#dryrot

[hopefulangels]

it's important to expose yourself to different perspectives even ones you don't agree with to practice & increase neuroplasticity. culture study

[picesworkkpices]

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[elsewhereuniversity]

Archivist, I have something for you. A pocket knife. A friend gave it to me, said that is ould be best to keep handy. He told me that it has the ability to remove curses and enchantments by literally cutting them apart. However, I've found something that doomed me. Apparently, it can also sever magical contracts. I didn't mean to do it, but I've drawn the ire of the Gentry. Please, take it from me, I need to leave and try to hide.

It cuts apart curses in the same way one might dig a penknife into dryrot, twisting and digging and carving out until there is nothing left but good healthy wood. On the scale of knives, closer to surgical than culinary, and the better for it.

As you flee, take with you this bracelet: a vine of gold which wraps effortlessly around the wrist. If you go to ground in the forest, place your palm to the black loam of the forest floor. The vine will begin to grow, spiraling up your arm and stretching out creepers above you, until you crouch in a bower of golden leaves that chime in the breeze like bells. All of which will is less conspicuous than it sounds; the music the leaves make seems to bend attention away.

[onlyyourkafija]

♡ wave sagiri ♡

she was a gift from a good friend of mine, I've been wanting her for a while, so I'm really happy to have her. mine has a bit of a weird defect where her rubber shorts have dryrotted and cracked due to storage, but I just angle mine to the side to hide it (⌒_⌒;)

[whipplefilter]

How excited was I to find out that I could effortlessly fit four wheels and four tires in the back of my car? So excited.

I bought new wheels to replace my 17-year old ones, which were corroded from their lifetime in the Rustbelt and one of which was bent (RIP). The tires—Yokohama Avid Ascends—replaced a set of Bridgestone Turanza Serenity tires, purchased in 2016, about 63,000 miles ago.

The Turanzas served me extremely well in all conditions but ice/snow, which they were garbage at—I have a separate set of winter tires. I went with the Yokohamas this time around because they were better reviewed on TireRack in all possible ways and cheaper than the Bridgestone equivalent being manufactured today.

Anyway, I figured this was a good time to write up some notes!

The Care & Feeding of Tires: A Beginner’s Guide

After all, this all started with a blown left rear:

Even if you’re not driving your street car at race speeds, your tires are the only part that actually touches the road—that one contact patch on each of your four corners.

The service writer at your shop is going to go by the numbers; the technician will say something if it’s real bad, maybe. But you don’t want to wait until you have a blowout and end up stranded, or until you’re hydroplaning on the freeway.

1. How do you measure tire health?

Every tire comes with two measure of its age: treadwear and time.

Treadwear: The more you drive, the more the tire wears down. How quickly this happens depends mostly on your tire compound (and technically the type of driving you do, though I doubt for most people this is statistically significant).

At least in the United States, your tread is measured in 32nds of an inch. How many 32nds you start with depends on the tire. Since most people don’t own a tread depth gauge, treadwear is also conveyed in terms of mileage, and the average number of miles driven it takes to wear the tread a certain amount.

Time: If you don’t drive your car that much, it doesn’t mean your tires will last longer, though! Because the rubber is blowing out those birthday candles no matter what. You can keep the rubber cool and dry if you want, but age waits for no tire. Generally, tire rubber will last around 6 years before it should be replaced, regardless of mileage. Like measuring treadwear in mileage, six years is an estimate based on rubber degradation.

You can also gauge tire age by looking for signs of dryrot. This will look like cracks in the rubber—on the sidewall or the tread. They can look shallow and unimportant, but these cracks on the surface are an indication that there’s likely similar rot happening where you can’t see it.

Here’s an example of mild dryrot on my old tires, which are 7 years old. You can find MUCH more extreme examples on Google Images, if you’re so inclined:

🚨 IMPORTANT 🚨 The age of your tire is based on its date of manufacture, NOT the date you put it on your car! If you want to check this, this date is printed on your tire. Each tire is printed with a DOT code—the last two digits designate the year it was made. (There’s other info in that code, but that’s the most important part.)

You know how your car’s care manual has intervals that expressed in both miles and time? You’re not supposed to choose which to follow—you’re supposed to do with whichever comes first. The two ways tires age is a great example of why!

