I don’t get how anybody can be into enormous children

Slackware. In 27-ish years of using it, it’s never once crashed or failed to install

I’d like to see some citations on that. They’re are several scholarly theories about the what the tree represents, but I’ve never heard this one.

Look at apps. There used to be some free apps that showed the knots with nice animations of how it is tied.

Practice with a larger rope that feels good in your hand, not fishing line. Some soft double braided nylon ropes just don’t hold knots very well and will come loose easily. That not good for actually using the rope but it’s kind of good for practicing knots. You don’t want to spend more time untying than tying. But if you really want to be a knot guy, this is a good excuse to buy a marlinespike.

Another fun thing to learn is splicing. If interested, Samson Ropes (great rope manufacturer but probably overkill for use around the house) has good fids (splicing tools) online guides and they have a splicing guide book you can buy too.

He even shot him before pulling over. Being handi-capable isn’t enough for him, he’s multitasking handi-capable

Me sitting in a restaurant right now at 3 pm eating dinner: Can’t think of anything

Get a $250 printer and start using it. It may be all you’ll ever need, but after a year or so it’s likely you’ll start seeing other printers with different functions that you think would be useful and will decide to upgrade. Hopefully you’ll know what you want by then.

Big tires don’t really help for that though, and lifts like that often have a tighter suspension and a rougher ride. The vehicle you want to drive fast over bumps would be some kind of luxury car that puts a lot of emphasis on having a smooth ride.

The article says more clearly “2.7 billion records with Social Security numbers.” The author goes on to say he found 4 records with a friend’s data but in those 4 records were 3 different SSNs. He called the friend and confirmed that one of them was his actual SSN. I guess someone was auto-linking names and SSNs for ID theft purposes and getting it wrong sometimes.

Same. I started to like him when he appeared on David Letterman a lot. He seemed genuine and funny. I learned more about him some years ago when he dropped out of public life. People were worried and thought he was being held hostage or died. It was very weird.

Turns out he was doing great and died in 2024, possibly while dressed as Barbara Striesand*. We should all be so lucky.

*(Wikipedia says he did a social media post with a photo dressed as Barbara Striesand and was found dead minutes later.)

I think of the method this guy used as “The Sarah Palin method” because she once did a news interview while people were killing turkeys in the background that way.

Christians should show they’re not the antichrist by getting “Nero,” which is Greek for “not the beast” tattooed on their forehead

What if it’s a torx instead? People have to buy torx bits to work on their car.

I don’t see how it could be effective. The brand specific things I mentioned are almost identical and none of them stop people from repairing their car. The BMW design is simpler than the ones I mentioned. A flat screwdriver with a gap cut down the middle would work.

I don’t really know. I purposely picked the things I mentioned because they’re similar to the BMW bolt, but the tools required are cheap and simple for all of them.

Part of my point was that there are other, more complicated and more expensive tools that are brand specific too. I think a lot of it is really just the nature of the beast. Brands do thiings differently, so a special shaped tool to get into the nook and cranny of a certain car won’t work on a different brand that has different nooks and crannys. And you can substitute “brand” with “engine,” “model,” or even “year.”

“specifically intended to prevent BMW drivers from fixing their own cars.”

Give me a break.

I hate to break it to people but every manufacturer has a lot of brand specific tools. You need a special socket for Toyota head bolts, 10 point sockets for Honda suspensions, a special multipoint socket for Audis, a special socket for Mercedes lug nuts and it’s good to have a 21.5mm for Fords. 5 point security torx are starting to pop up on GMs.

That’s just an example of a few sockets, the deeper you go into a car, the higher the possibility that you need a $400 special tool or kit for a specific manufacturer, or even specific year or engine.

An auto rotation isn’t a crash. An auto rotation can end up as one but usually looks like a normal landing

They take themselves so seriously while acting like jokes

What kind of car were they in? They haven’t made dome lights that big in cars since 8 tracks

Naked Space, a.k.a. The Creature Wasn’t Nice. A terrible Leslie Nielson spoof movie from 1981 that looks like it was shot in a weekend for $500, but it’s funny to a point and has some good lines.