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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And especially when caffeine (including super high caffeine drinks/supplements) isn't even age restricted or anything!

Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In the US at least it stops being an e-bike when the speed limiter is removed (being classified as a motorcycle/moped/etc. instead, depending on specs and state). The laws on this just often aren't enforced, similarly to how many car/motorcycle laws aren't regularly enforced.

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In the US at least the regulations do exist, removing the speed limiter turns it into a moped/motorcycle/etc. (depending on the state, specifications, etc.), they're just not often enforced (similar to how many of the laws for cars and motorcycles are also regularly broken without consequence)

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tangential, but any recommendations for resources for someone with a generally technical background (SWE w/ bachelors in CPE and math) but minimal AI/ML experience to get background knowledge for this sort of stuff?

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Gotta bring back the clown egg register but for posters

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Now I need an early 2000s style comedy movie about a group of femmes trying to sneak into the mascs-only bar

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yeah, like anything you just need to be mindful about what you do/don't use it for, and which skills you are/aren't okay letting atrophy

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's especially telling that their takeaway from the fact that "richer countries have substantially more innovation, and their workers are much more economically productive" is that we should ignore suffering in poor countries, rather than try to turn more poor countries into rich countries

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I think part of the issue here is that most university undergraduate "CS" programs are really programming/SWE training programs with a sprinkling of actual CS

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Yeah, like, even if you ignore all of the details, "little mermaid retelling where she gets rejected by the prince, but then gets to try again in modern Japan, where she meets a guy who happens to look just like the prince and they fall in love and live happily ever after" is just…bad

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

More surface area per volume on the bit you bite off (IDK if this is actually why)

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Wait till he finds out that some intersections have under-pavement sensors to detect the presence of cars, triggering certain light states similarly to the walk buttons.

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Can't even get the flags right (11 stripes instead of 13)

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

but there were a few cases of some of their older batteries going boom after getting water damaged, so if you buy one used you might want to check which battery model they have and replace it if necessary).

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The big safety thing to look for is whether the battery is UL rated (unfortunately the cheaper you go the less likely you are to find this). I'm pretty happy with my rad power ebike as an entry-level-but-not-too-much-corner-cutting option (the batteries in anything they're selling new are very safe,

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

From what I've seen, their current batteries are some of the safest on the market

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Worth noting that unless you have hypertension you probably don't need to care that much about restricting your sodium intake, and there is some evidence that restricting it in people without hypertension can increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Yeah, at this point it seems like it's either gonna be yuri or like "actually true familial/platonic love with humans counts too" or something (my money is on yuri though)

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Absolutely. Relatedly, basically all claims of "planned obsolescence" I've seen boil down to some combination of meeting that consumer preference and genuine engineering limitations/trade-offs.

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

It usually means it's adapting something originally published as a light novel (especially isekai ones), which started doing the whole sentence-as-title thing to catch shoppers attention with only the book spine/title listing (and/or cargo-culting successful long-title LNs)

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The handful of times I picked up something that was genuinely too "mature" for me I just went "meh, I'm not enjoying this" and stopped reading it.

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Yeah, I read tons of "for adults" novels as a kid and it was fine. There were some things that went over my head till I re-read them when I was older, but I think that getting comfortable with not always 100% understanding everything all the time made me better at learning new stuff in general.

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Yeah, it's pretty good. Shame that it couldn't get a second season.

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

magic based solely on the family they were born into) themselves. Coco getting adopted into an atelier is presented as coincidental/unorthodox enough that the brimmed caps just saw it as a surprise opportunity to get someone aligned with them on the inside, resulting in the sudden focus on Coco.

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Yeah, my assumption has been that they gave out a bunch of magic books/wands to random non-magician kids who seemed interested in magic as a like, screening/recruitment thing, with the intention of training the ones who figure it out (and are likely to resent the status quo for excluding them from

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

You can still book through a travel agent though (and plenty of people do)? The change isn't that these services went away, but that customers were given the option to save money by doing without and many decided that was a trade off they liked.

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Plus it often ignores that the changes also made things more affordable/accessible. Like, you can still hire a travel agent (and things like package trips through travel agencies are not uncommon), online booking just means that the barrier to DIY-ing it is low enough most people don't want to.

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

As an American, I can confirm. This store opened recently near me, and is about 500 feet from the nearest McDonalds

Store sign, reading "Freedom Guns & Loans", with a bald eagle and American flag background

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

It's also complicated because it's a mix of things that are genuinely promising but not yet well studied (e.g. peptides) and things that are (as far as I can tell) complete BS (e.g. earthing)

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Skyscrapers near airports are generally designed to be able to handle a plane accidentally flying into it (including the twin towers; they didn't survive 9/11 because the planes were going way faster than is typical at that altitude and bigger than most planes were when the towers were designed)

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

This is often paired with a view that once <insert chosen minority that supposedly controls the government/media> has been sufficiently removed from power and (violently) punished, "the people" will spontaneously switch to vocally agreeing with them on everything.

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I think they often frame it as their politics being radical relative to the current government/media viewpoint, but simultaneously supported by a silent majority of "the people", who are afraid to speak up due to the oppressive government/media.

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

chaperone/driver, and now they want to stop kids from socializing online too. Without someone actually building places (real or virtual) that they want to spend their time at, they're just gonna figure out how to sneak in to whatever places do exist. 2/2

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Also like, if you wanna ban kids from a bunch of places they want to be, you should probably be trying to figure out how to offer them an alternative they actually want? Like (in the US at least) we've made it impossible/illegal in many places for kids to leave the house without an adult 1/

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

> 90% of the country wants mass deportations [of 30% of the country] 🤔🧐

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

It's like "is X a sandwich?" discourse if a bunch of people tied their identity to a specific thing being/not being a sandwich

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Sounds like a great way to get the companies to restructure so that the low paid employees are all employed by a separate independent subsidiary and/or classified as independent contractors

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Yeah, but for that to happen the people involved in the market have to stop believing trump is going to fix it any day now

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I think a lot of it is just that a lot of people don't actually understand how stocks (or housing, national debt, data centers, inflation, etc.) work, and just kinda form opinions based on vibes/direction, and a lot of politicians focus on policies that focus group well but wouldn't work in response

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

At least it's not as bad as looking up anything LaTeX related…

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

They're one of those things that's fine conceptually but gets used for tons of things it really shouldn't be

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

It's because the Fair Housing Act made discriminating on the basis of familiar status (e.g. whether they have kids) in housing illegal, but there's no equivalent for pet ownership

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

If you don't have particularly "complicated" hair/aren't doing particularly complicated styling, wattage, size/weight, and ergonomics are probably more important than all the random other features.

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

From what I recall when I did a bunch of research before buying a hair dryer myself, the ion thing (sometimes labeled as "tourmaline", which is the material used for it) is real, and does help reduce frizz a bit, but unless frizz is an actual problem for you it's probably not important.

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

They seem better than sports betting sites in some ways (e.g. they won't issue a lifetime ban just because you bet strategically enough to consistently make money overall), but the main argument for them being "useful" (that they expose useful info) relies pretty heavily on insider leaks in practice

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Nyle Rodgers @nylerodgers.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Surely the famine will end after we lynch the last of those greedy farmers/s

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