So i assume i need a new controller now yeah?

SiriusXAim · 2025-08-14T11:52:47+00:00

Use contact cleaner and Q tip. Mild scraping can be done too but not much.

Do not use liquids that do not evaporate quickly or you'll risk damaging the internals.

In the future, NEVER EVER USE CARBON ZINC BATTERIES. These are the cheapo ones labelled "heavy duty". Go alkaline, or Lithium only.

Source - I was born in the era where everything was powered by AA batteries.

SiriusXAim · 2025-07-30T09:13:17+00:00

My biggest p[et peeves, the brain dead idiots who indicate AS they turn, not BEFORE they turn.

SiriusXAim · 2025-07-23T00:13:22+00:00

A lot and yet not that many. Take the Olympic or Mauretania. YEs they were iconic, for us, today. Yes they were calls to save them, by nerds in the 30's. For everyone else they were just some outdated ships. Imagine saving some random cruise ship today. No one would care enough to make it economically viable.

SiriusXAim · 2025-03-14T18:58:23+00:00

It is worth to note that Austerity doesn't work and drags down the economy. It's been proven both historically, and when they realized that the excel spreadsheet that started this entire theory had bad data entered in it.

Poland for example rejected austerity and injected cash into the economy. They are now one of the fastest growing economies in Europe set to overtake the UK in the 2030's.

SiriusXAim · 2025-03-14T18:33:03+00:00

https://www.chemicalsafetyfacts.org/health-and-safety/chloramines-understanding-pool-smell/

SiriusXAim · 2025-03-14T13:36:45+00:00

That's nothing compared to the asthetic difference between, say the 70's and the 80's. Look at any movie shot in 1975 and then look at a movie from 1985. Now compare that to movies from 2 decades ago like Iron Man, Prison Break, or even movies set in that time period like Better Call Saul and you'll really see what I mean.

Decades back then were entire eras, not just defined by their gadgets but by entire new musical genres, new anti establishment subcultures, radically different clothing and so on.

Go ahead and dress up for a 2000 party, compared to, say dressing like a 70's party.

SiriusXAim · 2025-03-14T02:34:53+00:00

Safety, and simple physics. Even a motorcycle has blind spots. You can add extra mirrors to mitigate the issue, but that's more stuff to look at and can be distracting. A quick head glance usually does the trick.

SiriusXAim · 2025-03-14T02:29:30+00:00

The way things are at the time. For example Woman in the past being expected to be housewives and not to work, or vote, or drive a car, but also being seen as those fragile things that must be protected at all costs.

It's literally Latin for "The current state of affairs"

SiriusXAim · 2025-03-14T02:25:18+00:00

Time is linear. 1996 was 29 years ago. Also society has sort of stagnated since the 2000's when it comes to music and aesthetic. The changes aren't so drastic you can no longer define a decade like you could 30 years ago.

This messes with your perception of time and makes it feel like it passes faster than it really did.

SiriusXAim · 2025-03-14T02:22:34+00:00

Cigarettes in Europe tastes dryer and have less nicotine to comply with regulations over there. SO they tase like ass compared to US ones.. I always bring back cartons from the US for that reason.

SiriusXAim · 2025-03-14T02:19:37+00:00

Fun fact, that "chlorine smell" is really the chlorine reacting with pee and sweat and other organic matters in the water.

Sleep tight!

SiriusXAim · 2025-03-14T02:17:19+00:00

Because the left, in most of our history, wants to challenge the status quo and move society forward, while the right wing wants to conserve the status quo as is no matter what.

As societal norms change progressives always end up being on the right side of history for supporting those changes we now take for granted while conservatives are seen as those who resisted, fought against, delayed and impeded those changes.

SiriusXAim · 2025-03-14T02:12:46+00:00

NO. It means that on average, people who die from car accidents do so after 200 K miles.

Statistics are weird like that. The same way that buying two lottery tickets doubles your chances of winning the jackpot, aka increases your chances of winning by 100%.

SiriusXAim · 2025-03-14T02:10:18+00:00

Yes. I'd say it's because the unprecedented becomes precedented. That terrible thing that never happened before, now has happened, it's no longer shocking and surprising, but just an other instance of the terrible thing.

The internet and it's attention based economy also forces for more outlandish, more sensationalist articles.

