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Sounds like the "Magic Eye" stereograms of the 90's 🤪

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2nd attempt.
I think the heater thing in the top corner is broken, because 🥶

#PhotosFromEarth

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You'd better review that contract, and carefully check every fee line.

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I read that another way; after borrowing a sword & sorcery book from the local library and being rather annoyed that it was about 50% explicit tongues, fingers, "throbbing manhood plunging" etc. instead of a plot.

I was a bit surprised that this content was in a public library, without any guidance to the content, and it took some careful looking to find a tiny mention of sexually explicit content, on the back cover, in tiny font, in colour which only slightly contrasted to the illustration.

So I initially interpreted "no matter how small" as applying to the physical size and prominence of the warning, not the amount of content.🤪

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"Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid"
by Douglas Hofstadter

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Josefa Heifetz Byrne
"Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words"

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I thought I'd initially try a low cost, low effort experiment, so I melted some tea-light candles, and added a squirt of powdered graphite from the hardware store. I cleaned the chain in turps, then methylated spirits. Melted the wax in an old saucepan, and swirled the chain around in it for a bit.

I was really happy with how clean the chain stayed, and how I didn't have to clean and lube it after every single ride.

Since then, I've added a magnet to the jars when cleaning the chain, because I accidentally noticed how much metal dust came out of a brand new chain. Also added some microcrystalline wax, on the advice of TraceVelo.

I haven't bought any commercial wax products, no wax melting appliances, no ultrasonic cleaners, no special chain hangers, holders, or lifters, no wax temperature monitoring devices, no "chain breaking" jigs to articulate the chain after waxing,…

I really feel that the basic idea of waxing, which works, is in the process of being turned into some highly commercialised and overcomplicated way of extracting money from people who ride bikes.😡

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I have 2 waxed (9 sp) chains that I swap between. I'm just coming up to 10,000 km on the bike computer, but there were some more km before it.
The chain checker is currently not showing any noticeable wear.

Prior to learning about waxing, I was eating through the chains on my old 7-speed, because of the salty water and sandy soil of the lakes I ride around.
Wearing out chains, and cassettes, and wheel bearings, and socks (from the oily chain mess stains) and oil, and rags.
Now with wax, it's just check wheel bearings and decrease if needed.
Waxed chain stays clean and lasts.

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Now I can *officially* feel smugly superior to those who enshittify "enshittification" by not spelling it with the double-t.
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