Just did my first FWD hub conversion. So much easier than matching cassettes on weird sized hub bodies, stretching frames, etc. My previous conversions were rear hubs and mids.

Interesting. I wonder what the buusness model is here. Not from profit perpsective but rather the inner workings of it.

https://canadashops.ca/toys/bath-toys

There seems to be a lot more than CP stuff.

Shoppers are buying fewer items than a year ago, and grocery sales are declining as weakening unit sales are now outweighing rising prices.

You maximize profit by raising prices until the units sold fall to the point where prices * units falls below the peak. The peak is where profit is maximized. It seems they’ve reached it. For the next little while they’ll keep on cutting costs to grow profits. Recipe reformulations with fewer and cheaper ingredients, cheaper substitutions, more soy and water in the sausages, and other general quality reductions.

If you need a lot of climbing, you want either a robust direct-drive hub, or a mid-drive. The heat in hubs that accumulates during climbing can heat up, weaken the gear set and cause it to fail under load. Max rider weight is probably the most difficult to optimize variable. Most bike specs I’ve seen top out at 120kg.

That’s just not possible when you factor in both accumulation of wealth (it’s exponential like compound interest) and the competition between capitalists for profit. The competition does not come from their moral beliefs but from the incentives created by the system itself.

All that takes is preventing those without a personal concept of “enough” from controlling capital.

This would require to remove capital from the hands of individuals and either throw it in the hands of the state, or change its (corporate) ownership to co-op model (one worker - one vote). Both have been shown to work but that would no longer be capitalism but instead a form of socialism, as private capital would no longer dictate what’s produced in the economy and how it’s distributed. Instead it would be dictated by the state which is controlled by the people through some form of democracy, or democratically by the workers within each corporation, or both. In both cases what’s produced is dictated by the needs of the majority of the workers in that state. And that’s textbook socialism.

Plus, Google’s executives likely hardened their company against stereotypical organizing tactics. Sit-ins, strikes, even a mass of Google engineers quitting: I deemed all of them ineffective (if I could even pull them off).

There’s the problem. There are no other tactics that are effective in the face of significant profit. That said it’s probably true that he couldn’t pull that off himself. But the people who can - should. As these companies grab increasingly more power in the world, it gets increasingly important to unionise them as a method to claw back power. Still his work could serve as fuel for organising - by showing people the channels they were told should work - do not.

May the lord open.

For a new user - Ubuntu LTS. In a few years move to Debian.

Doesn’t show the smoke. 😅

I think I recall the same. Otherwise development would be a nightmare. But then again, that isn’t remotely equivalent to sideloading (as colloquially understood) and would still kill F-Droid. Not saying you’re saying it’s equivalent.

Why the downvotes? This provides a good view of how Israelis see their own intelligence ops and their priorities.

for all those that only read the memes.

For someone who possibly considers themselves better informed than others, you’re seem to be missing the fact that Google’s plan had no option for sideloading unverified apps until a sizeable outcry from us (a lot of professional developers and users). Unverified app installation was only allowed (via new hoops) after this action. For now. The fact that Google’s plan did not have an option for installing unverified apps shows us what they really want. Therefore it won’t be surprising if they make it increasingly difficult or impossible in the future.

Shoulda said nothing. I highly doubt anything material and good comes from this message. Saying nothing would’ve avoided the rest.

A bunch of non-technical family members have been on Ubuntu for a decade. I’m only involved in LTS release upgrades and hardware failures.

Oh that’s easy, unless they’re rich. Costs are gonna keep going up and at some point they’ll start asking questions about cliff climbing. 😄

Congress can remove him anytime they want.

What the absolute fuck, etc. Could have and SHOULD have said nothing.

In case you don’t know what Lindsay Graham was, especially in Canadian context, David Doel did a good recap.

Not wrong.

Agreed. Being unable to get important info to people could be a bigger problem which is why I’d probably keep using them.