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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

What about two year dust?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

My wrists are too old for hand grinders!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

When I worked slinging coffees, we used a specific coffee machine cleaning substance. You poured in these pill shaped bits and they'd absorb excess oil as they ground through the machine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Disassemble as best you can, brush out all the bits with a clean paintbrush, damp cloth to wipe everything. It's not factory clean but it's better.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Oxo conical burr grinder. Fairly common, works well enough.

 

I accidentally bought ground coffee instead of whole beans. So when the grinder ran out of beans, I took it apart and gave it a decent scrub. When I use it again, it should grind smoother and maybe even get the coffee tasting better.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I have the Ploopy Classic trackball and the Trackpad. Both are top notch products. 3D prints are excellent.

The firmware is open-source so I was able to flash my own layout for my own workflow. It's QMK, used in mechanical keyboards. You don't need to touch the firmware if you don't have the inclination, it works out of the box.

There's a small community of modders that have done wild things to the hardware too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Locally grown is not always the best for the environment. Eating California rice in California is worse for CO2 than Thai rice, because California rice needs more inputs. Same with growing tomatoes in a natural-gas heated greenhouse in cold climates vs. trucked in from where they grow in the field. Transportation is a very small part of the CO2 footprint of food.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yes, it's used to make oilcloth but as far as I know, you'd have to leave the garment to dry somewhere with ventilation for a week or more. However I've not done it so if that isn't the case please correct me.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (7 children)

A cheap solution is to wax some thrift store or old trousers. Beeswax and paraffin, there are different ratios to experiment with, and premade bars you can buy. You rub some on and heat with a hair dryer or clothes iron (with parchment paper so the iron doesn't get wax on it). It'll darken the cloth. The more you put on the more waterproof and wind-resistant it'll get. For bike pants you could focus on the front of the upper thigh and coat the rest less, leaving some breathability on the back.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Meanwhile in Trudeau's socialist nightmare, where eggs are under ~~kolkhoz~~ supply management, I pay $5.25 USD... for 18 eggs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

That's all you can do yourself. Forget about the cultists, find those who you can get along with and help each other out. It's gonna be a long time to get through this for any non-fascist Americans.

 

Obvious missing element of the story: climate change.

 

These lost rainforest cities may seem to have little in common with today’s steel and asphalt behemoths but according to experts, early Amazonian metropolises are remarkable for what they tell us about the way ancestral urbanites lived off the land without trampling it. The new scientific tools have helped to uncover a pre-colonial landscape marked by ancient practices with implications for contemporary environmental management.

 

Scientists measured atmospheric concentrations of lead in ancient times and concluded the vast lead use of the Roman empire led to a drop in IQ in the population.

Roman children had only a fraction of the lead buildup that US children had in the 1970s due to leaded gasoline.

 

Good article except the use of the propaganda term "oilsands", it should be "tar sands".

 

For a long time, the common wisdom is that megafauna died out soon after humans arrived in the Americas. If humans have been in the Americas for much longer than thought, and co-existed with megafauna for millennia, then that narrative is wrong. It's a projection of modern humans' faults onto ancient humans. Moreover, it shows that there is nothing inevitable about human-caused extinctions. Humans are not a virus, Agent Smith.

 

...the authors caution that the current pace of decoupling is insufficient to meet the global climate target of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

Less than half of the regions will be able to achieve net-zero by 2050

 

Maybe EVs are not a comprehensive climate solution??

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