Oh no, you!

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Cake day: November 3rd, 2024

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  • Hard no. I’ve been to 25ish countries (I’ve lost count), and US is the only country I’ve been to with so many flags and rituals around the state and its government.

    • National anthem before every sportsball game.
    • Pledge of allegiance.
    • Flags every where every day.
    • “Thank you for your service”.
    • Picture of President in any building that serves a government function (at least the ones I’ve been to… Not that many, tbh).
    • Naming anything and everything after presidents and statesmen

  • I was considering something similar for my Volvo 940 about around 2010. The idea was that I’d install a touch screen as an infotainment system where I could see stuff like OBD2 data and navigation.

    While not having a functioning speedometer for a little bit (later fixed), I used my phone to see the GPS speed with the screen flipped so I could get the speed on the windshield like a HUD in some modern cars. The plan was to do something similar integrated with the home brewed infotainment.

    It annoys me that I never went through with it, because so much stuff of what I’d drawn up became standard for “fancy” cars later.




  • Due to my interest in military hardware I watched the live stream by LazerPig, and the parade was absolutely garbage. Sure, they showed the Sherman, but no SPAA or engineering vehicles. They showed the Abrams and the Bradley, but nothing between that and WW2. There was so much objectively cool stuff they could’ve shown off, but it seemed they put no effort in it beyond pleasing the chief cheeto.

    The Russian parade was also a disappointment, but the ones with actual quality hardware managed to be even more disappointing.

    Fascists make everything worse. Even the thing they claim to be good at. Fucking clownshow.


  • I sometimes order stuff off of temu or wish. You know, those situations where “crap quality product” is what you’re actually after.

    But I have a rule of never ordering before a week has passed. If I still need or want the item after a week, the purchase can be justified, but I have to pick an item I already have to get rid of first.

    One piece of crap in means one piece of crap out.

    Things I’ve bought like this: Phone holder for my night stand (a simple one that allowed me to keep my phone in portrait mode. I WFH with my bed as my “office”).
    Maunesium (the kids were curious once I mentioned that metal can burn). Moisture detection stickers (they turned out pretty good, actually. I use them at work all the time).