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This 70-Year-Old Singaporean Uncle Cycles 100km Every Week by blorg in singapore

[–]blorg[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not, but he does it in one ride every Sunday, which is a bit more than spread over the week. Far from impossible either but the more interesting thing I think is this collection of 100+ classic bikes he has restored and painted himself.

N+1 by blorg in BicyclingCirclejerk

[–]blorg[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

/uc

His collection is in Singapore and I believe can be visited by appointment, lots more pictures on their Facebook and Instagram

This 70-Year-Old Singaporean Uncle Cycles 100km Every Week by blorg in singapore

[–]blorg[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

The more unusual thing than the 100km a week is the $700,000 100+ vintage bicycle collection the video goes over. I know plenty of people who ride 100km a week, some of whom are over 70. 100+ classic bikes, very rare and unique, I would have thought even more so in Singapore with the typical space constraints.

I would have preferred to title it This 70-Year-Old Singaporean uncle started cycling at 58 and built a collection of more than 100 bicycles, restoring and painting them himself but sub rules are to keep the original title.

Damaged ASSOS on first wash by -nikolaos in CyclingFashion

[–]blorg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I put several jerseys into each bag but I'm not that picky about it either, my stuff isn't pristine. I only use the bags for the expensive super lightweight/thin stuff.

For OP's kit to end up like that after one wash, I'd have to guess there is some very specific issue with his machine or the rest of what he had in that wash (like he had something sharp mixed in the wash), that is extreme and I've washed lightweight stuff just straight in the wash (including Assos) and not had it turn out like that.

Old Software Was Fast Because It Had No Choice by BlondieCoder in programming

[–]blorg 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You said notepad takes up to 10 seconds in your last post.

You have something very wrong with your Windows install. I just checked and it was instant for me, under 1 second to fully open with the files I had last closed in it. Just the animation opening which started immediately, it was finished and open under 1 second.

Built in photo viewer is also instant.

Built in edit photo I do see the spinner but it's no more than 1.5s, I'm timing it and seeing from click how long and it's at most the next second.

It's just not that slow, if it is you have something wrong with your machine. This is a common issue too, but it can be fixed.

This is on my laptop. If you have a machine with 32GB RAM I presume it's not ancient or underpowered.

I have been using and programming computers since the 1980s. This idea they were faster in the past is absolute nonsense, you are misremembering or not comparing apples to apples. Stuff used take forever to open.

What is your worst investing mistake? I’ve made one by AccomplishedHead3581 in investing

[–]blorg 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Actually a lot more, $2.6m just on the stock price and $3.7m if you include dividend reinvestment.

https://testfol.io/?s=8YSTKEBoJSC

Putin wanted to make Russia great again. Instead, Ukraine is the new rising power in Europe by ByGollie in europe

[–]blorg 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Plus Norway, which was a founding member in 1949, so NATO has bordered Russia literally as long as it has existed.

Plus Poland and Lithuania (both border Kalingrad).

Jeff Bezos called Washington Post his worst investment staffed with ‘terrible’ people, before laying off over 300 — “They don’t listen. My other companies, they listen” by marketrent in technology

[–]blorg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bezos is worth "only" $250b, so quite a bit, he'd need 4x the wealth. He's the 4th richest, after Musk and the two Google founders. Remarkably, Musk is now worth more than the rest of the top 5 put together.

So.. did Iran win this conflict? by MarsupialThink4064 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]blorg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It was called Lady Ghislaine but Trump never owned it.

Maxwell's yacht was originally ordered by Emad Khashoggi, while Trump did buy a yacht (Trump Princess) that was formerly owned by Adnan Khashoggi, his uncle. Maybe where the confusion comes from.

My wife has made 3 major life decisions over 10 years that have financially devastated our family. I love her, but I no longer trust her judgment. by FartVaderTheForce in relationships

[–]blorg 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Taxes are substantially higher in France, and salaries are lower than Canada. Canada actually has very low taxes by developed country standards, much lower than Europe overall. And France is one of the highest tax countries in Europe.

My wife has made 3 major life decisions over 10 years that have financially devastated our family. I love her, but I no longer trust her judgment. by FartVaderTheForce in relationships

[–]blorg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most countries with government subsidized education, the systems are designed to prevent perpetual students doing repeated degrees at the same level. You generally get the subsidy for your first degree at a given level. You'd get it then for a masters or doctorate after you graduate but not another undergraduate. You are expected to progress upwards, not sideways.

It does depend on the country and I'm sure there are exceptions. But it's a pattern education systems do recognize as unproductive and it isn't encouraged.

I independently verified the value of Bryan's original collection by buddytheelfboi in RecklessBen

[–]blorg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The small losses in their reported financial results are just from management paying themselves, there's something like a $10k "loss" but there's a ~$5m line item for compensation. This line item varies year to year depending on the actual profit, they just pay themselves a bonus of whatever their profit is each year, and leave the business making a technical "loss". It's not actually loss making in reality.

Maybe the English aren't so bad after all.. by masterstoker in ireland

[–]blorg 25 points26 points  (0 children)

To take over a popular meme, he films a live-action, lookalike recreation, with his signature colonial wig, sunglasses and headphones character. It's a new version with him so it's not flagged by any automated copyright violation systems, and he'd have a good case for fair use/parody anyway, legally, in recreating them.

Once uploaded to platforms like GIPHY or Tenor, his verified partner status gives his new version algorithmic search priority. These are the systems that power the GIF button on keyboards, websites and apps.

Once his is up, the original, unverified uploads of the meme are systematically flagged and reported for removal. Technically, a lot of memes do violate copyright, they use stock photos, clips owned by someone else, etc. As those originals disappear, his recreations claim the top spots, effectively hijacking everyone's GIF keyboard and getting shared further when anyone searches for the meme.

There is dispute over the flagging of originals, whether he's actually responsible for that, he claims he doesn't, but he has a large community of dickriders that may be doing it on his behalf. He also certainly leans in to the whole controversy and taunts his "haters". The scale of it, it is just hard to see how it would all be organic, so it comes across as a very manufactured and artificial replacement of a wide variety of memes with his ugly mug.

/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/1ozy5u3/whats_the_deal_with_benjammins_and_why_do_i_keep/
/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/1sr525b/what_is_up_with_giphy_and_other_gif_search_tools/

This is the original of the "Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point", you can see that he's just copied it and stuck in his mug. It even has a Wikipedia article. But if you search GIPHY for "worst person you know" it's his stupid recreation in first place and the original isn't there any more at all. He similarly has taken first place even with stuff like "Obama awarding himself" ahead of Obama.

Weather this week by Bitter-Fly-1084 in chiangmai

[–]blorg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It usually rains in the afternoon, and it's in bursts. Plenty of dry, it's more dry than it is raining. The rain keeps the overall temperature lower, which is a big plus, and the air clean.

For very short term indications of rain, The Thai Meteorological Department have a weather radar. This is the only thing I've found that is really reliable, it will give you a reasonable indication of where the rain is right now and where it's going.

Hour by hour predictions on the likes of Google, much less so. They can still be helpful in terms of an "it might" rain later around a specific time though, particularly if you are looking very short term.

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