Too many posts in one day, you’re spamming the community.

Fair enough. But as you concede, this is all pretty subjective, which is why I objected to the “razor saddles are actually better for you” talking point which always comes from (coincidentally washboard-habituated) serious cyclists. I too am a serious cyclist, I’ve ridden all kinds of saddles, from razor washboards to recumbents. And as it happens, the most comfortable yet (recumbent aside), on which I’ve ridden 1500 km this year, including a bunch of 80 km stages, was what you dismiss as a “cushion saddle” that “will cause discomfort”. It just doesn’t. So this is all just anecdote.

Yeah, sure, that was my point. The most uncomfortable shoes are usually fine once you’ve worn them in. But the non-washboard saddle on my e-bike was not uncomfortable to start with. It didn’t hurt after the first 3 hours and it doesn’t hurt 1500km later.

Ambitious for most people, I fear.

Fair. So I will fall back on a better source: my butt. A few years ago I rented an expensive razor-saddled racing bike for a few days. The gluteal agony of those few days I remember better than the actual cycling. Never again.

Only BNP Paribas earns the top tier. HSBC, Barclays, ING, and Société Générale are judged moderate achievers, having introduced partial exclusion rules.

Citi, Santander, BBVA, Intesa Sanpaolo, and Standard Chartered follow with limited project-level restriction, while Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Itaú Unibanco, Scotiabank, Credicorp, Goldman Sachs, Royal Bank of Canada, and Banco Nordeste sit among the laggards, banks with little or no Amazon-specific policy and rising exposure.

If you are a customer of any of the banks in the second paragraph, it’s time to change bank. Absolutely outrageous.

Hardened (pun intended) cyclists will tell you that this is normal, because sit bones blah blah etc, but I think you’re right. The real reason seasoned cyclists have no issue with washboard saddles is that they use them every day and their butts have become conditioned (read: numb) to them. The simplest explanation is usually the best.

It doesn’t, at least not ergonomically. Recumbents are as comfortable as they look. I once did 80km on one, having not got on a bike for months, and felt not the slightest aches or discomfort at the end. A complete revelation.

The issues with recumbents are elsewhere: low visibility for motor traffic, difficulty of balance at very low speeds. There’s also a small risk of knee inflammation if you inadvertently pedal too hard, since the force you can put into pedalling is not limited to body weight like on an upright bike.

Amazing. As a sufferer of this problem I can’t believe I never thought of this idea myself.

A beautifully clear and well-written appeal. F-Droid is an impressive project that needs supporting.

Sure, interesting. You already know their populations are the same. What’s the population of Nigeria? Brazil? Totally necessary to understand the map.

Totally useless because not pro-ratized to population. Of course India is going to produce a lot of babies, India has a lot of people.

Just looked into it. Seems to be a sculpture to commemorate the victims of motorbike accidents! Clearly I was looking harder at the bird than the biker.

Rinda was the ship’s cat on the Norwegian cargo ship Rinda, which was torpedoed and sunk during World War II. When the surviving crew realised that their beloved ship’s cat was not on board the lifeboat, they rowed around in the night until they finally heard a pitiful “miauu” in the distance. “We rowed as hard as we could and laughed and cried when we lifted the sopping wet furball aboard”.

Heartwarming.

Paywall. Voir aussi : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avelia_Horizon

Excellente nouvelle. La concurrence y a déjà rendu le train beaucoup plus attractif sur bien d’itinéraires ces dernières années. Les autres modes de transport sont tous “libéralisés”, rien ne justifie l’exception pour le rail.

À se demander, comme à chaque fois, parmi ces gens outrés par la suppression d’un train de nuit, combien sont ceux qui ont jamais pris un train de nuit.

The deal with blackbirds is that only the adult males are (uh) black - but they also have a yellow eye-ring, which this one doesn’t. So I’m guessing it’s a juvenile male. Maybe a better expert will confirm! Dunno what else it could be if you’re in Europe.

Onnen [the presumed killer], who had joined the Nazi party before Hitler took power in 1933, came from an educated family and in his youth enjoyed “travelling, studying languages”, Matthäus said.

One interpretation is that evil is banal. Personally I’m not sure this even took evil. All you need do is convince someone of the truth of a narrative. Humans are storytelling creatures.

An interesting demo of how much storage space you gain by making the user straddle the thing.