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Independent thinker valuing discussions grounded in reason, not emotions.

I say unpopular things but never something I know to be untrue. Always open to hear good-faith counter arguments. My goal is to engage in dialogue that seeks truth rather than scoring points.

  • Found this picture of my rig while going thru my photos. I wish it was summer already..

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  • We had one winter here with freezing weather and no snow and that was great for bike riding. Knee deep snow changes everything then.

  • Found this picture of my rig while going thru my photos. I wish it was summer already..

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  • My hardtail is much more nimble than this, but then again; with those tires it don't need to be. I can just drive over what I'd otherwise be trying to avoid. Technical trail (not downhill) riding is what I almost exclusively do. It's not fast but it's consistent.

  • Found this picture of my rig while going thru my photos. I wish it was summer already..

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  • Fat tires are far better in sand than any other kind of tire. Sand and snow is what they're essentially designed for. Lowering down the tire pressure makes a huge difference too.

  • Found this picture of my rig while going thru my photos. I wish it was summer already..

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  • Four of them to be specific. Now brainstorming ones for the rotors as well.

  • Found this picture of my rig while going thru my photos. I wish it was summer already..

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  • It's just overall more fun bike to ride compared to my acoustic hard tail. It's like driving a tank and it goes quite literally anywhere. The electric assist then helps just enough to make it not feel like you're dragging a car tire behind you. I guess it's also worth noting that I almost exclusively ride hiking trails. Where I live it tends to be quite wet most of the year too. Being able to float over mud-pits is rather useful.

  • Found this picture of my rig while going thru my photos. I wish it was summer already..

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  • I too have studded tires now. I made a thread about this a while back.

    Snow is not an issue with tires like that. On ice the size doesn't help a bit though, thus the studs.

  • Found this picture of my rig while going thru my photos. I wish it was summer already..

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  • Rarely and almost never by necessity. I needed the wide tires for snow originally but I've barely touched my other bike since.

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  • For me it's waiting for them to put their phone down, and when they do, I've already forgotten about it.

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  • Notepads are underrated. It's so much more intuitive than using an app.

  • Biking in the rain: How do i protect my eye?

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  • What I would like is something for dealing with lens fogging in snow

    I've got a tubular scarf that has a mesh grid where your mouth is. While wearing that I only get fogging while being still but on the move it's not an issue but it still retains enough heat to stop my mustache from freezing solid. I imagined that a Buff scarf would be thin enough that this wouldn't be an issue but it's not.

  • CIA now backs lab leak theory to explain origins of Covid-19

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  • Who?

  • CIA now backs lab leak theory to explain origins of Covid-19

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  • It’s quite funny how the virus originated in a city with a lab studying precisely that kind of virus, yet judging by the comments, it’s considered outrageous to even suggest the possibility that it might have escaped from that lab.

    Nobody is claiming with absolute certainty that it did, but it seems strange to completely dismiss the idea.

  • Probably preaching to the choir here, but headphone jacks are really a must, and USB-c adapters have their limits

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  • Well obviously if there was literally not a single new device matching the criteria available, then I would need to compromise on the headphone jack but if there is even a single device that still has it along with the other features then that's what I'd get.

    I did the exact same thing with my previous device, LG V20. I used it closer to seven years while waiting for someone to release a new model with a headphone jack and a removable battery. Then Samsung released such device and that's the one I got.

  • Is it weird that I have to resort the idea of "Determinism" to be able to move on?

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  • Explanation is not excuse. It doesn't matter wether they did a bad thing because they wanted to or their genes compelled them do. The outcome is still the same.

    However, that doesn't make it a bad idea. Accepting the fact that we live in a deterministic universe entirely dismantles the foundation from emotions like hate and replaces it with compassion. I don't like every person I meet but I don't hate anyone nor I blame anyone for what they are - they didn't have a say in it.

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    Travelling with dad and the normal looking hotel he booked turned out to be some sort of love hotel

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  • In summary: one of the videos was daughter swapping porn and OP was her daughter. The comments were basically demanding OP to be traumatized by it and her dad to be canceled, but OP seemed to just find it amusing and was more or less unaffected by it.

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    Travelling with dad and the normal looking hotel he booked turned out to be some sort of love hotel

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  • The thread seems to have been removed. It was posted to mildyinfuriating few days back.

  • Do dogs experience nostalgia?

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  • I mean, there's a good chance dogs can experience nostalgia. I'd say that it's even likely. However, my point is that we can't know for sure and I'd argue that we may not ever find out. Nostalgia is a subjective experience that appears in consciousness and just like consciousness itself, there zero evidence of it in the world outside of your own experience of it. How would you study something that can't even be detected?

  • Do dogs experience nostalgia?

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  • Nostalgia is entirely a subjective experience. Even if your dog would tell you that it does you'd still have to take their word for it.

  • Is it weird that I have to resort the idea of "Determinism" to be able to move on?

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  • If we have free will, then who or what is making those decisions and where is it located?

    Humans do things for two reasons; either you have to or you want to. There's no freedom in having to do something but you can't choose the things you want either.