u/formandovega

Like, where are all the bikes?

In Mad Max or Waterworld you still have gas powered engines kicking about. Where are we getting the petrol? Petrol has a shelf life and engines need constantly maintained or they don't work.

Horses? Even dumber!

The Postman and stuff has Horses. Horses are not "low tech" cars. They are complex, living animals that took our ancestors multiple millennia to work out how to use properly. An average person cant just get a horse and ride it, it needs lessons, training etc.

Also do you know how to prevent Botfly infections in horses? Didn't think so!

Medieval societies treated horses like Ferraris and had whole professions dedicated to their care.

So what now?

Gee, if only we had a low powered, easy to use vehicle that doesn't use gas or power? Something designed for cross country? Something that can be built in a non industrial society and can be endlessly repaired by even a moderately skilled person?

So whats the deal? Well thats just it! They dont want us to remember "Gee, bikes ARE really smart? I should be cycling more! In fact, we should have more cycling infrastructure to encourage it. Why dont we do that more?"

And that's it! "They" dont want you knowing this....

Think about it! Its all coordinated....

You telling me someone couldnt have just made THIS thing in The Postman or Mad Max?

Aliens did specifically build Stonehenge, since the rocks were well heavy n all and humans are weak blah blah.

The problem is that some humans had travelled and already seen cooler human stuff so they were just generally unimpressed with the alien handywork. Yeah? You can move heavy rocks, big deal!

The Aliens were offended at their lack of being worshipped and left never to return. On the way out of the solar system, they fired a cheeky missile at Earth out of spite but it instead hit Mimas, Saturn's moon which is why it has a big crater.

See. Everything fits together!

Mimas

Think about it! If you were Satan and you were trying to influence the youth through heavy metal you would be pretty silly for picking Slayer!

Too on the nose!

Instead ol Sato went and picked Christian glam metal band Stryper because that's who you would least suspect.

When the Christians were trying to fight Satan in the satanic panic they would leave Stryper alone because they are apparently good Christian boys. They would be the only surviving heavy metal band of the crusade.

His plan unfortunately didn't work because metal heads didn't like stryper and Christians didn't like them either... Turned out it was a bad bet.

If the band had been more popular satan would have used that moment to take over Earth.

"To hell with the devil" ? Yeah you're not fooling anyone Stryper!

Ok sorry for the stereotypical one, but I really dont get it?

I get the what its supposed to be/general idea, that the cat is both alive and dead at the same time, but that makes zero sense to me? Things can only be alive or dead? Is it a theoretical maths thing, or is the cat literally supposed to be in a state of superimposition without an observer? Is that CAT not the observer?

I honestly just do not understand the concept at all. Asking here because some of you folk are just brilliant at these summaries and are really good at it!

People bring it up to sound clever, but when I ask, I have NEVER had a satisfactory answer to this.

I admit, the existence of this page shamed me a bit. I claim to be an animal lover, yet held a bit of an irrational fear and dislike of wasps and hornets, thanks to some bad childhood experiences, fear and a bunch of misinformation, but inspired by everyone's dedication to being equally kind to animals, I am changing my mind.

Low and behold, today I got my chance. A tired Yellowjacket landed on my windowsill, doing the "panting" and unable to move fast. Fed the little devil some sugar water, which he mightily enjoyed, and he then flew off.

There. I am changing I swear!

Also, he was kinda adorable. My experiences with them involve bins and stinging. This is one of the first I have seen close up, being chill and they are amazing and kinda impressive looking.

I now appreciate you wasp people. You are right. It IS hypercritical to call yourself an animal person and hold irrational dislike of one particular creature because they are not as stereotypically fuzzy as bumblebees. Worse yet, celebrate killing of creatures that are super important to the ecosystem we ALL live in.

I see them now as slightly grumpy mates who are doing their job and want to be left alone (and get a bit irrationally excited upon seeing a melted ice lolly).

Also I constantly argue with people that spiders are cute and should be protected, so it made me an extra hypocrite to chastise people for spreading spider myths and yet spread myths about wasps.

Hi everyone just looking for some advice!

I recently bought a pure electric scooter for pretty dang cheap.

I'm enjoying it so far but the battery life is terrible. It must only get about 6 or 7 kilometers and that's pushing it when it comes to hills.

I've noticed some of the younger folk riding similar scooters but they seem to have an extra battery unit below the steering pole.

Can you add battery packs to them? Someone told me that that's how you make them illegal in the UK. You're not supposed to modify them.

Wondered if anyone had any advice? Right now the thing is only really good for going to some local shops and back.

Edit should add it's a pure air 350. As far as I know it's already quite a cheap model.

When I was a kid, every big family had an estate car. My earliest memory was of that moving brick which was the Volvo 960 Estate. Then it was a Peugeot 406 Estate blah blah.

Pic from CarMagazine.co.uk

Was hiring a car recently and it was a relatively new VW Golf Estate. Its literally the newest estate car I have ever seen and I now cannot unsee the fact that those horrid Suburban warrior SUV things have completely replaced estates cars in big families? This confuses me because those SUVs look big, but are not actually that roomier than a saloon and are FAR less roomy and storage friendly than an estate or minivan.

I have even been looking for a used car for myself, and I like estate cars because of the boot space (camping and music related reasons) and I have struggled to find one more modern than about 2006? Do people just not buy them since the late 2000s?

Am I going mad or is this a thing? I admit it could just be area bias/personal perspective so was curious?

EDIT cheers for all the comments! I learned a lot! Sorry for sounding argumentative, but I do value people who own them offering their reasons. A few of them did make me see them in a different way. I admit I never considered they are comfortable for older people who prefer the height. I mostly was thinking of the family value.

On a side note, some people mentioned some manufacturing reasons companies like selling SUVs, I looked into it and its really interesting! It led to the book "High & Mighty by Keith Bradsher" that talks about the rise of SUVs in America as well as this fascinating Youtube vid - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPm4de6-eTg from a funny climate guy.

Spoiler alert, it was tax and money reasons, surprise surprise.

Felt like I would share for anyone interested!