There’s a wonderful sign hanging in a Toronto junkyard which reads, ‘Help Beautify Junkyards. Throw Something Lovely Away Today.’

I just had to look this up. I couldn’t find any pictures of the sign in Canada, but I did find this photo from somewhere near Cape Girardeau, Missouri.

https://www.capecentralhigh.com/cape-photos/help-beautify-junkyards/

Plemmy is a Python library that might be helpful for building a bot: https://github.com/Fedihosting-Foundation/plemmy

Also this Lemmy API reference: https://lemmy.readme.io/reference/post_community-ban-user

Frame Saver is one example of an anti-rust product you can spread inside your frame: https://velo-orange.com/pages/how-to-use-frame-saver. Though as j4k3 mentioned these products are not perfect.

In reality, the rust in a steel frame isn’t usually bad enough to make the frame unusable. The bigger problem is interfaces between parts. Seatposts love to get stuck in steel frames that have been left in the rain too long. Screws, too.

Aluminum, titanium, and carbon frames will not corrode significantly in wet weather. In rainy areas you will sometimes find people who have a winter bike in one of those materials, and save their steel bike for the drier months.

It’s so pretty! 😻

Edit: Oh, I thought I was in noncredibledefense. I’m not normally this shitposty about guns, I promise.

And a Defend Equality sticker on the stock! Super based. This person has an open invitation to all my backyard cookouts next summer.

Nobody was hurt.

Sounds like it’s essentially a Sturmey-Archer kick-shift 2-speed hub, but each gear outputs to a separate cog.

-cartilage in joints can regenerate

-body can synthesize its own vitamin c

Other species already do these things smh.

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I think it’s really good!

There is an often-repeated story about Bill Watterson (the Calvin and Hobbes creator) destroying his first 500 paintings. That’s how much practice he thought he needed before his work was good. If you are not satisfied with your work, then just consider this one of your 500 pieces and keep going!

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“Tassie” sounds like a great name.

Since Lemmy does not let users delete DMs, we took the liberty of deleting the “federverse girl” spam DMs for all the users on our instance. If we missed yours then let us know. Or maybe there is another account sending those out that we haven’t mopped up yet?

And if you wanted to keep it for some reason, then I apologize.

I’m going to play devil’s advocate because I think this is a learning opportunity and I want to set someone up to give a good answer.

A lot of people hear “anarchy” and equate it with a lack of government. Haiti has not had a functioning government for quite some time. What distinguishes Haiti’s situation from anarchy?

I saw the same banner on my bank’s website the other day, and also wondered what the “full faith and credit of the US government” might really be worth in the near future.

If the FDIC goes away, then the question is which bank will be less likely to suffer a bank run. That is really hard to predict, since it is all about consumer confidence and marketing perceptions. Is your local savings-and-loan safer because they are stable and boring? Or is a huge national bank safer because it’s “too big to fail” and more likely to be bailed out in a crisis?

The best bet is diversification. Spread your savings among multiple banks, and consider putting it in things other than US dollars: real estate, gold, foreign currency, etc.

Yeah, usually the people who are good at running a revolution are not the same people you want running the government after the revolution.

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This right here. This is why I come to NCD.

I’m going to need to see some data.

I think your question needs some clarification. By “flat rate” do you mean a fixed percentage income tax on individuals, or a fixed percentage consumption tax like a universal sales tax? If it’s an income tax, do you only tax wages or do you also tax interest, dividends, and capital gains? Would any deductions be allowed? Is it only a tax on individuals’ income or do you also tax money earned by legal entities like businesses or investment trusts? If it’s sales tax, do you exempt necessities like food or medicine from the tax?