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(Not strictly crypto related, but crypto is the only way to participate)

Do polymarket’s US election bet buttons work for anyone? I want to put a tenner down, went thru the very confusing faff of sign up and getting the right currency, now it says the contract (bet) is unavailable.

Brompton’s stance is that non electric bikes cannot be retrofitted. There should, in theory, be design considerations to make e-bikes more robust than non e-bike models due to the different forces placed on the bike (especially with a front wheel motor).

In practicality, one could fit a non e Brompton with the kit and it would work. It would void any warranties, but no reason it wouldn’t work mechanically.

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Purely a guess but I’d expect most Deliveroo users aren’t workshy at all, and instead are employed and decide to spend their cash on a service for their convenience.

Agreed, but war fighting poses unique challenges, and groups that fail to understand and act based on reality tend to struggle the most.

Uniquely for them, their version of reality is the most extremely warped among the world stage. How many losses can they take before the cracks start to show? War brings chaos and makes it more difficult to control information flow. What happens when returning soldiers quietly share the reality they saw abroad, despite best efforts to misinform them? Or when a Russian flank fails because their allies flat out made shit up?

On the flip side, war hardening their soldiers on a modern battlefield would give NK a card that SK can’t play.

Best Korea sending officers and troops to get advanced training in Russia and then real world experience on the battlefield in Ukraine is a twist we could and possibly should have seen coming. They’re not stupid so they probably have a mix of military occupations out there, with spec ops, infantry, artillery, electronics and drone specialists probably making up the bulk. That could really up their game back in Asia, so South Korea will be hiring more Russian specialists soon.

An odd silver lining is that Jabba Jung Un’s dictatorial regime has the same weaknesses as his new bestie’s. It’ll be interesting to see how the top brass cover up the inevitable slaughter of their men if they’re sent to the front in Ukraine. Odds are high they’ll do exactly what Putin’s forces did, and lie through their teeth while eliminating anyone whose truthful report might get them in trouble.

Meanwhile South Korea and Japan watch with baited breath.

superorganism of society

Do you know of authors who have explored this in depth? It’s certainly an analogy I’ve seen fits well.

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I reckon you’ll be fine.

DM sent.

Dibs plz!

Multi modal? A ride, a train and another ride ride is usually quicker and more comfortable than a walk, two trains and another walk, or a long bike commute. Potentially not as cheap as all bike but still healthier and cheaper than all motorised transport.

Sounds like one of the discs hasn’t reset and the key isn’t seating fully. That or it’s the wrong key 🤷‍♂️

Take your phone with pics of you and the bike. If it’s on bikeregister, even better. Use PPE since thieves hardly bother other than obscuring their faces.

The general term for issues with movement is dyspraxia.

Have you always had this problem? Is it with specific words or letters or shapes?

Likely due to oxygen toxicity. The water column at +16 meters in open water exerts enough pressure to impact the way gasses exchange at a celular level in our bodies. Moving too quickly on the way up risks The Bends. Moving around too much on the way down, or going too deep without the right kit and skills, risks oxygen (toxicity) or nitrogen (narcosis) [corrected terms].

There’s several ‘blue hole’ dive spots where this happens more frequently. Divers lose most frame of reference for depth except their pressure gauge, which they ignore, then don’t even realise they aren’t thinking straight anymore and all they want to do is get just a little deeper to see that thing over there. Sadly once they’re at a certain depth any attempt to stop them or save them physically would likely get the rescuers killed by the same issues.

Cave divers have it even worse because the tide can add height to the water column, and on uncharted, tight caves they sometimes don’t have much choice of going in.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/19/israel-nuclear-weapons/

WaPo article from early in the year. Worth a read.

Woke the baby laughing. Thanks a lot.

A massive dick, some would say the biggest dick they’ve ever seen.

Maybe the rocks were sharp and posed a risk to the rescue ropes or rescuers.
Maybe she deformed to fit a non-evenly shaped compartment, and removing rocks made extraction easier.
Maybe the rocks were really cool and they decided to keep them.
Maybe the group were Gauls or Celts and they scapegoated the rocks in an attempt to atone for the lady’s sins so the cave gods would free her.

Probably the first reason.

I’d say it’s the same selfish behaviour of putting one’s own capricious wants over other people’s safety. It’s an urban park, not a race track, but the ‘chain gangs’ close-passing pedestrians and other cyclists at 40km/h with no warning or a rude one seem to forget how unpleasant and dangerous or dangerous-feeling it is when cars do that to them on public roads.

Hopefully a non-citizen legal alien from a developing country wins the next cheque.

I’m genuinely glad to hear that’s the way it went for you. I fully agree that too many people die from preventable ailments because their condition isn’t caught in time, for myriad reasons especially lack of testing. Fully agree with your LPT.

too much whataboutery to your argument

I didn’t mean to make an argument in favour of less testing, although I see how I effectively did. I was only saying that there’s evidence that, at scale, testing people often for everything seems to result in more harmful outcomes than good ones. It was food for abstract thought and an odd (quasi?)fact.

Personally I consider it normal for people to get full blood work done every year, but that’s very much not the done thing here, I realise.

Something that harms the wellbeing of the patient instead of improving it. The act of testing contribute to anxiety, false positives lead to unnecessary stress and more testing, and statistically every medical procedure carries a degree of risk of harm or complication*. That’s leaving aside more complex issues like psychosomatic illnesses, disfunctional doctor-patient relationships, etc.

Basically, while the jury seems to be still out, there is some evidence showing that people are better off testing when there’s a reason to test for something, rather than blanket testing in case something appears. 🤷‍♂️

*E.g., yours truly in the recent past. Routine blood draw at Kings College Hospital, stupid fucking phlebotomist hit a nerve, which hurt like hell and left me with reduced feeling and occasional electric shock in my dominant hand. They also didn’t lay me down or brace me when I passed out, and their manager shortly after instructed me to walk to the ER by myself when I fell to my knees saying I was going to faint onto the ceramic floor then and there.

Life pro tip: always get blood drawn from your non dominant arm.

full on chain gang stuff is probably a bit much

The irony is that they ride in Richmond because they don’t feel safe riding on public streets due to drivers behaving towards them the way they behave towards pedestrians in the park.

Some ride like civilised members of society getting their sporting fill, but most act like full-on wankers.

Better to be tested and a false positive.

Curiously, increased testing without commensurate indications that something is wrong is correlated with negative patient outcomes.