MaxMalRichtig

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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • WD-40 is not a lubricant. At least not in the sense of one you would need for a bike chains. The oil-film that it places between the chain links is so thin that it doesn’t really reduce friction enough. So your chain will wear quicker if you just use WD40 alone.

    Personally, I don’t care too much about chain wear and just take a cotton rag and some standard chain oil. In the evening, I just dry-wipe my chain clean, apply some oil and then wipe off the access again. Works good enough for me. Also: The oil can be used on other parts and bearings as well.

    If you want to have a very low maintainence chain (in dry weather conditions) you could also look into waxing your chain. However, there is some additional invest (time & material) needed to set it up initially.




  • MaxMalRichtigtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldJust a negative vegan?
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    11 days ago

    Read my second sentence again.

    The thing I am SURE about is, that using words and concepts from one area and postulating that they are applying in the same sense in another area, just because we found some loose similarity or similar trait, is logically not sound. See False-Equivalence

    Our understanding of “pain” only makes sense when applying it to beings with a nervous system, because this word describes just THAT.

    It’s like talking about hair and hairstyles and then applying the derived insights to birds, because their feathers “remind” us of hair.

    It just doesn’t apply. Other contexts require dedicated concepts that are not “loaded” by using termina from irrelevant concepts.

    Emotive language does not help your argument. It weakens any validity it might have otherwise.


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    11 days ago

    Plants don’t “feel pain”. The entire concept of “pain” is alien to everything without a central nervous system.

    Plants DO however react to stressful external stimuli. They do that in a way, that we will never be able to relate to.

    Some publications use words as “pain” and “suffering” in that context in order to go give non-academic folks something to relate. But on a scientific level, these terms are irrelevant at best.


  • I have a split ergo and set a dedicated layer on one half as a “navigation layer”. There, I have pyramid on ESDF, skip word forward/back, start/end of line, … I placed these other movement-keys around the ESDF cluster “logically” as I don’t care to much on saving space on a dedicated layer.