Must depend on the place. Biking isn't a big thing here. About the only bikers are people who can't afford a car. This is a pretty poor town, but again, bikes are so cheap no one cares. Both my wife and a neighbor have bikes in the front yard as decorations.
Do people still steal bikes? Used bikes are so cheap around here no one even tries to sell them, especially kid's bikes. I've picked up 6 little ones and 2 adult sized. I often see unlocked bikes. Not super nice ones obviously.
For example, I can get a pretty nice bike at the thrift for $10-$20.
Section 230 of the Communications Act provides immunity for online platforms and users, stating they generally aren't liable for content posted by others, allowing them to host third-party information without being treated as the "publisher or speaker".
MS doesn't care about home users, hasn't in a long, long time. Notice how they quit fighting piracy ages ago? The money is in commercial use.
If you're running a Windows ecosystem, you can fine tune every aspect. If MS takes any of that tuning away, such as forcing AI, they risk killing the cash cow.
Don't know about your jurisdiction, but we vote those people in and out around here. Well...
We used to have a quasi-private/public power company. County commissioners voted us out of that. (Still our fault.) We do still have such a water setup. For now.
Who said I had a lifted F150? Mine's 22-years old and looks like dogshit, runs great though.
No, I'm not a farmer, but I've been growing for 35-years, majored in horticulture and agriculture at Oklahoma State University, so I guess I know more than your average bear. Fair enough? Let's hear your credentials.
As to history, easy one: Machines and the Great Depression foreclosing family farms. Hell, you don't even need a history book, just read The Grapes of Wrath for a primer. As to history education, I scored 6 free college credits testing on the subject. You score any?
Were you around for the 1980s Farm Crisis? I was. There's another piece of what happened. John Cougar sing ya all about it if you don't care to read.
None the less, I roll 2,800 miles through the South every year. I observe what's what and who's doing it, talk to people. Those are shitloads of struggling family farms I'm seeing. In all those miles, I see exactly one farm that is truly a monster acreage. (TBF: Many of those miles are in Alabama, which is forestry vs. agriculture, another subject altogether. Another subject I'm educated in.)
Again, you want to tell these boys in person they ain't actually farming, mindlessly running machines in the employ of big ag, you go right ahead.
BTW, you ever figure how the quadratic equation works for real-life problems? I know. Farmers know.
This shit is a failure of local and state governments, and the people who elect them. Now that AI costs are hitting citizen pocket books, many municipalities are fighting back.
And that is exactly why it all falls apart on Trump's death. No, Vance can't take over. He'll catch the heat for ALL the things. Right now they're scrambling for pole position as Trump sundowns.
Know how I finally understood what the quadratic equation was used for IRL? Ag class. Bet you couldn't handle a single simple acre of monoculture, given all the time in the world to make it happen. Money says you'd fail to harvest a single bushel of tomatoes.
BTW, you'll be living in the country, so you'll need shitloads of self-sufficiency skills, both for the home and field.
Must depend on the place. Biking isn't a big thing here. About the only bikers are people who can't afford a car. This is a pretty poor town, but again, bikes are so cheap no one cares. Both my wife and a neighbor have bikes in the front yard as decorations.