With his platform, influence and money - this is just dangerous.
Forget how morally wrong it is to joke like that in private, to then think that THE ENTIRE WORLD would find it funny and it would not incite additional violence - especially in this climate? This dude also offered to impregnate Taylor Swift a few days ago. We can't keep venerating this guy.
He is either in desperate need of intervention/mental health assistance, or a clear and present danger to democracy - or probably both.
I admire some of his achievements, but he isn't Tony Stark. Stark found his conscience.
If a guy making odious jokes on his large social media account is enough to constitute a "danger to democracy" why are we even bothering with such a rotten structure? If the institutions of the US are in such a condition, when does someone who believe that decide it's time to give up the ghost?
The structure is rotten BECAUSE him and trump and all of these other clowns are making these "jokes" that aren't really "jokes" because he has to make excuses after making them. It didn't start with him. It's trump "asking a question about Obama's birth certificate" and Fox News "just asking questions/just making innocent jokes" but repeating them an infinite number of times.
This isn't an "odious joke". This is a call for violence.
Nobody believes it's a question, any more than we believe that Henry II was merely inquiring why no one would rid him of that turbulent priest.
It likely doesn't rise to the level of a criminal act. But it's the kind of thing that earns one a stern talking to from the Secret Service. And if somebody actually does take him up on it, there may yet be charges.
It feels to me like he's envious of Trump's ability to say and do anything, social norms and morality be damned. They both want a world where those at the top can do whatever they want and the little people don't matter because big daddy knows better... democracy just gets in the way.
There is a chance that 1) he actually believes it and removed it because someone pointed out how bad the optics are for it or 2) it was a joke and was removed for the same reason.
Here's my point: at least with characters like Musk and Trump you know where you stand. Zuck recently only admitted to the shady actions during the last election cycle, Jack was proven to have been shadow-banning when Elon took over.
IMO none of them are exemplars of character and righteousness, one group is just much more covert about it than the other.
Is your bike bluetooth enabled at all? Might be working checking out if it’s compatible with this app: https://www.qzfitness.com/ which could then send the metrics to Startona
It's not, no - it has a rinky-dink little computer with a simple 7-segment LCD, which is connected to whatever in the bike is measuring rotations via a 3.5mm jack. I did experiment with seeing if I could read a signal from it via a mic input so I could hack together a more advanced display but didn't have any luck.
I've just had a look for ways to adapt it though, and found BitGym [0] which doesn't require a connection to the bike at all - you just place it on the handlebars and it measures your cadence with the front-facing camera somehow. That would be a neat feature for Startona. Maybe you could even measure it via the accelerometer? FFT the lateral motion of the device to find the frequency of movement? Maybe it wouldn't be strong enough but it would be an interesting experiment
It should be fairly straightforward to measure the cadence in the way you describe, but you would still need a way to measure input speed. Startona uses a physics simulation to calculate the player's speed based on the power input since this gives the most accurate results. In case power is not available, the game uses speed as a fallback. Although, it would be fun to add a way to connect an Arduino-based solution via USB so people can homebrew their own speed measuring systems (with hall sensors or similar). I am open to adding that option if enough people ask for it.
You could try to use a Bluetooth speed sensor like the "Wahoo RPM Speed Sensor" if your home trainer somehow allows you to fasten it to it's flywheel - if not, you would still have the option to put your bike on a cheap roller. That way the game would work, but you would only get a limited experience since only the high-end rollers support erg mode. At that point, you have come full circle and it may be cheaper to opt for an entry-level hub trainer like an Elite Suito.
Good suggestion! Right now the planner works by asking your age, weight, goals (losing weight, gaining muscle etc), gender, experience with weight lifting, and how many times per week you'd like to workout.
It then sends it off to the OpenAI API and fills in a gym plan that it suggests.
It also unlocks the AI session creator, which is more for creating a singular session where it asks you what areas youd like to work out and how much intensity.
I've updated the site at https://liftlog.online/ with a couple of feature screenshots :). The site is definitely the least maintained part of this project so I appreciate the push
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