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unquestionably. i'm not sure when we all decided to be hush-hush about people doing ethically dubious work.

i'm allowed to judge you based on who you take money from.

I don’t blame people at Fox News for bending the knee and taking that Saudi money

i do, and i judge people who take money to push harmful things. i don't see why this is bad.

why though? are they just using it as a proxy for "is 'gitremote' working today?"

"citizen" is pretty well defined in every country i've ever been in.

yes, but those epo-esque drugs aren't exactly trivial to use these days. the testing process makes the doping process much more difficult for drugs that have these direct performance benefits.

recovery help is where it's at these days i expect, in most sports.

have you seen the physiques and workloads that nba/nhl/mlb players are dealing with these days? these athletes have more incentive than cyclists to dope ($$$), and the testing in those sports is a joke.

there are obvious performance benefits for traditional endurance sports, but the testing infrastructure is pretty robust and the financial incentives are much less than those big team sports. it's harder to dope (and get away with it) and the financial pressure is less.

it's a safe bet that your big money sports (not cycling) have a lot more doping than cycling. the issue is that you can't report what you don't know.

* cycling is a mix of moderate money and lots of drug testing. there are significant incentives to dope, but it's fairly hard to do these days since there is a lot of testing.

* big money sports (in the us especially - nfl, mlb, nba) are the jokes of the testing world. they rarely test and often inform their athletes when a test is coming. the big money basically assures that the incentive to dope is also big. but you'll never get caught if the testing process is a joke, so there is nothing to report.

why does it matter? but to answer: literally near any bordering country.

working with llms as part of my day job and i wouldn't fault them one bit. the errors and reliability issues are not overblown.

i think the problem isn't the phone number, but the special hardware/vendor lock in that is required for it. if you travel a lot or live in a country where it is just easy to cross borders as a part of life, it quickly becomes obvious that being tethered to a regional provider for your phone number is a problem.

you end up paying ridiculous roaming fees to keep your number active in the other country, or you lose any ability for people to contact you by phone. it's incredibly frustrating when voip is so close, but not the 100% solution. couple that with providers still charging ridiculous fees to call numbers in other countries and it gets even worse.

Why wouldn't it keep nasal passages moist? If I wear a mask very long, the environment under it becomes a relative sauna.

Sales person claimed (falsely) that the more pro the hub the louder.

What's false about it? Pros tend to ride wheels with loud hubs. It's kind of a known thing.

Yes they all very sell expensive bikes. They also sell less expensive bikes.

At a quick glance for road bikes: * Canyon starts at $1899 * Specialized starts at $1200 * Trek starts at $999

If you want a more upright hybrid, they can be found at lower prices.

I bought a "brand name bike" just like 6 years ago for $900 and thought I was going way out of a normal budget.

I'm curious what you got for $900. I doubt the current iteration of that $900 bike is now being sold for many thousands.

This is honestly some rather bizarre proof of him being an engineer. It reads like fan letter that uses tweets as the sole evidence. This quote is gold:

One of the core takeaways I got from him about himself was that he was an engineer more than anything else (career wise), and I agree with that.

I don't really care if he's a "real" engineer or not, but this actually makes me think he likely isn't if that's as good as it gets.

We should instead spend time uniting people in opposition. Stay where you are and fight.

That is definitely one approach, and one I'm hoping to see through. But simultaneously you have to acknowledge that there could come a point where it's time to jump ship. That point is going to be different for everyone. Recent events have pushed some past that point. That doesn't seem hard to grasp.

It's mind-blowing that people won't engage in trying to actually do something, even something as simple as helping a campaign, or donating money...

Have you been paying attention? People in this country have been more engaged over the last few years than at any point in my lifetime, and at this point the ship is still sinking.

Every time there is a school shooting, there is outrage and no change. Proud boys terrorize another fucking library event, and there aren't even reports of a single arrest. Women's rights being slaughtered and we get to hear how we need to vote. Another hearing laying out the obvious coup attempt on Jan 6th, and no action taken but another news headline.

This is just a snippet of the last ~30 days. 1 short month. I don't argue that it's my country. My country just looks like a real shithole lately.

but instead they're like "well I'm going to just give up and spend all this time and effort moving to some other country where I also won't uphold any civic responsibility".

