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  • One of features I really like about Summit is that it shows the age of new accounts next to the user name on comments by default. It's not a feature I knew I wanted, but I love it now that I have it.

  • My Brother My Brother and Me probably fits the bill.

    The Box of Oddities is really good. Husband and wife team talking about spooky and Fortean topics.

    No Such Thing as a Fish, a podcast spinoff of the UK TV show QI. Four hosts each show up with an interesting bit of trivia to discuss.

    The Bugle. Comedians doing political satire. Is UK-centric but ends up being about US politics a lot of the time.

    If Books Could Kill. A couple guys tear apart popular self help books as well as pop-sci books like Freakonomics

  • Boy, you sure don't hear the words "deeply researched" used in reference to the Daily Mail very often.

  • Ironically us plebs who work with our hands are the people with the skill set necessary to build those things.

  • Windows 11 feels like Microsoft is actively punishing me for being foolish enough to keep using their products. Adding some janky AI bullshit machine to this garbage fire feels now they're just taking the piss.

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  • I think if you're going to go through the trouble to return your cart to the cart area then yeah, slot that bad boy into the stack the way it's supposed to go. Otherwise it's like those people who pick up their dog's poop and just hang the bag on a tree branch for someone else to put in the trash. Either do the thing, or don't do the thing. Doing it halfway just makes a different kind of mess.

    I found out a new (new to me at least) bit of cart-return etiquette last year when I was using the handicap parking spaces for a couple months following ankle surgery. Grocery carts double as walking aids for a lot of people with mobility issues while they're at the store. Many people with those issues will purposely leave their carts in the handicap area as a courtesy for the next person with mobility issues so they can have it right away and not have to struggle all the way to the cart area. So there's at least one instance where not returning your cart doesn't make you a horrible person.

  • Any negatives?

    Yeah. You can kill people.

    When that stuff dislodges on the highway it's not like your car getting hit by a snowball. It's like having an entire wheelbarrow full of snow hit your car all at once at 50+ mph. Just the weight of it can KO your entire windshield. It's a super effective way to make someone crash.

    Also, it's not always just snow. If the snow on your vehicle sat there through a couple of freeze/thaw cycles, there can be a big sheet of ice underneath. If that goes through someone's windshield it can kill them directly. If you live in a snowy place, pretty much everyone you know has a story about the time they almost died because some asshole was too lazy to clean off the roof of their SUV, or because a huge sheet of ice flew off the top of a semi-trailer.

  • Andor.

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  • I can only see a Vogon.

    Edit: I lied, I can also see Rygel from Farscape.

  • Is Strawberry Shortcake still a thing? If you'd have asked me to bet money I would not have guessed that anyone under the age of 40 would have recognized that character.

  • I want Devo to do a cover of it.

  • I've never lived in Utah, and we had goths instead of mods, but SLC Punk was a fairly accurate representation of how I grew up, and the people I grew up with. Right down to how the singer (who was straightedge except for his bi-polar meds) in my first band died.

  • I think the real reason is that the bleeding second that people's access to healthcare is no longer tied to their employer there's going to be a mass exodus from the workforce as people go out and start their own businesses, or move to a job with a better work/life balance, or to a job that just isn't soul-crushing. This will make it much harder for businesses to underpay their employees, and I think there are very powerful business interests who see Americans having unrestricted access to healthcare as an existential threat to their profitability.

  • If we go to war I'll be very surprised if they'll announce it ahead of time. I think it's far more likely that we'll just wake up one day and already be at war.

  • I'm a machinist.

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  • A lot of engines have a big plastic trim piece that sits on top and doesn't really do anything except make the engine compartment look tidy. I guess you could call that a topper.

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  • I bought one of those on a whim a while back, and I was pleasantly surprised with how good it was. Quality control is always kind of a crapshoot with those cheap Chinese pen brands so I don't usually get my hopes up, but even though the pocket clip on mine feels loose and pretty janky, the actual pen itself is really solid, and has a surprisingly good nib for its price point. I ended up carrying it with me a lot because it's not only a nice compact size for a pocket pen, but it's cheap enough that I won't be devastated if I lose it.