These statistics are amazing. My city just adds green paint and bicycle symbols on 4 lane roads then adds that to their “cycle friendly” miles; when in actuality we have less than 1 mile of bicycle-dedicated track.

My main qualm with it is that it’s just not a good song. I LOVE pop music, it’s all I listen to; but composition wise this song sounds like it was slapped together in 5 minutes by a B-list songwriter.

Loved the awareness it brought it to mental health but I listened once and have no interest in hearing it again.

I upgraded to a Pixel 4 from an iPhone SE (2016), so my bar of being impressed were very low. While the Facial Recognition, camera, and screen were literal heaven on the Pixel 4, I suffered too many app freezes and crashes along with the ridiculously short battery life to make me really like it. I upgraded to an iPhone 12 Mini as soon as it was released and never looked back.

The original mopeds had pedals; pedals were how they were used starting or were designed for emergency uses if the engine wouldn’t operate. The pedals weren’t added to circumvent motorized laws per say.

I imagine most laws pertaining to mopeds would still apply to this device; although it’s unclear since there’s no “cc” classification for it. In most city laws I’ve seen, explicit terminology covering e-bikes have been added to cover those devices.

Maybe I’m nitpicking, but the average person can certainly tell this is an “electric moped” and not an “e-bike”, so the laws would fall under the former. It might not be important at all, since in some cities e-bikes are treated identically to 49cc mopeds.

Depends on your local laws. In my city, bicyclists are treated as vehicles and they require no registration. This includes e-bikes (self built or not). So in my case, “road legal” requirements wouldn’t be an issue for me. For people living in a town, city, or state that has little to no provisions for bicycles on a roadway, this would likely be an issue for them.

Philippine President Manuel L. Quezon took in approximately 1,300 Jewish refugees just before the Japanese invaded the islands. He donated his own land and had shelters built for the refugees. He expected to provide more amnesty to Jews but he lived in exile during the war and died before the Japanese surrendered. He “only” saved 1,300 refugees, as the US forced a strict quota on immigrants.

There is not a large Jewish community in Manila today, likely due in part to the Battle of Manila (Rape of Manila as some call it) where nearly 100,000 citizens were slaughtered by retreating Japanese. It is likely that the Jews rescued by Quezon were unfortunate victims of the onslaught.

There is a film about this, called “Quezon’s Game”.

https://florida.adl.org/manuel-quezon/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/little-known-philippines-wwii-rescue-of-jews-was-capped-by-us-interference/amp/