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[yvannairie]

I'm looking for reference pictures of me and Essie and me on Essie while rewatching the PT Transhumanism video and experiencing very viscerally technology that I use every day becoming opaque all of a sudden.

Like, driving Essie is so much like driving a scooter, she has a very tight turn radius for a bike and a very low center of gravity that I actively forget that she's like a third of a tonne and two meters long. Plus, driving anything two-wheeled really kicks the ideomotoric processes into overdrive for me, I become completely integrated into the vehicle, and with something as relatively small and manouverable as Essie, the result is that she's smaller in my head than her actual measurements are. My brain turns into catmode where I'm just thinking "can I fit through there? Is that narrower than my handlebars?" and the whole backhalf of the bike stops existing.

Then I see a picture of myself actually seated on her and my brain goes "wait a second". I'm also a short motherfucker, my head doesn't even clear the taller windshield I have installed for comfort, which makes me look even smaller by comparison :'D