waterbogan @ waterbogan @lemmy.world

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Cycling - saves me gas, often as quick as driving would be (we have epic all day congestion here). And its fun except when the weather is really bad. Only drive if I have a heavy load to go somewhere, or if I'm picking someone up or it is pouring

Also swimming - can be done year round indoors, and I dont sweat! Having a waterproof MP3 player helps me with motivation too

I have a few contenders I've met , but three stand out to me;

1. The "guest" of an unfortunate flatmate I had some years ago. Scumbag came to stay with us for a few days after he had ingratiated himself with the flatmate (who didnt have the best judgement). I was already leery because he had facial tatoos, always a massive red flag. Within a week he had stolen some personal mail off me, a few CD's (this was when they still had real value) and a few other items. He ws driving and trying to sell a car at the time that I suspect was actually stolen. He stole a bunch of stuff of personal value from flatmate, and I started asking around town, turned out he'd stolen personal items from a bunch of people. We got a posse together to hunt down the piece of shit, but he disappeared.

• Year or two later his face turns up on TV, he was wanted for the kidnapping, sexual assault and anal rape of a four year old boy, along with using and dealing meth to kids. Oh, also it turns out he's a neo-nazi, something I had my suspicions of at the time but this was pre internet so I had no way to search his tatoos to confirm.
• So, neo nazi paedophile, meth pusher and all round scum. I did not like him very much.

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2. The partner of a good female friend of mine at a time she was very much at a low point and not making good choices. Also a neo nazi, gang member (Mongrel Mob a particularly evil vicious gang we have here). Fortunately she saw sense and split with him in fairly short order, shortly afterwards he was involved in a murder of some random stranger long with another gang member. Turned out he also had prior rape convictions as well, something which came as no surprise as that's a prerequisite for membership of that particular gang Apparently he chain smoked so heavily that he would wake up periodically through the night to smoke. Hopefully he's dead now

• I disliked him the moment I met him

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3. The ex-partner and long term stalker of a lady I had boarding with me. Only one of the three not to have facial tatts, but turned out to be just as much of a piece of shit. I caught him on my property multiple times, chased him off, disabled his car when I found it in our street, and also trashed his job as a taxi driver - that was funny as hell, the idiot had given me as a reference some months prior before he split with the lady boarding with me. They'd split partly because he'd tried to molest her young daughter (about 12 or so at the time) plus he'd been hanging round schools trying to pick up kids. The taxi authority guy in charge of vetting applicants called in to see me to dicuss his pending registration as a taxi driver, so I told him EVERYTHING. Next week the piece of shit didnt have a job.

• Shortly after that I caught him actually in the house, but the Police still didnt do a damn thing - as it happened he was also stalking someone else and got caught trying to burn their house down, he got put inside and while there got lippy with another inmate (absolutely typical for him) and he got the shit beaten out of him, was in a coma for months afterwards, and permanently disabled I believe. And that was the last I heard from him

I store all my music in there from my streaming service so I can have uninterrupted music when driving, cycling etc. Have about half a terabyte in there. My phone has enough memory that I dont need to store my apps on there. Also keep pics and video on SD card

I usually give mine away, that said by the time I'm done with a phone it's usually pretty used up

I took on a goose once, actually picked the thing up and threw it, so..... would that be called winning?

I pirate the odd bit of music and the ocassional film if I cant find it on streaming services, or if I need music in MP3 format for swimming with, vast bulk of what I pirate is music though. And probably less than 10% of all the media I have is pirated. Make something easily available in the format I need at a reasonable price and I'll happily pay for it

You should ride around the city centre here, you will have so much glass in your tires in no time flat, you'll love it!

I dont know, I have never had to replace one, so never had to take one off. The one time I ever had one fail was when I hit a piece of timber with multiple nails in it, and I got my local bike shop to swap it. Tyre was already over ten years old at that point, and given I ride somewhere between 200 and 600kms a month probably had well over 10,000 kms on it

Interesting tech but there are already decent available solutions such as the Schwalbe Marathon Plus and similar that are effectively glassproof, I have these on my bike and they work really well, one is over 15 years old now

I have saved a LOT with this thing over the years - I live close to a Countdown, and cycle there to shop, plus cycling to work etc. So although I dont fill up very often, I have a car with a large tank, and save usually about $15-20 or more a fill (in conjunction with Gaspy to find the cheapest nearby BP/Gas to fill up at and filling on a 15 cent/litre off day). But there is a Pak n Save being built nearby now

By not being sure of myself on anything except subjects about which I have done a great deal of research and reading and/or have considerable personal experience and knowledge. This means that I am not "sure of myself" very much, and when I am, I feel justified in doing so

No personal experiences per se, but my partner has good friends whose son got briefly entangled with the HA, they ripped him off and fucked up his life a treat, not good people. But they are far from the worst gang here

Yes, my partner has good friends whose son got briefly entangled with the HA, they ripped him off and fucked up his life a treat, not good people. But they are far from the worst gang here

It'll take months for the ground to dry out here, its absolutely saturated and boggy

Considering that most car owners in Japan turn their cars over within 5 years from new and often much less I'd say not. A lot of those used cars end up down here as lightly used imports

Why is this so far down? Not a nice person

some verified, well-documented quotes from Guevara himself:

• "Individualism must disappear!"
• "I am the most important thing in the world..." (I suppose the irony escaped him.)
• "Certainly, we execute! And we will continue executing as long as it is necessary!"
• "We don't need proof. We manufacture the proof."
• "Besides, to execute a man we don't need proof of his guilt. We only need proof that it's necessary to execute him. It's that simple."
• "I'd like to confess, Papa, at that moment I discovered that I really like killing."
• "The happiest days of a youth's life is when he watches his bullets reaching an enemy."
• "The people's cooperation can often be coaxed by the use of systemic terror."

Given the circumstances you have described it doesnt seem that far out of the "normal" ballpark to me. I've seen worse and lived with worse. Maybe not strictly normal but no big deal

I have been hearing stories of people here experiencing credit card fraud after buying stuff off TEMU. I wouldnt touch it myself, looks too good to be true

Cant think of anything off hand that niche that isnt car related. This site is much more general but has some great writing on it

Curbside Classic a nice hobbyist site about Classic cars and related subjects. I go there every day, has a lot of extremely informative (but very niche) content