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- Comment on Viewers like you 1 day ago:
Bundle of snakes for the intake? I had to look that one up. I figured it wasn’t a wax and shave for the engine bay. Good ECM choice, super customizable. Don’t stop looking. You never know when deals show up. I’m 2 years in and nowhere near finished, just got to keep waiting for the right prices. Better slow than never.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
I can assure you that the flight attendant group is much more than these two categories.
- Comment on I watched several videos on a Combine Harvester's inner workings and I still don't understand how this thing works. 1 day ago:
Materials science and the ability to harness adequate energy to drive such a machine. IOW, lighter, stronger metals, durable metals, bearings, lubricants, tire materials, quality fuels, engine power which is dependent on all the aforementioned, and all of that tied to close tolerance mass manufacturing.
We really take for granted how fast and precise manufacturing has become.
Even simple things we don’t think of. For instance - Cars from the ‘80s and before had interior materials that sustained UV damage and you’d end up a with fading, cracked dash, cracking seats, etc. Windshields would crack super easy from a rock chip. Now? The vast majority of car interiors remain in very good condition other than usage wear. I’ve taken multiple rock hits on windshields with many different cars and had zero cracks.
Materials science is amazing.
- Comment on Anon describes experience 1 day ago:
There’s not much worse as a kid in a learning environment, or even with your parent(s), to be shut down painfully for being right about something that they don’t know or don’t think you know. Really crushes the satisfaction of nailing a win and turns it into bitterness and starts the lifelong process of keeping your mouth shut when you’re right and letting others win when wrong.
- Comment on Viewers like you 1 day ago:
Straight six for the indestructible win.
- Comment on Viewers like you 1 day ago:
All whopping 90 hp of it. My first car was 85 hp, so I had to admire the 90 hp Chevy II.
- Comment on Viewers like you 1 day ago:
Gotta love that the battery is the same size as most of the visible engine.
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 4 days ago:
I always find irony in the fact that the US helped set up better forms of government in the countries it fought in WW2, Japan and Germany, than it could make better in its own country.
- Comment on 413524 Gang, rise up! 5 days ago:
I thought this was a bolt tightening pattern and wondered why anyone cared where they started.
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 5 days ago:
Flags have become a warning over the last decade or so about the person waving it. It no longer has the hope of a better America, solidarity, or welcome; it’s a symbol of a myopic, selfish, aggro, uneducated person full of performative nationalism and real hatreds.
Our independence was supposed to free the people of kings and tyrants. It’s been 249 years since 1776, we have undone what the Constitution authors fought for.
- Comment on That's the truth 6 days ago:
Aliens. Or Signs. Pretty much the same premise. Mindless, pointless killers that humans avoid or get killed by. Except Aliens at least had the heartless Weyland Yutani corp and a cast of characters the viewer got to enjoy. Far better film.
- Comment on Corporations are saving the planet! 1 week ago:
I don’t disagree.
- Comment on Corporations are saving the planet! 1 week ago:
We just need thousands more little steps. It all adds up. Like the whole plastic straws debacle. While mocked, it’s one more little step.
- Comment on Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman 1 week ago:
I pay $60 (or whatever), pay for my data connection, and get to play my game literally for years. It’s one of the cheapest forms of entertainment around. I get tons of value out of my purchase, it reduces stress, I get a sense of challenge out of it, and for the amount I spent I get a lot pf return.
Now if only health care were free. That’s just a bullshit statement and not even worth responding to. That said, In its current state it’s the opposite of video games. It’s expensive. The amount you put in is often not what you get out. It’s stressful.
Maybe the only way it’s like games is that someone can pull the plug on you when it’s not profitable anymore.
- Comment on Amazing Grace 1 week ago:
The president we should have had.
- Comment on What a weird apple 1 week ago:
Vampire gone vegetarian?
- Comment on Sign me up 1 week ago:
Right? My first thought is that there’d be a long line of repressed Republican WASPs, officials and regular people, lined up for this place.
- Comment on A secret, never-mentioned fact is that the people who voted for Zohran are also taxpayers. 1 week ago:
We’re the taxpayers that want “free” health care while simultaneously paying taxes. The Right somehow thinks we’re too stupid to know we pay taxes that makes these things happen. Heck…we want people to have nice things.
Meanwhile the Right doesn’t want to pay taxes yet somehow expects to get social services like paved roads or safe drinking water. I’d mention schools or health care but the republicans clearly DGAF about those things.
- Comment on How streaming changed the way you watch TV 1 week ago:
The joy of when that Big Screen movie that you never got to see finally comes to the TV. With ad breaks. You absolutely didn’t care about the ads because they were normal at the time. And you had to be there on time to watch it, and make sure nobody else in the house was going to try to watch something at the same time. While I appreciate the huge variety and the ability to binge some great series today, it’s still the same old shit even with all the streaming services: A lot of bad TV, lots of uninteresting TV, with a few bright spots and plenty of ads.
- Comment on Why does America feel the need to control the world? Do what they say? Instead of taking care of their own problems at home? When did the US become police officer of the world and enforcer? 2 weeks ago:
The citizens, in general, don’t. We want to do the same thing every other country’s people want - live our lives and hopefully give our kids a good or better one.
I have no fucking clue what the government is doing to make these decisions.
- Comment on So um, america just started another war in the middle east. We're going to need a shit ton more memes to distract americans from the nightmare they are enduring. Thanks in advance... 2 weeks ago:
I’m not as mad at the 32% that elected trump as I am at the ones that sat at home and let it happen.
- Comment on Try it today! 2 weeks ago:
She’s partly right.
- Comment on A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit 2 weeks ago:
Dead internet here we come.
This is the direction Reddit has been pointed in for years now.
- Comment on Dear Leader 2 weeks ago:
They could be. But then they would be a dictator’s military - all about looks and shitty at everything else. The kind that gets conscripted to be thrown at enemy combatants as cannon fodder to die for the glory of their leader. The US military is a logistical fighting force, that’s what they’re good at. Not dressing up and goose-stepping polished and pretty for nationalistic display.
- Comment on Anon likes trains 2 weeks ago:
Anybody who is making money off existing transportation is going to be against public transportation. Cab companies lobby against rail everywhere, from city to burbs or airport to downtown. Trucking, for obvious reasons. Passenger rail can carry cargo at night. And of course anybody selling fuel to the mass of cars, the petro industry.
- Comment on THIS always annoys me. 2 weeks ago:
Charity is profitable.
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, it can sorta be a “boredom reliever” kind of thing.
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 3 weeks ago:
Living off flavored drinks and craving that sugar is stimulation you don’t get from plain water.
- Comment on If you have used this you are immune to all disease. 3 weeks ago:
The problem with them is that it’s up to the owner of the facility to make sure they are removed and cleaned in a timely manner, not simply re-rolled dirty towel, and the machine was in good repair and didn’t jam.
Quite often that wasn’t the case, so you’d wind up with dirty towel recycling or stuck.
Yes, this absolutely contributed to the spread of disease. No way it couldn’t. I had a family member in the medical field and said that the reason we didn’t see them anymore much past the ‘80s is because they were unhygienic thanks to the aforementioned issues.
So it’s not really the fault of the towel, it’s the fact that people are cheap bastards and don’t keep things serviced, clean, and maintained. It’s better to grumble and shake your hands dry rather than continue to use a jammed, soiled towel machine.
- Comment on Spaceballs 2 | Announcement 3 weeks ago:
He’s been trying to get back into acting for a while now. This is a great movie for fans to get to see him in.