#eBike World

[littleknightsgo]

"eBike World Is Nothing": 从华为到骑行创业 —— 探索人生、启动理想

在2008年，我经历了人生的一个重大转折——离开了华为，创业失败之后，我和最后一个员工做出了一个大胆的决定：骑行自行车从深圳到成都。这段2200公里的旅程不仅让我体重减轻了15斤，更重要的是，它让我找到了人生的理想和创业方向。 “环骑世界很简单”，这不仅是一句广告词，它是我的信念，我的热情所在，是我对骑行世界的理解。在这次旅程中，我深刻体会到，当身体在路上，心灵也在旅行。我希望将这份体会，这种骑行带来的心灵净化与身体挑战，传达给更多人。 基于这样的理念，我选择了 ” eBike World Is Nothing” 作为我的品牌和广告词，它代表的是一种生活态度，一种简约至上的哲学，一种无论面对何种困境，都能找到出路和希望的信仰。 此后，我又完成了一次意义非凡的骑行——从宁夏中卫到南京。这次骑行不仅是对我的产品——Nothing…

[slowlyhappybird]

Anyone else ride e-bikes on here and haul with your jeep?

[edouardstenger]

Will global fossil fuels emissions really peak this year ?

The latest IEA annual World Energy Outlook offers some serious glimmers of hope with global fossil fuels demand taking place soon, but a enormous task lies ahead. Now more than ever we need to roll up our sleeves and create the future we deserve.

It’s an annual event for the energy and sustainability crowds, the latest World Energy Outlook by the reputed International Energy Agency is out. For years, this publication was lowballing renewable energy sources. And all along independant organizations were lamenting the fact. Figures would prove them wrong : solar, wind and other technologies would soar higher and higher.Little by little, then…

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Cleantech has an enshittification problem

On July 14, I'm giving the closing keynote for the fifteenth HACKERS ON PLANET EARTH, in QUEENS, NY. Happy Bastille Day! On July 20, I'm appearing in CHICAGO at Exile in Bookville.

EVs won't save the planet. Ultimately, the material bill for billions of individual vehicles and the unavoidable geometry of more cars-more traffic-more roads-greater distances-more cars dictate that the future of our cities and planet requires public transit – lots of it.

But no matter how much public transit we install, there's always going to be some personal vehicles on the road, and not just bikes, ebikes and scooters. Between deliveries, accessibility, and stubbornly low-density regions, there's going to be a lot of cars, vans and trucks on the road for the foreseeable future, and these should be electric.

Beyond that irreducible minimum of personal vehicles, there's the fact that individuals can't install their own public transit system; in places that lack the political will or means to create working transit, EVs are a way for people to significantly reduce their personal emissions.

In policy circles, EV adoption is treated as a logistical and financial issue, so governments have focused on making EVs affordable and increasing the density of charging stations. As an EV owner, I can affirm that affordability and logistics were important concerns when we were shopping for a car.

But there's a third EV problem that is almost entirely off policy radar: enshittification.

An EV is a rolling computer in a fancy case with a squishy person inside of it. While this can sound scary, there are lots of cool implications for this. For example, your EV could download your local power company's tariff schedule and preferentially charge itself when the rates are lowest; they could also coordinate with the utility to reduce charging when loads are peaking. You can start them with your phone. Your repair technician can run extensive remote diagnostics on them and help you solve many problems from the road. New features can be delivered over the air.

That's just for starters, but there's so much more in the future. After all, the signal virtue of a digital computer is its flexibility. The only computer we know how to make is the Turing complete, universal, Von Neumann machine, which can run every valid program. If a feature is computationally tractable – from automated parallel parking to advanced collision prevention – it can run on a car.

The problem is that this digital flexibility presents a moral hazard to EV manufacturers. EVs are designed to make any kind of unauthorized, owner-selected modification into an IP rights violation ("IP" in this case is "any law that lets me control the conduct of my customers or competitors"):

https://locusmag.com/2020/09/cory-doctorow-ip/

EVs are also designed so that the manufacturer can unilaterally exert control over them or alter their operation. EVs – even more than conventional vehicles – are designed to be remotely killswitched in order to help manufacturers and dealers pressure people into paying their car notes on time:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/#kitt-is-a-demon

Manufacturers can reach into your car and change how much of your battery you can access:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/28/edison-not-tesla/#demon-haunted-world

They can lock your car and have it send its location to a repo man, then greet him by blinking its lights, honking its horn, and pulling out of its parking space:

https://tiremeetsroad.com/2021/03/18/tesla-allegedly-remotely-unlocks-model-3-owners-car-uses-smart-summon-to-help-repo-agent/

And of course, they can detect when you've asked independent mechanic to service your car and then punish you by degrading its functionality:

https://www.repairerdrivennews.com/2024/06/26/two-of-eight-claims-in-tesla-anti-trust-lawsuit-will-move-forward/

This is "twiddling" – unilaterally and irreversibly altering the functionality of a product or service, secure in the knowledge that IP law will prevent anyone from twiddling back by restoring the gadget to a preferred configuration:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/19/twiddler/

The thing is, for an EV, twiddling is the best case scenario. As bad as it is for the company that made your EV to change how it works whenever they feel like picking your pocket, that's infinitely preferable to the manufacturer going bankrupt and bricking your car.

