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1. I think the point is they learn the more difficult skill first, which is balancing. It's low enough to the ground that the kid can balance with their feet, but they will naturally start picking up their feet when they get some momentum and speed going. I think it's a much less stressful way to learn riding a bike compared to knowing mommy-or-daddy-might-let-go-and-I-will-fall school of training.

2. A very quick google search got me this¹. More than half the balance bikes on there have brakes. I've seen similar on other bike websites. I agree it's irresponsible to not have brakes, especially for the bigger kid models.

I have a 7 month old now. I want to get her on a balance bike before the end of the year, or maybe start with a trike. Exclusively indoors, or under very strict supervision from me if we are anywhere outside. As soon as she's big enough, she'll get the smallest "big" bike where I have removed the pedals, but we have the front and back brakes present. Then she'll continue balance-biking on there till she's ready for the pedals.

1: https://www.decathlon.ie/8104-balance-bikes-tricycles

Tesla Balance Bike 10 hours ago

You can start a kid on a balance bike at like 9 months. There are no pedal bikes with training wheels that's small enough for a 9 month old.

No responsible parent will allow a child on a balance bike (or one with training wheels) in any scenario where they'll 'endanger' anything.

Balance bikes teach you to ride a bike (maintain balance while steering). Training wheels teach you to pedal a bike.

Learning balancing and steering first, and then learning to actually cycle the pedals is the right order of events I think.

No need for any technical analysis. Space-based DC's claim solve one problem: backlash and resistance against construction from local communities.

Yet, the DCs here on earth have other problems such as high energy consumption needing on-prem gas turbines and requiring large quantities of water for cooling requirements.

I'm looking forward to a terrestrial DC that solves all these issues: it's completely self contained and self sustaining requiring very little maintenance, no external power and self contained waterless cooling. Once we have that then we can ask how we can package up this building and put it in the sea. And then when we've had enough of that, we can put them in space.

Do you think LI's problem is innate to the platform, or it's users? How will an alternative professional social network make itself immune to the scourge of online 'business networking'?

I honestly believe the problem is inseparable from the social network itself. Either you have a space where people can connect and find jobs and nothing more, and you'll have zero engagement and no way to really fund the platform. Or you allow actual social networking (i.e. public posts) and then open yourself up for lots of engagement, and all the associated cancer that comes with that.

Tesla? You serious?

The same tesla tha cancelled the model 2, and subsequently they don't have anything to offer the affordable-urban-transporter market? The same tesla that's going all in on robotics and AI and somewhat forgetting about their car maker heritage?

You comment is very American centric. Kia and Hyundai is fucking smashing it in Europe at the moment, and the likes of Renault is coming out with seriously good and seriously competitive offers.

In this particular case I'd argue that the workplace is indeed going to be very hostile, and appropriate reparations here would not be to rehire, but a fat compensation package for unfair dismissal.

Many worker relations ombuds around the world has procedures for exactly this scenario.

Hell, I reckon the majority of 'illegal' firings does not result in rehiring the injured party.

I'm extremely wary of anything written from 2024 onwards by lesser known authors.

I've spotted a book once in the wild that actually had a ghibli-style piss-tinted cover image, which was a dead giveaway, but it's not always so clear cut.

I've been tying shorts for more than 35 years. I can do it with my eyes closed. I can do it while running, or while swimming. I don't need to look down, finagle an end into an ampersand and whatnot. I don't have to worry about grabbing the right loop+end combo to increase or decrease tightness. I just undo the knot, and redo it according to preference.

I'd argue I'm just about as fast adjusting my shorts than this guy in the video.

OpenPrinter 16 days ago

Yet it's the paper handler that constantly jams and the printhead is fine after alignment.

All grocery stores close at 10 here (Ireland) but yes you are right. My local centra, 1km away is used for cheese, milk and beer runs. Everything else I get at the big lidl 15km away.