TomK32

Beside the UCI ruining everything for almost every cycling sport, you can't even do a superman these days, there's also the NJS in Japan who do the same for track cycling in Japan. Which is a massive sport and betting market.

Btw, Graeme Obree is/was one of the most innovative cyclists, he came up with ideas the UCI didn't like at all. But he's such an outstanding personality and inspiration.

My daughter is an only child but has eight cousins (that I know of, most are in her age range) but barely spends time with them. She's not missing out on anything because she has a large circle of friends her age, be it from the public playground when they only started walking, kindergarden or now the first three years in school. It takes some effort as a parent and tbh dumping-the-child-at-her-friends-and-vice-versa but she's got a much better social life than I had at her age and she'll continue that even though she'll move 4hrs away to the country-side this summer. Her best friend actually moved away two years ago, we still make sure they meet up and have sleep-overs and such.

Lots of people here write about the number of cousins, but those are often of a different age, it was the same with my two cousins. Also missing from the article: Kids being pushed into extra-curricula after school, be it soccer or music, those might not necessarily lead to friendships? Lastly, our environment has changed a lot. It's just not safe to let kids run wild outside with all those cars. The number of kids killed by cars didn't sink over the past 40 years because cars got safe, it sunk because kids get basically locked in. In my city (in Austria) we have quite a lot of older and newer building complexes where cars are kept outside, those are much better for kids.

Germany's and Austrias Universities of Applied Science use the same trick, Fachhochschulen is their German name.

I only had to use AWS for customers of mine, not for my own stuff.

Also, did you search for my nickname and AWS? Interesting personality trait...

Didn't log into my amazon account for year but just checked: First order in 1999 and last order in 2016. I can keep off it for many more years.

Just wait until Disney buys Hasbro and watch how bad Magic the Gathering will get then...

The youngest nuclear power plants in Germany were opened in 1989 after at least six years of built time, with planning going back much further. The last East German opened just weeks before the wall came down and took 13 years to build and closed within the same month. On top of that, you simply can't run a nuclear power plant forever. Germany's nuclear power plants ran an average of 32 years, and I doubt that US power plants will run those 80 years they intend for some https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=228&t=21

To keep a 30 year old nuclear power plant safe you will sure see time of maintenance increasing, thus reducing its output. A 30 year old solar panel? Take it off your roof, recycle the old one, put a new one on and we can be sure it will be more efficient. Just this simplicity when replacing panels makes it a no-brainer. Granted, the blades of wind turbines are still not being recycled, but they slowly get there.

The geostrategic impact is the most important point my eyes as well. Except for the USA, Norway and Britain pretty much all of the West's oil is from autocratic countries. Every wind generator, every solar panel that we put into use now will reduce that consumption for decades to come. Only an increase of energy consumption would work against this, but for example the EU is very much pushing it's citizens to save energy, even something small like LED light bulbs will contribute. Putin's war on Ukraine and the outfall in form of the EU reducing its gas addiction will mean that Russia is loosing millions of gas consumers not just for the duration of the war, but forever. Europe replaces its gas heating installations with other systems and pushes for better insulation. No one will go back to gas no matter how Putin's insane war ends. As a cyclist I'm not a fan of car and the current EVs, but once batteries take that big hurdle and production isn't reliant on China, all the money sent to autocrats to buy oil and lithium batteries will stay in the West. I'm all for that.

The Houthis don't attack Chinese or Russian ships https://www.dw.com/en/decoding-china-how-beijing-deals-with-...

With those annotations there must be enough material to publish a revised third edition of Vesalius' book.

Running plus cycling is quite a feat already, if you do it serious. I'm a cyclist and 15 months into running I still dislike it but also know it's a good thing for me.

Gamifying fitness works fine, peer pressure does too. The gym I (41, male) go has quite a lot of pensioners due to the wide range of courses they offer. It's quite normal there to have a yoga course with people ranging ages from 20 to 70+.

That's the title of her first single from her second album. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._Lennon

The list was created before the web by a bunch of English students. Who else? https://deathlist.net/lists/1987

Dick's only on number two on this year's list https://deathlist.net/

You can combine Trump with the Empire State Building to get Trump Tower. Also I think Trump + Money was Bankruptcy. And there's Trumpthuluh obviously.

Porkosaurus, Soup Nazi, Sphinxie, Sodium Chloride, Abdominable Snowman, Baconator and both Yeti and Godzilla. And Yogazilla which is a "First Discovery".

Found myself: Thomas the locomotive

Loch Ness? I skipped to the Loch Ness Monster. Got the Lake only later on. And then I got Nessie.

This is a Quagmire

Either someone failing to update the cert or the person who did it until has been sent to the meatgrinder. I really do wonder what effect war will have on the Russian IT industry. From what I read most IT professionals are protected from mobilisation, but on the other hand they might have a more open view of the world then Putin's regime.

For comparison, a bakery chain that I often by from here in Austria has a card that you can get anonymously but also an app, they also allows you to put money on the card, so it ought to be more secure in the first place. If you want to link the card to the app they give you a code at anyone of their 27 shops. I haven't tried it yet but hope the code is randomly generated for my card. I'll find out and report tomorrow.

I'm German, what do I know about pasta, but reading that article and just a single step is dedicated to the pasta: What a disappointment. The sauce is where you create the taste, and you can be creative in that step. I prefer adding pasta water before adding the noodles, give it a minute and then add the noodles.

One Youtuber to recommend in all sorts of food exploration is Alex aka @FrenchGuyCooking. Be it making your own fresh noodles or dry noodle, discovering Umamni, sourdough bread or Ramen, he has made all the mistakes so you don't have to.

The same example is mentioned in The Adventure of English, a series presented by Melvyn Bragg.

The brain is a surprising organ, it's only been four month since the kid can hear anything and maybe the brain is powerful enough to use this first-time influx of new impulses as the same start when learning language as a baby. After all, the brain needs 25 years to fully form.

If the new one is thick enough alu you might think about filing the spout to make it work like the older one you have

I highly recommend This Old Tony making his pot. Entertaining as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMrlyEreba8

Is it a laser printer or maybe is it using LED? Pity they never marketed the LED printer more heavily so everybody's granny would dump their laser printer for a LED printer...

Sounds like that AI software needs yet another `if` clause...

You can have those 22%, no question, but then you have to cite the source which the minister apparently didn't.

There's point about the whole fire risk that has been missed so far: Denser settlements allow fire fighters to repsond and arriver faster and the chance for a neighbour to spot the fire in a house is much higher if there are more neighbours.

about as often has Reiser has...