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Spokes should mostly always be clean with a bit of maintenance - they don't need oiled after all.

All the alternative to it (cloth packing, oiled leather, etc.) are worse, and hopeless at high pressures.

It's about as cheap as Bitcoin, but it has near universal adoption already, basic consumer protections and well oiled rails.

They already have a well-oiled surveillance machine, they do not want to make it harder to operate while legalizing it.

Actually they are distinguishable - many of my interactions with banks and insurance companies make the government look like a well-oiled machine.

Even today, as someone who takes the underground to work, a streaming service is no substitute for the incredibly well-oiled machine of fansubbing.

Put the laptop on your bare (maybe even oiled) legs, while sunbathing?

So naturally they are a well-oiled machine for producing one specific product.

It's now a well-oiled machine, but it's lost some of the spark and excitement of the first years I was there.

I find it hard to imagine that level of cool is achieved without a well oiled PR machine working in the background...

If you insulate yourself from the well oiled machine of the postal system for too long, it has a habit of reminding you of its presence.

It was an amazing well oiled machine that was printing money, while developing an impressive game that has been around for 20 years and hasn't grown old.

App makers (especially the ones in the "top 50 essential apps") are well oiled capitalist money-making machines.

A quiet tragedy of the legal system is that these rampant daily violations are almost never litigated." The broader point he is making is that the criminal justice system is only able to grind through tens of thousands of lives each day becuase those involved in it--and that includes lawyers and judges--are commited to keeping that system well-oiled and functioning.