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I remember when a 2 cheeseburger meal was $3... Get off my lawn.

This is why we base scientific words on Latin - dead language doesn't change.

I'm just relating my experience - when I was younger, I commuted 20 miles round trip every day, and I worked at a bike shop with weenies that were always trying to shave weight off their bikes, so I did whatever I could to add functional weight (so no filling the tubes with lead, that would be cheating) including building up a dually, two rims side by side on a Sachs 3x7 hub. My average speed was higher when commuting (lots of rolling hills, but overall uphill in the morning, downhill going home) than it was on days off, when I was mainly riding around town where it was flat.

And it certainly wasn't because I wanted to go to work...

"Not worse" is different from "better", how is this a difficult concept?

not meant to

Meant by whom?

Eh, you should see the lengths people will go to to get rid of birds.

Luxury. Best we could manage was a paper bag in a septic tank.

Here in the desert, we wash our cars in hopes that will make it rain...

I didn't forget. Deliberate choice.

I'm not sure I agree - I've quit smoking hundreds of times, I've never been able to quit caffeine.

Cars are just catching up to HVAC systems... In the last 3 years I've had to replace both inside and outside fan motors because their (maintenance free) bearings failed.

It's even worse when you have a new-ish car that can handle any size USB stick, but will only load the first 8000 files it sees...

Weight speeds you up downhill more than it slows you down uphill. The trick is to not coast - keep pedaling downhill, use the momentum to get up the next hill.

But you repeat yourself...

Most bears would prefer to be left alone... Or fed stale donuts and marshmallows if you have any.

If a bear fucks you up then people are gonna blame the bear, no question.

Not true at all. If I hear about someone being mauled by a bear, literally my first thought is "what did you do to provoke the bear?".

I dunno, I'm ok with being considered less favorable than a bear... They're so cuddly.

It wasn't that a professional standing army "wasn't expected" - in fact they were quite common at the time. Standing armies don't tend to go unused, they make it easy for asshole politicians to pick stupid fights with other countries. Not having one was a deliberate choice we made to avoid such things, and for the most part it worked, for a little while at least.

Never mind that the 90s was a peak for violent crime mainly due to the war on drugs, and it's safer now than it was then...

If you end your argument with "and you know it", you've already lost. Which is unfortunate since in this case I happen to agree with you. But you're not going to convince anyone of anything with the shitty attitude.