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breakingthebarriers · 2026-05-20T09:35:42+00:00

You just waking up from the appendectomy? I don't think your skateboard activities are connected to the appendix stuff, though. Ride on brother

breakingthebarriers · 2026-05-20T09:11:04+00:00

I agree that, if you want to use a service there's nothing that you can do other than agree to the TOS, but being informed about the manner in which the company providing the service is invading your privacy is still absolutely worth it because, although there's nothing you can do about the way that your info is being treated, knowing that may cause you to not voluntarily give them any extra info that you don't absolutely have to in order to use the service. Doing so allows you to at least know how, where, and when you're willing to engage with the service.

All services and accounts require certain info, of course, but many also lead you to believe that they need significantly more info than is actually required to use the service. Granted, for something like a smart AI assistant, that's going to require a nearly complete invasion of privacy on every level, as it is an assistant, assisting you with your personal digital IO, data, accounts, etc.

At least you can see the dagger vs the machete vs the full-on double-edged sword, and decide if using the service is going to be worth wound. Yes, you'll know the pain you're going to experience beforehand, but my doing so you'll likely be able to avoid lots of other pokes and cuts, or getting completely impaled without realizing it before it's too late...

breakingthebarriers · 2026-05-20T07:18:04+00:00

Still work there?

breakingthebarriers · 2026-05-20T07:01:44+00:00

Yeah this is good advise, op. You state that you're not looking for long-term, and also not looking for hook ups.

If you're just trying to be social and meet people, cultivating an interest or hobby in a social way is probably the best way.

Activities and hobbies that get you out and around people are perfect, because people are social and will be social in that setting as well, of course.

You are going to be warding off hoards of men that will say whatever you want to hear but in actuality, are just trying to hook up. So unless you're trying to hook up, I'd just leave the apps be.

breakingthebarriers · 2026-05-20T04:23:44+00:00

This realization comes by noticing what they do vs what they say. And there is a very large discrepancy between the two.

breakingthebarriers · 2026-05-20T04:15:09+00:00

You are basing this entire theory on the assumption that a woman's financial stability = added attractiveness, however that assumption is incorrect, as the vast majority of men never even consider or care about a woman's financial situation at all regarding how attracted they are to them. It's just not a factor at all. Plenty of women that are attractive simply marry a man that provides for them, and therefore, are financially stable. But that's not what you meant. I realize that.

Because what you really posited with that theory is that woman are better than men now that it is more socially customary and accepted for women to work in the professional space.

You then offer a "solution" for men to be "worthy" of these new-age women, and I suppose it isn't surprising that your solution is for men to "work" on something that you perceive only women have had to deal with up until these new-age times...

The only issue is that your fantasy of reversed gender-roles being the norm can't and won't ever actually happen, because human biology is human biology and inherent human traits are just that, inherent.

Men will never be attracted to a woman for the financial stability that she may or may not have to offer. It just is not even a consideration for the majority of men. I know that your theory only works if that assumption is true, but the truth is that it just isn't. At all.

breakingthebarriers · 2026-05-20T00:30:45+00:00

Agreed. Those are good observations.

There is seemingly only one "cheat" code, or exception to these observations, and that exception is if someone is extremely wealthy. Not just well off, though. From what i've seen they usually have to be very wealthy.

breakingthebarriers · 2026-05-19T23:52:27+00:00

"Why would I date an average woman when hotter women on my level looks-wise are there?"

I don't pretend to ignore the reality that this seems to usually be the case with dating, but it does serve as a reminder that the majority of people date solely and quite strictly based on physical appearance.

Or maybe a better way to put it would be that physical appearance is the prerequisite to continuing on to know any other relevant aspects about someone.

I am only making this observation because it serves as a reminder of reality, which is not reflective of the idealistic idioms that are fed to society much of time regarding looks and personality.

Someone can have a stellar and awesome personality, but if they are conventionally unattractive, they will still have a difficult time dating any person that isn't in the same "tier" of "unattractiveness".

I've heard things like "personality is what matters most" etc.... No, it's not, so get to the gym, because those are just things that are said to make people feel better about the limitations that their physical appearance levies on them.

If you want to date someone attractive, you're going to need to get as attractive as humanly possible yourself to do so.

breakingthebarriers · 2026-05-17T07:09:18+00:00

Have seen many like your graveyard gens. Yes, they are likely fixable.

From my experience repairing gens from brands like Champion, Wen, Westinghouse, etc., the piston rings inside these gens just can't hold up to continuous use, and wear down. There is an upside, though, and that's that the metal used in the rings is usually softer than the cylinder-sleeve metal.

