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I got my first e-bike in 2003. My e-bike and my Vespa scooter were my primary vehicles, until I got married in 2011. In California, the 30+ mph e-bikes are actually illegal for on-road use, though I see them quite a bit. A bicycle's frame, suspension, wheels, and brakes are not adequate for...

. I'm neurotically-compelled to provide math conversions. It's a problem.

For those who live in the U.S., here a calculator to convert mmol/L to mg/dL: Cholesterol Conversion Calculator

Could you list your lipid numbers? LDL, HDL, and triglycerides?

. LOL great idea to act as the Vegan Police towards one's girlfriend. That relationship is ending fast.

. Oops, almost forgot: All Hail the Flying Spaghetti Monster

. Blasphemy! .

. In Asimov's "I, Robot" short stories, the robots sometimes behaved strangely. They would have to bring in a robo-psychologist to understand what was going on. In every case, the robot was following the 3 Laws of Robotics, but in a way that wasn't immediately obvious. In the much later robot...

. Even the recent cars have collision-avoidance features that are amazing. One time, my wife was about to make a lane change. We didn't see another vehicle that was quickly approaching from behind, in our target lane. However, our car DID see the other vehicle approaching. When my wife...

. Potentially-sentient robots must be designed around Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics. In Isaac Asimov's robot stories, these laws were mathematically fundamental to a robot's design. No robot could act contrary to these laws, because this would cause failure of its positronic brain. A robot...

How about Emerson Lake & Palmer's 1973 "Brain Salad Surgery" album? Very dark view of artificial intelligence! : (Last human alive): I am all there is (Computer): NEGATIVE! PRIMITIVE! LIMITED! I LET YOU LIVE (Last human alive): But I gave you life! (Computer): WHAT ELSE COULD YOU...

Remember this 1983 computer-fear song from Trans-X? It's actually kind of prophetic: Give me light, give me action, At the touch of a button, Flying through hyper-space, In a computer interface. Stop, (Living on video, ) stop, (Integrated circuits, ) stop, (Sur un faisceau de lumieres.) stop...

How about this dire imagery, from the 1980 Yes song, "Machine Messiah"? I think that people were freaking out over the popular adoption of computers at that time: "From time, the great healer, The machine messiah is born. Cables that carry the life to the cities we build. Threads that link...

I asked ChatGPT to write a poem about beans causing gas, but the gas not smelling bad: Beans, beans, they make us gaseous Some may find it quite outrageous But fear not, for there's no need to fret The smell won't make anyone upset For some, beans cause quite a stink But not all farts are made...

. I specifically instructed ChatGPT to write a poem about beans and farts. Because farts generally don't smell good, it's no surprise that ChatGPT wrote what it did. .

ChatGPT AI writes this poem about beans: Oh, healthy beans, so full of life, Their goodness is beyond compare. They fill us up with protein, too, And keep us healthy, that's their due. But oh, the farts that they produce, A pungent scent that can't reduce. It's not so cute, but don't you fear...

. Sounds like my wife and me after eating a big bowl of mung beans. Embrace the fart. .

. Per the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (the world's largest association of Registered Dietitians): "There is no evidence that combining certain foods or eating foods at specific times of day will help with weight loss. Eating the "wrong" combinations of food doesn't cause them to turn to...

“Other generations perceived a plethora of swords hanging over their heads. But generally what they feared were shadows, for neither they nor their gods could actually end the world. Fate might reap an individual, a family, or even a whole nation, but not the entire world. Not then. We, in the...

. It looks like the OP is Jack Norris, the registered dietitian who co-authors the veganhealth.org website: About