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610 totally unrelated

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At top, a bicycle built for golf. Mid-drive, even. Kinda spendy at $7k, but this is golf. Apparently they're selling.  We're talking about Bikes and Batteries today. This is a, um, what was this?  Right, a swappable battery.  Sounds a lot like a dorado battery with a new design. Having uniform parts between different manufacturers will help us consumers. (Imagine if your car only worked with one brand of gasoline.) So this thinking is in the right direction-ish. Throw a golf bag holder on the front and they could charge more. ;) There's gold in them thar batteries. (Or at least some rare earth minerals.) The question is, how do we get them out, and then back in?  At least we can haul them about in this.  It's funny how some designs look bad while others look good. In my eye, that's a pretty good looking box for moving other boxes. 
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609 Maybe they're right

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Well, the big news nationally is the election. My guess is it isn't going to be that close. The enthusiasm for #45 just isn't the same. Around where we live, that looks like this: supporters who took their old 2020 signs and cut them in half, removing the date and the old running partner. The big news locally is a battle for control of our city hall. It's a little difficult to parse out exactly what's going on, and I won't bore you with the details, but it's basically the good old boys versus the newfangled technocrats, although all on the right side of the political spectrum. (Basically the same as our national politics.) It's a funny, sad show. I'm not saying technocrats are always right, and I love things that don't change, but embracing going backwards isn't going to work. Outside of our memories, time seems to move in one direction. Forward. There's no going back. Ever. The past is gone.
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608 the magic of having no car

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Guys, there is a secret world hiding right in front of you. It is an incredible, diverse, entertaining, joyful, healthy, and all around amazing awesome world.  What world are we talking about? Why the walker's world of course. That little known globe we all live upon, but barely tread upon.  Let me start with full disclosure. I own a car. It's a work truck. Technically my wife went to the dealership and all that stuff, but my name is on the papers various places and it's parked outside my house and I can use it pretty much whenever I want to, so yeah, I have a car. Or at least we have a car.   But for years of my life, I lived without a vehicle. Sure up until 16 I was forced to be car-free, but I'm talking about the years that I've had a license but chose not to drive.  When I moved from suburbia into a big city, parking tickets were the first thing that told me to get rid of the vehicle I had at the time, a Volkswage
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