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I highly recommend reading Magic Pill by Johann Hari. Yes, reforming the food industry would be the best way to address the issue, but in the meantime, the GLP drugs are the best tool we've come up with. As Hari says, they're a man made solution to a man made problem. Another paraphrased quote from someone else in the book, we should fight for a reformed food industry, no question - but in the meantime, I have one life and it'll be over before that happens.

https://magicpillbook.com/ Not the documentary of the same name.

You'd probably get a discount if you promise to live in it and become a vanfluencer. Make sure to be quirky!

Somebody needs to make (Or I need to do a better job searching for) a small camera that does forwards and backwards and uses a GoPro mount so I can stick it on top of my helmet. A regular GoPro is way too big/heavy and not bidirectional.

I'll try that link next time they cut off my email for no reason, thanks.

There is nothing admin-wise I hate more than dealing with email security. Fucking google is horrible. At least when Microsoft randomly decides the half dozen family members on my personal domain are bulk email spammers, there's a form to reach out. Google is a piece of shit in this way just like in so many other ways.

Code monkey is the appropriate term

The other AC

Yeah, that's fair. I've put 2500 miles on my cargo bike since I got it just over a year ago. Bike was $1700, plus various accessories, probably $2500 in total.

Replaced the tires for $100, a few tubes, maybe $20, and the freewheel for $20. I do my own maintenance so no labor.

I doubt charging was that much, it's pretty damn cheap to charge it.

In comparison to owning a car, it's dirt cheap for sure, but unless you can entirely eliminate your need to own a car, it's still an additional cost, and most of the US isn't very good about biking infrastructure. I live in the Phoenix area and we have good bike lanes, but as the saying goes, "paint isn't infrastructure" - the vast majority of my urban riding is along 45mph roads, and paint isn't very good at stopping a distracted driver from wandering into my lane.

I kinda got sidetracked there but my point is, that 1500 is an additional cost to owning a car for a lot of the country. (Again, US focused.)

I've got some issues with my knees, I'm right there with you on walking vs cycling. I had to do a cardio stress test a few years back, and they only had a treadmill. My knees hurt for a month, and I told them in no uncertain terms that I was never doing that again and I'd find a cardiologist who offers a bike for that (and some do.)

I also agree very much on the variability of types of exercise. I bike in two very different ways - MTBing, which has your 2&3, and I have a cargo bike that I use instead of my car most of the time, and that tends to be zone 2 type steady state. I thoroughly enjoy all of it.

One thing that's fair to point out though, is that decent bikes are expensive. I'm really glad to see the rise of decent DTC companies that are making bikes (primarily e-bikes) more affordable - Lectric, Aventon, Himiway, etc. that new Lectric cargo bike for $1500 is a great deal, but it's still $1500. And of course that's in comparison to older companies like Specialized or Santa Cruz, where you're looking at significantly more.

I think this is inevitable in the USA. We nanny state everything.

Ours are 11, 7, and 3.