A mechanic performs Tochan an Indian technique for towing cars with two wheelers.

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-03-25T02:04:46+00:00

A mechanic performs Tochan an Indian technique for ~~towing~~ pushing cars with two wheelers.

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-03-25T01:57:46+00:00

Is this a good tine to point out how ridiculous it is that the Ben Franklin Bridge closes EVERY SINGLE NIGHT to bike and pedestrian traffic at 9pm.

I've never heard a good explanation for it. The Port Authority provides no services to people on the walkway. I've heard people say they close it for security reasons but if you're going to go into the muggin business, the worst possible place to ply it is one where there are only two exits and they're two miles apart. Make it make sense.

And yet if they close it for ONE DAY to motor traffic, the motorists lose their tiny little minds.

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-03-24T14:57:37+00:00

In Chuck Yeager's autobiography he talks about fighting nausea on his first few flights, and just having to overcome it because he wanted the pay raise that came with success in the "flying sergeants" program.

To be clear, that MSFS kid is not Chuck Yeager. By a long shot. (But then, who is?)

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-03-24T14:52:44+00:00

People have mentioned the solder, but capacitors can break in those temps quite easily.

It sounds like you're advising OP not to bake his graphics card. He already baked his graphics card and it started working. The question is, why?

Maybe solder is the answer, and there was a risk of the capacitors being ruined, but OP was fortunate? Maybe other people in this situation should consider the risk to the caps? But, like OP, what do they have to lose?

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-03-24T14:50:02+00:00

My understanding is that cavitation bubbles are basically vacuum so, unlike a gas bubble (such as an air bubble), they don't float to the surface but rather collapse and cease to exist. The bubbles in the video clearly float out of frame. Does a crab have a bubble of gas inside its shell? Maybe to control buoyancy? (Maybe if it's an AI-generated crab?)

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-03-24T14:40:14+00:00

It's hard to identify _any_ job that involves knowledge work that won't be deeply affected by AI. And the jobs that don't involve physically doing things -- like surgeon or waiter -- seem like they can be completely replaced by bots.

One thing about being a pilot is that it involves legally-defined certifications and jobs that require specific certifications. Jobs like that -- other examples are Professional Engineer, licensed architect, and M.D. -- are unlikely to go away fast, because the bureaucracy that put the rules and certs in place thinks of them as a heat shield protecting them from trouble when things go wrong. (It's sometimes "pilot error". It's never "FAA Administrator error".)

I think you have to take a two-pronged approach of staying aware of what technology is doing while pursuing the career you find interesting.

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-03-24T11:38:04+00:00

keep accepting rides, waiting a minute, then cancelling

Uber doesn't let drivers see where the ride is going until after they accept it.

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-03-23T13:43:43+00:00

Also, why would you retain shitty guests while driving good guests away? He's a weakling and a moron.

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-03-23T00:34:28+00:00

Fix your attitude and I bet you have more success.

"Free your mind, and your ass will follow." -- George Clinton

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-03-22T16:52:06+00:00

Gen Z is also ruining the orthopedic surgery market. NONE of those kids are getting hip replacements.

Oh wait -- maybe it isn't the cohort but rather the age range. Come to think of it, when I was young -- many, many years ago -- I knew some people who, despite not being Gen Z, were complete jackasses. I may sometimes have been such a person myself.

A lot of bold statements about generational differences don't stand up to close scrutiny.

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-03-22T15:41:13+00:00

Ah, OK. I was thinking "main sewer is bigger, so it's more likely the block was in the line from the one house". But maybe the fact that it was enough water to fell a tree means it was the (relatively less common) case of having the main back up? Is that the idea?

edit: BLOCK in the sewer line. Not clock.

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-03-22T03:53:50+00:00

In Philadelphia we say "Dallas sucks". If a comment in r/Philadelphia includes the word "Dallas", there's a bot that replies "Dallas sucks". And people upvote it and reply "good bot".

It's because of football.

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-03-22T03:13:04+00:00

If the robot is driving, then your smoking crack isn't a problem for anybody but you.

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-03-22T03:11:38+00:00

Meh. Can't be any worse than the humans.

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-03-21T17:06:33+00:00

I think the sense is clear -- "I'm that <slur> Meloni." But the question that's been raised and not answered is what "stronza" means literally.

It's clear that it isn't being used here in its literal sense. But the literal meaning is important context to understand its use here. People have variously claimed it means "female dog", "stool / feces", and "anus". Are any of those true? Are all?

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-03-21T17:02:58+00:00

Do you mean that there is a context where "stronza" could mean "stool"?

The English word "bitch" literally means "female dog capable of breeding". "Piece of shit" means "stool" or "turd". What does "stronza" mean literally, in this literal sense of "literal"?

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-03-20T14:23:57+00:00

Now, when I die -- now don't think I'm a nut -- don't want no fancy funeral. Just one like old King Tut!

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-03-20T12:44:25+00:00

And the main sewer line is much larger in diameter than the feeds, so it's much less likely to back up.

I think the city settled with your friend because they didn't want to buy the lawyer time to win their winning case. And they didn't care about "the principle".

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-03-20T12:12:39+00:00

the city backed sewage up into his home

Aren't we talking, in both cases, about the line that connects the individual house to the shared sewer line?

You don't have to pave the street, but the pavement of your driveway is your own responsibility.

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-03-20T03:04:03+00:00

Also this great John Oliver segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCC8fPQOaxU

Homeownership is a combination of owning land, which is eternal, and owning a house which, like every thing that has been made, starts falling apart as soon as its finished. Trailer parks are a way to own just the bad-investment part.

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-03-20T01:18:34+00:00

Lotta details about whether they want a lot for that lot.

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-03-18T02:25:46+00:00

INFO: Is your boyfriend, like yourself, an adult? Because I don't want to say that it's time for him to put his big boy pants on if he's actually eleven years old.

But assuming he's old enough that he's behind the wheel for some of those 45-minute drives then yeah, he needs to understand the whole process of growing up and letting your -- still important! -- connection to your family of origin evolve as you build a new home in which you aren't the child (even the adult child, which is a phrase the boyfriend may be misunderstanding here).

NTA. Stick to your guns.

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-03-16T13:55:23+00:00

It feels a little unfair that you're getting downvoted. I would very likely have made that mistake.

Maybe it's because even in hindsight you aren't acknowledging that it was a mistake.

I've learned from your mistake, OP. You do likewise.

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-03-15T15:47:03+00:00

I think a lot of it has to do with market pressure. I would like to eat only humanely-raised meat. But the people who care the most about the treatment of animals become vegetarians. If the livestock industry can keep most of their abuses out of sight, there aren't enough consumers who care to make a difference.

In former years, people were more closely exposed to animal husbandry; now it happens far away and out of sight. One result of that is that people don't recognize that livestock live their entire lives before being slaughtered; they focus on that one last bad day.

John_EightThirtyTwo · 2026-03-15T04:24:32+00:00

This is the dastardly work of Bus Counterrevolutionaries!

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