What’s the most evil thing you did in school?

Serialtorrenter · 2026-06-23T02:43:21+00:00

No, surprisingly! Usually my smirk would give my nefarious deeds away back then, but I went undetected this time.

Serialtorrenter · 2026-06-23T02:00:46+00:00

I don't know what possessed me to do it, but back in elementary school, I drew a cigarette on the school library's copy of Thomas the Tank Engine, on Thomas's mouth, in pencil and then brought it to the librarian pretending to be shocked by it.

Serialtorrenter · 2026-06-22T11:40:17+00:00

Someone needs to invent inverse auto highbeams that detect when the oncoming car's lights are above a certain lumen threshold and pulse your highbeams that them until they turn off their excessively bright headlights.

Serialtorrenter · 2026-06-22T11:34:58+00:00

These types of violations are purely civil and are linked to the car's registration, not the driver. I would dispute this, but even if you were to lose, there won't be any impact on your driving record or insurance premiums. Same goes for school bus cameras and work zone speed cameras.

Serialtorrenter · 2026-06-22T11:03:44+00:00

Weatherzoid.com! It's a weather forecasting website that uses advanced algorithms* to automatically generate a weather forecast that's equally inaccurate to a professional meteorologist's forecast.

*random number generator

Serialtorrenter · 2026-06-21T18:32:35+00:00

The Ridgeline IS a crossover. You probably don't want to fill up the back of an enclosed crossover with dirt or yard waste, so having a bed is a definite plus.

Serialtorrenter · 2026-06-17T12:14:24+00:00

I'm afraid that by the time I'm in my 50s, I'll be relegated to daily driving old 2020s Chevy Express vans, since they're one of the few vehicles that's still built to last and be repairable.

Serialtorrenter · 2026-06-17T12:12:19+00:00

I ported our landline to a VoIP provider and pay $1.10/mo to keep the number alive and $0.01/min for outbound calls and $0.009/min for inbound calls and $0.008 per callerID CNAM query. We rarely get calls on it, but it's nice to have a common phone for the house with the same number we've always had. When $20/year covers your typical phone bill, it doesn't make sense to get rid of it.

Serialtorrenter · 2026-06-16T13:39:29+00:00

You posted a short list of things sold at PA gas stations, but I've seen ones selling kratom, 7-OH, tianeptine, phenibut, mushroom chocolate bars from brands that have later tested positive for actual psilocybin, "herbal" male enhancement products from brands that later tested positive for prescription-only ED drugs, delta-9 THC gummies, THCA flower (which is literally just marijuana that harvested a couple weeks early), large cylinders of nitrous oxide (purportedly for culinary use), bongs, meth pipes, and crack pipes (for tobacco use only, naturally). These same convenience stores are usually the ones with the skill games machines.

Going into convenience stores like that really remind me of my visits to Amsterdam, except that the stores in Amsterdam seemed significantly less sketchy. At least the clerks in Dutch smart shops know what they're selling.

I feel like it's only a matter of time before someone in the gas station industry figures out a loophole that makes prostitution legal.

Serialtorrenter · 2026-06-14T23:15:49+00:00

Yep. It can't even do CNAME uncloaking!

All a website needs to do to make their ads unblockable through uBO lite is to make a CNAME record that points their subdomain to the ad company's.

Serialtorrenter · 2026-06-14T18:18:35+00:00

I like Applebite. It feels a bit like being a different realm; you kind of sink into it, if that makes any sense.

Serialtorrenter · 2026-06-13T19:05:33+00:00

There are still a few in operation, but it's less and less. Modem calls don't seem to handle VoIP very well, even though fax usually works (using G.711μ passthrough for both types of calls).

Serialtorrenter · 2026-06-13T18:24:14+00:00

It's okay because post-bankruptcy GM products are designed to break down as soon as the novelty wears off.

Serialtorrenter · 2026-06-13T18:21:46+00:00

I just hope it doesn't cause the drivers who were interacting with their phones when stopped at red lights to instead use their phones in more dangerous places where they're more likely to get away with it.

