How the fuck do you know if it is literal or not? Every single thing attached to Epstein is disgusting and depraved; an old dude giving another old dude a BJ is the least insane story to come out of this.

Why are you even trying to wave this away? Joke or not Donald had close ties with Epstein until the very end, that should be the bigger story because he has clearly been lying his ass off again. I honestly couldn’t give two shits if the orange fuck has had a dick in his mouth, but it would be absolutely hilarious if true. Plus, if people joke about this enough he’s going to address it publicly which would be so fucking funny to watch.

okay… and? This still makes it look a whole lot like trump and his buddies were very well intertwined with a convicted sex trafficker long after his depravity was revealed. It’s a lot less funny if trump didn’t blow clinton but that would be the least disgusting thing he did on the island.

Obviously fuck Israel but I have a bit of a different gripe with this thing.

I got into 3d printing to reduce waste, mainly to repair old stuff but plastic waste is still something I try and reduce as much as possible. This toolhead is a plastic wasting machine, not a printing one. I cannot for the life of me justify buying not one but two long thin tubes of liquid only to split the tube in half and only use the goo inside. And then they have the audacity to charge fucking $1100 for it. The XL is already overpriced for it’s performance, this is just adding insult to injury.

Bromton bikes cost around $1.5k minimum, some can go for over $6k. That bike costs more than my custom road bike, and he could absolutely afford a taxi or a used car if he wanted.

Not defending the CCP, but this title just makes no fucking sense. Like is ‘small millionaire’ supposed to make him sound poor? He still has more money than 99% of the population, am I supposed to feel bad he no longer has more money than 99.999%?

I haven’t been to my local IMAX theater in nearly a decade because the sound system went to absolute shit and they still haven’t updated it.

Even before I went down the audio rabbit hole I felt it was a huge upgrade just having a cheap pair of bookshelf speakers and decent looking TV. Now with OLED becoming ubiquitous it’s too easy to make an amazing setup that doesn’t break the bank. Theaters need to do some drastic changes to bring back their value, but honestly it might just be better leaving them in the history books.

A&W tried it in the 80’s and apparently more than half the people in the focus group thought the burger was smaller because 3 is less than 4. They renamed it the 3/9th burger so dumbass Americans wouldn’t feel like they were being ripped off. Americans have been leading the world in dumbassery for the decades at this point.

Hot take: if you add way more garlic than the recipe calls for then you aren’t chopping it finely enough.

I used to triple the amount of garlic until I started to make fresh garlic paste instead of just dicing the clove. The difference it makes cannot be overstated and it allows other flavors in the dish to shine side-by-side with the garlic instead of having spontaneous garlic bursts.

“They’ll never hold a job. They’ll never play baseball. They’ll never write a poem. They’ll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted”

Waste of a human

Scourge on your family name

You’re not him, junior

• Haiku written by an austic person taking a shit, unassisted

It never gets old seeing these dumb fucks say “I love my truck but” and then showcasing an absolutely egregious design flaw. The deeper you dig the worse this shit-onion of a truck gets.

A male customer followed her into the restroom

Huh, almost seems like the hysteria that trans folk were doing it just to go into women’s bathrooms was totally bullshit. Who could have possibly predicted that?

Actually I’m in California, but I’ll take that as a compliment!

Our funnel web spiders are pretty mild but it could have also been a brown recluse or wolf spider. Not super deadly but not a fun bite by any means.

Thank you, it was more of a happy accident but I’m very pleased this worked out.

I’m not sure of the species, but it might be a funnel web spider’s burrow? I didn’t stick around long enough to see the spider, I just assume it’s quite venomous and treaded carefully.

“I literally challenged Putin to one on one physical combat over Ukraine and my starlink system is the backbone of the Ukrainian army.”

It’s the first sentence of the quoted tweet.

I’m pretty sure the spammer is using a screenshot from one of Ro Randin’s videos. Worth checking out the channel if you haven’t, they make great videos.

My point was never that waxing chains is the perfect end-all solution. I originally replied to a person that said they degreased their chain and only got about 2-3k miles before needing to replace it. From my experience that’s due to stripping away the factory oil, and if you are degreasing anyways you are halfway to just waxing the chain.

If you want something to be dead set reliable modern group sets aren’t going to be your friend, no matter what you are using on the chain. A single speed chain with geared hub is going to be more reliable than pretty much anything else on the bike.

Waxing has real benefits but it’s not always worth it depending on where and how you ride. For instance, the dirt in my area is extremely dusty and destroyed my lubed MTB chain in about 2k miles. Waxing was a massive improvement and has already saved me from replacing $300 worth of chain and cassette.

It’s your bike though, and different strokes work for different folks. I fight against cars, not fellow bikers.

I mean oil is oil, some are better as lubricants but all of them are going to reduce friction somewhat. When I rode fixies there were all sorts of weird home solutions being used in my group, but it didn’t really matter because those chains are bomb proof.

I can’t say for certain but if you tried the olive oil trick in a modern 10/11/12 speed drivetrain it would not last long. Not really because of an increase in friction but all of the dirt olive/vegetable/mineral oil attract. Lubricant is much thinner and doesn’t ‘hold’ dirt to the same degree, especially inside the roller links.

Wax improves the lifespan not by dramatically reducing friction, but by making dirt ingress virtually zero. The actual power gains are maybe a few watts, and that’s if you use special wax additives to further reduce friction.

Also shows a big difference in location between us. I only have like 2 weeks out of the year that I have to break out the indoor rollers because of rain.

Hope you stay safe though, I wish everyone could have the benefit of coastal desert weather.

Oh I’m sure you’re doing a decent job and wax isn’t a perfect solution for everyone. I’m just saying that one of the reasons you may only get 2k miles out of a chain is the degreaser takes away the factory oil. When I was on lube I was getting about 1% stretch per 1k miles, but it also depends a lot on the drivetrain and what kind of riding you do.

I would definitely consider wax though, especially if you move up into 10, 11, or 12 speed drivetrains. Everything is so damn expensive on them that wax is well worth the extra work, not just the chain but my cassettes look almost new still.

The roller links are what you want lubricated and protected, and wax stays in those places much better than liquid lubes. While some chunks will flake off there is a thin layer left behind, I ride near the ocean pretty frequently and had worse rust problems when I was using lube. Ofc whatever works for you is the best practice but wax has been very easy for me. I track my rides, after about 150 miles I re-wax the chain. I’ve never found that I have to check it more often, but I also ride steel frames so I don’t ride in the rain anyways.

A quick tip on bike chains; if you are using lubricant you should never use heavy degreaser on the chain. The factory oil is the best lubricant and normal lubes don’t penetrate between links enough.

However, if you are going to degrease you chains, you should use paraffin wax instead of lube. I have an 11 speed chain with 3000+ miles and it’s only showing around 1% stretch. I don’t even use fancy bike specific wax, just food grade gulf wax. Another plus is the whole drive train is dry; doesn’t get your hands dirty if you need to remove a wheel, cassette, or derailleur.

Admittedly waxing the chain is a pain in the ass, but some of my chains are like $70 a pop so getting as much life from them is more important.