It would literally be illegal for me due to the only road being an interstate bridge during part of my commute, not to mention riding at night on winding roads with no shoulder (blind corners abound) with speed limits of 50+ mph due to my work hours. And of course some roads that have a bike lane (rare in my neck of the woods but improving), it’s illegal in my state to ride any vehicle with a motor (yes even electric motors) in the bike lane. So I’d have to ride in traffic on a bike on aforementioned roads.

I’m not saying other people shouldn’t try to ride bikes or ebikes to work, I’m just saying for me that it’s not possible.

Depends greatly on the state (and in some cases city too) you live in but many have speed limits on them of 25mph (among many other restrictions based on motor wattage breaking them into classes). Any faster, pedals or not, it’s considered an electric motorcycle with all the restrictions that apply there.

But the biggest issue is the lack of cycling infrastructure in general. A shitton of the US has little support for that kind of transport, or any support for those not in cars.

And there’s legal restrictions on what kinds of roads you can ride on as well.

It’s a headache.

Oh I wish I could but my local infrastructure ain’t human centered, it’s car centered.

I may only be 13 miles from where I work but with roads near me being 50+mph with no shoulder or streetlights

“Venusian speed run here we go!” -fossil fuel execs probably

You’ll pry my old outdated terminology from my cold dead hands lol

Except much like minimum wage, some states don’t have anything in place.

Sounds like some based French right there

They really know how to riot

The firefighters he ‘offers’ to send

The tools to see the faults yes, we need to drive to take the steps to build the world we wish to live in.

But without the tools to see it’s faults we could never build a better tomorrow.

But hey, at least we’re harder to mislead and we understand the media we consume better.

This is the male fantasy in a nutshell

I’ve DMed a few DnD campaigns where the party basically turned into a party of John Browns (as in each PC became a slightly different version of John Brown) and each time it made me beam with joy.

“But she’s a 500 year old [dragon/elf/vampire/etc] in human form, it’s fine bro.”

Looks like a child, acts like a child, would be considered a child by their own culture/species: That’s a child bro.

I’d like to say I’ve never had that conversation but I have.

“Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid” was fine (though not everyone’s cup of tea) until they started to sexualize the minors (which was basically at the introduction of the child “dragon”). Then I stopped watching it. And from what I hear, I picked a good spot to stop watching as it only got worse from there in regards to the minor characters.

EDIT: I should probably clarify for those that think I support that kind of content, I do not.

If I walk fast enough I can outrun death

Now Rainier on the other hand…

In living memory at the time maybe, we’ve uh… we’ve had some pretty bad presidents over the centuries.

Different strokes for different folks