TotalFat
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- Comment on My laptop hinge just ripped its screws right out. 6 hours ago:
Actually if you want a serious answer, I usually try to apply force as close to the hinge as possible when opening and closing the lid. This way the full length of the screen isn’t acting as a lever multiplying the force on the relatively short span of the hinge mounting bracket.
I definitely agree this is too common a problem not to be by design.
- Comment on My laptop hinge just ripped its screws right out. 1 day ago:
Let the hate flow through you!
- Comment on Socrates 3 weeks ago:
The stir fry ones are badass!
- Comment on Prognosis: back pain and general grouchiness 3 weeks ago:
It was the first one, Alien, for me. I was maybe four. Nightmares didn’t stop until my late twenties, but it’s my favorite movie now. No movies scared me after that!
- Comment on Endangered Species 3 weeks ago:
Cover the body with quicklime before burying…
- Comment on Riding in style 3 weeks ago:
I used to hit the TX state police auctions pretty often. I really liked the 9C1 Caprice basically the car the 1994-1996 Impala was based on. A little bit Cadillac, a little bit Camaro. Iron block and heads version of the LT1 improved reliability/durability. Could take speed bumps at 70 mph without flinching and was a phenomenal highway car especially for TX. Highway Patrol (DPS) cars are issued to specific troopers and not whored out to the whole department on a 24 hour rotation, so they are generally much better looked after.
Anyway I happened to hit one auction that was unique. Before, they put a really crappy paint job on to cover up the black and white paint scheme. After, they cheaped out and just spray painted white squigglies all over the car. I picked up a nice 1995 still black and white 9C1 for $2600.
Rocketing between Houston and Austin at over 100 mph, cars would move over to let me pass. Cops on the other side heading the other way would wave instead of pulling me over. On the rare occasion I did get pulled over, the registration showed previous owner as DPS since I bought directly from them myself. So I always got off with a warning.
Man I miss that car. They quit making them so they could make more SUVs…
Also the DPS Mustangs were stick shift so of course I grabbed one of those too!
- Comment on Never Forget 1 month ago:
If any country’s government spied on its own people as much as big business does in America, people would flip out. But in America, big business really is the government.
We are so fucked…
- Comment on Sprocket: Tank Design is such a fun game! 1 month ago:
Makes me think of an Ikv 65.
- Comment on True Love 1 month ago:
If you squint, it looks like a strawberry and cream cheese Danish.
- Comment on [OC] I (For real) remastered all of Starcraft's Terran themes. What game music should I remaster next? 1 month ago:
Ultima III and/or Alternate Reality: The City, based on the C64 versions.
- Comment on The joy of finding an interesting gap in the literature 2 months ago:
Also male obstetricians!
- Comment on Just thinking about what to cook 3 months ago:
Invite about a dozen friends/strangers/homeless over. Instruct them not to eat for at least eight hours beforehand. Also everyone brings dogs. Build a Jenga tower out of hot dogs on a smallish table of adequate height. Place dogs around the table in the “moat.” Play Jenga with the hot dogs, consuming what is removed. If the tower collapses, the dogs attack the fallen food while everyone screams “meat feast” while downing shots. Person who broke the tower is dragged outside and beaten.
- Comment on Not the most auspicious start of a new year 5 months ago:
Looks more like a CD burner…
- Comment on Time for tacos 7 months ago:
Flat iron steaks
- Comment on Restaurant Bill 7 months ago:
The real crime here is $125 for bread and pasta…
- Comment on Beard 8 months ago:
b ear d
- Comment on Why do we count sheep before bed? 8 months ago:
All you can do since the sheep got that restraining order…
- Comment on This should be illegal 9 months ago:
Motor City Online all over again
- Comment on After a few minutes of trying, I've found I may be a robot. I failed the reCaptcha exam. 9 months ago:
Failed your VK test?
Pray for a quick and painless retirement!