Not sure if you’re looking for options, but I’ve had success with waterproof Vessi shoes. That’s combined with rain pants that cover my ankles, and the tops of the shoes.

It’s a gang. The white house has been making up stories that people they arrest are dangerous gang members, notably including Kilmar Ábrego García.

I’m not informed on all the details, but a key difference between the async_trait macro and a native async keyword is that async_trait gives you that boxed, trait object type. IIUC the thinking is native support should not automatically box futures, which implies it shouldn’t use dyn either. Using Box and dyn is an easy way to make sure the code works no matter what type of future a method returns. But the trade-off is some runtime overhead from heap allocation (due to Box), and dynamic dispatch (due to dyn).

According to areweasyncyet.rs:

async fn in trait method not stabilized yet

• Workaround is available as an attribute macro: async-trait

Yes, letter is the standard size in the US for loose leaf, printers, writing pads. It’s actually wider and shorter than A4. The other main sheet size is “legal”, which is the same width as letter, and is longer than A4. Legal is much less common. You’re most likely to see it on yellow, ruled “legal pads”.

Thanks! I do my best to stay organized.

I’m in the US where we generally don’t use ISO paper sizes, except for in some niches like notebook enthusiasts. But we have a notebook size called a “composition” book that is close to B5, and is very common, especially among students. I think it’s the most common notebook size here.

In case you haven’t tried it, you can run Steam games in native Wayland mode, and get a more stable experience. Especially with fractional scaling. There are two steps:

1. Install a GE-Proton runner, and configure the game to use it.
2. Set game launch options to, env DISPLAY="" PROTON_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 %command%

I buy them, since index cards are easy get a hold of. They tend to come in heavier stock that doesn’t fall apart in my pocket without protection from a cover. They are not as nice to write on as my notebook, but they work.

I used to carry a Moleskine notebook. But I realized that a few cards make for a slimmer, more comfortable arrangement that is easier and cheaper to replace when writing space fills up.

They are for notes that I don’t keep, so no I don’t have a card organizer. Some notes are only relevant short-term. Stuff I want to keep I copy into my big notebook, and scribble over to remind myself that I don’t need to pay attention to that info on the card anymore. If I’m going to be writing a lot, like if I’m going to an activist meeting, then I bring my big notebook (size B5).

I do have Zettelkasten notes, but mine are digital, using Obsidian. My paper notes are Bullet Journal things.

If it’s going 30+ mph on a path or a crosswalk then it’s not a regulation-compliant e-bike. You might be seeing e-motos, and mentally categorizing them as e-bikes. We all want extra requirements on vehicles that go 30+ mph.

E-bikes are regulated. They are required to max out at 20 mph, or 28 mph. (Where I live in California the class 3 28 mph bikes are not allowed on mixed use trails, and are only allowed for ages 16 and up.) We are on board with regulation exactly because we want it to go in a beneficial direction. I don’t think requiring a driver’s license and insurance, and cutting out young teenagers is a beneficial direction. No, we don’t want dangerous vehicles zooming around without accountability. That’s why e-bike advocates came up with the 20 mph limit in the first place!

We don’t want restrictions on bikes, because bikes get people outside, and reduce dependence on cars. E-bikes are bikes that work in places with hills, or in situations where long distances make unassisted cycling prohibitive for people who are not athletes.

One more note I’ll add about cargo bikes is why I don’t think of them as motor vehicles: everything you can do on a cargo e-bike you can do on a non-motorized bike - on flat ground. A cargo e-bike is a cargo bike that works on hills.

There are two groups who are hit hard by licensing and insurance requirements: people with low income, and kids.

People with low income will struggle with any additional cost. A couple hundred bucks, insurance - even if it won’t cost very much from some people’s perspective - is a burden. E-bikes can be a livelihood, like for delivery drivers in cities. Even if it’s not a livelihood, everyone needs transportation.