2. How do you keep tires happy?

Do your preventative maintenance.

Cars are extremely expensive to own, and that sucks—especially when you live in the United States, where in a lot of places you have to own a car if you want to make a living. You have to pay to get paid. :\

But cars are also something where preventative maintenance is a lot cheaper than a repair—or worse, a wreck. Tires are designed to endure a lot, and perform through all kinds of conditions. But you can thank them for their hard work by being attentive to their needs!

Check your tire pressure regularly (let’s say seasonally)! Particularly if the ambient temperatures where you live are changing. Tires are wily, and can be absurdly low on air before they start looking flat. Seriously—they can be at 15psi when they’re supposed to be at 30psi and still look pretty round. Keeping your tires inflated to spec will prolong your tread life (and save your gas mileage).

Rotate your tires on schedule! Your car’s schedule is in the owner’s manual. This help your tires wear evenly, which will prolong their life AND the lifespan of your drivetrain, which is substantially more expensive  to repair than a tire rotation is. (A rotation is free if you do it yourself; some tire suppliers like Costco give you free tire rotations for the life of the tire, too.) Keeping your tires wearing evenly is particularly important if you have an AWD car, which is increasingly common in this frenzied age of crossovers and SUVs.

Keep your suspension in alignment! If your car’s not driving straight on the road, it’s not wearing your tires evenly, either. Your alignment can be thrown off if you hit a pothole or a curb. Sometimes it just wanders off, due to wear on suspension components. Letting your suspension do what it will is only going to increase the wear on other components and make the repair bill bigger int the long run.

Aside from not knowing what a car needs, I think there are two main reasons people end up in bad spots with their tires: 1) It’s not a priority (fair, but if you pay attention to one thing outside of your oil changes, let it be the tires! this is part of the job of owning a car), and 2) They don’t have the money. Nothing this Pixar Cars blog can say can solve late capitalism and the wage gap, but if you can conceptualize tire care and feeding as a regular, predictable, budgetable expense, and not an emergency one, the financial hit of buying new tires can be given some cushion.

Stay safe and stay rolling!

[lifeonthemurdersim]

Less brainrot more elementaldecayrot

or maybe

maybe dryrot

[digital-meat]

If you could hold your brain in my hands it would fall apart exactly like termite infested, dryrotted wood. And it's smooth too. Your skull is mushy like snake eggs. History will remember me as a footnote and the footnote will say that I defeated someone who has been forgotten but don't get it twisted that's someone else you won't be remembered as being forgotten.

You believe what you read. You implicitly trust strangers but are powerless to help them. You can't create butterfly effects or imagine yourself as a winner. You put a lot of effort into work and might get a promotion, but you'll be there until they fire you. You cant live in a way that matters.

[kudosmyhero]

Spider-Man: The Final Adventure #4: To End the Begin

Read Date: September 30, 2023 Cover Date: March 1996 ● Writer: Fabian Nicieza ● Penciler: Darick Robertson ● Inker: Jeff Albrecht ◦ Greg Adams ◦ Chris Ivy ● Colorist: Gregory Wright ● Letterer: Bill Oakley ● Editor: Tom Brevoort ◦ Glenn Greenberg ◦ Bob Budiansky ●

**HERE BE SPOILERS: Skip ahead to the fan art/podcast to avoid spoilers (👏=didn't like it, 👏👏=it was ok, 👏👏👏=I liked it, 👏👏👏👏=I really liked it!, 👏👏👏👏👏=I loved it!)

● Jonah! ● 👏👏👏

Synopsis: Ken Ellis has come to the Parker home in Queens threatening to reveal that Peter Parker is Spider-Man, providing a mock-up of the front page of tomorrow's edition of the Daily Bugle. Mary Jane, Peter's wife, is angered that this he would come to their home and make threats like this, knowing that this is nothing more than a mock-up used to try and scare her. She tells Ken to stop harassing her and her family, however, the reporter intends to get to learn the connection between Peter Parker, Spider-Man, the Scarlet Spider and the allegedly new Spider-Man that has been sighted in Manhattan. Mary Jane insists that there is no connection to be found and slams the door in Ken's face. That's when Ben Reilly leaps down from the ceiling, where he was hiding to avoid being spotted by Ellis. As they try and figure out what to do about this latest development, Ben suddenly begins to grin as an idea begins to form in his mind.

