avidamoeba

We shouldn't but this is the democratic system we live in. Voting happens at the ballot box, in the ledership races, in party fundraising, in union organizing, in the courts, in ad spending.. Turns out dollars are votes too and some have more of them than others. If curbing our rights is profitble for some with more cash, or sometimes just desirable, we'll have to raise our dollar votes against them. And if we're lucky, our ballot box votes might have made it cheaper. Never free. It's super fucking annoying and it's too much work. Improvements are possible but that's where we are today.

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That's @panda_abyss'es argument and it might work to add infrastructure where it doesn't exist but probably not to absolute zero cars. Which is fine. 😄

If you make the argument in a vacuum, without considering all other variables in play and the ones that would come in play at every next stage of it, then you might end up without car lanes. If you however consider thouse, then at every next step you'd have to prove to the judge that harm is done. Soon the other side would point out for example that people would die in ambulances stuck in traffic and they'll have the evidence to back it up. And that's where your car lane cutting crusade would end. You may succeed in getting rid of some more car lanes (good) but you won't get to clean them all up.

If you're onboard with this and can afford it, chip in to Cycle Toronto since this is probably not going to be the end of it and lawyers cost money.

Okay. Yeah that makes sense and in that case hosting on the Fediverse out of the UK would probably unblock it for a long time. If the blocking is not trivial - like one person adding a URL to a list - then they'd have to prioritize and they'd likely be going over bigger fish like international porn sites and such for a long time before they reach communities on the Fediverse that may or may not be self-designated NSFW. If they're on Reddit on the other hand, they get voluntarily blocked by the platform itself in the UK almost certainly without direction from Ofcom.

Wow this would have been nice in 1991. I guess the next best time is now. Would be nice if this starts a trend among central banks to exercise more fine grained control over banks other than purey monetary policy.

In the very beginning and hard. Today I don't think it would do much other than strenghten cooperation within BRICS. They've shown they're resilient together and that China specificlly has enormous leverage over us being the manufacturer of vast number of inputs to our economies. Don't know whether India has enough of a leverage but I wouldn't be surprised if they increased reliance on BRICS instead of complying with sanctions. Especially given the nationalist line Modi is pushing domestically.

But again, the game was never really to stop the war. If it was, we could've not only applied stronger sanctions in the beginning but also sent all the weapons Ukraine needed in the beginning. Not waffle around about this or that weapon because of X or Y, meanwhile letting so many people die for lack of weapons. That produced an emigration wave which weakened Ukraine economically (and likely benefited ours). Putting all the damage together forced them to sell their resources to the US. And no, it's not just minerals. What's happened and what was sold to us are very different. So yeah, I don't buy for a second Trump's finger wagging about Ukraine as anything but US trade negotiation tactic.

Yeah that part really is crazy. Obviously there's some mechanism but I don't know what. You've alreade checked change in torque and cadence as a cause. The only other thing that comes to mind is the force pointing backwards, experienced by the spindle from the chain pulling on it, which changes depending on which gear you're in and how tensioned the rear derailleur is. But I would think any such effect would be drowned by the forces of your legs on the cranks.

Without access to some debug interface that shows you what values come from the various components, you're stuck with hypothesizing and replacing parts, which is annoying and expensive. In that world, I'd also try replacing the torque sensor. I've seen it sold on Ali. I think they use a common part between multiple units but I'm not sure. I have their BB torque sensor and it seems it uses a spindle that looks like the ones used in their mid drives. They're not cheap though.

Sure but that means they have to have a mechanism, legal and material to execute this. There must be an gov't institution that looks for and designates sites to be blocked. Then they have to have legal power to compel UK ISPs to block those lists. Are these things part of this law? I haven't read enough.

This isn't a currency issue. The processes driving this have been observed in 19-century Britain under a gold standard. For me it took looking into how firms decide what to produce, how to produce it and what to do with the profits in order to build a better picture on what's happening. This Talk at Google was a good starting point for me.

Yes, got a Cyclami from Ali. It's very well made and I've been uaing it for inflation and topping up my tires for three months now.