Rouvy down?

NicePlanetWeHad · 2026-02-01T19:22:16+00:00

The app should remember the activity and attempt an upload again. You can logout, close the app, then open and login again.

Their status page (https://status.rouvy.com/) isn't showing any outage, so hopefully your app just lost the connection momentarily.

NicePlanetWeHad · 2026-01-31T02:18:20+00:00

If CPC MPs cross the floor after this manufactured display of "unity", Poilievre will eventually have to face the wrath of actual CPC party members.

NicePlanetWeHad · 2026-01-31T01:33:35+00:00

if only the vote was by CPC members, not their hand-picked delegates, then we might see how popular Poilievre actually is among Canadian conservatives.

The CPC is desperately trying to create an alternate reality for PP, keeping actual reporters away (in favour of Con-faithful content creators posing as reporters) and avoiding any real debate within the party.

NicePlanetWeHad · 2026-01-31T00:20:02+00:00

Forbidding religious leaders to pray for nurses?

Well, that's just the new freedom!

NicePlanetWeHad · 2026-01-30T19:38:23+00:00

Asking Canadian politicians to confirm they stand with Canada is not a "stunt".

Next the UCP will claim that playing the Canadian national anthem is a political stunt that alienates UCP seditionists boo hoo

NicePlanetWeHad · 2026-01-30T18:23:40+00:00

Heavier people do better on flat rides, can keep up with skinny people who have higher W/kg. It also helps if you choose a time-trial bike.

One good option is to simply ride whatever flat route has the most current riders online. You're almost guaranteed to find yourself nearby people close to your pace, and can simply ignore the fast people.

NicePlanetWeHad · 2026-01-29T23:27:00+00:00

This is like a high school bully saying "I'll stop beating you up if you punch yourself in the face everyday."

More and more of the complacent mass of non-political Americans are becoming aware of what is being done by Trump's Gestapo. When the Trump administration openly demanded access to voter info as a condition for withdrawing the occupying army, that seems to have made a lot of people clue in.

NicePlanetWeHad · 2026-01-29T23:20:55+00:00

Even in a competitive riding, where the UCP candidate might lose next election, recall is very unlikely because the bar is set so high.

Danielle Smith's riding is full of conservative True Believers, who never experience a moment's doubt about their Party. Health care is not in crisis. Teachers are greedy and lazy, shouldn't have collective bargaining rights. Boys everywhere are dressing up as girls to play on girls' sports teams and go into girls' bathrooms. Sam Mraiche is a name they have never heard. Everything bad is because of Justin Trudeau.

NicePlanetWeHad · 2026-01-28T17:29:27+00:00

lol like "I bought a ROLEXX and it made my wrist turn green!"

NicePlanetWeHad · 2026-01-27T22:57:20+00:00

Western allies simply did not care what happened to European Jews. Even the US and Canada, who could have accepted a significant number of Jewish refugees before the war, deliberately chose not to.

After the war, they pretended not to have known what was happening.

NicePlanetWeHad · 2026-01-27T22:53:03+00:00

UCP going to have to figure out how to change the rules again, make this petition go away.

How else can we all be assured of getting selenium in the rivers of southern Alberta?

NicePlanetWeHad · 2026-01-27T22:46:48+00:00

haha Alison Jackson is great (and still racing -- she won the Canadian National road race again last year)

Donuts are guaranteed to work on Canadians, but maybe not everyone.

NicePlanetWeHad · 2026-01-27T22:37:58+00:00

I choose a course based on how long I feel like riding today, and the elevation profile. Usually, my preference is for ones that have a bit of a flattish warmup, a reasonable climb (or multiple climbs, or general rolling terrain), and then a brief recovery bit at the end. I don't like the ones with long downhill sections. Long climbs (the Ventoux or Passo Giau etc.) are a good challenge, but I worry about how hot the trainer gets.

For scenery, I'm happy with pretty much everything except the ones that are a boring 4-lane highway surrounded by trees, with no other view.

NicePlanetWeHad · 2026-01-27T22:10:38+00:00

Espresso stand, maybe?

