oh damn they've been downgrading, I remember a decade or so back there was an understandable scandal about the ICE AC system not working above 32°C
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I assume this was part of it, all the train infrastructure is barely holding it together in like 15°c weather at this point but the stated, publicized reason was as above. So probably less "we'd derail our entire shit" and more "You'd be stuck in a train where the AC broke in the middle of nowhere" and then that just gets resolved to "be stuck with no AC somewhere you need to leave and collapse there"
I think in this specific case it's more the deeply entrenched thought that AC = bad. Cars were always an exception here once AC became a standard thing but the country is still building new hospitals without AC.
distinctly remembering being stuck on an ICE waggon where the AC was broken, the conductor coming in and telling us we have to move out of there due to passenger safety (which no one did) followed by an announcement to please stop moving around the train as it's full everywhere
The state of Nordrhein-Westfalen, which is where Dortmund is located, has already solved this in the heatwave about a month back: due to passenger safety concerns they've simply suspended all regional trains. Like all of them. Wasn't a train going anymore for a day or so. I think this was mostly based on if people collapse on the trains that's a them problem, if people don't have trains to get on and therefore collapse somewhere in a podunk NRW town that has no shades or benches or anywhere to get water at the train station, it's not
if I was the USAF I'd ask my guys how to win it instead
ah, right, I thought this was like a form factor issue
The dumpster here has wheels though, I'd assume it's just for a MFH or maybe a business.
And then obvious follow up question: What do you want electrical boxes to look like?
how is a dumpster an obnoxious monstrosity
On the one hand any FBI founded communist group would be so dogshit I don't think it'd attract any members, on the other hand a bunch of mormons larping communism just reproducing communist manifesto points probably would
you're correct but to make this slightly less doom and gloom it's 150 minutes for moderate cardio, which includes like walking at not a snails pace or just using your bicycle to get somewhere. 75 minutes a week for intense cardio, like a run.
The strength training is a a lot less lenient going by WHO definitions but it does at least include things like digging a hole in your garden or something.
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Pictured here is a Musketier Radkutsche because it's one you could buy as a consumer, everything else with this config or similar - i.e. space in the back - is mostly those last mile logistic cycles and you can only really get them on a B2B contract.
This here fits an euro pallette in the back and has about ~200kg give or take maximum cargo load given a rider on the heavier side. pricepoint is ~6000€ upwards on account of they hand make this in the south of germany because seemingly nobody wants to do a factory for cargo bikes.
Over the similar in idea longtail cargo bikes that are loads more common this has the upside of giving you a flat, stable base to work from so you can throw on a big box or a café or whatever, like this:
did you know your run of the mill internal gear hub is only spec'd to 50nm? Gotta buy like a fucking Rohloff to get that up to 130nm. ride derailleurs if you want that fat ass
If the reddit comments are to be believed: straight from the parking lot into the drink
I was sober except for the part where I maybe wasn't except in a legal sense and then on top of that suffered a bunch of other ailments that made me drive into a pond, over a curb and some other shit
On good will I hand it to this person that this sounds american-with-no-alternatives as fuck and they didn't frame it as a sort of passive "I got into an accident" but like still
Every 1 in 1,000 libertarians seems to realize bicycles are good even according to their principles and then you get a post like this.
If you don't know Hickman, I think he'd best be described as a sort of primitivist-nostalgic liberterian for settler times in the USA. To fulfill his dreams he moved out into the boonies of upstate new york and ever so often hates how it's full of uncultured swine, by his definition.
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It has been so long....I thought it was over....alas, the fixie riders have mounted their back-at-it-ing
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I freely admit from an manufacturing perspective it is somewhat impressive
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I still feel like a decade of modernity should've given us, like, better train AC across the board and not -6°C working conditions for regional trains.
Like fucking 26°C degrees? That's temperatures you'd have here before the climate got all loopy with it