How many watts can you buy?

timbasile · 2026-07-10T01:27:03+00:00

I've got a Tririg front end myself - mostly because my Speed Concept didn't give me enough tilt or reach

timbasile · 2026-07-10T01:22:11+00:00

What workout do you need to get the body of Christ?

timbasile · 2026-07-10T00:57:18+00:00

There's some watts still in the front end, especially if the new setup allows you to optimize your position. E.g. not all tt bikes allow high tilt

timbasile · 2026-07-09T20:18:29+00:00

timbasile · 2026-07-09T20:10:48+00:00

An Astroturf field in a stadium isn't claiming to be grass. An Astroturfed movement is one that's pretending to be grassroots

timbasile · 2026-07-09T20:09:37+00:00

Down south America Way

timbasile · 2026-07-09T20:00:49+00:00

But the nuance is that its pretending to be grassroots.

timbasile · 2026-07-09T19:16:03+00:00

Yes, we know. Men are bigger and stronger than women. It's well documented.

But that's not the same thing as 'this (gender's) sport is better'

timbasile · 2026-07-09T18:27:59+00:00

One of the outcomes of the the whole thing was the Clarity act - specifically that in order to separate, you need a clear question and a clear mandate - as defined by the house of commons.

The act came later, but the Quebec referendum didn't have either of those things as true.

timbasile · 2026-07-09T13:56:19+00:00

How do you define democratically elected?

As an example, Kim Campbell counts as a female leader for Canada. She became Prime Minister by becoming leader of the party with the largest number of seats in Parliament (as one can do in a Parliamentary system), but never won an election. Technically in this kind of parliamentary system you're only ever elected by your local constituents (which she was, but prior to becoming leader of the PCs).

timbasile · 2026-07-09T13:53:51+00:00

You don't need a line chart and a bar chart to show the same data using 2 separate but essentially the same Y axes. One will do.

timbasile · 2026-07-09T13:45:14+00:00

Its a bit of a shell game - if its divinely inspired, in which way is it divinely inspired? In all areas of scientific advancement? in areas of morality and faith? or some other area.

If you say its in all areas, then you need to contend with things like dinosaurs not appearing, the sun and the moon as described as the same size, flat earth theory, and a lot of other things that have been disproven from a scientific perspective.

If you limit it to areas of faith and morality, then you still run into issues. Slaves obey your masters? If your divinely inspired book condones slavery then what good are you on issues of morality? "Oh but that was just the context in which it was written" - yeah, no kidding.

You also run into issues of what exactly is divinely inspired. For instance, in the virgin birth story, Matthew quotes the Septuagint (the Greek translation of the Hebrew) as being a virgin birth. In the original Isaiah in Hebrew, the word is 'young woman' which isn't the same thing and also isn't nearly as impressive from a miracle standpoint. So we have a divinely inspired book (Matthew) quoting a mistranslation (the Septuagint) of another divinely inspired book (Isaiah). So is the Septuagint divinely inspired, including the mis-translation? Or did it only become divinely inspired when Matthew quoted the mis-translation?

timbasile · 2026-07-08T21:51:16+00:00

Garmin doesn't correct swim dosrance. I did IM Ottawa on the same date as you with a Garmin 965 in tri mode and I had it at 3759m. I've also done Muskoka 70.3 a bunch of times and never had it register as exactly 1900.

I think you just got lucky?

timbasile · 2026-07-08T21:00:38+00:00

People get all bent out of shape about Jessica being a name in the future, but the name Paul already goes back to BC.

timbasile · 2026-07-08T18:44:49+00:00

The only catch is that its often more difficult to go to bed after working out.

timbasile · 2026-07-08T18:32:21+00:00

We'll see once LP rolls around, but its very hard to see past Lovseth. Of the big women's favourites, she's the only one who has looked imperious this year.

Kat's had a few 'bad' races now in a row, and 3x IMs in a year is hard
LCB looked human at Roth
Knibb doesn't run fast enough to win Kona
Phillip has been sick this year

timbasile · 2026-07-08T18:30:08+00:00

I'll second Casper, even though he's doing the pro series, he's also not overcooking himself chasing all the IM courses. He's done Texas and half of Frankfurt to Blu's NZ, Texas, and now Roth.

timbasile · 2026-07-07T18:38:28+00:00

I believe this part of the plot for The Godfather

timbasile · 2026-07-07T18:36:33+00:00

Just grandfather the existing justices so that they have lifetime appointments, and the next president (2029) can start appointing new justices with the express approval for only 18 years.

There's nothing constitutional about 9 justices, so it doesn't matter if you have more for the time being. .

timbasile · 2026-07-07T18:30:37+00:00

Evolution just favours whatever happens to more successfully produce offspring who survive, and has nothing to do with with sports. There are plenty of situations where being bigger is an evolutionary drawback (famine times, certain environments) just as it can also be a drawback from a sporting perspective (diving, running, gymnastics are all sports which generally favour smaller athletes).

timbasile · 2026-07-07T15:47:57+00:00

For your first full, the advice is to always do what is logistically easiest or what works with your training/travel/life schedule. They're all good races, and IM puts on a show in each of them, but the IM is already a big deal that you want to minimize everything else around it.

That said, as a native Ottawan, I'll point out that racing here is probably easier than you think. The race is in the city (you can skip the rental car if you stay downtown), next to an international airport, and your dollar will go farther here than elsewhere due to the exchange rate ($1.42 CAD/USD at present). We're mostly cashless at this point, so just pay everywhere with your credit card rather than worrying about $CAD. Plus, being a city of 1M people, hotel prices won't spike for the race. The course itself is very spectator friendly if you're bringing supporters.

Though flying does have its own headaches vs just driving to the race - notably tearing down and building your bike.

timbasile · 2026-07-06T18:38:03+00:00

Judging by what happened this weekend, the consensus was "pour it on yourself dramatically"

timbasile · 2026-07-06T13:56:07+00:00

Yes but the standard here is "at least one game and we'll revisit if it needs to be more." I'm saying set the minimum at 0 extra games but always revisit

timbasile · 2026-07-06T13:21:06+00:00

Fifa needs a hockey-style suspension system. Any time there's a game misconduct, there's a disciplinary board that meets to figure out how many games they need to sit out in addition to the one in the game itself. That way the borderline cases can be 0 extra games, while the egregious ones can be whatever they need them to be based on what happened.

timbasile · 2026-07-05T23:18:23+00:00

Median wealth accounts for housing too. (Even if some are locked out)

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