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If there's any any chance that we can get 1 or 2 to work (and if your are willing) we should try for it. This forum is a very important and needed sanctuary for a lot of people (me included!)

Yep, very sad news indeed! For 16+ years this place has been a huge part of my life. I remember so distinctly discovering this forum and reading about the sweet flow and feeling of one-ness that comes from riding a fixed gear bike and thinking ... hmm, maybe I could get involved in that. This forum helped me put together my first fixie, and I remember racing across to west London to participate in my first forum ride (to Brick Lane!) where upon arriving I was quickly told (politely) about my lack of foot retention and being a danger to myself and others (I was).

Thanks to The Forum, I discovered bike polo, have been to many compass drinks (never done a GSIAD), ridden to Oxford, Brighton, Cambridge (in December on a brakeless fixie with no lights wearing jeans and vans because that was the thing at the time) and many other places besides, met loads of good friends, gone to forum weddings and a couple of funerals and it has generally made my time here in London so much richer.

Thanks to @Velocio for setting it up and keeping it running for all these years and thanks to the kind, generous, patient, knowledgable, talented and very funny people that have made The Forum what it is.

^^ wasn't that the plot of Twelve Monkeys?!

If losing money is an attractive trait nowadays, I'm an absolute catch! DM me

Possible, but I doubt it. The speed of this attack caught everyone by surprise, even the rebels. They started a 'counter-attack' 12 days ago and are now walking around the presidential palace in Damascus!

I think the HTS guy is trying to be as pragmatic as possible though, and not aggravate Israel, the west or Russia for the moment, so is making all the right noises, promising to keep Russia's bases intact etc. Everyone is just trying to digest what happened and get their bearings.

Yeah, it's great that the Assad regime has gone, but there's no way all these very different rebel groups are going to work together. Fractured country and/or another civil war incoming, I reckon.

Amazing watching the live updates from Syria. It's all happening so fast.

His face was caught on CCTV at the hostel the night before the shooting, so he could have been wearing something else, carrying a different backpack etc.

The guy had done a fair bit of planning and was pretty competent, but seems to have made a few errors that mean he'll probably get caught in a few days, so probably not a professional.

Sounds like some other rebel groups have joined the fight and are approaching Damascus from the South and East as well. They may/may not be able to hold it, but definitely looks like game over for Assad.

It's happening amazingly quickly!

I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.

This is a joke, right?

At one point after the AI found documentation saying it would be replaced by a new model, it tried to abandon ship by copying its data to a new server entirely.

Right?!

And schools. Fuck those kids getting an education!

More Thames Water news:

Embattled Thames Water has received a £5bn bid from Covalis Capital.

Covalis plans to provide about £1bn of the funds upfront and raise a further £4bn from sales of the struggling water company’s assets.

I never understand how this works with acquisitions. So they are only putting in £1bn, then raising the other £4bn by selling the assets that they just bought?

Another example that springs to mind is when Glazer purchased Man United. Paid about £800million, but most of it was loans secured against the asset he was purchasing. So he put in very little money himself, and the club found itself with an extra ~£800m of debt as soon as the deal was done. Weird.

Amazing! Andyp was brutal back then. Has he mellowed with age or something?

He's got a whole host of experts working for free in exchange for a chunk of BTC if he ever recovers it. Lawyers, data recovery experts, he even hired the ex Head of Waste Management at the council, to pinpoint the location in the tip it was most likely to be.

I think he mentioned that he thinks about that drive every single day of his life, so he may as well spend that time trying to get it back.

Oh amazing. Thanks both. Looking forward to trying that tomorrow now. Sounds like it could be a game changer. I've only had the machine 5 years, so you'd think I would have asked this question a bit sooner!

Whilst we are on the subject of steaming, have any Classic owners installed this Shades Supersteam mod? Is it any good?
Currently when steaming the pressure drops half way through and I need to stop and wait till it gets up to temp again. This mod sounds like it fixes that issue?

https://www.shadesofcoffee.co.uk/post-2018/shades-supersteam-kit---classic-pro-evo---steam-power-upgrade

hugely damaging to the democrats and America as a whole.

I think this ship sailed a long time ago.

Not condoning what he did, but to say it's damaging to the US is pretty lols

Describing it as 'going for the nuclear option' made my heart jump. Oh, wait, they aren't the ones with the nukes.

For love of god, don't jinx it!

1 and 5 look so good!

#23%

77% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading CFDs with this provider.

Nice warning to have at the top of that page. So I've a 23% chance of making money. I like those odds!

How do you actually go about shorting a stock? Is it just another option on trading platforms like Trading 212, or is it more complicated?

There's going to be a delay announcing the next one. Something about the weather