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mdavidford
Sorry you’ve had to go through that.
Did the video capture the object being thrown at you? That’s a bit more than aggressive (antisocial) behaviour – you were physically assaulted, though I imagine it might be difficult to interest the police in treating it as that if it can’t be evidenced.
If your concern is about opening a criminal case being too ‘serious’ for the offence, I wouldn’t be – this person is almost certainly going to be a danger to others in future, so the more seriously it’s addressed the better.
mdavidford
should I be worriedYes – the world is burning!
mdavidford
Fairy Liquid may not damage your bike, but ‘Fairy Liquid is FINE’ is a somewhat more contentious claim:
https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/home-garden/shopping-guide/ethical-washing-up-liquidOf course, your bike-specific cleaner of choice might not do much better if it was assessed (though it could hardly do worse).
Even Ecover does surprisingly poorly there, but there are others you could upgrade to.
mdavidford
So far it has only asked me if I’m a robot…What was your answer?
mdavidford
there’s a lot of flex in the frameDon’t we just call that ‘compliance’?
mdavidford
This?
May 5, 2026 at 9:51 am in reply to: Car crashes into building – please post your Local news stories #1542257
mdavidford
But the driver was an innocent victim. Question is – has the car been arrested?
mdavidford
I mean, who hasn’t assaulted someone because they were ‘very frustrated’ with a parking machine? And after all, he ‘didn’t mean to’ do it, and he ‘very much regrets it’ – possibly even as much as the previous two (at least) occasions.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3l0153l1do
Obviously nothing wrong with someone with these kinds of anger issues being behind the wheel of a car…
mdavidford
You can’t have historic buildings because we need people to drive past our shops.
April 9, 2026 at 11:11 am in reply to: Car crashes into building – please post your Local news stories #1328115
mdavidford
That’s no way to park
mdavidford
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mj8v4lk2ko
In the interview, Dudley said “extracting Grenfell from the statistics, actually people dying in house fires is rare. Many, many more people die on the roads driving cars, but we’re not making cars illegal, so why are we stopping houses being built?”There’s a good point hiding in there somewhere, Simon, but I’m afraid you’ve grasped rather the wrong end of it…
March 26, 2026 at 10:53 am in reply to: Sharing a training tool I built — looking for feedback #1236245
mdavidford
It’s not at all obvious to me what it actually does. Just saying that something uses AI doesn’t actually tell you anything at all, without saying what functions the AI provides. Is it using any underlying training philosophy, or can I try out various approaches to see what works for me? Or is it purely based on past data of what has worked, in which case, how is success defined, and where is that data coming from? (If it’s just based on a small number of users to date, I wouldn’t have too much faith in it.) Is it able to adapt to my personal training history, or is it only using what ‘works’ at a population level. Or is it nothing more than a chatbot that can pick out key words and match them to a library of workouts (in which case that seems of minimal usefulness).
March 24, 2026 at 9:49 am in reply to: Sharing a training tool I built — looking for feedback #1235445
mdavidford
I suspect most people on here aren’t going to respond well to the Peloton-style hype language (‘BOOM!’; ‘smashed it!’; ‘champion!’; etc.) – something that’s a bit more matter-of-fact might go down better.
March 18, 2026 at 11:34 am in reply to: road.cc, off.road.cc and ebiketips website migrations – let us know about any issues you spot here #1234169
mdavidford
ktache wrote:Either that or cars are not crashing into buildings.They’re crashing into forums* instead?
[* Leaving this one here for the pedants.]
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