Plenty of people, including me, fill tires with free air at gas stations which gets them in the door. It's not surprising that cheap tire pressure gauges would be sold near the checkout, unrelated to drug use.

Usually the air nozzle has one built in these days (maybe only the pay ones)

They'll surely all allow some kind of measurement, otherwise someone will overfill their tyre, burst it, and then sue for the fact the explosion has left them with brain damage.

Car tyre explosions are pretty deadly...

> deeply unsettling

Care to elaborate? What about the logo makes you feel this way?

it's those beady little °s

That's just keyboard elitism. You wouldn't be so bothered by them if they had a proper shift-key/fn-key press. Maybe you should step outside of your ASCII bubble an realize there's a whole world of Unicode to explore that can't be encompassed by a double key-stroke.

For the longest time I thought it was a winter coat store. It wasn't until I saw beach balls out front one day that I gave them a second look.

The degree symbol is what drew me to the brand in the first place. It made it sound clever and novel. They might not need it anymore but I think it helped them become popular.

To me, it’s more that lower-case f.

Bingo.

Why not delete the first line and replace the rest of the comment symbols with triple back ticks? Seems good enough for jazz to me.

  sed -e 's/\/\*/```/g' -e 's/\*\//```/g' -e '1d' <yourfile>

They're simply called mopeds in my book. We don't call electric cars, e-cars.

I strapped a no-name Chinese kW hub motor kit and a nice battery on a $100 steel mountain bike I grabbed off Craigslist. I've ridden in downpours, through snow and ice you name it. The bike kicks butt and was way cheaper than a car, not to mention quiet and super easy maintenance. I'm not surprised they're getting more popular. I hope small electric vehicles take over.

Tip for anyone else planning on doing a conversion, milesvp mentioned in a thread a few months ago that other parts of the bike may likely need to be upgraded as well (brakes, suspension, ect): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28270121

I would suggest a steel frame with disc brakes. Suspension is a nice bonus. If it can carry a fat person it can carry a healthy person with battery and motor.

What is surprising about people wanting to fit in with one another? There is nothing new about monkey see monkey do.

Right, nothing new. But every now and then it is a good reminder to see things a bit more clearly. When you want something, it is powerful to be able to pause and realize the wanting arises because of what others do, not intrinsically.

So delightful to read in the Twitter format. But I guess that's what you need to do to fit in.

It’s not necessarily driven by fitting in which infers liking the same things other like so you are in the “in group”. It’s preferring things just because others do, no reward of “in group” membership required.

It's one of those unseen realities (or banal platitudes as Foster Wallace said) of everyday life. How's the water, boys? said the old fish.

I drive in silence. I don't understand why some people feel the need to _always_ be listening to something.

The idea is that underwater basket weaving has no utility in the real world, not that it is easy.

Bummer. This is solely how I keep alive my old iMac. You know why? Because of the near-impossible-to-replace drive inside of it!

Programming is hard to grasp for some people. Local scope is the least of their worries and is altogether not that hard to understand. The County::State::City analogy where every item is a Place is an easy introduction to the concept.

then I could see this suggestion used informally in a teaching context with a student that has their dominant understanding in the structure of language, otherwise not so much