That's what just happened to owners of Fisker EVs, cars that cost $40-70k. Cars are long-term purchases. An EV should last 12-20 years, or even longer if you pay to swap the battery pack. Fisker was founded in 2016 and shipped its first Ocean SUV in 2023. The company is now bankrupt:

https://insideevs.com/news/723669/fisker-inc-bankruptcy-chapter-11-official/

Fisker called its vehicles "software-based cars" and they weren't kidding. Without continuous software updates and server access, those Fisker Ocean SUVs are turning into bricks. What's more, the company designed the car from the ground up to make any kind of independent service and support into a felony, by wrapping the whole thing in overlapping layers of IP. That means that no one can step in with a module that jailbreaks the Fisker and drops in an alternative firmware that will keep the fleet rolling.

This is the third EV risk – not just finance, not just charger infrastructure, but the possibility that any whizzy, cool new EV company will go bust and brick your $70k cleantech investment, irreversibly transforming your car into 5,500 lb worth of e-waste.

This confers a huge advantage onto the big automakers like VW, Kia, Ford, etc. Tesla gets a pass, too, because it achieved critical mass before people started to wise up to the risk of twiddling and bricking. If you're making a serious investment in a product you expect to use for 20 years, are you really gonna buy it from a two-year old startup with six months' capital in the bank?

The incumbency advantage here means that the big automakers won't have any reason to sink a lot of money into R&D, because they won't have to worry about hungry startups with cool new ideas eating their lunches. They can maintain the cozy cartel that has seen cars stagnate for decades, with the majority of "innovation" taking the form of shitty, extractive and ill-starred ideas like touchscreen controls and an accelerator pedal that you have to rent by the month:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/23/23474969/mercedes-car-subscription-faster-acceleration-feature-price

Put that way, it's clear that this isn't an EV problem, it's a cleantech problem. Cleantech has all the problems of EVs: it requires a large capital expenditure, it will be "smart," and it is expected to last for decades. That's rooftop solar, heat-pumps, smart thermostat sensor arrays, and home storage batteries.

And just as with EVs, policymakers have focused on infrastructure and affordability without paying any attention to the enshittification risks. Your rooftop solar will likely be controlled via a Solaredge box – a terrible technology that stops working if it can't reach the internet for a protracted period (that's right, your home solar stops working if the grid fails!).

I found this out the hard way during the covid lockdowns, when Solaredge terminated its 3G cellular contract and notified me that I would have to replace the modem in my system or it would stop working. This was at the height of the supply-chain crisis and there was a long waiting list for any replacement modems, with wifi cards (that used your home internet rather than a cellular connection) completely sold out for most of a year.

There are good reasons to connect rooftop solar arrays to the internet – it's not just so that Solaredge can enshittify my service. Solar arrays that coordinate with the grid can make it much easier and safer to manage a grid that was designed for centralized power production and is being retrofitted for distributed generation, one roof at a time.

But when the imperatives of extraction and efficiency go to war, extraction always wins. After all, the Solaredge system is already in place and solar installers are largely ignorant of, and indifferent to, the reasons that a homeowner might want to directly control and monitor their system via local controls that don't roundtrip through the cloud.

Somewhere in the hindbrain of any prospective solar purchaser is the experience with bricked and enshittified "smart" gadgets, and the knowledge that anything they buy from a cool startup with lots of great ideas for improving production, monitoring, and/or costs poses the risk of having your 20 year investment bricked after just a few years – and, thanks to the extractive imperative, no one will be able to step in and restore your ex-solar array to good working order.

I make the majority of my living from books, which means that my pay is very "lumpy" – I get large sums when I publish a book and very little in between. For many years, I've used these payments to make big purchases, rather than financing them over long periods where I can't predict my income. We've used my book payments to put in solar, then an induction stove, then a battery. We used one to buy out the lease on our EV. And just a month ago, we used the money from my upcoming Enshittification book to put in a heat pump (with enough left over to pay for a pair of long-overdue cataract surgeries, scheduled for the fall).

When we started shopping for heat pumps, it was clear that this was a very exciting sector. First of all, heat pumps are kind of magic, so efficient and effective it's almost surreal. But beyond the basic tech – which has been around since the late 1940s – there is a vast ferment of cool digital features coming from exciting and innovative startups.

By nature, I'm the kid of person who likes these digital features. I started out as a computer programmer, and while I haven't written production code since the previous millennium, I've been in and around the tech industry for my whole adult life. But when it came time to buy a heat-pump – an investment that I expected to last for 20 years or more – there was no way I was going to buy one of these cool new digitally enhanced pumps, no matter how much the reviewers loved them. Sure, they'd work well, but it's precisely because I'm so knowledgeable about high tech that I could see that they would fail very, very badly.

