"THERE ARE NO BLACK PEOPLE IN RIVENDELL, IT'S UNREALISTIC"

To be honest, I absolutely would expect the cast to be way more diverse if the movies were shot today. It's shocking how white those movies are- I'm pretty sure the haradrim are the only on-screen POC in the entire trilogy. The Hobbit movies tried to correct for this by having POC extras in the crowd scenes in Laketown, and some of them may have even had a few lines. Still no actual characters though

It's kinda funny that the terrible Dungeons and Dragons movie with Jeremy Irons that came out a year before Fellowship had an elf portrayed by a black actor as one of the main characters

I have made a terrible mistake

A while back I made a post about a pair of nice cheap Chinese IEMs I got from AliExpress, and to continue in the same vein, here's another post about a cheap AE find.

I got these Xiaomi Mijia Bluetooth bone conduction earphones because I wanted something I could easily wear with a bicycle helmet. They cost about 12 dollars depending on the seller, but if you're familiar with AliExpress' coin system, you can easily find them at 60% off, at which price they're a steal. They don't look or feel too cheap either- you could tell me these were 30 bucks and I'd believe you.

I found my previously existing wireless earbuds to be a pretty bad fit for cycling: not only are the touch controls fiddly to operate while riding (or even when you're just standing still, touch controls suck), but they also block too much outside noise which isn't great for safety.

These fix both of those issues- they have nice definite physical buttons, and since they don't block your ear canals, you stay much more aware of your surroundings. When they're off or not playing anything, they don't affect your hearing at all, so you can just leave them on and forget they're there entirely, especially since they only weigh about 26 grams

These are my first bone conduction earphones and some of the customer reviews question if they use true bone conduction, but they sound fine to me. The sound quality is perfectly adequate- certainly for the price, especially at the previously mentioned -60%. They're not as loud or as bassy as other headphones and you will struggle to hear anything if you're next to busy traffic or a construction zone, but I'll take that tradeoff for safety

They seem to leak a lot at high volumes though so if you're sitting in a quiet room listening to TrueAnon at full blast, everyone in the vicinity will probably hear what is saying, which may or may not be something you want

The promised battery life is 11 hours and this seems to be true from my experiences. I've yet to even hear a low battery beep even after 8+ hours of use

Me seeing this graphic in a Youtube video

"Buddha-type valve???"

(These are the three types of valves you find on bicycle tires: Presta, Dunlop and Schrader, often also called French, English and American valves, respectively)

I somehow didn't know this before and I find it really funny

Just a bunch of crap about how Russia is going to invade the EU or collapse imminently and also videos of random American military youtubers jerking off over how AWESOME and BADASS the Finnish military is

I did not expect to run into Bored Ape t-shirts in a Finnish dollar store in the year 2025

Thank you Mr. Altman, spending five minutes to check the reviews on whatever doodad I was considering to buy was way too much effort

Why would I want to read the actual reviews posted by the actual humans who actually bought and used the thing over an incredibly generic one paragraph summary that always skews positive

I'm calling for a total ban on glass containers until people learn to clean up after themselves

First one was another cyclist, the other some dude who stopped his car when he saw me crouched next to my bike on the side of the road. The dude with the car offered to give me a ride home but my bike wouldn't fit in his car

Neither one could help me and in the end I had to walk the bike home, but both strangers' willingness to help made my night much less shitty

Worked fine a few days ago

Edit: the feeds are back to normal