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by ben7799 5y ago
Those riders are all influencers and likely getting the tires through sponsorship though, that is something that always needs to be kept in mind with cycling. They don't make enough money to necessarily be able to ride what they think
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by ben7799 5y ago
If the weather is cold (as it was) the meat will freeze and/or can be dried quickly and be preserved over the course of the winter. Modern subsistence hunters still do this. Hunt a large animal or two at the start of winter and the me
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by ben7799 5y ago
Looks like a great article, I will have to spend some time listening, though I've already listened to tons of Miles Davis over the years. These articles are always missing a ton when they're written by a non-musician. That seems
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by ben7799 5y ago
The Rene Herse tires are just branding on tires he has made for him by Panaracer. They used to be called Compass Tires till he made a deal with the Rene Herse estate to use the Herse name for branding. He basically asks Panaracer to make
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by ben7799 5y ago
I live in New England, we sometimes have watering bans but overall we have nothing like California. We already have graduated water increases in my town, go above a certain limit and your price will go up 5X. It seems insane that any place
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by ben7799 5y ago
Not sure if you grew up in the US, but a lot of people in the US make a conscious decision it's not worth it to work hard earlier in life to have a better outcome later in life. I grew up in Massachusetts, one of the most educated stat
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by ben7799 5y ago
My father has had a pair of B&W 7xx loudspeakers for almost 30 years now. Once you get something like that there's no reason to ever look at anything else again unless you've got issues. I've spent a ton of time listening
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by ben7799 5y ago
Excellent points... almost no hi-fi no matter how high end actually captures what instruments in the room sound like since instruments just don't act the same way. The recordings themselves don't capture a lot of that information
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by ben7799 5y ago
Plenty of selfish Americans would think doing anything that's done in Asia is unamerican cause personal responsibility and all that. It's a position that makes no sense but I bet we can expect people who put on masks to be harasse
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by ben7799 5y ago
It's from a David Brin book IIRC... Existence. Good book.. there are a class of people worth trillions of dollars and he explores all kinds of weird things that could happen. Like trillie teenagers launching themselves into space on
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by ben7799 5y ago
I hope you draw and quarter your friends who spend $50k+ on sedans/coupes/sports cars that have no reason for being other than to go faster than is legal and to burn extra gas. It's a slippery slope to go down to say you know
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by ben7799 5y ago
You can rent from U-haul and use it as an actual work truck no problem. I damaged a U-haul once and it was fine, it was all covered. We rented a U-haul this year and hauled about 2000lbs of stuff to the dump with it in one trip.
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by ben7799 5y ago
Who said anything about 5 times a year? And most people on this site are driving ICE cars and SUVs which are much less efficient than an F-150 EV and are themselves very oversized.
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by ben7799 5y ago
I have rented trucks and cars plenty.. it would be quite a bit of a hassle for a lot of these jobs though. The traveling back and forth to pick up the rental and then take it back would add significant time and require someone else to take
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by ben7799 5y ago
Different argument but I can support that. Point being people who live an apartment are far more likely to be buying a truck because they want it, and far less need for it for actual jobs & chores.
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by ben7799 5y ago
I own a Subaru Outback too and the greenwash earthy crunchy marketing/image of the Outback is horrible. It's a pig of a car in traffic. Mine is a 2013 with the smaller engine and it struggles to get 20mpg in traffic. It was a ch
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by ben7799 5y ago
Good point. It's also super easy in these situations at a nursery, etc.. that the car or SUV owner has to make multiple trips and waste tons of gas because the vehicle can't hold much. People who don't own homes too easily fo
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by ben7799 5y ago
Right the stereotyping here is ridiculous and full of out of control virtue signaling. If you live in an apartment complex it's ridiculous to have a truck. But Even if you own just a reasonable suburban house with a small amount of lan
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by ben7799 5y ago
Hot nonsense. Most sedans have a max payload < 1000lbs including all passengers. An F-150 has a payload over 3000lbs and can tow up to 14,000lbs. Do you need that for your groceries? No, but if you don't live in the heart of the c
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by ben7799 5y ago
Blame for killing falls on the driver of the vehicle, not on the company designing it or the shape of the front of the vehicle. Don't hit anyone with your vehicle and you won't kill anyone. I've been hit by a truck bicycling
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by ben7799 5y ago
Excellent points, people need to have perspective about high value traditional gear in a lot of cases today. There's a lot of perspective lost on some of this ultra high end handheld digital camera gear these days. A $500-1000 drone ca
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by ben7799 5y ago
Yah I should have called out that there are different interests and Photography is very much composed of: - Photographers - Modern Gear collectors - Vintage Gear collectors You can have a little bit of each of these 3 you're interested
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by ben7799 5y ago
DPreview was owned by Amazon last time I looked. They exist mostly to pump up the camera market and generate sales. Their writing is very much in the vein of "your gear is inadequate if a new version has come out." They are real
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by ben7799 5y ago
I'm not trying to pick on Roger he writes well and his stuff is way higher quality than most DPReview content. He rents lenses, and a big point of what I'm saying is these fancy lenses are very often specialist tools that are much
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by ben7799 5y ago
The think with an Anandtech chipset review is the faster chipset doesn't have big negatives unless power consumption is a major concern. The excessive weight of these modern 50mm lens can be a real detriment to getting better photograp
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by ben7799 5y ago
I love 50mm lenses but a lot of this stuff is ridiculously academic since photography is artistic & creative in nature. DPreview largely seems to write for the crowd that doesn't even care about the art aspect and just wants valida
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by ben7799 5y ago
The problem with the Kinesis is you're never going to always have a Kinesis available if you have to use someone else's computer, so it's really hard to really get to the point you use it correctly without thinking about it.
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by ben7799 5y ago
There's more than one type of RSI, carpal tunnel is only one particular injury. I've had severe typing RSI and had to go to the doctor for it.. mine was tendonitis in the flexor muscles. They looked at the X-Rays and MRIs of my wr
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by ben7799 5y ago
I didn't go off on a wild goose chase trying different O-rings. I believe I did the experiment on a Das Keyboard Professional something and I used the O-rings that Das Keyboard recommended and sold. It all got silly at some point. T
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by ben7799 5y ago
Interestingly I'm old enough that I learned to type on buckling spring type keyboards. But back when I was learning no one ever even discussed any of this stuff. I didn't meet the first person I knew with RSI till I got out of c

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