Honestly I think you might be overthinking this a bit. I've been using cheap lithium grease from the auto parts store for years on all my bikes and never had a bearing seize up on me. Maybe you got a bad batch or something, or maybe the hub was already damaged before you packed it. Marine grease is overkill for most bike stuff unless you're riding through saltwater or mud bogs every day. I dunno, sounds like a user error situation to me.

Honestly I gotta push back on this lol. Those manuals are written by engineers for a reason, the paper towel trick is just a hack not something they can put in an official manual. You can't blame the book for being thorough just cause you found a workaround.

A cracked screen from a basketball doesn't make the whole industry a tragedy.

Used to think containers were just trailer park stuff honestly. Then I walked through a few that were finished out nice with proper insulation and drywall. What contractor did you go with for the shell work?

Oh man, 200 palettes is no small feat (seriously, that's a lot of organizing). But that moment of freezing with all those choices is so real. I've got a folder with hundreds of cool fonts and layout screenshots, but when my friend asked me to design a birthday invite last week, I just stared at the blank canvas for an hour and defaulted to something super safe. It's like having so many options actually makes your brain short-circuit sometimes, you know?