Yeah could be. It’s something I’m mindful of and is definitely one way to mitigate the problem.

However, it happens with all three of my bikes.

I’ve seen a physiotherapist a few times who’s given me some exercises to do to build up some strength in the right places and take the pressure off the joint - I’ve been pretty lazy with those though.

Interesting. I hadn’t realised these were a thing.

I get sore hips after long rides. I wonder if this would help.

Someone needs to build a toothpick factory somewhere in Kansas to give them something to point to so they can save face.

Not really.

Garcia fled from gang violence. If you put him in a cell with 99 gang members, he’s likely to meet a violent demise.

There’s a difference between the administration actively murdering deportees, and just not caring whether they die.

Programmers like to think that programming is a special profession which only super smart people can do. There’s a reluctance to admit that there are smart people in other professions.

Pretty high on the list of things I did not need to see today

Admittedly the relevant technologies have had 30 years to develop, but I agree that it seems unlikely this will find any sort of market.

IDK anything about physics or engineering, but the idea of converting mechanical input to electricity and then converting that back to mechanical output seems inherently inefficient. When your own body is providing that input efficiency is critically important.

All the additional structure and faring and third wheel (hah!) and dare I say… other junk, is just more weight to haul around when in battery / people powered mobility efficiency is the primary consideration.

Also, can I assume the energy a human can generate is only a small fraction of what’s required to get 2 people plus 100kg shaped like a minibus moving at 75mp/h? At that point it’s pretty much just a small electric car.

It’s also a regulatory nightmare. I could go on but while this thing seems really cool, I just don’t see how it can work as a functional vehicle.

I’m not going to disagree with that, there are certainly people who are benefiting from his chaotic nature, and how easily manipulated he is.

That said, I still think it’s a mistake to think that anyone has any strategy or plan.

I’m sorry I don’t have the answers you’re looking for, but maybe I can offer some universal fundamentals that you may have lost sight of.

Dating apps aren’t for everyone. Thankfully I found my partner before these became popular but it sounds as though 80% of guys experience exactly what you did. Honestly, if it’s not working for you it’s not working.

I know how it feels to have lost the genetic lottery. I’ve never been a physically attractive person, and I do have some chronic physical and mental health issues. The only thing for it is to be the best version of yourself you can be. Attend to your personal grooming, keep yourself clean, wear clean clothes. Figure out an appropriate personal workout regime that you can do without equipment. You said you have some limitations but building some core body strength will pay dividends for anyones posture. You don’t need to overdo it but you do need to do something.

Next is the hardest, perhaps even unachievable in the short term, but you need to connect with real physical people with whom you do not intend to have a romantic relationship. Like join some kind of group and interact with people. Reconnect with one of those school friends, volunteer for something, join a table top gaming group. Anything. Any sort of human relationship is difficult for me, but the most difficult of all is navigating the early stages of a relationship. You need practice at simple human interaction.

Finally, and this isn’t advice but simply context, just let it happen in it’s own time. I’m 43 now and I often think about my teenage years and my 20s, what would I do differently et cetera. Regret is too strong a word, but I wish I could just communicate to 19 year old me that being so desperate to find someone else to love me would just poison everything else in my life. Instead of doing the kinds of things that can nourish one’s soul like learning and exercising and connecting with people, I was just desperate for the validation that comes from having a girlfriend. It all came together in the end, as it always does - I just wish I could’ve spent my 20s more productively.

While that may be what happened on Friday, declaring that to be the intended outcome ascribes waaaay too much forethought and planning to what is happening. There is none. That’s the truly horrifying part. In the last week Don has lost more money than anyone ever in the history of the world and he has achieved that by surrounding himself by yes-barbi’s and yes-ken’s and then acting on vibe-based meme-level reasoning with no filter.

This is truly the dumbest roller coaster.

No one is moving manufacturing anywhere because everyone knows Donny Dumbass is going to change his mind next time he takes a shit.

Honestly, someone build a toothbrush factory somewhere in kansas so these idiots can save face, rescind all tariffs, and let the grown ups get back to producing value.

Oh man. Thankyou. That was kinda messing with me.

If you flip it around the picture makes more sense.

That said, the quality is so bad it’s impossible to say what that thing actually is, but the only thing I can think of that fits that size and shape and color is a bag or pouch or toiletries and cosmetics or something.

I’m not really clear what you’re getting at.

Are you suggesting that the commonly used models might only be an incremental improvement but some of the less common models are ready to take accountant’s and lawyer’s and engineer’s and architect’s jobs ?

It explains why Trump initially didn’t care (didn’t know guy was dead).

It also aligns with Trump’s statements about Salvadore being a sovereign nation, because the angle will be that it wasn’t the Trump admin’s fault.

They’re not going to reveal that unless / until they really have to, and it won’t be Trump that announces it obviously.

Yeah. Whoever made fun of you is an idiot.

Do we know for sure that Garcia is still alive?

I take issue with the “replacing other industries” part.

I know that this is an unpopular opinion among programmers but all professions have roles that range from small skills sets and little cognitive abilities to large skill sets and high level cognitive abilities.

Generative AI is an incremental improvement in automation. In my industry it might make someone 10% more productive. For any role where it could make someone 20% more productive that role could have been made more efficient in some other way, be it training, templates, simple conversion scripts, whatever.

Basically, if someone’s job can be replaced by AI then they weren’t really producing any value in the first place.

Of course, this means that in a firm with 100 staff, you could get the same output with 91 staff plus Gen AI. So yeah in that context 9 people might be replaced by AI, but that doesn’t tend to be how things go in practice.

I see it as giving everyone the responsibility to choose a representative. I don’t think that’s much to ask of citizens in a democracy. It’s not like “forcing” a vegan to eat meat.

I like mandatory voting because it makes more people take an interest, and frankly I find it kind of undemocratic to try to suppress votes from people who might be less informed than yourself.

If they really object to voting they can pay the $20 fine as a conscientious objector.

I can’t really respond to a made up statistic that you read somewhere. People use how to vote cards to choose preferences.

I think most Christians just make up whatever they feel ought to be a sin based on the vibe.

“I tell my people never use the word ‘coal’ unless you put ‘beautiful clean’ before it. … So we call it beautiful clean coal.”

There’s not much I wouldn’t give to make some of these fuckers experience the next 80 years the way my kids will.