The New Jersey law flat-out prohibits kids under 15 years old from riding e-bikes. Kids 15 or 16 now need a motorized bike license. Kids are not getting out or socializing enough these days. E-bikes help change that. My 14-year-old rides a class 1 e-bike to school. Before getting that bike he spent most of his time on weekends at home, mostly in front of a screen. We live in a car-dependent society where everything is miles apart. Public transit in my town is crap. There are big hills that make it impractical for him to get home on an unassisted bike. My kid could only go places when my wife or I had time to drive him. But since getting the bike he goes out on the weekend, and visits friends who live a few miles away. They organize nerf battles. He’s much happier! And no, he’s not going more than 20 mph on that bike. With the NJ law there would have been two years of missing out on those benefits, and then an extra licensing and insurance process after that which is going to reduce the number of kids getting outside. Fewer parents are going to set kids up with bikes if there are extra bureaucratic steps, and if it comes with a recurring insurance cost.

Cargo bikes are a great way to transport people - especially kids! For a lot of families it’s important for a parent to be able to get two kids onto the bike. But they aren’t speed demons. It’s not cargo bikes that are endangering people on the streets.

I have a cargo bike that I can get two kids on that has two wheels, and is close to the wheelbase of a typical bike: 135 cm / 53 in. Like most cargo ebikes it’s class 1, so speed limited to 20mph assisted. The extra powerful motor is for getting the thing up a hill. It’s about three times the weight of an un-motorized bike. It’s not that big, not crazy heavy, and not very fast.

Yeah, speed limits seem like a reasonable way to catch people who are not in compliance. If a bike is going faster than 30mph, and that’s in a bike lane or on a trail instead of on a road, or they don’t have a license plate, that could be cause to pull someone over. It is tricky because the 28mph limit for class 3 ebikes (in the US) is an assisted limit, and a strong cyclist might be able to go faster than that pedaling unassisted.

20km/h is the assisted limit in Europe (I think), but that limit is too low for a bike lane speed limit. Plenty of unassisted cyclists go over 30km/h.

People complying with the law already have speed limiters built into the bikes. But yes, it’s a method to spot misbehavers.

The creator of the Youtube channel Berm Peak suggested that unregulated ebikes should not be allowed to have throttles, which would eliminate class 2 ebikes. That would make it much easier to spot problem riders, because they typically use a throttle instead of pedaling. That’s also how Europe regulates ebikes (I think). You’d want some way for people with accessibility needs to get an exemption. I’ve heard throttles are nice for getting started from a stop, especially with a heavy load, or going uphill. But I’ve noticed that California law already makes a distinction between a throttle and a “start assist”, and maybe a start assist could cover that use case.

Manufacturers that comply with the class 1/2/3 classifications mostly voluntarily limit ebike power to 750W. I don’t know if there are laws regulating ebike power output - the existing laws state limits on motor-assisted speed, not power, with caps at 20mph for class 1 & 2, and 28mph for class 3. But I see that California is working on mandating a 750W max.

In reply you talked about ebikes exceeding 1650W, and going 150mph. Those are not legal ebikes. Those are the e-motos that others in this thread are talking about - vehicles that are regulated like motorcycles in most US states. They have pedals so they can pass as ebikes, and states haven’t really figured out enforcement yet. The vehicles that that people in this thread are concerned should not require licensing and insurance are proper ebikes, which are limited to 20 or 28mph (or 15mph in NYC).

Very nice! I do something very basic by comparison: I always keep a few index cards in my back pocket for fleeting notes. Those are 3×5" (7.6×12.7cm), so slightly wider, and a couple of centimeters taller than A7.

The requirements they’re putting on e-bikes already applied to e-motos. In most states bikes that don’t follow the class 1/2/3 restrictions are regulated like motorcycles.

The problem is too many people don’t know the distinction, including some people buying the bikes, and many people who are concerned about dangers of e-motos. Manufacturers just want to sell bikes, and compete with each other on speed and power, and so are not incentivized to make the distinction clear. They also want to make sales to people who don’t want to follow the rules, so there’s incentive to leave plausible deniability.

It seems like some retconning, with the writers deciding that empathic characters are more interesting for storytelling than fully telepathic characters. It can be hard to create drama when someone on screen automatically knows what everyone else knows.

The Betazoids also didn’t have black irises, which has previously been a distinguishing feature - albeit a feature that most viewers don’t seem to notice. Given the many, many franchise references included in the first two episodes it looks like the showrunners are aware of established details, and that both the lack of telepathy and eye color are deliberate choices.

Edit: I read a suggestion here that maybe they do have dark contacts, except for Tarima, the president’s daughter. Maybe the actor didn’t want to wear contacts all day every day?

