Weight, price, drivetrain all are terrible as others have said you would be much better off spending much less on a simple al bike.
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mchanson commented on Denmark to raise retirement age to 70 telegraph.co.uk/world-new... · Posted by u/wslh
Humans need a constant supply of resources and shelter to survive. There is no "system" which avoids this inconvenient fact. In the absence of any "system" at all, you would still need to constantly work for survival - and in fact you'd just die as soon as you were no longer able to do so due to illness or injury much less old age.
In other words if there were no "system" there would be no such concept as "retirement" in the first place.
We all wish that we could spend our best years doing whatever we want. That doesn't mathematically work out, though. European social safety nets are pretty damn generous all things considered. Plenty of vacation days, especially compared to the US. It's not like it's impossible to use those well during your "best years".
Yeah. And creating those resources cost less and less with less human labor every year.
mchanson commented on Denmark to raise retirement age to 70 telegraph.co.uk/world-new... · Posted by u/wslh
There is nothing sad about this. Mandatory pensions are not a vacation sponsored by the government but a way to provide for those who can't provide for themselves.
If you were born in the 70s, you should have known for most of your adult life that your normal retirement age is likely going to be around 70. The demographic situation is not new, the solutions have been discussed extensively since at least the 90s, and countries that take the situation seriously have implemented several pension reforms since then.
You are not going to be as wealthy in retirement as you are now, at least not on the mandatory pension alone. Your health is probably not going to be as good. If you live in Sweden, you should have plenty of vacation. If you think you would enjoy travel, golf, or climbing a mountain, you should do it now. It will probably be easier and more affordable now than in retirement, which may never come.
Part of the deal with progress should be that we all start working less. If not is the progress all that attractive?
Improved health so we can all work more is kinda stupid.
mchanson commented on Mom jailed for letting 10-year-old walk alone to town reason.com/2024/11/11/mom... · Posted by u/bryan0
I don’t know what is up with the USA and its obsession that kids cannot have autonomy.
I think many of us grew up where our parents didn’t know our location at all times. My parents used to tell me to be home by a certain time, but I used to roam the neighborhood, go get candy at the gas station, explore the forest.
Maybe it is a sign of the eroding social trust in the USA where people do not believe that others in the community are decent people as well. It kind of makes sense if you never actually go out into the community and meet others. The USA lifestyle is you drive everywhere in your big SUV, all interactions are transactional, you don’t talk to your neighbours and instead watch netflix and binge social media where you are sold the idea that everything is horrible and the world is a bad place.
It's not equally distributed. In Boston, MA area kids have as much autonomy as their parents wish to give them AFAIK. It's not uncommon to see 10 year olds in my town nearby they are doing all sorts of biz around town on their own.
I feel like we are in a point of time where science is enshittified so much, it will be almost impossible to come back to a reasonable and sustainable interaction with the world and ecosystem around us.
This is just doomerism and painting with a planet wide brush. IMHO it's not so simple.
There has been much laudable and scientific progress in the past 50 years. Higgs Boston discovery and mRNA vaccines being two that come to mind.
And examples of progress that science helped start and then international and national institutions brought to the masses: Smallpox eradication, HIV treatment, lower childhood mortality, etc.
Crowdstrike certainly comes out looking terrible. The fact that Delta might have also made mistakes is weak sauce.
mchanson commented on More disabled Americans are employed, thanks to remote work bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/petethomas
> Nobody's trying to dismiss them
The parent commenter was absolutely trying to dismiss the core of the story by injecting an alternate reality into it.
> If they're not equally likely, I'm sure you'll have no problem demonstrating that?
The situation I'm referring to was not a simple reporting change. It involved employees quitting over bullying, and in one case there were issues severe enough that law enforcement became involved.
So, not, it was not a simple case of people reporting things differently. These problems did not exist pre-WFH at this company.
But if you're dead set on finding ways to reject this and substitute your own reality, I suspect even this won't convince you.
I think you just don't come off very convincing.
It’s very expensive at $10k/year/patient, but I wonder if the long term costs are still cheaper than treating heart attack or stroke. Obesity greatly increases the risk of cardiovascular events so I think this may end up saving Medicare money by shifting to pharmaceuticals from emergency care.
Of course, would be nice if they would negotiate a lower price as it’s really expensive.
But Medicare covers other chronic preventative meds, PReP coming to mind and that’s like $10k/year. But still way cheaper than HIV treatment that it prevents.
Blue cross has $450 / mo negotiated rate. Medicare can do better than that and government has started doing negotiations for drugs.
For law enforcement personnel, at the very least would mean an end of a career if caught (also possible jail time)