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yofuckreddit
21hr ago
3x systems are really more of a vestige of "More Speeds!" marketing that was devilishly effective against consumers. Secondarily, there were the engineering reasons:
- A desire to reduce chainwear through cross-chaining
- Limitations in derailleur reliability on the front chainring: To get to a small front chainring you needed a useless one with duplicate gearing in the middle
1x is all the rage right now for many of the reasons you've stated, and because the cycling industry has to reinvent what's popular to sell more. 2x Drivetrains have the same-or-greater ranges than the 3x systems of old. Note that 6/7/8-speed bikes all use the same chain size, and 8 is the most ubiquitous gearing out there. Once you get to 11/12/13 every drivetrain component is more expensive and proprietary.
yofuckreddit
1d ago
If we're trading anecdotes 100% of my industry cohort (consulting, so competing directly with cognizant etc) including citizen indians will speak about this 1 on 1.
It is obvious, it is pervasive, and it is why offshoring has such a poor long term outlook.
yofuckreddit
2d ago
Sure, after each congressman personally selects 100 bureaucratic grifters they've added to the deep state to fire and cancel the pensions of.
yofuckreddit
2d ago
I see where you're coming from, but Specialized's focus on slick branding, digital tech, and a dedicated retail presence makes them the clear winner in this comparison.
Mainline DTC brands are lightyears away from Aliexpress. Obed sent a guy in a sprinter van to my house to put the bike together and make sure it was still tuned up from the assembly plant, and it was $1,000 less than anything else with that spec I can find. LBS is important, etc. etc. but that big of a price difference can't be ignored. Especially when at least one shop near my charged my wife $38 for an 8-speed KMC chain when I wasn't looking. I'm a consumer, not a donation service.
All that said for a novice it's absolutely better to wait for a sale and buy from a local store. They offer a ton of perks to make it worth it, and if they have good mechanics they're a lifesaver.
yofuckreddit
2d ago
The dip is strange but not ironclad. People who are serious about bikes don't spend less than that on them so there's almost no bikes in that range. People getting started buy a $600 bike then abuse it and sell it for $200. Those end up being in worse shape than the older bikes tuned up at a shop run by fanatics.
Ok one more hot take: Brands in cycling barely matter, they really only do the frame (if they do!) and then assemble parts from suppliers. So pick PARTS not brand.
After that you have local store and network presence which is really Giant, Specialized, and Trek in the US. All the bike shops around me are good enough there.
Specialized is a "premium" brand and focused on tech but also means less compatibility. The apple of bikes?
Trek and Giant all have virtually the same bikes for the same price tag. Just go off of sales and aesthetics.
The DTC guys are sometimes interesting. Canyon was an insane deal before tariffs, Obed was a great decision for me, and there's bikes direct which is often selling slightly less attractive and older-component bikes for very cheap from a hilarious website.
Salsa has bike nerd cache and good resale value. There's a dozen of these little boutique brands like that if you go that route.
yofuckreddit
3d ago
What types of cycling have you done? Which is your favorite?
For a do it all machine you pick something in the middle of the bike gradient, so hard tail/hybrid/gravel. The latter is my preference but is also popular and thus more expensive.
My strong opinions are: Shimano group set or bust (though SRAM owns most the MTB market). Buy once cry once (modifying a bike is way more expensive than getting what you want). Getting a used one from a bike charity in your city is your best bet for <=$300, new for $300-$600, and then used again beyond that.
yofuckreddit
7d ago
Great catch. Holy shit what a week.
yofuckreddit
10d ago
The difference I see in upper culturally is how much they dont do themselves. Cruise through their neighborhoods any weekday and they're packed with service workers.
yofuckreddit
10d ago
Upper if we're talking top 20% nationally.
yofuckreddit
10d ago
I can't speak for others, but RBGs passing is the closest analogy. She did untold damage to the country and was glazed for weeks by her fans. That wasn't even an assassination and I'm still uninterested in broadcasting how much I hated her on LinkedIn. It's psychotic behavior.
yofuckreddit
10d ago
Stop, I can only get so erect right all the fucking time
yofuckreddit
10d ago
Being cucked is the same sort of ideological consistency Kirk had being married with kids. His son hating him is understandable from my PoV but not a universal indictment of him, and I'm not a fan of playing the CP gotcha game when 17 year olds say they're 19 or whatever.
