ALiteralCabbage

joined 9 months ago
[–] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 4 points 5 months ago

It's lovely kit!

Please don't use torque wrenches as general purpose ratchets! It's a great way to throw them out of calibration, and if you use a "clicker" type you might be over tightening by accident anyway (the "click" can act like an impact driver if you check tightness with them).

I used torque wrenches where appropriate - ie. On carbon parts and to ensure minimum tightness of contact points where manufacturers tolerances are expressly stated.

You'd be hard pressed to over torque with a 2 inch ratchet, mind you, you can apply more force with a standard T or L handled hex.

[–] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 3 points 5 months ago

That's the whole idea!

[–] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 3 points 5 months ago

I'm one of these people! The only downside I've ever noticed to being somewhat anemic is that I can't always donate blood which irks me a little bit I guess it makes sense!

In the UK they're unbelievably serious about it. If your iron levels are a fraction below their threshold you're out and barred for 12 months (unless you get a blood test by your GP).

[–] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 1 points 5 months ago

Why aren't they? I understand the nuance (The UK is in Europe but not the EU), and in certain situations the distinction is important; the UK is not it's own continent and Britons are Europeans.

But the two are (or have become) analogous when we're talking about trade and politics.

Just because not all European countries are in the EU doesn't mean that by saying you want better relations with the EU you want to tell Norway to go fuck themselves.

[–] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I guess they shouldn't have been vampires then, I guess. Who would have thought we had such a bloodsucker problem?

[–] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 5 points 5 months ago

What's your point? The Private schooling/Oxbridge education is a marker of wealth.

What's going unsaid here is that for a while it was possible, because of a functioning welfare state, that an approximation of the fallback that rich people had was available to the rest of us povvos; this is the issue. It also applies to business as well as art too, to be fair. Rupert can found a business selling bespoke cat earrings or whatever and if it fails he has a fall back. If I try to run a business that's shit or doesn't make money and it fails and I default on my mortgage.

It's standard pearl clutching because the concentration of people who can afford to work in creative industries in the upper economic echelons of society is something worth complaining about because it matters and we're culturally poorer as a result.

[–] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 1 points 5 months ago

Other than the ads, is there a compelling reason to?

[–] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Familiarity for one; it was a great Reddit client and it's a good Lemmy one too. I certainly made the shift to Lemmy a lot more frictionless.

It also has a sensible layout, decent customisation, the dev is (or was, at least) responsive to the users and it was a solution that 'just worked'.

I paid for ad free ages ago, moving from RIF and I hadn't looked back.

It hasn't been updated in a while though, so I'm playing with Thunder and it's been a pretty nice option as well. Plus, you know, FOSS and available on Droidify/F-Droid. It's far and away the best 'native' Lemmy clientnive used to date.

[–] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

In this case they are analogous though, really.

[–] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 2 points 5 months ago

Farmers are being asked to risk assess their land and install measures to prevent run-off reaching property and watercourses.

The best way to help prevent erosion is to plant trees. But farmers complained about that too when they forced policy u-turns because it would mean actually doing something to access grants.

[–] ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk 1 points 5 months ago

"attack" is doing some very heavy lifting here.

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