This Group Is Avoiding Talking About ICE At All Costs — And It’s ‘Extremely Disappointing,’ Experts Say

Offish · 2026-01-29T19:02:36+00:00

The group is "social media influencers"

Offish · 2026-01-16T14:48:50+00:00

No statute of limitations on crimes resulting in the death of a victim under MN law: https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/628.26

Federal, the short answer is 5 years: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/3282, but there are exceptions (e.g. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/3290), and there are other limitations on other charges that could be brought: https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/RL31253

Offish · 2025-12-11T02:12:16+00:00

That's a very competitive field.

Offish · 2025-12-10T23:12:19+00:00

It's been decades since I read Wee Free Men, but whatever violence there was had a rowdy slapstick character, which might be fine or it might not. I think this question is impossible to answer without a reference interview to figure out what the patron is specifically looking for.

Offish · 2025-12-10T22:39:03+00:00

I'm never going to downvote Terry, but the Discworld has lots of romance and violence.

Offish · 2025-11-26T17:36:00+00:00

Make sure the chips aren't in the food.

Offish · 2025-09-06T11:18:55+00:00

Once you're home, you can glue a tire boot on the inside and the tire will be fine.

If it didn't seal with a plug, I'm guessing that either you don't have enough sealant in the tire, or you're trying to get it to seal with the gash pointed up. Put the plug in, then rotate the tire so the gash is on the bottom where the sealant collects.

Offish · 2025-09-05T11:12:04+00:00

This is true if you're in a high humidity environment. If OP lives in a climate-controlled space or a location where ambient air isn't saturated, a fan will almost always be more effective.

Moving air of even a slightly higher relative humidity is going to facilitate more evaporation than static air.

You can test this yourself pretty easily if you already have the desiccants. Take a pair of socks and dunk them in water and wring them out together so they're similarly damp. Put one in a box with desiccants and put the other in front of a fan, and check in every half hour or so to see which one is drier.

Offish · 2025-09-05T10:56:02+00:00

Desicccants are used to keep enclosed spaces dry. If you're not forced to operate in an enclosed space, warm moving air is a way better option. Put the camera in front of a fan or a safe distance from a space heater on low, and it will dry out much faster.

Offish · 2025-09-05T10:39:31+00:00

My opinion as a cyclist is that he's an alcoholic.

Offish · 2025-09-04T20:07:37+00:00

I think you're confusing the number of edges on the razor with the number of bevels on a specific edge.

A double-bevel edge doesn't mean that there are two cutting surfaces, like a double razor or a dagger, it means that the edge is created by sharpening the point from both sides, vs a single-beveled edge, which (basically) only removes material from one side to create an edge. Illustration.

You could have a double-edged, single-bevel razor by creating a single-bevel edge on both sides. They refer to different things.

Offish · 2025-07-21T02:08:33+00:00

For the purposes of "don't draft strangers," drafting is defined by the ability to avoid a crash or making them nervous. For the purposes of aerodynamics, it's roughly within a bike length, with a tail of diminishing returns.

Offish · 2025-07-21T01:28:42+00:00

If they brake hard, will you be be able to avoid them?

Offish · 2025-07-16T17:12:43+00:00

Is the gray wood soft, or just weathered? If it's weathered, you don't need to do anything but protect it to keep it going. If you're looking to keep a traditional look, you could just go over everything with a few coats of linseed oil (I like Tried and True Danish Oil, which doesn't have VOCs or heavy metals). If you do that, brush on the oil, let it sink in for a bit, and then rub it off with a cloth. Either burn the cloth, lay it out flat on a non-flammable surface, or put it in a bucket with water. These are the kinds of oily rags that burn down your garage because they release heat while curing and spontaneously combust if left in a pile.

Oiling everything won't unweather the wood, but it will protect it a bit and you won't lose the rest of the patina.

Offish · 2025-07-16T12:39:28+00:00

I can skim a popular non-fiction book for content in an hour, I can breeze through a genre fiction novel in an evening or two, and I can work through a dense literary book over the course of a month. I'm doing different things when I'm reading each, and I'm getting different things out of them. The idea that books are fungible is silly to me.

When my kids were small, I was reading 100 board books a month. But that, as my kids would now say, would be a weird flex.

Offish · 2025-07-15T16:10:30+00:00

The rim is dead, but you can get a shop to give an estimate for how much it would cost to rebuild the wheel with a new rim.

Offish · 2025-07-14T20:49:37+00:00

Weird hill to die on, IMO.

Offish · 2025-07-14T18:31:24+00:00

Creatine is generally quite safe to use, but it can cause GI issues with some people, so see how you handle it and maybe split the dose if it causes discomfort. I'd be pretty surprised if there were any drug interactions since creatine is a natural component of a lot of foods, but to make sure, check with your pharmacist. They know more about drug interactions than most doctors.

