big dong wanter posted:

You think you are feeling smug, I just spent the day at the beach on the clock. Was a nice 30c

Humphreys posted:

Ticked over another digit on the odometer of life. Time to get drunk and enjoy an RDO weekend.

tinned owl posted:

I'm am enginamneer (though far less hands on than Kastein) and I've never heard of the ORB ones, I'll go look them up and ponder them later

trilobite terror posted:

yeah mpg definitely drops by a lot if you do much/most of your driving at technically-illegal-but-colloquially-acceptable American highway speeds, which many goons do everyday myself included

Ether Frenzy posted:

It is time for you to get Helldivers 2, friends.

One part Starship Troopers, one part Terminator, a heaping tablespoon of of Star Wars vehicles and then add another few ounces of Space WWI and muddle with half of a Space Vietnam. Awesome music, awesome one-liners, fully entertaining with your gaming buddies.

big dong wanter posted:

UPDATE: came extremely close to being killed on the job today, took tomorrow off and im going to do some industrial strength day drinking to cope with it. gonna update the resume tomorrow, this paycheck is NOT worth the risk

His Divine Shadow posted:

Read an article in a swedish magazine about led lights in cars and the average lifespan is around 15 years and a typical replacement cost is around 1500$\€. So that means the yearly cost is 150 bucks if they last that long.

To me this shows that technological progress is being hijacked or enshittified by companies using it as a way to make more money of the customer. And I don't think it's only LED lights that's affected.

I am 100% convinced that you could make a modern led light for a car and base it around some relatively cheap standardized led bulb that is as easy as an H4 to replace. If you wanted to. But nobody wants to.

TheBacon posted:

More dangerous than cops that’s for sure

Advent Horizon posted:

I wonder what all falls under the ‘logging’ category because when I worked at the zipline our insurance classified us as loggers.

CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

The only good use for Imperial sockets is when you round off a metric nut you can hammer a size too small imperial onto it to use a large breaker bar.

TheBacon posted:

As someone in Vegas like once a month for work at this point (including right now). It is just as functioning of a city as any other in the US. Take that how you will.

Ether Frenzy posted:

Providing help for these people years before they reach this stage would be easier, cheaper, and better for everyone in society - but then the desired level of state-sanctioned cruelty would not be achieved and conservative politicians would have no platform to run on.

CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

Touch screen toasters

Raluek posted:

also worth mentioning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOyU_OzRXnM

NoWake posted:

My friend and I were both kids of divorce, and both our dads lived in the same town about 30 miles away from where we did. Same neighborhood, just blocks away actually, but they didn't know each other or who any of our friends or anything. That's the kind of relationship we had.

Once when I was in the 5th grade, I went and visited my buddy while he was at his dad's for visitation, it must have been over spring break. My own dad had no idea I was in town, had no reason to expect me, and I didn't reach out to let him know. That's the kind of relationship we had.

Anyway, my friend and I walked over to my dad's place while he was at work, got inside and turned all the lights on and the TV, opened the cupboards and closet doors, took the phone off the hook, poured a bowl of cereal and left it, ran a tub of water and threw towels in it, basically did everything we could think of short of actually trashing or destroying anything. Locked up, re-hid the spare key and left.

He never spoke of it to me, but I remember hearing him tell a friend about the time his house got broken into. He moved 2,000 miles away when I was in 7th grade, so I feel it was pretty good timing on my part.

Humphreys posted:

My employers are continuing their crusade on buying lovely vehicles. So far their history includes SSangYong van, Mitsubishi Triton (the one that had the front suspension recall), Ford Territory, Ford Ranger, Ford Everest. Now to join the shitheaps is a Haval JoLion!

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The Haval Jolion was first shown at the 2020 Beijing Auto Show in October as a successor of the H2. The Chinese name pronounces "Chulian" and means "first love" in Chinese.

freelop posted:

slidebite posted:

As long as I am made whole (which really is a question) is going to be the big thing here.

Ether Frenzy posted:

I am happy you're happy with the insurance company's telling of the story but in 100.01% of cases where someone operates their vehicle into a parked vehicle they don't even bother asking "I understand you were 46 when 9/11 happened. Much has changed since then. Did the stationary object... surprise you?"