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kastein
Aug 31, 2011

Moderator at http://www.ridgelineownersclub.com/forums/and soon to be mod of AI. MAKE AI GREAT AGAIN. Motronic for VP.
I saw that post. It went about how I expected.

I also now know who big dong wanter is on fb which might be the first time that's been true in like, 5 or 6 years? I don't know. I added a bunch of AI people on there years ago without actually realizing who they were and have been wondering ever since.

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kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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meatpimp posted:

:siren: Trump has covid.

Those numbers would be a lot lower if they hadn't done all this testing

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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October 1: whoops meteor over the east coast
October 2: president has coronavirus

The gently caress is gonna happen tomorrow

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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Please join me in praying for the president.
Exodus 20:4
Exodus 20:14
Exodus 20:15
Exodus 20:16
Exodus 20:17
Psalm 109:8
Ezekiel 11:6
Ezekiel 3:18
Ezekiel 5:8
Ezekiel 7:3

Amen

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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Elmnt80 posted:

“Mighty Nurgle! Festering grandfather of plagues! Hear your servants prayer! Look upon the devastation I have wrought, the diseases I have spread, the unbelievers I have infested with you’re suppurating truth. I beg of your favor and your boon, that I might strive all the harder to spread your blessings across the stars.”

Hail Nurgle. :v:

I mean, that's pretty close

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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I think my favorite weird question in the mass driving test is "when is it allowed to take a left turn on a red light?" And the follow-on question "what is the exception to this law?" Because we actually have both of these problems in many Mass towns and cities due to... An extreme lack of early road planning.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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Ranzear posted:

Washington has it too, when onto a one-way street, but I don't know what the exception would be.

There are some epic internet arguments about this, but it's technically safer than right turn on red because there's no chance of interfering with a u-turn either.


A huge pet peeve of mine is that a right turn on red is legal but it is not mandatory. If I ever got dinged for not taking one on a driving test I'd throw the biggest shitfit.

It's from a one-way onto a one-way, as far as I know. I may be wrong. The exception is "unless there's a sign saying not to." I can think of several intersections only a block or two apart in Worcester where you could run into each of these situations in turn.

Interesting that it's in Washington too, I guess it'll feel like home.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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Rhyno posted:

I have joined the "personally know someone who died of Covid " club.





gently caress.

Same, though he was a right wing chud who defended the lost cause theory IN loving MASSACHUSETTS and was a police officer, so we basically haven't talked in 4 or so years and barely talked since like 7 years ago, so it was more "well that sucks for his kids but I'm not surprised at all" than anything else. Sorry you lost an actual friend, dude :sigh:

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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Trump has finally done something to combat white supremacists. He gave Stephen Miller covid19, it seems!

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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Yeah the military prefers to only hire parallel killers.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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cakesmith handyman posted:

Hope insurance or whatever takes care of it, I hear they can do impressive things these days.

Y'all taking about gigabit internet or whatever and I'm in a loving prefab trying to get this ancient loving motion controller fucker to loving boot.


Don't dox me.

At least it's... Obsolete pci not ISA

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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Humphreys posted:

I wandered over the neighbours house when I heard swearing and shed lights on:

This MAY have been an idea I came up with while drinking beers. But didn't expect it to actually be put into place trying to fit springs and spacers into a Prado:


This is someone's last weekend with all their fingers and they don't even know it yet.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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I just say I accept things we'll need to transfer legally at an FFL because Craigslist and marketplace haven't twigged to those as gun keywords yet.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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The way I look at it, as of August 3, the billionaires (607 people) have raked in a total of 637 billion dollars during the pandemic.

That's $1950 for every American.

$4450 for every tax payer.

Meanwhile the rest of us struggle.

I'm ok with a tax rate plan that takes that kind of thing into account.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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I used to respond to doxxing and death threats on IRC by pasting my address and phone number and telling people to call before coming over. No takers. I eventually stopped when I got married because I don't want to get my wife tangled up in my online bullshit if anyone actually shows up.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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I thought it was due to the old name for the small hole in the city door that let one person through in a compromising position being the "needle". Either way, you aren't getting a camel through it.

E: it appears I'm likely wrong, and hopefully someone who can read the original Hebrew will answer in detail, but the Islamic version agrees with CT.

kastein fucked around with this message at 02:34 on Oct 14, 2020

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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meatpimp posted:

Yeah, but... how are your poops?

