blargh513
@blargh513@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Little glory holes 18 hours ago:
I don’t see an issue with Andy posting every day all day.
- Comment on Unexpected item in the bagging area! 1 day ago:
Also, they get to sit down. Like I need to have a cashier on their feet all day. The fuck does that do for me? Let em sit.
- Comment on Unexpected item in the bagging area! 1 day ago:
I have done on purpose. It is fun and easy.
Go to home depot (I hate that place anyway). Get the type of cart that has the big metal tube that runs around the top. Meant for atacking sheets of material flat.
Buy a sheet of something cheap. Thin plywood, foam board, whatever. Lay it across the top. Get a smaller one and stand it up vertically so you have a top and side facing shield.
Get a nice cordless power tool and put it down at the bottom.
Go through self checkout and pay for the sheets (make sure barcode faces up).
The cameras from the top and register can’t see the power tool. Just be cool and leave. Never go back.
It really does take a village.
- Comment on Growth 4 days ago:
Ok but did we really need yet another term that is difficult to distinguish from pre-existing terms?
When you have to write an essay to describe it, that should be a clue.
- Comment on most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman 4 days ago:
This is the correct answer. Within even one seemingly narrow kink, there are so many flavors of it.
- Comment on most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman 4 days ago:
I dislike the notion that some people lay down of “oh that’s not kinky, what I do is kinky”. It’s not a competition, nobody gets points for being at some “level” of the game. A good kink gets you off HARD and you have an awesome time. It doesn’t have to be some fucking extreme thing where you have to have a bunch of tattoos, black leather, knives, ropes and all that shit. It can be that stuff, but it can be whatever dials up the fuck-o-meter to 11. Fetlife is full of people who want to gatekeep some shit. Every group has insular douchebags who want to say they are the expert. Fuck right off with all that shit.
- Comment on Engine auto-off 1 week ago:
My apologies if you have a fucky 80s era GM product.
In MOST cars, a fuel filter is easy.
- Comment on Engine auto-off 1 week ago:
Don’t do this. If you unclog the filter the next stop for the junk you knocked loose is the engine.
Fuel filters are cheap and easy to replace.
- Comment on Engine auto-off 1 week ago:
Modern oils and modern cylinder lining makes this a non-issue.
You’re more likely to have a modern car with bad rings as they chase fuel economy numbers. Honestly, a hybrid is a very solid choice anymore. Lifts the burden of the gas engine having to be hyper-efficient and eases the extreme tolerances required to get there.
Shame that there are very few fun hybrids, crazy expensive things don’t count.
Infiniti made an m35h that actually had more power than the gas version and it got better mileage. Granted, it is a porky sedan, but that thing would still haul its fat ass.
- Comment on Engine auto-off 1 week ago:
I have been renting a lot of cars lately. The hybrids do the best job because hybrid. The gas cars can be hit or miss. A jeep renegade I rented did ok except that sometimes it would auto stop, sometimes it wouldn’t. You had to be stopped and the. Push the brake a little harder to engage.
I have a Volvo and if you stop at a pace other than very gentle, it will shut off the engine before you’ve stopped moving. That one is annoying.
Got a newer Volvo as a loaner and the baby hybrid system in them is FAR better. You can’t even really hear it start up. I believe it doesn’t have a traditional starter, you hear almost nothing when you start it for the first time. It just kind of goes from being off to running without any sound or vibration. Very weird but kinda cool.
Each system is a little different, some are not very good, others you don’t even notice.
- Comment on If only we knew the power at our disposal 2 weeks ago:
I feel dumb, I don’t remember a side slot on my genesis 1. It was quite a while ago, but still.
- Comment on Mr Incognito 2 weeks ago:
That sounds horrible, post the link so I never accidentally visit such filthy.
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 3 weeks ago:
It is less about the output in lumens of the lamp, but more about the angle and color temperature.
In most cars, the difference between regular headlight operation and “brights” has nothing to do with the output, it’s about the angle of the beams. Of course, when you angle the headlights up so you can see farther down the road, now you also point them at oncoming drivers eyes.
The scourge of “blue” headlights amplifies the problem. They’re no brighter, but they are more uncomfortable to stare down.
In most cars, there are a variety of ways to fine-tune the angle of the beams with often little more than a screwdriver. The problem is that most people have no idea that they need to be adjusted. This is why regular inspections are important as well as some sort of standards that can be applied across a wide variety of cars.
The reality is that correcting poor angle on headlights is a trivial task, should only take a few moments. Additionally, most modern headlight systems are active and can adjust the angle by pointing the lamp down or using shutters or individual LEDs to change the angle or beam pattern. Eventually, this will just be an irritating thing of the past, but it will take a number of years before every GM truck and SUV is off the road as well as a lot of current Hyundai/Kia products (anecdotally observed by me to be the worst offenders).
