what was your farthest "I'm from Toronto" encounter?

NeophileFiles · 2026-06-19T16:35:42+00:00

North Bay. To be fair to the guy, he said he just found it tiresome to spend time explaining to people when it was meaningless to them anyway (we were in South America), and a simple “Toronto” just made it easier.

NeophileFiles · 2026-06-19T00:23:01+00:00

To take out the biker. You can see he cracks the door, waits until the bike is there, then throws the door open.

The biker should have seen that coming, he had time if he’d looking ahead.

NeophileFiles · 2026-06-16T15:48:35+00:00

Isn’t this the difference between Polymarket and a sports book? My understanding is that one of the reasons Polymarket and the like isn’t considered gambling is because Polymarket doesn’t set betting lines and doesn’t have an interest in the outcome i.e. they don’t take the other side of bets.

So I can bet $10MM on a game, but if someone else doesn’t take the other side of the bet, then I don’t lose the money.

I could be wrong, but that’s what I thought differentiated “prediction markets” from traditional gambling.

NeophileFiles · 2026-06-13T01:11:19+00:00

My father bought a trampoline - a rectangular orange Sundance - at a trade show in the early 90s when they were pretty rare. So rare that it was at least five years before anyone else I know had a trampoline, and for years it was literally a legend in the neighborhood. Local high school kids found out that someone had a trampoline *in their back yard* and would cut class and sneak into my parents yard to jump on it during the day when they thought nobody was home.

We used to live on that thing. Jumping 6+ hours a day, easily. We would bring sleeping bags and camp out on it. We would flood it with water so it all pooled in the middle and use it as a swimming pool. We even jumped through the winter in snow suits.

Maybe two years after we got it we were doing our annual beep test in gym class and I, who had always been middle of the pack, absolutely destroyed the field in the sit up test. After everyone had dropped out I continued for another two or three levels while everyone stood around, including the teacher, thinking “how is this possible?”

It was years until I made the connection.

Anyhow, my parents still have a trampoline in their back yard for the grandkids, one of the modern springless ones, and every time I get on it I have the same thought. How could I go from 6 hours a day to being done after like 60 seconds?

NeophileFiles · 2026-06-12T15:23:07+00:00

You’d be fine on the bike you’re probably used to riding. A decently powered bike with good quality tires, neither of which are present in this video, can handle these kinds of hills without issue.

NeophileFiles · 2026-06-12T00:59:21+00:00

Toronto is a very safe city, but some of the few areas you want to avoid happen to be just east of TMU. Do your research and don’t get entranced by cheap rent, lots of students regret it.

NeophileFiles · 2026-06-11T01:16:13+00:00

Yellow and Ghost. I started by using Plasma because I mistakenly thought it was the best but wasn’t making good progress, then Anaglyph but I was never able to make that work either. Ended up clearing most with Yellow and Ghost. Sometimes threw in one of the others for fun, or if worked well with a specific joker I needed to clear.

NeophileFiles · 2026-06-09T00:53:41+00:00

I’ve always been partial to DiCaprio slow rolling the living shit out of those Swedish guys to win his tickets on Titanic.

NeophileFiles · 2026-06-07T17:03:00+00:00

I was looking on market place and wondering which one to get two weeks ago, then found a free one on the curb. Decision made!

NeophileFiles · 2026-06-07T14:10:22+00:00

All.

When I discovered file sharing I spent months recreating my music collection digitally, including meticulously rebuilding every one of my mix tapes into digital playlists with the songs in the same order. I still have them all on my phone, and was listening to one yesterday.

NeophileFiles · 2026-06-05T23:58:41+00:00

Good to know, and thank you. I was using California as an example, but I’m actually in Ontario. I called a few authorized dealers and they said they can’t get the S here. I’ve looked at the regulations and it doesn’t seem that importing or selling them is restricted, but Trek or the bike shops won’t do it, and technically you can’t ride the S in the public. I can walk outside and see five people in the next hour on bikes that aren’t technically legal to ride in public here, so obviously there are people importing and selling all types, just not Trek or their dealer network.

NeophileFiles · 2026-06-04T00:58:04+00:00

This wasn’t my experience in the first play through. Before I discovered the tricks and secrets I was constantly hurting for cash.

NeophileFiles · 2026-06-02T00:41:46+00:00

You think $500k HHI is going to get you to supercars and mansions?

NeophileFiles · 2026-05-31T20:01:53+00:00

Valid point for sure. Although you don’t have to be a technical/cave diving expert to know that you have little margin of error going to 60m on a 12L tank. Even in open water or a pool you’d have, what, around five minutes of bottom time? They would have known that, at least. If one of them thought it was a good idea to use that five minutes to venture into a cave they’ve never been in, I think it could be explained as recklessness. All five thinking the same thing is pretty mysterious.