You may think EVs are bullshit, and they are – though there will always be room for some personal vehicles, and it's better for people in transit deserts to drive EVs than gas-guzzlers. You may think rooftop solar is a dead-end and be all-in on utility scale solar (I think we need both, especially given the grid-disrupting extreme climate events on our horizon). But there's still a wide range of cleantech – induction tops, heat pumps, smart thermostats – that are capital intensive, have a long duty cycle, and have good reasons to be digitized and networked.

Take home storage batteries: your utility can push its rate card to your battery every time they change their prices, and your battery can use that information to decide when to let your house tap into the grid, and when to switch over to powering your home with the solar you've stored up during the day. This is a very old and proven pattern in tech: the old Fidonet BBS network used a version of this, with each BBS timing its calls to other nodes to coincide with the cheapest long-distance rates, so that messages for distant systems could be passed on:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet

Cleantech is a very dynamic sector, even if its triumphs are largely unheralded. There's a quiet revolution underway in generation, storage and transmission of renewable power, and a complimentary revolution in power-consumption in vehicles and homes:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/12/s-curve/#anything-that-cant-go-on-forever-eventually-stops

But cleantech is too important to leave to the incumbents, who are addicted to enshittification and planned obsolescence. These giant, financialized firms lack the discipline and culture to make products that have the features – and cost savings – to make them appealing to the very wide range of buyers who must transition as soon as possible, for the sake of the very planet.

It's not enough for our policymakers to focus on financing and infrastructure barriers to cleantech adoption. We also need a policy-level response to enshittification.

Ideally, every cleantech device would be designed so that it was impossible to enshittify – which would also make it impossible to brick:

Based on free software (best), or with source code escrowed with a trustee who must release the code if the company enters administration (distant second-best);

All patents in a royalty-free patent-pool (best); or in a trust that will release them into a royalty-free pool if the company enters administration (distant second-best);

No parts-pairing or other DRM permitted (best); or with parts-pairing utilities available to all parties on a reasonable and non-discriminatory basis (distant second-best);

All diagnostic and error codes in the public domain, with all codes in the clear within the device (best); or with decoding utilities available on demand to all comers on a reasonable and non-discriminatory basis (distant second-best).

There's an obvious business objection to this: it will reduce investment in innovative cleantech because investors will perceive these restrictions as limits on the expected profits of their portfolio companies. It's true: these measures are designed to prevent rent-extraction and other enshittificatory practices by cleantech companies, and to the extent that investors are counting on enshittification rents, this might prevent them from investing.

But that has to be balanced against the way that a general prohibition on enshittificatory practices will inspire consumer confidence in innovative and novel cleantech products, because buyers will know that their investments will be protected over the whole expected lifespan of the product, even if the startup goes bust (nearly every startup goes bust). These measures mean that a company with a cool product will have a much larger customer-base to sell to. Those additional sales more than offset the loss of expected revenue from cheating and screwing your customers by twiddling them to death.

There's also an obvious legal objection to this: creating these policies will require a huge amount of action from Congress and the executive branch, a whole whack of new rules and laws to make them happen, and each will attract court-challenges.

That's also true, though it shouldn't stop us from trying to get legal reforms. As a matter of public policy, it's terrible and fucked up that companies can enshittify the things we buy and leave us with no remedy.

However, we don't have to wait for legal reform to make this work. We can take a shortcut with procurement – the things governments buy with public money. The feds, the states and localities buy a lot of cleantech: for public facilities, for public housing, for public use. Prudent public policy dictates that governments should refuse to buy any tech unless it is designed to be enshittification-resistant.

This is an old and honorable tradition in policymaking. Lincoln insisted that the rifles he bought for the Union Army come with interoperable tooling and ammo, for obvious reasons. No one wants to be the Commander in Chief who shows up on the battlefield and says, "Sorry, boys, war's postponed, our sole supplier decided to stop making ammunition."

By creating a market for enshittification-proof cleantech, governments can ensure that the public always has the option of buying an EV that can't be bricked even if the maker goes bust, a heat-pump whose digital features can be replaced or maintained by a third party of your choosing, a solar controller that coordinates with the grid in ways that serve their owners – not the manufacturers' shareholders.

We're going to have to change a lot to survive the coming years. Sure, there's a lot of scary ways that things can go wrong, but there's plenty about our world that should change, and plenty of ways those changes could be for the better. It's not enough for policymakers to focus on ensuring that we can afford to buy whatever badly thought-through, extractive tech the biggest companies want to foist on us – we also need a focus on making cleantech fit for purpose, truly smart, reliable and resilient.

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https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/26/unplanned-obsolescence/#better-micetraps

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[getvalentined]

HEY TUMBLR! I DESPERATELY WANT TO DESTROY SOMEONE IN AUSTRALIA!

SOMEONE STOLE MY BEST FRIEND'S $2000 EBIKE IN BROAD DAYLIGHT AND GOT AWAY WITH IT

HELP THEM GET A NEW ONE

The details: One of my best friends in the entire world, @takenbynumbers, has been having a rough time lately. Their birthday is on the 10th, but the last couple months have been complete hell—and then today someone stole their ebike from where it was locked up right outside their place of work, in the lot, in front of the doors, in broad fucking daylight.

