Meh, bike came first, as far as I'm concerned. It's up to noobs like motorbike , moped, e-bike, light-cycle to differentiate themselves.
Unless it's in a context - like said by an obnoxiously loud bloke in a leather jacket and moustache - bike means bike to me, no disambiguation required. In fact those people should be legally required to use the word "hawg".
Muscle is just an ugly word, when people say 'muscle car', I don't think of Fred Flintstone, I think of something pointlessly loud, fat , ugly, and annoying. In this case i assumed it was some overpowered e-bike with super fat tyres that does like 50mph or something - then I saw it was cheaper and was able to figure out that it just meant 'bike'.
My bike might well be ugly and annoying but, at the very least, it isn't pointlessly loud.
I think the point is that the tech doesn't materially change most starwars characters interactions from
present day. It's not really scifi because the science / tech doesn't shape how the characters interact dramatically.
If you give the characters some real scifi-tech like put them inside computers, or have backup throwaway clone bodies, or jack them in to a hive mind, or give them time travel or alternate universes then the whole dramatic context of the character interactions has to change and the story has to be shaped by the technology to some degree. It'd likely be a bit more alien as our innate sense of constraints and jeopardy doesn't apply.
Only really the deathstar is anything different tech wise - it is only used once, and becomes more like a part of the maguffin.
The other fantastic dramatic features that starwars does use that are alien to us - precognition, mind control, reincarnation(sortof) - are magic rather than tech.
If it's a niche it should probably have a dedicated community for it:
e.g. c/cooking@lemmy.world
Personally I did like the button sewing post, maybe that is generally useful enough that everyone should know. But I'm already in a few repair/DIY community that never get enough posts, and I've just found a 'Sewing, Repairing and Reducing Waste' one where it'd fit too.
Maybe it could be tolerated but should have a tag like [NICHE] in a title and a recommendation that OP should cross-post it as a way to promote/ support the other communities.
"Americans" is a stupidly large and diverse population to say anything meaningful about. It's extremely unlikely that that any population of humans of such a size doesn't include some individuals who are more extreme than you, both more and less, for almost all traits.
You're less likely to observe introverts than extroverts because one of those types will tend to do things in a way that are less likely to get your attention. You might well be experiencing observation/selection bias, possibly also reinforced by confirmation bias.
But whatever you think to be the "typical", even if you could estimate it using some unbiased sampling method, it is often not a helpful way describe the whole population, or at best a reductive "average" that has limited useful applications.
TLDR - human populations are diverse. I don't think any nation has ever effectively brainwashed or eugenicised their population into a single homogeneous group.
Meh, bike came first, as far as I'm concerned. It's up to noobs like motorbike , moped, e-bike, light-cycle to differentiate themselves.
Unless it's in a context - like said by an obnoxiously loud bloke in a leather jacket and moustache - bike means bike to me, no disambiguation required. In fact those people should be legally required to use the word "hawg".
Muscle is just an ugly word, when people say 'muscle car', I don't think of Fred Flintstone, I think of something pointlessly loud, fat , ugly, and annoying. In this case i assumed it was some overpowered e-bike with super fat tyres that does like 50mph or something - then I saw it was cheaper and was able to figure out that it just meant 'bike'.
My bike might well be ugly and annoying but, at the very least, it isn't pointlessly loud.