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Yeah. Just prepare for dust. Wear a mask, open a window...

I don't think anyone is suggesting you take a hose to your indoor units. How on Earth you would contain the splashback is anyone's guess.

Use your hose on the outdoor unit. I use compressed air on the indoor ones, like OP. You can buy the cleaning foam stuff, too. Probably from whoever made your split system, in fact. I've never found it to be necessary, though.

Random hardware trivia, absorbed while managing a hardware store decades ago:

This type of object is called a "well nut." I'll leave it to you to come up with your own pun based on this.

Stupid time! You made me look bad. Ooga booga booga!

I see that mages #1 and #2 have been playing Fester's Quest.

What makes you think it wasn't?

And knives.

And beans.

I imagine the majority of the current crop of motor vehicle owners are not quite smart enough to realize that the hood even opens to allow access to the engine bay... Nor what parts of it get hot. Or too hot. Or are safe to access, etc. And in our modern litigious society there is simply far too much that can go wrong with this to make it worthwhile for any manufacturer to include as a deliberate feature. Like, rodent infestation in engine bays is already an issue. Imagine adding (potentially forgotten and abandoned!) food to the mix.

Edit: Another wrinkle I thought of is a lack of consistent temperature control. Your engine is designed to move your car, not remain at a consistent temperature.

The utility is also rather limited when you have access to a microwave or a convenience store. Or even a convenience store with a microwave in it, as many do.

So yeah, you can do it to be clever if you like but it's not cut out to be mainstream activity.

Maybe the rights went cheap. Or maybe you're right.

For what it's worth there was an NES game back when the Pizza Cats were originally notionally relevant. It was alright.

The one near me does but admittedly their selection is kind of crap.

Walmart does also in select locations, with the same problem. (That, and finding someone to help you there is nigh impossible. On balance, you could also just grab the entire skein of whatever you wanted and leg it; it's doubtful anyone there would notice or care.)

And Michaels, I suppose.

All you authors, columnists, and other motherfuckers not using the Oxford comma are now in big trouble.

Precisely that.

I will add that Sheila Broflovski (a.k.a. Kyle's Mom) through her sheer incessant nagging (and also blame shifting away from herself and the other parents as spelled out in "Blame Canada") misses the mark so far that she manages to incite a hot war with Canada that gets enough people killed to spill sufficient blood to fulfill an ancient evil prophecy that literally incarnates both Satan himself and Saddam Hussein's revenant form back onto the face of the Earth.

Note that this not only predated Saddam's actual real world death, but Matt and Trey also successfully predicted the eruption of the Karen trend, probably a good decade or so before it'd risen to the height -- or sunk to the depths -- it's achieved today. Although senseless moral panics were well known and quite popular in the '80's and '90's already, to the extent that they not only managed to accurately predict the response to their own movie, but also parody it within the same movie.

It may not do to assume. I mean, at one point everyone blithely assumed that Mexicans found Speedy Gonzales to be racist and there was a (completely white-led) little backlash against him until someone got around to actually asking some Mexicans about it and discovered that he was actually broadly popular with that demographic.

I think the hardest part would be successfully ambushing Voldy

He's not omniscient, is he? In addition to being quite genre-blind, he's also never demonstrated to have any clairvoyance or inherent extrasensory capabilities other than knowing when his name is spoken, which is presumably some kind of specific enchantment he uses to terrorize people.

A common rifle bullet travels faster than the speed of sound, and if you fired from a concealed location you could absolutely pop him right in the dome well before the sound of the gunshot even made it to him and before anyone knew you were there. All it would take would be a little scouting to research which graveyard he and his groupies are moping around in and anyone could do him from half a mile off with a $99 surplus Mosin-Nagant.

I suppose it's possible he walks around with a twenty mile wide circle of detection on himself or some horseshit, but given the aforementioned genre-blindness he's probably got whatever it is tuned to be looking for other magic users or harmful spells and not, e.g., the Bouncing Betty that some clever asshole left right in front of his crypt.

With Bethesda you can never really tell if it is deliberate malice or simply their typical blistering incompetence. But the end result is the same either way.

I think it's more that hysterical moral guardians and corporate boobs only see the traditionally casino-like superficial imagery of cards, dice, spades, clubs, slots, etc. and instantly knee-jerk themselves into declaring it "immoral" without actually bothering to take the twelve seconds required to experience the gameplay. At which point they would immediately realize that they are wrong.

This is Kyle's Mom's version of only reading the headline, or not bothering to look beyond the dust jacket and only screeching about imaginary content that exists only inside their own assumptions and based purely on the picture on the cover.

That's really the rub. The notion that magic "knows" what technology is and draws the line at some arbitrary point where it suddenly rearranges the laws of reality around itself so that these devices won't work specifically in the way that humans expect them to raises the following two horrifying possibilities:

One, whatever force is actually behind magic must be intelligent in and of itself, even if only in a brutish and rudimentary way. It would take a staggering array of quite specific and tailor-made microspells or localized tweaks in physics to make all types of Muggle technology fail to work consistently. Like, it's not just enough to say "guns jam." Does magic physically grab the hammer and stop it from falling? Does it block the firing pin? Does it rearrange the laws of chemistry so that oxidation reactions don't happen? Does it stick its finger in the end of the barrel like Bugs Bunny?

Or, like, fountain pens. They work via exactly the same mechanism as quill pens, it's just that they contain their own store of ink. Is there any other reason why a quill would work within Hogwarts but a fountain pen wouldn't? Here in rational space, no. Absolutely not. So if that's how it is, there must be something more going on behind the scenes and the fact that these bozos either haven't noticed or worse, that they have noticed and just don't care enough to investigate in any way whatsoever is equal parts creepy and infuriating.

So point two, given all of the above the force behind magic is also probably actively malevolent. Who knows what its agenda is keeping wizards locked in a kind of medieval stasis, or if it's even doing so on purpose or just as a byproduct of its natural function, but either way it's clearly not working in humanity's best interest.

(There's a third option as well, which is that it works this way because the author has such a poor grasp on reality that she thinks that guns/electronics/cars/whatever also work via some kind of "magic" which can thus be disrupted, which is possibly likely but also so stupid it makes my right eyebrow twitch just thinking about it. So we'll leave it at that.)

RV's are hard to throw. I suggest dropping it from a great height instead.

Left field suggestion, also: Make sure there isn't anything trapped under your build plate. If you have any shreds of filament or flakes of old supports or whatever between the steel plate and its magnetic base, the surface won't be flat to a degree that the auto leveling probably won't be able to deal with it and you'll get all kinds of crazy unpredictable results.

I did this on my Qidi once. I'm glad I noticed before going crazy with troubleshooting. I had black filament scraps on the black magnetic base, which were practically invisible and I only found them by feel.