as everyone from little girls to grandmas were hiding in swamps, trying to make themselves look unattractive by covering themselves in mud, and the like.
In Hungary, if you look at official correspondence, the local authorities were complaining for years after the invasion that their supply of syphilis medicine was out, as the Soviets confiscated most for their own troops, and then the remaining stock ran out fast. Victims were estimated to be in the high hundreds of thousands, in a country of less than 10 million.
And then, as both current historians and people at the time said, there were two ways to process this immense societal trauma. Both for the victims themselves, and the bystanders, countrymen, relatives, lovers, children and parents who could not stop it from happening. One of them was getting a rope. Suicides spiked during those years, and according to, again, the people who lived at that time, this was a main driver. Inability to cope with the fact that they were unable to save their loved ones, or themselves.
The other coping strategy was denial. Denial that it happened, denial that it mattered. There is an acclaimed novel written about the whole thing by a victim, Alaine Polcz, look it up with a translator, who was raped countless times and then had to prostitute herself to survive. She ended up in hospital and came back from being clinically dead at one time, as she had pneumonia, TBC, and a ton of STDs. In her words, she did not feel anger, only pity towards the soldiers committing these unspeakable acts on her. She should have felt anger IMO. We all should. The fact we don’t is the problem.
The point of it is that the part of society that didn’t kill itself coped by normalising the rape of women by men. That it is just part of war, part of life. Imagine how that impacted how both men and women perceive women in general. And we are only 2 generations away from people who lived this. Polcz died in 2007. Many people who lived this firsthand are still alive. The people they raised run the country.
I mean if they are going to be doing model collapse, might as well go full throttle
Nixon fucked the world through the dollar.
In short, the world is paying the US to fuck around, since Bretton Woods replaced gold with the the USD, meaning that the US gets unlimited money while they get to spread their inflationary pressure around the world.
Charles de Gaulle, president of France at the time wasn’t as stupid as most world leaders, and ended up preserving at least some semblance of fiscal independence by smuggling the French gold back from the US.
Switzerland has more than 120 agreements with the EU, including being part of the Schengen area, the UK is just getting started of having the first few in place. The UK also made it a political sticking point that they are not EU members for the past few years, kinda going against the ideal of ever closer European integration.
Works perfectly for me.
Create new empty lutris app, run installer in prefix, set install path to virtual c:, after that you set the executable and that’s it
Okay, but Google uses it in a way where directly going to the server they host F-Droid.apk, downloading and installing it counts as sideloading.
If anything, using Google Play is sideloading by that definition, since I can’t just download a release from the originators’ server, they need to first transfer it into a secondary location, Google’s servers, and I can only install it from there.
The fact that this is in public mainstream discourse is a good thing.
While on principle I don’t care about people using llms to refactor code in my games, I still think that the AI is inevitable narrative is a bit jarring and that study in particular has a huge conflict of interest issue.
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People who learned English as a second language may find it hard, especially if they predominately did so from written sources.
The people who would be okay with this already don’t own computers, they go with a phone.
They are complaining about having to pay taxes and having that tax money spent in social services.
Just saying, VW had no factory closures in Hungary either.
This was always the plan, and the reason Merkel’s government supported Orbán’s quasi dictatorship.
The Hungarian system was built on German money, and Hungarians protested it all the way through.
While Germans reelect the CxU.
EU is closer than NATO.
NATO says that if someone gets attacked, everyone else responds in a way they think is appropriate.
EU says that if someone gets attacked, everyone goes all out without consideration.
IMO it’s great but it is a departure from earlier titles in more than just going to 3D, and the sides are a 90s caricature of the US/China/Middle-Eastern people, so it’s something that you definitely couldn’t make today.
Like the “terrorist” side gets suicide bombers and a unit called “angry mob” to which Chinese flamethrowers or American snipers are a good counter, while China gets two soldiers for the price of one and propaganda loudspeakers everywhere that makes units fight harder.
The story is barely there as well, which was a strong point of the RA2 and Tiberium universes.
Thanks, it is, in fact.
I haven’t really read into this because the whole thing is so insane that if it happens all bets are off.
The thing that is a huge wildcard is how Denmark and the rest of the EU react.
In the sense that the EU is an obligatory military alliance closer than even NATO, so in essence if Denmark considers itself at war, so is France and her nuclear submarine fleet.
EU treaties mean that an attack on Greenland is an attack on Poland.
The EU is a military alliance on its own, but it is not NATO though.
Honest question, wouldn’t enforcing a hard speed limit on them be more useful? If a bike is going 25 km/h, does it matter if it got there with the rider turning the pedals or not? And if it is going 45 km/h, same question, why does it matter? IMO it should be a hard speed limit, and a limit on torque, but the “no throttle” thing is kinda missing the point. Maybe require a licence, and make registration mandatory in an easy way.
I’ve had one of those fatbikes, and of course I wouldn’t ride them in the Vondelpark at full speed, what they were good for is a long commute on rural bike paths going a safe 25 km/h. What I liked about the electric motor was that it would get me back at 25 km/h after stopping at a light without effort. The fat tires meant that if some branch or other random shit was on the road, I would be safer, and of course it also made for a smoother ride.
That said, “pedaling” with these only means exerting the slightest effort, it’s not at all different from a throttle, except it’s harder to control the bike. There is hardly any way to apply only some throttle as opposed to all of it for example. And it’s also easy to fuck up by resting your foot on the pedal and applying torque by mistake, while forgetting to hold the brakes that cut the engines, and ending up with the bike lurching forward.