If you google images of something like Redbull Hardline pretty much all the bikes you see will have at least one front guard.

That's because no one wants a face full of mud at the wrong moment.

If you see someone with mudguards on a road bike it's a sign they're a proper cyclist.

I don't think you're allowed to entry audax events without guards and you definitely won't be allowed on a club run without them. Getting a face full of oily road water for the guy in front is not exactly fun. Even small clip on "racing blades" will get you a sniffy look.

I don't have a problem with them riding an eRoad bikes, I like that they can keep coming out with us, but like you say I wouldn't want to ride one myself.

I know that my next will need enough range for one particular journey to a relative's house but I only do that journey once or twice a year at most.

I could easily reuse the "spare" capacity the rest of the time and I'm going to lease the car so long term battery health won't be an issue.

To honest I think plugin storage to go along with plug in solar will be a game changer.

https://sqlite.org/testing.html

It's amazing that a bug could exist for 16 years but it is sobering.

For anyone interest there's some interesting history about BCPL (the predecessor of C), TRIPOS and engineering at Cambridge in general.

e.g. when they do things like holding illegal employment blacklist[1][2][3] of innocent people.

I don't want to live in a country where, for example, the police can punish you just because they don't like trade unions.

What's I find ironic is that all this police state bullshit never seems to actually deal with antisocial behaviour or low level crime, it's always for political infractions.

We have more CCTV in London than almost anywhere else on the planet and you still get harassed outside tube stations by organised gangs of soliciting very forcefully for "charity" collections.

1. https://www.parliament.uk/external/committees/committee-news...

2. https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/ico-40/construction-employ...

3. https://www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/what-london-assembly-do...

Corporations have toppled democratic governments, run dodgy drug trials and given breast feeding mothers just enough free powdered milk to stop being able to feed their babies.

We have large online retailers, Temu and Shein, accused of using forced labour aka slavery.

Even a well known SaaS operation like eBay was caught sending live spiders to woman who criticised them[2].

Corporations are entities with legal rights but are motivated solely by profit. Without laws to regulate them they would unemotionally run right over you.

Corporation are, and I choose my words carefully, absolute cunts.

They can 100% can present a threat to you. We wouldn't have the concept of corporate manslaughter if they didn't.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company

2. https://apnews.com/article/786117108cdfefb40e691b1b3420c689

Then there's the prospect of the price dropping even lower in the next few years. Imagine 800w kits for $100. How can you ignore something like that?

Right now (well 27th August) you can plug your inverter into a battery but you can't connect the battery to a ring main you have to connect devices directly to it.

That is under assessment though so there's a good chance they could copy the way Germany does it, just like they're doing with the panels.

If they're mounted on a roof then obviously you can't benefit from that so it would be cheaper to go with single sided panels.

Unfortunately for me my back garden has too much shade for panels and I don't think I could get away with them in the front.

So that leaves a roof top install and I think once you have scaffold that you might as well have a traditional install.

Although it was admittedly a bit rubbish compared to Amigas, STs and Acorns of the time I still really enjoyed using.

If I'd had the chance this is exactly what I would have run.

Premptive multitasking without memory protection was still useful on the original Amigas so I think it would have been a boon for 8088 too.

Is that the standard we're holding Trump to though?

Do you really think it's OK for him to invade other countries for personal enrichment because historic tyrants also did the same?

The Trump regime a way more corrupt than anything currently seen in Europe.

He currently attempting to steal Greenland so he can strip it of mineral assets for fucks sack.

No politician in Europe is starting wars for personal gain.

Only Trump and Putin.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly5wyynv9zo

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We’re going through a series of ever record breaking heat waves where the only thing you can be sure of is that it will be worse next year.

They’re still pushing fossil fuels and blocking attempts to replace them with cheaper alternatives.

They’re too focused on who got the biggest yacht to care.

I think you know that “windmill” isn’t just a synonym for wind turbine but a politicised insult originating in the fossil fuel lobby.