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After almost getting hit twice by a driven Tesla while walking in a lot, the guy parked it in a handicap spot with no placard and speed walked into the store. Upon exit from a different door, the driver had it drive itself to him. I’m miffed i missed my chance to fuck with it because I didn’t know what was going on. I was waiting, debating calling police for the placard issue (given there were multiple open spaces nearby). I decided to not get involved and drove in front of the tesla to exit. Weird, I noted, seeing the drl bar and left blinker on. Turns out, it was waiting it’s turn to leave autonomously.

Fuck that guy. DoorDash vibe. 150ft walk.

Leatherman squirt ps4, 100% of “9” tools (I think they count the both sides of the file separately). I’ve had 2, sequentially living on my keychain since 2018 I think. It works in a pinch and usually saves me a walk to get a better tool. It pairs nicely with an olight i1r micro light for the same reasons.

Planetary ports in Elite are just ~1km wide circles with some similar buildings, unfortunately. No sprawling metropolis settings. I love the game, but it’s still markedly empty. Planets with billions of humans are atmospheric earth-likes, which you can’t land on. Can’t approach any closer than high orbit

But the audio design is excellent

Fining out Joe Pesci plays Joe Pesci in real life because he was originally a tough guy, not the usual NY Juliard alumni, made his movies pretty annoying for me. Highlight: him hosting SNL and threatening to smack Sinead O’Connor for her anti-pope statement made that obvious

Sucks that it’s too late to stop quoting My Cousin Vinny

Waiting (2005) was him as himself as a waiter

Guesses: reminding you you have something in your cart. Showing you some bullshit product. Preventing competitors from gaining ad space helping cement brand significance as THE brand. Reminding you to shop for something.

Coke doesn’t run ads to sell you on the idea. They run ads to make you think you’re thirsty and that you could go for a coke. Amazon just needs you on their site.

But sold to who?

Interesting. Funny how I’ve come around from me and a friend being Clarkson and Hammond to both ending up more like May

I’m guessing that was post-Clarkson TG?

VW is not really in the business of selling $6,000 used cars. “EVs are better (for people buying new cars)” says exec of company that sells new cars

Absolutely, here’s a recipe for bistek

Gone Pro sounds like maybe they leveled up from amateur. A lack of them in the future would be NoPro

Does it have a practical use? If yes, I agree with your reservations. If no, then someone is going to buy it to either look at or sell to someone else to look at. May as well buy it direct and preserve it respectfully. But I understand and I do appreciate the group-benefit mentality

3D printing. Part of the issue is my main filament-based project needs to be ABS so I don’t have much interest in a starter printer. I also have enough finicky devices that I really don’t want to figure out another. So I landed on the prusa mk3 when that was still the current model and havent committed the money to it. It’s not like I’m starved for solutions given that I can make widgets from wood or aluminum. I even ramped up my steel fab capability with a nice welder that cost half a prusa. So buying a printer has been on a perpetual backburner.

Plus I know solidworks well and the work flows in every other cad infuriates me.

I often make the same argument against myself for limited resources but ultimately, if the resource is affordable, then it probably isn’t rare on the scale that hobbyists would affect it. But then there’s helium, which is somehow not anywhere near abundant enough for the low price they charge to fill a balloon. While hobbyists still wouldn’t affect the supply that much, I don’t like supporting balloons anymore. Weird hill to die on for 95% of people or greater.

Nobody goes there. It’s too crowded

Eat cheese and sin

3: one of my favorite games is live service and only live service. They can’t keep it going forever. It’s not actually played on their servers though, as it’s P2P inatancing in an open world (open galaxy), but there’s some political/faction background systems you can influence, so it all syncs up. I just hope when they’re done, they update it to play solo local they way the first 2 titles were. Will I even care then? I don’t know. I’ve been playing 6 years and it’s been out for 12, but did just get some great updates after a lull. (Elite:Dangerous)

“Grandma died during surgery”. I didn’t call her the night before because I thought it’d be awkward and I didn’t acknowledge the risk of heart surgery.