I’ve seen this topic come up for the second time this week. i’m an engineer, so I’ve been trained to use maths as a tool extensively. But to be honest, I couldn’t even tell you. I don’t remember specific rules for it, I just do it without even thinking about it anymore.

Fix what exactly? Hard to answer, when the question isn’t clearly defined.

Not denying, that there’s a lot to be fixed. But regarding the means, that depends on what exactly you’re talking about.

Yeah, though I’ve never visited, I’m aware that US traffic is in large parts a hellscape for anything that isn’t a car or motorcycle.

So very different circumstances. Arguably, the solution would be a shifting paradigm in urban planning, rather than fast E-bikes. But the latter is obviously much easier to achieve.

Ah, an important fact I forgot to mention this rule applies to bikes with pedalling assistance, so pedelecs, strictly speaking. Real E-bikes, that can use their motor by flicking a switch always require a license plate. That’s the silly part of the law her, imho. I just added this fact after having written the rest.

If you’re doing more than 15 mph as a long-term cruising speed and 30 mph burst, I have to assume, you’re a fairly fit and healthy person. And of course it wouldn’t feel unsafe for you to do the same speeds with an E-bike. But what you have to consider is, that these bikes are also very popular with people who are not fit enough to reach those speeds unassisted and maybe haven’t even ridden a bike for a long time. When I see some of our elderly citizens using them, I’m pretty happy they aren’t allowed to go that much faster, since they are also not restricted to use roads and often share the way with pedestrians.

What you also have to put into consideration is, that this limit doesn’t mean, that you cannot go faster, it’s just that the assistance shuts of at ~15 mph and everything on top, you have to pedal in yourself. Which is a bit more exhausting, due to the overall heavier bike, but something I regularly do, even though I ride a pretty shoddy 10 year-old bike with less than ideal mechanics.

The overall experience of riding a bike like that is pretty damn great still and not at all as terrible, as you make it sound. You can go your regular cruising speed on flat parts, no restriction for downhill, but you get an extra lift for uphill sections, and what’s the biggest plus for me is the extra acceleration - and ease thereof - when you have to stop at cross-sections and traffic-lights.

It’s all depended on the surrounding traffic and environment a bit, so I’m not saying a carbon copy of that rule would be ideal for the US for example. But even though I’d wish for 3 mph more, it works pretty well around here. And don’t forget that you can simply get a bike with a license plate for anythig beyond those rules.

Just as an inspiration: in Germany the cut-off is 25 km/h (I’ll leave doing the math to you). I think that’s almost reasonable. Personally I’d favor 30 km/h, because that’s a common speed limit for residential areas over here and that would allow them to better flow with traffic.

Drop an m and this still holds up.

Or a weird generalization.

There are people who love to complain everywhere and in every age group, I’d say. But you don’t hear the ones who don’t complain complaining.

Perception is biased.

In light of some other replies: the same could be said about having kids.

well yeah. But most phones w/o a 3.5 mm jack don’t have an integrated DAC anyways, so the choice is up to you.

But the storage and the fact that it’s all in a light weight bundle, that’s indepedent of your phone is pretty convincing.

I remember having on, back in the day, that ran on a single AAA battery for a week an was marginally larger than one of these. Unfortunately I tinkered with trying to run it on an external power supply when I knew to little about electronics and ran a few too may Volts through it. Otherwise this thing would probably still work fine. I kinda never looked back since was content enough with my phone for listening to music. But I do have fond meories of those things, and I miss the 3.5 mm jack on my most recent phone, maybe I should reconsider…

What’s the advantage over a smartphone?

Might be helpful to know your gender, location (like country) and do you have autism by chance?

The first part is to taylor (lol) suggestions to you. The second part is out of curiosity and because that might be helpful to classify it as a medical necessity.

There’s also the much less known Fijian Sulu.

Probably much harder to pull off outside of the Pacific, because it’s not as well-known, but the way they wear it in Fiji can look pretty damn sleek and professional.

It’s a unisex piece of clothing, too.

I absolutely despise work. If there was any way to survive while living alone in a studio apartment or trailer home without having to go to a job I’d do it in a heartbeat.

Have you tried being rich?

‘Mustermann’ is more like an artificial placeholder name, that gets used on facsimilies of passports and drivers licenses used as example illustrations.

“Muster” in that context also means something that is only for demonstration purposes, not the real deal. That word is also printed across prints of Euro-bills when they are depicted somewhere in order to avoid charges for producing counterfeit money.

Afaik there are actual people with that last name, but that’s pretty rare.

I was thinking Mustermann is more like John Doe in that regard, but John Doe is also used for a hypothetical regular, average person and we have “Otto Normalverbraucher” for that use-case. (“Normalverbraucher” literally means ‘normal consumer’, no real person has a name like that)

OP’s question is aimed more at a last name, that is very common and stereotypical, almost boring. While the close translation of Smith Schmitt/Schmidt/Schmid also fulfills that criteria the even more regular one would be Müller and Mayer (or one of its spelling varieties)

Those three names are so common that “Müller-Mayer-Schmidt” has become another phrase used to refer to the average citizen archetype.

Looking through the titles in different languages, it seems wild to me how different they sometimes are. Polish and Serbian also use some variant of Jonatan. Makes me wonder why, they felt the need to change that.

I don’t know, but wouldn’t have guessed that Jodocus was a common name in Dutch either, that needs translation to be more common sounding in another language.
To me it sounds like a made up name, that vibes with the character being a duck.

I dunno, I haven’t found that version on wikpedia. But I know him by that name from the German synchro and afaik the Dutch original also calls him that.

It’s not Jonathan, but Jodocus.

But I agree, Alfred J. Kvakk is legendary and very much recommended.

Ah, yes, the internet. Now we’re having an argument about cabbage. But, alright, I’ll bite. Just for the fun of it.

You are revealing yourself with that comment. You don’t seem to be a real cabbage-enjoyer, if you simply describe it’s flavor as watery and nothing particular and simply tolerate it for its texture. Or maybe you should find a different source of cabbage.

I refuse to subscribe to your narrow minded views.

There are more varieties though. Cabbage soup comes to mind, for example, and some stuff that I don’t know an English word for.
Some of that can taste great as well, but if you don’t care for the taste of cooked cabbage, it’s probably not for you.