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  • For anyone wondering about where, just as an example, polyvinyl is: Polyvinyl acetate (i.e. PVA) is the stuff that wood glue is typically made out of. It's also the binder used for those bird seed bells.

    ...It does indeed dissolve in the water. In the rain, certainly, which any owner of a bird seed bell could tell you.

  • All of a true ninja's tools have multiple purposes.

  • ...Yes?

    It's the dessert of champions.

  • This works with Maraschino cherries, also. Helps you reach the bottom of the jar and keeps your fingers from turning red. Double bonus.

    Said jar, by the way.

  • I propose the following amendment, then: If you cause harm to a two wheeled rider due to negligence and/or belligerence, you get busted down to a Vespa for a further 5 years.

  • In some places in the world you can give it a shot and see, but we don't have rear fog lights in the US. I've never seen one on any car designed for this market, and my Crosstrek just to name an example has a conspicuous filler panel over the hole where the rear fog light goes on the same model sold in other markets.

    As to why, I have no idea. But we also mandate that front fog lights can't be configured so they can be activated without the main headlights on at the same time, which kind of defeats the purpose if you ask me. So maybe asking DOT regulations to make sense is a tall order.

  • Or on your motorcycle in 15.

    Everyone with the usual compliment of legs should be forced to start on a motorcycle or moped. After 2 years of that we let you graduate to being in a box. Riding a motorcycle will force you to learn how to remain attentive and focused 100% on operating your machine, and when you're finally afforded the luxury of a roof and heat, not having to get rained and snowed on half the year, you'll really appreciate what you've got instead of treating it like the world owes you a car.

  • Update: It is day 126 and Amazon still can't figure out where my camera is.

    I know where it is. Their delivery driver stole it. (Yes, I just charged back my credit card. Their response was to send me an incredibly smarmy and condescending form email asking why, as if they don't already know. And they lost the chargeback dispute, obviously.)

    So maybe their robots won't steal your package. They'll just yeet it into a bush 65536 yards from your house in a random direction instead. On the bright side, you might occasionally get a package that belongs to someone else from the other side of town dropped on your lawn.

    To both this and that I say no thanks; I don't use Amazon anymore.

  • A friend of mine worked for the US Census Bureau for a while. Among their myriad binders and forms, etc. was a page full of tear-off perforated wallet size cards which contained no text or information on them whatsoever other than "do not distribute this card" printed on the back. And no, I have absolutely no idea what the purpose of these things was supposed to be. Nor apparently does anyone else.

    So of course he dutifully tore them all off and quite deliberately handed them out to people. He gave me one. I might still have it someplace.

  • Wish.com used to lock your account if you unsubscribed from their daily spam emails.

  • That's, uh, a flash can, boss. No baffles in it. Honest.

  • Eeenteresting. Well, now I know.

  • Really? That's news. Is that one of those things that varies whether or not it's presented to you depending on which client you use?

  • For fairly obvious anti-abuse reasons, mods can't kick other mods. You will have to ask the admins of your instance (this instance, in this case) what they want to do about it.

  • Oh, I'm sure they do. And charge eight times more than what they're worth.

  • The oil filter. Not the air filter.

  • If only that boat could be made smaller somehow and fit inside the car.

  • They typically intend (and indeed, try to) use their machine to suck all the oil out of the dipstick tube and replace it via the same. That's generally doable within the 5 minute allocation but it's also only half of the job since that inevitably involves not replacing the oil filter.

  • The fact that these places always exclude the filter from their price and treat it as a "gotcha" add-on is deeply hilarious.

    You have to replace the filter when you change the oil. That's just how it works. It's not special and it's not extra. It's literally the intended procedure.