Esselgruntfuttock. So much so that I’m still not sure I’ve processed it right.

Unprofessional behaviour in recruitment is probably the most common red flag people can see before joining a new organisation. I’ve learned to heed it.

There was a whole lot of talk this time last year about Ineos merging with Quickstep, though the merger that apparently eventually fell through turned out to be Quickstep and Jumbo Visma. The possibility of a merger still makes a lot of sense in a slightly sociopathic sense: potentially combining the stronger half of Ineos’ rider roster with another team and ditching much of the existing management structure. Maybe bring on some big new sponsors too? Are there any wealthy bloodthirsty dictatorships that haven’t yet added cycling success to their sportswashing efforts?

where Ineos see/saw GC potential in him so pushed him that way

Have Sky/Ineos ever seen anything else? Do I remember Cav delivering water bottles and surfing wheels in sprint finales at the height of his powers in World Champion’s stripes?

He’s a very strong one-day rider on a poor team focused on GC to his cost. He’d have done better somewhere where he’d have a team working to get him into the right breaks on grand tour stages and tearing up classics on his behalf. Ineos is a bin fire at the moment and that’s not Pidcock’s fault.

“Fancy” metal-fronted wall light switches.

So you’re not a fan of the rich i take it?

We should really try to see past the illness to the humans suffering it and creating all that pain and misery in everyone affected by their depravity. Dehumanising the sick is deeply unhelpful when instead we should be treating the condition and rehabilitating the super rich so they can contribute to society instead of wreaking havoc by indulging their addictions.

If you attach three sufficiently heavy orthogonally oriented flywheels to your car and spin them quickly enough during your shopping trips you should be able to prevent the kind of angular acceleration of the car which causes your shopping to fall over on your way home.

Ubiquiti Unifi. Mine are UAP-AC-PRO.

That’s the thing with dog whistles, isn’t it. Those not in the know don’t recognise them, and those for whom they’re intended take comfort from knowing they’re in like-minded company. If the organisation doesn’t act strongly enough it risks real reputation harm. If it were someone I managed I’d expect at least a written warning for a first offence depending on context, with a likely reduction for some hasty contrition.

I think it will forever be Royal Mail for me, for the times they quietly slipped “sorry we missed you” slips through the letterbox having left the parcel at the depot. The postman wasn’t too happy about being caught pulling that trick when I eventually caught him at the door about to do it.

I just don’t understand how it’s still 50/50 at the bookies

In pondering this it’s important to remember that their electoral system is even more of a sad joke than ours is.

It’s not a silver bullet, but CBT type approaches might be worth trying for reducing the impact of annoying persistent symptoms. They helped greatly with my post-Covid tinnitus, and helped in reducing my fatigue triggered fatigue cycles too. I used MindEar for tinnitus and found Curable good for chronic fatigue (substituting my chronic fatigue for its main focus, chronic pain).

Your own parents should be the ones teaching parenting not society.

What a strange Victorian view of humanity. It’s not how we evolved, and it’s probably not what we should expect to work for modern humans either.

I think its premature to start talking about Starmer being forced to resign. If push comes to shove the vast vast numbers of Labour MP who’ve Starmer’s campaign to thank for their positions aren’t about to launch into that sort of utterly destructive internecine warfare. Or they’d be pretty bloody stupid to at least.

The three party leaders most responsible for Labour’s recent election victory have all already resigned.

How many of you are aware of the funding situations state schools have to deal with? My kids’ “Ofsted Good” primary school is choosing between staffing and heating. They have £7000 (IIRC) to cover building maintenance this year for a 400 pupil school, and my son’s classes are currently being held in the school library because his classroom roof sprung a leak during the heavy rain last week. The head and deputy head are both teaching classes part time currently to cover maternity leaves, and the school has to deal with a disproportionate special educational needs burden because other local schools deliberately fail those kids so they end up at my kids’ school. Council understaffing has created unacceptable delays in SEN funding too, excacerbating everything. Education is in at least as bad a state as the NHS in England from what I see, but the consequences of the failure won’t really bite until a cohort reaches adulthood. It’s another austerity shitshow basically; Covid has certainly had impacts as in every other facet of life, but we should be resourcing dealing with and mitigating them and it’s really not clear that we are.

The definitive answer to my 8 year old’s questions about what it was like growing up during the Cold War.

The way some people seem to think ignoring yellow lines is OK if you park in the cycle lane or on the pavement. I miss when I was young and double yellows were an urban clearway and single yellows allowed loading but not parking. British double yellows are an unenforced joke and it makes me disproportionately cross.

I came here wanting to read how Amazon’s sharp practices are the OP’s fault, actually; and I am not disappointed.

This isn’t particularly wrong, but neither is it useful in any way. Maybe it will get better with more training.

This describes both many applications of LLMs and the optimism wildly inflating the bubble.

My Garmin watch estimates LTHR and calculates HR zones from that. I think they’re not particularly correlated with VO2max; though I’d expect my lactate threshold power to increase, I’d expect the LTHR to stay about the same.

