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    The perfect commuter bike? Velotric’s Discover 3 makes its case.

    Many, many places have poor quality roads, gravel, and a lack of bike infrastructure. Commuting in snow and ice is very difficult with < 2.5 tires. I moved to Minneapolis and got 4" for wintertime, but wish I'd had them when I lived in Houston where the infrastructure is hell. Commuting next to...
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    The perfect commuter bike? Velotric’s Discover 3 makes its case.

    Too bad it doesn't have a gates carbon (belt) drive. My $1500 Luna has one and it's so nice. • Easy to maintain • Easy to clean • No grease • Less rust • Less pinching • Slow to wear I'll never go back to a chain if I can avoid it. No, I don't work for the bike industry. I just like my bike 🥰
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    Ars Asks: Share your shell and show us your tricked-out terminals!

    I use a modified version of Emilia Majewska's Roseate, and have published a version for KDE: https://tech.lgbt/@terra/109867577698053357 I also have an unpublished version for Oh My ZSH with the same color scheme but based off the structure of the degnostic stock theme.
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    All of DOGE’s work could be undone as lawsuit against Musk proceeds

    Framing DOGE's work as "wins" is journalistically irresponsible. The outcomes are patently anti-science, anti-democracy, and designed to benefit a small number of wealth hoarders and religious zealots that support a white christian ethnostate. Don't underestimate the harms of platforming...
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    Hyperion author Dan Simmons dies from stroke at 77

    Came here to say this. Not to mention queerphobia. May his vision be surpassed by more compassionate minds.
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    Could a vaccine prevent dementia? Shingles shot data only getting stronger.

    not this page completely slathered with shingrix ads. shm
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    Meta offers EU users ad-light option in push to end investigation

    Meta has a white supremacist christofascist co-author of Project 2025 as head of policy. Give them no ground. https://newrepublic.com/post/185306/project-2025-dustin-carmack-meta
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    Bernie Sanders backs Trump’s plan to buy stake in Intel

    None of this makes sense until Senators and Congresspeople are forced to divest from financial trading. Lobbying post-term is lucrative enough.
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    Under anti-vaccine advocate RFK Jr, FDA to limit access to COVID-19 shots

    Like most public health initiatives, vaccines have the most benefit to people with the most need. Consequently, this will do the most harm to those with the most need. Just another piece of the GOP genocide puzzle.
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    ISPs fear wave of state laws after New York’s $15 broadband mandate

    ...And more power to exploit? This is how red state oligarchs are allowed to starve marginalized people of information and access to services. The states can be trusted to do many things, but protect civil rights and liberties is not one of them.
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    Backlash over Amazon’s return to office comes as workers demand higher wages

    Exactly this. The market never solves for exploitation. Labor and marginalized people must link arms. "..despite some of the biggest concessions in Amazon's history" – I don't get the sense that Ars or the author are anti-labor, but this is some apologetic framing. A company that has workers...
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    Sony announces PS5 Pro, a $700 graphics workhorse available Nov. 7

    What do you call a N@zi collaborator? A N@zi. TERFs are N@zi-allied exterminationists and Hogwarts Legacy is a N@zi funding stream. Please stop acting like "journalistic neutrality" in this doesn't have real consequences.
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    Kraven the Hunter’s new trailer gives us a dark, gore-filled revenge story

    No Squirrel Girl, no use in watching.
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    Why the fight over Elon Musk’s pay at Tesla won’t end with shareholder vote

    This scene from spy x family has no relevance whatsoever.
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    Hard-to-spend card balances net Starbucks $200M per year, says consumer group

    These would be great changes. Now let's see them for virtual currencies in gaming platforms and battlepasses, which often structure around awkward amounts as a lever to force further purchases.
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    Twitter quietly edited its hateful conduct policy to drop transgender protections

    As someone who deals with this on a daily basis, I must sadly report that even the previous restrictions had no effective enforcement. I've filed tens of reports on the basis of misgendering, deadnaming, or existential skepticism about trans folks (which boils down to misgendering), and they've...
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    Twitter’s new leaders charged with helping Musk execute “dumb things”

    And just like with Tesla, he'll make impossible promises, handwave away barriers that can't be surmounted, expect users to tolerate unethical moneygrabs, and grind employees and collaborators to dust trying to pyramid scheme into impossible deadlines.