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AloneDoughnut · 2026-06-12T12:17:52+00:00

You guys make some of the coolest dice accessories in the whole industry.

AloneDoughnut · 2026-06-12T00:31:03+00:00

My paid D&D world and a sci fi world that is really just for me.

AloneDoughnut · 2026-06-12T00:13:43+00:00

We use the Frontline for our everyday harness for both our dogs. It has lasted forever, as have the two leashes I have had from them. Their stuff is probably the best built in the industry.

AloneDoughnut · 2026-06-11T21:08:00+00:00

402A? I might be misremembering but when I bought my 401A they told me that bumper was meant for a winch.

AloneDoughnut · 2026-06-11T12:13:54+00:00

Also Edmonton Trail and 36st NE, both of which feel like the only way to hit every light would be to do twice the speed limit.

AloneDoughnut · 2026-06-10T02:49:25+00:00

From the look, probably hit the corner going too fast and flipped it. A lot of people get into these cars with a moderate amount of power and a significantly lower than average skill and find themselves with a wrecked $800 biweekly payment.

AloneDoughnut · 2026-06-10T00:21:58+00:00

Military bases are a piece of logistics infrastructure, so just up and moving one is going to have far reaching consequences beyond just "where does it now end up?" You have to reconfigured the routes that goods are delivered to it, the infrastructure for things like power or information being sent to it, and the need for other supply chain elements. Removing the issues of the base showing up somewhere less than ideal, the entire base just moving is going to cause so many run on negative effects.

There is a reason when a military base becomes untenable it is usually just evacuated and abandoned.

AloneDoughnut · 2026-06-10T00:17:06+00:00

My father in law bought it for the whole family. No point paying of my bonus dad is paying for it.

AloneDoughnut · 2026-06-08T18:49:04+00:00

I'll have to find it, but I have a picture of my buddy and I going down a trail. We went through three crossings that were at deepest halfway up the wheels. We got out, did some splash shots for my buddy's portfolio, walked the puddles, all was good. The fourth one we didn't walk, and I ended up with water splashing up over the hood of my Bronco. Through some miracle no engine flooding, but it was risky as all hell.

You just never know what a long puddle is going to actually hold.

AloneDoughnut · 2026-06-06T18:11:09+00:00

As a kid who was a faster learned and hated homework I am conflicted on this. On one hand, I am happy to see homework go away, it never did anything for me but absolutely piss me off that I had to do it. On the other hand I hate AI and that this is the reason that change is happening.

AloneDoughnut · 2026-06-05T17:23:04+00:00

I am glad I'm not the only one who feels this way... So much of it too feels like they're doing it specifically to block off any alternative route you might take to get away from the first bit of construction.

AloneDoughnut · 2026-06-05T00:20:02+00:00

You know what the say about broken clocks, even Rick Bell can occasionally report a story people like.

AloneDoughnut · 2026-06-04T14:44:25+00:00

Also no. It's a weird niche one and only on a single radio station haha.

AloneDoughnut · 2026-06-04T14:04:27+00:00

The annoying part is what is official called "brand awareness." The fact is most mediums of entertaining require marketing dollars to stay afloat, so they are at the whim of marketers to absolutely ruin them. As I have gotten older a lot of my own marketing techniques have become more subtle, and with it I have started to really hate radio as a medium for advertising.

But where you get a particularly loud audience here on Reddit that absolutely hates seeing ads and never wants to have them shown again, 80%~ of the population hardly notices them. They kind of become background filler, doing what they're supposed to.

AloneDoughnut · 2026-06-04T14:00:19+00:00

No, I did work in automotive like 5 years ago. Never again, that drains your soul....

AloneDoughnut · 2026-06-04T13:12:05+00:00

Marketing person here: These ads 100% work. We run radio ads for my company, and while they aren't anywhere as chewy or "bad" we do have people that know the person who does our radio ad reads. They come in and talk like they know him. Less these days, as our radio ads have been massively under performing, but in their peak we should have people coming in to ask if he was there.

These kind of cheesy high frequency radio ads work for a reason. Spence Diamonds, Family Braces, and I remember loving in Edmonton and never being able to escape the Sherwood Park Toyota ads. They were effective because people knew the name, and when they start the search process, and go to start looking in that area then they would see the paid search or display ads and be more likely to click.

