So glad I switched from Fitbit to Garmin. Google has done everything possible to lose me as a customer.

You do not have to pedal most ebikes. Class 2 ebike and class 3 ebikes can be operated by throttle. Built in speed limits are usually easy to bypass.

Yes, it is really problem. On the Golden Gate Bridge it has been a problem for years. E-bikes going down the sidewalks much to fast to respond to pedestrians and so on.

Speaking as a motorcycle rider, ebikes are dangerous. Not because of the bike but because of the riders. They often don't wear safety gear, they don't follow traffic laws, and many bikes top out at 70-80kph. It took considerable effort to get my Class M. A bike going that fast should require licensing and safety courses and helmet laws. Most people don't realize they can squid out on the road on an ebike just like you will on a motorcycle without proper gear.

I just installed Fedora 44 on my old Win10 laptop. Because Microsoft made sure this perfectly good laptop with 16gb RAM could not run Win11. And Affinity Suite runs great on wine now. And no obnoxious telemetry tracking. Oh yeah, for games: steam and lutris too.

Yeah yeah yeah, linux linux linux

still, Microsoft is in self-destruct mode.

You cannot just put pedals on a Harley and call it a bicycle. There are some so-called ebikes that can go highway speeds.

Often, there is no other place for cyclists to ride. Often, to get to one bike path to another, you have to ride on sidewalks. Often, sidewalks are considered bike paths.
Bicycles have enormous potential to reduce greenhouse gases, and solve many other problems - as has been proved in the Netherlands. But a certain amount of urban planning is needed.

The fuels are not made from fossils. Maybe "carbon" fuels would make more sense?

Untold billions in outright fraud were uncovered. Want to try again?

The US sent Ukraine about $100 billion, what does it take to be properly armed?

That is not exactly correct. There is a reason they are called "tariffs" not "taxes."
Tariffs can bring in revenue, but they can also be used for public policy, and trade policy.
For example, let's suppose a country imposes on tariff of some US goods, and the president immediately turns around and imposes tariffs on some of that countries goods. The tariff is not for revenue, it can be to tell the other country to back off.
There are a million reasons a president might want to impose tariffs. It is a tool that can be used for all sorts of negotiations.

Gas prices were still on average lower under Biden?
Gas prices are temporarily up because of a war with Iran, that has gone on all of 7 weeks.
Not long ago, gas prices here in Colorado, were as low as $2.12 a gallon.
I am certain that if you averaged it out, fuel prices under Biden were much higher.

Obviously illegal?
Other US presidents have imposed tariffs, why is Trump treated differently?
But, speaking of "obviously illegal" Joe Biden, in brazen defiance of the US constitution, forgave student loans. The case went to the Supreme Court twice, and both times SCOTUS upheld that Biden did not have that authority. But Biden did it anyway, and bragged about.
Makes me wonder who is the dickhead doing things "obviously illegal."

Shakespeare, I think.

According to the article in scienceblog:
- The Body Makes Its Own [fructose]
- Does fruit cause the same metabolic damage as soda?
-- No, and the review is careful on this point. Whole fruit contains fructose, but it also contains fibre, flavanols, vitamin C and potassium, all of which slow fructose absorption or blunt its downstream effects. The dose is also lower and the delivery slower. Fizzy drinks, by contrast, deliver a concentrated fructose bolus fast enough to overwhelm the small intestine’s protective filtering.