Nobody saw anything. All that was left was their extremely hefty lock, which was sliced to nothing, and their helmet.

They need this bike to get around, first and foremost, but also it's an integral tool in retaining their literal physical mobility, as it's a low-impact exercise that helps stave off the deterioration of their hips due to a hereditary condition. A police report has been filed, but that's not likely to go anywhere—these things are never recovered.

If you're going "wait a second, didn't one of your friends have an ebike stolen a couple years ago?" you are correct! This is the same friend! Last time someone broke into the locked secure storage cage at the apartment complex where lived and stole it in the middle of the night—they got a lock to make sure that couldn't happen again, and THIS TIME SOME JACKASS USED BOLT CUTTERS!

I AM SO FUCKING MAD BUT I AM IN THE WRONG HEMISPHERE TO ENACT REVENGE

If we can raise enough to get them a new one it would be the best birthday present in the world. External links deboost posts all over the net, so PLEASE signal boost this if you can. Everything helps.

[marzipanandminutiae]

why I will not live in a new house unless I have absolutely no other choice, unless a lot of things change, reason 297: new houses (2000s or later) burn 8 times faster than old ones, on average

I know people who might not be alive today if my old apartment, that was destroyed in an ebike battery fire, had been from 2012 instead of 1912

(plastics used in furniture and houses also outgas more dangerous chemicals as they burn)

no idea how this can be done, but we NEED to cut the amount of plastics used in our world radically...somehow

[mariacallous]

Luigi Mangione, currently the internet’s main character, probably isn’t who you think he is. Main characters are like that. As soon as someone achieves main character status, they become the screen onto which the world’s opinions and preconceptions get projected. Mangione, who was arrested Monday in connection with the shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, fits that bill.

Prior to his arrest, Mangione was an unknown. Police had released a grainy security camera photo showing half of their suspect’s face, but beyond that all anyone knew was that someone had killed the CEO of a health insurance company—and that someone quickly became an online folk hero. He was painted as an avenger, a response to a health care system that had fallen short. Some called the mysterious suspect “The Adjuster.”

On TikTok, people performed ballads dedicated to whomever the shooter was. On Bluesky, they marveled over his ebike escape and the backpack found in Central Park full of Monopoly money that allegedly belonged to him. There was a look-alike contest held in New York City. On Spotify, there were dedicated playlists. Fanfic sprang up on Archive of Our Own.

Online, fans exist for almost everything and everyone. Following the shooting death of Brian Thompson, a fandom emerged around his suspected killer that seemed unifying in a way few others have been. He became an avatar that anyone who’d ever struggled with a hospital bill could understand.

Many of the most engaged posts on X mentioning Thompson or UnitedHealthcare following the shooting “expressed explicit or implicit support for the killing or denigrated the victim,” the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) wrote in a report compiled before Mangione’s arrest. Rhetoric that was once more at home on 4chan or 8chan was spreading to other forums. “[T]his phenomenon was once largely confined to niche online subcultures,” the authors wrote. “We are now witnessing similar dynamics emerging on mainstream platforms.”

Mass shooters and other perpetrators of violence often become memes, NCRI senior adviser Alex Goldenberg told The New York Times, “but what’s disturbing about this is that it’s mainstream.” People reacted to the death of Thompson like it signaled the start of a class war.

In the US, people have strong opinions about health insurance companies, and when it came out that the alleged shooter had written “deny,” “depose,” “defend” on some ammo casings, they rallied round. When it turned out Mangione had been spotted at a fast-food restaurant in Altoona, Pennsylvania, someone on Bluesky called it SnitchDonald’s; others briefly review-bombed the location. (Google later pulled many negative reviews.)

Mangione appeared in a Pennsylvania court on Monday night to be arraigned on two felony charges, one related to a firearm and another to a false ID. He also faces three related misdemeanor charges. He didn’t enter a plea. He was later charged with murder in Manhattan. As soon as his name was released Monday, though, the internet’s investigation, and judgment, of him entered a whole new phase.

People pored over old X accounts and GitHub pages that appeared to belong to him. A thorough investigation of what seems to be his Goodreads account showed that he read Michael Pollan and Aldous Huxley. He had an Ivy League education and might’ve been a fan of Joe Rogan and/or Tucker Carlson. What some folks online had imagined as a left-leaning anti-capitalist revolutionary turned out to be someone with beliefs as complicated and perhaps as conflicting as just about anyone else online. Memes, it seemed, had once again reduced someone to whom the internet wanted him to be, a reflection of their own frustrations with health care in the US or the power of massive corporations.

Someone who would kill a health care CEO might share those frustrations, but very little else, with the people obsessing over him online.

This, perhaps, makes Mangione’s Milkshake Duck moment not quite a Milkshake Duck moment at all. Yes, people are reevaluating how they perceived Thompson’s suspected killer and his motivations, but they’re not totally abandoning him entirely. When police released his mug shot late Monday, giving a fuller picture of the good-looking person from the photo authorities had released days prior, online thirst was everywhere. Fanfiction writers remain at work. Etsy is full of merch.

