I am. I don’t get the correlation. Your explaination didn’t clarify matters

…but what on earth has that to do with the article in question?

That’s not accurate at all The 500w have only been legal briefly due to a loophole. They were never meant to be so.

So to posit your position back at your - a 500w bike won’t do what I need, why can’t I have a 1000w?

what are you even trying to say here?

Well OP is saying that legal ebikes will be insufficiently powerful for what they need. They don’t have a car, so assuming they don’t want one they could look at a moped, a motorbike, scooter bikes, all of which will provide more power and be street legal.

I’m in Victoria, where we’re already limited to 250w and have been the entire time, so I’m seeing a lot of arguments against bike regulations fall flat on their face.

It really is sfrustrating seeing page after page get a fisher-price makeover designed for mobile devices. People are using apps for those

It really reads like you’re going to the hardware store for orange juice.

If a bike isn’t doing what you need / want it to, then the answer is not a bike.

They really didn’t come across as condescending at all IMO. You’re complaiing about legal e-bikes not doing specific tasks you want them to, it’s entirely reasonable to suggest that your expectations may be misaimed.

considering on average most people will have their data breached from “secure” databases designed to “protect” their customer logins over their own actions, I’m sure putting in heavy handed monitoring that records everything will make our citizens ever so much safer and not make a giant honeypot for bad faith actors to leverage

What a ridiculous comment to make.

What’s your source for these numbers?