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wav3ydave

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web chap at https://road.cc and third cat chopper. worship leader and indie lover. sings better in a wig. Bath, UK

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ianRobinson, (edited ) to cricket
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I’m going to be dandering along the boundary on this camera in a few minutes if you want to see what a lanky geek I am. Wearing an orange jacket.

https://www.youtube.com/live/HRUqWkq2k3I

wav3ydave,
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@ianRobinson

wav3ydave, to cycling
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I've been on some great bike launches over the years, but realistically the era of flying across the world to point a bike at a nice road for a few hours should be over, and it is for us now. https://road.cc/content/blog/problem-bike-industry-launches-and-how-fix-it-307929

craiggrannell, to retrogaming
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Sir Alan’s 8-bit wonder is 40! I wrote about it here, and outlined six of the best games, which I’m absolutely certain won’t cause arguments that I should have picked something else: https://www.stuff.tv/features/the-amstrad-cpc-at-40-and-six-of-the-best-amstrad-cpc-games/

Anyway, if you like , please have a read, because then it means I might be able to write more retrogaming stuff for Stuff.

wav3ydave,
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@craiggrannell Head over heels was brilliant. no Cholo? I loved Cholo.

ianRobinson, to cricket
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New Zealand versus England Women 4th T20 International highlights.

Fab innings by Maia Bouchier. I could watch her bat all day.

https://youtu.be/oO__DVzSbEU
7 minute video.

wav3ydave,
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@ianRobinson that's a quality knock. so fluent.

gerrymcgovern, to random
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Some 2 billion tyres are made a year. 78% of microplastics in the ocean come from tyres. Car tyres are made from around 24% synthetic rubber. This “chemical cocktail” of 400 chemicals includes heavy metals like copper, lead and zinc. A reduction of tyre wear particles is as important as reducing exhaust emissions.
Toxic tyre dust: This source of microplastic pollution could be the worst of all, Euronews Green, 2024
https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/10/02/toxic-tyre-dust-this-source-of-microplastic-pollution-could-be-the-worst-of-all

wav3ydave,
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@osma @ecsd @gerrymcgovern even a generous estimate of every trye particle being PM1.0 gives about 50 million times as many atoms as particles according to my fag packet maths. so, the teaspoons required would be well into the billions. in reality they're mostly bigger than that; if the average is 5 micrometres then you'll need hundreds of bilions of teaspoons. Atoms are quite small eh.

wav3ydave, to climate
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So if climate activists want concessions from the government, they just need to get their hands on some tractors? Is that how it works?

wav3ydave,
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@rolling_resistance @PlantJam that's true to an extent, but having your saddle too high can transfer weight to your hands, and your ideal saddle height isn't necessarily what the standard calculations say it should be. mine isn't, because of historic back issues: it's about 15mm lower

wav3ydave, to cycling
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This looks fun from Gocycle but has anyone got any data on what you could actually carry? Stated 'rider+luggage' weight is 220kg but it's not a rack design that looks like it'll take a huge load, and I can't see any max rack load on the website

moira, to MountainBiking
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whelp

can't properly fix the pedal after all i guess

i can't drill out the sheered screw that's from the factory, apparently it's hardened steel or something? my drill press is like "nope." or I guess it's the drill bit but that's still a "nope"

wav3ydave,
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@moira @ThomM dunno where you are but in the UK all bikes have to ship with pedals and top-end bikes are normally sold without them because you'd put your own pedals on. so most bike shops have a big ol' box of them. you could ask?

fkamiah17, (edited ) to random
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I endorse this graphic.
Edit: I have to say the response to this post has been eye-opening (in an excellent way) and hilarioius. Special shout out to the lady from Texas - welcome!

wav3ydave,
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@fkamiah17 i live in bath, can i set up a border will a toll booth?

wav3ydave, to cycling
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My ride buddies are so understanding when I have any bike issues

chrisphin, to random
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Stumbled across this old photo I took hot-air-ballooning over Bath, edited with a tilt-shift effect to make it look like a model. Never don’t find that effect charming!

wav3ydave,
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@chrisphin man, that view has changed a LOT since then

wav3ydave,
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@chrisphin yeah the gasometers are long gone and it's all new flats from there to homebase

markwyner, (edited ) to design
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As both a designer and a researcher I got twice the joy from this.

