This could be very true.

I think I’m going to contact Silca (the wax’ manufacturer), and see what their thoughts are.

The chain checker also spans ten links, but only touches one link.

I was under the impression that all pins in the series add up to the measured wear, like in this image:

But a chain’s wear is measured in fractions of a percent, so a very small layer could significantly throw off the reading.

An 11 speed chain should be replaced at 0.5%, for example.

Will they want to ban guns now?

The screenshot is fake. Everybody knows that massive parking lots are almost always nearly empty! /s

What is the use case for PayPal in the US?

It gives businesses a very easy to way to set up monthly payments, one-time donations, accept forms of payments other than e-transfer (which many people don’t want to use), allows for international purchases without being penalized, and more.

Other options are available, but they are neither easy/cheap/convenient for the business or any better for the customer.

This makes me physically ill.

Cars are the only weapon in the world where you could injure or kill a few dozen people “by accident” and be let off without being held responsible. And it happens all the time.

Even when someone is charged with anything, it never accounts for a loss of human life. It’s always some BS traffic violation that might as well be a parking violation.

Absolutely!

And I’ve had companies offer me a discount on product, rather than a full refund or replacement. I always refuse and state how disappointed I am. They pretty much always follow up with a full refund or new product.

Hell, I even ordered an indoor spin bike, complained that it used non-standard crank arms, and they refunded me $100 to replace the crank arms and pedals! Just for stating that I was unhappy with one aspect of an otherwise great purchase.

I’ve had Amazon listings where the title, description, specs on the box, specs on the product, and the reviews ALL had different information.

Who creates these listings? AI?

That said, I strongly encourage anyone who shops on Amazon to complain about issues in your reviews, and contact the seller if ANYTHING is wrong with your product. I have a 99% success rate of getting replacements or a full refund while doing this (resulting in basically a free product), even if the issue is cosmetic or a personal dislike. Just be honest.

Maybe that’s why you don’t have problems with most of sites from Europe?!?

That’s an interesting observation. I’m not sure, since I’m in Canada.

I use FF as my primary browser on my desktop, laptop, and mobile devices.

As much as I love and support FF and the Mozilla Foundation, I find that some websites simply need a Chromium-based browser to function properly. It’s frustrating as hell.

I wonder how many people tried FF, had their favourite site stop working, and then switched back to Chrome.

Male cardinals feed females when courting them and again when the female is incubating and can’t forage for herself.

What a gentleman! 😁

Question: Was the male giving the female seed?

I ask because my birdfeeder camera often captures our male feeding his mate, and I was puzzled when I first saw it. Is this normal behaviour?

How much should I read into my results this weekend? Could it just be chalked up to a hard week and a bad nights sleep?

For a one-time poor result, yeah, I would.

If I had a really hard day going for 120km on June 9, should I pull back on trying to go for 157km on July 1 and 200km in September?

What has your previous max distance been, and how did that go? If you base it on average with other long rides, then you’ll get a better idea of what you can expect.

On a side note, do you have or use a fitness tracker or bike computer? Having some insight to your health/performance can be helpful, especially for distance rides. For example, helping you to pace based on heart rate or power.

If anyone is a toddler-parent who works full time and engages in long-distance cycling, I’d love to hear how you make that work

My kids are grown up, but now we have grandkids to watch, so balancing time to cycle is always a major challenge. I did get an indoor spin bike to help fill in the gaps, but nothing compares to actually get outside and putting on those miles.

Right now, my longest rides happen only on weekends, with errands and some other rides throughout the week ( much shorter stuff).

Good luck! Long rides like those are better than a week-long “regular” vacation, IMO!

Good luck finding one. This is one thing I really love about my Tern folding bike - the “luggage truss” allows me to mount a front rack or basket to the frame without it having any effect on handling. It’s like it doesn’t have any extra weight at the front when you’ve got something loaded up there!

I’d love to have something similar for regular bikes, so I’ll be keeping an eye on this thread!

If you’re on the sidewalk in public, you have no expectation of privacy.

Under normal context, that’s correct.

But if you are purposely being filmed as part of a movie, project, “prank” or anything else that makes you the “talent”, it moves into a commercial licensing/permit/consent realm.

I’ve been to loads of public events where I’ve had to sign a release form acknowledging that my photo may be captured and that those images may be used in marketing/social media posts, etc. That’s because being at the event makes me the subject. While this wouldn’t be a concern if other people in the group are taking photos/video for their own personal use, the fact that those images may be used for commercial purposes changes the context.

If social media asshats want to use someone’s photos or video for their own commercial purposes, they should be following the same rules as any other professional.

For clarity, we aren’t talking about randos being filmed while on a walking tour of a city; we’re talking about specific people being targeted and recorded as the main subject without consent and with the explicit purpose to use their video for commercial content.

Nearly every country has laws protecting people from having their images used for commercial purposes without consent.

Generally speaking, it is “OK” if you happen to capture people on video while you are recording a public space.

However, the article is referring to situations where people are being video recorded, without their knowledge, as the main focus of the video.

In this case, it should be treated like any TV or movie set, where consent must be given.

I see it as video recording for commercial use, so permits should also be required by these social media degenerates, before a single frame is captured.

LOL. Yeah, sometimes, answers can be very much “I’m winging it today”, but certain prompts, especially for story ideas, can be very interesting and usable.

I’ve always said that if you know a lot about a subject, you can easily spot how AI generally tries to fake it until it makes it.

But if you have no idea about something, the answers you get are certainly better than what your buddy might tell you 😂

But to my point, it comes up with long form content so fast that you wonder how the hell it actually processed the question that quickly.

It still amazes me just how quickly these models can spit out complex answers pretty much instantly.

Good. Hopefully this will put an end to idiot parents who illegally park in the bike lanes near schools, putting cyclists and kids at risk, just because they are lazy AF.