My impression was the president being deaf didn’t have anything to do with the plot, but was probably about showing that deaf people are people who have stories too. The Betazoids delegates signing and speaking to each other might be something Troi has said previously: that it’s rude to communicate telepathically among non-telepaths. But Lwaxana does it anyway because she doesn’t care. Or it might have been to avoid confusion: “they’re empathic with other species, but telepathic with each other? What is going on?” I don’t know what is the significance of taking off the translation device.

Thanks!

Sounds like you’re talking about Tongo? Evade!

Lol! Avocaja for sure!

Oh, that is a fun discussion! I added my janky thing. Thanks for the suggestion!

The most affordable cargo solution to date! (If you don’t count the mounting hardware.)

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Hey, I enjoy seeing a discussion of ideas like this! I feel like socialists can be reluctant to talk in concrete terms on how they’d like the world to change. I suppose that could be a tactful way to maintain solidarity, since I’m sure there are vehement disagreements when we get into details. I’m also told that the goal is not to hand out a prescriptive vision of the future, but that instead it’s important for a class-conscious working class to form its own system based on its own experience. But surely working class people like us bouncing ideas around is part of the process of forming a class consensus?

I also lean toward a market economy because I haven’t seen an alternative yet that I’m convinced would be better. Markets are a way of distributing intelligence. It seems like centrally planned economies have a harder time anticipating what’s needed, invite corruption and ass-covering, and can lead to a different kind of hierarchical power imbalance where the people planning the economy have similar control to capitalists. But there are problems to solve with any of the options. In a market economy, even if all businesses are worker-owned and wage exploitation can be eliminated, there are still problems with consumer and environment exploitation. Like there might still be incentives to sell unhealthy food, to extract resources for short term gain. Each cooperative or industrial union could be incentivized to maximize the profit of their own business or industry. Certainly regulation is one way to address this. OTOH if industry is managed by large groups of workers instead of by a handful of sociopaths, maybe conscience would end up being a more powerful regulating force than it is under capitalism.

My thoughts on some of your points:

• 1. I’m not clear on what a planned market economy looks like. Do you have any references?
• 2-6. Sounds pretty good to me. I’ve had thoughts along the lines of all private companies being mandated cooperatives. You could run a sole-proprietorship and have full control, but once you have employees they need to have a fair share in profit and decision making.
• 7. Why would one party act as the main social institution? I agree there should be space for a diversity of ideas, and having multiple parties is probably the way to do that. But what is the framework for multiple parties in a one-party system? In Russia in the 1920s the Communist party actively suppressed parties-within-the-party, such as the Workers’ Opposition. Probably so the party leaders could maintain control. I’m not super well informed, but I haven’t heard about party diversity later in USSR history, or in other single-party states. To this day “factionalism” is still a dirty word to some socialists. (I get the impression that view might be influenced by Marxist-Leninism, but again I’m not super well informed, so I don’t know for sure.)
• 8. There definitely needs to be worker organization to balance the state. Especially in the transition period, capitalists will resist giving up power through, among other tactics, capital strike. Workers need organization to keep industry running where necessary to keep people’s needs met while capitalists try to sabotage the system. I recently read an interview with Mike Parker on this that I thought was interesting. Longer term hopefully the state will be a fair reflection of the needs of all people. But having multiple systems of organization to check each other seems like a good idea.
• 9-10. Of course!

Back on point 7, I think I might have a different picture in mind of what a transition to socialism looks like. I think in principle the democratic systems that we have work as a political framework. There is a lot we can do to change those systems to make them better, such as the reforms presented in https://www.dsausa.org/dsa-political-platform-from-2021-convention/?ref=redstarcaucus.org#deepening, and proposals for proportional representation. And of course wealthy elites have way too much power currently. But I think that disproportionate power is an economic and social problem. My thinking is we don’t need a political revolution, we need a social revolution. Shift the view people have of extreme wealth from inspiration to disgust. Cultivate enough outrage to ban corporate money in political campaigns, to break up media monopolies, to tax and fine capitalists into oblivion, to force a combination of worker and state ownership of private industry. Maybe there is no way to strip power from billionaires except at gunpoint. But the social pressure of millions, or billions of people is immense. I think we can do it mostly non-violently.