TulliusCicero

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by TulliusCicero 4mo ago
You do realize e-bikes exist beyond Europe? In the US, e-bikes can go up to 20mph (32 kmh) or 28 mph (45 kmh) depending on classification.
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by TulliusCicero 4mo ago
And you can literally fall asleep at the wheel and get away with a $300 fine: https://komonews.com/news/local/sleeping-tesla-driver-speedi...
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by TulliusCicero 4mo ago
To be clear, the "e-bikes" in question aren't what you usually think of as e-bikes. Not only do they look different, they're faster and typically don't even require pedaling (and may not have pedals at all). Hence w
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by TulliusCicero 4mo ago
True, it's not exactly the same situation, but it does ban them for the riders (the teens) who were previously on them. You could make it more analogous by saying that we could enforce stricter regulations on big SUVs and trucks in ter
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by TulliusCicero 4mo ago
Exactly.
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by TulliusCicero 4mo ago
Other countries have smartphones too.
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by TulliusCicero 4mo ago
WA state recently passed a law about e-bikes/e-motorcycles to deal with the issue of younger teens on these kinda moped-style e-bikes going very fast around town (and often riding quite recklessly). The law is reasonable, but it stri
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by TulliusCicero 4mo ago
Yeah, I was thinking the exact same thing: > There remains a clear penalty for being an open LLM user. Every leaderboard consistently gets topped by proprietary models served over API. Today on June 21, 2026, Claude and GPT are at the to
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by TulliusCicero 4mo ago
I think there's space for less crappy social media. The early days of Facebook, where I actually saw friends and family posting their thoughts, that was great! It wasn't dominated by people resharing political screeds or random vi
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by TulliusCicero 4mo ago
It's been not so great for me so far, but I think that's because the street I often take before getting into the roundabout is still reduced to one lane each way due to construction; once it's back to two lanes each way, I th
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by TulliusCicero 4mo ago
No, they reduce the number of accidents, and also reduce the severity of accidents.
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by TulliusCicero 4mo ago
> You should just pull into the roundabout, right after the car already in the roundabout passes by. At the risk of pointing out the obvious: the issue is that there's another car right there , when traffic is heavy.
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by TulliusCicero 4mo ago
Nah, being able to reduce to a single cable type is great. The thing, it's not just about what cables you have at home, or even which ones you bring on a trip. It means if you go out on a trip with a small bag and a battery, you only
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by TulliusCicero 4mo ago
Americans actually like decent, walkable neighborhoods. But there's no cultural momentum behind actually zoning for such; quite the opposite, really.
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by TulliusCicero 4mo ago
This response is part of the problem. People feel uncomfortable about others who look really crazy/shady for public transit or in parks, and in response they're told, "have you considered that maybe you're just overthink
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by TulliusCicero 4mo ago
Public transit in the US just mostly sucks. It tends to be sparse, slow, unreliable, and yeah sometimes there are crazies who make the environment feel dangerous. You send Americans over to visit Tokyo and they have zero problems taking the
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by TulliusCicero 4mo ago
I miss the early days of FB where people just wrote thoughts about what they were feeling or doing. I wish we had something like that where there was no reposting/resharing, and links & photos were allowed but deemphasized in the U
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by TulliusCicero 5mo ago
> We'll spend ~20-30 minutes charging on the way home but that's it. Just getting off the freeway and back onto it will add ~10 minutes to a trip, and that's assuming the charger is fairly close to the exit, and that you d
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by TulliusCicero 5mo ago
A very good, 100% true comment. Now obviously sometimes new developments really are bad, or they're being targeted at terrible spots -- you don't want a very polluting factory right next to a residential neighborhood. But we&#x2
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by TulliusCicero 5mo ago
To be fair, adopting the 'curious' style of engagement in internet forums is typically a good way to end up as message board roadkill. It works in smaller groups where basically everyone is engaging in good faith and willing to li
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by TulliusCicero 5mo ago
They aren't, and yet somehow you still find various groups who will fight them. Seattle is currently dealing with this for a new WinCo -- which is low-priced and employee-owned, making it particularly unobjectionable -- on a site tha
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by TulliusCicero 5mo ago
The ratio has been way worse than that in my experience, especially in cold weather. Could easily turn a 3 hour trip from Seattle to Portland to 5-6 hours during winter, when mileage plummets on the freeway. Obviously part of that is that t
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by TulliusCicero 5mo ago
We have a couple EVs. Great, except for road trips, where range is more limited at freeway speeds, and charging is slow and obnoxious.
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by TulliusCicero 5mo ago
I'm not sure a carrier strike group would actually outright lose to a giant swarm of drones, at least in terms of the carrier being sunk. A Shahed warhead is pretty small once you're using it against large warships. That said, I w
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by TulliusCicero 5mo ago
Nonsensical comment. It's barely even coherent.
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by TulliusCicero 5mo ago
True, if the government is leaning on private actors then that's also an issue of free speech, because it's still ultimately at the behest of the government.
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by TulliusCicero 5mo ago
It's not specific to corporations, it's any sort of private group. Free speech is the government not punishing you for saying something they don't like, not private actors forced to give you a soapbox.
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by TulliusCicero 5mo ago
Free speech is fundamentally about the government restricting your speech, not private platforms. There is no constitutional right to post on Facebook. Amazing how certain people do their best to ignore this, every single time.
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by TulliusCicero 5mo ago
> You can be protected by safe harbour provisions, or you can editorialise your content. I don't think you should have both. That's hilariously impractical. Just because you want to and can moderate some things doesn't mea
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by TulliusCicero 5mo ago
You could, but things would still be harder for botters.

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