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The op image incorrectly used the singular when they meant the plural

I use them a lot

That's the point at which I assign a shop it's very own email address and give it a bad phone number (not incorrect, unrouteable)

Have you not seen 2001 A Space Oddysee? Kubrick couldn't have made a fake moon video as realistic as the film from the crews of the six landers that landed and filmed on the moon

How would Kubrick's film have fake livestreamed to the different downlink sites? Low orbits are much much faster than orbits at lunar altitude (90 minutes versus a month). How could a LEO broadcast satellite pretend to livestream from the moon?

How could they fake it so well Russia couldn't tell? Russia could pick up and decode the signal from the moon when the moon was up. Radio direction finders were a thing back then

Just as LLMs become better every year or less. Lots of money expects a lot from AI soon

With the exception of smart phones, most of the things that make the now bad were unrelated to the tech

Climate change is happening because changing the way the world gets its energy is slow. Fossil fuels way predate flight

Lack of social cohesion is due to the car allowing us to isolate ourselves in sparse suburbia rather than to live in neighbourhoods

Wars are older than humanity but are affecting fewer of us now than in the past, though things were even more peaceful a couple of decades ago

The capture of almost all the value of labour by the owner class could probably have happened anyway, it started before computers, perhaps it was accelerated by computers

I reckon if the sports organisations required pro cyclists to wear protective gear it'll be more common for amateurs to also use PPE and make that stuff easier to get

It took a few hours on a grassy hill to learn to balance it

My fast bike is an M5 carbon high racer

It got too easy to ride, also I don't trust carbon composites to last a long time in Australian sunlight, so I also now have a steel (CrMo) shockproof 559

My experience is on recumbent bikes where you're not falling far and not going over the handlebars. I think the most skin I have abraded was in a 50kph crash on concrete and grass where about a 2cm circle of the skin over the thumb mound of my left palm was gone. That would have been prevented by gloves

In cycle racing that's all of it, they cannot wear protective gear as it would slow them down and they would lose to people who don't wear it

In recreational cycling it hardly matters, speeds aren't all that high.

My experience with heat is different to yours. In winter I wear shorts and short sleeves and gloves. In summer it's the same but the gloves don't have fingers.

You are the power source for your travel on a bike, you need to be able to dump heat. Also generally the top speed isn't all that high

As a naturally ambiverted person I like that WFH lets me attend social events right after work