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  • Innovators rethink bike seat design to combat cycling saddle pain

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  • The reason for not wearing underwear is that it can cause chafing or pressure points where it shifts or creases. Cycling shorts are designed to minimise that by not doing either. There is nothing nasty about cycling shorts if you wash them after each ride. If anything they handle sweat better than cotton underwear would.

    That being said, if you feel better wearing underwear, then you should feel free to do so. But there are practical reasons why most people don't and they don't have anything to do with trying to be a "real cyclist".

  • Is this a sign? Minor BMX flatland accident today..

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  • There's a reason road races won't let you start without bar end caps. It's a safety critical part and actually quite dangerous to ride without them. Consider yourself lucky you only hurt your hand and didn't take a core sample of yourself.

    I hope you heal up quickly and stay safe!

  • Ain't that the truth

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  • I straight up don't want to do it, even for my friends. But since they are my friends I would do it anyway. I'd definitely rather they paid for movers though.

  • Ain't that the truth

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  • I paid for movers my last two moves. It was expensive, but if you can afford it, it's totally worth it in my opinion. Instead of the move taking a whole weekend it was done in half a day both times.

    And it's true: nobody wants to help with that shit. My friends offered, but the relief on their faces when I told them there was no need, was clearly visible.

  • What was your craziest psychedelic experience?

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  • lmao, I did DXM a couple of times, but only one proper big dose. I took 35 gelcaps of the stuff like an absolute degenerate (a solid 3rd plateau dose for someone my weight). 3 hours or so absolutely nothing happened and then I guess the caps dissolved and it hit me like a freight train. I spent the rest of the night robowalking between the couch and the bathroom to throw up the remains of the gelcaps, but since my short term memory was non-existent I only remember doing it once (I had a trip sitter who told me what happened the next day). It was at the same time one of the most intense, stupid and pointless experiences I've had on drugs, and considering I've done tons of acid, shrooms and DMT, that's really saying something.

    Also did salvia one time and while it wasn't a bad experience per se, I think it's the only time I did a drug and thought "one time is enough for me".

  • What seems to be difficult to many other people but isn't for you?

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  • Same. It's the only way to actually quit stuff for me. I'm all or nothing and don't do moderation.

  • Alaskan climbing star Balin Miller dies after falling from Yosemite's El Capitan

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  • He wasn't free soloing. He was using a rope. That is not unreasonable.

  • Alaskan climbing star Balin Miller dies after falling from Yosemite's El Capitan

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  • But even without knowing you I can say there is a non-zero chance of you dying doing some other activity, that you do simply for fun.

  • Alaskan climbing star Balin Miller dies after falling from Yosemite's El Capitan

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  • That's why I specified the destination. Nobody needs to drive a car to get somewhere for leisure, yet people don't think twice about it, because it's an accepted risk.

    People don't have to climb things, but it's not an unreasonable risk to take. It's a generally safe thing to do, where accidents occasionally happen. Just like lots of other things people do all the time. You can't go through life never taking any risk or you'd never get out of bed.

  • Alaskan climbing star Balin Miller dies after falling from Yosemite's El Capitan

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  • Have you ever got in a car to go somewhere to do something fun? You can die doing that too, but millions (billions?) of people drive every day.

    Eating an apple is healthy too unless you choke on it. Accidents can happen doing healthy things.

  • Alaskan climbing star Balin Miller dies after falling from Yosemite's El Capitan

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  • People don't choose their hobbies based solely on risk. I love riding road bikes. There is a (small!) risk of death or serious injury in that sport too. But I love doing it and it's one of the most fun things on earth for me. If I died and it was possible to ask me afterwards if I'd still do it, I might say no. But you don't get to make these decisions retrospectively and so it's worth the risk to me.

  • Alaskan climbing star Balin Miller dies after falling from Yosemite's El Capitan

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  • He was using a rope. I imagine the risk of death while climbing with a rope is outweighed by the health benefits of leading an active life style.

    Besides, I'm sure he loved doing it. Sometimes you have to take risks in life for the things you love.

  • What's the real danger of opening ports?

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  • Personally I don't forward ports for anything that only I am supposed to access (such as SSH). Instead I connect to my home network via VPN and establish the connection from the inside. I just have an allow all from the VPN subnet to my main one, but you could also allow things selectively if you don't want everything accessible via VPN. Using the VPN has the added bonus of ensuring everything is going through a secure tunnel if I'm connecting from a public network.

  • Are there actually any good mobile games?

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  • It's highly regarded for a reason. If you're on iPhone you can get a one month trial for Apple Arcade and play it for free, but it's worth 10€ imo. It's a good game in it's own right, but it's also one of very few mobile games that are not monetised beyond the initial purchase, well suited to touch controls and short play sessions and are actually fun.

  • Oktoberfest wegen Überfüllung geschlossen: „Es wurde so eng, dass man kaum noch atmen konnte“

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  • I think it’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some alcohol deaths every single year so that we can have Oktoberfest.

  • USUAL in your country but NOT anywhere else.

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  • People don't wear shoes indoors in any civilised country. Only Americans do that.

    Pineapple and kebab on pizza is available in Germany too, although I think it may be illegal in Italy.

  • What is the best advice you can give to teenagers?

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  • I agree with practicing harm reduction if you're going to do drugs, but it's still not worth it imo. I spent much of my twenties experimenting with all kinds of drugs and experienced a lot because of them. From party drugs to wild psychedelic experiences, none of it was actually worth a damn. With psychedelics especially it can feel profound and spiritual at the time, but it's really not. It's just your brain chemistry reacting to the drugs. Nothing special or worthwhile about it and you're better off going outside and experiencing real things and forming relationships with people.

  • Meta’s Ray-Ban Display Glasses And The New Glassholes

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  • they're taking pictures of a specific Bianchi model and asking what year it was manufactured

    And the answer they get will probably be wrong, or at least wrong often enough that you can't trust it without looking it up yourself. And even if these things do get good enough people will still won't be using it frequently enough to want to wear a device on their face to do it, when they can already do it better on their phone.

  • Video call apps should have a baby/toddler mode that locks the touch screen

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  • iOS has this with "Guided Access". It's in the accessibility options.

  • Meta’s Ray-Ban Display Glasses And The New Glassholes

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  • To me it seems like a thing that sounds kinda cool on paper, but is not actually that useful in practice. We already have the ability to do real time translations or point the camera at something to get more information via AI with our smartphones, but who actually uses that on the regular? It's just not useful or accurate enough in its current state and having it always available as a HUD isn't going to change that imo. Being able to point a camera at something and have AI tell me "that's a red bicycle" is a cool novelty the first few times, but I already knew that information just by looking at it. And if I'm trying to communicate with someone in a foreign language using my phone to translate for me, I'll just feel like a dork.