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Less junk, fewer things. Less anxiety, fewer panic attacks.

… And I already reached semantic satiation with “fewer.”

You’ve gotten a lot of solid practical advice, so I’ll take it to theory.

Learn how it works and what happens when you push that clutch in and let it out.

Here’s a video with a lot of detail and animation.

What I wish I’d known: electrical is the worst part of an old bike. The mechanical stuff is mostly straightforward on the old UJM bikes, but electrical gremlins (when they happen) can be very frustrating.

Advice for a bike: get what you want to ride. If they made a lot of them, you’ll be in a good position for support online. Try to find one that hasn’t been cut up too badly (“cafe”, “bob”, etc). The closer to stock, the better. If electrical modifications have been done, get every detail or find another bike; troubleshooting any of that will become your nightmare.

An old 750cc is probably about as powerful as a new 400cc and will be perfectly comfortable on the highway.

There are several modifications that can be done if seat height is a touch too high, the easiest is usually a modified seat cushion.

I distinctly remember as a kid going to a pizza place with a group after church and the leader chastising the staff for working on a Sunday.

Right on the table. Many laughs were had!

Happened to us with one of our old ladies who passed a couple years ago.

She was walking around all hunched for a day or so, yowling at everything. We got lucky though, the vet used a rectal thermometer and that unclogged the pipes in quick fashion!

I have to give a shout to starship.

I’m in the terminal all day, and with all the context switching from interruptions and meetings, having all the terminal context in my face really helps me settle back into the groove.

Sure there are dozens of other ways to do this, but a little config for a hundred different tools, all of which is customizable, makes it a pretty easy choice for me.

I’ll give a second shout for tig. Ncurses git interface with vim-like navigation makes exploring, staging, stashing, etc. super easy and way faster than the CLI. Certainly not a replacement, but a magical enhancement.

I was made treasurer of the philosophy club by emailing the list at college to join. We met one time because the president and VP were excited someone joined.

There were no funds to manage.

Permethrin treatment for clothes is probably the best option. It incapacitates ticks and prevents biting.

Couple that with picaridin and/or deet for extreme scenarios.

The money and activism was from his PAC, Leaders We Deserve. He just can’t also advocate from the inside anymore, which is a shame.

It seems probable that he had already made his point internally and was facing the grind of bureaucracy with the competing agenda.

I know Ken Martin (DNC chair) is a shrewd operator, so with what little hope I have left for a progressive party takeover, I want to believe this signals tacit acceptance if not approval. This might play out something like this: As Hogg’s primary challengers meet polling thresholds against incumbents, we would see a “retargeting” of DNC funds from the incumbents to spend against Republicans elsewhere. They can’t actually cut off incumbents for what should be clear reasons (literally politics). And let’s be real: Ken will also be considering the post election power of successful incumbents; i.e. any ramp down will take into account the existing party power of the incumbents.

I’m not hopeful that we’ll see any big power brokers fall. I am hopeful that he can get several loud progressive voices elected to start reversing this rightward ratcheting.

I’ll nominate an underdog: Alphaville.

Basically unknown, jerks you back and forth between genres, simultaneously art house and amateur, and the main character is named Lemmy Caution. Sure he’s a government agent, but he’s the good guy out to destroy the mind control computer on a distant planet by pitting daughter against father.

Edit: and I forgot to mention it’s in French.

Besides drip, Euki (github) is another option on both the play store and iOS.

Note that both of these options are maintained by tiny teams with limited resources.

Agreed. I realized at some point that if I said I supported choice, it must never be my choice.

Abortion should be a decision between the person seeking the abortion and their doctor/care provider.

That’s it. No hedging about rape or incest, number of weeks, the reason one is being sought, or the manner of the procedure.

I support access to abortion.

You can revel in this story. I reckon the odds are better than even that he’s gonna be cuckolded with the next Elon IVF spawn.

I think the reason is that both acetaminophen and opioids are processed by the liver and that acetaminophen will overwhelm it allowing more time for opioids to be effective.

You can take acetaminophen and nsaids together because they work differently and are processed differently.

But, if you’re a heavy drinker, both are dangerous for very different reasons. Liver vs digestive tract.

How did you know the code to my sister’s bike lock from 30 years ago??

They can depreciate these assets over their useful life, because unlike your soggy flesh sack, these are capital expenses, not operating expenses.

… For now. I’m sure there are libertarians that think you should be able to sell yourself as the depreciable asset you are.

Off the top of my head, I think sudo journalctl -xeb -1 should give you some useful error output for the previous boot (after rebooting from a failure).

There’s a --list-boots option if you’ve rebooted a couple times since but aren’t entirely sure.

But it’s pounds sterling right? So at $496/pound of sterling silver, we’re only at $17.36 million.

Be wary of subscribing to the void too. I cancelled a long time ago, but for some reason they keep calling.