Yes but have you also attempted to buy a camping chair at Dick’s. It’s really wild how badly laid out the camping section is. I buy like half my clothing at Tractor Supply Co when I’m picking up other stuff, I look like a hipster cowboy but it works.

Though I will say, retrievers, you can sometimes give them a literal chest full of toys, and really all they want are your napkins and mail.

I let them shred apart toilet paper tubes though.

RIP trees.

That said, it’s perfectly valid to complain about a product not meeting expectations or realistic standards that have been set. That’s just business, if the product is no good it doesn’t matter how much time and money you put into it.

Though I’m nice about it, no one sets out to make a shit product apart from actual scammers. I’m usually more interested in breaking down how something failed to deliver.

I’ve thought about this, I’m afraid my take won’t be too deep, but that’s just the cycle.

You pull things apart or away from their natural state and destroy what their original properties were to create something with different properties. There’s no other way to make anything, creation is destruction, destruction is creation, and so the cycle will continue.

Even when. Your intent is purely destructive in nature you are creating something new, disordered and chaotic though it might be.

And it’s not just humans doing it, it’s happening all around you all the time, the universe breathes in this constant cycle of destruction and creation, no moment existing twice.

They want to get paid and it’s much easier to get paid from someone willing to work out a deal.

Press F6 for God Song.

I just can’t help but imagine a world where every religion has its own OS. The Hindu one would get real wild with it.

“Teaching sand to think was a mistake”

enough in a pinch to get a call or some texts out order a rideshare/taxi from the bar etc. this would be more useful for topping up a rechargeable flashlight or… your other vapes.

Though back in the day I was doing exactly the opposite of this 🙃

Yeah I was about to mention that, It’s exactly where that terminology came from.

alcohol gel pot, the little tins with blue goo in them used by caterers.

Though judging by the small glass in there you either burn alcohol directly or use a candle.

If it’s really complex I start making a process for it, start to finish, if it’s moderately complex (rebuilding a car for example) I just write out a checklist of everything that needs to be done to finish it and cross it out as I go.

If you mean actually designing the thing and making sure all the parts would actually fit together? I just draw it up in Solidworks. Easier said than done if you’ve never touched CAD software before but plenty of incredible things ngs are also made without this kind of planning, sometimes it’s best just to plow forward and solve one problem at a time.

Not enough that the average person couldn’t make it up elsewhere with far less inconvenience. You could just leave more following distance, start coasting to stops earlier and accelerate gradually and save a lot more fuel. Most people drive like methed up maniacs.

Driver education, and proper vehicle maintenance would go much farther and actually improve safety and comfort. Most people don’t even check their tire pressures once a week, month, year.

put timers on vehicle A/C

as if the first thing I’d do wouldn’t be to hotwire the compressor engagement into an off the shelf temperature controller.

I don’t really see the point of that other than punishing people for driving (which in the 30 years I’ve lived in the US has not once been a choice between driving and mass transit). It’s a marginal difference in fuel consumption at best.

Measuring the commanded torque from my ECU it’s about 1-2 lb-ft difference.

Karting, it’s a very zen experience for me, which might sound a little weird if you aren’t used to flying around a former department store at 40mph and coming within inches of barriers. But to set a fast lap requires absolute focus and control and a complete lack of fear . There’s magic in running lap after lap searching for an advantage and improving your smoothness while walking a tightrope of control with absolute confidence. I just wish it wasn’t so expensive still much cheaper than real cars.

I’ve never been at peace walking around a park, or sitting on a beach or anything like that. I’m 100% in my element on track though. I need to focus my mind onto something to let things go. Maybe that’s something I need to work on.

RC racing is the much more chill version, you get into the flow of the track and the car and go back to the pits and make some tweaks and go again. It requires the same kind of focus and mental skills but much less bodily stress, be prepared to walk a lot of you are new, or to help flip over cars for kids and other racers.

Obviously I have a very specific mindset where I need to push myself mentally in this area. Stopping short of the limit of myself and the hardware just won’t do.

Beehaw already has an Open Collective set up, it works in a similar way to Patreon. you can find it in the sidebar of the home page.

I don’t like that, it has a huge impact on who can and can’t be here. Obviously most working adults can afford a few bucks here and there, but if you are trying to be inclusive removing any kind of monetary barrier is really important. Those on fixed income, minors, and from countries with extremely low wages would have to think twice about chipping in or may not have the means to actually do so even if they had the cash in hand.

I think it’s very important that Beehaw remains free to use. Though I wouldn’t mind if they nagged users a little for donations when needed.

Edit: to be clearer I’m for paying the people who run Beehaw if/when feasible but a mandatory fee is anathema to the purpose of this instance.

Yes. Assuming there wasn’t a deeper issue within the community that caused it.

I live just down the street from a cliff a teenager committed suicide on. Might sound cold but I don’t really think about except on occasion I notice someone he knew left a cup of his regular starbucks order on the rock in front of it with his name painted there, It’s usually an interesting reflection on life when I do.

Yeah some people are sensitive to Phenylalanine without having Phenylketonuria, relatively uncommon. As with all things natural or not you should listen to what your body tells you there is no one reaction to anything. Eggs and dairy can also be high in this amino acid.

Man a good tomato could just be eaten on its own with a little salt. Delicious, can’t wait for ours to come in, about a dozen different varieties each more delicious and beautiful than the last. 😋