As Ryan Broderick put it in his Garbage Day newsletter on Monday, “It’s possible that this is the most aligned America—well, aside from the folks in its highest tax brackets—has been about a news story since the invention of the internet.”

Want further proof? Look no further than the comments on Daily Wire host Ben Shapiro’s YouTube channel. On a video titled “The EVIL Revolutionary Left Cheers Murder!” the responses were swift and unequivocal: “FACT: Both left AND right are cheering! We don't care about your feelings”; “I’m not buying this ‘left vs right’ shit anymore Ben, I want health care for my family”; “Just because ‘the left’ likes something doesn’t mean you have to instinctively hate it. Wake up and read the room bro.” Not exactly the kind of banter typically found in the comments section of a manosphere video.

Public opinion on Mangione’s and Thompson’s fate will likely continue to shift for weeks. So much more information will come to the fore. Like any other main character, Mangione’s entire life will be analyzed, but what gets said about him may seem small compared to what the response to his actions says about everyone else.

[untitledinstinct]

I'm sorry that I need to ask. I'm at the end of my rope...

I'm not proud of needing to ask. There's just no other option for me to get this help. I need access to the world again...

My agoraphobia is so limiting.

Agoraphobia: frequently believed to be fear of outside, when it's fear of being trapped in a situation, away from safety.

It's feeling almost like you're being hunted any time you go outside.

I need my own transportation. I need an ebike/scooter.

This helps me actually get to, and from the places I need to be, with less of that fear.

About 80% of the times I can't go out is because I can't work up the courage to take the bus, anxiety making me sick to my stomach.

[[[Edit: this is not because of my size, this is due to fibromyalgia, and severe agoraphobia, that's connected to cptsd.

I have monitored and tracked my pain on a 1-10 scale for over 3 years now, about about 3 or 4 times a week, because I wanted to monitor this specifically - there has been no correlation between my chronic pain, and my weight gain. At all.

I monitor anxiety, and depression as well, to try and find trends, and keep an eye on things since I have issues with dissociation, and lose track of time frequently.]]]

I need this as a way to get more independence, and less delivery charges (primarily on groceries).

This helps me actually get to, and from the places I need to be, with less of that fear.

I left the house less than 30 times in 2 years, because I couldn't just get there on my own.

Normally people do that in about a month... 2 years.

I want my independence back.

I need access to the world.

Being on disability this kind of thing is never going to be available to me on my own.

This I would have for many years, and my father is a mechanic, so after warranty, I have the ability to get anything fixed up.

This also cuts my bus cost to least than 1/3rd the cost for many

Trips out.

Where as the bus being over 3 times the cost, just one way, of one trip.

The landlord is reno-ing the driveway, and adding a shed at the back of it, and because my unit is smallest, I get dibs on it.

So I'll have somewhere safe to store it.

I just want access to the world.

[sourcreammachine]

idea:

a truck simulator / road trip style videogame but set in a transportpunk utopia

everything that can fit into a standard shipping container gets sent via freight rail. bridges over the bering, darién, gibraltar, york, dover and malacca carry ultrafast freight trains faster than Concorde, and conventional rail lines carry it further. there’s even automated sorting centres passing consumer packages onto delivery ‘vans’ which use the tram/trolley system, getting packages from another continent alll the way to your doorstep. it’s paradise

that’s all, of course, for everything that fits within a regulation-size shipping container. everything that fits in the rail system

you are a member of the hauliers’ cooperative. road haulage is for oversize loads only. your job is oversize loads

the motorways have either been replaced with new rail lines piggybacking their infrastructure, or they’ve been totally demolished – so you only have access to the regular old inter-town highways, or worse. many of these roads are in a bit of a state –claimed by potholes, overgrown with moss, flooded completely – so these deliveries need the hand of a professional

there’s not been zero advancement of battery-powered vehicles, not at all. your cab is proper cush with no pesky combustion engine in the way, and you’ve even got power delivery to your rear wheels to control the position of your ass. what’s more, space technology has replaced your wheel systems with the wheel-feet seen on planetary explorers, allowing for omnidirectional travel and perfect manoeuvrability. this is offroading, despite being on the road. your absolute top speed is probably 80kph in ideal safe flat conditions

with six hours a day (including lunch, with two hours possible overtime) you’ll be clearing a couple hundred k per day, from city to city. end your shift by plugging in at a chargepoint at the city’s truckstop, from where you can use the public transit system to see the sights, get some scran, and kip at a local bunkhouse (all free of charge). workers’ rights apply to you, of course

HSR connects cities, commuter rail connects towns, light rail connects large villages, and rural literail connects small villages – so the only private vehicles on the roads are typically carrying those who live outside villages to their local park & ride. most are ebikes. many walk

with almost no cars, with no buses, with no standard-size lorries, the roads are near-empty for traffic. with the road system massively scaled back, with swathes of agricultural land deprecated for rewilding, with massive curtailment of exurban sprawl through densification, the vistas you see are incredible

you are a part of the world and must work with it. the 4x4 (or more) nature of your vehicle is you communicating with the world around you, touching and feeling it to make your way through. you are not here to bulldoze and pave and carve a path, you’re negotiating access. this is why you’re a professional

[theorist-influencer-untitled]

6.29.24 Saturday

9:19 am

Still,have windblow...

