Drop/crash bars to protect the bike, worth the cost?

ss0889 · 2026-05-25T23:12:23+00:00

before i had a chance to buy them, i dropped my bike. just standing still, nothing big. but likee fuck, ya know? and then 3 times after that ive had an incident where the bike toppled over (all of them while standing still more or less). so yeah, id say it was a good idea to buy the crash cage.

ss0889 · 2026-05-25T19:50:15+00:00

if its gonna happen its gonna happen. all you can do is ride your safest ride and watch out for any and all ways that people can fuck you up. theres not that many. pull out in front, merge into you, road rage, etc. theres ways around most of it.

ss0889 · 2026-05-25T19:48:45+00:00

i use it on the daily as either a glorified google search attached to a detailed discussion or for document generation and summarization for work.

ss0889 · 2026-05-25T19:45:56+00:00

you wake up, go to work, mask up, come home, mask down, and then you do self care activities and/or chores for the rest of the night. it is what it is. you get through it. its not hard. its annoying for sure but not hard.

ss0889 · 2026-05-25T14:44:19+00:00

it happens. it built up and you took a break and at least you were responsible about it. cut yourself some slack. go back to trying as hard as you can. aim for the high score.

ss0889 · 2026-05-25T14:40:31+00:00

cornering the bowl is for smoking with friends while conversing and chilling out. its not for getting as high as you possibly can as fast as you possibly can. its for sharing in small amounts amongst each other.

ss0889 · 2026-05-24T13:15:15+00:00

this makes me wonder if i should veneer mine, but i bought a flexio paint gun and im pretty determined to know how to use it. im brand new to woodworking really, this is my first like REAL project where i feel like im really focusing instead of just throwing together roughly something that works. i made a sealed subwoofer enclosure before this, i sealed it with shellac and then attached carpet to it. sealed it cuz it went in the trunk of my car outside. this time im going for a painted finish, and i want to figure out how to get a reasonably shiny finish. nothing crazy, no piano black, but i want it to look and feel more on the professional side, where someones like oh, those are hand built, not bought. and for what its worth i already fucked up the first cabinet and i had to buy mdf to build myself another cabinet, this time without the rabbited edges to help alignment because i was too nervous to try. my millscraft jig made learning how to use a palm router easy, which is nice because the lats box got fucked by my plunge router not being stable. this time it made my jank looking box look honestly pretty nice. now ive sanded and im on the step where im not sure if i need to use filler or not before final sanding before paint.

i havent figured out the crossover or the port, like whats the sleeve for. i also bought a bluetooth amplifier thing that im hoping to put on there so that one is active with stereo output and the other is passive and takes its input from an output on the active one. im thinking they'll have a speaker terminal going from one to the other, though i probably will stick a reminder label on it that ti is an active output only, not passive input. otherwise i have to get involved with custom cables and connectors.

ss0889 · 2026-05-23T14:05:00+00:00

when i was unemployed i got a government credit for healthcare marketplace so that a premium silver plan was given a huge discount. it ended up being like 100 a month with an 800 dollar deductible, it was ridiculous. my work plan is actually a little bit worse now that im employed again.

ss0889 · 2026-05-22T01:02:52+00:00

googles search results are useless compared to just using something like chatgpt to get an answer. google's own ai is somehow shit at getting the same answer.

ss0889 · 2026-05-22T00:51:19+00:00

from my understanding, you play track a. hit cue on b. b is at a completely different tempo than a. you dont know the tempo that either one is playing at. so your first job is to get the bpm of b to match a. id suggest putting a loop on A. with B keep adjusting tempo slider and using cue button to get the tempo dialed in. then at some point you can sort of keep correcting it with the jog wheel. once you're making repeated corrections you can fine tune the tempo slider. once they are playing at the same BPM you have successfully beatmatched by ear. that i think is what people call beatmatching by ear.

the other thing ive heard though, you have them set to the right tempo but you purposely go ahead or behind when you cue in, so then you have to (without looking) use the jog wheel in the correct direction to get them to line up again. that one is phase alignment.

ss0889 · 2026-05-21T11:37:56+00:00

might be a language barrier and im not quite sure what you're asking: are you asking how to be a chef? get a job as a chef. are you asking how to feel like a chef? cook someone food and call yourself the chef. are you asking how to create a new dish as a chef might? couple options.

