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After 4 years dodging it, the spicey flu finally caught up to me. Goddamn this aint great.
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meltie posted:I got reboosted in Nov (I'm at 4x power now I'm 5 shots deep, and was about due for another, would have hunted it out this week. Pretty sure I got this off my niece, who I think bought it back from a New Years music festival. Oddly for a respitory thing, my lungs are fine, just a nose that wont stop running and the worst hot and cold flushes and muscle aches. Just woke up at 5am feeling actually kinda better, but that might be the last round of drugs still doing their job, we'll see.
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) and I still got taken out by the latest variant this Christmas. Good luck, everyone
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Darchangel posted:That's pretty clever! I've never seen that before, but some luxury American cars back in the '70s had "cornering lights", which were white lights that illuminated to the side when the indicators were on, so you could see what you were turning into. Also a useful feature! Nissan put cornering lights on a bunch of cars in the 80's and 90's.   Up to the adaptive lights in the 00's. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL9tdbF6Iec
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Jan 13, 2024 10:58
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Here in NZ you can legally do most repairs yourself, replacing like-for-like, connecting fixed wire appliances and the like, up to the point of basically altering or adding anything in the mains panel being off limits.quote:Install, extend, and alter sub-circuits (including sub-mains), provided that you: So unless you have a tame electrician who's happy to sign off, if you have to pay them to come twice (before and after), you might as well pay them to just come once and do the whole thing, for a small one off job. Oh and the real catch that I actually like is, you can only do any of this legally on a home you own AND live in. So your chucklefuck landlord or boss can't just yahoo it together, they legally have to engage a professional. quote:Employers, employees, landlords, tenants and school staff (including caretakers) cannot carry out electrical work in their workplace or any rented property unless they are registered electrical workers and hold current practising licences.
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Jan 18, 2024 22:01
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CommieGIR posted:....why repeatedly. I went once. Kinda helps if you take photos and document what you need. Here at least, it's that the stores are poo poo, say you go to Bunnings for 5 things, at least one of them you'll be greeted with an empty spot on the shelf where it should be, and one will be "we don't carry that/it doesn't exist". So off you go to the next location or hunt out the specialist shop. Why not just go to the specialist shop first? Because they're often arseholes and charge through the roof because they usually don't deal with cash customers, expecting you to have a trade account. Also because you stupidly expect the massive big box store to have everything, no matter how many times you refuse to learn the lesson. Edit: "At least you can get a Bunnings snag!" not here anymore, not very often anyway, but they all have a cafe now, and hell the closest one to me is actually pretty good for both coffee and pastries.
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Jan 23, 2024 20:39
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Advent Horizon posted:We got another 14” overnight; I think we officially broke the record for snowiest January. *does some maths* uhhh. Holy poo poo. Not for me sir, not for me at all. Spotted this yesterday down the road. These are pretty rare here, particularly in this sort of 'driver; condition.  
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Feb 1, 2024 22:33
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Darchangel posted:That's a CJ, so at least 30 years old. Interestingly, I looked up the plate. It's registered as a 2000, presumably when it was imported. Which means it only need a Warrant of Fitness (safety inspection) every 12 months instead of every 6. Bonus!
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Feb 2, 2024 22:08
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Darchangel posted:I'd put a rotary in it before I spend time dealing with the 4AGE tax, never mind dealing with the small detail that 90% of 4AGEs are FWD and need a bunch of jankery to fit into a RWD chassis. In my part of the world, the answer is silvertop/blacktop/BEAMS swap, but a quick Google at how much importers are fleecing you guys for those, hahaha, yeah no. Local prices have gone up a bit as things get more thin on the ground, but certainly for a time you could find an entire running, driving but maybe not street legal donor for about what importers are trying to charge you for an engine and gearbox. Hell not long ago my sister upgraded her car and sold her BEAMS Altezza(IS200) for under US$3k and it was a complete, good condition (albeit automatic) car that was her road legal daily. Buyout chat: Yeah even if they're paying now former employees out monthly, it's a fixed cost, probably applied to the balance sheet in a single year, and not an ongoing cost racking up further liabilities in terms of benefits and paid holiday time (I assume Canada is slightly better than the US with paid holiday time?).
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Feb 9, 2024 01:29
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His Divine Shadow posted:Mileage is one of the most important factors because it absolutely matters to how much the vehicle will cost me and if I can even drive it as much as I want or if i have to decide to stay home or not. My Nissan Fuga V8 (Infiniti M45) is listed on fueleconomy.gov as 18mpg combined, my lifetime average according to my Road Trip app is 15mpg, but with a lot of short trips I get as little as 12mpg. I'm unemployed and premium fuel here is currently US$7/gallon. You better believe I stay home a lot  I do get half price transit fares, I should start taking that more.
