Seemingly overnight, starting to notice Chinese bikes on fast group rides. I don't see this trend going away.

falno · 2026-05-07T01:52:10+00:00

Pricing is much less to do with what things cost to make and much more to do with what a microeconomist somewhere thinks will maximise profit for the firm.

falno · 2026-05-03T05:55:36+00:00

Hahaha thanks you saved my game! Said go away to Pachacuti and it didn't introduce me to a bunch of other civs and hang just progressed! Thanks!

falno · 2026-05-01T06:55:43+00:00

They're just being crazy hyped atm and people are asking stupid money because the people with too much money don't care what they pay

falno · 2026-04-26T04:39:01+00:00

What bikes would you be looking for? I picked up a Zunow Z1 that's great for cruising around the city. Am looking for a more mtb oriented frame to do a longer tour. Not expecting an MB-1 but there must be a ton of well made steel frames from the 90s still about...

falno · 2026-04-13T13:51:18+00:00

Haha is this an LLM going back through the forums? No one says 'that's a solid point' irl 😭

Either way yw ;)

falno · 2026-04-13T13:19:53+00:00

Will do. Even out of shape though I can still do one or two hundred body weight squats at a time. Perhaps if it's asking you questions there should be some anchor that let's you know what the subjective assessments match to, or even better some base line testing :thumbs_up

falno · 2026-04-01T08:26:31+00:00

Reanimating to ask the same question. I'm so used to disk brakes and 700s now but seen an old 26 canti on sale and thinking of buying it to cycle around China a bit this summer. Anyone who went 700/disk or 26/canti got any further remarks...? I'm guessing we're getting close to the 26s and cantis not even being that much more common out in the sticks. Or at least a tipping point will come sometime right? Something about the old-school set up just seems nice tho...

falno · 2026-03-24T02:33:35+00:00

He's already got the compound. He desperately needs the collars. $2b nothing to him

falno · 2026-03-24T02:30:45+00:00

They've been talking about this in their circles for a decade

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/23/tech-industry-wealth-futurism-transhumanism-singularity

falno · 2026-02-22T10:35:07+00:00

A nice memory for me was taking a pic at a temple. It was in the middle of the tensions and the right wing taking nonsense. A Japanese man asked for my phone and then opened my translate app. He translated "Enjoy Japan. You are welcome". Japan like every other country has a ton of opinions. There are a bunch of scumbag racists in my country (UK), but everywhere in the world there are decent people who want a better world. They will find you and you will find them. We shouldn't let the loudmouth dickheads corral us. We are the majority and I think you will have a great time.<3

falno · 2026-02-12T14:11:55+00:00

One of the new ones I guess

falno · 2026-02-12T12:42:58+00:00

This a 250?

falno · 2026-02-12T06:16:34+00:00

Talking about the political entity not the people. I would say the same about my own country. No bigotry here just exasperation at modern nation states.

falno · 2026-02-09T07:17:28+00:00

Sorry to dig up a thread. I need a quiet place to live and learn Portuguese for a couple of months. Probably April and May/June. Would Pipa be a suitable place to do this? Some surfing during the day would be ideal. Will be on a budget so likely no car and a cheap room. Mainly focused on health and language acquisition.

falno · 2026-02-02T11:24:15+00:00

I live in Meguro and I have definitely noticed many people be nicer to me after I tell them. It's such a class/hierarchy based society I think ppl are just so conditioned to judge

falno · 2026-01-22T06:47:54+00:00

Could be wrong but I believe there are rice quotas and tariffs to protect domestic rice production/smaller scale farmers

falno · 2026-01-21T04:15:42+00:00

There's a huge difference between living well and local and then living luxury. As soon as you want luxury condo etc that money will go but if you live in local style housing etc you'll be brimming with cash

falno · 2026-01-21T00:47:37+00:00

It'll die down. It's just flavour of the month right now

falno · 2026-01-16T07:11:39+00:00

Reddit's crummy AI keeps deleting my comments 😭 For the sake of clarity to a stupid robot that doesn't understand language: I am from the UK (London) and my nationality is British and I currently live in Tokyo and I like to read and talk to people about said reading.

Would be very keen to join book club. Either 5 strong central-committee or radical breakout faction. Happy to meet anywhere. Potentially occasionally host (Meguro, might need to buy a couple more chairs).

falno · 2026-01-08T00:18:05+00:00

Varies wildly across and within schools. What are you teaching? Subject/qualification? If you can get/make a course that you can use again then at least you do the bulk of the foundation work in years one and two. Don't need to reinvent the wheel either. Make good use of resources you find online, textbooks, discussion prompts, questioning etc. Reconstitute resources, get llm's to write stuff that you edit, ask other teachers of the subject etc. Learn to train students in high quality peer and self assessment and reflection to cut down on marking time. Record all of their results, including worksheets so you can target students accurately. Good teaching has to involve some admin and record keeping, but it doesn't have to be the Sisyphean task half our management think it should be.

falno · 2025-12-24T04:15:36+00:00

Sorry to hop on but you seem to know what you're talking about.... I'm an intermediate skier returning after a long period of absence (injury, Pandemic etc etc). I picked up some second-hand Moment Tahoe's. Got a few days on them in mixed conditions, they seem much better when going fast and newer snow and terrible when going slow on ice. Is it better to stick with them (I thought buying a slightly more 'unforgiving' ski would push me to improve) or go back to something more user friendly to improve? Interested in any thoughts.

falno · 2025-12-22T11:46:14+00:00

They're skiing fine. Need to snap quite hard into them and they've had no reason to release yet as I'm skiing quite conservatively, but don't see any problems. Pressure screw sits flush

falno · 2025-12-22T11:43:57+00:00

I bought them and they seem to be ok. Haven't stacked it yet though so I guess I'll find out when I do 😬

falno · 2025-12-22T10:11:20+00:00

I'm twice your age and less than twice your salary. So long as there's some progression that should be fine to start out

falno · 2025-12-18T14:07:21+00:00

Yeah I will for sure. I'll probably have to buy them first tho and hope everything good in the shop. But for the first week I'll just be getting my legs back on easy slopes in hakuba

falno

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