That's just your observational bias, because many ebikes are hard to recognize as being e-bikes when the rider is pedaling.

The main nugget of this study, showing e-bikes provide workouts, is that like regular bikes, they aren't just exercise equipment, but have real practical utility as well.

And that means you can get good exercise while fulfilling practical purposes. Getting food, hauling kids, going places, you can get exercise while doing it. And where e-bikes really shine, in my opinion, is they can make trips much more predictable. You can still stick to a schedule even if one day you encounter a brutal headwind. Getting screwed by street lights or having to stop for some reason, you can make up the time using the electric motor instead of turning yourself inside out.

And, all at a slim fraction of the personal and societal cost of a car.

This should come at no surprise. Just about every aspect of our society is hostile towards having kids. They are expensive, economic policies make the financial choices difficult to make, health care costs is like playing financial Russian roulette with each baby.

Our built environment leaves very few places for kids to live and grow. Excessive auto-oriented development has made most communities dangerous for children without close parental supervision. Suburban America might be an OK place to shelter children, but it isn't a place to raise them.

Politicians in DC and State governments are constantly trying to ruin state schools, wanting to leave everyone unable to afford expensive private schools to fight for scraps.

The USA is the only developed country with no mandated paid maternal leave, or paternal for that matter.

And of course, the party that claims to be about family values is at the forefront of fucking all this shit up. It's a disgrace for the wealthiest country on earth.

This has been used to prove criminal behavior after an accident.

No, it's been used to prove criminal behavior after a crash. If someone is driving criminally, and crashes, it's no accident. Language is important.

The FBI does this rather frequently, to much criticism.

The crime isn't fake per se, but they play a major part in creating the situation. Often, the people snagged in these are complete fucking idiots, that would on their own be completely incapable of carrying out the plot. Often, the undercover agents select the place, the means, and the time for the terrorist plot. It's less a matter of the FBI foiling terrorist plots, but more the FBI tricking troubled individuals into volunteering for a long prison sentence.

Sure, the intent is there on the people ensared by these sting operations, but decades of prison for people that would be unable to fulfill these criminal acts without FBI help isn't justice.

Examples: https://www.kansascity.com/new...
Also the cleveland bridge bombers, and others.

I'd like to see how well this gear selection process works when the driver needs to rapidly switch between forward and reverse, a situation commonly encountered in muddy or snowing conditions.

Because any time someone departs an on-street parking space, they have to look over their shoulder and make sure the street is clear before pulling out.

I did that once, and needed the money pretty badly. The credit card company said they could return the payment, in 60 days. The credit card company: Citi.

Fuck them.

Wall Street is very good at making money

That statement would imply they are creating the wealth which doesn't yet exist. More accurately, Wall Street is very good at extracting money/wealth, not making it.

How about both?

Spite is the justification. Spite is legal.

Not necessarily. Pump and dump involves artificially inflating the price of an owned stock through false and misleading positive statements.

Inflating the price based on factual information is not illegal. The redditors are inflating the price based on the very factual information that doing so screws over certain wall street investors. Spite is perfectly legal.

I think very few will lose their shirts, the vast majority it seems are happy to lose a few hundred bucks if it bankrupts a wall street hedge fund in the process. They are driven by spite rather than financial interests. At least that's the vibe I've gotten.

Are you really trying to argue that the patent system isn't a load of shit? It's current status today is little more than a legally enforced game of "dibs".

A President can't pardon someone until they are convicted of a crime.

This is false and would be determined with less than a minute of research.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

https://www.quora.com/Can-a-pr...

https://slate.com/news-and-pol...

Or read the text of the supreme court that ruled such: https://www.law.cornell.edu/su...

It extends to every offence known to the law, and may be exercised at any time after its commission, either before legal proceedings are taken, or during their pendency, or after conviction and judgment.

The act for which a pardon is issued must have already took place, but pre-emptive pardons are very much available to the POTUS.