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So let me get this straight. On the one hand, we argue that law enforcement and the legal system can't distinguish between various types of e-bikes but that means we shouldn't enforce any laws about e-bikes. On the other hand, we are shocked when the media and general public cannot distinguish...

This stuff is awesome for protecting wooden decks: https://www.flamestop.com/documents/Flame-Stop-II.pdf

You can still have a wood or metal-framed home that is resilient in the face of earthquakes but have the exterior be concrete, metal, vinyl, or stucco all of which are sufficiently fireproof to be as survivable as you are going to get. There are also these really cool vents that are fire safe...

Lots of them are. Heck, in places like LA after decades of ruthless natural selection most of them are. And it often doesn't really matter. If the fire is intense enough the radiant heat will ignite materials inside the house no matter what the exterior is made out of. I doubt you'd find a...

How nothing really changes. This is from 1962:

Kind of depends. This Jack Dempsey is a freshwater fish native to Mexico and Central America.

I have direct personal experience with how insanely and dangerously stupid people can be during conditions of high fire risk. And bluntly the reality is often worse than the rumors. If only because of the old saying, "Truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction has to make sense." My two...

One of the things that climate change is driving is periods of very high rainfall followed by very dry periods. The periods with very high rainfall produce a lot of vegetation growth, which is nicely dried out and provides even more fuel for the next fire during one of those dry periods...

Extremely sort of. This is all extremely approximate but I'll try to give a simplified explanation: Imagine if you take an electric motor and feed a constant voltage. The motor will spin at a certain speed (RPM) for that voltage. Increase the voltage and you'll get more RPMS. You haven't...

Volts are not power. Watts are a unit of power. Watts are the product of Volts and Amperes. Literally the product.

Oh c'mon, we know everybody online has spent years fighting wildfires and is an expert on the topic. Having said that, most of the politically motivated criticism is based on ignorance that would be hilarious if it weren't so tragic and pathetic. And politically motivated criticism of wildfire...

Funny thing is, in dry and extremely windy conditions you don't fight a fire by putting water on it. You're better off putting that water on stuff that hasn't burned yet to try and slow the damned thing down. Fighting a fire in extreme conditions is like fighting a tornado. Sometimes literally.

I just heard about it this morning. Still not Ukraine:

The places in the PNW near the Canadian Border look Nothing At All Like Ukraine. In places if you squint hard maybe parts of Slovakia, without the people. Not Ukraine: Most definitely Not Ukraine:

Meanwhile, in civilized parts of the world: https://www.intertraffic.com/news/road-safety/amsterdam-30-speed-limit

I'm okay with banning with whatever that previous poster rides. Just on general principles.

I agree, but that is an argument for negotiating a new deal, not for just pretending there is no deal and letting any idea, no matter how idiotic, bloom. My opinions about micromobility and the opportunities that e-bikes represent for our society are pretty close to your own. But I am not...

The deal, as defined in 2002, was that e-bikes would be regulated as bicycles as long as they stayed within certain power and speed ranges. Manufacturers and consumers have broken that deal so it is reasonable to expect that e-bikes will be regulated as motor vehicles now. The days of the Wild...

Until they get wet and then they are scrap metal.

Please don't paint all of us with one brush here. There are over 330 million people in this country. There are likely more people in this country who'd agree with you than there are in Poland. To me this is One More Example of where people are marketed and socialized to "want" things that are...