I once cut my extension cord with my hedge trimmers because I was getting a little ambitious with my trim work. It took me all of 30 seconds to put the wires back together and keep on with my work LOL. In case u aren’t aware cords are super easy to repair, especially for a sparky.
I hear u, but some cars have fucking aluminum valve stems for the tpms! Another think my buddy did as young child to random cars parked on his street was taking a tiny pebble, removing the valve stem cap and dropping the pebble on the shraeder + screwing cap back on it. Zero damage, just have to reinflate, but hell of an inconvenience. And zero property damage = very hard to get in any real shit for.
It’s the wheel of fortune
Starbucks only sells over roasted burnt swill, that’s why they have so many flavors there. Try getting a regular black or with cream and sugar instead of their flavors, no better than Dunkin or mcdanks (all piss water) your better off with the huge tin of folgers or maxwell house at home, or going to a real coffee shop (not corpo chain)
I have a heat pump and it looses efficiency around 45*, and once u get below zero it just cant keep up. I use my heat pump on the shoulder seasons, but have to rely on my oil furnace for the majority of the winter. If I had the loot I’d get a cold weather heat pump setup as they work much better, but I just spent a boat load of money getting my chimney redone and having a wood stove installed in the hope u can stave off my oil bill with wood … (Chimney NEEDED done anyways, wasn’t a big deal to add wood stove at the same time)
See the problem is the invisible hand isn’t what forced us to buy big cars. Auto regulations determining fuel economy by vehicle footprint is what killed small cars in general, including the smart car which is far too inefficient given it’s footprint to be sold in the USA. Cars as small as the smart car would need 70+ mpg to be sold under current regulations, so instead manufacturers make larger vehicles to fit inside of the regs. There’s a reason EVERY car model in the USA has only gotten larger every passing year, and it’s not just cuz “durrrr merican need big car”, although that is probably a good half of it… Here’s a random chart I found, not sure how accurate but u can search if your interested it’s all public info.
I don’t want my instrument panel to be a digital display screen. Guages! Buttons! Knobs and switches! That iPad glued to the dashboard shit is for the birds
I had never heard of it before but visited their site and looks like a very cool concept! I’ll have to download it and give it a try, although it seems their still in pretty early stages.
Might end up with a fediverse on TOR at this rate…
Well, you don’t exactly get huge govemrnent bail outs by being competent. All us car manufacturers have in one way or another been propped up by the government. And before I see anybody comment about Ford not getting a bail out, please remember what vehicles are at every police station, fish and game, and other assorted government entities. Us car manufacturers would not exist without the governments safety net to save them from their gross incompetence.
The prices keep going up because the willingness to pay isn’t slowing down. As long as people are willing to over pay, the prices will keep going up! Of course the suppliers are predicting price increases, they know there’s a crowd that HAS to have the latest and greatest even when previous gen hardware still hangs, and they have deep pockets and no patience. Then u have people paying for cloud services and shit, increasing demand. This isn’t even getting into the AI craze or cloud computing. I have a friend that won’t build a gaming PC because “it’s cheaper to pay to stream a PC from my laptop” while complaining about ram shortages, which he is actively funding. I am perfectly happy with my ryzen 5 running ddr4 and a rx6600, it plays everything on my 1080p 75hz monitor just fine. I won’t dare think about upgrading till the madness stops, and if it doesnt then fine I’ve been priced out of gaming. My sub 800$ PC is already more expensive than half the cars and motorcycles I have owned 😭 no I’m not spending 2k to build a rig jeeezum
A petty inconvenience is often the best kind, no real harm done but message sent and clearly received!