In my third world country the real issue is about costs. At this very moment cooking with gas is cheaper than cooking with electric.

The gas provider company mandates an inspection on every home gas apppliance and the installation every 5 years to check for good connections and correct ventilation (if a home does not pass the checks the service is suspended), so I guess at least it diminishes the risks to some degree.

But still since gas is going to be a lot expensive in the following weeks, maybe the tables will turn. But then you’ll need to get an electric stove.

Haven’t had too much gloves, got a pair of Santini Fjord gloves but turned out to be a bit of an overkill and they leave my hands with a smell worse than my stinky feet (!). Also got a pair of Spiuk Top Ten which do the job but the velcro is quite finicky imho and there is a kind of poliester-y thin layer on top of tome parts of the palm that has started to peel off in a nasty way, but however doesn’t affect in a single bit their functionality.

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Given he’s mentioned Colombia in this video I’m commenting here. And because it makes me remember the very first bicycle I ever had, which was a steel one with Monark decals though I’m not really sure if it was actually made by Monark. It kinda look like this one but was dark green and had a non-chopper plastic black saddle.

Growing up and living in the suburbs of Bogotá and the countryside I can’t be completely sure if I have ever seen a Buffalo here, but most probably at some time I’ve seen one.

And it can be because you can find even cheaper new bikes here - though not even half as good or reliable as this one - but because its weight and single-speed-ness, which for we people in the andean range is really a big deal. Though for people in other areas of the country this can be absolutely fantastic and Seth explains those reasons very well in this video.

But even then people like my father would really like a bike like this - he was a farmer and used to go around to work on an old steel single-speed road bike. On the way uphill it was useful even not being able to ride it but because he could tie some bag or stuff or something and aid him carry the load, on the way down home he just rode it and saved time getting there.

And noting that it’s not just him who used to use bikes that way but many people who work in farming and rural living you can understand why a bike like that is really appreciated - not to travel really long distances with it but to aid them with their travel which in other way would be a tough hike, and being absolutely reliable with minimal maintenance.

He told me sometimes people in bike shops tried to talk to him into putting gears to it (it had a rear derailleur hanger but no front derailleur hanger nor mounts for friction shifters) but he liked the simplicity of maintenance of the thing.

Another detail he doesn’t mention in the video (or not that I could understand if he did) is if the pump can be carried mounted somewhere with the bike and carry it - my father had one of those long pumps mounted below the down tube of his bike and it was pretty neat to be honest, I even did that for some time with my bike too.

Hell, I’d like a bike like that too but I just happen to hate squared bottom brackets.

Sadly Lemmy has gotten so much Reddit toxicity so I don’t get why you got downvotes. As a non native speaker I won’t mind if I got some downvotes too if I could get advice improving my english on my shitty comments instead

It’s because you’re pregnant.

But on all seriousness, some say that there are cases when the would-be-father also feels nauseous with food when the girl gets pregnant.

We had the same ISP at home for about 16 years. Internet runs over copper cable along with the landline phone service.

On April this year they sent a letter saying they are deprecating copper lines and switching everything to optic fiber, but for some reason our neighborhood is not getting it so they were supposed to terminate the contract and stopping their services on April 2025.

But they did that past Wednesday, all of a sudden, without notifying us whatsoever. They are not answering why are doing this either. On Wednesday I called them to ask what was going on and they told me they were going to reconnect on Thursday morning, but at 4:00 pm it was still the same. Called them again and said they were not reconnecting us because fuck you.

So I can’t visit most of the web right now and I fear I might be booted from the WFH job. The couple of things I use frequently that are still working somehow are Feedly and Lemmy. Tried to switch DNS addresses at the router trying to circumvent this to no avail.

Heading to the nearest library in a couple of hours to talk with my boss.

More expensive helmets aren’t safer, cause they all have to pass the same safety tests

If only that were true here on “third world” countries too - here you can get helmets made of paper-thin plastic and cheap styrofoam in whatever bike shop and mall. Even those are being sold for kids.

By living in a country with no seasons