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It usually works out pretty well with native speakers not familiar with the term. They usually have a moment with a blank stare thinking “what the hell is an acoustic bike?” and then realize all at once with a smirk.

As for your second question, acoustic becomes a good classification when talking to a group where electric bikes are the default, just like electric becomes a good classification where pure pedal bikes are the default. In a group where ebikes are the default they might assume you’re talking about throttle type if you say analog, or a pedal assist bike if you said manual. It started as a joke and became a useful term.

A lot of these tents have an inner mesh portion with a bathtub floor you can add. I enjoy having more area I can wear my boots in the shelter, especially when it’s cold.

You’re outdoors bugs will get anywhere they want regardless (and rodents will chew their way in if they can’t find an easier way)

Could definitely make sense in dryer regions. I’d probably still use a bivy. If you set your tent in an improper spot having a floor isn’t going to save you from water flowing beneath your tent.

I’m agreeing with you, that last part is a projection of people who think that way

I just put down a tarp for my sleeping pad. Somehow it makes the tent breathe better in my experience. After an hour or two the ground usually soaks up the water.

I have a similar tent and was surprised how little I missed having a floor.

It seems like they drink their own Kool aid on the both sides isms that they get worked up and think it’s a race. I only want a dictator because they do too, and I’ve got to get my guy in first.

This is such a strange take. Just because people think that the current system doesn’t work doesn’t mean they automatically jump to wanting despotism even if enlightened. People who throw up their hands at political gridlock and see it as a justification for dictatorship, and not as reasons to iterate and improve upon the existing system are weirdos.

Nah, Jack Smith had been trying to get procedural hearings about handling classified documents from the jump and Canon had dismissed them like four times.