- Comment on Slice of ketchup anyone? 3 weeks ago:
I know a person who hates ketchup with all of her soul. Same for mayo, mustard, bbq sauce, any condiment.
However, she’ll eat a sloppy joe drowning in that sauce from the can like it’s her job.
Y’all ketchup haters is weird.
- Comment on Handy tip 3 weeks ago:
Nope, dreams and nightmares are good and vivid.
- Comment on Handy tip 3 weeks ago:
Same here. I think it was actually this meme that did it. I saw people commenting that they could not and I’m like “ha yeah, of course you can’t, who can do that?”. The lots of people are like, yeah, I can create a complex 3d shape in my mind and manipulate it, turn it, get closer, etc. I’m like WTF who are these megamind savants who can do this. Turns out, most people.
I felt very alone and very incapable after that realization.
- Comment on Handy tip 3 weeks ago:
All I got is dark gray static. No cows. The occasional moving blob of different dark gray static.
- Comment on Kitchen 3 weeks ago:
Exactly. Unless you’re cooking or cleaning GTFO of the kitchen. There is a living room, a porch, and several other places you can be. I even put the food in the dining room and people STILL want to stand in stupid places. If you come in then I’m giving you some shit to do. Here, take the trash out you vagrant or get the hell out of here.
- Comment on borger 3 weeks ago:
Get borger. Cheap, not waterproof, but you can eat it whenever you want in the shower.
- Comment on Is it just me or is Lemmy less active than reddit? 4 weeks ago:
It is quieter.
Post some new shit, comment a little. It ain’t no good if y’all just lurkin.
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 4 weeks ago:
Don’t count out us cheap bastards. I love buying used gear. I don’t play games on them, I just run my own stuff. Local llms home servers for media and such.
Of course with proxmox, my need for multiple devices has shrunk considerably. I’d be happy if I could get an old mining rig with a few midrange gpus in them. I’d rather run my own llm than pay a premium for a subscription. I can have it run my home automation and use it for filthy sexy chat bots. Could also use them for coding agents.
If you’re dumping 2-3 year old nvidia hardware, I’m buying.
- Comment on They're somehow always baffled that their cakes are melting 5 weeks ago:
I did not think I said anything terribly controversial but the response is deeply entertaining. Clearly have touched a nerve.
- Comment on They're somehow always baffled that their cakes are melting 5 weeks ago:
They make the whitest desserts on that show. They’re all white, gloopy, creamy, mushy, wet, gross desserts.
It’s like they’ve never heard of chocolate, caramel or anything that’s not pale.
- Comment on It's about the *option* 5 weeks ago:
What’s wrong with a standard beige sedan?
Infiniti M37x is a delightful beige sedan. Big comfy, quiet, a delight in so many ways.
- Comment on It's about the *option* 5 weeks ago:
I remember when everyone made fun of getting a sports car or muscle car saying it was a way to compensate for a small dick.
I guess folks who drove jeeps wanted in on that particular segment of being made fun of and went hard into it.
Now those of us who do drive fast things are largely left in peace with our tiny peckers.
- Comment on When traffic comes to a standstill, drivers instantly shift left and right to create a Rettungsgasse, an emergency corridor right down the middle, so ambulances 5 weeks ago:
I watched a woman get out of her car during a traffic jam (on a packed freeway) drop trou and just piss in the road right in front of me. Didn’t try to hide to one side or open the doors to block the sightline. Just busted piss in the absolute middle of the road.
Either she was mad out of fucks or she took a dare. Didnt even wipe. Just hiked her pants up and got back in the car.
🤷
- Comment on I guessed 5 weeks ago:
I’m here to represent the Wolf In Your Neighborhood Movement.
With enough funds raised, we can deliver a pack of wild ass wolves to a neighborhood of your choosing. It might be yours, it might be that of a neighboring community.
Our wolves are bred to the highest standards and are promised to be the most lean, fast, and aggressive wolves you can find anywhere. They’re real assholes.
They solve many problems such as:
People who jog in the road Irritating pets left outside/unsupervised Irritating children left outside/unsupervised Too many deer Humans that lack common sense Humans that cannot run fast Humans that are taking out their trash Porch pirates Caribbean Pirates Door to door solicitations Religious folks
If you’re willing to donate money to our cause, we can have a pack of wolves into the neighborhood of your choosing in under 30 days.
- Comment on Recent conversations between Dawkins and sentient chat-bot Claudia (Claude) 5 weeks ago:
Buddhism would tell you that there is no “self” to speak of. Without a self how can there be consciousness?
The edges of our reality have never been anything we can perceive. However, it seems that they’re far away enough such that we can do fun things like have buttsex and smoke drugs, so I’m ok with it.
- Comment on Ew why are you like that 5 weeks ago:
What do you mean they like poop? That’s nasty.
Now drinking pee, that’s just classy.
- Comment on Ew why are you like that 5 weeks ago:
Outside bones!