I did a live stream on Tagged last night it was "adult hour" super adult hour like 11 onwards... I can't stream earlier coz I'm busy on something here,personal business and some things here...

I'm not happy being flatten,I hope my viewers last night take my words seriously coz I'm really serious though probably some will not take my words seriously...

Uncle DD and Aunt Karen are not here,yet... Thanks for the 1 sack of rice but I need to have maintenance of some creams and lotions for me that I'm still a bummer now... I need some toiletries here to calm my dying or crying soul.

I mentioned Borgy Manotoc name on my live stream for something that I wanted to visit ilocos just for saying hi and whatever "adventure" I can have there in their "sand dunes".... I wanted to transfer in ilocos,in time. I just wanna talk on something if ever...

Last night, I have 1 viewer who wanted to go here in the house, wearing white shirt.... I said it is not allowed coz this is a private house and for my safety and it depends if we have business... Probably next time I can have time to gather people. Hoping and praying but it is just for a friendly thing or gathering...

For the updates of my loans and borrowed blah2x... I have existing loans on Tala2x and Lazadah, Moca2x and that fake Credit Peso!

On Marah and Kuya Erning already my 11th water container...

On Ely is is 4k pesoses already,I still have 6k before giving him a song number but hoping for me to get a job....But we are just "really friends or just a buddy2x"....

On Doc Ibias and Elaine I have around 400 creditz as well...

So, hoping for me to get a job and I feel self-pity for not having a job and I wanted a car... I wanna have self-fulfillment.

I still feel hurt coz my cousin white is already married that I'm hating him now...

I don't know if I can have Pilot Garret... But I'm really falling for these faces having the same strength that can ease my pain... My cousin white and Garret!!! He is healing me without knowing why...

The main thing how will I pay my loans? Is there any way for me to be on TV coz of these???

10:04 am

Still,have windblow...

This is cool for just here and there.But I wanted to have a car... I feel self-pity...

This kind of 3 wheels,angels... Got it from Ebike Bentahan sa Cavite linked on Daryl Ayala.

Chasing cars???

10:31 am

I plan to loan again to get a steamer and for some expenses like my lotions...

I still wanna do nose perfection...

Did Mitch give me a simple battery? It is not about execellence.... It is about "negligence"???

I wanna be Paris angels...

10:56 am

Huh this Credit Peso?

11:07 am

This wedding gown is cool! THIS CAN BE MY WEDDING GOWN....

4:08 pm

Huh? Credit Peso?Angels please handle these crazy people...

Style of DD???

4:57 pm

Just take note of this angels...

5:29 pm

Closeness 2 fakes... Uncle DD is pink and Ate Eden is the Blue....

7:12 pm

That Eden girl is intelligent on making a division here... She wanted a separate monthly dues... She is mentioning a 2 separate house and lot that she ordered on Uncle DD...

Eden is so good on making an another route of story... The one is wearing a blue shirt. But she said it was as well requested by Uncle DD...

8:57 pm

This is weird life here... Uncle DD is having a strange behaviour...

No update from Teleperformance... Fakers crew of INC's or Manalo's crew perhaps... They are the people who have the access on the treasure of the world. Free car,free plane ticket and free surgery... They have the easy life coz they are crew and artist at the same time...

9:03 pm

Credit Peso and Lemon Loan are both crazy and fakers... I didn't push through my Lemon Loan. If you borrow 1000 they will only give 500.

Credit Peso and Lemon Loan are having the same fakers and killers group!

9:08 pm

Later will do live hoping I can monetize in Tagged...

9:43 pm

It is hard for me to find a bf... Can I steal my fucking cousin white angels? I want my power! My power coming from my angels friends...

It is impossible that Garret can appear here... I feel hopeless...

I wanna steal my cousin white from that bride... Can I get back my cousin white? Whereever he is I hope I have angels to steal my cousin white for me and lead him to my road....

For my killer group can you separate my cousin white from women and lead him back to me... Can you please prove to me that I'm your friend, power me...

[alarrytale]

Anons trying to find a lot of explanations for why they wouldn't be on cover together. I just think it wouldn't happen because what are they even going to talk about on said interview? How much they love Loewe clothes? Tell their supposed love story? They have not been together long enough, aparently since like June according to the oficial narrative. Worse, according to deuxmoi, that TR's team suppossedly has connections to, at the end of July they were not even exclusive and Harry was still seeing other girls and they were still only just having fun? So, I ask myself again, what would they even try to sell? That Harry is a playboy but loves her so much that he stopped seeing his other gazzilion of women for her? Or will they tell us that what they have in common is liking do marathons around London? Or will they say they love Lime bikes? What would even be the so interesting story that the world cannot live without that would justify the editor of Vogue giving them a cover?