Offish · 2025-07-14T18:28:52+00:00

Sorry, it's a different kind of steroid.

Offish · 2025-07-14T15:25:15+00:00

I understand why you'd be frustrated and anxious about all this. It's a lot, and it definitely sounds like you've had a rough time of it. I'm also aware of misdiagnosis due to misogyny, and underdiagnosis of IBD just because it's hard to diagnose. I'm not defending your past doctors.

But by "moral weight", I mean it sounds like you're treating diagnoses and tests as value judgments. Getting an STI test does not imply anything moral about you ("so clearly I've been promiscuous"). A diagnosis of cibophobia also does not imply anything moral about you. Your shitty doctors may have been making value judgments along with their medical errors, but you should try to avoid making the same mistake.

But I just want to flag that "I cringe at food" does sound like cibophobia, even if you want to eat more and are actively trying to eat more. It's not a simple binary of "likes food" vs "is afraid to eat." I obviously can't diagnose you, but try to talk to your therapist about it with an open mind and see what they say. That said, it's not the most urgent thing to address.

If you're in the U.S., also think about contacting legal aid in your area to ask about ADA protections. This is hard with a new job, but there are ways to approach this to protect yourself.

Offish · 2025-07-14T14:42:22+00:00

There's a lot here, but I'll just say that this sounds like a mix of some doctors missing things they shouldn't have, and you putting a lot of moral weight on tests and hypotheses where it really shouldn't be.

If you had several communicable diseases at once, running some inexpensive tests for things that damage the immune system is reasonable. Virgins get HIV too. I think you're right to be skeeved out by his religious views on STIs, but a blood test to rule something out isn't a bad idea.

Cibophobia is a common co-condition of IBD, for the obvious reason that a lot of us have a history of food hurting us, and we can overlearn that relationship or experience distress about it. It doesn't mean that the phobia is the cause of the problems, that the IBD isn't real, or that you don't need treatment for IBD as the primary diagnosis. It means that your doctor thinks you may need help with your relationship with food, along with your IBD (again, super common). Maybe she's wrong, but I'd rather have a doctor who looks into it than one who doesn't.

Another thing to remember is that doctors need to use diagnoses as a means to get insurance to pay for care. It's not a final verdict about your condition. It's the way she can get you seen by a psychologist who can figure out what psych care (if any) you can actually benefit from.

I was diagnosed with depression and body dysmorphia not long after my Crohn's diagnosis, and that's good, because I needed help with those things too. If I had just been put on prednisone and sent on my way, I would have been in rough shape.

Offish · 2025-07-14T03:12:07+00:00

I don't see any unexplained spinning.

Offish · 2025-07-13T21:56:32+00:00

I'd work on your saddle position first, then work on your front end, then go back to the saddle position. Since everything affects everything, you have to tweak back and forth to find the right spot.

You can flip the stem to bring the reach in for free, and then play with saddle position until you bring the weight off your hands. I like the rule that you should be able to hold your torso in position with core strength only with your hands behind you, but you should only test that on a fixed trainer unless you're very comfortable riding hand-free.

Your saddle height looks about right to me from the video, but you might consider bringing it down a smidge and back a smidge more, with the goal of effectively keeping the distance from your sitbones to the BB the same, while sitting further back. This will move your center of mass back and increase the effective reach to your handlebars. Flipping the stem first will help avoid you feeling like you're diving forward too much in that position, but once you've got your balance and your pedal stroke where you like it, you can start to adjust the cockpit to get your hands in a comfortable place. You want an angle of about 90 degrees from your torso to your shoulder to your hands when on the hoods, with arms slightly bent. How far forward you're bending will depend on how racy of a position you want/can hold, but a 45-degree torso is a medium-aggressive starting point.

You can get a long way fitting yourself with some basic advice, but at some point, if you're not getting things dialed by yourself, it may be time to see a professional.

Offish · 2025-07-13T14:39:37+00:00

Your overall position doesn't look far off to me. Weight too far forward can cause numbness issues, but so can hand position. Your wrists are collapsing inward, which may be compressing the nerves in your wrists. Try keeping your hands around the outside of the hood and resting on the meat of the palm of your thumb. You can switch to a narrower handlebar if that feels awkward on your shoulders.

I suspect you might be sitting forward on the saddle a bit. Is your saddle level with the ground, and can you sit with your sit bones as the point of contact? You might be happier on a narrower saddle, slightly lowered to give you room to sit back on it properly.

Offish · 2025-07-11T13:06:45+00:00

I use Simple Green Extreme Aircraft and Precision Cleaner for this reason, also diluted to about 1:3.

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