I keep getting these YouTube videos about "my neat trick" for remembering which hiragana makes what sound and they seem silly to me.

Maybe it's because I have so much distance from my first lessons in Japanese but the way to learn your hiragana is to use your hiragana. Read a bunch. Write a bunch. Read out loud.

But they're also silly because there's no actual system. Thinking that there's a system will lead to applying the rules to the wrong characters.

https://youtu.be/EdJdRwjPVkM

What was billed as men "colliding on bike path" turns out to be, of course, a #cyclist getting run over by someone riding an illegal 50 mph electric scooter on a #bike path.

Stuff like this always gets used to "crack down" on e-bikes but when you dig even a little you consistently find that the "e-bike" in question is really a moped that's already illegal.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bLMlK_V-ST8

Hooray - hit my target average speed of 15 mph on real roads with traffic lights, stop signs and cars (and one gravel segment).

#cycling

After waiting 6 weeks for a replacement wiring harness to fix my lawn mower I discovered 2 things:

The replacement harness is not a match to the original (the connectors at the bottom are different), and to install it you need to solder at least one connection together (and I don't own a soldering iron).

In the end just disassembling, reseating and reassembling the existing harness appears to have fixed it.