There were shadowy conspiracists lurking in the dark alleys of Washington, and hiding from the glaring sun in the High Desert of California, but they were laughably easy prey when the Martian lizard people, the subterranean Vril-empowered mole-men, and the globalist pedophile Commies did show up.

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  • I do what I call “productive procrastination”.
    I allow myself to procrastinate by doing something else instead that’s also necessary to do.
    Of course, “necessary” is a slippery term.
    But what definitely doesn’t fall under it is doom-scrolling, day-drinking and wikipedia rabbit holes.

    This actually lets me be pretty productive throughout the day, as long as I have tasks I can push back endlessly.
    Like, I haven’t brought my finances and investments in proper order in over 10 years.
    Which probably cost me a 5-digit amount in lost profit over that time frame.
    But I’m fortunate enough to not feel it and accept things like this as my ADHD tax.
    It would take a couple hours, but would involve decisions and it never becomes urgent.


  • Would it be weird if you were in a park and a grown up man was there juggling?

    No. It would be depressing if I was in a park and no one was there juggling, or trying to learn to ride a unicycle, or failing to slackline, or setting up a tent for the first time before going on an adventure, or doing yoga, or practicing artistic moves.
    To me, that’s just what people do in a park. That’s (also) what parks are for.

    When you start, for the first 5 minutes or so, people will look at you, maybe they’ll even point at you, maybe even laugh.
    But unless you live in a really shitty depressing place, that laugh will be one of joy, and they’ll look and point at you cause they are interested.

    Source: I did all those activities in parks. No one ever laughed at me, and I never got the feeling they thought I’m a weirdo.






  • It’s a bike with only one gear with a freewheel. Lets you coast without pedaling.
    They’re more popular than fixed gear where I live, cause you can ride them like a normal bicycle.
    The reason is less maintenance and fewer things to break. I guess they work well for utility cycling in flat areas, but some people are crazy enough to compete in Mountainbike races with them.




  • Fixed Gear advantages:

    • can slow down by pushing back on pedals -> almost no brake pad wear
    • almost no maintenance
    • can do trackstands and ride backwards
    • unique, fun riding style
    • completely quiet drivetrain
    • less interesting to thieves

    Drawback:

    • can’t switch gears

    Geared Bike advantage:

    • can switch gears

    Drawbacks:

    • basically the inverse of everything above

    Single-Speed bikes can do none of the things fixed gear bikes can do, and also can’t switch gears.



  • Just tried setting no country, then ducked “wine”.
    Results were definitely still from my country first.
    When I set display language to US English, results came up from the US, instead.
    When I set it to French, it shows French websites at the top.
    So the language you set affects what websites you are shown in the results. That sucks.

    But you can actually just turn off ads in the settings. That’s pretty fucking neat!