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The reality of everything in this world is that if you have to wait for things to be perfect, you’ll be waiting forever.

Sure, cycling infrastructure isn’t great in North America. And some places (like, Ontario, Canada) have actively hostile campaigns against cyclists and remove any safety implements that have been established.

But if we don’t get on our bikes, it only proves that “nobody wants to cycle”, and the infrastructure will never get built.

And really, it’s not even about infrastructure anymore. We had a 13-year-old killed on cycling infrastructure because a driver ignored a stop sign.

We (like the entire world) need to make driving so inconvenient that it becomes the last choice to get around. Only then will people who 100% need to drive be behind the wheel. And because they need to drive, maybe they’ll pay attention to what they are doing.

I do sympathize with people who are afraid or put off by the risk of cycling in some places. I do get it, and there are areas where I live that I avoid cycling through. But I do cycle with the mindset that drivers are all idiots who aren’t paying attention and/or want to run me over. So even when I have the right of way, I assume that drivers will not acknowledge it.

Wind chills reached minus 36 Fahrenheit (minus 38 Celsius) that night in January 2022 as the family from India set out on foot to meet a waiting van.

Someone didn’t want them to survive.

… this means cutting corners on environmental assessments for the last vestiges of rural land in the GTA. The proposed route is set to raze 2,000 acres of farmland, pave 400 acres of Greenbelt land in Northern Vaughan, and disrupt 220 wetlands.

Wanting to make his buddies rich aside, the destruction of this land is by far the most insidious part of his plan. This is land we will never get back if it’s turned into another highway.

I wish the “Con” in Conservative meant “Conservation” rather than “con job”!

Miller and this guy. Two confirmed Nazis… this is going to end up great. /s

Please, someone uninstall this version of the game!

My guess is pressure-cooking, specifically with an instant pot (which is near BIFL).

Brilliant! That worked!

If we do, this virus will make covid look like child’s play, apparently.

From the Lectric site:

“Every XPedition 2.0 purchase is backed by a full U.S. customer service base and a 1-year warranty.”

I honestly can’t take any vehicle company seriously if they warranty their vehicles as if they were a children’s toy.

Such a bummer.

For sure, a belt drive aluminium bike would be way easier to manage. I’ve got to work with what I have.

I finished coating the inside of my steel frame for the second year. No signs of internal rust when I inspected it, except for the bridge of the chainstay.

For some reason, my fender doesn’t cover this hole, so wheel spray goes directly into it. 🤔

Replaced all bolts with SS, packed marine grease in front of any bearings, and made sure that all rustable parts have either a bit of oil or grease on them.

hot waxed chain with no drip wax ever and a bottle of 99% isopropyl that I use to flash off the water.

Can you elaborate? This will be my first year with waxed chains, and your method seems interesting.

Do you just wipe the waxed chain off after returning home, then hit it with 99% isopropyl alcohol?

How many km between immersion waxes?

None of these are problems that prevent me from riding in the winter.

The biggest issue I have with winter riding, by a long shot, is road salt. I hate the fact that riding in the winter, even once, means that I’m ruining my bike somehow because of road salt. If not for that, I’d be out nearly as often as I would during the warmer months.

This was one of the rare times I installed a firmware update without waiting. They even sent an email telling me how urgent it was to get my NAS patched.

To that note, anyone have any idea how to get Hyper Backup to stop telling me that my backups are “partial” because Video Station is no longer found? It’s not even on the list of apps, but tells me that it’s been disabled as an option to back up because it’s not available. Annoying!

I can vouch for Mailbox, too.

It’s also easy to get it set up on third part email clients.

Yeah, because google is vague.

Not sure what “100” means, but that’s what it peaked at.

Does this new version fix the issue where it ends up capturing “choose your country”, cookie popups, and generally something NOT intended?

I was having problems like that all the time, so I had to uninstall it.

Compared to something like the FF extension “SingleFile”, I wish Linkwarden worked better :(

I think it’s fair to say that there are a lot of cases that can be expedited without the need to drag them along.

The problem with our current justice system (at least in its current state) is that it HIGHLY favours criminals.

Rapists walking free, drunk drivers getting their fourth or fifth “warning”, people being arrested for crimes while breaching a previous court order, people murdering cyclists and getting off with a minor traffic ticket, etc.

With more judges, a more efficient process, and more Crown prosecutors, hopefully things will move along more quickly. That won’t happen unless our government gets their priorities straight.

Either way, victims should always come first; society second; criminals last.

What’s your calorie deficit per day? If it’s too much, you’ll constantly feel like you’re starving.

If you reduce your calories by only around 200 or so per day, the weight will come off in a controlled way, but without feeling like you’re not eating enough.

I lost around 30lbs earlier this year using a combination of calorie deficit and cycling. On long days riding, I’d often end up thousands of calories short, even while eating as much as I could. I never felt like I was hungry during those few months needed to reach my goal.

And the weight has stayed off.

I also used the advice found in Dr. Greger’s “How not to diet”, the audiobook version.

It has more about the courts not having enough judges or enough rooms to process every trial than the police.

Maybe we should get rid of court buildings and do everything virtually. If you’ve even been to a court, 90% of the time is basically wasted for everyone involved, simply due to how slow things are when you are in a physical building.

If we don’t modernize our justice system, we’ll never have enough judges or rooms to prosecute every criminal.

Maybe Dougie wants to explain why he’s able to find money to rip out existing bike lanes, or to build a FUCKING TUNNEL UNDER THE 401, but not have enough to make sure that our justice system moves as the speed of crime.