7bicycles [he/him] @ 7bicycles @hexbear.net

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You mean ones like these?

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007321929071.html

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005843902557.html

The only problem I see is that flashlights are generally thin and round whereas my headlight is chonky and square. I'm not sure these would fit around its girth.

Yeah. The chonk should help to keep it in place, honestly. Unless the strap breaks, in which case on chosen examples any old rubber band would do.

I seem to have trouble finding the male bits on AE while female ones are easy to find, gonna search some more

https://de.aliexpress.com/item/1005007446027044.html Here ya go

(searching for the brand of the light itself I only get Finnish/Nordic results so it's probably a design licensed off to a local company)

They probably just copied it, there is only so many ways you to skin a cat and all.

The EU could get a ridiculous amount done if it decided to seriously invest in it.

Yeah but they're never going to do that. It's an overgrown coal union at it's heart. Like yeah, sure, they found a lot of somewhat leftist mostly green movement things within the EU but that's just PR. The GDPR considers "me making a lot of money" to be a valid reason to go start selling peoples data

Is he wrong? As far as I'm aware that's the current legal situation there

I'm not saying you should honestly advocate for this, I'm saying you use it to poison the well whenever somebody want to build the next CO2 scrubber that creates more CO2 than it scrubs. Tree good machine bad for climate seems like an easy enough sell to a general populace and might serve to at least not get the greenwashed pollution machine that serves 0 value built.

Speaking from experience here; your problem isn't gonna be the strap, it that it fits to the screw interface on all points. While they all look 99% similar, they're not, unless this is a Lezyne or something.

I'd advise you to buy a generic "flashlight bicycle mount" from wherever, something like this;

Has the added bonus points for if it holds up and your light doesn't you can also just use it for the next one.

Alternatively glue and ziptie a garmin quarter lock mount (knockoff, obviously, but using that standard) to it and get yourself a female receiver to attach to your bikes handlebars. They're all ubiqioutous and therefore well cheap.

I mean the current approach is "eventually somebody will invent the CO2 vacuum that runs on laughter" so I'm thinking it's kind of useful to at least argue for against the CO2 vacuum that runs on fossil fuels in a harm reduction type of way

I'm a RETVRN guy for attack vectors on consoles being hardware based like for the PS1 era. Like I'm sure it is insanely harder than finding some sort of software bug in the bloat but also you can't security patch "guy with a soldering iron"

I recently got a presentation at work about how some institute "found out" that by 2028 99% of all the internet will be AI generated. This was presented as some sort of "look at the future, dang!" type thing but It'll just be this. We're 2 years in or so and the things are already getting Kuru.

I'm much more inclined to believe a bunch of added labour and complexity contributes to the price of food compared to cheaper ingredients that last longer. Also when I'm talking vibe based that person'd be far ahead of the course here, most of the restaurant owners I'm aware of literally just feel their way into it. I mean I'd still rather just have "plant based" meals like Burger King does instead of true vegan and a surcharge but it's hard to fault them for it.

I know it’s pretty nitpicky but I’m sure a lot of restaurants that serve cauliflower “wings” just throw them in the same fryer as the chicken wings. then people make them at home and wonder why they don’t taste the same? Because you didn’t fry them in oil flavored with chicken fat

I'd wager a guess it's less this and more, like with everything else, the amount of fat and salt they put in there you'd feel uncomfortable doing at home, looking at yourself pouring 300ml of straight oil into the marinade and then adding 2 tablespoons of salt. If you ever made restaurant style food at home it really takes the fun out of it as you are painfully aware every bite is like at least half a teaspoon of fat. Tastes great tho.

Horse feet are so strange.

I'm oddly convinved that guys ancestors did eat all their piss and poo tbh

I'm guessing regional difference here, never had that. Every time an item was clearly "what do those dang vegans like!?" it was bean sprouts with imported quinoa salad coupled with a sourdough rye bread made in a kiln that has my grandmas ashes in it with avocado on top for 3x the price of anything else when all I wanted is the slop trough of of ketchup, fries and meat everybody else is getting except replace that one bratwurst you throw in there with a vegan option you make in the same deep fryer

The endpoint of liberal individualism is that it matters not what is done, it matters who does it.

Listen here, buddy, I'm not talking daily B12 pills like some sort of sickly person or drug addict. No Sir! I demand the animals I eat take them

Some chain restaurants seem to adopt some sort of "slight discount for the vegan option" variable, I assume due to this, which I'm sure they make even more margins on than the meat versions if only because a lot of vegan substitute meat keeps a lot better than it's meat-meat counterparts and you have less write-off to compensate for.

I think for anything non-chain it's mostly small business tyrant ideology where they either add a sin tax to vegan food because they're mad as fuck at having to do it to stay in business or, and I think this is the majority of them, all price and cost calculations are entirely vibes based anyhow and since we all know vegan is expensive, surcharge it is. I base this entirely on the fact that whenever you find vegan food that isn't purposefully vegan, because the dish just is, they never charge extra and this translates across all cuisines I've ever tried in a gastro establishment.

Small carveout here for people who realize vegans are shit-outta-luck some places and then charge extra, which I think is shitty, but at least makes economical sense. Feels more honest.

On the other hand, sometimes I stumble across a vegan option at a restaurant I would never expect to have them and they seem to take some sort of "we keep some packets of vegan protein in the freezer and whenever somebody actually orders this we just dump the whole package in" approach which leads to things like getting 25 falafels on your bowl.

I get how the LLM is bad at chess, I think most of everyone games of chess suck ass by definition but I'm kind of baffled about how it apparently not only played badly but wrong. How is there a big enough dataset of people yucking it up for that to happen entirely consistently?

That was I thinker but damn, gottem

Obviously the LAPD has gone woke and soy and needs to be immediatly dissolved

What? How? I played through it and liked it but even standing in the middle of the heat after a firefight doesn't tell you it happened barring the bodies laying there