CyborgBee

Doctor Who, cycling, football, tennis, and other assorted hyperfixations

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@CDirac01 @Na1chaca Not even close. His raw performance level is higher, but that's just the post-2024 watt spike: Simon Yates did a 650 aSLP last year on Finestre, and we all know peak Roglic was way, way better than peak Yates

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@LizzyStarrrdust @SteveSyme1 Female bodybuilders who take androgenic steroids are such undeniable evidence for this too. Male sex drive can't even really be described as a side effect, it's just one of the main effects lol

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@ClaesRafael @HKWrighty @daniellloyd1 @jorgepontedeira He did win the World Championship in '93.

Although I think he shows the that the GC/classics split isn't voluntary better than almost anyone: he was an excellent classics rider but not a top GC rider, and then the reverse. He wasn't able to be both at once

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@jack_govier @BenjiNaesen Threatening to sue a member of the media for criticising them?

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@VaisTom @AlCostene @NairoInGreen @BenjiNaesen Yes. We have a problem with enslaving people and then working them to death.

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@Staffanito @DaniNovarama @SandyofCthulhu Think about how time zones work. Spain is substantially to the west of those countries, so geographically it shouldn't be in the same time zone. With daylight savings, the zenith of the sun is well after 2pm in most of the country

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@louincolor @thechessnerd Last time was also weak. Every previous candidates in the current format was much stronger than both of them

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@Mazupilami2 @Thommadawn @julesgambit You can't seriously think "chess is a sport because mouse speed matters in bullet" is a convincing argument. It's the least important kind of chess and even there it's far less important than choosing moves - the best hyperbullet players are GMs, not pro gamers.

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@Thommadawn @julesgambit Darts is stressful mentally, but the skill is physical. Chess is stressful physically, but the skill is mental.

Look at it like this: Messi, LeBron, Bolt, etc. could tell me everything about their sport and I'd still be awful. If Magnus tells me the moves to play, I win

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@taku0x @jj_bull It's more romantic that it's Thommo when you know that he and McLean played together at St Mirren in the early 2010s, when McLean was a youngster and Thompson was a veteran at his last club

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@ChrisPoole___ @TheDartsReferee He did (to an extent, he was still great) but also Humphries lost a ton of weight and rapidly ascended from middle of the pack to all-time great. Not clear how much of either was due to the weight change, and impossible to know what effect it would have on another player

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@crotty32 @Tom_Gann You pay the tax on your net worth. Which in that case would presumably mean selling the house or a reverse mortgage (although that's a pretty unrealistic example, because generally people with all their money in their house would be below any proposed wealth tax threshold)

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@crotty32 @Tom_Gann It's in the name - a tax on wealth. If you have a net worth above a certain value, you pay a certain % of the excess as a tax. Beyond that, debating the details is pointless, because we first have to make it politically feasible

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@Xinirnix @BenjiNaesen @UCI_media Sylvan Adams openly admits that IPT is sportswashing, and a bunch of other teams are directly owned by nation states for no benefit other than improving their image.

And the whole idea of sportswashing is to help the sport so fans will defend them like you're doing!

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@sharks37 @tomdanielson Any team where he'd be unquestioned leader will be interested, and that's most teams because he's really strong. It just doesn't matter to a team like Movistar that he's a terrible teammate, because they're never going to ask him to be a domestique

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@BirdGuySky @Otismotisss @NairoInGreen Phelps' medal count is so large because there are so many athletically similar swimming events, not because he was a better athlete than Bolt. Look at how many other swimmers have piled up medals across events in a way that no sprinter ever could

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@belaqua_shua @MikeMitdit @smilesinmay He called him a prick on Instagram at one point, which is about as close as he's ever got to an actual comment about series 1. The general understanding is that the Boak stuff is what he quit over but he also detests JB, but everything has had to be pieced together from leaks

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@MikeMitdit @smilesinmay Defending John Barrowman's repeated exposure of his genitals in the workplace. In 2025. You should be embarrassed.

To spell it out: many people were uncomfortable but he was a star and therefore they were afraid of being fired if they objected. The other leads had no such risk.