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Darchangel posted:There's a guy on YouTube who's been making inroads into using the Atlas 4200 as a high performance engine - an "American 2JZ" or "American Barra" is the goal. Yeah the look pretty neat, I wanna say they came on peoples radar because I think a lot of existing LS performance internal stuff crosses over? Pistons/rods etc? I could be wrong on that though.
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Feb 12, 2024 22:07
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Chrome wheels are back! https://x.com/ScarbsTech/status/1757688427716268438?s=20
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Turbo Fondant posted:Now I'm imagining one with a teardrop tail and a giant wing I was thinking some mudguards and a bit of side skirts, like a racing truck.  Add the racing livery of your choice.
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Ether Frenzy posted:If the FBI or CIA call me my first step is hanging up immediately. Very first thought was if the FBI wants a chat, they're knocking on the door. If the CIA wants a chat, they're slapping a bag on your head and bundling you into a florist van.
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big dong wanter posted:Traffic control at roadworks. It's sketchy as hell and the money is garbage Traffic management is a hot topic here at the moment, seems orange cones and the cost of traffic management trigger boomers something fierce. Auckland even elected a boomer as gently caress mayor, who's platform included reducing the number of orange cones. Even though he can't do anything about it since he can't change the national laws that govern traffic management, and the reasons there's so many cones is because we're doing a fuckload of infrastructure work. People are loving insane. The public are ungrateful, callous fucks and don't give a poo poo about your safety. Chuck it in. A few years ago, this happened: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/312948/stop-go-trial-man-found-guilty-of-murdering-roadworker quote:A jury has found Quinton Winders guilty of murdering George Taiaroa, who was operating a stop-go sign in Waikato in 2013.
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I'm surprised even that the main cause of cop death is violence as opposed to vehicle accident, I recall that coming up in the past as a big one, killing more than violence. I wonder with logging, obviously getting crushed by a tree aint good, but if the fact that so much logging goes on in remote locations means incidents that might be survivable in the city aren't in logging because of the delay in getting medical care.
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His Divine Shadow posted:I heard Tesla has removed the indicator light stalk from their cars? I got explained to me that this is good because the cars navigation software can signal instead for you, humans are poor at this. And I was going huh? I only use the navigator app (google maps on my phone lol) when I go to a new place and I can't find my way. They've taken away the stalk, there are still buttons for it on the wheel, which isn't a new thing, Ferrari in particular, but not uncommon on other paddle shifted exotics too. 
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Ether Frenzy posted:Is there really anything more American than the irony that the more likely you are to be microwaving a Johnsonville Cheddarwurst at 3 in the morning, the less likely you are to have insurance that covers the upcoming skin grafts to your neck/lips/cheek/inner mouth/ear/forearm and eyelid if you bite into one of those too soon? Stopped in at a local bakery for a loaf of bread this afternoon, and in the hot cabinet with the pies and sausage rolls they had our local equivalent of these. I grabbed one for a snack on the way home, and even though it was hot as gently caress on my fingers, I continued to eat it, burning myself with hot cheese, thinking of this thread the whole time. Got healthcare here though!
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Parked next to this guy today: gently caress yeah 3 piece Bears! (On a Honda Orthia, which is roughly an EK Civic wagon, also available with AWD. You can even throw an EK front end on 'em) 
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fridge corn posted:I'd also be looking for stuff that while not explicitly about cars or driving but are otherwise intrinsically linked to cars in some way. Like for example I've got some stuff from the Initial D soundtrack on there. So if there's a case to be made about some non-car songs I'd hear it "Eurobeat intensifies" kinda vibe, with bonus fully sick VL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNfM61ZT0Rc Buddies of mine. There's a running gag in our local music scene when it comes to making a music video 'dynamic' for no money, "put the band in a car". This was my buddies version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzOageO3joc
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Oof. 850 chat sent me shopping for one. Couple of nice ones, including one very close to me, and an even nicer 840 if I wanted to avoid the V12 money pit, but "you might also like" showed me one of my other highly prized BMW dreams:  '94 540i 6-speed, 150k km, clean as a whistle. "1 of 3 Avus Blue E34 540i/6 - RHD of the 249 HE52 ever made and only one with Light Silvergrey leather" asking NZ$28k. All the M5 speed, none of the M5 bills. Some real nice 635CSi's too.
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bolind posted:I'll never be a fan of grey leather, but god drat that's a nice vehicle. Regular grey, I mostly agree, but this very light almost white looking one is great with the blue.
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