Meanwhile, in Portland, Peter Parker is out as Spider-Man searching for the serial killer named Tendril. He is seeking the killer out in order to cure him of his condition, a synthetic skin derivative that was tainted by his own DNA. The clock is ticking because Peter has contracted necrotizing fasciitis and curing Tendril will also produce a cure for himself, although it will cost him his spider-powers in the process. With a tracking device, the wall-crawler is closing in on Tendril. As he goes, he tries to keep his mind off the fact that Mary Jane has left him because he decided to become Spider-Man again after he promised to retire. He tracks the killer down to a room at the Hotel Governor and interrupts Tendril before he can claim his next victims. Unfortunately, Spider-Man is forced to stay behind and free Tendril's victims when the killer flees. Just as he frees the victims, the authorities arrive on the scene, in order to avoid being delayed further, Spider-Man flees the scene. Back in Manhattan, Mary Jane pays a visit to Joe Robertson at the Bugle to complain about Ken Ellis harassing her and her husband for his story.

In Portland, Spider-Man picks up Tendril's signal again and follows him onto the roof of the Governor. There they are joined by Dryrot who has come to help capture Tendril so he can also benefit from the cure that could come from them. While Tendril and Dryrot are occupied with each other, Spider-Man prepares an Isotopic Genome Accelerator that he created at GAIRD to deal with Tendril. Sneaking up behind Tendril, Spider-Man manages to jolt the killer with the accelerator but the three of them are caught in the discharge of energy. Recovering from the blast, Spider-Man notices that both Tendril and Dryrot have been mostly reverted back to human form. Suddenly, his spider-sense goes off, prompting the wall-crawler to depart as the authorities arrive on the rooftop. The next morning, Ben Reilly pays a visit to J. Jonah Jameson as Spider-Man and torments the publisher by webbing him to his chair and insulting the day's edition of the Daily Bugle before departing. After this recent insult, Joe Robertson tells Jonah about Ken Ellis' story about the wall-crawler. Furious at Spider-Man, Jonah orders Joe to have the story killed. When Joe goes to tell Ken Ellis the news, Ken is unphased and threatens to take the story to the Daily Globe. Joe decides to call the city editor at the Globe, Barry Fink, and tell him about it. Ellis then talks to Fink, he learns that Barry will also pass on the story since Joe Robertson isn't interested in it. Learning that Joe is good friends with editors at New York's other publications. Realizing that he's not going to win, Ellis decides to give up on the Spider-Man story and refocus his attention on the Havershaw murder. Joe then goes to a nearby diner and tells Mary Jane the good news, and asks her what she is planning on doing next.

While in Portland, both Tendril and Dryrot have been brought back to GAIR for the final experiment that will hopefully cure them of their conditions. The process is supervised by Eric Schwinner and Peter Parker. When they activate the device, Tendril tries to resist the process and break free. With the machines overheating, Peter realizes that the only way to complete the process is including his own DNA in the process. To that end, Peter exits the control room and puts himself in physical contact with the device. His body surges with pain he hasn't felt since the radioactive spider first bit him. The addition of Parker's DNA completes the process and the process to restore Tendril and Dryrot back to human form. In the aftermath of the process, Peter examines himself and learns that he has been cured of his infection, but his spider-powers have also been stripped away. Forced into retirement, Peter Parker returns home and packs up his Spider-Man costume and wonders if it was all worth it in the end. That's when Mary Jane returns home, much to Peter's surprise as he thought she left for good. She then shows him the note she left for him, the note that Peter didn't bother reading in its entirety. As it turns out, the letter told Peter that she wasn't leaving him for good, but only going back to New York for a photo shoot and that she would be back in a few days.

With his spider-powers gone, Peter is able to focus on his career, his wife, and his upcoming daughter. He also finds new ways to help those in need, by volunteering at a homeless shelter and living up to his motto, with great power comes responsibility. The greatest adventure for Peter Parker now is the excitement of being able to find out who he is all over again.

(https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Spider-Man:_The_Final_Adventure_Vol_1_4)

Fan Art: Spider-man 0330 by EJ-Su

Accompanying Podcast: ● Untold Talks of Spider-Man - episode 11