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Got it.

Depends on the year. Post 2014 but not newest models, I’ve seen them on fb marketplace for ≈£700, but I don’t know many sold at that price. Seems the days of mass scarcity and demand are over, and more folks are content to get a brand new bike on cycle2work for just a bit more dosh.

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It’s all good. I didn’t know, thanks for sharing. 👍

Still have Thompson post and stem?

Was thinking the same thing. Really clever kid using the flames in a Hanukkiah (TIL) / menorah for the slogan.

Dad’s placard is also nice, ‘No bombs only friends’ is a nice message.

Dang, I hope not, guy seemed pretty solid and did really good work on my Brompton.

Keeping things cool. 😎

He was able to connect with the Donald on an intellectual level, peer to peer.

The colour scheme on the floor seems familiar somehow…

Machined an alum derailleur hanger which clamped onto the track ends. 👍

Bike sold.

never ending late winter

Sweet summer child (adult), we’ll cling to winter in the next few years when summer means 40C wet bulb temps for days on end.

They’ll need a fresh crew after a couple of those missions. Being near a small howitzer when it’s fired rattles your brain, can’t imagine being in a tin can rolling over anti-tank mines.

Anything is probably better than the muc off goop I’d chuck on and scrub off 11spd

Anything, and potentially nothing: between leaving your chain completely dry vs Muc Off’s incrementally worsening grinding paste / lube, it’s a toss up for what would be worse for it.

Squirt drip wax has been ok enough on my urban ss. Road bike gets immersion wax and, except for a sweet spot a few kms long, I couldn’t differentiate them in a blind test.

Serves them right, they’re all real pieces of work.

a punch in the face kind of diplomacy

Aka Schoolyard diplomacy. If the environment doesn’t provide sufficient pressure (countries keep trading with Russia), and there’s no overseeing deus ex machina to enforce order (no major militaries are willing to go fight Russia), each participant has to fend off aggression for themselves (like Ukraine) or risk increasingly negative consequences (like the Baltics).

Sometimes violence is the answer, and psychopaths like Putin love that the civilised world is loath to resort to it, because everything else he can brush off.

I only have 2 people on ignore and I’m on post 4624.

Thank you, Velocio, for saving me from 230 posts of their bullshit.

Sovereign Citizen.

Condolences on having one of these in your life. I’ve come to the working conclusion that it’s a confluence of an undiagnosed mental illness/dysfunction/trauma, and a wildly incomplete/naive misunderstanding of the nature of laws and power in society.

Are human laws arbitrary? Yes, by definition. Can you opt out? No, by definition laws are imposed forcefully on their subjects, with or without their consent. Are there specific series of words that you can say to maneuvre around certain laws? In principle yes however these words and concepts are themselves specified by other laws within the same legal system. What if I think the jurisdiction doesn’t apply to me? Then you need to construct a legally logical argument using the same legal system to prove that it doesn’t apply to you; failing this, you need another jurisdiction that’s willing to agree with you and protect you.

All of the above is rational and routine within the legal world, but unless a person is a lawyer they’re unlikely to know how to apply what, when, and where.

Laws are worth the paper they’re printed on unless people follow them. They’re also like spiderwebs, catching the small insects but not doing a thing to more powerful animals intent on moving through.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/technology/google-firing-israeli-cloud-contract.html

28 fired, some arrested. Seems many of the people fired weren’t part of the sit-in protests.

Representation matters and if the past two weeks of Saturday Night Live hosts are evidence – a blonde with nice boobies and a dude who says ‘gay’ and ‘retard’ – at last the culture is representing me, an Instagram reels-addicted basic bitch in the suburbs. (…) -Bridget Phetasy

Not everything someone has to say is worth listening to.

If you paid with a card and have proof that you started the warranty claim, maybe there’s recourse with your card issuer.

I don’t need another bike but for that price it feels wrong not to buy it.

Hate is too strong, more like really bummed out, but also kinda hate that the age of big theatrical movie releases is pretty much over. Leaving aside the queues, it was pretty great to look forward to a big release, then join a bunch of excited friends and strangers to ride those emotional rollercoasters together while gorging on junk food.

Movies nowadays have to compete with streaming and on-demand tv, along with myriad other mindless entertainments. They’re just not as big a deal anymore.

Am interested but undibsing to avoid delaying sale while I work out geo on my bike.

Dibs pending pics plz