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Unfortunately is has stopped leaking for now. I say unfortunately, because I don't know when it may start again. It seemed to start to leak when I pulled out the dishwasher, so movement/flexing/etc made it happen. I was unable to determine exactly where it leaked from, but it seemed to pool near the center of the entire valve, so it could have been near the crimped area or the knob area, or maybe even the connection going off to the dishwasher, and the water could have just run down to the lowest bit of the valve.

It's 1/2" nominal PEX going to a quarter-turn shutoff, to a 3/8 braided dishwasher line. I just didn't know what to call the weird crimped/connector part on the PEX, and thus how to properly remove it if necessary. All of the PEX crimps that I've found online have been very different looking.

Oh, that's a PEX crimp? Does it have a specific name? Most of the PEX crimps that I've found have looked very different.

Oh.. I thought this was satirical about gender or something. Not literally saying that those are the two best screws, because NOBODY IN THE WORLD THINKS THAT.

I would argue that MS Office feels like it's from the last century as well. Even the newest versions of it feel like it was made by people who have never had to use it.

Never connect your smart TV to the internet. Just don't do it. Get a third party device or ideally use an old PC with an appropriate HTPC Linux distro or something.

That's the plot of the old 90s pc game Alien Legacy.

I live near multiple major Boeing facilities and so a large percentage of the local population works there. Boeing, due to their hiring practices and sort of employee abuse and such, basically create (or attract) a creepy cult of weird psychotic narcissists, especially the white-collar workers. Not everyone that works there is like that, but the ones that work there for 20+ years almost always are. I have numerous relatives and know lots of other people who work there and they are all creepy, balding, extremely self-important and abusive people. Now other people may pipe in and say that they have a very different experience, but that's been mine. Oh, and they all want everyone they come across to know that they work at Boeing. It's a core part of their identity. They are desperate to impress everyone.

My most recent experience with long-term Boeing employees was my psychopath uncle-in-law seemingly tried to murder his wife when she decided to divorce him after 20 years of abuse, mostly because it would have looked bad at work and made it harder for him to make "executive".

Honestly I relish in the lowering status of Boeing and its employees. It's been a long time coming. They make some shitty jets these days, they have shitty business practices, there's something clearly wrong with their corporate culture, and their cult of creeps have been a pain in everyone else's asses for many years.

I guess that's all a long way of saying that Boeing probably doesn't even have to hire anyone to kill whistleblowers. I would not be shocked if a "good employee" took it upon themselves to do it.

It's even more fun if you read the entire Asimov book catalog that's set in the same universe as Foundation using the in-universe chronological order... unless you meant that's what you did. That's broadly "I, Robot", the Robots series, the Empire Series, and the Foundation series. I'm sure some people don't like his later books that tie it all together, but most of them are probably elderly and read the original series before the newer ones were published or something.

Unless they kill the people that build them, there will be plenty of people who know about these places. If we get the point of actually needing bunkers those people (who know the ins and outs of the bunkers) will want in. Nobody will protect the rich who had them built, because their money and influence will become worthless and nobody actually likes them. At best, they will live a miserable, lonely existence until they die. At worst, they will be torn apart by the masses.

If the world ends, I want to die with everyone else.

Yeah I played S&M and Full Throttle probably once every couple months when I was a kid... how else can you recite every scene from the entire game?

Oof that was a hard one to watch sometimes

I mainly use kdenlive, but blender has some advanced filters and features that kdenlive doesn't yet, so I have to use both.

Quite a few.. First that comes to mind is Skinshape - I didn't know. Also Tame Impala has a few, like Feels like we only go backwards

Not sure how far back we can go..

I'd include her time with Zero 7 if you aren't.

This reminds me of the Breakbot "My Toy" music video...

A few days ago, I tried to catch up to my 4 year old who was running down our asphalt driveway after getting off the preschool bus, running to the back-left of him, he turned into my path to see where I was, so I sort of "jumped" out of the way to avoid plowing right into him, just barely clipped him a bit but tore up my arm and knee landing on the asphalt. Stupid, because I should have assumed he might decide to change direction or something... seems obvious now.

Before that, a few months ago I was cutting a watermelon and, with my hand that was holding the melon in place, I pulled it up off the melon too haphazardly and the tip of the knife sliced deep into my ring finger. Borderline needed stitches, but didn't get them. Got by fine with butterfly bandages and wound glue, but there's yet another big scar on my hands. At least I still have all my fingers. I was given a Christmas gift of a cut glove after that.

Weird... yt-dlp -f "ba" url

Never need to use one of those horrible malware laden download sites again..

nomacs

Aggressive yes, and more people deliberately misinterpreting what you say just to feel smug. Also people that don't understand that a Lemmy comment can't have the exhaustive detail and context of a Wikipedia article, and they take any omission of such in a comment as ignorance by the op.

You basically just rephrased multiple scenes with Frank in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia...

"I mean, I don't give a shit. If I was dead you could bang me all you want. I mean, who cares? A dead body is like a piece of trash. I mean, shove as much shit in there as you want. Fill me up with cream, make a stew out of my ass. What's the big deal? Bang me, eat me, grind me up into little pieces, throw me in the river. Who gives a shit? You're dead, you're dead! Oh shit! Is my mic on?"

or another episode: "When I die, just throw me in the trash!"

Just thought it was funny to find people mirroring Frank Reynolds in real life... although I always pretty much agreed with him. I'm more concerned with how traumatizing it'd be for my family to see me in a ditch, and/or being filled with cream.