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Cake day: August 18th, 2023

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  • “there are still only an average of two pedestrians per year killed by an e-bike accident. That number for cars? Around 100 per year in NYC. It’s not complicated math – cars are 50x more lethal in the city.Around 100 per year in NYC.”

    Since the articles author chose to be so pedantic about it: There are about 65,000 e-bikes in NYC, and about 2,000,000 cars. The math is simple. There’s way more car deaths because there’s way more cars. If you adjust the numbers make cars and ebikes equal and assume the too small value of 2 ebikes deaths to be a statistical average, it would amount to 2 ebike deaths for every 3.3 car deaths.

    So yes, ebikes are definitely less deadly, but hardly less deadly than the screwball claim of 50x less.

    If a guy riding a unicycle backwards down a NYC street with a fanny pack full of nitroglycerin fell down and blew up, I guess I can tell everyone it’s only half as deadly to ride a unicycle backwards while carrying nitro, since there was only a single fatality while doing it.


  • So here’s the deal is you “really” can’t afford $30 a YEAR:

    I use a VPN called windscribe. You can buy this 1 year VPN for $30. You can buy it through the Google play store.

    I also have the “Google Rewards” app that pays you in Google play store credit for taking short surveys or taking pictures of receipts.

    I get $50 to $100 per year in play store credits to spend on Google play.

    See where I’m going with this? I pay for my yearly subscription with my “free” play store credits I get.

    =Free VPN. Like right now I’ve got almost $40 in play store credits (the free credits you earn have to be spent in a year. It spends the oldest credits first) and I have like 4 months left before I have to renew my VPN subscription. Since I never enjoyed any pay to win styles of games, at this point I practically run out of things I even want to buy with my credits before they start to expire. I’ve bought probably a thousand dollars worth of apps and games over the years and haven’t ever spent a single cent of my own money on any of them. Nothing but the reward app credits. I buy the “pro” versions of apps I use to remove ads, even if the ads don’t bother me or I don’t use that particular app very much.






  • That really deadly Spanish flu that happened during WW1 didn’t even start near Spain. They were just the first ones to publicly be all like “hey, there’s something going around killing a lot of people or getting them really sick really fast”.

    Most likely, as near as anyone trying to track down the origin of the Spanish flu is that it started in a small Kansas farm town and spread from there to the Fulton Kansas army training base, and on over to France.

    It killed around 50,000,000 people. Had there been no war, it likely never would have even made it out of that Kansas town with like 1,000 people in it.