Aside from price, I’m not sure it’s worse than a traditional tandem (assuming you’re comparing it to a cheap used tandem, not a new Co-Motion tandem which is about the same price). You can ride it as a single rider and use it as a cargo bike without having it look like you got a traditional tandem bike in the divorce. The stoker being in the front and recumbent means they can look at a map or read a book aloud while pedaling. It seems like an overall better design than the traditional recumbent if only for the fact that one person doesn’t have ass in their face. Theres a mechanism on this bike that’s makes it so the front cranks are adjustable depending on the stoker’s leg length, which might be difficult to figure out on my own with a welder since chain tension seems like a major issue to solve.

I do agree it’s overly expensive. Kinda par for the course though since both tandems and cargo bikes are expensive. The electric version of this bike is over $10k

Accessible bikes are so neat. I’ve been obsessed with the Hase Pino recently. It’s a semi-recumbent tandem bike. They’re pretty expensive though.

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You came in here saying that OP would be getting less judgement in .world because it's less political than ml. I agree that they'd get less judgemental comments over there, but not because it's less political. World's politics just align more with the kind of politics OP desires- hence less judgement. If directly responding to your claim is irrelevant, then yours was as well.

I guess it's on me for expecting you to finally respond to my actual point after trying to restate the same thing over and over, but seeing as that never actually happened, I'm out.

Do you think I'm trying to convince you to become political or to change your ways? Or are you just imagining my responses without reading them? My entire point is there's no such thing as being apolitical in a political world. Every single action you take or doesn't take reinforces or undermines the current system unless you're in kindergarten in a heated discussion about your favorite color. Assuming you're not in kindergarten, you should be able to handle a bit of how various topics are impacted or are connected to politics regardless of your own participation in those discussions.

Not caring IS political. It's a political stance to be so disconnected from reality that one would prefer to bury their head in the sand and ask for advice on how to bury it further.

Not caring about the state of the world doesn't absolve you of your responsibility to it. It just makes you a negligent parent not wanting to talk about your kids every time you go to the bar.

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Because being able to ignore politics is helpful to the liberal west who is trying to cling to status quo. It's not helpful to marxist leninists who don't like the status quo. This doesn't make .ml more political, it's just equally political reactions from different sides of an issue.

Assisting and seeking to ignore or cover up clear abuses only serves to shield the abuser. Whistle-blowing might seem like a more political response to abuse, but covering up abuse is also political.

Boss makes a dollar,

I make a dime,

Ignore the hunger,

Highlight the crime

I had to explain to someone the other day what "dead internet theory" was and I wondered if I'm the one that's too online.

I fear the iceberg is far larger than I imagined.

My liberal arts classes always emphasized that it was neoliberalism that was bad because “Walmart”, but liberalism was great because “freedom”.

We might get 30cm of snow the next few days 😅

And now for the final question of our game which always pertains to real life skills. Buzz in if you can find the incorrect part of this statement: "Developing an accurate view of the world is difficult if you don't have a method to verify information. One surefire way to know what's going on thousands of miles away is to trust anonymous sources and NGOs at their word when they tell you through western mass media and without any proof that our adversaries are doing evil things."

Time to try to figure this game out again

lol the little pieces of masking tape holding each letter of “change my mind”. Clemson’s got to keep the glue away from their students because it’s too hard to resist the temptation.

It might not hurt, but it would definitely HRT

Plot twist: the interview is for a voice acting position lol

Wondering how you respond to people saying “fuck cancer”

I have no idea why it became so popular, but to try to make a real distinction from stereotypical plot-based porn, maybe it’s the difference between sex with a stranger vs sex with someone you know? Are people listening to porn with the volume up? If it’s muted, it might just seem like an awkward will-they-won’t-they(but they definitely will) of a legitimate friendship turned sexual.

It might feel a bit more passionate to watch someone have sex with someone the actor supposedly already has a relationship than a random pizza boy or mechanic etc. I don’t know how popular “watch me have sex with my girlfriend” videos are, but I feel like people who are substituting relationships with porn would specifically avoid those because of their shame and jealousy of not having a partner? But if you’re watching someone so without shame that they’d have sex with a step sibling, the viewer doesn’t have to think about their own needs and issues as much. They get to be more “pure” when comparing themselves to incestuous siblings while still getting off.

Theres also probably something people find hot about taboo shit in general too. Maybe it’s as simple as “Stranger is to Secret-sex-in-public-porn as Known-person is to Step-sibling-porn”.

But I’m ace, so what the fuck do I know.

Do you have any experience or opinions on the quality of programs like the Michel Thomas Method? I don't really have the time or resources to spend on language learning at the moment, but if I could prepare for next year or the year after with an audio tape on a commute, it might help a bit if the learning device is suitable?