I think the takeaway here should be that meat heavy diets are worse for the environment than you might realize.

The takeaway should not be that cars are only barely worse than bikes.

When you power your bike with your legs, you burn energy. That energy comes from food. Producing and transporting the food to you has a climate impact. Cycling has a climate impact.

Riding a short distance vs riding a long distance is irrelevant. Both systems require an amount of energy per unit of distance. Because the energy is supplied in different ways, there is a different total amount of carbon emitted of per unit of energy. For ebikes, that amount is lower than it is for traditional, human powered bikes.

Here are a couple sources, dickface:

https://www.ebikes.ca/documents/Ebike_Energy.pdf

https://www.bikeradar.com/features/long-reads/cycling-environmental-impact

A watt hour is equal to 0.86 nutritional calories. My estimate of 40 watt hours per mile converts to about 35 kcal. Estimates of the energy taken to pedal a bike are about 30-40 kcal/mile. That checks out!

1 kilowatt hour is equivalent to 860 kcal.

1 kilowatt hour from a coal power plant generates about 1.0-1.1 kg of CO2.

For a typical Western diet, studies suggest that the average emissions associated with food production and transportation can range from about 0.5 to 2.5 kg of CO2 per 1,000 kcal of food consumed. (0.4-2.1 kg of CO2 per 860 kcal)

The ebike generally has a smaller environmental footprint than the analog bike, as most sources of power produce less CO2 than coal power plants and most people eat more meat than necessary, putting them in the higher range of the food CO2 production range.

Unless you’re vegetarian, a traditional bicycle will have a higher carbon footprint than an ebike, due to how inefficient it is to grow and transport food when compared to production of electrical power.

Ebikes are way more efficient than electric cars, too. I calculated that my bike uses about 40 watt hours per mile, compared to about 250-350 for an electric car.

If you plan on crossing the us border, you should wipe your phone and log out of any accounts it has been setup to access. They can search your phone. There’s no “agree to let” here.

I’m sure this will draw some criticism but I’ve found duck.ai to be extremely helpful in troubleshooting minor issues with my Linux mint installation and recently with accessing and understanding SMART hard drive diagnostic data. It’s very helpful in figuring out which commands could be useful in the terminal and in understanding exactly what each terminal command is doing. Of course finding answers in forums and manuals is still relevant and important but as a beginner, this has been a fast and easy way to get advice.

Cool form factor, if it can run Linux.

Awesome!

I’m with you on this. If it could come with a privacy-respecting smartphone app hosted on F-Droid, that would be so great.

Setting up a stupid question just to deliver a pun as a punchline is 100% a dad joke in my book.

I’m interested to hear what you think is required for a joke to be a dad joke.

Dad jokes are classically built around puns, as is the case here.

Setting up context doesn’t make this a knock knock joke.

Complains that bubble needs to pop. Is trying to sell a condo but has it priced too high to attract any buyers. Doesn’t lower price.

My dude, your desire for more money is the bubble that’s holding back the sale.

Your scenario is a microcosm of the whole market.

I think you could taste a little lower, while you’re down there.

Now hold on there, I’d let them do the ads and the vehicle tracking bs if the car was nice and it was free.

If I’m buying the car, there’s no fucking way.

Gr8 b8

You’re right but it’s funny to think that you could be hassled for breaking into a box with the intention of purchasing its contents.

You were right. It is fun to eat popcorn while watching your investment increase in value by an additional 50% in a 9 month period of time. 🍿🤓

Haha, I also came back to check on the popcorn guy.

How’s that popcorn tasting?