I bike! Both to work, general transportation (for example grocery shopping) and just for fun.

He’s always lied about the self-driving capabilities of the cars and promised timelines that have never held. Print this statement out and use it as toilet paper

I believe there was a 100% tariff in place pre-Trump meltdown on Chinese EVs in the U.S, making them less viable in that market. The EU also tariffs them heavily, which is quite a pity.

I’d eat that, especially at that price. Not even British

It’s very easy in Sweden - there are plenty of e-commerce alternatives present, and you can use a comparison website to find the best price for any given item.

For various cycling gadgets and other cheap stuff, I’ve started ordering on AliExpress, with a pretty decent success rate so far.

See the One Book-theory from the podcast If Books Could Kill

Because all self-help books are basically the same and they all fit that bill

No need to be embarrassed. Basically you turn it to get your gears to index properly, which prevents the need to push a bit extra on the shifting levers to actually get the gears to shift.

You can try it yourself by turning a bit in one direction and then seeing if the gears shift better - look for no sounds being present and the shift completing without any additional push. If it got worse, then turn the other direction. Seems a lot more intimidating than it actually is.

I used to be woefully deficient in mechanic knowledge, but then I started going to the local coop bike workshop, which is probably one of my favourite places in the world.

You’ve never used the barrel adjuster in 40 years of riding?

As I understand it, the gears always being perfectly indexed is the big selling point for electronic gears.

I wouldn’t know since I run mechanical, but this is what I’ve heard.

Idk, I’ve built a very respectable bike for $2k. Sure, if you want to top spec absolutely everything, that will cost you, but you really, really don’t need it.

https://bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/2/1/e001295

I encourage you to save methodological speculation until you’ve actually read the study

I think maybe in total I’ve sunk ~$2k into my road bike, and that’s with upgrades for more than half of that figure. By being strategic (i.e making liberal use of AliExpress), you can get a very high quality bicycle for shockingly little money.

My country runs courses for adults to learn how to bike - maybe yours does the same?

Bicycle commuting reduced all-cause mortality by almost 50%. All-cause. That’s with the risk of getting murdered by a driver priced into the figure.

Given how popular bikes used to be in Vietnam, which is positively scorching most of the time, I don’t think this narrative had any credibility.

Besides, with e-bikes being a thing, this take is even less valid

It depends on whether you know how to pace yourself, which I seem to never be able to learn. I can only go full blast every time, and hence I always arrive sweaty.

Luckily, I only have 5.5 km to go to work, and with my current speeds, that doesn’t get me sweaty enough to be unable to air-dry out. Previously, when I had a longer commute of 14 km, I was luckily able to use the showers offered at work.

dangerously fat people

This isn’t a particularly nice phrasing - I think the same meaning could easily be conveyed with some slightly kinder choice of words.

$7k doesn’t get you much of a car. That’s the beauty of bikes, getting something that is basically professional-tier is still quite within reason to be purchased by an average consumer.

Brutally ‘solving’ a problem entirely caused by the U.S, all while trying to demand gratitude from the rest of the world.

U.S foreign intervention in a nutshell, really

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOHAX1JWfDs