Zoo membership is clutch with toddlers. 100% worth it. Same with the Children’s museum.

Welp, you have me soundly beat. My longest is 85 hrs and 6 minutes.

That era also has good control schemes. I went to replay Perfect Dark on my analogue 3d and hoooooooo boy, those layouts are like wearing beer goggles or trying to ride a reverse handle bar bike. I’ll need to try the dual controller layout but I am considering butchering a cheap controller to make something that matches modern layouts.

I’ve been on a spree of buying or buying abandoned games or old console games lately and have been really happy with not being online at all, not updating anything I don’t want updated, and paying a reasonable price for the content I got. I don’t care that the graphics are outdated, if the gameplay works and is fun, its fine looking like almost anything.

Strictly speaking here, something that could be fully repaired by the actual tools I have without just swapping for new purchased replacement parts would probably be one of my guitars. I could essentially make every piece of them from scratch if needed except maybe the pots, caps, and truss rod. I could probably repair the truss rod but making one from scratch would be tricky. If I had an acoustic guitar, that would be an easy answer.

It might not turn out well, but I could make it playable again.

I could repair anything on my bike, and kayak. I might be able to rebuild my snes on a component level.

If you allow replacement parts, almost anything can be repaired of you are willing to spend enough on it.

Hank hill has your back.

Currently playing Hot Wheels TURBO Racing (1999) on the N64 (Analogue 3d). It’s a good little arcade racer and has been fun to hop back into it.

If you work with tools or equipment in any fashion, use proper personal protective equipment and don’t skip it.

If you work around loud noises, use real hearing protection. Hearing loss is irreversible and cumulative.

If you work with anything that makes dust or fumes, get a resparator. You can get nasty allergies from sawdust, griding dust gives you lung cancer and a bunch of other horrible shit.

If you work with chemicals, use gloves or whatever is required per the sds.

Always wear eye protection, you can’t get new eyes.

Take care of your skin, if you weld, wear real covers. Skin cancer on welders is a real thing.

Use gloves where safe, and don’t where you are using rotating equipment, degloving is a thing. Equipment can’t tell the difference between flesh and workpieces and it doesn’t care.

Rollermine

I left a toxic workplace (for another more toxic workplace, then left that one too) and found an actual good job with nice people who provide proper pay and time off. Been there almost 3 years now. My blood pressure went down by 20 points, I fall asleep easier (without supplements or medicine) my commute went from 70 minutes to 5, and I get to see my kids at lunch and early after school now.

There are better things out there, don’t stay somewhere that sucks because you are used to it. It’s not worth your health. Even if you find another shitty place, you don’t give up and settle. The place I landed after I left the first one was bad and I felt really dumb for falling for the sales pitch on it but I stuck around until I found my current gig and bailed on them. Once you realize that you can just leave it’s really freeing.

Don’t worry it’s engine nerd shit, no one there is having any sex.

On the fedira ws vm, I just layered it because its easy. I tried running openjdk in distrobox on bazzite but I didn’t have time to screw around with getting the program (Tunerstudio MS) that is already on my bazzite install to “find” the java in distrobox. I’m also REALLY new to distrobox so I was probably using it wrong. I’ll checkout toolbox later today.

Yeahh java is a pain in the ass to get setup on bazzite without breaking stuff when you have an os update. I spun a fedora vm up and just installed it there but I need to redo that because the program I need java for is on my main os and I can’t move the license without javing java installed on the main os…

Add lentils and some root veggies and you are probably on the money. Bone broth is probably also beneficial.

Critical question here is when do you cross the line differentiating a soup/stew and a casserole? What moisture content by weight or volume makes something a soup/stew?

A Better Place, A Better Time by Streetlight Manifesto

Sometimes, (more often lately) I wish I did believe in that stuff or that they did exist because it would make me feel a whole lot better about the way the world is now, vs just greedy and shitty people doing greedy and selfish or malicious things to others for greedy, selfish, and malicious reasons. The existence of a physical manifestation of evil and it’s ability to influence others would at least make the world make more sense sometimes. I want there to be more good in the world and it feels rotten to think that the reason there isn’t there are just shitty people manipulating us or harming us and getting away with it vs some force of nature.

But, I am sadly not that person, I don’t believe in that stuff. I am open to it should it be presented to me but for now, I have no evidence of it.

The telling thing about these kind of questions isn’t so much how much does a mega yacht cost or something but its that those are the things people are picking out because they are visible.

The invisible stuff or the things that go along with these huge purchases are often times not that far off in price from the initial purchase.

The stone slabs in these mega house kitchens cost as much as some houses, the earrings bought and worn once at an event could pay for your whole family to go to college, the custom shoes they wear have their own rooms and cost as much as a car.

What do you think the electric bill for a 20,000 sqft house is? Do you think the owner cares what that impact is monetarily or on the climate? If they do solar, how much do you think that setup cost? Do you think the morality of these purchases ever crosses their minds?

I grew up wanting a fast car and lots of powersports toys, now that I am in a position to afford some (small amount) of that, I find myself thinking more that its not right to spend on those kind of activities now due to the impact on the environment. I am leaning more and more towards becoming a vegetarian because of how the food industry impacts the lives of the people and animals it uses. Do the mega wealthy or even the top 30% think about that when they spend their money? Completely ignoring the aspect of how they got their money which is a whole other thing in and of itself.

• Drive in a predictable manner, don’t assume anyone else is doing that.
• Don’t be nice by letting someone go out of turn, or waiving someone through when your are supposed to be going, or by forfeiting your right-of-way. It goes back to the first bullet point or driving predictably.
• zipper merging is a critical skill, learn it and use it.
• driving slowly is not safer if everyone around you is driving quickly but like you said, drive only as quickly as road conditions and your skill allows. When in doubt, go with the flow of the other cars around you unless you feel unsafe doing so.
• I am not sure of where you live or what side of the road you drive on but dear god, learn where the passing lane is and what the etiquette for it is.
• a bad driver never misses a turn is an expression for a reason. Don’t be unpredictable, if you are gonna miss your turn/exit, just go around and catch a u-turn. Its not the end of the world.
• spend money on the parts that let you steer and stop. Both are safety critical, don’t be a cheepskate on safety stuff.
• don’t drive like my brother

That picture would be funnier if it was a picture of Frank Beard, their drummer who has no beard.