rhombocombus

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Comment · 1 year ago
There’s huge variability even in some of the gyms in the article, whether from site to site or inter-tester variability. Whether or not it improves safety, if it helps places like this stay open and solvent I guess that’s a win, but I wouldn’t rely solely on someone’s passing a gym’s test for me to let them catch me in a lead fall.

I’ve also been failed in seemingly spurious details that I was subsequently passed on with different testers at several gyms.

Comment · 2 years ago
And then nobody goes on to bat eyes at the galling maintenance costs, insurance, registration, or taxes on cars, but yeah $4k (or euro or gbp) for an e bike seems like a stupid idea to people for some reason. I think it’s either bad marketing on the part of the ebike folks or pernicious effort on the part of car manufacturers.
Comment · 2 years ago
I have found that the closer I become to being incorporated into our geology that it becomes ever more fascinating!
Comment · 2 years ago
My new business, electric chairman, has even loftier goals.
Comment · 2 years ago
This is my understanding of the state of the art in transmitter technology too. ELRS equipment and software offer a number of advantages over every other protocol I have used. It’s easier to pair and configure, it offers robust connectivity even in lossy signal environments, and its range exceeds that of any video downlink on any of my aircraft.
Comment · 2 years ago
V5 was always my favorite, but the v7 consistently stands up to my ham handed abuse without ruining the ball. They will leak if flown with or washed, and because of a few dramatic ruptures I have been experimenting with the uniball vision fine with excellent results.
Comment · 2 years ago
And then also having the time to put those scarves in the laundry.
Comment · 2 years ago
Anecdotally I had general anesthesia a couple times in my 30s and both times I felt like I came out of it permanently stupider. No complications or other observable side effects either. I’ve done fine in spite of it but this makes me interested again!!
Comment · 2 years ago
I’m an old dad (by my standards, 41 with two toddlers), and this is the reason. It took me most of my young adult life to even get to a stable configuration where kids felt remotely possible. No regrets over here, but I have less energy than I did when I was 30!
Comment · 2 years ago
The fact that my cheap-o air purifier has soft buttons and no way to turn it on autonomously (I.e. on an automated outlet) is infuriating. What value do membrane switches add?
Comment · 2 years ago
Nowhere did I say stupid… everyone is susceptible to propaganda, and to deny its influence in this particular circumstance seems naive.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
I can sight read sheet music and I still use tabs constantly. It’s just another tool, and one I rather like for learning guitar type music. It has neither impeded my understanding of the guitar nor my understanding of music in general, so I’m with you in not being sure what OC is on about.
Comment · 2 years ago
They voted for it because they were propagandized into believing it was in their interests.
Comment · 3 years ago
I wouldn’t sell the fish short either. The more we learn about them the more multitudes we learn they contain.

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