Showroom7561

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Showroom7561,

Not going to happen as long as tipping culture persists.

If patrons stopped tipping, and restaurant staff stopped working until a living wage is paid to them, what options do restaurant owners have? They'll have to accommodate or close their doors.

Either way is better for everyone, since a business that can't pay their employees isn't a viable business anyway.

Showroom7561,

The Park Tool channel should probably be on every cyclist's list.

I enjoy several bike touring channels, like:

But I'll also just watch random channels depending on what info I'm looking for at that time.

Bike Repair Stand Recommendations

Does anyone have a recommendation for home gamer bike repair stands? I’d like to find an inexpensive one that stows away easily or otherwise doesnt take too much space. Since I only need it maybe once or twice a year I can do without the hard core bike shop level of durability. For my needs it just needs to hold the bike off...

Showroom7561, (edited )

To be honest, unless you've got a heavy e-bike, any <$100 (EDIT: that's in USD. <$140 Canadian) stand should work well. E-bikes need a more robust stand capable of holding up the weight.

Most styles should fold up small for easy storage.

EDIT: I own this stand: https://www.bikehand.com/en/product-300463/Bicycle-Repair-Stand-YC-100BH.html, but also have a few others that are equally inexpensive and just as useful.

Showroom7561,

I'm getting up to your age, but over the last few years I've been spending less time (nearly no time) playing video games, and I grew up with them! The only exception is if my son and I are playing together, then I don't mind sinking a few hours into it.

Gaming is an investment of time.

Not that I find it unacceptable, especially if that's a pastime or hobby, but the older I get, the more I realize that I don't **want ** to spend any more time than I need to in front of a screen.

My priorities and commitments have also changed over the years, so any "free time" I get is usually spent maintaining the house, fixing something, running errands, being outdoors, or preparing meals for my family.

As a side note, I think some of my feelings have also been caused by the direction the gaming industry has gone.

I simply don't have the patience to be bothered with today's video game business model to really care at all about investing time into it. Microtransactions, "seasons", Gold/Platinum/GOTY/ versions, unnecessary grinds to get non-important stuff, ads in the console dashboard and in games, etc.

I'm more likely to play a retro game off an emulator than I am playing one on my Xbox Series X on a 120Hz, 4K, OLED TV.

Showroom7561,

I was considering a poncho, but opted for a lightweight rain jacket and cycling rain pants from Decathlon instead. Been caught a few times and the combo works really well. Keeping your hands dry is a different challenge 😅

Showroom7561,

I never understood the idea of banning plastic grocery bags. Every single person I know reuses them or uses them as trash bags for small garbage bins.

Now, you have to PAY excessive amounts for a box of brand new plastic bags to use for the same purpose... not a single plastic bag has been spared from entering the landfill by banning them at grocery stores. Not to mention that stores like Walmart don't even have appropriate carts for the bins I bring!

But as the article points out, now everything is excessively packaged in plastic at the grocery store! The other day I saw a single doughnut being sold in a hard plastic container... I mean, come on!

Showroom7561,

produce aisle was filled with rolls of plastic bags

Yeah, and they've made those produce bags so thin because they are trying to cut costs, that I have to double bag produce or risk losing them out the bottom of the bag.

I'm willing to bet that more plastic is entering landfills now than before.

Showroom7561,

Don't get me wrong, I've been using bins and reusable bags for years, even before stores forced you to use them, and even started using bike panniers to load up groceries or other store bought items.

But the difference now is that instead of reusing plastic grocery bags, I'm having to spend money buying brand new plastic bags.

In the end, I'm still using the same amount of plastic bags. -_-

Showroom7561,

Until someone develops a technology that can mitigate food spoilage without plastic packaging, it’s the most profitable option.

If the argument is, in fact, to prevent food spoilage, then we have plenty of solutions from compostable bags to rice-based food packaging.

But we also already do a LOT to prevent food spoilage... pasteurization, wax coatings, chemicals, irrigation, etc.

I mean, seriously, when the hell did we ever NEED to sell single cucumbers in plastic wrap or a bunch of tomatoes in a plastic bag or container? Never, but that's what's happening.

Go to any food market outside of North America and you don't see individual fruits wrapped in plastic or put into small containers.

The issue is MONEY. Companies don't want to do what's best, they want to do what's cheapest for them (i.e. more profitable) while offloading costs to consumers.

But circling back to compostable packaging, that STILL wouldn't solve the issue of plastic bags at grocery stores, since consumers are still buying them for their garbage bins, pet waste, etc., rather than reusing the plastic bags they loaded their groceries in.

Showroom7561,

For sure. We've drastically reduced how many bags we use, but it's not always possible. Some bins don't have bags, and a few others are designed to simply hold a bag (i.e. no bin), so they kind of need one.

But several others need a bag, not only for hygienic reasons, but also because I'd be wasting more resources on scrubbing them clean every time they are emptied.

Showroom7561,

Not really.

