frightful_hobgoblin @ frightful_hobgoblin @lemmy.ml

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I feel there's probably some reasons they haven't become popular.

• Don't turn as nimbly as a bike
• Can't put them on your shoulder and carry them indoors, onto a train, etc. like as a bike
• Don't climb hills as well as a bike (source)
• 20× the cost of a bike, maybe that could be brought down by economies of scale if they were more popular

I could imagine a velomobile being preferable if you're commuting from a satellite town to the city, and the journey consists of a long straight road.

I'd definitely say they're worse for getting around the city, and their comparative advantages are bought at the price of significant extra overhead.

Couldn't care less.

not my circus not my monkeys

What your Trump-supporting journalist says –

Behind the scenes is China’s reluctance to forgive debt...

In the past under such circumstances, big government lenders such as the U.S., Japan and France would work out deals to forgive some debt, with each lender disclosing clearly what they were owed and on what terms so no one would feel cheated. But China didn’t play by those rules.

The actual facts –

• China, the largest government creditor to emerging economies, said it will forgive 23 interest-free loans to 17 African countries and redirect $10 billion of its International Monetary Fund reserves to nations on the continent.
• New sovereign debt negotiations and zero-interest loan write-offs involving Chinese creditors totalled $19 billion in 2021, the report said, although that dropped to $9 billion in 2022 and to $1.7 billion in 2023 through April, a total drop of over 90%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAZARA_Railway

https://theintercept.com/2015/04/27/encrypting-laptop-like-mean/

One cool thing about piracy battles is ISPs' interests are aligned with the pirates. It's the record labels who are against it.

so are my morals

you can also have a free trial

eh, so they charge for it

FarraigePlaisteach

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeyx2I0UL9VNYC8X97SflUg

I’m interested in different perspectives so I’d like to avoid USA, GB etc.

Tá "comm" againn faoi sin: !noyank@lemmy.ml

go get em tiger

knock em dead champ

etc

that's beautiful

History doesn't provide answers to hypotheticals

the Kahlil Gibran quote smells fake

It's Friday today

If you're watching the things you want to watch, the "That's not the right site so it doesn't count!" argument doesn't make much sense.

There's no such thing as "fake" or "real" in this context.

This is not rocket science. You want to watch telly: you find the site, hit play, it plays.

Nah, search for 'aniwave' and you can find it easily

Hahahaha

Imagine believing a website is down because a paper says so.

Takes five seconds to find.

the proof of the pudding is in the eating