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  • How do you clean a chain that has chunky grease/dirt buildup?

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  • I looked into wax after a friend switched to it, but I'm not sure it makes sense for me, time-wise. I've put 2,650 miles on this bike in less than two years. He advised doing it every 200 miles, which would be a lot of rewaxings...

    That said, I do like the idea of wax over grease a lot.

  • How do you clean a chain that has chunky grease/dirt buildup?

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  • Thank you for the advice! :)

  • How do you clean a chain that has chunky grease/dirt buildup?

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  • Sounds great! My bike might be a bit easier, it's a single speed with a chain tensioner. They're dirty, but not so dirty that I think I'll need to take apart the whole thing. I can hit the gear and tensioner gears with a stiff brush and get any large debris off them. It's mainly that my brush can't get between the linkages in the chain, which is wear some dust/oil balls are building up.

  • How do you clean a chain that has chunky grease/dirt buildup?

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  • Oh, I definitely will, thanks! Hopefully there won't be too many shavings.

  • I Saw The Affordable Slate Truck In Person. Now I’m Worried

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  • Honestly, this is a small work truck. It would be a great fleet vehicle. Most people don't really need anything too fancy, we want affordable vehicles. I don't like trucks; they're far too big for city use. But the idea is good, and I'd love to see small affordable electric cars.

  • US Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list

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  • Project 2025. The morons even published it well before the election. We knew it was going to happen. And yet, he still won.

  • What are some uBlock Origin filters you're using to make the internet nicer to use?

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  • Thanks!

  • What are some uBlock Origin filters you're using to make the internet nicer to use?

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  • Anyone know if there's a ublock filter for popups? Firefox mobile is getting swarmed by site popups and it drives me insane.

  • Last quarter of the year, how did your vegetables fare this year? Was it a hit or miss for you in your opinion? What grew and what didn't?

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  • Yeah, my guess is that they didn't like the heatwaves. All of them turned yellow and croaked. Oddly, they did this at different times, and with different water and light levels. Even the ones in the shade that didn't get as much water died, which is really perplexing. In past years, we had an overabundance of potatoes in the same area. (We kept digging up potatoes for years after our initial bumper crop.)

    Oh well. We'll try again next spring with a different variety and hope for better results. On the bright side, I've never had so many super chili peppers in my life. Someone liked the heatwaves!

  • Men can take their shirts off for hot days and exercise. Why can't women do the same in 2025?

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  • Some people get turned on seeing topless men but it’s not a sex crime for men to be shirtless in public.

    This is the thing that really bothered me. It's so one-sided. Perhaps people won't be comfortable doing it, for various reasons, but the legal limitation is what actually irritates me. One silver lining is that a lot of places are starting to allow it, even if culturally, it hasn't picked up yet.

  • Baldur's Gate 3 introducing a native Steam Deck build that improves performance by reducing CPU load and memory usage

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  • It's a fun game, but 5e really showed its age. If you like these sorts of games try Divinity 2: OS. It was built from the ground up for modern platforms. It does away with spell slots, overhauls magic, armor, classes, and terrain/elemental effects in ways that are fundamentally incompatible with 5e, but make the game a lot more enjoyable.

    That didn't stop me from playing a ton of BG3, but some of the gameplay itself felt like a step back, even as the story, characters, and UI improved.

  • Last quarter of the year, how did your vegetables fare this year? Was it a hit or miss for you in your opinion? What grew and what didn't?

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  • Our potatoes all failed, regardless of light and water levels, which is perplexing. Maybe too hot? Or a disease or pest?

  • Do you have a helmet light? If so, how is it mounted?

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  • Four people arrested in Washington after alleged hate crime attack on trans woman

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  • While great on paper, most of them were pretty young, not even adults yet. Make them do empathy and LGBTQ courses and community service with LGBTQ organizations- lots of it- and let them start with a clean slate. They seriously fucked up, but we should teach them how society is supposed to work.

    The 25 year old definitely needs to be charged like the grown ass man he is. And have him stop hanging out with minors. And then also work with LGBTQ organizations/community service.

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    Did anyone else not even know who Charlie Kirk was!?

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  • I knew him after he dressed up in kink gear a decade ago to "own the libs"(?) on some college campus, and his second in command got catastrophically drunk, passed out, and shit her pants like a horse at a college party that same year. I assumed they never recovered from the double bout of extraordinary cringe, but apparently they did?

    Apparently I've been living under a rock, or the guy was deep underground.

  • What have you heard people say that screams "I have lived my life in a Westernised bubble and have no idea how the world is" ?

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  • US agents are investigating the Charlie Kirk murder suspect's Steam account, but I'm not sure what 2,000 hours in Sea of Thieves is supposed to tell us

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  • The CGs are fun! I liked playing Elite back when Void opals and Borann didn't mean too much grind. Exploration with exobio can still net you money in a pinch, but it's a bit less fun than core mining or wing laser mining with pirates and 400T+ in the cargo hold.

    I miss the high stakes/high reward gameplay that made elite feel dangerous, when your miners needed lasers and sidewinder missiles. I'm hopeful that they will bring mining back that can make enough money to support carriers.

    All that said, work towards the Corvette! It's one of the best large ships in the game. Twin Class 4 plasma accelerators w/engineering, g5 dirty drag drives, and prismatic shields are insane. Put a multicannon on the bottom, two turretted lasers with thermal vent effects on top, and sidewinder racks on the side for long range interdictions. Having an AI pilot with a fixed laser taipan or fixed multi cannon F63 is insane for throwing power around too. Throw some SCBs on for the prismatics, and you can be in CZs or haz reses for a long time, safely.

  • How I went from an e-bike hater to a believer

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  • It doesn’t replace bike trips, as one of my colleagues observed. It replaces car trips.

    The most important quote in the article! And also the section about towing a heavy load up steep hills on a normal bike, feeling like you're gonna throw up, and then driving a car everywhere on 5.40/gal gas.

    An ebike is a replacement for all of that.

  • How I went from an e-bike hater to a believer

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  • IDK about you, but my ebike weighs 60lbs. Turn the motor off, and I get way more of a workout than my 38lb full sus mountain bike.

    Though I use an ebike as a car replacement, I find biking everywhere has gotten me into significantly better shape, even though it is electric. It can also tow a lot more gear up hills than my standard bike!