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A contrarian isn’t one who always objects - that’s a confirmist of a differ

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I can't argue with that.

I consider anything over 500 watts to be getting into motorbike territory. I’m talking about a bicycle. All I need from the motor is enough assistance to offset the weight and rolling resistance of the big wheels - and then a little extra. I still like to pedal myself. My current bike has 5.05" tires, and 250W of pedal-assist is more than enough to take me anywhere I want to go. The limiting factor isn’t power - it’s range.

I’d want the absolute best two-wheeled monster truck.

– A rigid steel frame with custom geometry built to my specs
– An extra-long frame, something in the vein of the Surly Moonlander
– 24 x 6.2" Surly tires
– A mid-drive motor with an integrated gearbox
– Belt drive
– Power output slightly above the legal 250W limit to make up for the added weight
– At least a 1000Wh battery
– AWD system from Christini, with a switch to engage the front wheel
– Matte camo paintjob

Not just kids - I find myself talking more and more with LLM's as well. Neither my friends, my partner or the people I hang around online are interested in talking about the stuff I'm interested in. Neither is ChatGPT but atleast it pretends to be.

And what does that have to do with anything? Sweden’s population has grown from 8 million in the '70s to 10.5 million today. That’s 2.5 million more people - and 1.9 million of them are immigrants. The number of immigrants per capita has increased significantly since the '70s, not decreased. It has gone from 3.7% of the total population to 20.8%.

According to wikipedia their support was at around 4% in the 90's, 5.7% in 2010, 17.5% in 2018 and 20% in 2022.

There was a peak in immigration in the '70s, but that was still only half of what it was in 2015. I doubt it’s just a coincidence that their support seems to correlate pretty neatly with the number of immigrants. I never claimed that it’s the gang violence driving the increased support - it’s the immigration itself. The rise in violence just makes it easier for them to say “I told you so.”

I would not eat nor sleep if it wasn't mandatory. I consider both chores and waste of time.

The only strategy to a long term weight loss is a diet you can maintain and only eating bland food is not it. That would work if no other food was available but that is not the case.

That's not what the findings actually say.

The study found that electrifying SUVs does reduce emissions compared to keeping them as gas-powered vehicles, but it’s a less efficient use of limited battery materials.

My parents didn't talk down to me like that.

What I have been told, however, is that I wont stay lean like this all my life and will start gaining weight as I get older. That I'm still waiting for to happen.

Nice to meet you too.

Right there with you. I can't wait to be able to take all my nutrition in a pill form.

You're still doing it. I bring up integration challenges - you hear "brown people." I talk about political backlash - you call it disinformation. At no point have I blamed immigrants for wealth inequality or defended Farage or Trump, yet somehow you've lumped me in with all of it.

You asked by who people get shouted down? You're literally doing it right now. And you don't even realize it. That’s the whole tragedy. You think you're punching up - but all you're doing is making sure no one outside your bubble wants to talk to you, much less vote with you. Keep going. It's clearly working wonders.

You’re advocating for ditching due process and sentencing people to death not for what they’ve done, but for the group they happen to belong to. That’s not a sensible position to hold, in my opinion.

Being a commander of a mercenary group doesn't count as proof of being a rapist by my books.

Sorry, but I don't want to live in the world you're advocating for, and luckily I don't have to. We've granted war criminals due process in the past and we're going to do it again. I'm proud to live in a country where we have sensible adults in charge.

What exactly are you suggesting we do about it? They’ve got enough conventional artillery aimed at Seoul to cause millions of casualties the moment it even looks like we’re about to intervene.

Or maybe lets be better than Russia and grant people due process before labeling them rapists and murdering them.

I literally thought of this yesterday and now it's a real thing.

Appreciate the live demo of exactly what I was talking about.

Instead of engaging with the argument, you go straight to branding me a racist. This is why the far-right keeps gaining ground - not because people agree with them, but because they’re sick of being shouted down any time they try to talk about real issues. Apparently things still aren’t bad enough for that lesson to sink in.

EDIT: Ironically this just in: Sweden set to rent cells in Estonian jails as it runs out of room for its prisoners

Sweden is not set up to cope with a rise in the numbers being sentenced to jail time as the government grapples with an unprecedented wave of violence brought about by gang crime.