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Yeah, crypto as an “investment asset” is a load of steaming hot shit that feeds environmental collapse.

Trustable decentralised finance? That’s rad as hell.

I mean not as rad as mutual aid and battering but why let perfection be the enemy of the good?

We have the benefit of a private education system whose primary output is financiers and politicians - give the septics time to figure it out.

I’m a convert to Saxx - still got my original pair from four odd years back which are still amazingly comfy.

One of my go-to pizzas back in the day was sweetcorn, pineapple, and black olives.

I love traditional pizza, but sometimes, you want to get your freak on.

It’s mildly infuriating that I don’t have this slce of pickle pizza in my mouth right now.

Honestly I don’t know enough about the way that it’s run to give a correct answer!

I mean even pre-privatisation the rail service was being reduced (Beeching’s cuts etc.) so there’s clearly a cultural element at a government level, but the actual running of the rail firms is pretty opaque; there’s a lot of subcontracting, and the profitability is high, with reinvestment in the railway services not being proportional to that. I suspect that the culture around rinsing public services for private gain isn’t quite so dominant in Japan, but again, I couldn’t comment on that really.

We also have relatively old infrastructure, comparably narrow gauge railways that we would struggle to update because the country was built up around it, but this might be a bit of an old-fashioned take. I’m sure some transport historians could set me right!

Yeah, but he got 15k for it. No doubt he’ll be offered other well paid gigs as well, if he’s half coherent on grifty podcasts…

Wait until you hear about the UK! I own the freehold to my land, but technically it’s gramted by the crown, so I could in theory at any moment have my home taken from me.

I think people forget that many of the highways in The West™ were created as part of glorified jobs programs too.

These projects run like utter shit now in places where work is tendered out to corporations now of course, because they’re being driven by private bodies whose sole motivation is profit, not the creation of useful infrastructure. In my own country HS2 is a beautiful example of this.

I try to be conscious of lifestyle creep as I get older and somewhat more financially stable (lol), but good underpants are a big one.

Good boxer briefs don’t ride up, and if you get the ones with a special pouch for your meat and potatoes it’s very hard to go back!

Huh, TIL.

Should probably get some therapy soon then - had a bunch of uncles top themselves.

Fixing things is nearly always cheaper than buying new

This really depends on what you’re fixing. My laptop has a crap battery. To buy a new one is a few hundred quid. Plus various proprietary/niche screw bits. Plus the time to actually do it.

An equivalent new laptop is fractionally more expensive, and I can have it delivered to my home, freeing up the time element.

Tomfix my bicycle? I might need some internal components for my brifters; cheap AF and I know what I’m doing (and where to buy from). New shifters several orders of magnitude more expensive.

Can depression be genetic?

Or tubular!

Try 3 cats, it’s the shit.

My sloth demon wants me to play the new mario kart and eat curries. I have married her.

What constitutes “more than a few” here?

Fair enough - I suppose it’s a caution borne out of experience of the awful roads by me - I’ve had a lot of unsealable punctures on the roads near me (from gashes to a bit of glass that wiggled around just enough to not seal).

As a result I always caveat advice to go tubeless - for “proper” punctures (anything more serious than a pin prick or snakebite) tubeless can be a can of worms, and give people a sense of confidence that inner tube users don’t have (wisely).

Granted it’s also down to tyre choice (you can pry my patched panaracers from my cold dead hands) but a tyre pissing sealant and air is much more of a hassle to deal with than an inner tube in my experience.

My loyalty was to the truth, not to political tribes

And a liar!

Tubeless is great for small piddly punctures. Anything bigger and a spare inner tube and tyre boot are a necessity (esp. on longer rides).