Britain did this during WWII. Over 10% of their draftees were sent down into the fucking coal mines instead of going off to shoot nazis.

I’m not talking about e-bikes, I’m talking about insanely expensive regular bikes where you pay extra thousands of $$$ to shave grams off the bike’s weight.

run our design past a focus group before implementing it

once you’ve built something, you’re not asking users for whether it’s perfect

The most hilarious mod I’ve ever seen is people who remove three of the six screws holding the front chain ring in place – while being easily 50 pounds overweight.

I ride fixed distances (25 and 50 miles). Any improvements to the efficiency of my bikes means I’ll just get less of a workout each time. Why pay (so much) more just to get less exercise?

I went into a Subway once in my bike shorts. A bunch of little kids hiked their shorts up wedgie-style and danced around me like the dwarfs in the Spinal Tap Stonehenge scene. Everybody in the store laughed, including me.

I do a lot of bicycling. I have no idea if the lycra bibs make you ride faster, but they sure as fuck do help prevent the chafing.

I was laid off in 2019 by a large west coast tech giant as part of a mass layoff. We had the option of trying to find a new internal job but every job posting involved AI (seven years ago!) and nobody that I knew even got a reply from any application. Now I’m a school bus driver and 100X happier even though I make like 1/5 of what I used to make. The plot twist is that AI is probably going to replace school bus drivers sooner or later, flattened children be damned.

Cops and big city racism

Jesus Christ you still have a DOS umbrella?

A friend of mine had a Commodore 20 with no tape drive. Not only could we only have one game at a time installed, but also we had to manually type in the code for the game each time.

When my main (only) programming language was TurboBASIC, I was amber all the way. On the other hand, that sweet sweet Apple IIe was green.

I vaguely remember somebody sending me a bitcoin many many years ago, but I haven’t been able to find it.

Angel is a centerfold!

I remember getting a Hotshot/286 card which allowed me to upgrade my 8088 to a 286. I don’t even remember what programs I used back then but I’m sure they ran a lot faster after that.

IIRC correctly, the card was normally around $400 but I managed to get one for $150 and I was so proud of my dealmaking.

Anybody here remember Plastic, circa 2000? It was a forum kind of like Reddit, although I don’t remember if it had upvotes or not.

I can’t believe people still believe Bigfoot is real. It’s so obviously just a Yeti in a gorilla suit.

Yeah, NOTHING in ALL CAPS.

It was a great way to dispose of surplus bombs from WWII.

They were designed for the faster speeds. Speeds were lowered to 55 mph in most of the country during the 1970s as a (perfectly rational) response to the OPEC oil embargoes in that decade. Lower speeds = lower fuel consumption per mile.