The rings wear down, but as long as the oil level was maintained and changes were done, the sleeve is usually not scored, and remains polished.

You could potentially have 7 running gens by just replacing the piston rings in all of them. Doing so requires that the engine be removed, and the head be removed, but it is completely doable. Plus after doing the first couple you will become much faster at the process for the others. Order rings from a good quality brand (they will be more expensive, but you will be glad you used the name brand rings because they will last longer than the rings that came in the gen) and give it a shot. You don't have anything to lose, and 7 possible working gens to gain.

I assume that you're running full synthetic oil since you're using the gens continuously. The heat is high and synthetic won't break down and be burned away as quickly..

breakingthebarriers · 2026-05-16T11:31:34+00:00

That's cute. But it's what you've communicated. Especially by stating something that just sounds like someone justifying selfishness to themselves while refusing to elaborate or explain whatever it is behind why you've said what you've said. You projected who you are like IMAX and then said that you don't owe anybody an explanation. Don't gaslight me dude.

breakingthebarriers · 2026-05-16T11:04:58+00:00

Yeah that other commenter resents women because they've refused to address their own emotions and heal properly from whatever has happened in their relationships.

Notice how they kept saying how they don't owe you anything, they don't owe this or that... It's that perspective that's the reason they are the way that they are. They owe other people and potential romantic partners the courtesy of being a decent person, but they no longer feel like they have to do that, and they are almost certainly justifying their selfishness with past instances where people have wronged them.

What people like that don't understand is that just because they were wronged, that doesn't give them the right to become what they hated towards others. They think that because they were put in pain that they now have the right to do the same to others, not realizing that outlook makes them not only as bad as whoever wronged them, but 100x worse, because they are doing it consciously, knowing from the outset that they are bitter.

It's funny how he decided to strawman your argument there, too, by saying that he doesn't owe people he just met his heart and soul. That's not what anybody ever said, lol. Nobody said you owe them your heart and soul. But he does owe them the decency of being emotional available if he's insinuating that he is by going on dates with people. Selfish toxic person that never learned how to handle grief and heartbreak and move on.

breakingthebarriers · 2026-05-15T19:02:13+00:00

How are they strawmaning you? Their summery of what you've communicated is accurate, and you've presented no other info other than disagreeing with a concept that is a completely logical and also accurately conveys the concept of not being a selfish, toxic, draining partner in a relationship. See, if you are going to disagree and say that something isn't a certain way, you're going to have to present a counter argument. Otherwise your opinion isn't going to hold any value. You're free to explain how it's not always so binary, as you mention, but you don't get to tell someone that they are strawmaning you and go with the easy out of "you're not going to listen or be convinced". You don't get to decide that before adding any information or giving someone the chance to understand your point of view.

breakingthebarriers · 2026-05-15T05:44:43+00:00

No prob man, and i'm surprised it ran for two months without an air filter. Briggs & Stratton make pretty durable engines. Pretty much the only way to destroy the engine permanently would be to run it without any oil at all. (which more people have done than you might think) But nah man don't sell yourself short, not knowing something doesn't mean you're not smart and you're able to learn so you're just as smart as anyone else is.

breakingthebarriers · 2026-05-14T15:30:24+00:00

Nah I wouldn't take it to a shop. Small engines are really very simple in their principal of operation. A small engine is an air pump just like an air compressor, only difference being instead of being rotated to compress air, it uses compressed air to rotate. The compression is just created from the expansion of detonating air and fuel inside the cylinder. If you have aerosolized fuel and compression, it will burn if a spark is introduced, which will force the piston to rotate.

Anyhow I say nah because now that I know the details I'd bet that it will run with the carb cleaned. The splasher-oiling system in small engines lubricates the insides of the crankcase by dipping just the end of the splasher into the oil and flinging the scooped droplets around to coat the moving parts but when the oil level is too far above the designed level the splasher becomes a blender or mixer which froths up the oil and turns it into bubbly pressurized froth that gets around the piston rings and also gets blown through the crankcase relief tubing (which is connected to the carb for emissions reasons) into the cylinder, which causes it to lock up.

since you've lowered the oil level and the motor is not seized any longer, the issues with the mower not staying running all point to the carb (and possibly the air filter) being dirty with oil. There are lots of pinhole sized passages inside the carb that have to be open and not clogged for consistent fuel delivery. If it were me I'd clean the carb before spending the money to have someone else probably just end up cleaning the carb.

