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- Comment on Can you clear a straight line of malfunctioning pixels on a phone with a lighter? 1 day ago:
No. If you’re lucky, you could take the phone apart and reconnect the ribbon connector that goes from the display to the board and it will be fixed. More likely the display is damaged and would need replaced. No chance a lighter will fix it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
It’s a skill that most people will need to use often in their lives if you live in the US, at least. Unless you live in a place like New York city and don’t ever plan on leaving, you’ll probably be better off knowing how to drive. There’s a dozen reasons why that are all pretty obvious to most people.
But if you’re only 19, never got a license before that, and are dating a guy that’s a fair amount older than you are, I’m guessing you just want other people making all of your decisions for you.
- Comment on just beat it 2 days ago:
Was doing this with my car fob for a while before I finally broke down and re-soldered the battery contact terminal to the board yesterday.
Also doing it to my cars blower fan for the AC. I have the replacement fan motor, but it hasn’t been annoying enough yet to mess with replacing.
- Comment on think the predator is badass 1 week ago:
Mine was Prowler325. It was like 1997 and the sweet looking Plymouth Prowler had just come out.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
When you’re living in it, you don’t know what the future will have. I like my information and tech, but growing up as a kid before all that was pretty sweet. You weren’t always after knowing or researching or finding out everything. You lived more in the moment.
There was also a freedom that will never return for anyone. Imagine going places and doing things that at best will only be a story people could tell. No pictures or videos that keep or prove anything forever digitally around. It’s something you subconsciously think about now all the time. It didn’t used to exist. Also the freedom of being a kid and wanting to go hang out wondering around with friends all day completely untethered or tracked. Just a “be home before the streetlights come on” and beyond that your parents have no idea where you are and can’t call you. Getting lost was an adventure.
- Comment on NOOOOOOO 1 week ago:
Plan b: Can you still reach the bottle of shampoo?
- Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 1 week ago:
Our law enforcement is a huge joke and the meh pay, high turnover rate, and low bar of entry attracts the type of people you wouldn’t want to be associated with to begin with.
But also, why are small framed 5’3 women allowed to be police?
Fact is, most cops can’t outrun or overpower a lot of criminals who chose to resist or flee. In actuality that’s a pretty tiny part of the job. The rest is tickets, reports, paperwork, arrests with no resistance, investigations, etc. you don’t have to be an athlete or even very physically fit to do any of that. Id rather deal with a fat cop that isn’t a dick more than a slim one who’s a dumbass.
- Comment on I can't believe it's necessary to ask the question... 1 week ago:
Not anymore. The meat part got damned expensive. It used to be a hearty affordable meal that wasn’t hard to cook and tasted good for the amount of effort you had to put into it.
Kind of like how nobody makes hamburger helper anymore. It was popular back when a pond of hamburger was like a buck. Now that it’s $5 a pound no ones wastes it on the stuff.
- Comment on This was the original control for cable TV. And if you bribed the install guy with cash he would set it to give you premium channels you didn't pay for 1 week ago:
I was a little kid. In my neck of the woods 27 was nickelodeon. Lol
- Comment on This was the original control for cable TV. And if you bribed the install guy with cash he would set it to give you premium channels you didn't pay for 1 week ago:
Could be. I know this because we owned the filter that gave it to us when installed. Each cable company could have been doing something different, though.
- Comment on This was the original control for cable TV. And if you bribed the install guy with cash he would set it to give you premium channels you didn't pay for 1 week ago:
The filters were installed to unscramble the channels. Not the other way around. We had a filter for Cinemax that we’d put in line as it would get to our cable box in the house.
- Comment on This was the original control for cable TV. And if you bribed the install guy with cash he would set it to give you premium channels you didn't pay for 1 week ago:
All I needed was row three, 2nd from the left.
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 1 week ago:
What if they’re 25?
- Comment on I'll just take the bus 1 week ago:
It’s like learning to ride a bike. There’s all this balance going on, but after you’re good at it it’s just natural and you kind of forget how to explain what to do because you stopped thinking about it so long ago.
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 1 week ago:
It’s 64% by critics and 56% by viewers after over 100,000 ratings. That’s pretty damned bad for what I find to be the best comedy there is.
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 1 week ago:
Has it been over a week since your last viewing? Then you should watch it!
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 2 weeks ago:
I looked up the user ratings once on rt and I was shocked it was less than at least 80.
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 2 weeks ago:
Lol. Nah, man. I got tired of laughing by about halfway through and by then their schtick was predictable.
- Comment on 5-minute oil change place 2 weeks ago:
Get good enough and wear a pair of disposable gloves. After some practice you don’t get oil on anything
- Comment on 5-minute oil change place 2 weeks ago:
They also use shit oil, you’ll be lucky if it’s the right weight you were even supposed to have, and you don’t have to look very hard before finding someone who’s left one of those places with no oil put back, or the oil cap left off, or a leaky filter or drain bolt, or stripped drain bolt threads, etc.
I’ve always changed my own oil.
Also, a special shout-out to Valvoline Restore and protect oil. It really does make your engine cleaner and free up piston rings. My 08 Prius has 272,000 miles on it and the last 16,000 miles I’ve been using that oil (lots of vehicles around those years were using low tension oil rings) I’ve gone from burning a quart around every 2,800 miles, to burning a quart every 5,000 miles.
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 2 weeks ago:
If you remember the 80s at all, then “Hot Tub Time Machine” is the greatest comedy ever created.
If you don’t remember the 80’s, then " Hot Tub Time Machine" is the greatest comedy ever created.
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 2 weeks ago:
I’d agree, if the movie were half as long.
- Comment on Xbox 360/PS3/(to a lesser extent) Wii owners represent 2 weeks ago:
I dunno, man. I never knew anyone who had a yellow light PS3 and the only ones I read about were from people who had kept them in enclosed cabinets. I also watched a very in depth 2 hour documentary on the 360 rrod and it wasn’t due to ati.
- Comment on Material scientist wet dream 2 weeks ago:
Fat free water
- Comment on Xbox 360/PS3/(to a lesser extent) Wii owners represent 2 weeks ago:
Wiis and ps3’s weren’t crapping out, and the 360 failures weren’t due to ati. This meme is dumb. Dumb in the bad meme kinda way.
- Comment on Xbox 360/PS3/(to a lesser extent) Wii owners represent 2 weeks ago:
I always heard that was tsmc’s decision.
- Comment on Becoming a veterinarian is hard 2 weeks ago:
“By your races combined; I am Captain Human!”
- Comment on FFFFFUUUUUUUU 2 weeks ago:
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Gotta use the proper f7 u12 to be OG.
- Comment on Fresh 2 weeks ago:
Regular people, sure. But some firefighters that work in cities with a lot of highrise apartments will keep tubing in their turnouts for this. Super low odds of needing it, but a couple feet of rolled up tubing is lightweight and doesn’t take up much space.
- Comment on Weapons trafficking 2 weeks ago:
They were all foster kids and the government gave them like $1,000 a month per kid. He was making 6 figures before even counting his job money.