But no worries, one thing we know is that deuxmoi will have a blind item in less than no time to tell us who will be on that cover, they also did that when it was olivia.

I have like five asks about those god damn lime ebikes in my inbox right now. Who knew people were so passionate about them?

Oh, you know i don't think their respective spin doctors would have any issue with coming up with a tale, based on old known info, a couple of private anecdotes about a common interest or a cat story. It depends on if harry's side has an agenda. He might be bold and talk queerbaiting to address billy porter? It might also be more her interview, she's got a show and an upcoming movie to promote. Harry might give an exclusive about his coming plans or talk about memories from tour. It's just gonna be pagefill to go with the pics. Unless they want a specific thing out there.

I have no doubt deuxmoi will be fed the party line by their pr people. So if something happens we'll know in advance.

[ultramaga]

While I was walking, a guy crashed on the road nearby. His front wheel came off on an ebike. I helped him home, getting lovely reminders from my back all the ways.

It was the first time I have seen one up close.

It's an electric motorbike, going over 60 kph on the flat without pedalling, and requires no license or rego plates.

Try doing that on a motorcycle and you can go to jail, but the government is pushing these ebikes to replace cars, so they are willing to cut corners.

I had an elderly relative who bought a robot vacuum. It requires a smartphone, which they don't have and could not possibly use, or it stops working.

You have to run the app, which is probably full of spyware. The current Chinese business model is to double bill the customers. You pay up front, then pay with privacy as they harvest your data.

Recently, there was a scandal because it turns out the robot vacuum cleaners are programmed to upload footage of weak points in security, children changing clothes, etc, and by an amazing coincidence, that data is then auctioned off to pedos and thieves.

It would not surprise me if they turned out to have microphones as well, but they definitely can take photos, or at least the model they were talking about could.

Maybe I am just getting old, but it just seems like the world is steadily getting worse.

[monorim]

🔝Well, the era of electric scooters has officially announced a change in mode, let us rock us up 🎖️🎖️🔥 So let's start our self rights. 🆙My scooter , my way, my world 👉🏻 MONORIM DIY Ele-scooter 🌎leader …#scooter#ebike

[cenabisbene]

So I went ahead and did some rough math based on the roof areas from this site: https://weprintwraps.com/wp-content/themes/weprintwraps/files/pvo_square_footage_list.pdf

So your average small car has about ~20sqft of roof area, while your larger car gets up to ~35-40sqft. Your average home solar panel is about 15 sqft and produces between 200 and 350 W max power. You're not going to be getting max power from a panel lying flat on your roof (which you're going to want to do otherwise the drag will be horrendous) so let's say you're going to average 100 W over the span of an 8-hour workday parked in the sun on a small car, double that on a big car.

So that's 800-1600 watt-hours (Wh). What can you do with that? Well depending on who you believe (basically the carmakers or the EPA), your electric car can get between 2 and 4 miles per kWh. So over the course of the workday, you're going to be able to charge your car enough to go about a mile and a half, maybe three miles if you're in really good conditions. Maybe you can stretch that to five miles if you're planning on limping home at 5-10 mph.

So that means if you're stranded six miles from home you will need to let it charge for two days before you have enough power to drive home. Don't forget that if it's cold out, it's likely either because it's cloudy or winter, so you're going to get a lot less than 100 W average out of your panels due to the angle of the sun or the clouds blocking the sun.

The point I'm trying to make with this is that CARS ARE HORRENDOUSLY INEFFICIENT WAYS TO GET AROUND. The amount of weight that you're dragging around you when you drive is really difficult for people to accurately comprehend, and the amount of energy that it takes to get all that weight up to speed is, again, really difficult to wrap your head around.

By contrast, my electric bike on full throttle without any pedaling gets up to 22 mph and draws about 350 W, meaning that I can go more than 20 miles on my little battery that weighs six pounds and is the size of two bricks taped together. If the battery dies I can pedal it home! And if I really wanted to, I could fill the saddlebags with enough solar panels to fully charge it over the course of the work day!

And before anyone says "not everyone can ride a bike" or "what about the rain" there are people out there building electric trikes, recumbent bikes, and all sorts of other human-size electric vehicles that take up waaaay less space in the world than a car and get you where you want to go with a tiny fraction of the amount of energy it takes to haul a ton of steel and aluminum around the road at 35 mph.

tl;dr making a solar-panel-covered electric car is like putting lipstick on a slightly more polite pig, car-centricity is a cancer, get an ebike if you can

Okay also I’ve been driving electric cars long enough now to be really emphatic that the fact that they’re not all automatically built with solar panels in the roofs is a scandal.

And somehow almost every time I tell anyone this they roll their eyes and attempt to explain to me that this would not create a perpetual motion machine because of the limitations of the area relative to the power draw of the motor, which is incredibly annoying because that’s not the point.

