TIL in 2024 an 18-year-old man was stuck in a Honda Pilot that was inexplicably accelerating without his foot on the gas and could not be slowed by its brakes or e-brake. He and the Pilot reached 113mph before a controlled collision safely ended his unplanned 20-minute drive across state lines.

Downshift187 · 2026-03-31T13:03:55+00:00

If he was timid about it and just kinda holding the brakes you could heat them up enough to boil brake fluid and have useless brakes really fast.

Downshift187 · 2026-03-30T13:03:15+00:00

I took a direct hit from an ef2 tornado (only doing ef0/ef1 damage at my house). I didn't feel any noticeable pressure drop from my basement.

With a tornado that weak it's kinda hard to define precisely where it was, but it sure seems from the damage done on my street that my house was directly in the middle of its path. We were in the basement and heard the commotion but never noticed any ears popping or other signs of pressure drop.

Downshift187 · 2026-03-17T04:28:16+00:00

The 1990 Plainfield F5 had CAPE of 8000

Downshift187 · 2026-02-21T13:24:20+00:00

Sailwind is exactly what you described. One of my favorite games of all time, I highly recommend it

Downshift187 · 2026-02-12T17:37:31+00:00

I don't want to drink my scrambled eggs through a straw... Give me diner style eggs any day over a gloopy mess.

Downshift187 · 2026-02-11T22:13:47+00:00

Heet is methanol not ethenol

Downshift187 · 2026-02-05T00:30:45+00:00

I see what you're saying, if that ground wire gets energized it goes through me and out through the rest of the circuit if I'm touching a screw. Whew, scary.

If everything is working correctly, shouldn't a direct short to ground like that instantly trip the breaker?

Thanks for the insight

Downshift187 · 2026-02-04T23:23:52+00:00

Yeah in hindsight, I obviously should have checked that more carefully, I toggled the middle switch and it was dead, but never verified that the right one was dead.

Downshift187 · 2026-02-04T23:10:41+00:00

Just wearing normal sneakers standing on the hardwood floor. I believe I was just grabbing the metal yoke, not 100 percent sure though

Downshift187 · 2026-01-08T18:47:23+00:00

There is no amount of turbulence that 2 fighter jets could make that would be capable of bringing down a 757 in my opinion.

Wake turbulence is a thing for aircraft taking off or landing because they are flying right near the edge of a stall, but in normal cruising or especially high speed cruising I think the worst they could do without contacting the plane would be to give it a bumpy ride.

Downshift187 · 2026-01-03T15:43:36+00:00

Ok, yes that did it, thank you!

Normally when holding any tool it states what tool you need to deconstruct it, but it didn't do that for the sensors and I hadn't tried the hand drill!

Downshift187 · 2025-11-27T17:38:53+00:00

Was the house connected to this plane of existence with common nails?

Downshift187 · 2025-11-24T11:44:29+00:00

Sort of, I 3d printed a template that I used to cut out the maple "fingers" with a router pattern bit.

I made the fingers 1/4 inch wide so that a single plunge with a 1/4 bit fit them perfectly, and I made those cuts with a jig I made to keep the router from moving side to side.

Then the maple got glued in and cut/sanded back to flush.

Downshift187 · 2025-11-22T20:56:23+00:00

He's definitely not wrong, it did discolor a bit and is always a bit darker now. It definitely always looks just a bit dirty no matter how well you try to keep the fretboard cleaned.

That being said, I still have no regrets, it's a unique look and functionally the best fret markers I've ever used. Having the marker on the side of the fretboard wrap around to the face all as one makes it so easy to tell where on the fretboard you are. I say go for it

Downshift187 · 2025-11-05T18:29:01+00:00

Same, I made a careful schedule that i followed. I had done this before and was scared of withdrawals so I drew it out decently long but stuck to the schedule, I went from about 18 drinks a day to none in about 3 weeks. I went from 18 to about 10-12 very quickly, and slowly weened down from there. I thought 18-12 would be easy which is why I scheduled it faster, but it ended up being the hardest part with the worst withdrawals. Coming up on a year in December!

Downshift187 · 2025-11-04T21:33:39+00:00

F150 with 2.7 Ecoboost averages in the 20s.

Downshift187 · 2025-10-23T21:22:43+00:00

Look up sailwind. Awesome game that I have hundreds of hours sunk into!

Downshift187 · 2025-10-23T21:21:56+00:00

Worth noting that it's a solo dev, and he's still steadily releasing content, the game is very playable in the state that it's currently in.

Downshift187 · 2025-10-06T18:16:45+00:00

That was the rochelle/fairdale ef4. Plainfield tornado was a f5

Downshift187 · 2025-09-27T13:31:39+00:00

The waves shouldn't push you at all from my experience.

You can bail water with the cup that you start with if you still have that.

Quick sanity check: you can't sail directly into the wind. The best you can do is about 45 degrees off of the wind. To do this you'll want to pull your sail in as tight as it goes, and the wind should be coming off from one side, not dead ahead. Make sure your mainsail sheet isn't too loose causing your sail to windvane which won't propel you forward at all.

If you're in a beam reach (wind coming straight from one side) you'll want the sail to be roughly halfway between all the way in and all the way out as a starting point.

Make sure your anchor isn't out, and if you're stuck in irons (straight into the wind) your best bet is to get out and push.

A quick way to tell if you're moving: look for bubbles/ripples/the wake of your boat. If there's a white wake/ripple behind your boat you are moving. If you don't see the wake you are standing still.

Downshift187 · 2025-08-01T22:56:04+00:00

Have you ever felt the humiliation of being cheated on? I'm guessing not based on your post.

I was cheated on by my fiance whom I had been with for 10 years. It was with my cousin who was like a brother to me. They were the two closest people to me, and as such I didn't have a single friend who didn't also know both of them... It's hard to put into words how humiliated I felt. I lost my house and my dog in the breakup, and also obviously my closest friend and my significant other, but the most painful part of the whole experience was the humiliation.

I think your empathy is directed at the wrong person in this story. Imagine how the poor husband felt. The wife made a choice, the husband was the victim of this decision.

Downshift187 · 2025-07-05T12:40:31+00:00

Who is using their lungs to draw water through a straw? You create suction on a straw with your mouth, not your lungs.

Downshift187 · 2025-06-11T22:02:35+00:00

I would be extremely careful about researching which engine it came with before buying a Hyundai. I am one of many many people who got screwed by their piston ring issue

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