(I don’t know who originally created this. It may be Rebecca Barter? https://www.rebeccabarter.com/blog/2015-07-23-pie)

wav3ydave,
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@markwyner My fave: https://flowingdata.com/2008/09/19/pie-i-have-eaten-and-pie-i-have-not-eaten/

joelanman, to cycling
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Are these rigid bike bags any good?
https://www.fjallraven.com/uk/en-gb/bags-gear/fjallraven-specialized/sf-cool-cave

wav3ydave,
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@joelanman they're alright. good for just lobbing stuff in. overall not as versatile as a standard pannier as things either fit or they don't, you can't finesse them in

wav3ydave,
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@spacehobo @joelanman i'm not sure you're expected to do that, you can. it ships with a cargo net cover which suggests you'd just lob stuff in it like i did with mine, for a while, before it got relegated to the shelf :-)

wav3ydave, to cycling
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Fell off my bike today on the icy but insanely beautiful mendip hills. bit of a hole in my knee and my thumb hurts. was a magic ride tho. freezing fog everywhere up to about 100m but the hilltops were super clear.

wav3ydave, to animals
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Not sure I approve of this development.

ronanmcd, to random
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I've never seen Avatar

wav3ydave,
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@ronanmcd just watch fern gully, the last rainforest. The story's essentially the same but it's a lot shorter and the characters are cuter

ianRobinson, to cricket
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Another thing you don’t see often. A stumping were the keeper has to remove a stump from the ground with the ball in their hands because they dislodged the bails before they caught the ball.

Out.

wav3ydave,
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@ianRobinson just need a mankad and someone to hit the ball twice and we'll pretty much have a full house

wav3ydave, to cycling
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEGAIYKTZ9w has it really been 12 years?

davidpierce, to random
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Hi friends! It’s that time of the week again: I’m putting Installer together and I want to know everything you’re into right know. Apps/books/movies/weird websites/subreddits/everything. What cool stuff is in your world right now?

wav3ydave,
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@davidpierce the original Space Jam website from 1996 is still going, and I was reminded of it again this week. https://www.spacejam.com/1996/

wav3ydave, to cycling
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What will YOUR bike carry? I can get a whole hillclimb event on mine 😁 @ternbicycles

wav3ydave, to cycling
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Dunno who needs to know this but House of Fraser are knocking out Shimano-powered Whyte city ebikes for £1,299 right now, and if you use the code OUTLET20 you get 20% off even that, making it just over a grand. RRP is £2,659. They're a stone cold bargain at that price. https://www.houseoffraser.co.uk/brand/whyte/coniston-step-through-electric-hybrid-bike-930627#colcode=93062702

ajsadauskas, to climate
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Right now, could you prepare a slice of toast with zero embodied carbon emissions?

Since at least the 2000s, big polluters have tried to frame carbon emissions as an issue to be solved through the purchasing choices of individual consumers.

Solving climate change, we've been told, is not a matter of public policy or infrastructure. Instead, it's about convincing individual consumers to reduce their "carbon footprint" (a term coined by BP: https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/23/big-oil-coined-carbon-footprints-to-blame-us-for-their-greed-keep-them-on-the-hook).

Yet, right now, millions of people couldn't prepare a slice of toast without causing carbon emissions, even if they wanted to.

In many low-density single-use-zoned suburbs, the only realistic option for getting to the store to get a loaf of bread is to drive. The power coming out of the mains includes energy from coal or gas.

But.

Even if they invested in solar panels, and an inverter, and a battery system, and only used an electric toaster, and baked the loaf themselves in an electric oven, and walked/cycled/drove an EV to the store to get flour and yeast, there are still embodied carbon emissions in that loaf of bread.

Just think about the diesel powered trucks used to transport the grains and packaging to the flour factory, the energy used to power the milling equipment, and the diesel fuel used to transport that flour to the store.

Basically, unless you go completely off grid and grow your own organic wheat, your zero emissions toast just ain't happening.

And that's for the most basic of food products!

Unless we get the infrastructure in place to move to a 100% renewables and storage grid, and use it to power fully electric freight rail and zero emissions passenger transport, pretty much all of our decarbonisation efforts are non-starters.

This is fundamentally an infrastructure and public policy problem, not a problem of individual consumer choice.

@green

wav3ydave,
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@largess @ajsadauskas @green "No-one has to drive a car" is a pretty sweeping statement that I would argue is also entirely factually wrong. If you live 10 miles from work somewhere where there's been decades of no provision for any other form of transport, you need systemic change before not driving is an option.

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