Same boat, really don’t want to keep supporting them, because of the reasons others have mentioned. But I have something like four or five emails, not to mentioned hundreds of relays, it would be really hard to lose if I ditched them as my provider.
Unless your super concerned about weight, Shimano CUES/Linkglide is the way to go. It has revised shift ramps a lot like Sram Transmission which provides a far smoother and more consistent shift under load. I’m assuming it’s a city bike, so I would say do the 9 speed U4000 groupset. If you want a larger range, the 10 speed U6000 would be great or 11 speed U6000 if your winching up ridiculous grades on an eMTB.
I have also heard rather excellent things about Microshifts newer stuff. It’s a complicated tradeoff between the two lineups, Shimano will have better shift ramps and parts availability, Microfift may prove more durable and reliable in the long run. It may also be easier to source Microsfit as a home mechanic, compared to Shimano. It’s really hard to say, but both are rather excellent options.
Agreed. A large reason I express Georgist policies publicly is not because I think it’s the correct solution, but because I think it’s the most likable to Americans who are so convinced “socialism bad.” Often when I express anarchist ideas I find myself getting shot down with “oh, that’s communism.” We are moving toward a goal, but that goal cannot be realized in one fell swoop, rather we need to take small steps toward it.
I bought a 26" new a couple of years ago (well, a dirtjumper), one of my all time favorite bikes!
Wonder if the boot device died. Behavior is in line with some NVMe failure modes I have encountered.
When I first heard the term, I expected some real Nile Blue turning cardboard into estrogen type shit.
Can I join in on this dream? Aerospace really tickles my fancy, but it feels impossible to get a job in it that’s not destroying the environment and/or making bigger bombs.
Yeah, totally see it now. Woops.
Are you referring to my questionable font choice? IDK about the left-hand side of the image, I just downloaded the template but it looked right to me, all I did was add in the text, as one is want to do with memes.
Agreed. In many ways the idea of ideology is a reductive concept. All ideologies hold some amount of merit and problems. If you try hard enough, there is even a decent argument to be made for kings (no, I’m not arguing for kings, I am simply using it as a talking point). I really don’t subscribe to any one ideology, and I don’t think most people here do either. I like aspects of anarchism, socialism, communism and georgism, all have merits, all have problems. I suspect most people here are the same, we all come to different conclusions from different life stories. We recognize the problem, but our plan for the future by no means has to look the same. Honestly, the “leftist infighting” is our greatest strength, not a weakness.
I don’t watch YouTube on my phone anymore other than FireFox with uBlock. For me, it’s all a YT feed aggregated by RSS and played by MPV on Linux.
What the fuck?! That application process is insane!
Thanks, that does help some. Eq 22 is what I was reading, and yeah, it’s a weird and confusing derivation. In reading Eq 22 closer, it’s helpful, but not as helpful as I would have liked. What’s funny in reading it is that it’s also in correlation to q, which I would have expected to be calculated in terms of v. sigh maybe it would be better if I went through and derived the equations myself, would probably be more useful that way anyway.
The posts about escape velocity (or speed if you prefer) are correct. To that I want to add the following: Gravitational effects technically never end with distance, only become weaker. It’s also important to note that every object has a gravitational field, it’s just that it needs to be ridiculously big for the force to have any real effect. Gravitational force can be described by the following equation:
where r is the distance between the two objects, and the rest does not matter for us today.
This is the same as the inverse square law of light (this is a pretty good visual):
This means if you double the distance between yourself and a star, the strength of its light reaching you will quarter. This is also very similar to the math used to describe electric and magnetic field interactions, but I won’t go into that today.
This is why scientists are able to measure gravitational waves from collapsing stars and quasars and stuff at the LIGO Gravitational Wave Observatory, just like how we can observe the light coming from distant stars. However, there is a point where the force of gravity becomes so weak as to be inconsequential, just like how at the edge of the solar system, the sun merely looks like a bright star. That is described as the gravitational sphere of influence, the rough approximation of the distance from a celestial body where it exerts the most gravitational force on a given object.
Escape speed is the speed at which an object must travel, given a distance from said body, to escape its sphere of influence. The Earth+moon have a sphere of influence of about 9.29E5 km.
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