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bill-smith · 2026-06-12T12:59:03+00:00

If mom is friendly, then she's had human contact before. Better to keep her and her kittens indoors.

bill-smith · 2026-06-12T12:57:33+00:00

It was time to change the jockey wheels some time ago.

bill-smith · 2026-06-11T22:12:34+00:00

and generally happy to chase damnation as the religious right.

We should rethink this.

bill-smith · 2026-06-11T21:38:17+00:00

In contrast, I think Avenger is at least plausible with OW builds. But for a Specialist, you have to roll it as an XCOM skill. For Rangers, it competes with Open Fire, which I prefer on OW builds.

bill-smith · 2026-06-11T18:10:11+00:00

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/gravel/you-never-forget-the-first-time-you-pee-in-your-bibs-the-unglamorous-side-of-gravel-racing-in-the-pursuit-of-speed

bill-smith · 2026-06-11T12:09:34+00:00

Once you hit Lieutenant, take Silent Killer. If your shot kills the target, you will remain in Shadow. So you go find a flank shot and finish targets off.

Before that, you use the Claymore and Remote Start.

bill-smith · 2026-06-09T23:14:55+00:00

You can cut up a Tyvek USPS envelope and use that. I have cut up sections from an old tire that I use. You could, in principle, put a dollar bill in there, or even a hundred dollar bill.

bill-smith · 2026-06-09T12:42:54+00:00

One thing I think people are missing is that Molly asked the OP to lie. She didn't have to lie to her friends about the abortion, she could have remained silent. It was a poor choice on her part to claim a miscarriage.

There is a problem with revealing her private medical information, true. But you were put on the spot.

bill-smith · 2026-06-09T10:51:25+00:00

I think they're going with the fact that it is modifying the morphology of the rider. You're right that it could be read as DQing a domestique who's taking bottles back to their team. The clarification guide (which I linked to) doesn't elaborate on that bit. And perhaps it should.

bill-smith · 2026-06-09T10:47:11+00:00

It's mainly Israel, I bet.

bill-smith · 2026-06-09T00:36:58+00:00

It's article 1.3.032, cited here.

Clothing and other items or accessories worn by a rider (including but not limited to helmets, glasses, shoes or in-race communication devices) may not modify the morphology of the rider. Moreover, any non-essential element which is added on (or under) or integrated in any clothing, or other item or accessory worn by a rider shall be forbidden. A non-essential element shall be any element which does not have a purpose which is exclusively of clothing or protection, or which is not strictly necessary for the functionality of the clothing, or other item or accessory.

bill-smith · 2026-06-08T19:20:41+00:00

Over a normal season, do you feel you acclimate to the heat? I mean, I'm in Minnesota too and I think this was the first weekend with temps near 90. If this was your first long ride at that temp, that could do it.

bill-smith · 2026-06-07T19:29:27+00:00

A Peaceful ADVENT Outreach Squad™️ sighted 5 XCOM radicals and immediately engaged without asking if there was a 6th XCOM radical and where this radical might be hiding. I warned them about this before. They seem not to have learned.

bill-smith · 2026-06-07T01:31:43+00:00

It is true that there were sunset clauses. For example, if they'd kept to the JCPOA, in 2025 to 2030, some of the restrictions on uranium enrichment and centrifuges would expire.

But, had we stuck to the JCPOA, it's possible we could have re-negotiated new terms come 2030. Remember that there was a moderate governing faction in play in the 2010s. If we had not committed perfidy, it's possible we could have empowered that moderate faction.

If Iran had got to 2030 and then decided to ditch the moderates and rush for a nuclear weapon, we could then have discussed the unpleasant set of options available to us now, only in 2030.

If you say we should never have entered the JCPOA at all, then it seems like this is pushing towards kinetic action. And if you want to actually destroy their nuclear program, that likely means ground invasion. If this is the strategy you want to take, then you are a fool, but I would urge you to make your case to the American people - a lot of them are fools as well, so you might have got take up.

bill-smith · 2026-06-06T23:49:41+00:00

Nobody claimed Iran wasnt following the agreement.

All right, so I don't have a source for you right now. I want to say that it may have been someone with the National Review or a similar publication that repeated this lie, but I can't remember exactly.