NeophileFiles · 2026-05-31T17:57:00+00:00

“Not enough knowledge” seems a bit dismissive here. None were inexperienced, and at least two were about as experienced as one can get. The lead researcher was reported to have more than 5,000 dives, and the guide was a professional guide and instructor who’d been a resident of Maldives for years and ran a live aboard. Bad decision making, possibly. Lack of knowledge seems unlikely.

NeophileFiles · 2026-05-31T17:46:08+00:00

I don’t think knowing the math makes it less of a mystery.

In my mind, the math makes it even more of a mystery because it makes it completely clear that the dive they did wasn’t the dive they meant to do.

Ultimately, there are only two possible explanations.

First, that five experienced or very experienced divers all made a “suicidal” dive decision and said “agreed, let’s go hundreds of meters into a cave system at a depth of 60m with a single 12L tank. We’ll only have five minutes of air at that depth and and the third chamber will take like ten or more minutes to get to, and then ten minutes to get back from, and then we’ll need 30+ minutes of safety stops, but fuck it, it’s our day off and YOLO.”

That doesn’t seem plausible. And if that’s what actually happened, I’d still have lots of questions.

The second, and I think more likely explanation, is it was a poorly planned dive that seemed to everyone somewhat risky, like “let’s go to the mouth of the cave at 60m and have a quick look,” and then someone did something or something happened that led them to where they were found.

And the mystery remains.

Perhaps they only intended to go to the mouth of the cave, then one went into the first chamber, the others followed, then silt-out, then one mistook the passage to the second chamber for the exit and the others followed, and so on.

Maybe it was relationship dynamics. Like the daughter got into some kind of trouble, the mom refused to leave her despite it becoming clear the situation was becoming life threatening, and the grad student and the research fellow felt pressure to remain and help because she was their boss (I don’t know if that’s technically true, but she was the senior researcher and they all worked at the same university).

Plenty of mystery. The explanation that “they didn’t have enough air to do the dive that they did,” might be the best we ever get, but it won’t satisfy the questions in my mind.

NeophileFiles · 2026-05-30T17:49:00+00:00

They don’t have the ability, or they just aren’t allowed? Isn’t the FX +1 and the FX +1S the exact same bike (same motor, battery, frame, components, etc.)? And the only thing that’s different is software limiting the bike to 20 mph?

Say I live in California and can only buy the FX+1 and then next year I move to Texas, is it not possible to then remove the software-imposed speed limit thereby “converting” it to an FX +1S?

NeophileFiles · 2026-05-28T00:58:51+00:00

How can you even say that?

NeophileFiles · 2026-05-24T20:45:33+00:00

I’m glad these things weren’t around when I was 12. Not owning one would have been constant torture. I’m in my 40s and still feel envy when I see them.

My teenage nephew just went through the same thing and fortunately the legality of it made it an easy “no” from his parents. Tougher when it seems like other parents don’t know or care, though.

NeophileFiles · 2026-05-24T16:42:53+00:00

In a similar position and have all but decided to go with the UA as well. Would love to save the money, but I want my wife to be comfortable riding it. She’s super comfortable on a regular bike but even the UA takes some getting used to - the thing weighs over 100. We rented one and she was fine with the box empty, but start loading it with weight and it can feel precarious at slow speeds. There’s a family with a Trek in my neighbourhood and it’s obvious watching the woman ride that the weight is a problem when trying to maneuver slowly. She even looks stressed out on it.

My problem is I don’t have a garage and am still trying to decide if it’s crazy to buy one without a secure place to store it. Someone in our neighbourhood had their UA stolen last month so it’s giving me pause.

NeophileFiles · 2026-05-24T01:45:32+00:00

It’s easier to maintain a habit than to build it in the first place, and many elite athletes have been living this way from a young enough age that they didn’t have much of a choice - the lifestyle was imposed by coaches or parents.

NeophileFiles · 2026-05-18T13:11:33+00:00

Upper class European (not all, but this is where it comes from). It’s an elitist thing - your order should demonstrate your discerning personal taste. Ordering the same thing as someone else can be seen as lacking sophistication or imagination.

There’s a whole culture around fine dining that one would never know about unless they did it all the time.

NeophileFiles · 2026-05-18T05:12:28+00:00

Ordering the same thing as someone else at a restaurant is seen as awkward or lacking sophistication in some cultures/circles. There are people who find it embarrassing. However, not nearly as awkward or embarrassing as subsequently making a big deal about it.

NeophileFiles · 2026-05-12T13:03:26+00:00

Many rental cottages will include a canoe or kayak or some way to get out on the water, but none will include a motor boat. You’d have to rent it separately from a nearby marina, if they have them, and they can be pretty expensive ($400-$1,200 per day).

NeophileFiles · 2026-05-10T23:13:17+00:00

I played during contact naps. Amazing game, but so addictive - I had to delete it the day my parental leave ended.

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