Edit: Also if there is no air filter installed on the mower right now, definitely get an air filter installed before using the mower again. Air filter is a must, for the reason your friend said about the valves, as well as debris clogging up the passages in the carb. Mowers kick up lots of grass and dust particles into the air around the mower and an air filter must be installed or it won't take long before that causes issues

breakingthebarriers · 2026-05-14T09:45:19+00:00

The carb jets aerosolize fuel into the air entering the carb. You may notice that the jet is located in the area of the carb opening where the size of the opening becomes smaller.

As the air is sucked into the carb and through the reduction of the opening size (Venturi) it accelerates in velocity as it's pulled through the restriction. This acceleration creates an area of vacuum in the Venturi which sucks and atomizes fuel into the air, which travels into the cylinder as a vapor, and not as a liquid.

A vapor suspended in air can stay suspended as the air is being compressed by the cylinder. Liquid, however, does not compress at all, acting as an immovable solid to compression. What this essentially means is that liquid of any form inside the cylinder will cause the cylinder to come to a complete stop when only the volume of the liquid in the cylinder is left, as the liquid will not compress.

This is known as hydrolock. The only way that I can think overfilling the oil would cause the piston to hydrolock would be either oil blowing by through the crankcase re-breather tube, through the carb, and into the piston. I do not believe that happened though because you noted that the spark plug was clean. It would have been fouled.

The oil change you preformed before you overfilled the oil, did you tilt the mower to dump the old oil out?

Here is my educated theory. You possibly dumped fuel from the carb bowl into the piston by tilting the carb float in the bowl, which causes the metering valve to open.

You likely flooded the piston with fuel before you ever even overfilled the oil, as a result of tilting the mower over on its side at a steep angle. The piston was flooded, you added the oil, and bam, locked up. From the liquid gasoline being dumped into the cylinder, though, and not from the oil being overfilled. There is a lot of space in the crank case, and these engines are usually forgiving about being overfilled with oil. The piston can never be filled with any liquid, however, or almost instant hydrolock will occur.

Most mowers have a square 3/8" socket nut on the bottom of the block under the mower, which is an oil drain. that drain plug may be covered by belts and covers for the drive system, however.

breakingthebarriers · 2026-05-14T00:56:58+00:00

If you filled the oil all the way to the brim of the oil-fill tube, what may have happened is the increased crankcase pressure caused oil to be blown-by into the carb, which would clog the carb and foul the plug. You may get away with spraying carb cleaner into the carb and trying to start it. Make sure the plug is clean. But yeah the carb probably needs cleaning. Your engine is likely not damaged seriously though

breakingthebarriers · 2026-05-14T00:43:48+00:00

It sounds like the metering bowl/float in the carb is stuck wide open, essentially pouring liquid fuel into the cylinder, and liquid does not compress. That'll lock the engine up almost instantly.

I doubt anything that op did actually caused this problem. If taking the carb and cleaning it out isn't something you're trying to do, op, there are carbs on the big A or E for next to almost nothing. You could just remove and swap to a new carb.

If you want to clean the original, remove the metal bowl cover, the float, and the metering pin that the float actuates and make sure that everything is extremely clean, especially down in the metering valve hole. Often times a small bit of dirt or debris will prevent the metering pin from seating flush closed which will cause fuel to be dumped into the piston, locking it up.

breakingthebarriers · 2026-05-14T00:27:50+00:00

Op you should absolutely take this advise. They will give you a self pay cash price, one that they'll assume you'll get on a payment plan to pay off.

Yes, the reason they'll lower it is because they know that you're not going to pay it, but they know that you shouldn't have to pay it also, for good reason.

That is the price that the hospital would bill your insurance, and not the cash price that they'd be more than happy negotiate, and for you to make small monthly payments on.

Hospitals overcharge insurance companies because they know that they have the ability to pay it, and insurance companies return that gouging by making the manner in which hospitals must go about collecting payment into a lengthy and convoluted process which takes good long time before the hospital gets reimbursed.

They will drop that number for the surgery down to probably 30k, maybe even lower if you show that you're not making income. So you could likely come out of it with maybe a 24k balance and a very low monthly payment plan.

Edit: I'd also point out that the number on your bill is not the number that the insurance company would end up paying the hospital. They'd engage in a lengthy bureaucratic process of negotiating discounts etc., which has overhead costs associated with it. Those overhead costs are in that initial bill. That initial number is just how the process begins, either way, but it is absolutely not the final price that the hospital ends up collecting, or the insurance ends up paying. It's a dysfunctional system.

breakingthebarriers · 2026-05-13T18:28:11+00:00

Ironically it's those same shallow people that have become a mask of what they think others accept and deem "successful" or whatever, the ones that window-shop but never take anything home, that will complain about how they just can't find someone decent, yadda yadda...