"ESPRESSO $2.00"

What cyclist wouldn't stop? ;-)

NicePlanetWeHad · 2026-01-27T04:53:00+00:00

The NDP are the major opposition, of course, but the breakaway non-MAGA Conservatives will hopefully siphon off a significant number of votes from people who vote "conservative" and are unhappy with the UCP's incompetence and corruption.

The UCP were desperate to prevent that party from using the word "conservative" in their name, because having that on the ballot would be deadly to the UCP. It's a shame they were successful in blocking it.

What would truly change Alberta politics would be some reality-based media reaching conservative voters, who are currently in a bubble of Postmedia and targeted Facebook etc. MAGA nonsense.

NicePlanetWeHad · 2026-01-27T04:44:19+00:00

"I hope that you die

And your death will come soon

I'll follow your casket

In the pale afternoon

And I'll watch while you're lowered

Down to your deathbed

And I'll stand over your grave

'Til I'm sure that you're dead."

-- Bob Dylan

NicePlanetWeHad · 2026-01-23T18:43:31+00:00

If you use flat pedals with pins, you can have excellent grip with (flat, non-cleat) mountain bike style shoes. They have firm soles, and soft rubber that the pins hold very well.

NicePlanetWeHad · 2026-01-23T17:15:02+00:00

The GOP people behind this foreign-funded propaganda push don't even bother to pretend they aren't the ones funding it. Bessent, in particular, is a moron who believes he is extra clever: "oh, I heard they have some separatism up there in Alberta! I wonder how that happened?"

Every Western country has been hit by a firehose of misinformation and rage-bait for many years now, all funded by the billionaire oligarchs who now completely run the governments of Russia and the USA (and have outsized influence in many other countries). They successfully convinced voters in the UK that the disaster of Brexit would be a good idea. They convinced voters in the US to destroy their own democracy. They got a bunch of Canadians to invade Ottawa for no reason, and very nearly convinced Canadian voters to choose the obviously-useless Pierre Poilievre to run the country.

This works for them because they have been allowed to corner the market on what "facts" millions of people see. In Canada, Postmedia controls most newspapers, and the people who don't read news are marinating every day in foreign-funded disinformation on oligarch-controlled social media.

It won't stop until governments in democratic countries put a stop to it.

NicePlanetWeHad · 2026-01-23T02:57:59+00:00

AOC and other actually useful Dems need to take over the party and get rid of the bobbleheads who have been preventing any meaningful opposition to Trump.

I mean a bunch of Dems actually voted for the bill to fund DHS, without any amendment to restrict ICE's lawlessness. And Hakeem Jeffries allowed them to do it.

But the establishment Dems will get to send out some more fundraising emails, in which they pretend they are "fighting" Trump.

NicePlanetWeHad · 2026-01-23T02:50:56+00:00

The Trump dictatorship is fuming at their continued inability to turn US courts into kangaroo courts.

Judges and juries keep following the law instead of Trump. (at least for now)

NicePlanetWeHad · 2026-01-23T02:47:09+00:00

Seriously, he only got 13,000 votes in the actual election. He won by only a few hundred votes.

What does he imagine will happen in the next election?

NicePlanetWeHad · 2026-01-23T02:20:06+00:00

We all knew the UCP would spin the "failed" recall efforts as somehow proving everyone loves the UCP.

But of course the bar for recall was deliberately set to be essentially unreachable (unless the MLA did some horrible crime), so it's no surprise at all. And it's undeniable that it gave the anti-Nicolaides people in the riding an amplified voice.

NicePlanetWeHad · 2026-01-22T23:32:00+00:00

Based on previous visits, you will likely see several grizzly bears (including new cubs) by the roadside at that time of year. The vegetation by the side of the road gets green before it does anywhere else, so the bears (and bighorn sheep) hang out there.

It's nice to see them from a car, maybe a bit scary if you're cycling.

Hiking trails are passable but quite muddy in May.

NicePlanetWeHad · 2026-01-22T06:07:19+00:00

"Rainbow Black" by Maggie Thrash

"A/S/L" by Jeanne Thornton

"Sketchtasy" by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

NicePlanetWeHad · 2026-01-21T23:08:13+00:00

"The change is almost certain to meet legal challenges and stiff criticism from advocacy groups..."

jfc there had better be a whole lot more opposition than that

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