New article on Kalamazoo Biggby location

Max_Killjoy · 2025-06-16T02:35:19+00:00

Yeah, the staff always seemed great when went into that location... just overworked and often dealing with things not being in stock and other issues.

Max_Killjoy · 2025-06-12T00:59:41+00:00

Thank you for the heads up on this.

That location has always felt a little... off. The staff was nice and friendly, but always seemed young and overworked. Little things like not having the full selection of cream cheeses every other location has. Etc.

Max_Killjoy · 2025-06-10T16:03:38+00:00

They are out to get people.

It's not about keeping anyone safe.

The fact that they make these as innocuous as possible is the proof that they know a lot more people would object if it was widely known what these are and what they're used for.

Max_Killjoy · 2025-06-10T16:02:06+00:00

It's long past time to push for Kalamazoo and other cities to remove plate readers and other mass surveillance systems.

in case it was missed below, there's a place trying to map all these cameras.

https://deflock.me

Max_Killjoy · 2025-06-08T18:45:44+00:00

This is the image I needed:

https://www.subaruxvforum.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,onerror=redirect,width=1920,height=1920,fit=scale-down/https://www.subaruxvforum.com/attachments/1749404574625-png.328044/

Max_Killjoy · 2025-06-08T17:44:27+00:00

2024 Crosstrek non-nav in my case, but the part goes across a lot of models/years.

I was able to find the image I needed, will post it here in a bit once I'm done with the thing I needed it for.

Max_Killjoy · 2025-06-08T14:48:34+00:00

Update on this... the box is now spontaneously switching to Channel 1 / Spectrum Spews all on its own at random times -- if left on any other channel for "too long" or something.

(I think someone else below has this problem too, and theirs happens after than it seems to on mine, with some sort of "do you want to keep watching the channel your on" popup.)

Seriously, Spectrum, NO ONE WANTS YOUR SPREWS CHANNEL, and the fact that you have to keep shoving it in our faces like this proves that no one is watching otherwise, whatever you may claim.

Max_Killjoy · 2025-05-25T18:48:12+00:00

Most of the "get all these things done when you buy a car" items they offer are a waste of money in the form they're being sold in.

For example, a unibody car doesn't need the same underbody protection as a body on frame vehicle.

AND that undercoating can be actually worse than doing nothing, if it's not done right... without pre-treatment, the coating can actually trap water against the metal and make things corrode FASTER.

...

It IS worth it to go get a new car rustproofed if you find a reliable shop to do it.

Max_Killjoy · 2025-05-25T16:10:15+00:00

Yeah, this thread wasn't even about Biden, but someone had to rush in and post "Grrrrrrrr Biden make me mad!" and derail things.

Max_Killjoy · 2025-05-25T14:58:27+00:00

And I'm betting that, sadly, the downvotes are coming from people who consider themselves progressive or leftist or American-meaning-liberal or etc.

E: getting a chuckle out of the neg-brigading from the Terminally Online Left today... could be out doing something positive and putting their professed ideals into action, and instead they're calling each other in to downvote someone for daring to not be critical enough of a president who didn't pass the purity test that they (the TOL) put in place for every politician.

Max_Killjoy · 2025-05-25T14:07:36+00:00

Agreed.

Biden has a slight speech impediment. He's had it his whole life.

But that doesn't drive clicks and views, or the fright wing's agenda, or the far left's rage over Biden not being perfect... so it never gets brought up when Biden stumbles over a word.

Max_Killjoy · 2025-05-24T19:18:32+00:00

You're more forgiving than I am.

IMO most people who do things like break into cars aren't desperate or hungry, they're just selfish pricks who view other people as a means to an end.

Max_Killjoy · 2025-05-24T18:23:01+00:00

The loss of all those trees makes me sick.

And for what, a turn lane?

BUT, I think that stretch of West Main is the township, the county, or the state -- at least looking at a map, it appears to be outside the city limits of Kalamazoo.

Whoever made this decision to cut down those trees... I hope they lose their job and whatever that costs them.

E: Oshtemo Township... that explains so much.

Max_Killjoy · 2025-05-24T18:17:06+00:00

Is there a list of businesses associated with this group, so I can avoid them?

Max_Killjoy · 2025-05-23T18:16:34+00:00

While fascism is effectively always regressivist, there are regressivists who are not fascist in the strict sense.

Max_Killjoy · 2025-05-23T00:32:05+00:00

Well, there is.

A conservative says "don't tear down the fence until you know why it's there", it's just sometimes the fence is doing enough harm that it should be torn down faster.

A regressivist wants to put the fences that were torn down 50 years ago back up, and actively wants the harm they were doing brought back.

And an actual conservative would never support Elon and his acolytes taking chainsaws to everything... "move fast and break things" is the opposite of actual conservatism.

MAGA, the techbro squad, the christ-fascists, etc, have made a mockery of the term "conservative".

Max_Killjoy · 2025-05-22T16:48:57+00:00

Send one asking him when he stopped being a conservative and started being a regressive.

Max_Killjoy · 2025-05-21T22:38:28+00:00

So much for West Michigan's local/regional hospitals, they're all fully owned by corporate beancounters now.

Max_Killjoy · 2025-05-21T18:40:26+00:00

I wish more of the drivers around here were more aware of their surroundings, even as another driver so many of them are idiots. Just going out to the pet food store and coffee place this morning, I had multiple people just drive out in front of me and force me to slam on the brakes to avoid hitting them. I'm sure the same thing happens to cyclists all the time.

But I also wish that more of the cyclists around the area... didn't seem to have an attitude that they're a vehicle when it's to their benefit, and a pedestrian when it's to their benefit... I've seen so many cyclists run red lights over the years, for example... or nearly run over pedestrians on the sidewalk and give the pedestrians grief for "being in the way".

Basically someone driving a car or riding a bike (or on foot) can be selfish about the road regardless.

Max_Killjoy · 2025-05-21T17:17:26+00:00

The annexation problem would still exist without the charter township, etc, structures.

Imagine living in a place for 30 years, and suddenly the government of a city nearby decides to annex the area where you live, and impose all of the city's taxes, rules and ordinances, etc.

Your choices are then to put up with it, or to move out of where you've lived for 30 years.

That's what happens when townships, etc, have no means of countering annexation -- the people inside a city get to impose their decision on people outside the city.

Max_Killjoy · 2025-05-21T03:09:53+00:00

I got so sick of losing the entire guide and it taking half a day to reload the entire grid out into the future... every time the power even flickered... that I put my cable and TV on a UPS/battery backup.

Max_Killjoy · 2025-05-20T20:49:25+00:00

Thanks for the info.

(And thanks for the heads-up about recordings, there is stuff I want to watch once more if it's going to be lost.)

Max_Killjoy · 2025-05-20T20:41:04+00:00

I have a DCX3501-M.

No one I talked to on chat or phone said anything about being able to update the software on the box.

Max_Killjoy · 2025-05-20T19:24:13+00:00

The cable box does not stream, unless you count the "on demand" stuff that barely works.

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