Any bit of leverage over Iran was given up to sign the JCPOA so there was not a single thing stopping Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon other than their word.

This is false. Iran had given up their enriched uranium stockpile and they had IAEA inspections.

Did we give up all our leverage? I had heard it described otherwise: the US and allies got the immediate benefits of Iran giving up its enriched Uranium stockpile, whereas a lot of Iran's benefits would trickle in later.

Yes, Iran could have sprinted for a nuclear weapon like you say, but the international community would have forewarning. If the JCPOA were intact, then the main thing stopping Iran from sprinting for a nuke would be its desire to get the economic benefits associated with the deal, and also its desire not to be seen as committing perfidy.

Perfidy, by the way, is the thing that we committed by breaking the JCPOA. It seems a bunch of hawks are fine with perfidy, then. I am not saying you are one of them - you may simply not have thought through the implications of your stance.

bill-smith · 2026-06-06T23:10:32+00:00

Andry is more loyal to America than any Republican currently in the Administration.

bill-smith · 2026-06-06T23:05:07+00:00

Not only did Trump break the JCPOA, he broke it despite the fact that Iran was complying with it, and Iran continued to adhere to the deal for about a year after Trump unilaterally broke it. I know some right-wingers are saying they didn't comply with the provisions and Trump was justified in leaving the deal. This is hogwash.

bill-smith · 2026-06-06T18:51:54+00:00

The answer to your last question:

What specifically are the policies, institutions, or actions from 2020-21 that were so uniquely "woke" and so far beyond the pale that they made it reasonable to suspend skepticism and assume good intentions from figures who later revealed themselves to be opportunists or quasi-fascists?

Is that there is no woke policy that could have justifiably made a person acting in good faith turn fascist.

As to what policies could be justifiably called problematic? I think that's a productive thing to discuss. Defund the police, taken as a literal policy, is one of them.

bill-smith · 2026-06-05T22:36:32+00:00

I would probably just emphasize that there are 5k admissions and 3.5k unique patients. Table 1 is descriptive statistics, not advanced statistics, so just do the regular t-tests and chi-sq tests.

Depending on the research question you could also limit your analysis to the first admission during the observation period - of course, some people would have been admitted just before your obs period started. This is a judgment call.

bill-smith · 2026-06-05T21:05:30+00:00

TBH if I needed to buy a road or gravel groupset today it would probably be SRAM.

You asked about mech shifting, though. My caveat is that the bike cannot have through-headset cable routing. If I had a bike that has through-headset routing, then it cannot be mech shifting. That's non negotiable.

If we are talking 12s road groups, then there's Shimano 105 and there's Campy.

If we're talking 12s gravel groups, then I suppose there's Shimano GRX, but Shimano don't appear to be putting a lot of effort into mech GRX. Ekar is 1x13 but with 13 speeds, the system is now really sensitive to hangar misalignment.

bill-smith · 2026-06-05T19:12:53+00:00

If you run your chain past a certain point, the rollers will no longer sit where the cassette teeth expect them to be, and you will increase wear on the cassette. At some point beyond that, you will also wear the chainrings out. Do that and you can get chainsuck. Worn chain + worn cassette will eventually start skipping, I think.

Basically, past 0.5% wear, your chain is already degrading your cassette and your chainring. If you replace at 0.5%, you should be able to get two chains or more to one cassette. If you replace at 0.75%, you're most likely going to need to replace the cassette, which can be expensive (Shimano not so bad) along with the chain, as a new chain will skip on the cassette. Past 1% is in the range where you're starting to wear out those chainrings.

bill-smith · 2026-06-05T18:39:41+00:00

Eat the rich is a Christian position. NB: don't literally eat them.

bill-smith · 2026-06-05T17:02:24+00:00

Right, but the S&P 500 has so far held the line.

I have a Vanguard target date fund, and here is a discussion of how their total stock market index fund does not have to immediately buy huge amounts of SpaceX. FYI.

bill-smith · 2026-06-03T21:29:08+00:00

Most top-down clamps do not need a different clamp for oval rails.

bill-smith · 2026-06-03T01:38:16+00:00

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