SwampNut

Apparently once one Chinese vendor gloms on to a particular compatibility and fitment, they all do. I've tried twice to buy a rear brake line clamp for the XR. Both ended up being for the L model, not XR650R. Totally different bikes. Every listing has it backwards. Today I ordered the one for the XR650L. From the parts catalog: My bike: The listings:

Looking at the SDS for Methyl 2-hydroxybenzoate says it's pretty damn volatile with a vapor pressure of 13, boiling temp of 222. But it will be trapped inside the rubber which changes things. This is a great question and hopefully Oscar will love the R5 enough to report in a couple years. I suspect that trapped in the rubber, it will behave like most oils and be pretty stable. Also...tip...the SDS for any product can tell you so much about it. When I wonder what something is actually composed of, or how it may work, I read the SDS. It also points out just how dangerous some things are that are sold to consumers willy-nilly. For industrial use they'd require PPE, but for you to use...meh.

Holy shit.

I totally understand and no hard feelings. You two just can't help making up stuff and posting it as fact. If you are even two people, you're too much alike, I still think you're just two personalities of one person. I understand how little attention your mom(s) gave you and your need to achieve redemption now. Except all you're doing is adding more people who full time ignore you and will never see your bullshit. But apology accepted, and in the future you could maybe just take 20 seconds in google to see if you're going to make a fool of yourself with what you just typed. Or put your sentence in ChatGPT so it can fix it for you.

It makes sounds, but has been flushed regularly. And once just two months ago. This valve has been slowly flowing less and less hot water for months, maybe years, and it was just most noticeable now that the water is barely above solid state. I'm not picturing how that could have come from an obstruction, and think it's a bad valve.

I haven't googled it, figured there would be some experience here. I got the setscrew out with some effort, but the handle won't come op, with pretty significant pulling. The plumbing is actually moving, so there's some risk here. Ideas on removing it? I don't see a great way to get a lube/penetrant in there. It's 18 years old, house lived with very hard water for the first six years of its life. The hot setting is barely passing water, and it's fucking winter.

Yes, you're absolutely right, people who have no clue shouldn't just make up shit, but here we are. Also your obsession with replying to people who can't see your posts is absolutely darling.

I accept yours too.

Surely another apology for just making shit up and spouting it as fact, right? Right?

FAKE TOFU?????

The only electronic difference in the sub-models is the cellular option which is completely retarded. There are color and material options too, as well as two sizes. This is the larger size, base materials, enhanced band. All of them can take all bands within their size.

LOL. Tomek has never let a random problem like reality get in his way. I keep wondering why he thinks I don't exercise too, but not enough to read the drivel and see the back story if there is one. Speaking of which, it's now too cold to mountain bike. Tomorrow it will rain, which means Monday will be peak ground quality and no dust, for both the MTB and the XR650, but so fucking cold.

Hmm, what are the odds that this is an apology for being a pompous asshole while being completely wrong, yet again, and giving people bad advice based on arrogant assumptions? Anyone got a bet? Bueller? Me too. When I tried a version of what I thought was carnivore, it included fiber and other plant micronutrients for the obvious reasons. It's clearly impossible to be 100% vegan, and I believe it's just as clearly impossible to be 100% carnivore.

Well, I now officially think there are people crazier than me on this planet. For now.

So it's literally carnivore as in zero veggies? I thought it was predominantly so, but no humans have lived as pure carnivores other than Eskimos/Inuit/Alaska Natives/snow niggers/whatever we are allowed to say now. So it's truly just animal protein and fats, no plants at all?

As I was stocking up today, it occurred to me that someone who is too stupid to understand a carbohydrate (but still wants to preach about it) may also be too stupid to read a label. Beans, of course, do not need additives, and a home made bean is no better. Also, both nutritionists and chefs agree that canned tomatoes are better and better for you than fresh, in most cases. They are picked at perfection and stabilized immediately, sealing in all the nutrition. "Fresh" tomatoes are never properly ripened unless you go buy them at the farm today. And nutrition loss happens to most fruit and veggies once picked. This precipitous decline of nutritional value as soon as the florets are harvested was also echoed by others. One study in the journal Food Chemistry, for instance, found that broccoli could lose up to 70% of its vitamin C and beta-carotene and 50% of its antioxidant activity in just six days.

