I'll stick to hand-knit wool socks and fresh fruit, thanks.

I'm not sure what adjective I would use to describe middle aged men with beer bellies wearing day-glo spandex and plastic shoes, but it sure isn't anything associated with the stereotypically fashionable gay community.

Please do not try to use "gay" as an insult.

I get why mountain bikes are expensive. Strong frames, suspension, components that still work when subjected to mud and snow, wide rims that can take hits, complex tire tread patterns.

What do you get going from a $1500 road bike to a $5000-$10000 road bike? Weight savings less than the weight of a good poop, and tiny aerodynamic improvements that do not matter unless you are fast enough that your team is buying your bike for you. Oh, and electronic shifting for some reason?

As a mountain biker, roadies seem weird to me.

Also

• ate too much
• clothes are not tight enough
• hot

There is a construction site about 100m from my house and they are playing very loud very bad music. Objectively bad. Every single song has the exact same canned bass line. It is driving me crazy.

To all the people who bought anything from Sony after the 2005 rootkit fiasco: what the hell did you expect?

"Blues & Roots" by Charles Mingus

CEOs: Are people who don't take their yachts to their golf clubs to rape children with the other people on the same company boards even, like, people?

Please provide any input or alternative options on this,

The post asked for alternative options. I suggested an alternative option. It is not knee-jerk, and it is not noise.

Alternative: make a separate "selfhosted-ai" community for the sloperators.

I think the options are:

• buy speakers from the same model line from a reputable manufacturer
• really know what you are doing and look at accurate objective measurements
• get lucky