Eponymous

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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Ohio is just wide indiana with more fentanyl and apparently muggings

Seriously though, glad it looks like he'll pull through? That sucks.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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Fermented Tinal posted:

STR, there's a free TEM (Philips EM301) in Austin, please hop on slack so a bunch of us can convince you that you need to be able to see individual atoms that are larger than about 350 picometres in diametre.

Why's it gotta be so far away?! I'd be all set for Christmas shopping for my wife if I could get ahold of that thing

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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Rhyno posted:

A guy who has been throwing literal tantrums about masks every few days at work just popped a positive test. They were going to suspended him for his attitude and now they can boot him until 7 days after he shows a negative test.

There's been new confirmed cases almost every day of October so they just put down a mandatory mask on rule whether you're near people or not and break rooms are possibly being closed as well. I dunno how that is gonna work out.

Part of the problem is that people are treating 6 feet as the loving gold standard like people "built this house to code" when it's a bare minimum. And really doesn't apply inside. In shared indoor air spaces without a SIGNIFICANT number of air-changes per hour, the virus is essentially airborne, not droplet transfer, and lasts - airborne - for up to 4 to 6 hours according to some estimates.

So if you have people in there for hours at a time, and they're wearing cloth and paper masks, and only doing that when they think someone who cares is watching, and don't know or care how to actually fit them effectively... Bleh. Good loving luck.

I wear a p100 half face mask to go to home depot for this reason. And if I actually was going into a workplace every day for 8 hours I'd be wearing a PAPR or at least a full face respirator to do so.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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I put a disposable mask over the vent when around other people or inside buildings I'm not the only occupant of for that exact reason. The earloops just go over the filter pods instead of my ears.

At this point I'm exposed to other people about once every 1-3 weeks, generally when going to home depot or the gas station. Other than that it's home or the hangar.

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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I get that feeling all the time, but I'm pretty sure it's due to having no money and 47 million irons in the fire

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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I was able to get my current place without one because I basically paid a decent down payment for it and have been giving buttloads of money to home depot every month instead of a bank. It required serious sacrifices when it came to living standards however, especially pre-2016 or 2018. (We got a furnace I temporarily installed in 2016, and the heatpump/AC in 2018.)

kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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Applebees Appetizer posted:

I had commercial grade outdoor carpet installed on my covered porch floor, which is concrete so it has to be glued down. The guy installing it used a loving paint roller to apply the glue and I knew it needed to be spread out with a notched trowel. I questioned him and he insisted it was fine. I called the contractor (a major flooring company) and questioned it again. They assured me it was ok, that this "new glue" they have can be rolled out. So I thought ok, maybe I'm the idiot.

A week later the carpet was not sticking to the floor, it would come right up with minimal effort so I called the flooring company, and they send out the loving guy that installed it to check on it and of course he says it's fine, it needs more time to dry because it's humid. Whatever, of course he's gonna say it's fine. Another week later same thing, but now the glue is completely dried but just on the floor and not to the carpet so it pulls right up like it's just laying on the floor. I call again, but this time i say don't send the moron that installed it to my house, send somebody else, this should be obvious. So another guy comes out and confirms right away that the moron installer should have used a notched trowel to spread out the glue so the carpet would adhere properly. He was amazed when i told him the guy used a paint roller. I also told him about the "new glue" that can be rolled on, and he laughed and said there was no such thing and even if there was such a thing he obviously didn't use it.

So i call them back and tell them they need to pull all the carpet up a re glue it correctly, and they go on about how they have to contact Home Depot first and that they would get back to me. A week goes by no call, so i got in touch with HD management to get a refund on the install charge and i'm still waiting on that.

Funny thing is, and the other guy was saying it too, it was the simplest install job ever. No furniture to move, perfect rectangle slab, the guy maybe saved 15 minutes by using a loving roller instead of just doing it the right way with a trowel. Also why would the flooring company make up some bullshit lie about the glue to cover for an idiot sub contractor? It makes no sense, but at the same time it does. If you want it done right DIY

And here people are wondering why I would rather learn a trade and buy all the tools and do it myself than pay some stupid fucklord to show up late, screw up, leave a mess and a bad job behind.

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kastein
Aug 31, 2011

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Applebees Appetizer posted:

Exactly. But what sucks for me is the worse my back gets the more I have to depend on these morons to do a job I know I could do if I wasn't all hosed up, but gently caress it, I'm gonna continue to push through the pain and just get poo poo done. My wife worries but i'm tired of the bullshit with these people.

Next is the entire floor of the house, was gonna hire someone but gently caress it, if it takes me two months or longer so be it.

Man that loving blows. My back is on the way out but nowhere near as bad as getting hit by a car, I assume.

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