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Rode 20 miles with a fair amount of climbing in the heat today and felt like I had done something. But then I watched the 150th Milano - Torino race that was a bit longer with more climbing. Oh well. HBO Max and Peacock have way more cycling during the classics season than was available here before and I watch lots of it. 

I’m starting to get sucked in to watching the professional races. Yes, they are on in the middle of the night, but the replays work just fine. The strategy is interesting and the knucklehead-ism (as Chris Horner would say) is amusing. The racing is quite a bit more exciting than the early F1 season.    Milan-Sanremo should be fun this weekend.

There's a persistent internet rumor that Benjamin Netanyahu died on March 9th (Biggie Smalls is not happy to share the date.)  The theory is that Bibi was killed or injured in an Iranian air strike.  Supposedly he's missed some key cabinet meetings.  Also, there's a (in my jaded opinion, extremely flimsy) theory that one of Bibi's kids was observing Shiva ...by not posting on social media for seven days. The Israeli government has released three videos of Bibi since then, and all have been "debunked" on the internet as AI generated, enhanced, manipulated, etc.  In the first video, Bibi appears to have six fingers on one hand for a moment.  In the second, he's in a coffee shop.  In that one he actually counts to five in Hebrew on each of his hands and takes a sip of some mocha latte whatever.  There are a lot of theories about the coffee video: The cafe in question is not currently open because of the attacks on Tel Aviv.    The original footage was shot in 2024 (some say 2020) for a different propaganda effort.   The third video is him and the huckster himself Ambassador Mike Huckabee.  It's clearly a scripted bit, where ol' Huck meets Bibi in a hallway, they have a stilted and awkward conversation about Israel's assassination list, shake hands and talk about the number of fingers they have.  There are a number of weird digital artifacts in the video, but it all seems pretty real to me.  An AI generated video wouldn't seem stiff and forced in the same way (it'd be unreal in a completely different one.)   I did go on a bit of a deep drive, which even lead me to Xitter for a bit.  Wading through the legion of Nazi posts, I found some pretty funny remixes.  (There may not embed correctly.) https://fxtwitter.com/abdulhyefahad/status/2034006657722982435 https://fxtwitter.com/drvijaysrinivas/status/2033988906576974124 https://fxtwitter.com/JaiNDoC_RL/status/2034032032813040007    

The dual op445 appears to have the best behaviour indeed. I'll keep following your progress

Yeah, this is shockingly bad.  Why they didn't just adapt the many headbands on the market in China is beyond me.  The CD3000/R10 units are very well made from the right supplier.