This is such a weird take. Consider employment. You can join a startup, work your ass off, cross your fingers, and hope for that big payday. High risk, high reward. Alternatively, you can join a mature company, collect a comfortable paycheck and moderately help to steer the bigger ship.

Right now, the US is looking like that startup. You can work your ass off, and it may give you a great payoff in the form of opportunity. But it's looking increasingly like it's going to fail. Alternatively, you can move somewhere that has all the big stuff in order, and you get to work on the small stuff that still has effect while not worrying as much about whether you're one injury away from bankruptcy.

Who knows? Maybe if we vote harder it'll turn around. At this point, I'm inclined to believe it's cultural. We barely voted out an insurrectionist. 48% of the country voted to keep that in play. This country is full of people who are actively encouraging someone to overthrow our government. 48%.

Thoughts:

1. Moving is hard. Even harder for people that have little means. Living in the state you're comfortable isn't going to work for a lot of people.

2. Currently, it doesn't feel like "the state you're comfortable in" will be that way for long in this country.

3. Moving to a country you're comfortable in is the same principle, so why not do that if you're already comfortable moving?

But to play this card,

Is this supposed to be a gotcha? That's clearly what OP is saying. What makes that unreasonable?

How much do you make from each of those services?

You're riding a horse through the zoo, but still thinking it's likely zebras even though you're in the snake house.

I think you can dial it back a notch. The comment they highlighted...

She thinks they’re taking it down because they don’t want people to know the truth.

Isn't indicative of someone wanting to see long term data. That's someone who thinks the powers that be are hiding some smoking gun.

I'm sure there are folks with qualms about long term safety, but you're absolutely ignoring all the false information being pushed by a lot of the "hesitant". "Long term effects" is their strongest argument, but they rarely use it. Instead it's lots of stories being made up, statistics fabricated, and just flat out belligerence.

So yeah, I'm on board with the idea that "vaccine hesitant" is a term that should be used with discretion. Stand up for the truly hesitant. The rest are full of shit, and I have no problem with that label for them.

Unless I’m misunderstanding the abstract, a key finding is that drinkers who then abstain have an increased risk of dementia. Lifelong abstainers showed no increased risk.

My first thought is that it sounds more like people who made the lifestyle adjustment to quit drinking might have made that adjustment because of declining mental faculties. Whereas people who never make an adjustment (lifelong drinking OR abstaining) just don’t feel the need to change because they aren’t getting dementia.

Now, we will likely add further controls on travel in the form of digital health passports with infinitely more possibility for government mischief.

How do you see digital health passports as having infinitely more possibility for govt mischief? Right now TSA has the ability to treat you like a criminal if they think you looked at them funny.

The health passport "mischief" seems more along the lines of "you don't have vaccine X, so you can't board the plane." While potentially problematic, that's kind of the end of it. It becomes a no-fly list, but one where you can actually control your status on it.

The way the accountability aspect is supposed to work is that voters are horrified and hold their elected representatives accountable by voting them out.

It's always too late by this point. It's a flaw. The elected official get's to screw over their constituents for the duration of their term..

True, but it doesn't look like we're trending towards an entire parking lot/garage of chargers at the mall/grocery/theater/rec site/etc.

Classic comment missing the point that not everyone needs or wants the social interaction with their work mates.

The landowners also pay more in the form of property taxes, at least where I'm from.

I suspect a lot of folks learned (in the US) is that if you have a president who politicizes a pandemic and shits the bed on leadership, the populous is screwed.

Let's not pretend that rational discourse was ever an option, and the media isn't the place for blame.

extreme racism, homophobia, and other forms of bigotry won't be a winning recipe

Have you read the news about the "west" lately? US politics and Brexit are two biggies that seem to fall in line with this.

I think you are (intentionally?) missing the point. Find another country of similar size with no murders for the last 3 months.

The catch is when it's cold out. I'm in a similar situation. ~120 miles one way. My Nissan Leaf gets ~140 miles per charge, and it works fine in the spring/summer/fall.

In the winter I get about 90 miles on full charge, so not only am I stopping to charge, but I have to be at full charge when I leave. Also consider that the only fast charging station on my route is right around 30 miles in, and I'm running "on fumes" every trip.

I know there are cars with bigger batteries that will make it. But I also know they are another ~$10k, which is a significant upcharge.