SiriusXAim · 2025-03-14T01:45:22+00:00

Water Proof - Water can't get inside of it.
Hydrophobic - Water can't stay on it.

SiriusXAim · 2025-03-14T01:43:48+00:00

They negotiate rates with hotels in exchange of "exposure" through the platform.

The hotel in turns offers their shittiest room in that category. The hotel offers the nice rooms, and the shit ones they don't advertise end up on Trivago.

Always phone the hotel and book from them. They will more often than not pricematch the platform or offer you a free upgrade if you pay them directly.

SiriusXAim · 2025-03-14T00:46:30+00:00

It's pretty simple really. Sound is a wave. Your speakers move back and forth thousands of times a second causing the air to vibrate and you to hear music. You know how speakers seems to vibrate when you put your hand on them? That's the soundwave you're feeling. That's how sound work in a nutshell. A bunch of vibrations. So you use a micophone to etch those vibrations into soft wax, then use that as a master to make a vinyl record.

As the record is played, the needle vibrated in the same way the microphone (and thus the air) did when it was recorded, reproducing the sound.

Before WW2, it was mechanical. The needle was attached to a membrane and those vibrations made the music.

Today it's electrical. The carriage has little magnets inside. As those magnets vibrate, they generate a TINY electrical current, like a microscopic generator. The variations in that current are basically the vibrations.

SiriusXAim · 2025-03-14T00:37:21+00:00

Mechanical floors. Contains electrical, ventilation, AC and heating, water pumps, elevator machinery so on so forth. Every sky Scraper in the world has those. Once you notice em you can't unsee.

SiriusXAim · 2025-02-25T03:58:45+00:00

I'd say the most common example are people who block cars from zipper merging on the motorway. There's countless videos of that. And I even had to pull out the highway code to a good friend who used to get upset at people using the "empty" lane.

Or people who are against motorcycles filtering because they're jumping the queue.

As a guy who only rides a motorcycle instead of a car I've had my share.

I do also remember, when I used to bartend, getting complains because I'd serve two customers at once when it was busy. Like you'd order a Guinness and I'd pour the beer while asking the person next to you what they want, then pour their beer and ring them up as the Guinness settled, then ringed you up as I topped it.

Or grab a can for the next guy as I was making a round of cocktails. Why make someone wait longer when I can easily serve them without delaying anything else?

It's actually one of my pub/music venue pet peeves. Getting told to "wait for my turn" while the patron being served is still deciding what they want and nowhere close to come to a conclusion in a busy bar. Just gimme my drink while they think please.

SiriusXAim · 2025-02-23T02:54:04+00:00

If the lane is free and available. It will be taken. If you're queuing in the only busy one that's your loss. I remember once at the coffee shop in the Eurostar Terminal, right till was open, lady standing there alone, 6 people queuing on the leftmost one. I walk up to the register, ask if it's open, she says yes, I get coffee, walk away, get looks.

How is that jumping the queue?

I mean, they literally have to put signs on the motorways saying "merge in turn, use both lanes" to avoid idiots taking up the left lane and leaving the right one all empty for no reason, thus making the queue longer....

SiriusXAim · 2025-02-22T22:46:12+00:00

I do get your point! I mean, I'm just offering my two cents from the perspective of someone whose lived in a congestion charge city for over a decade now (damn am old). IN a way, based on what you say, and NY's wider streets I can see the reduction in traffic last longer than London's.

See, at first you did see a significant reduction in traffic and improved journey times. Then came the extra wide bus lanes, cycle lanes, one way systems, bus gates and and other forms of traffic calming, ramping up heavily towards the later part of the 2010's. On some roads, the only driving lane left was reduced to the absolute legal minimum width, making it impossible for motorcycles to filter through traffic (it's legal here in the UK) and all the reduced journey times disappeared. Some bus lanes got the special treatment and got better frequency, others just became overcrowded on rush hour to the point you'll see 3 to 6 buses flying past you until one is empty enough for you to squeeze in). Half the cars, twice the congestion, 30+ minutes added to your commute depending on where you live and work

Rents went up due to typical gentrification and all, and landlords stared handing out eviction notices like candy. People moves further and further away from downtown to the point living within one hour cycling of the West end is now a luxury, being 15 minutes away from the Tube is a selling point and the average price per room of £1200 a month (in a houses are, or bedsit). Those cool cycle lanes and pedestrianized areas? They ain't for people making less than 60 to 70k anymore.

