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Goober Peas posted:I thought you said you were against speedbumps  Found a Cherokee that ticks all the boxes! They weren't open today (obviously as it's Sunday) but I left a message and I'm gonna swing by tomorrow and hope they aren't firm on the pricing.
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Goober Peas posted:I thought you said you were against speedbumps I'm an rear end in a top hat. I'm not a ginormous speedbump wanting rear end in a top hat tho - There's a limit that even I wont go past.
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Feb 3, 2019 22:22
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I think speed humps are fine if people are doing 20+ over the limit down your road. Besides if you're actually doing the speed limit then the humps aren't really going to impede your progress much anyway
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Feb 3, 2019 23:04
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Speed bumps just mean you need more suspension travel and sidewall. Then you can go up to at least the next harmonic.
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Feb 3, 2019 23:06
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fridge corn posted:I think speed humps are fine if people are doing 20+ over the limit down your road. Besides if you're actually doing the speed limit then the humps aren't really going to impede your progress much anyway Speed humps for the residents mean more engine noise as the cars accelerate. And the crash and bangs of people that ignore them. And they are a PITA if you do live there to deal with.
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Feb 3, 2019 23:10
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I only know speed bumps still exist because old people in SUVs slow down to 3 loving miles an hour to creep over them.
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Feb 3, 2019 23:12
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Then call the cops and get them to speed trap the road. This is murica. Cops will only speed trap busy roads because that's where the money comes from.
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Feb 3, 2019 23:23
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On the subject of speed bumps I am trying to get them on my road. People use the road I live on to bypass the next one over because there's a light. The speed limits are the same on both roads, I'm just sick of having to wait for 3-5 cars bypassing Alpha St. every time I want out of my driveway.
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Feb 3, 2019 23:31
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Applebees Appetizer posted:I use our HHR like a truck all the time and have blown out the rear shocks twice Same, beater wagons best wagons. I reluctantly had to make two trips after putting much more than this in the first time and realizing I was completely bottomed out and couldn't even leave the parking lot. e: haha you can see the dent on the bottom of the tailpipe where it banged into the hump at the end of my driveway when I backed up 
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Feb 3, 2019 23:45
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Speed bumps aren't the worst if they are nicely designed and constructed ones that allow you to go over them at a speed approaching the limit of the road but will gently caress you up if you try taking them too fast. Unfortunately most of the ones I have to deal with in my life are uneven, foot high half-cylinders that will tear your suspension to shreds at anything over a crawl. gently caress those things forever.
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Feb 4, 2019 00:23
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Actual result of speed humps (at least in my neck of the woods): Everyone with a loud car floors it between them, every time.
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Feb 4, 2019 00:27
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opengl128 posted:Same, beater wagons best wagons. I reluctantly had to make two trips after putting much more than this in the first time and realizing I was completely bottomed out and couldn't even leave the parking lot.
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Feb 4, 2019 01:42
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ilkhan posted:Almost like the proper vehicle for that load would be a truck. Never send a truck or a wagon to do a sedan's job. 
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Feb 4, 2019 01:47
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Fermented Tinal posted:Never send a truck or a wagon to do a sedan's job. Lawls. (Had to put the stock wheels on the rear for the trip, the Probe swirlies would have rubbed too much)
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Feb 4, 2019 01:50
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Grakkus posted:Speed bumps aren't the worst if they are nicely designed and constructed ones that allow you to go over them at a speed approaching the limit of the road but will gently caress you up if you try taking them too fast. The original intent of speed bumps was that they were engineered so they could be crossed AT the speed limit with no penalty. The engineered/designed part has completely been lost. I've never seen a speed bump that could be crossed at anything other than a crawl - especially after the road gets resurfaced at any point. gently caress speed bumps.
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meatpimp posted:Lawls. (Had to put the stock wheels on the rear for the trip, the Probe swirlies would have rubbed too much) Are we playing that game, then?   
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Fermented Tinal posted:Are we playing that game, then?  If you want to... 
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Feb 4, 2019 02:14
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Use a truck they said
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Feb 4, 2019 03:19
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FYI Gentleman Driver on netflix is a really good docu about the amateur drivers in WEC / Le Mans
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Feb 4, 2019 03:51
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Well. That was a football game.