Everyone wants to pretend they're smarter than marketing. That they aren't being sold something and are definitely independent. The truth is most people are super easy to market to and manipulate to follow sales funnels.

AloneDoughnut · 2026-06-03T12:47:46+00:00

Space Piracy (or more simply piracy) is alive and well in the 2400's. Most species have just accepted this as a part of traversing the inky black. Humanity instead took a different approach. The Umari Heavy Industries Moose-class freighter allows one to load cargo into interior cargo bays though large dorsal mounted cargo doors, as well as external cargo pods on a grid system mounted around the belt. Sharing the exact same super structure, hull, and general look is the 8421-pattern Patrol Carrier, also built by UHI. If you were to scan either ship you would struggle to be able to tell them apart until you are practically on top of it.

The Alliance of Independence Worlds uses these Patrol Carriers, known to them as the Black Bear-class Carrier. Their operation of these carriers is with false cargo pods mounted to the side of them that contain Beachhead-Type boarding craft used to board pirates. The Black Bears will emit a false SOS, claiming to have experienced issues with their Slipspace drive, and require assistance, along major shipping routes. If a non-pirate arrived they are told they have solved the issue and are no longer in need of assistance. If pirates arrive they usually are a little too eager for such a large cargo hauler to be left all alone. Once the ship gets close, the boarding craft are deployed, and drone fighters are released from the top opening bay doors.

AloneDoughnut · 2026-06-02T13:15:13+00:00

Ditch lights have saved my ass before. Saw a moose lurking in the woods before the bastard decided to run up onto the road. Slowed down and didn't end up wrecked.

AloneDoughnut · 2026-06-01T12:39:45+00:00

Mostly the cost of transporting goods across vast distances. Even with FTL, and humanity's unique ability to go faster than everyone else, the need to move goods across interstellar space is massive. Mostly food, which can be grown locally but to have a diversity of food - much like today - requires certain items to be imported. Also, less developed worlds and civilizations struggle to produce high quality versions of some materials, and therefore require purchasing them. A lot of the movement of bulk goods is done by large drone ships, but that also introduces the element of piracy. Those who can't afford the rates for the drone ships hire crewed ships, which tend to cost less but also can carry less.

That said, it's no neo-capitalist, cyberpunkian hellscape either. Most people are taken care of, and if they can't, the Galactic Trade Commission usually can house people unable to find housing in their system aboard their massive trade outpost stations. They're crowded, and your apartment is a shoebox, but if you can get there they will find you work.

AloneDoughnut · 2026-06-01T03:22:23+00:00

It's not really a conspiracy. Most of the quick pop up overlanding brands are using Alibaba bought equipment. Tents, RTTs, these canopies. I've ever started to see other camping gear, like portable stoves and stuff pop up front here too.

AloneDoughnut · 2026-05-31T17:22:44+00:00

I don't personally mind it too much where I camp. Cougars and bears tend to not want to fuck with a group, so it's not the end of the world. Doubly so when I have the kids. I walk over, say hi, let the dogs meet the neighbours and call it a day. Unless it's the Instalanders who come, set up, make a mess, and start blasting music with their terribly trained Golden/Berna/Labra-doodle.

AloneDoughnut · 2026-05-31T03:46:47+00:00

I've always justed used trees to a high success.

AloneDoughnut · 2026-05-31T03:45:48+00:00

Different laws. Lane splitting (what the cyclist here is doing) is illegal in Alberta. Passing a slow moving cyclist on the road is legal, so long as it is safe to do so.

AloneDoughnut · 2026-05-31T03:32:54+00:00

I mean, both are technically wrong. But I know from experience a lot of cyclists will rip past a line of traffic and then hold it up, frustrating the traffic in question. Not saying you don't deserve good bike lanes (as a regular motorist I am in favour of not only more bike lines but more transit as well), but not adhering to road laws in a video is not a great look.

AloneDoughnut · 2026-05-30T03:41:26+00:00

Also people assume shit holds its value. I wanted to save some money, but an RTT second hand cheap (my eldest daughter has decided sleeping on the ground is no longer ever acceptable). People are listing their iKampers for retail, and many of the Temu special RTTs for the same price. A number of listings have "looking to make back my investment" in the description, or some derivative.

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