You're gonna need a stiffer pull string. So we're standing on the docks, and a Jet Ski pulls up saying that a friend needs help, their boat is dead. Ok, we spring into action, grab a few ropes. A friend is walking to a boat with an arm full of ropes, when another friend asks, "So...are you gonna pull them in or push them in?"

Because drawing it through an unattached conduit would be way harder.

Yeah, absolutely nothing about a 30+ year old cable would be applicable today. Even the metallurgy. Not one thing is the same, except maybe their continued cheaping out by using recycled electrons. But that includes the pre-loading of cable; that was a very bad idea in the past, today's jackets are impervious to most solvents. After your buying spree at deflated prices, are you going to get on a suspect list?

Today's blog adds to this on the topic of sugar. You know, the thing your tax dollars subsidize, including advertising to tell you that sugar is good for you. (Narrator voice: It's sure as fuck not.) I simply cut out simple sugars long ago. Eventually my tastes changed so I really need very little other substitutes for it. My one indulgence is about half a teaspoon of raw sugar (10-15 calories, 2-3 grams carbs) with espresso every morning. https://nutritionfacts.org/blog/sugar-and-gaining-weight/ The bottom line is that “randomised controlled trials show that increasing sugars intake increases energy [calorie] intake” and “increasing sugar intake leads to body weight gain in adults, and…sugar reduction leads to body weight loss in children.” For example, when researchers randomized individuals to either increase or decrease their intake of table sugar, the added sugar group gained about three and a half pounds over ten weeks, whereas the reduced sugar group lost about two and a half pounds. A systematic review and meta-analysis of all such ad libitum diet studies—real-life studies where sugar levels were changed but people could otherwise eat whatever they wanted—found that reduced intake of dietary sugars resulted in a decrease in body weight, whereas “increased sugars intake was associated with a comparable weight increase.” The researchers found that, “considering the rapid weight gain that occurs after an increased intake of sugars, it seems reasonable to conclude that advice relating to sugars intake is a relevant component of a strategy to reduce the high risk of overweight and obesity in most countries.” That is, it’s reasonable to advise people to cut down on their sugar consumption.

Also just in case this isn't already in your tool bag, but....cable lube.

With billions at stake, big pharma will shut down speech at any cost.

LOL, so much made up shit that exists only in his head. And canned beans are bad...WTF. They are an indulgence also, for when I haven't made fresh beans, or for camping or whatever. And of course just as healthy, at least, as my own, but I can make more variety on my own. There's no reason to make your own otherwise. I've recommended canned for QUICK meals that are totally healthy. Jesus, so much stupid packed into one thread.

Well dumbass, if you simply stop eating (insert magic Dumbfuckistan idea) you can cure diabetes! If that's possible, anything is possible. Also fiber is bad for you, it's a carb, everyone should stop eating it. Especially those on a carnivore diet. Totally not necessary. Chris, sorry your thread got shit on by the Polack, but it does remind me that if you're doing this, you've really got to supplement fiber. A friend is successfully doing it, but found clear evidence that fiber is still crucial for health. He also uses pre/pro-biotics regularly.

Portion control was the answer from many people pushing various diets. I've never bought into it. And the evidence is more and more obvious that this is not the answer. This is a well studied doctor and nutritionist's view on it from a few days ago. Also note that Weight Watchers has openly announced that their past diet plans were not really correct, as far as simply eating less and/or just going low fat. What you eat matters more than just how many calories it has. https://nutritionfacts.org/blog/the-new-rule-for-calories-per-pound-of-weight-loss/ If you’re eating the same diet that led to the original weight problem but just in smaller servings, you should expect your appetite to rev up by about 45 calories per pound lost. So, if you were cutting 500 calories a day through portion control alone, even before you were down a dozen pounds, you’d feel so famished that you’d be driven to eat 500 more calories a day and your weight loss could vanish. For this reason, if you’re dead set on eating the same diet with the same foods, just in smaller quantities, you have to cut down an additional 45 calories per pound of desired weight loss to offset your hunger drive. So, to take off that one pound, instead of consuming just 10 fewer calories a day using the 10 Calories per Pound Rule, you’d have to eat 10 fewer calories on top of the 45 fewer calories to account for the revving up of your appetite. Thus, it would be 10 + 45 = 55 fewer calories. Indeed, just by changing diet quantity and not quality, it takes 55 fewer calories per day to lose a pound, so that daily 500-calorie deficit would only net you about a 9-pound weight loss over time instead of 50 pounds. That’s why portion control methods can be such a frustrating failure for so many people.