A motor doesnt have anywhere near the rotating mass of a useful kinetic energy storage flywheel. HTH.

Dunno about bikes, but theres little difference in driving feel (not sound) between an ICE car with an auto box and an EV. Unless you think shifting into D is some kind of at one with the machine experience.

I'm pretty sure new riders can learn more throttle = go faster. There was a big fuss in F1 back in the day about getting rid of manual shifters. How many of today's drivers would go back to them now?

Revolutions require a substantial proportion of a group/population to act together at the same time as one. A few people here or there trying it just get bulldozed.

Theyre working for a company founded by a thieving sociopath that treats its users as monetisable assets. Why did they think theyd get special treatment when push came to shove?

And more importantly - their money.

That of course assumes there isnt a shortcut involving physics we're not even close to discovering.

Harris was a continuation of the previous administration which a lot of people had had enough of. I'd have thought that was pretty obvious. Also collective memory fades fast.

Youre assuming everyone votes for one candidate rather than against the other. Harris was unelectable.

9 years isnt a long time for anyone except kids. There are probably a shitload of embedded systems with kernels older than 9 years and probably some old phones and tablets still around too. Sure, for external facing systems you need to be up to date, but plenty of corps dont upgrade the firewalled backend servers for a long period because they Just Work and new kernel can mean new bugs and new failure scenarios not to mention app compatibility issues. See: Cobol.

So get off your high horse sonny and when you're out of short trousers maybe you'll understand.

9 years isnt a long time for anyone except kids and Gen Z. There are probably a shitload of embedded systems with kernels older than 9 years and probably some old phones and tablets still around too. Sure, for external facing systems you need to be up to date, but plenty of corps dont upgrade the firewalled backend servers for a long period because they Just Work and new kernel can mean new bugs and new failure scenarios not to mention app compatibility issues. See: Cobol.

So get off your high horse sonny and when you're out of short trousers maybe you'll understand.

The thing that's really pissing me off about a lot of videos on youtube now is the subtitles that are part of the video and cant be switched off. Why TF people do them beats the hell out of me.

... I suspect the police there have better things to do with their time than chase kids on ebikes across parks and playgrounds.

Pity it still doesnt. No one likes a traitor.

Here in the UK the price tag for HS2 which is approx 100 miles of (very) high speed track has hit £100 billion and climbing.