I once had a box of drone parts dropped off in my office at work. Inside the battered cardboard box were two big 6S 16,000 mAh batteries that were both swelled up like footballs. This had been just sitting inside somewhere. I (carefully!) placed them outside until I could get ahold of an electronics recycler who could take them.

I see you haven’t experienced pibble farts.

I didn’t know that one. I’m going to keep doing it.

Like the “dumb” option in Outer Worlds

I do this with the dual TP holders at work. Someone will occasionally flip one around.

But then do you have the paper tailing off the roll to the left or the right?

I’m sorry, I can’t hear you over the video games I’m playing in Mint.

This movie was surprisingly good, I took a woman to see it in the theater when it came out, and fifteen years later we were still quoting it at each other.

A TOTSE reference?

It’s a parking brake/emergency brake/handbrake or whatever you’d call it. You pull it straight out of the dash to set it. To release it there is a small button on the back you have to hold, while turning the handle clockwise about 90° to release the brake.

This vehicle is newer than 1986. How do I know? Because dear old Dad had a 1986 Isuzu P’up, and it had a most similar parking brake, except it didn’t have the little button - you could just turn the handle. This is a problem when you leave your three year old in the truck unattended, and the three year old starts turning things. It’s even more fun when your other, older child (me) comes out to find your truck has rolled down the driveway into the car across the street.

Later vehicles added the safety button, making it “push button and turn”.

Yup that’s my issue. We used metric all the time in the US. But you don’t ever see us bitching about units in an internet comment.

I honestly wish we used metric in the US.

What always cracks me up, are people not from the US who whine about our units, and demand that they be translated into their comfort units, which doesn’t make them look smart, it makes them look like they can’t do math as well as a teenager in the US.

I had a phone that translated voice messages to text but it didn’t email them, I think it was a Samsung note 20.

Surely there is some remote and uninhabited island they could go infest

Nuclear power is really cool, but my biggest problem with building new reactors isn’t even the money issues you pointed out, it’s the fact that I live in the US and I don’t trust any regulatory agency to build a new nuclear power plant correctly/safely.

Solar panels and wind turbines are monumentally cheaper AND they don’t potentially cause ten thousand year contamination problems.

Nah, just bragging.

I’m happily married to a stunning woman who somehow decided that the best way to make me obedient is to remove me from my pants several times a week… I’d run away from any other woman who grabbed me like that.

But I’m probably an outlier.

Yes I know all of that, I’m saying that solar is so much cheaper than coal power that even private individuals can buy it, so we shouldn’t be wasting money on new coal plants or gas plants.

I used to do utility locates around a couple of golf courses that were surrounded by homes. The homes and the golf course were made at more or less the same time. For the most part they were set up so that balls were not flying toward houses.

I once had to mark some lines that were ON the golf course, and a couple of idiots were saying they would hit a ball at me since I was marking the grass. I told them the first time a ball flies near me I’m coming back with a dirt bike.

There exist pretty chickens, though.