if someone obviously is unreceptive to the idea that their blinding headlights are both unsafe and make them an asshole, there’s a good chance that I’ll just tell them that next time they’re driving towards me at night I will intentionally drive head on into them, then walk away

I’ll do what I can to politely educate them, but if they’re not open to it then fuck it I’m just going to make the risk to them clear and end the conversation

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no need for the noise of the angle grinder, the handle is all plastic and came off easily with a hacksaw with a metal blade

I suppose there’s already body rust on the car, so some screws into the panel won’t hurt it too much

although the whole point of this exercise was to be able to open the door from the inside and pass safety inspection

don’t forget wearing a shirt that said freedom

damn, shitter got even worse

begging for a login, a popup to open in the app, and then once you close those *another" popup

same here. AI doing machine design? a company demo’d just AI drawing creation for us a while ago, and it could barely do that. how the fuck is an LLM going to fit together a few hundred custom made parts in a way that can be assembled, maintained, function properly, be manufactured without excessive cost, etc

I have yet to see AI perform a task effectively once you look deeper than the surface.

AI lowers the barrier to entry for people to do things. that doesn’t mean it’s going to do them better than professionals.

Bought a used car recently. Rear door latch was seized inside the door. surely that’ll be an easy fix, I thought when I gave the seller my offer. after all, it’s over a decade old and an economy car, those cars aren’t too complicated yet.

one $12 handle to replace the one I cut off the door (and also the second half of it was broken anyways, so that was always going to be an expense), one pair of $30 long nose vise grips that didn’t even help me get a seized half of a screw out of the inner latch assembly (screw sheared immediately when I tried to remove it to take the assembly off the door), two broken drill bits trying to drill out that seized screw that the vise grips didn’t help with, $1.83 at the fastener store to replace the captured nut that the seized screw was stuck in after I just smashed it out with a hammer, 2c of dollar store epoxy to secure the replacement nut that was just slightly smaller but enough that it wasn’t held properly in the part, a die to chase the threads on the incredibly rusted screw holding the window actuator to the window (I actually already had that, but still, had to buy the set for a previous project like this), a lot of penetrant and scouring for the original problem part that was causing the door latch to seize, $180 for an ultrasonic cleaner to help clean that seized spring and the shaft joint (okay again I bought this for other reasons too in the past), 2c of lube I’ve had sitting around for ages, and then a few broken trim retaining clips and a slightly broken inner door panel and the door is good as new! y’know, but without paint matched door handles.

the replacement platch assembly part was quoted as $100 from the dealership, so I’ll take the $2 + cost of driving 15km that it was to fix the one I have. I wish it hadn’t taken me 8 hours to complete, though, once you account for all the figuring out how to open the door when neither inside nor outside handle worked, and take it apart, and get the broken part out, and clean the tape off the door paint that was stuck to it after I put it on to prevent rain entering the door from the open holes where the handle used to be, and then put it all back together. at least putting it back together was as easy as expected and took less than an hour going slow. all the other expenses, to be fair, were either inevitable or something I’d already bought for various reasons or will be able to use elsewhere (after all, he who dies with the most tools, wins)

the odds that my repair fails where getting a shop to do it, however, are not zero. also, the shop would likely have replaced the broken trim clips. I didn’t, because I don’t have them. so the door panel is also probably going to rattle a bit now.

even my screenshot tool (Samsung) on my phone is called “ai-something or other”. when they made the switch, it became laggy, unresponsive, generally slow to use, and far shittier than it was before.

great branding for AI, though, or something

ok, I’ve taken back the first wish, you now have three wishes

that polish shit looks like it fucks

same. and usually at somebody else’s house, too. even if I bring my own (sharp) knife lmao

I’ve seen this a few times and just started at them and told them they were an idiot.

they unironically wanted to go on “one”. dumbasses

as a kid I developed a resistance working in a kitchen

as an adult it somewhat continued due to onions being an important part of every meal

but sometimes you just get one of those fuckers that’s so goddamn juicy that the mere sight of it brings you to tears

yep. I just blow it into the living or dining room. easier for half a dozen people to deal with it than just myself

why? he knows what he did. we’ll never forget that show in '03

wow, that’s actually more than here in Ontario after converting currency and volume units. $2.30 vs $1.60 when I filled up on the weekend

still quite cheap in the grand scheme of things for what it is

because the other two comments didn’t make it entirely clear if you have no idea what this is about: the pump will ask you if you want to buy a car wash ticket as well. if you say yes, you get the lower fuel price

I’m sorry but I’m just not going to upvote or support this shitty website.

The National Parks were literally the last thing that would entice me to travel to the US

the USA exists to make profit for corporations and oligarchs

when you look at it with that in mind, lots of things make sense