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  • Your wireless drivetrain might not be as safe or secure as you think - Canadian Cycling Magazine

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  • I spoke with a guy who has the Shimano Di2. One of the main benefits is that you don’t have to index the derailleur… it automatically does it and always puts you in gear without any BS.

    ^^^ This.

    Cables work fine when you're dealing with nine or ten rear gears, but going up from that to eleven or more gears, indexing becomes a problem, and an electrically-operated derailleur that can hit a gear correctly, quickly, every single time is nice.

    For casual riders this probably doesn't matter, since people ride around on badly-tuned derailleurs all day long and just put up with it. Heck, even recreational racers probably don't need it. This is for guys wearing yellow or polka-dot jerseys around France, for whom milliseconds lost to shifting make a real difference.

    I'm nowhere near good enough for this to make a difference for me, and I wouldn't want the complexity, which is why my commuter has no gears at all--I was tired of fiddling and wanted something that would never, ever break.

    I feel a wired solution would be better, more reliable and more secure, but wireless is the new black.

  • Solution

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  • Subaru's Solterra EV is the most discounted car (electric or gas) right now

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  • Because it's a mediocre car that's priced well put of its league.

    I remember when they were first talking about this thing and I assumed it was going to be a cheaper EV to replace the C-HR, and it seemed like it, given the mediocre specs.

    When it came out that this is supposed to be competition for the EV6. Ioniq 5 and Mach-e I actually gasped.

  • Solution

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  • As opposed to the Republican's Final Solution?

  • Armed and untouchable: ICE's history of deadly force - An analysis of six years of shootings by immigration agents reveals a rogue force whose officers sometimes recklessly fire their weapons

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  • Their the American Sturmabteilung

  • A classic never dies

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  • These drove like crap off the lot, but in their defense they'd keep driving like crap a million miles later.

  • Any love for the Honda Odyssey?

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  • The Hondamatic five-speed transmission really tanked this van's desirability. It made Chrysler look good by comparison

    It's a great vehicle otherwise, but there was a period around the turn of the millennium where any V6+5AT Honda or Acura product was a serious dice-roll.

  • Liz Truss: Oppressed by Tweets, Victimized by Reality

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  • “If everyone is covered in mud, it makes it less obvious that you’re covered in shit.”

    This is Liz and her cohort trying to “both sides!!” away the behaviour they incited.

    It’s crab-bucket PR: if they can get enough of the media saying how bad the left is, it makes the right-wing pogroms less horrifying.

    Trump did the same thing post-Charlottesville, conflating BLM and Antifa with the rich-setting, “Jews will not replace us” chanting, protestor-merdering neo-nazis who supported him.

  • oldsmobile silrulette

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  • The Toyota Previa is still cooler.

  • 1990 Pontiac Trans Sport SE

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  • Ah the GM U-Body. It's good looking trash, but it's still trash.

    Based on the then-problematic W-Body, it didn't drive well, lacked a fourth door, had front suspension that got misaligned if you went over a speedbump and ate head gaskets for breakfast, which was a challenge because almost every issue with the powertrain or accessory belt stuff, and there were lots, was an engine-out repair job.

    It made the Astro look good, which was not easy. Only the Toyota Van (the HiAce and Previa) were more challenging, and at least they were reliable.

    The Caravan, exploding transmission and all, was a better car.

    Interestingly, this same chassis got a lot less sexy as the years went on. GM butched it up for the SUV craze with the Montana/Uplander, and the shorty version was the basis for the Aztek.

  • Video of Eric Schmidt blaming remote work for Google’s woes mysteriously vanishes

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  • Because Google was so focused and strategic before the pandemic rollseyes.

    The issue is Google’s broken governance and incentive system, which gives product owners and executives incentives for new products and actively disincentivizes maintaining and improving existing products...and that was a thing from well before the pandemic hit.

    It's why Google launched three pay systems and had five messaging systems at the same time.

    And, finally, this is all because of the strategy set by senior leaders.

  • Olympic Sneaking: Qualifying Round

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  • The Olympics weren't always about peak skill, at least in the athletic sense. Prior to (I think) 1948, they used to give out medals for artistic competition, like painting, sculpture or poetry.

    Personally, I think they could bring those back; I wouldn't mind seeing an Olympic art competition. Heck, they could modernize it: Olympic rap battles/battles of the band, or Olympic Iron Chef.

  • Olympic Sneaking: Qualifying Round

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  • Goddamn, that's brilliant. Well done.

  • Donald Trump is returning to X for a live interview with the platform's owner, Elon Musk

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  • You'd think, but that probably won't happen unless one of them recognizes and accepts that they're much lower-status then the other.

    Narcissists don't do well in groups, especially when they're all roughly equivalent status. There's a ridiculous amount of infighting and posturing as they try to establish dominance over each other.

    Watch Musk or Trump when they have to deal with something who reality requires them to defer to (eg, like Xi or Putin). They look almost depressed and broken, because in a very real way, they are.

    What you're describing happens when a sycophant praises a narcissist, or when a narcissist is drunk on praise from a sycophant. That's when the rhetorical fellatio really kicks into high gear; when the narcissist is getting high on supply.

  • Donald Trump is returning to X for a live interview with the platform's owner, Elon Musk

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  • This is very dangerous.

    That much malignant narcissism in one place could form a singularity and an ensuing black hole.

  • Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’

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  • The UK already had the BBC; maybe this would make a good adjunct service the Beeb could offer? Sort of like the social media equivalent of iPlayer.

    Every UK citizen can get an account.

  • Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’

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  • I really wish Bluesky could federate with other Mastodon servers.

    Also, fuck Threads.

  • Putin Cuts Off Governor Who Admitted Ukraine Advancing in Russia

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  • Literally or figuratively?

  • For these voters, Tim Walz is a reminder of their dad - before they were lost to partisan division

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  • A large part of the issue is that the Democratic Party (and Labour in the UK, and the Liberals in Canada) really drank the third-way neoliberal koolaid in the 1990s and have done a poor job of speaking to the anxieties and concerns of the poor.

    The political right has talked to those anxieties, albeit in a dishonest, manipulative and disingenuous way, but they do talk to it and--not only do they talk to it, they deliver results. Again, dishonest, manipulative and self-serving results, but if you don't look to closely it looks like they're taking action.

    I'm hoping Harris and Walz mark a new era, but after witnessing Trudeau in Canada and Starmer in the UK continuing to make the mistakes of the 1990s, I'm not holding my breath.