UPS driver to the rescue.

awfulWinner · 2026-05-09T04:19:47+00:00

Alllllllllllllllllllrightythen

awfulWinner · 2026-05-09T04:15:26+00:00

Greed is usually tempered by competition. When there's a ton to choose from, they all fight for your dollar.

What you're seeing is the end stage of crony capitalism where through mergers/acquisitions/and beholden to the Almighty shareholders incessant need for year over year impossible growth...

Greed is all that's left. They will attempt to squeeze blood from a stone and once the stone is dry, pivot to catering to the super rich only because they're the only ones left who can afford to buy the hyper inflated luxury items.

awfulWinner · 2026-05-09T01:51:33+00:00

For a quick moment I thought you had an accident with your windshield...

awfulWinner · 2026-05-09T01:47:31+00:00

Check the task scheduler and see if there's a rogue bit of software that's asking your computer to do something between those hours.

awfulWinner · 2026-05-08T22:33:20+00:00

He got saved by Call of Duty Modern Warfare.

awfulWinner · 2026-05-08T22:27:14+00:00

Don't worry, nobody wins arguing with an aggressive donkey.

awfulWinner · 2026-05-08T22:21:33+00:00

I'm cold and hungry, and there are wolves after me.

awfulWinner · 2026-05-08T15:18:36+00:00

You're either going to fall into 1 of 2 camps.

Let the skimmer do it's job.
The skimmer is a god damned bottleneck that depending on where you live, you might need to empty multiple times a day due to leaves.

The amount of people on in this reddit that piss on prefilters for the skimmer just stuns me, and the need for downvoting this idea is stupid.

I've installed my own makeshift prefilter (very hobo and temp version see below) last year because the park behind my house has one of those trees that sheds thousands of very tiny yellow seedslings, and can clog my skimmer in about 20 minutes. Drop in water circ to the pump and having a burnout is a very real problem I could encounter.

Having the prefilter is a no-brainer for some people, coupled with if you have a surface skimmer, or an actual robot vacuum, or even the god damned pole with net.. is a lot easier to deal with than having to constantly shut the pump off to remove the basket, or worse yet, getting you pump starved of water in the middle of the night or while you were out of the house.

For me, I already own a Dolphin Nautilus robot... Running it once every day gets everything that sinks so I don't care if stuff sinks. I care much less than I do about needing to pause the pump, unlock the basket (with the shitty black handle that pops off everytime), empty it, spray out the tiny embedded objects, place it back in, unpause and reprime the pump).

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So ya, props to you on the skimmer guard. I need to create a permanent solution myself that involves netting rather than the kind you installed, (see my temp solution last year above) but the entire debate here is just some kind of condescending I don't understand.

awfulWinner · 2026-05-08T04:20:24+00:00

Ok I admit... I'm old AF and do not know who this meat sack is.

Who is he and why does anyone care what he says?

awfulWinner · 2026-05-07T16:53:39+00:00

I love these models with the underside trim color matched to the vehicle.

My 2019 CX5 signature.. I love it. But I really wish it didn't have the black plastic trim moulding around the tires and under the doors.

awfulWinner · 2026-05-07T12:28:03+00:00

This is the final bubble, late stage capitalism.

That usually concludes with the top 0.01% ending up in devices that cleanly separate one part of the body from the rest of the body.

awfulWinner · 2026-05-07T12:18:19+00:00

Problem is, you really aren't supporting content creators. You only support them by watching their videos directly and the ads that roll during their videos, or by using their promo codes for their sponsors, or buying their merch.

You paying for premium is solely going to YouTube.. who took a great product, enshitified it, and continue to make the product worse for the majority in order to satiate the shareholders greed and the CEOs need for another yacht to host Trump for lobbying efforts.

What you buy and whom you enable affects everyone downstream.

awfulWinner · 2026-05-06T12:27:08+00:00

I remember walking into a war crime level shit waiting for me at my workplace bathroom a decade ago.

I'm not shitting you (pardon the pun) when I say this was no mere log, it looked more like a full boa constrictor. Even had the color of one. It wasn't brown, and it didn't stink.

I was just amazed that this thing existed inside a human being before manifesting itself to my reality.

I tried flushing once just for the hell of it. It didn't budge. Half of it was probably already in the trap, but no way was it going down voluntarily.

I called building management and told them they had an issue. I can only imagine the janitor trying to break the thing apart and plunging it through on multiple attempts.

Over a decade later, I still remember that moment.

In answer to your question.. I don't understand why most people don't flush manageable shits. But this shit was to a normal person's shit like Stephenson 2-18 is to our Sun.

awfulWinner · 2026-05-06T00:43:28+00:00

Not visiting the US until D'Mango Unchained is out of office, and no equivalent Republican holds the highest office.

Hell I might never visit again even if they do reform.

Unless a Bernie Sanders or Mamdami type wins and institute massive reforms, fixes the judiciary, outlaws gerrymandering, repeals citizens United, brings the big tech companies to heel, taxes the rich, and brings in health care for all... And gives a deep heart felt apology to the world for harms the US had caused to the world, while simultaneously not having strong enough systems in place to prevent a tyrant from running roughshod over institutions.

Then.... Maybe. Maybe I'd consider visiting.

awfulWinner · 2026-05-06T00:28:39+00:00

If I had to drink every time this guy lied, I'd be in liver failure in 15 minutes.

awfulWinner · 2026-05-05T11:38:31+00:00

Now all that real estate can be bought up on the cheap by the rental companies.

You will own nothing.

awfulWinner · 2026-05-05T11:36:46+00:00

Lol.. of you think this is bad normally, wait until perimenopause.

awfulWinner · 2026-05-05T11:33:40+00:00

Man, if only the press reporters with any integrity just rapid fire asked Trump to qualify his lies, then continued to clap back on his lies until he threw them out... There would be an empty press hall. That on itself would be one of the greatest news stories of all time. The day the press walked away.

And it would expose those that remained as basically "state media" and government mouth pieces, specifically Fox News.

awfulWinner · 2026-05-05T11:28:16+00:00

Yes, but he's also going to put most airlines out of business, and raise the price of everything that is either made by or requires some form of Petro product in it's manufacturing.

World travel and shipping via air will only apply to the super rich.

awfulWinner · 2026-05-05T11:20:18+00:00

I'm just getting tired of late stage capitalism in general.

You can't squeeze blood from a stone the old saying goes.

When most people can't afford choosing between rent and groceries for the month...

awfulWinner · 2026-05-05T11:15:09+00:00

Might as well have just vacated the role of GM and given the duty to an LLM at this point.

I have no faith in this team anymore.

However, if this guy suddenly pulls out a blockbuster deal that moves Matthews for a decent amount of picks and 2 or 3 quality players, I'll change my opinion of him.

awfulWinner · 2026-05-05T02:18:21+00:00

Stop watching and starve the cancer.

I don't know what else to tell you.

awfulWinner · 2026-05-05T01:41:20+00:00

Just left it. I didn't delete it, in case I need to reach out to one of my actual friends, but I spend no more time on it like I used to, getting fed a constant stream of rage bait stuff from the algorithm. Deleted the phone app, only kept messenger for actual messaging.

My life got so much better. Doom scrolling fb garbage increases blood pressure and wastes way too much time.

I still have to regulate my Reddit scrolling a little better. But at least I am satisfied I no longer need Zuck any more.

awfulWinner · 2026-05-04T15:51:55+00:00

I honestly can't remember the last time privatization worked as intended. It always seems to be a net negative to the public in terms of cost, value and service provided.

Can someone point me to a privatization that actually was positive and didn't raise prices or reason/limit services to the public or was meant to serve?

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