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Cake day: October 4th, 2023

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  • He gives one example…

    Here’s another. I’m on a road trip and I’m getting tired. I pull off to head to the hotel. Figure I’ll stop to get gas so I can get going in the morning. After filling up, the car won’t start because it detects I’m too drowsy to drive. Guess I’m walking to the hotel. Hoping when the person who works inside the station shows up in the morning he doesn’t tow the car(many stations are ‘open 24/7’ but only pumps. The store has different hours).

    Best case that situation might just be annoying if the hotel is a block or two over from the station but could also be expensive if your car is towed to free up the gas stations pump that you’re blocking. Adding some more variables makes it worse. I routinely make a drive in winter through northern states where it might be -20F(-29C) in certain parts of it. That kind of changes things.




  • Not entirely disagreeing with you. The way you worded it was always going to be the case if all you do is compare window sticker prices from across the decades though. Inflation cuts your money in half roughly every 20 years. A 20K car in 2006 is a ~40k car today even if everything else stayed equal. The average price for cars after inflation is going up though. The US’s trend towards SUVs and trucks is certainly pulling prices up but other things do as well like the government mandated features(small relatively but not nothing).

    Some examples(these are when they became mandatory, not available)

    • front airbags - 1998
    • tire pressure monitoring (tpms) - 2007
    • ABS - 2011
    • stability control - 2012
    • backup cameras - 2018

  • Properly adjusted headlights and people driving the appropriate following distance behind you should never have glaringly bright lights. Sadly neither is true very often. I’ve seen headlights out of whack straight from the factory. Headlights trend downward but people tailgating the shit out of you puts you in the beam path. Yes, height differences obviously play a role here.

    I have a Miata, nearly anything on the road can blind me cause my head is only about ~3.5 feet(~1m) off the ground. The entire car is only about 4 feet(~1.2m) tall.

    To anybody that lifted their vehicle truck or otherwise…did the thought of adjusting your headlights even cross your mind? I’m guessing not.

    I’m also going to toss this out there…for the love of God do not put led bulbs in halogen light fixtures. I don’t care if they say they ‘mimic’ the halogen beam pattern…they don’t. You’re blinding everyone on the damn road just stop please, I beg you. (This is going to be the controversial piece that people respond to….yes, I know of a few bulbs that do okay at this but they’re expensive. People are buying the $20 ones on Amazon, and they suck at it. So my blanket statement is just don’t…please just don’t).



  • In a normal conversation with normal people maybe. Get three or more people that love to talk and every little break is instantly jumped on by the others. Online meetings are even worse. In person, your body language usually gives the hint that you might want to say something. Online, I just respond in chat now when I can’t actually speak during the meeting. I’m not going to fight for a turn.





  • Lots of comments about the mini fridge. Flipping through the listing It’s even more odd than that. They have a french door fridge with double chest freezer drawers in the kitchen. Pretty normal. Then there is a mid size single compartment seemingly in like the pantry or a walk in closet or something. Then another french door fridge with a freezer drawer just off to the side of the staircase in like the living room and of course this mini fridge in the bathroom.


  • You don’t want sewer gases entering the home. The water in the toilet will eventually evaporate and the film can help delay that as well as be a physical barrier to any gases that seep through after the trap is empty. It’s not perfect but it’s cheap. I’d imagine these have been drained completely though as it’s winter and the heat is likely off due to being a foreclosure. More evidence of this as one of the pictures shows snow inside the home.