There’s very little assurance of electrical safety given the lack of statutory regulation, that the brands involved are typically iffy Chinese manufacturers, and the products are often greyish imports by wide geezers. As electric scooters and other battery-powered personal mobility devices have been implicated in multi-fatality house fires locally, I would take a dim view of being in the same building as one. HTH

Are electric scooters legal in Australia?

According to this it varies from state to state, but personally owned electric scooters are probably not legal for road use where most Australians live (by my half-arsed knowledge of Australia); they’re illegal in NSW, Vic, SA and NT.

Don’t get sucked in to BBC News!

I avoid that service as it just seems to exist for clickbait purposes

ftfy.

There’s a big of the Detectorists battling everyday parlance about this, isn’t there? Perhaps those involved with EAPCs in the UK would do well to choose a different term: in common usage e-bikes apparently includes Surrons, Harley Davidsons, and Frankenstein bicycle firebombs.

Toast.

If it makes you feel any better I regularly see people wheeling their n̶o̶n̶-̶r̶o̶a̶d̶-̶l̶e̶g̶a̶l̶ ̶e̶l̶e̶c̶t̶r̶i̶c̶ ̶s̶c̶o̶o̶t̶e̶r̶s illegal motorcycles around my local Aldi.

Those who casually wield umbrellas at others’ eye height.

Another vote for Aftershokz. They’ll still get drowned out by noise, but by actual noise if it’s loud enough rather than creating their own cancelling “hiss” for wind noise. The microphone on mine (Aeropex IIRC) doesn’t do anything miraculous for wind noise if you’re making calls, so you can’t do that in a howling gale, but they’re great for listening to music, podcasts, etc.

It does sound like a job for a router, but you could perhaps drill holes at the corners and join them with a jig saw, perhaps using a straight edge clamped to the acrylic as a guide?

My sleep generally shows as rest on the Garmin graphs with occasional exceptions. My body battery metrics will recover well with rest, and are suppressed by harder exercise without sufficient recovery over several days. I’d say it’s fairly reflective of what’s going on in my body though I don’t focus that much on the numbers. It occasionally doesn’t start sleep tracking until I’ve actually been asleep for a couple of hours, and I’ll just grumpily disregard the body battery numbers when it does.

I’ve had long covid woes too, which finally seemed to improve when I focused on calming my sympathetic nervous responses in various ways. If you lie down but don’t sleep does your stress measurement increase too, or is it definitely sleep-related and not postural?

I too get disproportionate stress responses to some social situations (and frustratingly many other everyday things), and have worked on managing that as best I can at its root: I think that for me it’s another component of those sympathetic nervous system dysregulation and my inappropriate fight-or-flight responses which seem to have surprisingly long-lasting effects and in particular degraded sleep and recovery if not calmed.

I hear she wants to reduce maternity benefits because she thinks they’re responsible for people having fewer children or something. What a lunatic. It’ll probably go down well with the party membership.

I’ve had that Weldtite one for 15 years or more. It’s done the job whenever I’ve needed to put grease places.

People driving around leaking diesel. It should be treated like driving on bald tyres.

My parents’ electricity bill (not in the UK) comes with itemisation which shows exactly how much electricity they’ve used to charge their (plug-in hybrid) car each month. My father believes that system will eventually be used to levy fuel duty on EV drivers. That seems to suggest the EV fuel duty problem is one that actually has technical solutions.

Personally I’d go with a road charging system combining in-car GPS telemetry phone-home with ANPR validation; surge pricing would be an invaluable tool in addressing pollution events and hotspots, and congestion problems. Most antisocial driving could be abolished almost immediately.

Deliveroo also thinks its riders are self-employed, but isn’t it just another instance of zero hours workers being exploited? I don’t see how they’re not employees.

Christ he’s useless. At least Corbyn seemed well intentioned as he blundered from one stupid gaffe to the next. If it’s not safe for Starmer to go to football matches then he should do what most of the rest of us do, and not go to football matches. Not taking gifts from dodgy donors who’ll want favours in return is hardly genius-level either. But to do all this while likely precipitating a worse winter hospital crisis by removing support to some of the most vulnerable to chronic hypothermia? He needs some better advisers than whatever ones he’s currently enriching. At least Johnson seemed cognisant of the fact he was pulling strokes and fooling (some of) the electorate. What a clown.

Edging.

People who flash and gesture to try and get  me to pull out in front of them when it’s their priority… Maybe you are you letting me know your brakes have failed and I need to get out the way?

Drivers who flash and gesture to other people to go against priority across the cycle way that I’m currently cycling along, and the drivers who obey them and pull their stupid manoeuvres without checking for themselves whether it’s even appropriate or safe for them to do so.

I’ve seen it suggested that it’s also a known cash-for-crash ploy to encourage people to go against priority and then crash into them so that they’re undeniably in the wrong when insurance gets involved.

Are the 20” wheels an existing size standard? 406? Or something else? The mention of custom tyres makes me a little suspicious that Brompton are inventing new standards.