Triumph

I’m down for it.

That’s only because money is already irrelevant to him.

Okay, here we go. All of these have two wheels. If I’ve missed anything, or you’d like my opinion on a specific two wheeled vehicle classification, let me know.

Motorcycle

• More than 15HP
• 16" or larger wheels
• Manual transmission or DCT automatic (not a variator with a belt)

Moped

• “Functional” pedals; not practical, just functional
• Under 80cc
• 16" or larger wheels
• Variator/belt transmission
• Few or no plastics
• These came up in the late 1970s to comply with various “motor-driven cycle” legal allowances
• You rest your feet on the pedals
• Can be “throw your leg over” or step through
• Generally have a max speed of 30MPH stock

Scooter

• Any engine size (I believe the Suzuki Burgmann 650 is the largest, could be wrong)
• Step through, you sit on it like a toilet
• Flat floor pan for your feet, or flat foot “floorboards” to the sides of a low center hump
• Lots of plastics
• Variator/belt transmission
• Most of these have 14" maximum wheel size and comparatively fat tires

Noped

• Basically a moped without the pedals
• Foot pegs
• These came in the early to mid 1980s
• Can have smaller wheels, but the tires are not fat like scooter tires

Scooter cycle

• Looks lilke a small motorcycle; clearly intends for you to think it is
• Variator/belt transmission

Motorized bicycle (MB)

• Began its life as a regular pedal bicycle without power assist
• Has an added internal combustion engine for power assist
• ICE engine can drive the rear wheel with a second chain and sprocket, or the front or rear wheel with a pinch roller, very rarely with a pusher trailer; kits also exist to replace the bottom bracket with a freewheel sprocket that the engine drives, with power going to the wheel via the pedal chain
• In rare cases, these were manufactured this way, generally very old ones

E-Bike

• Pedal bicycle with electric power assist
• Many of these are factory made now
• These can also be made the same way MBs are, by adding an electric motor: – Pinch roller drive – Hub motor drive – Bottom bracket drive

Minibike

• Similar to a noped, but extremely small
• Small wheels and fat little tires
• May not have brakes at all, if it does, they’re really bad
• Pull start

Dirtbike

• A small motorcycle designed for offroad use
• May not be street legal
• Small ones for kids may be variator driven

Placeholder for when I get home and can do a mad brain dump on two wheeled vehicle nomenclature.

I’m sure you’re right for a lot of people. Considering the audience here, who I expect to be more capable of doing more complex things on the basis of “they’re here”, I hope my advice is more productive than it would be to, say, the local rural Facebook moms group.

It’s a bit of a self-sustaining cycle. Media depends on engagement, social media even more so. Hate engagement is capable of increasing engagement, and it’s easier to create content that elicits hate engagement. Throw Internet Rando participation on top of that.

No, you should not quit social media. The beauty of it is that content that traditional media would never take a chance on which you would like to consume actually exists. What you should do is be mindful of what kind of content you choose to consume, and recognizing when content has an undesirable agenda beneath its surface. Content is not normally created for no purpose. Always ask “Why was this created? How does the creator intend for me to react to this? Is that an appropriate reaction?”

Just letting the content pour into your brain without consciously filtering it is a bad idea, and that’s got nothing to do with social vs traditional media at all.

If.

And here we are talking about it.

You’re missing it. It got sneaked into a museum and hung on the wall. That’s an extremely important part of it.

Depends on whether you’ve gone to Harvard or not.

I agree with the first part, disagree with the second.

Jackson Pollock was just some idiot with a paintbrush. John Cage was just some idiot with a piano when he wrote 4’33". “I could have done that.” Sure, but they did. Having the concept and then executing it is as much of the art as the finished product.

I do; or at least I can. But really, Device #2 should be in a fire safe, and Device #3 should be in a safe deposit box. These should be “set and forget” devices, not just “the laptop that I use and the phone that I use”. Those are additional costs, additional planning, additional effort, additional administration (because you need to also be checking that these cold devices still work on a scheduled basis), maybe additional required skill (depending on what you want these set and forget devices to be). You need to have an appropriate place to keep that fire safe. And when one of those cold devices doesn’t work anymore, you have to figure out why and likely replace it.

To do it right, you really have to have your shit together. That I don’t.

Think of passkeys like they’re backups.

If you have one, you have none. If you have two, you have one. If you have three, at least one of them has to live offsite.

There are a ton of people who can’t reliably meet the “three” threshold, and plenty who can’t meet the two.

I really don’t want to turn my devices into hardware keys. I can’t imagine how difficult it would be to recover if, say, there was a fire or flood. Hardware breaks, gets lost, stolen. How about people who can’t afford multiple devices? What about the unhoused? How about if you get arrested and your one device gets confiscated- you can’t even give anyone else access to your data. What if you’re a good witness recording something and the police decide to make your device into evidence (or destroy it).

MFA? Absofuckinglutely. I’ll pass on passkeys, sorry.

The only time I’ve ever lost anything from a fridge was when an apartment complex preemptively cleared out the last of our belongings before we finished moving out.

And that was 30 years ago.

I opt out by not spending $2K on a fridge that annoys me by its mere existence.

You just have to laugh when a network security company has malicious actors in their systems, undetected for probably years.

The article only alludes to answering the question “Who is engineering this?”

It’s the ad platforms. They’re doing it. They’re selling ads, then they’re also using bots to pump up the impression numbers, so that they get paid more.

This is fraud.

Marketing doesn’t work nearly as well as marketers would like you to believe, so much so that they have to fake their effectiveness.

$20 of the time

I’ll get my pikey.