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I am in my 40s, work/married/kids. My main target events are ultras/brevets. I had been doing structured training for roughly a decade.

I got a bit burned out after some big events in 2024 and multiple years in a row of non-stop structured training (by power). I’d also been reading and becoming increasingly curious just how much (if anything) training by power adds over training by HR/RPE, and how much high-structure adds over just plain old volume and emphasizing recovery.

As a result, I conducted an n=1 experiment starting in January of 2025. In the winters (~Nov to March) I stopped emphasizing riding, and just did whatever I felt like. This would typically mean 2-4h a week either on t

Several thousand kilometers on this bike/drive train. Took the rear wheel off to clean the cassette. Put it back on. No other changes made, no dropping, no jolts, etc.

Now rear shifting is broken.

Specifically, it seems to think the 11th smallest gear (of 12) is the largest gear - it will not shift inwards beyond this. It will shift to the very smallest gear... then keep shifting outwards so the chain falls off completely.

It's as if its indexing suddenly got moved like an inch laterally in space. Front derailleur is still fine and this behavior occurs in both front gears.

Derailleur alignment is physically unchanged, nothing wrong with the hanger.

Hi. For the past 1-2 weeks, I've noticed that I am unable to comment in subreddit's that require user flair to comment. This is despite having user flair set, and having been able to comment in that subreddit for over a decade (used to moderate it back in the day).

Active moderators in this subreddit are unaware of what would cause this. I have tried resetting the flair with no help. Does not seem to be a browser or operatings system problem, as this is happening regardless of the browser or OS used.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2518969123

I’m going to have an even harder time getting the residents to use POCUS judiciously now.

My kids and us love this movie and have watched it many times. Our last rewatch had me noticing some more subtle details and wondering whether they were based on actual historical precedent or not.

I gather Miyazaki has often used historical inspirations in his work, but I’m unclear of the accuracy of what he tended to read. I did find an interesting article that touches on some aspects of this movie, but not quite exactly what I was looking for:

https://asian.fiu.edu/jsr/tucker-anime-and-historical-inversion.pdf

**My first, very broad question** is whether people could comment on the general historical accuracy o

Recently read this and hadn’t come across any discussion of it. It’s a first-person account of an upper-middle class Hungarian artist navigating the transition between peacetime and war. It initially focuses on the narrator recognizing the absurdities of war… but then starts to focus on the (newly recognized) absurdities of society and peace as well.

I’d picked this up as I thought it would be interesting to read a firsthand account of someone living a life of comfort in a world that was familiar and easy, and watching what happened to them as that world ended, and what they’d do once they had that knowledge but nobody else in their life did yet.

Altogether an enjoyable and interesting r

We are big readers in our household. Like floor covered in books can't walk.

I'm of the opinion that the stories (books or otherwise) our children are exposed to at a young age, are a primary way that they learn about their role in society, expectations of them, and what's write and wrong.

With that in mind, when our daughters were young, I had no issues at all finding good bedtime picture-books that features strong positive female role models, where girls are taking on leadership roles, and making a positive difference in the world around them. Things like Rosie Revere.

Our boy is now of the age where he is old enough to be really into bedtime stories. The issue I am having is that there

With a forecast low of -2C tonight, this may be the first night of the fall we get frost in parts of the city.

Environment Canada only issues frost warnings during the growing season, which we are now outside of, so you won’t get an alert from EC.

If you have anything important still growing outside, you should bring it in, or at least cover it.

Today I watched a car stall on a major road during rush hour. The driver tried to pull off the road, but the vehicle came to a stop before it was completely out of the way. We tried to push but they couldn’t get the car into neutral so that didn’t work.

Over the course of ~30min, approximately 15 different people felt the need to scream profanities at this stalled car.

Or obnoxiously lay on the horn for a minute straight and annoy everyone who was sitting outside in the immediate vicinity.

Despite the fact it was quite clearly inoperable based on it being askew at an angle half-off the road.

Not a single one of these people offered to try and help the guy. Or even seemed to consider t