I used to have a motorcycle that would give a couple of pops out of the exhaust if I closed the throttle too fast. I wonder how many Nextdoor conversations it started?

I’m reminded of Bender:

“This isn’t even about you”

“That’s impossible!”

Or sn accident in a tunnel, where there isn’t a connection.

I remember the school buses in one high school I went to running on propane. It’s not as clean as electric, but it’s cleaner than diesel… and at the time, an electric school bus would have been expensive, if not outright science fiction.

So many who think bombs are the way to go. They are not.

None of the following is a good idea, either.

Fun facts I’ve learned while working for a living:

1.) A bottle of coca-cola, or any sugary drink, will ruin a concrete pour.

2.) Diesel equipment doesn’t like water, gasoline, or eggs in the tank.

3.) There are two ends of a telephone line. One end is at the building. The other end is in a box nearby that nobody is watching.

4.) A battered hard hat, old steel toe boots, a dirty yellow safety vest, and an air of confidence will turn you invisible.

I wonder how hard it would be to make a mod that changes the model?

I am tempted to save this comment just to see how accurate it is in ten years.

There are washing machines without anything more complex than a switch in them. If you really had a “pile of disassembled washing machines” you’d know that.

Same. Four hens and this big bastard.

Even better would be for them to stop tasting american money.

Doubt.

My electric bill changed by less than $2 per month when I installed an “inefficient” washing machine. It was so little that I’m not sure the washer was the cause. That’s $72 over a period of three years. The machine it replaced was just out of warranty and needed a $200 drain pump.

Shapez.io is great when I want to just kill 15 minutes. It doesn’t take over my whole day like Factorio.

I think that’s right.

Often times, I go to bed with intentions of sleeping early, only to find out that my wife has other plans for me. ❤️

I have a lot of specifications stuck in my head from previous jobs. A fun one is that precast concrete bridge beams aren’t just concrete and rebar. They typically have a bunch (20-30 or more depending on size) of 13 mm steel cables that are each under about 13,000 kg of tension. The cables are pulled to a specific tension in the concrete form, the concrete is poured around them, then the cables are cut at each end.

As does the auto industry, aerospace…

Outside of construction and plumbing plenty of stuff is metric here. Even our weird imperial units are based on metric units.

I think the 2nd Descent game worked in a similar fashion. Entering a cheat code from the first Descent game would reduce you to 1% shields and health.

I still remember his Tulsa rally, in one of the reddest states in the US. He got tricked into thinking there would be a million people present. And he bragged on it. But only 6,000 people showed up.

Even if they had the custom 3D printed joysticks?

Protesting is a threat. The problem is, when you don’t get what you want, you’re supoosed to foklow through on that threat.