We should be friends.

I’m 90% sure this is a troll. Don’t feed trolls.

animatedknots.com - amazing step by step on how to properly tie things. The downside is that there are a lot of knots that are either hyper specific or more decorative than anything. I climb and sail - both are knot-heavy. 95%of the time I use one of five or six knots/hitches. I’d focus on the utilitarian knots personally. These are the knots that can accomplish real stuff - but if you get them wrong, could be fatal in the wrong circumstances.

• Simple overhand - great for keeping a loose end from flopping around, connecting two ropes (need long tails or a secondary knot to keep it from moving), or joining webbing (known as a water knot in this context)
• bowline - great for tying around things like if you want to anchor something to a tree
• figure 8 - the go-to for tying yourself into a rope when climbing. I rarely use it anywhere else as it’s bulky and difficult to untie if loaded hard. A bowline can be used in its place for tying in, but the big advantage of the 8 is that it’s easy to visually check. Every few years a miss-tied bowline kills a climber.
• clove hitch - this one is super underrated. It looks like you just wrapped a rope around something but it self tightens thanks to the way the strands lie over each other. It’s also super easy to adjust.
• trucker hitch - it’s really just a couple of overhand knots, but this one is my default for lashing down loads because you can get the rope super tight. This is how I tie my canoe down to the roof of the car.
• fisherman knots - killer for connecting ropes - or making non-load-bearing adjustable loops (bracelets, necklaces), or tidying up loose ends.

Bonus knots *alpine butterfly - gives you a load bearing loop in the middle of a rope without requiring access to the ends. An overhand on a bight also gives a loop, but the overhand can move when loaded. Alpine butterfly stays where you put it, looks cool, and is fun and easy to tie. *prussic - this hitch can slide along a rope when unloaded and then locks when you apply weight. This let’s you move up or down a fixed line. A Texas Prussic involves one prussic attached to your harness and one free but with a foot loop. Hang on the harness prussic, slide the unloaded foot one up the rope. Stand up on the foot one (locks in place) and slide the unweighted harness loop up the rope, sit back down in your harness. Congrats, you just ascended 100mm up a rope. Rinse and repeat until you get to the top or reverse the process to go back down.

But, but, I need a photo of this performance mod…

https://ceip.abmunis.ca/residential/upgrades/

There’s the program website. You might be able to roll the roof upgrade into the funding - max is $50k. Some friends did all of their windows and some other stuff. You get a max of 20 years to repay and most energy retrofits pay for themselves in just a few years.

If you live in Calgary, the city has a fantastic funding program. The city puts up the money and then you repay it as a top up on your property taxes with a minimal interest rate.

The payback period of solar is generally shorter than the payback period of the loan from the city so it’s likely you would see your monthly cash flow improve right off the hop.

There are other communities in Alberta offering similar programs. I’m a giant nerd about this stuff so feel free to DM me.

Yep, and the MSRP for this fancy new stuff is $25 USD or about $35 CAD. The WPL Dry Lube that I use (and love) is $15 CAD for the same size bottle.

Don’t get me wrong, I’ll spend an absurd amount of money on my bikes just to make them pretty. If this stuff makes someone happy, have-atter, but a ton of companies have been releasing crazy expensive lubes lately and it’s unnecessary.

My roof sucks for solar so we only have a 5kW system. We’re in an infill duplex on the shady side.

My partner works with people struggling with chronic pain. MAID can be mercy.

Oh fun…

Woohoo another crazy expensive chain lube…

The best lube for 99.99% of riders is the one they remember to use. Bonus points if it’s biodegradable.

I’m in Canada and use WPL Dry Lube on all of my bikes. Locally made, so marginally less carbon involved in shipping, and it’s biodegradable. I can say with 100% certainty that in a blind test I couldn’t tell you the difference between it and any other dry lube - other than when cleaning.

60g of oil is 540 kcal-ish. The chili pepper is comparatively calorie free, so yea, 440kcal makes total sense.

Is it the tsp that’s throwing you off? I think there’s a typo - 4 tbsp would be about 60g. 4tsp I would expect to be about 20g.

I way prefer dealing in mass for cooking and baking personally…

Agreed

I literally just got back to Canada after a two week vacation in Japan and was looking for a good way to start learning Japanese - I’m stoked to give this a try!

Went through a nasty breakup, hit the dating apps, had a few terrible dates and then started spending more time pursuing hobbies. Made friends through hobby groups (skiing and mountaineering in my case) and one of those friends has now been my partner for over a decade.

Shared interest groups are the way to go IMO.

Bob Vylan - like early Rage Against the Machine. Found out about them when they got banned from entry to the US - which is how I’m discovering most of my music these days.

My EV is better than my gas car in every conceivable way except for the lack of rural charging infrastructure - which ain’t my car’s fault.

Yes, the purchase price was higher than my last car, but my first service that’s more than inspections or replacing the cabin air filter is at 96,000km and that’s to replace the brake fluid. There is basically zero maintenance cost.

I also charge it almost exclusively using my solar panels. Actual cost of ownership is cheaper than my old gas car, it’s more comfortable, absurdly fast, and I never have to stand in the cold pumping gas. Now if only someone would start selling an EV station wagon in Canada…

Yea, exactly - that was my point. The moment the union demonstrated that they were not going to give up their innate right to withold their labour, suddenly Air Canada found a little more negotiating room.

It’s funny how fast a tentative agreement was reached after the union refused to return to work…

Never ascribe malice to that which can be explained by incompetence. I truly think they believe the bullshit they spew. They are the heros of their internal monologues.