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  • That’s probably a fair assessment, but still a rather damning indictment of the industry writ large.

    There are definitely better versions of cryptocurrency that I think could be more useful, but the industry is definitely not headed in that direction. Instead, it’s all pump-and-dumps, rug-pulls, and other schemes that render them nothing more than highly speculative asset classes in which the underlying asset has no intrinsic value.











  • fpslemOPMtoBollards!Take that!
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    Love this shitty reporting:

    A man was forced to climb out of an overturned car which flipped after hitting a bollard in Coventry city centre.

    Yeah, the car just flipped. On its own. The man who “was forced to climb out” didn’t have anything to do with it, he wasn’t a shitty driver who hit a stationary object, it just happened to him.













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    Tour Down Under spoilers for stages 1 and 2

    With the Women’s TDU dominated by non-Aussies, it’s actually nice to see some Australian dominance. Chapeau to Welsford, particularly today for overcoming that early crash and making it back on when he was dropped. But I still think Danny van Poppel is the true hero, Bora had to drop him back to pace Welsford back on, and Danny still had enough in the tank to give Welsford a magic carpet ride leadout and drop him off with 200m to go. DvP for the win!



  • Yeah, to be honest, that’s a crappy article from CBS. London’s Low Emission Zone is a huge success in terms of air quality and active transportation. The city has continued to pour the revenues generated from the zone fees into its public transit system, so the iconic double-decker busses run frequently all day, and they have continued to open new train lines like the Elizabeth Line. New York has never managed that level of investment, and without the income and incentives congestion pricing creates, it won’t be able to. If anything, London still prices the LEZ too low, just like NYC has priced it too low at $9, rather than the $15 was supposed to be before Gov. Hochul’s cowardice.


  • Okay, I picked it up and blitzed through Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen, and it was a deep disappointment. The personal and romantic stakes and themes of the earlier books with Cordelia Naismith were coupled with other adventures or plots, and the combination of the personal and the galactic stakes was part of what made them work. I felt like Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen utterly lost the broader plot, and it was just a book about two people getting together and retiring. (Which, to be fair, is a perfectly fine plot and there are multiple genres and sub-genres built around that plot, but in the context of the Vorkossigan Saga, it was a nothing-burger of a story.) There are some revelations about things long-past, which I think Bujold did to try to flesh out the story and maybe give Cornelia’s take on some of the events that happened around her in the intervening ~30 years since she had a book from her perspective, but in this book, hardly anything happens. Seriously, the stakes are so low. It’s pleasant, but scarcely needs to exist for the rest of the characters or novels. What a baffling addition to this series.







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