My only absurd projection is thinking that people would realize that if I'm saying really stupid things, I'm screwing around. But hey, this is the 41.

You seem to be under the impression that people are serious here. Or that they care.

Just in case it's not obvious that a 'bent rider who hangs out with road cyclists probably doesn't get too hung up on choices, consider a few of my contributions to this thread:

And there's a mini thread about encrypting data which may look serious because it makes sense from a technical point of view, except if I thought strava was a bad idea, why would I want to help?

Strava doesn't raise my skirt nor does the data obsession people so many people have. But I get it. But just to spell things out, I'm not serious and I regularly add gibberish just to see what it brings out of others.