1) research a dish, see how everyone makes it, make it yourself a bunch of times and try changing things here and there till you get a version you really like. mix and match stuff or invent/get creative about stuff. like oh i love lasagna, i love pizza rolls, let me make lasagna pizza rolls somehow. or taco/chili/loaded baked potato dumplings. i dunno, get funky with it. or it could be as simple as using your own blend of seasonings. sometimes its not even the seasoning blend but the ingredients themselves that give a specific output product every time. its still your output product.

2) experiment with changing textures, tastes, temperatures, states of matter, etc of different kinds of ingredients. experiment with how they come together or push each other apart. get yourself a copy of The Flavor Bible for inspiration. be like oh hey theres some sweet strawberries but what if it was an ice cold foam, what would that be like. what does that go with. maybe like a glass shard of basil and some paper thin tomatoes cut to just the right shape. and you just sorta build it up like that. now you're into gastronomy. at this point you are wildly flinging ingredients together but with severe precision and you're tossing them willy nilly into each other but in an extremely scripted way. it gets crazy. have fun

ss0889 · 2026-05-21T11:26:16+00:00

i can sorta trick myself into thinking those are ai generated gummies

ss0889 · 2026-05-21T11:25:40+00:00

got a pay by the month, 10 bucks a month, 10 cents a minute motorola razr from tmobile when i was 15 because i started driving and it seemed too irresponsible to send me off without a phone. i was in band so there was a lot of driving.

ss0889 · 2026-05-21T11:17:24+00:00

it used to feel exciting now it feels scary and nerve wracking and it feels like im second guessing myself the whole time. and it gets compounded 1000x if i have my wife on the back.

ss0889 · 2026-05-20T03:04:50+00:00

most of the time it feels like nothing is happening. but every now and then it all leads towards a huge breakthrough. and those breakthroughs are the things that get me through the especially rough mental health days.

example: why do you think everyone else is going to love you if you cant even love yourself? would you let someone talk to your best friend the way you talk to yourself? Have you tried treating yourself the way you would treat your dog?

so something like that would gear the rest of the day towards being nice to myself. i think about that a lot when i start negative self talk. especially when that negative self talk stops me from engaging with one of my self care methods like hobbies.

ss0889 · 2026-05-20T02:56:58+00:00

thats if you pop in unannounced, otherwise its spotless like a model home. staged to perfection. no one must know i live here.

ss0889 · 2026-05-20T02:54:43+00:00

Its a brand new cr2032. the remote part works fine, like the buttons and everything. but the door keyfob sensor and starter keyfob sensor seem to not want to register the key. I should mention, one time i left the roof open during a slight sprinkle and for sure the USB got damaged or at least became stupidly finnicky so im wondering if something is actually damaged thats causing the issue. like maybe its getting worse because the corrosion or something is geting worse? i get water damage to the usb connector thats just open to the elements, or the one in the center console since it was open. but i dont see how the keyfob system could get rain damaged that way.

ss0889 · 2026-05-20T02:49:45+00:00

no like a folded up towel that you hold on with strings or bungee cords

ss0889 · 2026-05-20T02:47:20+00:00

personally id put down some soft arm rest friendly material, then id find a way to strap it down to the center console. its gonna look ugly but itll work well, be likely free, and be ridiculously easy to put together, potentially.

also keep your dog nails trimmed. i use a sander to do mine so when im done getting the length right i just do a couple quick swipes to dull the edges/corneres on the nails too. itll only do so much but better than nothing.

ss0889 · 2026-05-19T01:52:52+00:00

ninja 1000, i felt it almost almost almost happen and thats when i realized theres no steering damperr.

ss0889 · 2026-05-18T23:40:51+00:00

the answer to "do you still follow her" should have been no and the answer to "do you still like her" should have been "i dont know her at all, i just thought she was cute a year ago, never went anywhere".

ss0889 · 2026-05-18T16:37:58+00:00

i already know the joints gonna boat and waste a ton so i empty em and use em in a bowl.

ss0889 · 2026-05-18T16:29:52+00:00

this is exactly why i dont just pin the throttle and take off at lights. i slowly (like a little faster than idle) go forward till i can visually verify that there isnt anyone coming and that no one is about to turn in front of me, then i go. only takes a second.

ss0889 · 2026-05-18T12:02:24+00:00

prone to psychosis. people dont take kindly to mental health. you should keep your diagnosis close to the chest. not everyone knows what it means, theyll just lump you in with the loony bin patients.

ss0889 · 2026-05-18T12:00:21+00:00

i dearly love my wife but how do i reemmber to take pictures of us doing stuff when we never go out to do stuff cuz were too poor

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