Ok that’s kinda cool but this land sailing thing looks way more awesome than puttering around on the flat in my SUV. Still wouldn’t want to own one though.

Right, I’ll just pull over and get my landyacht out of the back of my truck. OP, is there a rental place for these in Primm?

You need to clean the chain really well before the first wax, so that bare metal is exposed for the wax bond. The rest of the stuff you’re talking about (chain ring, cassette, etc) isn’t getting waxed and doesn’t really matter (although now is a fine time to give them a relatively deep clean). The wax lubricates motion among the plates/pins/rollers of the chain, and that’s it.

There is no relative motion to lubricate between the chain components and the sprockets - each time a roller comes into contact with a sprocket for a trip around the gear, it stays fixed in place and the pin rotates inside the roller. This design leads to chain wear (easy and relatively cheap to replace) instead of cassette and chain ring wear (expensive).

Zero Friction Cycling is the place to go to read about waxing details. Here’s their chain prep guide.

Silca now makes a product that promises to make the initial chain cleaning trivially easy, but you need to heat it all to 125°C to work (instead of only 75°C for normal waxing), so to use it you pretty much also need their expensive crock pot with its precise temperature control (normal crock pots don’t get that hot).

Current Cox monopoly service area customer here, and I don’t love them, but this sounds like a recipe to make things even worse.

Water supply is dire. The Colorado river is oversubscribed and most of the aquifers are being sucked dry for unsustainable agriculture. For the west coast (California) to break away it needs to take most of the Colorado river watershed with it. That means Utah, Colorado, and Arizona are critical.

Take some Yin Yoga classes. It’s a much slower pace than other yoga (holding poses for 3-5 minutes each), and a proper Yin class also focuses on mindfulness during the activity. The goal is to clear your thoughts and bring your focus only to your body and your breath. Different instructors will approach it differently, of course, and not all studios even offer Yin. Forgive yourself for a wandering mind, just observe it when it happens and then recenter your focus on your breath.

It’s also probably the best stretching you’ll ever do.

Ever since I first saw it, this one has given me a feeling of ye olde Burning Man. I think it does have to do with the human form broken down into blocky robot shapes iterating across the page, but also the fire ring rollercoaster of Sauron in the desert with mountain backdrop. I don’t know, I just like it.

We should all strive to move in that direction, but acknowledge that there’s no ethical consumption within capitalism and our false choices are often differently bad in subtle ways. I forgive you for not making perfect choices.

A few examples: I live in Southern California and have Colorado River water piped to my house. Should I really wash out plastic peanut butter containers so that I can put them into the plastic recycling stream which is mostly made out of lies anyway? It seems to me that’s likely a waste of water and the plastic is going to end up in a landfill anyway, so it’s better to throw them away directly.

I drive a 15+ year old inefficient gasoline-powered SUV. I love it, aside from the emissions. I could buy a new EV or hybrid and reduce my personal emissions in exchange for the spyware/adware of modern vehicles, but I still wouldn’t send my current vehicle straight to a landfill. It would be sold and either driven by someone else or parted out to further extend the life of other inefficient gas vehicles. Someone is going to drive the vehicle more, so it might as well be me. By not buying a new car, I increase the cost of used cars, and reduce the demand to produce new cars (including lithium mining), albeit both infinitesimally. I believe that’s actually more responsible than upgrading just to feel better about my personal emissions.

“It turns out that moving your investments to a climate-friendly investment option is the single most impactful thing that the average American can do for climate change,” said Alex Wright-Gladstein, founder and CEO of Sphere, which offers a fossil fuel-free index fund. “It’s more impactful than the combination of going vegan, never flying again, driving an electric car, putting solar on your house.”

Although it’s likely that the greenest thing you can do for the planet is to eat the rich.

It was also relatively narrow, applying solely to California. The administration is expected to appeal, and the judge placed his injunction on hold for 10 days.

The Justice Department, which defended the Trump administration in the lawsuit, is expected to appeal the decision and could receive more favorable consideration from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The judge also found that the 300 remaining troops on the federalized deployment could stay in Los Angeles, but essentially limited them to guarding federal property.