I fixed the creaky sound in the bottom bracket of my commuter. Pulled off the cranks and bearings, wiped everything clean, then reinstalled with fresh grease. Also cleaned the accumulated dirt off of that area of the frame, and wiped off the chainrings, while I was at it.
Don't forget the four most important goals of any activity.
I don't know where in the world you live, but here in the US there is a decades-long trend of people abandoning group social activities in favor of individual activities. Robert Putnam wrote a whole book about it called Bowling Alone back in 2000. Organizations of all kinds have seen declining membership, from adult sports leagues to scouting organizations to PTA groups. If you can find a group of people dedicated enough to form and maintain a club, then you are bucking the trend.
The population numbers in the article look seriously incorrect. They are way off from the census data cited in Wikipedia. For example, the entire county has never had 100k people, let alone the town.
It's a spoiler. Your Lemmy client isn't rendering it correctly.
I was working for an HVAC contractor and we did a job at a prison. We would work at night while all the residents were locked up and sleeping. We had a corrections officer escorting us the whole time. The hallways were all on the exterior of the building and lined with large windows. That allowed the guards in the towers outside to watch people moving within the building.
One night, in the wee hours of the morning, we're walking down the hallway when a red laser dot appears on the wall next to us. All of us contractors freeze instantly. We don't know what is happening and we DO NOT want to get shot. Our escort gets on his radio and tells the guys in the tower to stop fucking with us. The little red dot disappears and we go on with our night.
We were briefly afraid for our lives because some bored asshole prison guard couldn't resist flagging us with the muzzle of his rifle and teasing us with the laser sight.
One of my kids just solved his first Rubiks cube!
And this morning my youngest walked into the first day of preschool with a big smile and a cheerful skip.
I'm super proud of my kiddos!
Unconventional take: Keep you Lamborghini and your Warthog; I'll have an ~~Air Tractor~~ Sky Warden.
Link to the source: https://x.com/slothanova/status/1818681698667667720
Wildfire season sucks.
Here's the map in case anyone is curious to zoom in and look around.
We completely neglected to thin the backyard apricot tree, so we have a huge crop of tiny apricots this year.
Early pickings go into the dehydrator. Later fruit will go into the freezer to eventually become jam. And of course we also eat them fresh until the whole family is sick of them.
I'm sorry to see Canada getting hit by yet another big fire and smoke season. Hang in there, friends. We're burning down here in the northwest US, too.
This image was taken from NASA's daily satellite view with hot spots highlighted in red.
And, for anyone curious, here's an interactive USA/Canada wildfire map.
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