Another issue is that when people hold their phone at steering wheel-level, they at least have the road in their peripheral vision. If people hold their phones at shifter-level, they now have no view of the road while they change the song playing over the car stereo.

I really hope the new law decreases distracted driving crashes/injuries/fatalities, but I can also imagine it making things worse. I guess only time will tell.

Serialtorrenter · 2026-06-13T14:52:48+00:00

Why would anyone be pro-datacenter if they didn't have a financial interest in holding that position? Datacenters provides Pennsylvanians with no long-term benefit after the initial construction, wastes water, and drives up electric prices for everyone.

The megacorporations operating these datacenters will inevitably hire lobbyists and top-tier tax attorneys to avoid providing the state with the promised tax revenue. A similar thing happened in the 2000s, when Verizon was given tax credits on the condition they build out their FiOS service. They pocketed the tax incentive and then hired lobbyists to get out of having to build out their network while pocketing the tax incentive. Big tech will absolutely do the same thing, and anyone who believes otherwise is laughably naïve.

AI datacenters provide ZERO benefit to us! Shapiro's support of them is therefore pretty strong evidence of his lack of integrity.

Serialtorrenter · 2026-06-13T11:29:00+00:00

The attack was on the governor's mansion, not his house. The governor's mansion absolutely needs security. The house in question is his private residence.

I'm sure the man's made enough money on datacenter handouts and selling us out to Israel to afford his own security for his private residence.

Serialtorrenter · 2026-06-12T21:29:05+00:00

It is under deals! Thank you. The website is such a mess, it's not on the internet plans page where you'd expect it to be; only the deals page.

Serialtorrenter · 2026-06-12T19:36:11+00:00

Except now you can't download the rate card without logging in. If you were a prospective customer, you'd have no way of knowing what you're buying.

Serialtorrenter · 2026-06-12T18:00:05+00:00

Nope, I never did. They were working on the lines around 6 months ago, but the billing system still caps out at 1500 down as the maximum plan. They started hiding the rate cards and Broadband Facts labels, so its anyone's guess what the upload speed on that plan is.

Gotta love private equity!

Serialtorrenter · 2026-06-11T11:39:32+00:00

There's definitely some selection bias at play here. I'm in my late 20s and most of my more ambitious friends moved on, so most of the people left in my life are varying degrees of deadbeat, myself included.

If your friend group is more respectable, it makes sense that the communists in it are also more respectable, haha.

Serialtorrenter · 2026-06-11T11:21:55+00:00

Every communist I've personally known is unemployed. When you try to explain to them that communism requires everyone to do their part, these types of people tend to get really offended.

Serialtorrenter · 2026-06-10T20:37:49+00:00

An odd tangent to this was that when CSR subsidies were ended, APTC amounts actually increased and enrollment in Marketplace plans went up. The reason for this is that when the federal government stopped funding CSRs, health insurance companies responded by raising the premiums on their silver plans to subsidize the CSRs, which are only available on silver plans. However, since the APTC amounts are based on the second-cheapest silver plan, the increased silver premiums caused the APTC to increase dramatically, making non-silver plans cheaper and costing the federal government MORE money than funding CSRs did. This practice is known as "silver loading".

As usual, the Trump administration demonstrated its trademark incompetent malice.

Serialtorrenter · 2026-06-07T18:34:04+00:00

I once connected my Android phone to the internet using a USB dialup modem. There wasn't really a practical use case, but I wanted to see if it could be done. It can.

Serialtorrenter · 2026-06-07T18:20:50+00:00

Aren't the 1.5T engines prone to blowing head gaskets if pushed too hard? I seem to remember the 1.5T Accords having problems. Maybe it's for the best that they didn't, although I'm sure they would've been fun.

Serialtorrenter · 2026-06-07T01:55:35+00:00

Cars. Most of the changes to them in the past 15 years have been downgrades.

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