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Feb 4, 2019 04:13
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https://twitter.com/TheDweck/status/1092227160423702528
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QuarkMartial posted:Well. That was a football game.
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Feb 4, 2019 04:55
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It, uh, was something. I mean, I guess technically it was a football game and it was all superbowl-y. It just wasn't very good.
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ilkhan posted:That was a pre-season game right? The real Superbowl is tomorrow or next week or something? That was exactly the quality of game I expected from a Rams team that got in on a blown ref call even the league called blown, and a Pats team that only won because the NFL's overtime rules are pants-on-head levels of stupid. Hopefully it cost the league enough money that they fix their bullshit.
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Feb 4, 2019 06:02
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I watched precisely zero minutes of professional football. That includes today. NBA is the best league and it isn’t even close.
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Feb 4, 2019 06:42
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What the hell? I just got an emailed 1099.... from a company that hasn't existed since 2016. It's a 1099 for 2016, and matches the 1099 I filed with my 2016 taxes. edit: and now another 1099 from a company I still work with, also for 2016. I guess tax1099.com is having a meltdown of some kind? e2: talked to friends who worked for both companies, they haven't gotten reissued 1099s. Now I'm getting a bit worried that whoever stole my identity several years ago may be trying to request tax documents. Of the 2 I've gotten so far, the numbers match the original ones (which I still have). Except one of them has an address I lived at last year, not in 2016. e3: another 2016 1099 came in, with a company I never worked for, with an address I never lived at. What in the everliving gently caress? randomidiot fucked around with this message at 08:30 on Feb 4, 2019 |
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Feb 4, 2019 07:13
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Somewhat Heroic posted:I watched precisely zero minutes of professional football. That includes today. Pffft the only good Nth American sport is frozen water stick puck punch ups
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Feb 4, 2019 07:38
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Windows 7 had a little desktop widget that let you run a small (400x300 or so) window of rotating images from whatever folder you specified, anyone know of a program or app for Windows 10 that has similar functionality? My wife loves that feature and has 5 gigs worth of pics of our (now 5-years-gone) katte that she likes to have going around forever in a small space on her desktop (not the entire desktop) and has just gotten a new Win10 laptop and I'd like to set something up for her if anyone knows of anything like that.
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Feb 4, 2019 09:21
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STR posted:What the hell? Somebody is likely trying for it again. Hope you have a PIN set on your taxes.
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Yeah, an identity protection PIN has been in place for awhile now. You can file by mail without it, but it adds several weeks to the processing time (over how long it normally takes if you mail your taxes) so that they can do whatever extra steps they do to verify everything is legit. Did a little digging on the address that came up on the 3rd one. It's the parents house of an old shift manager I had at Pizza Hut (she still lived with them when I worked there). VZW told me that the line was opened/phone financed at a Target store in that city (wouldn't say which location, but there were only 2 in the city), and that shift manager's mother was an assistant manager for Target at the time. Just kinda confirms what I suspected. I don't know what it'll take to amend a several year old police report at this point. Just weird that I'm getting reissued 1099s from 2016, instead of more recent. All 3 companies use the same 1099 provider though, so I'm guessing someone did some social engineering. I've basically eliminated company-naming chat from my social media, including SA, and don't even list the city I really live in anywhere. The "goons got me fired before I even started my new job" incident taught me to not talk much about work anywhere online. Everything just says "Austin area" and "self employed". randomidiot fucked around with this message at 12:33 on Feb 4, 2019 |
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STR posted:Did a little digging on the address that came up on the 3rd one. It's the parents house of an old shift manager I had at Pizza Hut (she still lived with them when I worked there). quote:I've basically eliminated company-naming chat from my social media, including SA, and don't even list the city I really live in anywhere. The "goons got me fired before I even started my new job" incident taught me to not talk much about work anywhere online. Everything just says "Austin area" and "self employed". In this case, it looks like lovely real life people, not even lovely internet people! Seriously, though, that's hosed up and I hope it's something the police would look at. Then again, I assume that the police would look into a number of things and it ends up they just don't care. I guess we're not big enough corporations to get reliable police protection.
