rickchasey.bsky.social
Still a City worker, still following cycling too much like a religion.
Now has more opinions on ESG & sustainable investing than your average.
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It’s not so much a criticism of Pog as it is disappointment with the spectacle (or lack thereof).
Find it very hard to get excited for his moves now, as they are so often unstoppable.
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Ha. Who takes a picture of a croissant?
Too busy eating the fist one quickly so no one notices I bought two just for myself.
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No, for sure.
Ultimately the Uk has an end of life care problem which is bigger and more material than the right-to-die, but the latter is more discrete and doesn’t involve truckloads of spending.
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🤯 that’s genuinely mad.
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The danger I guess is if the system around end of life is not reformed you run the risk of abuse of the system.
Netherlands went through some grisly stories that necessitated some major redrafts.
It is now a permanent feature on the political landscape; rather like abortion.
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@dreadships.bsky.social - tankers 💪🏻
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Yeah possibly.
The little I have read makes it seem it’s all a bit rushed, badly drafted, and could do with being redone.
Block, not block, I don’t have political capital invested in it so I don’t really care; I’d rather it done right.
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I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say “this is actually a bigger systemic issue than we originally had intended, let’s make it part of a wider series of policies related to end-of-life”
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Coming into this fairly ignorantly, but surely the quality of palliative care has a material impact on someone’s willingness to carry on or call it a day?
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Holy moly, had not appreciated how tough tankers were!
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Second guessing a dictator who is attracted to shiny headline grabbing things instead creates a self-radicalising system.
The caveat here is Trump does cave (TACO!) and is all talk and very little trouser, so far anyway.
Which seems to be acting like a valve for the more radical stuff. So far…
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www.facinghistory.org/resource-lib...
(I know I’m on record for saying Trump isn’t Nazi for *reasons* but the logic is similar; albeit less deliberately structured and thus more chaotic)
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It’s surprisingly spenny to keep planes indoors.
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“How’s retirement going?”
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I happen to know it’s a wheel-buckling pothole as it has previously buckled a wheel of mine.
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It’s easy to get hypnotised by the Stock Soviet footage from their Afghan invasion and elderly dancing in care homes to a Burial soundtrack.
Or the endless “But this was a fantasy” or “But one man thought differently”
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lol. That’s me on a bad day tbf.
Don’t get me started on the Rest is History.
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Tbh I found getting to grips with historiography did indeed ruin popular history.
I can’t really get over the definitive tone of it all.
We really know a lot less than we think and the glossy narratives are really that, gloss.
Then again, that’s my problem, not yours?
🤷🏻♂️
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lol if you want to get into an argument with a farmer take the “roam” path through his crop field in summer.
They take no prisoners.
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Still the Dauphiné Libere to me
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TACO
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Yup has this exact thing with my work phone last week.
Screen also went dead. Still rang but couldn’t pick up
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*make men more attractive again*
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Hard*
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If it wasn’t that all cycling is disappearing behind a paywall in the UK, I’d say cycling is in a better place than it has been for a while.
Doping has been the biggest turn off and that is had to shake off - it’s what most non-fans know if for.
Vaughters would know…..
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I mean, I’m a big cycling fan, but this is just not true.
The narrative is great, it’s just rooted to West Europe, not ignorant Americans, and has some nuance.
That’s its strength; that it has a season determined calendar.
Not everything needs to be profitable.
Riders are paid more than ever
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Result.
I drag the family there for my birthday.
US hanger is box office but obviously different vibes nowadays
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In specific communities though, the racist issue it *was* a material problem.
But we already know this, as enquiries have already been made and concluded.
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I married into family that grew up nearby one of those and they *all knew* which cabbies women should avoid.
All of them. Everyone knew. Absolutely standard, not unusual knowledge.
And yet….
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Very much this, though for a handful of specific instances (Rochdale, Rotherham etc) we already know there was an “afraid to be seen to be racist” element, even if that was by no means the only serious problem.
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I thought the key requirements for modern day American soldiers was shouting “AMERICA”, calling in air strikes, and declaring dead civilians were, in fact, soldiers?
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I would say not having a massive red number saying “you’re hurting” is a bonus when you are going balls out.
Definitely hiding is better for the head when I’m really trying to gas it.
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No wonder I didn’t enjoy anything over 120km!
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Speak for yourself tbf
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Low rep, long rest is absolutely standard understanding and if you want to call any disagreement akin to vaccine conspiracy theorists, you can not very politely fuck off
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Whatever works for you, honey
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Bro struggles with approximations, I see.
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I mean, there is disagreement here but I don’t care tbh.
It’s the logic behind the behaviour, regardless
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Weight limit did the same tbf.
On the flip side, they don’t design courses with 100+km of TT so it evens out…