Beautiful build, glad you’re still with us AND still riding, fellow Cascadian.

What is that crankset? How challenging is it to get chainrings?

Bacterial vaginosis is a real risk, and is not checked on STI panels.

The Reuben at Greenburg’s Deli in NYNY is always on my must-have list. Pretty much anything at Block 16, China Poblano (Mexican-Chinese cuisine), and Momofuku in The Cosmopolitan. If you like tasting menus, Partage is excellent. And if you like tiki bars, Frankie’s (classic, divey) and Golden Tiki (next to Partage) are both great experiences.

For anyone unfamiliar, I’d say that Tacos El Gordo alone is worth making the trip to Las Vegas. Everything is amazing. My faves are al pastor on sopes, but you seriously can’t go wrong with anything on the menu. Don’t panic if the line is around the corner; it moves quickly. Absolutely get a michelada while in line and the michelada woman is selling.

Season has… begun? Are you implying that grilling season ever ends?

As we pick up speed, the wind noise quickly becomes very loud,

For those of you who bothered by wind noise, check out Cat Ears (https://www.cat-ears.com/). They break up laminar airflow over the ears. For me, long rides are way less mentally fatiguing, and I get to hear more of everything. Also, as @hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com suggested, a mirror of some kind gives you that rearview awareness. There are tons of designs to choose; it’s just a matter of finding what works for you.

• BilSabab - prolific retro content poster
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Short, quippy, and categorically wrong. You’re underscoring my points about how we’re getting divided and subsequently conquered. But keep on being divisive and see how that works for you. I’ll be over here trying to unite my fellow leftists.

Want to demolish a regime? It’s gonna take a lot more than a vote. But waiting for a perfect candidate is a sure way to lose. The worldwide fash uprising didn’t happen within a single voting cycle; this was a concerted, multi-front effort on the part of Conservatives and oligarchs (see: “Evil Geniuses,” by Kurt Andersen). In the United States, that movement probably started in earnest with the Powell Memorandum, but can trace its roots much further to psy-ops like the Red Scare and covert ops like COINTELPRO. Coincidentally, note the dates of when COINTELPRO was revealed and when the Powell Memorandum (“an excess of democracy”) was written/disclosed.

Get out from behind the keyboard (yep, I’m calling myself out on that one, too), get out and about in your community, talk to people, organize, unionize, seek out common ground with people, build a bigger table instead of bigger fences. We didn’t get into this shit overnight; we’re not getting out of it without decades of work and probably bloodshed. The faster we want the change, the more of our own individual blood we need to be willing to invest, while being careful to avoid the exact mistakes that always happen when people demolish regimes. And count on more COINTELPRO-like opposition at every turn. The oligarchy have lots of motivation and money to invest in keeping us divided.

Right? Shit like this almost feels like… a psy-op to keep the left divided against itself. And then we ape-brains conveniently spread such content to soothe our egos via complex purity tests.

Seriously folks, I get we all want to hold the absolute moral high ground, but we’re all losing the war because of letting psy-ops divide us. “Oh, I wouldn’t fall for any of that.” Bull. Fucking. Shit.

Pay attention to when Be wary of messaging that pits you against people with whom you actually have more in common than in opposition. When we wait for perfectly aligned allies, we die alone. And when we propagate and perpetuate divisive content, we’re just doing the fash’s job for them.

There’s so much I love about Aurora. Every time I boot up my video editing laptop or rendering desktop, it’s like… slipping into a hot tub on a cold winter night.

Funny you say that… my previous job was on Win 11 and a sovereign cloud version of Copilot, the latter of which we were “strongly encouraged” to use for everything. That went nowhere fast.

When the soap, ballot, and jury boxes repeatedly fail to protect the populace, the 4th box becomes inevitable. I’m not saying it’s right, but this is the general arc of these things.

I know ricotta doesn’t go on stromboli.

That’s just food abuse. And I’d still mow down a bunch.

Designer’s Republic was the graphic design firm. Their work is so distinctive and, for me, the apex of 90s graphic design.

Roland AE-30 (wind synth). It’s great to get back to playing “saxophone,” as well as use it in my MIDI setup to control other synths. Added bonus: it’s small enough to pack just about anywhere, and I can practice anywhere, anytime with headphones. Even just running scales is chill, meditative time, especially during stressful workdays.

I interpret “guilty pleasures” as things that are not-so-great, but I enjoy them anyway. No shame implied in my head. Some crappy, simplistic EDM track, but is still a total earworm… sign me up! Nothing like that for you?

Velveeta, specifically a Velveeta cream sauce on thick al dente pasta.

The suspension is in the steerer.

It’s not hydraulically damped, on top of being super proprietary. For me, proprietary is a hard nope at any price.

It’s a matter of direction. Loosely speaking, polarizers block light that is moving in one specific way, e.g. up and down. The light filtering is specific to the filter rotation. Also, there is a polarizing filter in the monitors screen. Stacking the filters results in an interference pattern, analogous to a moiré pattern.