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Ugh, yeah, I have to do my taxes. I have a big home expense coming up (spoiler alert: it will cost a lot of money to do something that someone with more free time, more patience, and the proper equipment could do for a lot less) and hopefully the tax refund will cover a good chunk of it. Speaking of home stuff, when I was at the gym yesterday for the first time in a drat month, one of the two circulating pumps on the boiler started "making a buzzing noise" as per my wife. She threw the emergency switches and waited for me to come home. That "buzzing noise" sounded like a goddamned light aircraft trying to take off. On one hand, the weather is heating up a bit (gonna have to wear running shoes tonight at work, gonna be busy) ... but on the other hand, it's not going to be that warm. So I texted my HVAC guy. He's a bit of a flake -- he'll arrange to do something then disappear for a few months to do bigger jobs and such -- but I've stuck with him since he comes through in emergencies. For reference, the first time he did anything for me was the day after Thanksgiving in I think 2014. A CO alarm was going off. He told me how to shut everything off, etc., and then said, "You know what, let me finish up my leftovers and head over." And he did. Day after Thanksgiving. Anyway, I text him and send him a video of the pump that's trying to take to the skies as well as a picture of the pump. He texts back, "I have a replacement in stock, I can be there tomorrow morning." Then he texts me, "Open the garage door." He walks in, disassembles the pump, and fixes it. "I was just doing paperwork, waiting for the game, nothin' better to do." Said he'll send me a bill "when I get around to it." It's hard to find help like that nowadays. And that's why he did my A/C install instead of the big group that could do it a little cheaper and probably a little faster. Gotta keep guys like this in business. STR posted:Did a little digging on the address that came up on the 3rd one.
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meatpimp posted:In this case, it looks like lovely real life people, not even lovely internet people! Well, the fired-before-my-first-day bit... I posted about it on SA and mentioned the specific location. I didn't give as much info on FB. So that was very much lovely internet people. tetrapyloctomy posted:It's hard to find help like that nowadays. And that's why he did my A/C install instead of the big group that could do it a little cheaper and probably a little faster. Gotta keep guys like this in business. Done long ago upon initial suspicions (also against the PH franchise I worked for, they were doing some very shady stuff), and I'll be contacting them again today. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 13:23 on Feb 4, 2019 |
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STR posted:Well, the fired-before-my-first-day bit... I posted about it on SA and mentioned the specific location. I didn't give as much info on FB. I was talking about the identity theft bit, not the calling to get you fired dickishness.
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So back in late October we did a special order for one of our customers, 20 pounds of a very specialized alloy spun into very tight specifications. This morning our building manager came to our dept and told us it was used to make a smart wire surgical device that was snaked into a 13 year old girl's body and then activated, surrounding a tumor and then contracted, cutting the tumor on all sides and allowing them to remove the entire thing. And my code was on the finish pass of the spool so not only did I not gently caress it up but the material worked for the process. I don't think I've ever done anything in my life that's made me feel so good.
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Rhyno posted:So back in late October we did a special order for one of our customers, 20 pounds of a very specialized alloy spun into very tight specifications. This morning our building manager came to our dept and told us it was used to make a smart wire surgical device that was snaked into a 13 year old girl's body and then activated, surrounding a tumor and then contracted, cutting the tumor on all sides and allowing them to remove the entire thing. And my code was on the finish pass of the spool so not only did I not gently caress it up but the material worked for the process. That is really an awesome story. Good job, man.
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Edited to remove super sensitive information that was publicly posted in the chat thread but is somehow my fault for commenting on it in the chat thread.Rhyno posted:used to make a smart wire surgical device that was snaked into a 13 year old girl's body and then activated, surrounding a tumor and then contracted, cutting the tumor on all sides and allowing them to remove the entire thing. That is crazy cool. One hell of a lot more rewarding than selling comic books. GG, Rhyno. meatpimp fucked around with this message at 18:20 on Feb 4, 2019 |
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Feb 4, 2019 16:11
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Fermented Tinal posted:Are we playing that game, then? Yep  
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In other news, the central basement murder room has new storage.  Hopefully moving pantry stuff down there along with some small appliances will clear up the kitchen a bit. As a side note, I do like that I have to use multiple adjectives in order to differentiate this from the other murder rooms in the house. This is not the front basement murder room, the back basement murder room, the attic murder room, or the second floor closet murder hideaway.
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