You’re a good Joe

When people refer to metal balls as ball bearings. A ball bearing is an assembly of outer ring, inner ring, balls, and a cage/retainer. I worked in bearing manufacture for years and they’re just referred to as balls. To be more specific, it would be a bearing ball, not a ball bearing.

Let’s go Justin!

I could be wrong, but aren’t a lot of injuries caused by being rear-ended while waiting at a red? I’m pretty sure that’s the case for motorcycles so I imagine it’s similar for bikes. I normally wait at reds but I’ll run it if there’s no traffic. It feels more like jay-walking than running a red light. Most people are perfectly fine with jay-walking.

Yep. Thought that was weird since he dropped out.

“here” is beehaw, which is a bit more sane. You’re probably thinking of lemmy.ml

Not a chance. The B2 is a manned platform. It’s also quite an old one which would require a huge program to create an autonomous capability. The B2’s successor (the B21) is coming soonish so such a program would have no support. Right now, autonomous military aircraft are mostly being considered for support roles like tankers with future projects of “loyal wingman” fighters to fly alongside a manned fighter. A deep, precision strike from an untested technology would never fly.

I prefer belt drive with a sealed internal geared hub. It’s not for everyone or every situation but it’s nice riding in the wet and just putting the bike away after without thinking about cleaning and lubrication

Amen! I went to a restaurant that had this layout. Each stall was like it’s own little room with a full sized door and a shared sink area. It’s more efficient use of space and you get a better stall. The only thing that I think would make it better would be a small side area with a couple urinals.

What pests are wasps and hornets killing? The wasps and hornets *are" the pests to me.

This seems like a neat light. I’m willing to invest in good lights, but I’m not willing to carry around such a bulky solution. My normal lights detach and I can throw them in a small pocket on a bag. These would take up the whole bag. I can see them being well suited to road cyclists who don’t leave their bikes parked much. But for an urban commuter, id like a smaller option.

Yep. The cheaper and easier solution to extreme housing issues is a few pallets of bricks and some mortar. This company is on a marketing campaign to try to get people in rich countries to get excited about buzzwords so they can get funding.

Hey I have the stereo on the bottom.

Wait… What’s wrong about this?

You’re moving the goalposts. Neither the person you’re replying to nor the article mention anything about relaxing the standard. All of the legislation and proposals in this area come from Republicans trying to make it harder for non-citizens to vote.

The article is pointing out the boogyman nature of this focus from the right. I would go a step further and say that this focus is an effort to disenfranchise working class voters by throwing more paperwork between them and their vote. I might even go another step and say that it’s an effort to delegitimize our elections by claiming fraud to pave the way for illegitimate power grabs (like Jan 6).

I just checked mine and it has no permissions. How is it collecting everything?

Worm gears? Internal hubs are generally less efficient but that only really matters when you’re racing. For groceries, the extra reliability is worth it to me.

I’ll let you be the judge. This is the official instructions video for my main bike.

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Yes but not like that. I have 2 belt-drive bikes with internal hub gears. For a utilitarian city bike, I think there’s nothing better and they will be much more common as more people try them.

List of benefits:

• Basically no maintenance required. You might need a yearly oil change.
• You can change gears while stopped
• Nothing oily to get your pants dirty
• Virtually silent. The ones I have don’t even click while free-wheeling.

Downsides:

• Most internal hub or gearbox transmissions don’t like changing gears under load
• They’re heavier than a chain and derailer setup
• They’re generally more expensive
• They require a frame that can split somewhere in the right side chain or seat stay. This isn’t a problem if you get a bike with a belt but it makes it pretty much impossible to convert an existing bike
• To change your transmission, you need a whole new wheel (or de-lace, and re-lace your existing wheel).
• There are fewer options.
• Generally, you have fewer gears