Firefox with Ublock Origin and using reader mode got past the paywall for me.

Thanks for posting an archive too!

Busta nooooo!

It’s also worth noting that these monied interests often attack educational systems (Reagan republicans called this tactic “starving the beast”) because a poorly educated population is far more easily manipulated compared to one that’s been taught how to think and reason critically.

That looks like corrosion to me too. You might be able to clean it off, but it’ll probably come back unless you seal the copper or wipe them all off regularly.

Step 1: Make healthcare unaffordable so companies can make lots of extra money.

Step 2: Call people who want to provide basic things like adequate healthcare socialists or communists.

Step 3: ???

Step 4: Lose the election Profit!!!

I remember there was a badguy/nemesis who was full of packing styrofoam, and you used a pump to vacuum the air out and make him moldable/stretchable.

Yeah, I’ve been thinking about Graphene too. Might pick up that new Motorola coming out.

Sideloading Heliboard or Futo are often overlooked options.

Shit gets real…

…ly hard to balance?

TIL: They have swappable pads, nice!

Is there something better than Kool Stop? That’s what I run on both my v-brakes.

I like my rim brakes just fine, but IMO disc brakes are still objectively better especially if you have long descents: Rim brakes heat up the rim and cause problems, disc brakes can be easily sprayed down with water to cool them off and their heat buildup doesn’t affect the rims at all. You can still cook disc brakes of course, but managing them heat-wise is definitely easier and their braking power is objectively superior to rim brakes.

That said, rim brakes are totally adequate for like 90%+ of riding. My bicycle and my folding bicycle both use v-brakes and they’re fine even in wet weather (though I would recommend upgrading to Kool-stop Salmon brake pads if you’re still running generic ones and find them inadequate).

Between Google taking a dump all over Android and this, I might actually switch to iOS after being an Android user for almost 20 years.

Freelance what?

I used to be a freelance photographer (newspapers, magazines, etc.) and, while it can be an interesting way to make a little money, it’s really tough trying to get by as a freelancer unless you luck out or work hard enough to build up a reputation/good client list. YMMV, but be prepared to hustle.

mountain bike

unsuitable for commuting

Nah, they’re fine for commuting especially with shitty streets. I commute on my Trek 820 all the time! They do have smoother street oriented tires on them though.

Depends on the comment. If it’s just something grammatical that nobody has commented on yet, I don’t write anything extra and just fix it.

Otherwise I usually indicate that there has been an edit and what it was for (usually a factual correction someone else has pointed out). I’ll usually strike out the edited text (type ~ twice at the beginning and again at the end of the text to put a line through it on Lemmy and Mbin, probably works elsewhere too).

This should be illegal everywhere but if you’re in a place where it’s not, you can still make these fuckers eat a chargeback fee while getting all your money back if you go through your bank or credit card company to show them documentation that they’re effectively holding you financially hostage by ignoring your requests to cancel and making cancellation inaccessible.

I got $800 back from a fraudulent “home warranty” from AHS this way and it was a pretty easy process via Visa. Even better that they got fined on top of being forced to give me a refund!

Ridiculous horseshit, fuck these clowns.

Not physically destructive but someone wrote a script that was supposed to clean up unused phone extensions and decided to run it in production without testing it. It wiped out all the phones.

We probably spent a week or two fixing and testing thousands of phones and the person who ran the unvetted script was fired, but nothing was physically destroyed.

Reminder: You should be blocking ads by default as a matter of security. Use Firefox + Ublock Origin, ad blocking DNS on your devices, and maybe even a PiHole at home.