Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: AMuzi Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: men in women's bicycle races Date: Tue, 13 May 2025 07:46:53 -0500 Organization: Yellow Jersey, Ltd. Lines: 57 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 13 May 2025 14:46:51 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="594c884dd2b81441c524122bfc1e7902"; logging-data="1923522"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19zc+kAiZH6DjiLZ88ETeHj" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:fKmLOz7UpxwXdaXy8OltZbNju8Y= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3563 On 5/13/2025 5:07 AM, zen cycle wrote: > On 5/12/2025 6:05 PM, AMuzi wrote: >> On 5/12/2025 1:33 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote: >>> On 5/12/2025 10:43 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote: >>>> On Mon, 12 May 2025 09:29:35 -0400, Zen Cycle >>>> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> +1 to all of that Roger. The right wing is being told >>>>> by their echo >>>>> chamber that this is a major issue that demands major >>>>> attention away >>>>> from actual problems that affect millions of americans, >>>>> when it's an insignificant issue being used as a wedge >>>>> and a distraction. >>>> >>>> >>>> Nobody says it's a major issue, but... >>> >>> But Mr. Timid Tricyclist just won't let it go. It allows >>> him to hide from discussing the current administration's >>> crazy incompetence. What a dupe. >>> >>> >> Pick an administration. Any administration. Select any of >> myriad examples of 'crazy incompetence'. >> >> USS Gettysburg shot down a fighter from her own carrier >> group (USS Truman) in the Biden administration in December. >> >> Then USS Truman lost two fighters overboard (one from >> sliding tow vehicle in April, one landing arrest failure >> in May.) in the 2d Trump administration. >> >> https://www.businessinsider.com/us-navy-aircraft-carrier- >> red-sea-lost- another-super-hornet-2025-5?op=1 >> >> One never runs out of examples. >> >> > I think it's a bit of a stretch to blame incidents like > these on whichever administration is in office. The recent > incidents on the USS Truman for example may have been > incompetence or some other failure of equipment that wasn't > _reasonably_ foreseeable or preventable. Without access to > the Root Cause Failure Analysis we can only speculate. As > much as I consider the existence of trump in the US white > house to be an existential threat to the US, he had nothing > to do with what happened on the USS Truman. I didn't blame either administration. I merely noted that Mr Krygowski's term 'crazy incompetence' is quite apt. Always. -- Andrew Muzi am@yellowjersey.org Open every day since 1 April, 1971