I am writing this in a camper in an RV park as I monitor the cameras in my house and wonder if and when my shit will get wrecked. The truth is that WE did this through inaction. Yes the political class is to blame but so is most of the rest of the human race. We have destroyed our own home. We are a plague.

*cockholster

Good to know.

Not gonna lie, I’ve never emptied the gas tank of my lawnmower or snowblower and up until this thread, I did not know I was supposed to. I normally just give it a little Seafoam.

I knew about this but the quotes make it so much worse.

Strands #219
“Protective measures”
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This is a huge deal for me and might be what convinces me to upgrade from my Pixel 6 Pro.

You had to squeeze soooo hard.

For PiHole, I recommend Google TV (fka android tv) over most others simply because you can specify static IP settings, including PiHole as DNS. This is useful for those that cannot set the PiHole as their default DNS on DHCP due to some conflict or another.

I just arrived at my destination after a 16 hour hellish drive (normally 6 1/2). My house is directly in this beast’s path though thankfully not at risk of storm surge. My friends in Sarasota are expecting 15’ of water. My aunt and uncle are going to ride it out on St. Pete Beach, so I expect I might not see them again. The bird and turtle nesting grounds in Ana Maria island are guaranteed to cease to exist. The peacocks of Longboat Key are dead, they just don’t know it yet. The list goes on. But hey, Jimmy just bought a PowerStroke diesel dually with the money he made off crypto, and Saheel just pushed code generated by ChatGPT into production, so I guess it all balances out.

PS: The last bit is half made up. Saheel is the name of a colleague of mine, so that’s not true. What is true is that an engineer at one of my clients literally pushed generated code into production.

Historically, the porn industry has had tremendous influence on both media and politics. Thank Larry Flynt for your freedom of speech. We had VHS instead of BetaMax because porn decided to release on VHS. The same goes with DVD and I believe Blu-Ray but I’m not sure about that one.

Don’t underestimate the sway porn has.

I was only surprised by Wentworth and Anthony Hopkins.

Kay Bee Toys…

*Truth

I am old enough to have played and guitar shopped in the early 80’s and 90’s. So much of what was sold was what I consider trash quality and doesn’t hold a candle to the precision CNC stuff being cranked out on the cheap now. I doubt that age would have magically made those old stock guitars better.

I do agree with your general sentiment, if I understood it correctly. I have been a watch collector and a classic car collector, so I do understand the concept of owning history or owning a product of craftsmanship rarely found now. Not all old stuff has memorable history or quality craftsmanship. Sometimes old stuff is just old.

Call him princess. Please.

Those same government agencies then turn around and hire my company to pull them out of the fire after they royally fuck everything up. We charge a fuck ton, will never go onsite, and they should consider themselves lucky if the engineer is wearing pants.

Ha! I saw this on a car a few weeks ago. It looks epic in person too.

Definitions.

• A vintage car is one that was manufactured between 1919 and 1930.
• An antique car is any car manufactured in 1975 or earlier (older than 45 years old).
• The classic car is a vehicle manufactured in the 1990s or earlier (at least 20 years old).

If you look at the floor, you can see that the house was built around the rock. My bet is that they found the rock while digging out the basement. Options were $15,000+ to remove it, or $0 to just dig around it.