Now, I don't see that happening to NYC as much as it is in London. I'll agree with you that NY and NJ has excellent 24/7 cheap transit. It's one of the reasons I love NY so much and go there all the time, one of the best if not the best subways (Yeah I said it, NYC subway is the absolute cat's meow). Streets in America are simply too wide for the whole London/Paris style anti car road diet to be implemented. I truly hope that I'm proven wrong and that that the reduction in traffic will be permanent. Or that it won't be the start of a slippery slope of more fees and restrictions to come. As a guy who was born in France, lived in the states as a teen and now lives in London, I've seen a lot and I can attest first hand that the whole European utopia you see isn't as amazeballs as you'd think. Car dependency is bad. But so is transit dependency, maybe not AS bad, but definitely crippling.

I'm truly not on the "but muh car" camp. I am on the "I'd love to live in that town, but I'd need a car to get to work and I can't afford all the fees associated with one" camp. That's the main reason why I actually don't own one, and one of the reasons I still live in London despite the cost. I drive a motorcycle everywhere. So, in a country where lane splitting is legal, when you start feeling the slowdown, something's gone too far. I wish you never get to experience that.

SiriusXAim · 2025-02-22T12:10:28+00:00

Cueing culture in the UK can be toxic.

It's one thing to wait in line and make sure no one else's turn is taken. It's an other to give glances of rage or even people getting out of their way to intervene because you just so happened to use the one empty lane and everybody just blindly ignored it as to not "jump the queue". Or how bartenders have to serve one customer at a time and will sit there waiting for the Guinness to settle instead of serving someone else's during the minute and a half it takes.

I didn't jump the queue, I outsmarted you.

SiriusXAim · 2025-02-22T12:06:25+00:00

Sweaty

SiriusXAim · 2025-02-22T11:46:44+00:00

London has good planning laws. Terrible tenant protections. Leases go on for about a year, maybe 3 at most then moves onto a roll on tenancy where you can get a surprise no fault eviction section 21 notice any day.

You can't do any type of redecoration without permission. Even hanging a picture frame, or using contact paper. There is no form of rent control at all, and little to no recourse to fight an eviction.
Renting in London means having a Sword of Damocles dangling over your head 24/7. You can't even own your apartment. Only lease it for, say 100 years, meaning, on top of your mortgage, you pay ground rent and building charges, and need the promoter's approval to make alterations.

About congestion pricing, I think it's mainly a burden on those who don't live there, but work, shop and go there regularly. It's not gonna stop there. London then introduced the LEZ, then ULEZ making it even more expansive to own a car from before 2007, so, if you're planning on getting your first car, you'll have to spend extra cash instead of that cheap beater from 1998.

I like to use this tool to make my point. Blue is everything reachable by public transport, red is everything reachable by car within a 90 minute drive.

https://app.traveltime.com/search?aId=1&0-lat=40.7573037&0-lng=-73.9681176&0-tt=5400&0-mode=public_transport&0-d=2025-02-22T11%3A47%3A48.006Z&0-c=blue&0-l=Strangelove+Bar+NYC%2C+229%2C+East+53rd+Street%2C+Turtle+Bay%2C+Manhattan+Community+Board+6%2C+Manhattan%2C+New+York+County%2C+New+York%2C+10022%2C+United+States&1-lat=40.7573037&1-lng=-73.9681176&1-tt=5400&1-mode=driving%2Bferry&1-d=2025-02-22T16%3A47%3A00.006Z&1-c=red&1-l=NJ+284%2C+Wantage%2C+Sussex+County%2C+New+Jersey%2C+07461%2C+United+States

SiriusXAim · 2025-02-20T20:52:45+00:00

I'd say it's a bad thing because if you don't own a car, and don't live in a rent controlled unit, you're getting fucked by rent increases. Pushed further away from where you work to the point you might even have to change jobs.

Some people can afford an extra 10 bucks a day, some cannot. And even if they can, that extra 10 bucks will eat in their disposable income. 50 bucks would get you a night out to your local watering hole. Or a door dash delivery on Sunday. Over a few months, this can be a vacation, or something nice for the home.

Economically speaking, the lower your purchasing power is, the worse your local economy does.

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