Sanctions have failed?

Russia is running out of Yuan, as a direct result of sanctions. Buying Chinese goods is going to get quite tricky quite quickly for Russia.

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/russia-economy-china-yuan-sanctions-bank-payments-trade-transfers-2024-9

Shouldn’t you take out a new mortgage and invest it all in bitcoin?

World Liberty Financial is where it’s at now for the MAGA savvy crypto investors.

What is going on with those cables? Is that normal?

Humans appear in a race to destroy the world.

Russia is free to go back to their own country at any time.

It seems highly unlikely UkraineRussia gets the land RussiaUkraine is currently occupying back – the best they can hope for is that they can stop RussiaUkraine taking any more.

FTFY.

manufacturing is moving from China

My employer is also doing this. Vietnam, Turkey and other places I can no longer keep track of. At least in part due to the sanctions introduced by Trump but also a desire not to be caught out again next time there’s a global pandemic and everyone in China stops making things.

If your amplifier is not especially well shielded then maybe it’s picking up interference from the cable. Perhaps a better cable picks up and radiates less RFI. Dunno.

the man himself is just an empty suit

A vindictive, narcissistic, corrupt, greedy, racist and incompetent empty suit.

since then Putin has placed the Russian state on a war footing and reinforced its capabilities to dig in and hold on for the long run.

I noticed interest rates in Russia are now at 19%, hiked just yesterday. That’s not sustainable.

The Garmin software can sometimes be incredibly frustrating. I don’t know if the others are any better.

Trump had some glorious, great, best ever expressions during the debate. The classic smile-not-smile, the wide-open eyes, trying-to-look-intelligent-but-really-not. But I really like this one – it shows what he thought of his own performance.

Umbrella academy final season left me somewhat underwhelmed.

Quite a few plot lines appeared to be there mainly as fillers, and what was the ending all about?

Using my 1337 h4x0r skills I’ve broken past the STW security to give them some money.

sub@… appears to be going to /dev/null.

Logging out and logging back in I get different errors.

Go up the enormous tower with the red ball on the top – this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_Pearl_Tower

It was pretty stunning. Also check out the museum on the ground floor.

There’s also a castle/palace thing in the middle of Shanghai which was pretty interesting.

The larger manufacturers (at least in my limited experience) seem to have size charts that match reasonably well with reality. I’ve had one frame from a smaller wannabe-boutique brand that was all over the place but the likes of Giant/Spesh/Trek seem pretty consistent.

You can adjust the fit of a bike – seatpost height, stem length, bars, even the cranks if you have to. So even if it’s not right immediately, if you’re in the right ball park you can get it where you want it.

One thing to think about is toe overlap. As you make the frame smaller, the front wheel comes closer. Maybe think about a bike with shorter cranks (170 or less) ?

My subscription failed to renew as my card had expired. I’ve added a new card but I am now in a subscription limbo where I can’t renew but instead just go round in circles.  This seems like a bug. I want to pay money but stw won’t let me.

Going to try cancelling my account entirely as that seems like the only way out.

Mason Bokeh, I cycle to work every day on it, but it’s pretty decent off road. Not sure what the clearance is but I have 43mm with loads of space for mudguards. Lots of mounting points. Does not feel like a tank.

Isn’t this the first step on the road to Daleks?

In this modern day of tubeless ready tyres do you really need anything other than a track pump?

I put on a schwalbe TLE tyre last week, just went straight up. I could have used a hand pump (but the track pump has a nicer handle).

just use google lens to figure it out?

What could possibly go wrong?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/01/mushroom-pickers-urged-to-avoid-foraging-books-on-amazon-that-appear-to-be-written-by-ai

Why not

Quantum mechanics innit

There’s nothing quite like robust evidence, is there

We left the EU with less evidence than we have for the dangers of smoking in pub gardens. And that was completely fine.

Just listening to the discussion on Any Answers on R4.

Someone just said that amongst Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin and Hitler, only Hitler did not smoke.

Let that sink in.

tbh, if Nigel Farage is against a smoking ban, that’s good enough for me to think it must have merit.

My youngest son reckons it’s just being floated to distract everyone from the budget.

Just replace the hub? If you can find one with similar dimensions you can reuse the old spokes.

Why not just watch the series, will take less effort.

I dragged myself through Picard S1. I hated it. Now I know why.

The review is great. I feel inspired to go back and re-watch Voyager and STNG.

When I watched Picard originally, I just hated the doddery old man who had replaced Picard, the annoying Elrond character who ran around emoting, all the ridiculous psycho-babble nonsense about synths future prediction, the whole thing. It just wasn’t any fun. Just dreary.

Lawn needs mowing, just saying.

“Ha ha, killing the weak and innocent is such fun!”

Refinery fire in Rostov still going after 6 days. Just insane.

Some of the comments on this thread might be seen as quite insensitive by any relatives.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c74jzd22dkno

Mr Chamberlain died in hospital after the crash on the A1123 at Stretham in Cambridgeshire at about 10:10 BST on Saturday.

The driver of the car, a 49-year-old woman from Haddenham, remained at the scene and is assisting with enquiries.

Shitty beyond belief. That road is nasty for sure, but doesn’t seem like the secret cabals, more like dreadful driver updating facebook status.

As above, +1 for Gorges de la Nesque.

I’m old enough to remember seized quill stems and wacking cottar pins out to remove cranks. And chrome rims, and tyres that puncture if you sneeze on them, and a whole load of other dreadful things.

Can’t be bothered to watch a 25 minute video though

If you just stick to your “Following” feed, nobody can knock on your door except people you’ve invited.

You do know that this can be changed anytime Elon decides to? It’s just software, not some ancient human right.

Twitter isn’t profitable so it’s actually costing Elmo money for you to use the service he provides, you’re not paying him anything.

Yes, I wonder why he’s doing that. Perhaps he’s just a generous, kind and caring person?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/18/inciting-rioters-in-britain-was-a-test-run-for-elon-musk-just-see-what-he-plans-for-america?CMP=share_btn_url

Twitter is owned by a fascist-curious man-child billionaire. He has made his opinions quite clear, so at this point, people still using it are, unfortunately, enabling his far-right agenda.

Expensive, but perhaps a wireless dropper?

Isn’t this what everyone used until wider rims became a thing?

It’ll be fine but all your friends will shun you.

+1

Are these the prime wheels? I have a set from the sales and they sent the wrong end caps. Perhaps you have somehow got something similar. I would find the dimensions and get measuring before blindly twiddling nipples.