London Bridge now has cycle lanes, too, but they’re not properly connected at either end. Still, a bit of an improvement, makes it easy to admire the view as you cross!

What’s the five-year failure rate for start-ups, again?

I’d like my corpse to be used to frame someone for murder. Obviously I can’t name names, because that would undermine the plot, but I trust my loved ones to frame up someone who has it coming.

This is also yet another reason SUVs are bad: bigger tyres, higher weight, more wear, more pollution.

It’s also another reason to have lower speed limits: less friction, less wear, less pollution.

Yes, particularly difficult with clipless pedals, such that strictly speaking I think it’s illegal to ride at night with them!

A classic party game!

So you get a puzzle piece with a photo that might be a bit of boob, and after six months you have enough pieces to see that it is, in fact, a very smooth man’s knee?

As others have said, this depends on the jurisdiction.

In the UK, you have to have lights on at night: white at the front, red at the back. They can either be steady or blinking.

Treat others the way you would want others to treat you.

Which, interestingly, is also in the Pirkei Avot! The old rabbis were definitely onto something.

The other really famous saying from the Pirkei Avot is also relevant now:

If I am not for myself, who is for me? And being for my own self, what am ‘I’? And if not now, when?"

Only three, huh? And people say he can’t change.

Same goes if you’re obviously white but have family members who are not.

Yeah, you’re right about the footnotes. I read someone the other day saying they felt like Kuang was writing with an imaginary social justice scold hovering over her, and I think that’s about right. I find it odd that someone feels they have to say ‘racism — which is bad, by the way — exists in this society’. We know it’s bad! Even racists don’t like being called racist!

I started reading it yesterday, so I’ll let you know.

Why did you dislike it?

Terrified this will now actually catch on.

Brollywood?

God will save the King, us peasants have to save ourselves.

First time I’ve ever felt like joining the army.

GOD SAVE THE KING

Several people here have mentioned the genocide in Palestine, which I accept is a major issue and one no one should be dismissive of. Biden himself acknowledged the validity of the issue in his speech to the DNC.

I honestly find Biden’s decision to keep spending so much money arming Israel baffling, but there is at least some chance Harris will change that policy.

But if Harris doesn’t win the White House, Trump’s policies will intensify the perescution of the Palestinians and also lead to pogroms, if not actual genocide, in the US and elsewhere.

I agree this is not a happy choice to have to make. But it’s also quite clear which is the right choice.

Tear it all down and start fresh or GTFO.

Okay.

Now what?