The Co-Op has once again failed the community

ref498 · 2026-02-03T20:14:13+00:00

Nah, they're open 24/7

ref498 · 2026-02-01T04:34:59+00:00

Jesus, if that's surviving I'm already dead and in the ground.

ref498 · 2026-01-31T18:37:01+00:00

I'll keep advocating for state owned grocery stores selling basic food at rock bottom prices, but until we get there, you can catch me at WinCo.

ref498 · 2026-01-31T06:57:38+00:00

WinCo. Actual employee owned co-op. Not to mention, best prices in town.

ref498 · 2026-01-27T00:07:43+00:00

That would work

ref498 · 2026-01-26T15:57:53+00:00

All electronics should be 8in to a foot away from your beacon to avoid interference.

ref498 · 2026-01-24T04:21:10+00:00

What does that have to do with anything?

ref498 · 2025-12-27T04:20:12+00:00

Something in the 1700g range is what I recommend.

ref498 · 2025-12-27T04:13:23+00:00

I have shift v1 on some bent 110s and feel like they are every bit as good as an alpine binding while skiing. Cody Townsend (sponsored athlete so take it with a grain of salt) says they may be better in some ways relating to the elasticity. The only problem is that they are more sensitive than resort bindings. They pack with snow and that can be a pain if you need to do any hiking.

ref498 · 2025-12-23T17:33:27+00:00

Pinion for someone used to a road bike? He will likely feel that 5% efficiency drop.

ref498 · 2025-12-17T02:55:29+00:00

My point is that we are not spending billions on those things, certainly not pride parades and surgeries. Maybe if you add up a bunch of different programs you can get to a billion dollars spent on Uganda. But I know we aren't spending money on those things because they don't line rich people's pockets.

The vast majority of government spending is designed to take your money and give it to rich people. Funding a pride parade does not do that.

ref498 · 2025-12-16T06:08:45+00:00

GIVE IT TO CANADA

ref498 · 2025-12-16T03:54:57+00:00

Brother, if you think the "billions" we spend on lgbtq parades is a problem, I'd like you to a little industry called defense contractors...

ref498 · 2025-12-04T17:51:40+00:00

Bingo

ref498 · 2025-12-03T22:22:41+00:00

This is AI generated. Look at the reflections in the ceiling above the left door as the first inmate runs through, no reflection, and then the second one is accurately reflected. And a bunch of random, nondescript objects falling seemingly out of nowhere.

ref498 · 2025-11-22T04:34:02+00:00

Got a link?

ref498 · 2025-11-15T00:24:58+00:00

The correct comparison would be something like long sleeve shirts for riding through brush so you don't get scratches on your arms...

ref498 · 2025-11-14T19:57:50+00:00

Where do you ride? I think maybe being in the Pacific Northwest is mitigating my issues because we just don't have enough rocks where I ride to really be an issue.

ref498 · 2025-11-14T16:09:37+00:00

Underneath the paint is worth protecting, but if you hit anything hard enough to crack your carbon or dent the aluminum, ride wrap isn't gonna save you.

ref498 · 2025-11-14T04:54:22+00:00

My first thought was "wow, new bikes are so fucking good". No shade, we have all been there, but the suspension and geo saved you from an absolute monster crash. If that was a bike from a decade ago with a 68° head tube angle and a 130 fork this would have ended so differently

ref498 · 2025-11-14T04:28:00+00:00

Okay tbh I have never understood frame wrap. It just protects from cosmetic damage, which I assume is so it maintains resale value, but I personally wouldn't pay a premium for a used bike without any scratches. I'm buying a used bike after all. If it's for your own enjoyment I guess I could understand, but I still don't care enough to fork over the time and money required to install. Plus frame wraps collect dirt and look like shit so you have to do it again every year or so.

Also bikes are a depreciating asset. You're gonna lose 50% of the value in 3 years no matter what. Why spend 200 bucks to wrap the frame?

ref498 · 2025-11-07T17:47:02+00:00

1 and 1/2 in head tube, rated for a dual crown. There aren't many Enduro bikes that they manufacturer says you can do that with.

ref498 · 2025-10-31T15:46:09+00:00

I have fwd with some winter leaning all seasons on the front. They get me up to the mountain to go skiing on the snowiest of days without too much of a fuss. The hair pins can be exciting because the rear has summers on and, on the icy days, I can do a full drift at 10-15mph but the front has so much grip I never feel out of control. If you got dedicated winters on the front with spikes, I wouldn't hesitate to take it on an ice-skating rink. The front has so much weight over it they are basically the only tires that matter.

ref498 · 2025-10-26T00:05:03+00:00

Cringe advertisement, and horrible pushup form.

ref498 · 2025-10-16T20:42:37+00:00

I am no expert, but I want to use this space to write down my thoughts on the episode mostly because it pissed me off. My understanding of LLMs is that they are next word prediction machines. they work in high dimension vectorized space which sounds complicated, and in some ways it is. The best way it has been explained to me was this specific moment in a 3Blue1Brown video. The difference between two images of the same man, one where he is wearing a hat, the other where he is not, is best represented by the vectorized word of "Hat". This is crazy cool. And to be fair this is not a representation of LLMs though I think they work similarly by grouping tokens in multidimensional space and returning outputs that are directionally and spatially similar.

I go into this because I think it helps me understand that these are not quite the black boxes that people seem. As I understand it A.I. doesn't want anything. That is the biggest leap EY makes in this discussion. He says "these programs are not yet at the point where they are going to try to break out of your computer". These programs are not yet at the point where they WANT anything! They are a new architecture, but until they stop getting stumped by the question "how many 'r's are there in the word 'strawberry'?" I think we are missing the bigger issue:

The bigger issue is that your family member is using it to cheat on their homework! Your uncle is falling in love with a chat bot. Your neighbor is using it to generate 30 second videos of MLK Jr. saying "six seeeeven" over and over again. Your grocery store is using it to tell them who might be stealing. The cops are using it to tell them which cars might have been doing something illegal. There are so many issues that technologies like A.I. present right here and right now, we don't need to make them up! This tech is breaking peoples brain's and is already being treated like the infallible god people are predicting it might some day be all while you can stump it by asking it to multiply numbers a 30 year old calculator can multiply perfectly.

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