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  @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Before you start bending frames, don't assume you have a straight wheel. It's also quite possible to have both a bent frame and a wheel that's out of dish and misaligned rear dropouts at the same time. I would not even call that rare. Better to measure the rear triangle alignment and check the dropout alignment before you make changes, because you don't want to be repeatedly making changes.

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  @pencilears@mastodon.eternalaugust.com I've worked with three food shelves in Vermont (never the state food bank, just the local distribution places). They vary a lot in terms of who they allow to shop, but anyone showing up in an emergency situation is offered food even if they don't technically qualify. One of them requires evidence of living in the town (such as a piece of mail, no ID required), one does the same but also asks you to attest to your income and family size but does not...

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  37 years ago I flew to London with a work visa arranged through the British Universities North America Club, walked into a temp agency in Vic station to do a typing test and was immediately employed as a typist. They were overjoyed that I knew how to use a Mac and various other computers. "You know Macintosh!" I became their guy to dispatch to the places with strange or ancient computers, like the DECwriter with 8" floppy drives that was already a dinosaur. Anyway, I n...

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  @jessamyn Library borrowing history ofc