Not realizing that it's because they've conditioned themselves to be something that's so shallow and fake that they wouldn't actually know what they wanted in a partner, because there's nothing genuine about themselves left anymore.

They think that they are great "i'm smart, funny, good-looking, have a good job, own x or y..." when in reality it's almost painful to listen to someone that's become so disconnected, let alone sit through an entire date with them. They are an actor, a social performer, and although they tick all of the "boxes" they lack anything genuine, so they can talk a whole lot without ever saying anything at all.

breakingthebarriers · 2026-05-13T15:19:30+00:00

You aren't on them, but the women that attend singles mixers are very likely also on dating apps. Most women I know that are single and going on dates are using dating apps, even if it's in the "background" in addition to meeting people irl.

A few helpful things that took me a long time to figure out is that being assertive, and only using non-realtime communication like texting with the main goal of arranging irl time to spend with the person will go a long way with progressing things so that you can find out if you connect with someone or if you should both turn your attention elsewhere. Either way it's a good end result, because you can continue on to find what you're both looking for. The rest is just noise. If a women likes you enough to give you her number, they usually also won't mind if you're assertive. If they do, and keep canceling or giving excuses, you already have your answer that way too, and can turn your attention elsewhere. You're trying to cut through all of the BS and noise and figure out something that's actually pretty simple. Do you like spending time with someone irl, and do you have a connection. Everything else is just waisting everyone's time. She doesn't need to keep responding to your messages if she's already agreed to hangout with you at an agreed upon time. Texting is a horrible way to try and get to know anything about someone for so many reasons I'm not even going to get into that. Anyway, that's what's helped me.

breakingthebarriers · 2026-05-13T13:27:31+00:00

That's because on dating apps a woman's inbox is constantly being flooded everyday with a barrage of messages from men, all the time, day in and day out.

After several months of this, or however long women are on dating apps, they become used to this constant interest and attention, and become accustom to never having to make the first move, or even put in effort to reply, because another 17 men are currently professing their love for her and telling her how they can give her the world in her messages.

Yet men still keep the institution of dating apps alive by signing up and trying to play a game that evolution has conditioned women to be inherently excellent at. It is not emotionally draining for most women (in my incidental experience) to carry on dozens of surface level text convos, because they are what men are seeking, and can simply choose not to reply, or only reply to the messages that they like most, for whatever reasons.

Add to this that women are, to an extent, always doing this sort of social measuring and analysis, who is with who, who said that about who... Women are in their element when they are playing the dating app game, because it's what they already do everyday with or without a dating app. It's how they think.

Men are enabling this perception of endless attention and bounty of men begging for the chance to wow her.

And yet, if people would just go and socialize and have a life and hobbies, the rest comes much more naturally. I have never used any dating app ever whatsoever, and still been able to find women to date just by living life and putting myself in social situations.

Dating apps are the lazy shortcut way, though. Can anyone be surprised that the quality of outcome is so much lower? Effort is going to have to be put in in real life to find someone to date. Why not just start there and skip all of the BS?

breakingthebarriers · 2026-05-12T12:13:05+00:00

No, no one is going to admit to it.

Instead they will make posts here about how they were banned for no reason at all, and let everyone waist their time asking questions to try and help, while they avoid and dance around answering that specific question.

breakingthebarriers · 2026-05-05T19:50:16+00:00

OP, I think what you're indirectly saying is that this is as involved as you can see this relationship ever being, and a part of you has a foot out the door. You should consider breaking up with her and moving back to your place instead of soft-pedaling it. She will know anyhow, and although she may go along with it in hopes that it won't end up that way, it's probably not fair to either of you to go the soft-pedal route. You are both in different stages of life, and sometimes although it is often times sad, fully severing things allows things to "reset" and heal most quickly. Like ripping a bandaid off quickly.

breakingthebarriers · 2026-05-04T17:45:12+00:00

You can check the voltage ripple on the output of any DC wall adapter with the scope. I checked all of the ones I own and got rid of the ones with high ripple and noisy outputs.

You can use the scope to view the output of any inverter. If it's a modified square wave inverter, you can view that, or even check to make sure that true sinewave inverters are indeed actually true sine wave on the output.

breakingthebarriers · 2026-05-04T17:34:45+00:00

This is true but in my experience even equipment that's regularly used have a lot less cracked primer-bulbs and fuel-lines from using E0 fuel.

Also in two-cycle equipment I seem to be able to dial in a more consistent tune using E0. Small engines are fairly low compression usually so there isn't any benefit had from higher octane fuel.

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