[-] Tehdastehdas@piefed.social 4 points 6 days ago

When it's cold enough, or just raining freezing cold water, biking hurts.

[-] Tehdastehdas@piefed.social 9 points 1 week ago

If they invested ~1 million in manufacturability design, it'd be about half the price, but investors usually don't dare because decades-old lawfare attacks by the fossil fuel industry are still in effect in many countries.
https://xfwnofqagsnmdxuf.quora.com/Lawfare-against-tiny-cars-velomobiles

[-] Tehdastehdas@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The ability to pedal enables exercise and gives you accurate longitudinal position control for parking. A servo generator as a forward-backward interface complicates nothing compared to a car-like interface. If it doesn't have that now, it will because it's an old invention and the natural solution for all pedal-electrics to evolve to.

Fairing in velomobiles reduces wind resistance a lot compared to unfaired recumbent trikes of the same size. I believe this with doors on has the same drag as a regular bicyclist. Doesn't even matter because electricity is cheap. Rain coat can't stop the weather from hurting my face.

[-] Tehdastehdas@piefed.social 22 points 2 weeks ago

Just a credible threat.

[-] Tehdastehdas@piefed.social 32 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Before a tankie comes in propagandising the 1992 consensus that says "there is one China, our China", by which China means PRC (People's Republic of China) and Taiwan's ruling party KMT meant RoC (Republic of China), let me add some detail:

After effectively losing the Chinese civil war in 1949 by retreating to Taiwan, RoC martial law era ruling party KMT first threatened to retake China until 1991, and then diluted the plan into “reunification” and cosied up with China. Last time KMT said "one China" was in the 1992 consensus, at the end of martial law. Taiwanese people never agreed with KMT’s hubris or sucking-up, which shows in voting results since the martial law ended.

Now Taiwan is stuck with the official stance of "one China" because China’s (PRC) Anti-secession law of 2005 promises war if Taiwan changes its name from the old “Republic of China” (since 1911 in China, since 1945 on Taiwan) to “Republic of Taiwan”. They missed a chance to become officially Taiwan the country. Most parties in Taiwan support "status quo", "don't rock the boat".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Taiwan#Current_political_issues

[-] Tehdastehdas@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

"If there's no speed limit in a car, it shouldn't belong in a city - it's a race car"

[-] Tehdastehdas@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

Throttle puts me in a mentality where I don't care about losing gained speed, because gaining it again is so easy. On a regular bike, I try to speed through dangers because "this speed was made with my sweat and I'm not giving it up".

[-] Tehdastehdas@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

Did high-powered cars lead to more regulations? Why are such cars allowed in cities?

Power is irrelevant. Pedestrian crash severity = speed² × shape impacting human head.
Road-specific speed limits and weight limits have always been enough.

Fuck especially the laws that give 2- and 3-wheelers easier treatment than 4-wheelers:
https://xfwnofqagsnmdxuf.quora.com/Lawfare-against-tiny-cars-velomobiles
https://cleantechnica.com/2025/05/20/podbike-shuts-down-norwegian-e-velomobile-startup-files-for-bankruptcy/

[-] Tehdastehdas@piefed.social 11 points 3 weeks ago

We're making the same mistake with AI as we did with cars; not planning human future.

Cars were designed to atrophy muscles, and polluted urban planning and the air.
AI is being designed to atrophy brains, and pollutes the air, the internet, public discourse, and more to come.

We should change course towards AI that makes people smarter, not dumber: AI-aided collaborative thinking.
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-it-better-to-work-on-intelligence-augmentation-rather-than-artificial-intelligence/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

[-] Tehdastehdas@piefed.social 7 points 3 weeks ago

Also microdoses are usually decidoses, but that's irrelevant because in this use mega means large and micro means small. Microcar. Microcomputer.

But what size are microplastics when also mentioning nanoplastics? Are they still "5mm and smaller"?

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