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Cake day: April 28th, 2025

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  • I am a natural citizen of Usonia and I fucking gasp every time I hear through the grapevine that someone from a(n) (formerly) allied nation took the risk to travel here. I understand that most don’t have much choice, but my home is unrecognizable to me now.

    Don’t come here, and I am saying this as someone who benefits from Canadian tourism. I have a deep, long-time love and appreciation for the Canadian people and their First Nations — it breaks my heart to even say so, but please, for your own safety, do not come here!








  • I recently bought an eBike after maybe 10 years of not bicycling bc I moved to an area that is radically unfriendly for bikes and had the thought that I could pretty easily pull a small center-balanced trailer with a 50lb LiFePo4 battery and two 200W solar panels arranged in an alpine frame above it.

    Add a MPPT controller and some cables, and my thought was, perhaps it could essentially make a “one to stock, one to rock” scenario with the bike batteries — one is in use to go like 30 miles, then you swap the charged one in and get 30 more miles. These eBike batteries aren’t the biggest, they should be able to charge pretty quickly. My gut says you could get between 2-3 free battery charges per day like this.

    Does anyone have any insight on this? Feels like it could be a good way to bring bicycle touring back onto the menu.