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Man, that's so cool. Thanks for sharing. You've given me the idea to just charge my eBike using my solar generator (DJI Power 1000 w/ two 200W panel sets).

Children can be criminals. Have you ever read Oliver Twist? /s

I am a natural citizen of Usonia and I fucking gasp every time I hear through the grapevine that someone from a(n) (formerly) allied nation took the risk to travel here. I understand that most don't have much choice, but my home is unrecognizable to me now.

Don't come here, and I am saying this as someone who benefits from Canadian tourism. I have a deep, long-time love and appreciation for the Canadian people and their First Nations — it breaks my heart to even say so, but please, for your own safety, do not come here!

I am struggling to get my fellow Americans to understand that in WW2, we built concentration camps for Japanese people and were detaining them in these numbers. Everyone just wistfully calls them "internment camps."

I don't know what the fuck is wrong with this culture but we are just perennially unable to recognize things for what they are. It's like we have this built-in need to be lied to. If the government doesn't do it, we brew up our own homemade lies.

A pain in the ass for sure, but it isn't really out of the ordinary if, for example, you were riding a bicycle from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh via the Great Allegheny Passage. You'd already be pulling your camping gear; the folks I know who did the GAP on pedal power did so with almost 100lbs in gear split across one trailer and three bikes' worth of pannier bags.

Fair enough. Just more of an idle thought over coffee.

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Can't blame em. Time for all of those amazing white cultures to step up and offer their incredible spicy ethnic foods for all to enjoy.

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Oh. Oh no.

Countries thinking they can control the influence of the internet is just so fucking frustrating. Hopefully the US doesn't get the same idea.

I recently bought an eBike after maybe 10 years of not bicycling bc I moved to an area that is radically unfriendly for bikes and had the thought that I could pretty easily pull a small center-balanced trailer with a 50lb LiFePo4 battery and two 200W solar panels arranged in an alpine frame above it.

Add a MPPT controller and some cables, and my thought was, perhaps it could essentially make a "one to stock, one to rock" scenario with the bike batteries — one is in use to go like 30 miles, then you swap the charged one in and get 30 more miles. These eBike batteries aren't the biggest, they should be able to charge pretty quickly. My gut says you could get between 2-3 free battery charges per day like this.

Does anyone have any insight on this? Feels like it could be a good way to bring bicycle touring back onto the menu.

The one thing about a low replacement rate that brings me comfort is knowing that the very material realities of our world agonize white supremacists every second of every day.

Honestly I wonder how long it'll take before these goobers just lock the doors of Congress during a recess with a U-lock.