Yes it’s possible that driving in the sunshine with a solar collector dripping into the battery would net you a little more mileage on that trip before needing recharge, but the usefulness of a solar-topped electric car is that if you drive it someplace–say, to work–and leave it outside in the sun all day, you’ll definitely have more range available by the time you’re ready to head home.

Also if you fuck up your calculations because of the inefficiency induced by cold weather or something and get yourself stranded without anywhere to charge, like halfway up a mountain or, more likely, six miles from home, you can call for rescue or walk away, come back later, and it’ll be able to move again.

This is important because unlike running out of gas you can’t really go get some electricity.

[the-firebird69]

Well he thinks he missed posting something but no he got it out and for real he did miss it he says it's suggestive of Trump's experience with the Borg he's going to have the cell phone he keeps crank calling our son with you you don't crank call me ever and everybody telling you by shooting you in the head isn't enough so now you're going to have your own cell phone and let's hope you can remember the number if you can't you won't be able to use it he doesn't like it and he is a schlep and loser we're going to take it out on him right now we have several things to do and we have to get ready but all sorts of checks will still be issued but all sorts of texts are going to be messed up and people can be fighting the a****** and I'll see that some people get it and they'll say why and they'll have to find out and it's because he couldn't block it and a lot of them know that they're stopping them that's going to pick up speed especially Friday morning it's not the benefits he's after right now but he's going to try that s*** and he wants to steal the money okay and it's a loser thing to do and truthfully Terry cheesman is going to mess him up as I was like well you're a rebel and stuff and so they hate him and the guys going to go down I mean there's there's no point in reviewing over and over but still so we have a couple things to do he has to get his exterior suit stuff together and the long range ebike and some other things and just does not have the money and it's because of this idiot Trump and he's doing it to a whole bunch of people now and our son is included in the FEMA money it's being held up the letter got there and this guy is in the way now around our son the battle intensifies and tons of numbers die and that's what's happening to Trump in his trumpsters they are getting slaughtered they're getting slaughtered at social security too I'm very badly and this guy spread it out because he thinks he's got the AI and he's getting shot.

--Huge numbers of people are coming out of the woodwork to fight this idiot in his army of s******** and they are pulling them in and taking them down and getting information a lot of it is about these stashes and caches and a lot of people are trying to locate tunnels to come up from below to try not to engage bja and the fat ass doesn't understand what his job is and yeah he's laughing cuz he's stupid and we are going to go after him and get him out of the way another item

--our son is in distress and always financially strapped and it's because of this guy Trump he is a human loser and he's a just a gigantic pyrea for our son and society too and he's focusing on her son and making him miserable too we want the guy gone dead we're working on it they were understanding there's a series of events that happen and it gets them out of office we need to step that up I hear our son saying I don't know what the the events are or how to get it going but we have to and we really do there's several events that happen to him and before March March is way too far away at this rate we we need him out right now and I kind of egg them on but people need to see what he's up to we actually need them out before the end of March and we need them out now there's a lot of people that hate him we're going to use it

--in addition to these items he's harassing people all over the world and about money mostly we're going to take his money and a lot of people got the message he's taking her stuff and taking our money we're going to take it from him I'm tired of listening to it I'm tired of seeing it we need the money too and we can hire people and use people's names we're sick of these idiots

--we're sick of people in this area we don't think the cavern will drop tonight but it will drop tomorrow night and tanzi will die and a lot of you are trumpsters and will get you the hell out of the way the idiot wants to keep our son here in punta Gorda. He told him you have stage 5 level 5 cancer and you're trying to hold me here it doesn't do anything to me and the guys going well that's not good then he tries to attack our son while he's telling them that stuff it says it's gone beyond stage 5 today and you're a f****** moron so the guy starts complaining and he says I'm a moron you're f****** dumb and he starts saying I sort of get it but no he doesn't get it and the other day it seemed like John remillard was inside the house of staying of Stan and it was after payday and Stan is sitting there in the house trying to threaten our son and he said oh I thought you were in there listening to a tape and Stan got mad and he says I wonder if he can see in here and he noticed that the window you can see a little bit and he says I look like an idiot and he's mad and her son says you look like an idiot you know why because you are one so you got more angry and he says what do you want about it and stuff like that it said this fat ass picture for his and he he are sitting across there watching you do it so he looks into it and they're having him do it so now they're fighting like they should and yeah he's going to go blind if he doesn't like he did and they're making him do that and you can't figure it out this is what's the deal is they do it to me all the time and I'm sick of everybody leaning on me to try and stop him not and saying all the stupid s*** is my fault and it's really the people here who don't do their job and he started getting mad and said you're actually right and you don't do the job against the massive pyrea and he'll get done half-assed and I'm going to take most of the stuff and I need it and yeah so you start smirking and smacking of slips and saying all the s*** cuz if we lose we kind of deserve it so it's another pretty good size item that nobody is pulling their weight and then sit here and wait for something to happen for us on no they're waiting something to happen to him and he'll get grabbed by the idiot and they start screwing around with people again and it's not really to help and we know what they're up to and it won't do much for them they're going to lose and they lose big time

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