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bicycle medic, collecter of broken but still usable machinery ちょっと日本語を話せます


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Urine charge now.

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I get the threat part particularly. It's ice cream season and that is trouble.

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I forced myself to get rid of my scale and it helped some...

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Fwiw in most Baptist churches it's grape juice, I guess because Kool-Aid has some pretty heavy baggage associated with it.

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I have a vba/excel script that four other people use regularly and someone finally asked me about the comment after a line that takes the modulo of a quadratic equation, that says "no idea why this works but don't change it" and I'm all "I think that comment speaks for itself..."

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I suspect, from observation, that people who would drive at a given speed, when stuck in traffic for a while, will drive much faster when they get a chance, out of frustration. As a cyclist, watching people blow through neighborhoods at 70mph because of a slowdown on the main roads is scary.

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"at 78, trump has had 3 wives, 6 bankruptcies, and 34 felonies. It's crucial to consider how that may affect young boys." For some completely inexplicable reason that nobody could ever possibly explain, they choose to criticize Taylor for not doing things, instead.

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I heard a description of Europeans and Japanese of eating until they aren't hungry, as opposed to Americans who eat until they are full, and that has really stuck with me.

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A statistician walks into a pie shop. Owner says what kind you want? Stats sez whatever kind the most other people have ordered, and with ice cream, so it's a la mode.

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Also pointing some friends at this, thanks!

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Hauling down that thing on a road bike is one of those in close touch with your mortality moments.

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This is relevant to several people I know.

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Yeah, three kinds of people, those happy with what they have, those sad about what they don't have, and those mad about what other people have that they don't think those other people deserve.

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Fair. I've heard it's a decent hike. Can't beat the view!

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But some rich person might not be able to afford a sixth vacation home this is so cruel

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Oh cool, by foot? That's one I've only ever biked. How is the trail?

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Have experienced this while biking up mount Ev... Hah I mean mount bluesky and Argentine pass, when the goats decided they wanted the salt on my bicycle.

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This was my intro to her several years back and wow.

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I'm learning another language and I always use the word for good morning to say hi because it's cute. People lecture me about how it's actually evening but pfah on them it's always a good morning somewhere.

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Yeah, my tiny hot rod has a 1.4 liter engine and it is like a terrifying go-kart. It handles a 50km commute and can handle a wee bit of cargo.

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65. Will entertain suggestions for even smaller numbers.

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I would vote so hard for a ban on gas leaf blowers and almost that hard for one on electric leaf blowers.

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There are worse things that puppy killers but I'd sure love to see her name dragged for a generation.

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"troubleshooting"

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I dated a woman for a while whose only sitting furniture in her apt was fainting couches: at the dining table, in the hall, everywhere. She felt they best expressed her approach to life.

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Hey cool, one of my favorite places. I see you are ex-post. Did anyone talk there about web.openspace.social? It was originally a destination for people when Google+ shut down but recently has gotten a huge influx of posties.

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This is unrequested advice so I won't go on at length about it but there are some things you can do to reduce essential tremor.

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You've consistently had some top tier choices imho

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Brb adding duct tape stuff to your wikipedia page ..

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I mean, I'm not the first person to make this kinda calculus joke: it is derivative, is what I'm saying.

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She's right. Once they integrated calculus it was never the same again.

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!!!!!!! Wowie that's epic. At least, we can hope it's all smooth air.

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I hope it's a short smooth flight!

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Wadded up facial tissue, maybe, or slip the kiddos some thorazine...

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It's delicious. 美味しいです!

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I always loved feeding ours extra long dandelion stems and watching them flawlessly vanish into the rabbit's maw like a magic trick.

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Well now you have me mumbling all possible combinations in order of rising complexity as I sit in the lab and my coworkers side-eye me with concern.

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Anything with an SD card on it gets my attention because it's so nice, even for debug, to be able to save data.

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I ran d&d sessions local but on networked computers for private communication with everyone, where multiple characters had very different goals for an adventure, including sabotaging the group. It was fun.

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Sigh. Too much R, not enough background to use it right, over here.

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Excellent start!

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I mean he could do that NOW.

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I think people who have spent their lives with/in power lack a sense of urgency about impending catastrophe.

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Or: presidents are expected to govern via crime.

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Sure why not. Hi over there!

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TFW you realize your whole demographic is cosplayers

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Public funded radio is hitting funding goals in my part of the US, and I'm one of the people funding it. There should be free music.

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In my experience, you should replace this whole valve system about once every ten years. The seal between tank and base is more of a hassle and does need a wrench, and can be quite messy if it goes awry, but the float riser isn't bad to diy. Getting the handle chain length right is fussy sometimes.

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That is a pretty simple fix. You can go buy a replacement, one brand is floatmaster, and replace just the riser and float. For this specific job you don't even need tools. All the parts are hand tightened against rubber seals.

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I'm advocating for some razz-ma-tazz while you're here.

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