mipadaitu

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[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Harley-Davidson motorcycles are more of a brand than a bike, so they're not known for being reliable or comfortable to ride compared to a lot of other bikes. That being said, they're perfectly fine if that's what you want, and you understand that you'll have a higher likelihood of something like a persistent oil leak, or annoying electrical issue.

The local motorcycle school by us uses Yamaha dual sport bikes for taller riders, they're pretty inexpensive compared to other bikes, they can take a beating, and they're pretty easy to buy and sell used.

I have a tall buddy that got a Honda NC700X as his first bike and he's been riding it for years on pretty long road trips. It has an automatic transmission and ABS brakes, so compared to a lot of bikes, it has a surprising amount of safety features.

Of course, get what you like. The old saying is it's better to buy a bike you'll grow out of, then to buy a bike you'll grow into.

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

See if they're available, I bet you'll get one or two back real quick.

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

How tall/big are you? It makes a difference.

What style bike do you like?

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Outdated advice (unless buying older stuff) Brother has enshittified like the rest.

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

They physically print the disks, so each one from a print line is the same. It would be too expensive to dynamically print every single disk uniquely.

Additionally, there would be no way for a printed disk to be tracked to a specific sale. We just don't have that level of granularity in our sales. Best Buy scans the UPC barcode of a disk to sell it to you, they don't track the specific serial number of each disk to know that you bought which one.

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Great point, I should expect that when I pay $60,000+ for a vehicle, I'll need to rent a different vehicle for when I want to go somewhere.

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago

The fact that there's a back would mean that the chair is pushed slightly forward of the others in the group, and therefore awkward to turn and chat with.

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

Probably one of those early types of "great replacement" racism things.

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Historically, auto companies have had two paths to success.

1 - Build dirt cheap, crappy cars and sell zillions of them, and slowly make them better as the initial crappy reputation evolves into a good car for a good price. (i.e. - Toyota)

2 - Build super expensive luxury cars and slowly make them cheaper so people view your brand as high end even though the cheaper ones aren't as good as the old expensive luxury ones. (i.e. - BMW)

Seems like all the EV makers are looking at option 2 and there's tons of room in the market for option 1.

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (14 children)

A van would be a road trip vehicle, not a city driver. I don't understand why the range is so short. If this was a 350+ mile van, with an 800v battery that supported the 200+Kw NACS tesla charge plug, I would probably buy it. Even with it being as expensive as it is.

That being said, it would be great if it could hit all those numbers and still be less than $40k. It would probably sell like hotcakes with those specs.

Of course there's the other complaints too, like too much tech in the dashboard, not enough buttons. In the end, it's too much sizzle, not enough steak.

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 94 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Back in the before times, pre-trump, Michelle Obama pushed for staying on a positive message even if the R's were going hard on the negative campaigning.

Her more recent speech at the DNC was more aggressive.
https://12ft.io/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/20/opinion/michelle-obama-dnc-speech.html

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 48 points 2 days ago (14 children)

It's not about stopping the door from swinging, it's about stopping the handle from turning.

That being said, they could probably have just turned the handle up instead of down.

Of course I know people who would absolutely just try pushing down a couple times, give up, and call maintenance.

 

Tips to keeping your identity secure, and protecting other members of your community from being accidentally doxxed or forced offline.

Extremely useful, especially for people who coordinate larger protests or online communities.

 

Neat time lapse video of a bunch of different plants (and fungi) growing from seed to flowering/fruiting.

 

We planted a variety of plants, at different stages of growth. After a bit of experimentation, cosmos grow extremely well. These were cuttings we put in just a couple weeks ago, and they're already bigger than most of the other plants that have been in there for over a month.

The very young plants did not survive, but the larger ones did. If they're too small, they just get swallowed down into the cups by the bobbing of the water.

Seems like the plants need to be large enough to reach all the way to the bottom of the pots, and still stick out enough.

Going to be interesting to see what it looks like at the end of the season.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15830343

Our retention pond in our neighborhood has a lot of algae and problematic plant growth due to the surrounding farms and lawn runoff, so we're experimenting with a floating island to pull nutrients out before they can cause problems. This will also provide some interesting flowering plants, and more fish habitats.

Will be an interesting experiment to see what survives and what does poorly.

Zinnias, sunflowers, marigolds, and a few others are in net pots, inserted into cutouts in EVA foam mats.

Design is from:
http://www.beemats.com/

More reading:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/flowers-grown-floating-on-polluted-waterways-can-help-clean-up-nutrient-runoff/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666765723000637?via%3Dihub

 

Our retention pond in our neighborhood has a lot of algae and problematic plant growth due to the surrounding farms and lawn runoff, so we're experimenting with a floating island to pull nutrients out before they can cause problems. This will also provide some interesting flowering plants, and more fish habitats.

Will be an interesting experiment to see what survives and what does poorly.

Zinnias, sunflowers, marigolds, and a few others are in net pots, inserted into cutouts in EVA foam mats.

Design is from:
http://www.beemats.com/

More reading:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/flowers-grown-floating-on-polluted-waterways-can-help-clean-up-nutrient-runoff/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666765723000637?via%3Dihub

 

Really important step towards expanding our research on the moon, is creating highly detailed maps of the entire surface.

China is doing some great work on building out infrastructure and studies of the moon. They're the only country that's brought back any moon rocks in decades.

Space Race 3.0 is on, and we'll see how different approaches to the research and manned missions will move forward.

The US is currently building out an extremely upfront cost heavy project, but with a lot of long term benefits.

China is building a more straightforward moon project, but with higher ongoing costs, as much of the infrastructure is disposable (more like Apollo).

 

Pretty interesting topic, would be interesting if it could be used to move satellites to a "parking orbit" once they run out of fuel. It's unclear just how much movement in an orbit that can be done, as it says it needs to be in the same energy level.

Source press release: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/news/new-technique-uses-knot-theory-create-tube-map-around-planets-and-moons

Source journal article: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42064-024-0201-0

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