- plantwallshoe parentTerns are great bikes
- My general advice is to never buy a bike from a company that doesn’t have a core business in building non electric bicycles.
- Those are high performance mountain bikes with carbon fiber frames, top of the line components, carbon wheels. This is an aluminum city commuter and 4.5k is at the high end of that class of ebike.
- You’re getting very confused about this thread. That medically trained comment was in reference to a hypothetical situation laid out by some other commenter in which a doctor recommends a lobotomy.
If in this hypothetical world where a trained and certified doctor recommends a lobotomy, then it should be your right as a human to take that medical advice and apply it as you see fit. Some legislator with nearly zero medical training and a political agenda should not decide what is or is not medically acceptable.
Bringing it back to the real world: the same legal framework that blocks conversion therapy is the same legal framework that blocks hormone treatment. Whether I like it or not, I don’t think the government should decide what treatments we are allowed to have. I should be able to choose my doctor (even if you think they’re a shitty doctor) and take their medical advice. You should be able to choose your doctor (even if I think they’re a shitty doctor) and take their medical advice.
Feel free to replace the word “doctor” with “counselor” or with “priest” or with “accountant”; then replace “medical advice” with “therapeutic treatment” or with “religious guidance” or with “financial advice”.
All these professions (except priest) have some credential requirement with a bar roughly equivalent to the amount of damage they can do. If we as a society have agreed to their credential, we should be free to take their advice.
- > against their will
I’ll refer you to my comment that you’re replying to.
“If you, your child, and your doctor all agree…”
The counselor in the Supreme Court case is a certified Licensed Professional Counselor by the state of Colorado.
- Oh the better take is “my medically trained and board certified doctor says my kid needs a medical procedure but some 80 year old state congressman who needs his grandkids to unlock is iPhone says I shouldn’t, so I won’t”
- Yeah probably
- We need some consistency here.
If you, your child, and your doctor all agree that taking hormones and puberty blockers is the best thing for them, it should be allowed.
If you, your child, and your doctor all agree that the best thing for them is to take conversion therapy, then that should be allowed.
- Have you tried just doing negatives?
Hold yourself in the top of the push up position then as slowly as you can drop into the lower position with your chest on the floor. The slower the better. When you’re on the floor, reset and go again.
Do 10 in the morning and 10 at night for 2 weeks and I guarantee you will be able to do at least one real push up.
- There is no law requiring 60 votes. Only a senate rule, which can be overturned with 51 votes.
- There is no law requiring 60 votes. Only a senate rule, which can be overturned with 51 votes.
- It’s not factual that democratic senators are blocking the bill. Republicans have a majority in both houses and can pass the bill at any time.
- > Being the CEO of any company that serves the democratic public means that one's ethical obligations must reflect the democratic sentiment of the public.
How does one determine the democratic sentiment of the public, especially a public that is pretty evenly ideologically split? Seems fraught with personal interpretation (which is arguably another form of free speech.)
- Isn’t promoting/removing opinions you care about a form of speech?
If I choose to put a Kamala sign in my yard and not a Trump sign, that’s an expression of free speech.
If the marketing company I own decides to not work for causes I don’t personally support, that’s free speech.
If the video hosting platform I’m CEO of doesn’t host unfounded anti-vax content because I think it’s a bad business move, is that not also free speech?
- My trick lately has been to allow myself to do nothing.
If I don’t want to do the task, that’s fine. I’m allowed to sit at my desk and do exactly nothing for as long as I want. No hackernews, no snack breaks, no bill paying, no online shopping, etc. I just sit there and do nothing.
Eventually the thing I need to do becomes the most interesting thing in my orbit and I do it. Sometimes I sit there for 15 minutes doing nothing before the task I don’t want to do becomes interesting enough.
- It was previously at 400% poverty line, it is now universal.
- It doesn’t matter how capable, efficient, affordable, powerful, etc. the truck is. That’s not the point.
The point of a truck for 90% of American pickup truck drivers is that it signals to the world around them what team they’re on. This truck is a signal for the wrong team.
- “A company that makes normal bikes for normal people in normal clothes who want to enjoy the outdoors in a completely normal way”
I sorta disagree. The new geometry, the new clothing, the new suspension and drivetrain tec is what has allowed “normal” people to get into the very difficult and dangerous sport of mountain biking.
The people mountain biking on old school geo rigid frames in the 90s were extreme sport thrill seekers. The new tec has lowered the skill bar of entry (although not the price bar) so many more “normal” people can enjoy the sport.
- The number one thing that has improved my bus riding experience here in Seattle was them getting all their buses onto a real time tracking app.
I usually have a couple different bus route options, and now instead of just waiting blindly at a bus stop I can actually see which bus is going to be getting to me the soonest and go to that stop instead.
I ride the bus 4 to 5 times a week and pretty much never use the actual “schedule”
- The most effective exercise for weight loss is fork put-downs.
- Was it a side effect of the war ending or a side effect of having a generation of financially stable young men via the GI bill?
- The threequel zombie movie lacked too much subtlety for you?
- Tech workers make tech salaries are not living anything close to the modal American life.
- How has living in the same country as a crop of successful tech startups made the lives of an average American noticeably better?
- Is it possible that incarceration had the intended effect? Did an entire generation grow up seeing their fathers and uncles locked up and decide that there must be a better way?
- Child care providers build strong relationships with the kids they take care of, they’re hardly strangers.
- I would guess it wasn’t bad faith but rather pure ignorance from someone who doesn’t spend much time outdoors.
- > Go hiking or camping? Can I do these things whenever I please without asking anyone?
Yes, you can. I do it frequently.