This is the way…except for that last part. Someone got my touring bike. I know their life probably sucks already if they’re that desperate, but a small part of me still kind of hopes they step barefoot on a Lego brick, like right in the heel, every single day until they turn away from their life of crime.
194k miles, but I got nothing on this guy with 3,260,257 miles:
https://www.jalopnik.com/2094783/highest-mileage-car-ever-volvo-p1800/
My current car is under 15k. I got it new in 2020 because I thought I would have to commute forever. Fate smiled on me and now I walk or take public transportation most places. It’s weird having something that’s been essential my whole life become more of a cost than a benefit. It would have bene way cheaper to use a mixture of rental cars and ride shares if I could have seen the future. As it is, it’s paid off, fuel efficient, and cheap to maintain. I’ll keep it, but it’s probably my last car.
Reminded me of the following for some reason:
https://multimedia-english.com/print/preview/german-coastguard-44
The “Five Eyes” concept has to be the dumbest, most transparent example of the “I’m not touching you” defense to charges of constitution circumvention.
I know this is probably a mundane engineering thing, but it sounds like a ramp up to a Black Mirror episode. We just need some kind of social commentary. Maybe the waste energy secretly contain MacGuff-ons, a known chrono-hazard. Only the poorest people will use it, for lack of alternative?
https://unbreakableumbrella.com/unbreakable-walking-stick-umbrella-standard/
Don’t know of this is the sort of thing you’re looking for. It comes with a removable cap for using it as a cane. Beneath the cap is a metal spike, but it’s not sharp. It’s good as an umbrella and is extremely, absurdly, strong. I’ve heard the handle can get kind of gummy if left in the sun, but I haven’t had that problem. Be forewarned that the marketing for it is a self-indulgent cesspool of mall ninja, incel, “alpha male” defensive violence fantasies. It is a good product, though.
Sincere but possibly stupid question: what keeps people from joining a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing access as a proxy? Businesses have accounts for all kinds of services for the use of their constituents.