Technology is good but biology is better.

[Raynine]

I like technology and there is certainly a lot of it around today. I ride my bike about 50 miles a day in warm weather and I run my tire pressure at about 115 psi. I could get one of those nifty new portable electronic pumps for my tires, but I am going to stick with a simple piston hand pump to inflate them. It is laborious work to get that air into the tire but at nearly 80 I do upper body work in a gym daily to maintain strength and flexibility as well as cardio work for my lungs and heart. I want to work hard to get those tires hard because it benefits me. Maybe if I make it to 90 I will use technology to ease the work but right now I am still strong enough to attack hills on long rides.

I do not shun technology completely. My speedometer connects to a satellite, and it gives me my speed, average speed, and even location. My smart watch gives me my pulse rate, blood pressure, and oxygen level. I do not ride an electric bike but I might get one as age pursues me.

Technology is good but biology is better.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

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I learned how to read a blood pressure with my ears, a stethoscope and a piece of equipment called a sphygmomanometer that I still use over 40 years later.

Speaking with my MIL's home care nurse, I learned that in some nursing schools, they no longer teach them to use the old school method for measuring BP. She then took my MIL's BP with the old technique, and then with the digital meter my MIL used daily, and got a pretty shocking difference.

The speedometer in my car reads my speed at 5mph higher than the speed monitors on the highway do. Who do I believe? Thank goodness that the deputies in my county generally won't stop you for any less that 10mph over the limit.

Technology fails.


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[The Sage of Main Street]

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I learned how to read a blood pressure with my ears, a stethoscope and a piece of equipment called a sphygmomanometer that I still use over 40 years later.

Speaking with my MIL's home care nurse, I learned that in some nursing schools, they no longer teach them to use the old school method for measuring BP. She then took my MIL's BP with the old technique, and then with the digital meter my MIL used daily, and got a pretty shocking difference.

The speedometer in my car reads my speed at 5mph higher than the speed monitors on the highway do. Who do I believe? Thank goodness that the deputies in my county generally won't stop you for any less that 10mph over the limit.

Technology fails.


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Break Their Locks on the Deep Frontier

Geology is the future, the only science that will give us a future. We've barely scratched the surface of Earth's resources.
The Zero-Growth Gurus want us to believe that our supplies are almost exhausted. This is shallow thinking that goes against all modern history.

The Postmodern ruling classes fear widespread prosperity and squeeze our attitudes into pessimism, fatalism, and contempt for creativity.

Not only do they thrive on a great disparity of wealth between themselves and the rest of us, they know that the uninhibited development of nature is the only thing that creates class mobility, which used to be the Story of America.

 

[braalian]

Speaking with my MIL's home care nurse, I learned that in some nursing schools, they no longer teach them to use the old school method for measuring BP.

This isn’t true

 

[odanny]

115 psi? I never go that high, you are riding on basketballs and feel every bump, I usually like to keep mine around 100-105 psi.

I have a backup to my pump, just a Co2 cartridge and an inflator only slightly larger than the cartridge. It fits easily in your bike bag. When I've used it I have gotten around 80-85 psi into the tire using this, which is enough to ride on without using the pump.