Just throwing out some (completely made up) numbers, but let's assume that there are two options:

  1. High-quality bags, where you only need one. $0.10 each.
  2. Super-cheap bags, which would require the customer to double up to be safe. $0.03 each.

Using two super cheap bags would cost them $0.06 instead of $0.10. Hell, the customer could use three bags and still save them money, but with 3x more bags in the landfill with no chance to reuse them because of how shitty they are to begin with.

I have no idea what the actual numbers are, but having been in an industry where these decisions come up, I'm confident that the hypothetical above is accurate to how they do things.

And it's not like I don't appreciate the effort to save on material, like what Amazon has been doing with their boxes, but the use of these cheap bags isn't doing anything but saving them money.

Showroom7561,

I really hope that plastic entering landfills is down, I really do. I don't want to use plastic bags, but since there are circumstances where I need to, I would rather reuse old grocery bags than buy new plastic bags.

For produce, I've also used reusable mesh bags, which do work. The problem is that it takes resources to clean those and they arent cheap. I also cant reuse them for something like pet poop.

Showroom7561,

Yes, we actually do use them! They are an added cost over the free bags we used to get, however. And they arent as durable or odor proof as actual plastic. Still, it has its uses so well continue to use them.

The issue with compostable bags in a landfill is that they arent designed to be there. So while they might decompose a little, they might also just stick around like regular plastic.

Maybe landfills of the future will better handle these types of bags, but there's no harm in using them if you've got them 👍

Showroom7561,

High school grades just seem to be fake at this point.

My kid and his friends, who graduate this year, never had homework, yet they all have 90%+ grades.

When I was growing up, you might have had one kid in the class with over a 90 in any given subject, and they worked their ass off every waking hour.

Now? 20 minutes of 'work' a day and they're acing the class. This doesn't benefit their future at all.

Showroom7561,

That's a nice thought, but I know that's not what's happening. Even during the pandemic the online classes were extremely basic and still no homework was given.

Showroom7561,

We need a replacement for r/frugal 😃

Showroom7561,

What city?

As another person said, it depends.

Where I live (population under 175,000), many roads don't have bike lanes, but I only avoid a handful where the speeds are too fast and the roads are in poor condition.

Generally speaking, if you are visible, riding in a predictable way, and are aware of your surroundings, it should be quite doable.

Showroom7561,

Sometimes, using bone conduction earphones.

Honeslty, I love the sounds of nature, so I don't listen to music nearly as much on my bike as I would on an escooter.

Showroom7561,

Yes, full hearing, which is why they work so well while cycling. I even wear them while watching TV and I can still hear the ticking of a clock from the next room 😂

Showroom7561,

I went to three pride events this month and two had extremist Jesus freaks on loudspeakers. Exactly three people in total. 😂😂😂😂

These hateful idiots are a fraction of a percent, and will continue to go away with time.

One way to make them really uncomfortable is to repeatedly ask why they don't do anything about priests who molest kids. They squirm when confronted by that question.

Showroom7561,

Good for you!! A century is fun, and I think you'll be able to pull it off =)

Several +50km rides behind me at the moment

What's your current max distance, and was it very difficult, moderately difficult, or easy?

How much food should I pack?

Without knowing much about you or your riding style, take the amount of food you'd normally ride with for your 50km rides, and double it + add a little extra.

I've never been good with packing food or water, TBH. Sometimes, I'll come back from a century with most of my water and snacks untouched. LOL Sometimes, I'll go on short rides and will run out of everything.

My habit recently is to keep an eye on my calorie consumption on my bike computer, and make sure that I'm eating MORE than what the display shows. I'll also make sure to carb load the night before and the morning of my ride.

If I do it right, 100km is relatively easy. If I get my calories wrong, it's a very hard ride home.

Do you guys use sports drinks etc for hydration?

No, but I've been considering it just because it gives you calories, fluids, and electrolytes in one go. I'm a cheap bastard, so that's what's holding me back from using them.

I will bring water only, but will have electrolyte sachets in my trunk bag just in case I need it. I also like to bring water only because water only can be used for more than just drinking (handwashing, wound cleansing, etc.).

Any surprises I shouls know comparing the ride to shorter ones?

Provided that you're comfortable on your bike, it's just a longer version of your short ride :)

But... if you'll be out in the sun and heat much longer than you're used to, use sunscreen and hydrate more than normal. I find that the sun kicks my ass, while cloudy rides are much easier. For that reason, I've also been using thin arm sleeves to help with UV and to keep a little cooler.

Good luck!!

Showroom7561,

"The one trick that all advertisers hate!" LOL

Showroom7561,

Is that a Wike trailer? If so, how do you like it?

Showroom7561,

Since I can't stand twitter, and since so many of my local groups use twitter, I use FreshRSS (self-hosted) to list new posts via Nitter's RSS feature.

I also use RSS for Lemmy content and a few Reddit communities I still follow (until they show up on Lemmy) via old.reddit.com.

And some updates from YouTube channels or software release notes.

Really, my goal is to consolidate things, so I'm not checking 10 different sources every day.

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