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Looking at the pedestrian diversion it's no surprise someone would try a more direct route.

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Icarus was interesting because on the face of it it was a cycling enthusiast who wanted to get better at cycling and was happy to indulge in peds.

Is it possible he was also investigating Russia’s connection to peds anyway. That Russian wada guy was awesome. But his life got turned upside down

I found the presentation of Icarus slightly disingenuous (i.e. surely they must have had an agreement from the very start that the Russian chap would be involved as a potential route out of a sticky situation for him - what other reason could there be for him cheerfully dispensing illegal doping advice to a journo) but that aside it still made for great television!

Well, it just is the case that people will attempt to take the direct route no matter what obstacles you put in their place. Just look at the popularity of Parkour. Apart from these urban 'sports', it has long annoyed road-builders that they can put any kind of barriers in and some people will somehow get over them, and in many cases they will build shortcuts, cut through fences, and so on. You only have to look at every 'retail park' anywhere, and you'll see that people will have improved them for access on foot, which the planners usually just ignored.

I don't find what the guy in the video does shocking at all. He seems very calm and collected and judges his gaps well. That's not to say there isn't a risk in crossing motorways or quasi-motorways; most years, there are a couple of deaths, usually late at night, of people, normally young people, who try to cross a road like that somewhere and evidently underestimate the speed of drivers. The main culprits, though, are those who build crap roads like the one in the video.

John Adams often used a video taken at the E&C, between the two roundabouts (as were) that first showed drivers going through top to bottom and bottom to top, and then in a gap between the drivers showed people rushing across the street and climbing and vaulting over the railings in the centre. It was a pretty good comical effect but highlighted the problem that you just can't obstruct people like that and not invite that kind of behaviour.

There's also a nice fated convergence going on here of peds vs. PEDs. :)

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Cressida gone. Sounds like it was Khan who hit the big, red button.

for the poor record of her police officers or for doing a too thorough a job on bojo ?

Made to go institutional racism and the met. Or bojo

Apparently she said hours earlier she had no intention of stepping down. Something is afoot?

Cressida Dick "I have absolutely no intention of resigning"

Insert Nelson Muntz gif

let her final actions be to charge bojo and get him sacked please please pretty please

Now that is a surprise

Allegedly Sadiq said he couldn’t work with her and had no confidence in her. Weren’t there mutterings previously about an ultimatum for proper reform plans? So I assume they weren’t forthcoming and that announcement was an attempt to stave this off? Just speculation from me though.

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I think this was the clincher:

https://twitter.com/crisortunity/status/1429050280159625219

Something from six months ago? Why do you think that (unless joking)?

There really has been an avalanche of scandalous news. In former times (when less probably would have come out) responsible officers would have had to resign much earlier, on much less provocation.

Anyway, she's definitely no loss.

unless joking

Carlton Reid shared it on twitter earlier, the next thing I read was this thread and I thought it was quite apt.

Anyway, she's definitely no loss

^ This.

#dicksoutfriday

me when user amey posts another monstrosity in the arkose thread

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https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/01/metaverse-real-estate-sales-top-500-million-metametric-solutions-says.html

I'm not sure if I'm just too old but I can't get my head round this. Surely the whole point of the metaverse (assuming there is a point to it) is that is infinite and you can just build whatever you want wherever you want. Millions of actual dollars being spent on [waves vaguely] this seems insane.

My main issue with stuff like this is, what happens when/if there’s no power?

Not the probability of organised doping among Meta athletes?

RE: Metaverse. I think the world is moving too quickly for me - I vaguely got it in Second Life & thought the idea of owning a virtual house & making it how you wanted was cool when I was a student with no chance of owning something nice IRL.

Is the metaverse something you can virtually visit like that? I didn't think it existed yet & was just a plan for future business to rip money out of people!