Your overall point - that the left has few-to-none Kirk equivalents - is correct overall. But I think Destiny counts as at least one dark mirror example.
yofuckreddit
10d ago
We appreciate your presence!
yofuckreddit
10d ago
You're effectively demanding unilateral disarmament.
This is in no way too much to ask for after such visceral political violence. If someone blew AOC's head off there's a zero percent chance I'd post some sneering crap about how I'm "not mourning" her death.
yofuckreddit
10d ago
What you're saying here doesn't make much sense. The blue-haired kids just happened to ignorantly stumble into an assembly hosted on campus, after classes are over, watch their friends get demolished, and then step up to the mic and do the same thing?
The reality is that these were fervent believers, ready to be angry and combative, who probably did plenty of research beforehand. The clips that made it to TikTok were probably the lower performers, but they were performers nonetheless. Characterizing these discussions as an intellectual giant beating up on stupid children isn't accurate.
yofuckreddit
10d ago
No. Stupidly, I saved it in the Economists' systems and nowhere else. I also don't have even a screenshot locally. I've sent an email and will see if they respond.
yofuckreddit
11d ago
The Economist has, un-fucking-believably, deleted their article on it and scrubbed it from search engines. Probably to support their crappy hand-wringing retro on Kirk they shat out.
It may not have been an overwhelming majority, but the percentage of Democrats who believe assassinations are justified is insanely high.
yofuckreddit
17d ago
I remember very clearly how critically panned it was and how much I loved it. Need to re-watch.
yofuckreddit
17d ago
I vastly prefer having closets. Shelves and Wardrobes "penetrate" into your living space in a uniquely explicit way. As the walls around the room go from predictable edges to a jagged collection of furniture, the percieved space is eliminated not just by the footprint of each item but also the area around it.
People own many ugly things that deserve to be hidden. My camping gear shouldn't be exhibited in my room or even really on a shelf. The closet is the best space for these things.
yofuckreddit
18d ago
I didn't realize I had a tendency to make such posts
They're tasteful enough (more so than Exotica, at least) and I think it's weirder to pretend like beautiful women don't exist.
yofuckreddit
18d ago
Can I ask the purpose of building that dataset?
Since 2018 have you been using an app like strava?
yofuckreddit
24d ago
Great point re: price discrimination.
yofuckreddit
24d ago
There may be a split market, one marketed as AI-driven and dominated by AI, and the other marketed as AI-free and dominated by AI
I think this is insightful. A la lab grown meat - there's always going to be a set of people that pay a massive premium for "the real thing".
And yet still, physical prostitution/sugar babying and stripping seem so worth it compared to dropping a couple hundred per month on digital slop. Yes, there are societal norms at play that artificially reduce the price, but it's also fascinating that the male sex drive values quantity so much over quality.
yofuckreddit
24d ago
I find 480p porn to be unwatchable, and really only tolerate 720p if it's something special.
Sure, people are doing "new stuff" but camera technology and bandwidth capabilities alone have led to a pretty good treadmill. I haven't tried VR porn but a friend that has gave it rave reviews, so that's another full cycle there.
Personally, I think I'm going to limit my use of my Oculus to BeatSaber, I just can't picture myself wearing a heavy headset with an exposed dong. It's too dystopian.
Beware - Bike Wrenching has completely supplanted doing work on my car. It was the same sense of pride and accomplishment with 1/10 the cost, risk, and mess. I even wax my chains now which almost eliminates the sort of hyper-staining gunk that's inherent to most shade-tree hobbies.
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