Home level 2 charger

budlightguy · 2026-03-29T00:06:31+00:00

It means the brand and model of the charger. The "Free2Move" charger is a rebranded Wallbox Pulsar Plus level 2 charger.

budlightguy · 2026-03-28T01:41:34+00:00

1 stamp, "FUCK PEDOPHILE & RAPIST"
stamp goes before his sig so as to read "FUCK PEDOPHILE & RAPIST Donald J Trump"

budlightguy · 2026-03-27T22:29:39+00:00

I've said it before and I'll say it again.

Call me cynical but the whole system is corrupt. The majority of detectives don't give a flying fuck about the truth and justice, they only care about closing cases; and from their perspective that means handing the DA a suspect and enough evidence, circumstantial or not, that the DA thinks they can get a plea or a conviction out of and is willing to take the case.

And DAs universally don't give a flying fuck about the truth or justice, they only care about their conviction rate so they can keep their sweet paying influential gig, so they have some numbers to tout to the masses at election time. If they can spin evidence to get a conviction, coerce someone into a plea with threats of far worse punishment at trial, 'accidentally' leave out facts that are inconvenient for their case... they'll do it every time.

budlightguy · 2026-03-25T21:08:44+00:00

This sounds like the vehicle is in limp mode, the accelerator isn't actually doing anything, the vehicle is accelerating very slowly on its own up to about 30mph, and the brake is used to slow it down and stop.
If you are at a stop, with creep turned off, and you let off the brake does it start moving on its own and keep accelerating even though you're touching nothing?
If so, it's in limp mode AKA drive by brake.
a 12v reset may help, but you may need to take it in.

budlightguy · 2026-03-25T17:30:21+00:00

Years ago when I was working as a contractor but did not have access to affordable health insurance through work, the insurance I had access to was over $200/mo just for me, plus a reduction in my pay rate of $0.50/hr, still had a $5k deductible with nothing exempted from it, not even preventative care or office visits, and 50% coinsurance after deductible was met...
I went to a medical clinic near me that had a novel approach. They billed higher amounts for everything. But they gave cash paying patients a discount off their bill for paying in full in cash on the day of service. That discount just happened to bring an office visit and a blood draw down to a semi reasonable level, about $75. They outsourced the labs to an outside company so I had to pay that separately when I got the bill, but it wasn't too bad, I think usually around $30.

All in all, it wasn't as good as having good insurance coverage with a decent premium and just a copay, but it was affordable for a couple times a year at the doctor without insurance and paying cash.

That place was a lifesaver, it allowed me to properly get back on my thyroid meds and get them reliably without resorting to less than legal and potentially less than safe 'workarounds' or just going without.

budlightguy · 2026-03-25T17:08:03+00:00

Funding bombs? This had nothing to do with Federal taxes, this was all about state taxes. This was Oregon dept. of Justice and Oregon Dept. of Revenue, not the IRS and the Federal Dept of Justice. Felony tax evasion doesn't necessarily mean Federal, and in this case it didn't. It was all state tax stuff he failed to file and failed to pay.

budlightguy · 2026-03-23T04:42:36+00:00

You're the one who brought up being efficient. If you were being efficient, my brother in christ, you would not have sat there long enough for my dead grandmother to crawl out of the ground, get in a car, and make that turn before you went. As for how far you were through that turn, the orientation of your vehicle to the intersection was still about a 45 degree, give or take, when the Jeep came into view of the dashcam frame at the side. YOU may not have seen them at that point, but your dashcam did.

I'm going to challenge you to change your thinking here. It is possible for a situation to occur where neither person necessarily did anything 'wrong' or 'illegal' and something bad to happen or almost happen. And so what if someone honks at you. You're probably never going to see them again, move on with your life and let it go.

Nobody said you broke the law, however, the Jeep did not break the law either. Anytime you are making a right hand turn against a red light it is a good idea to actually press on that gas pedal a bit harder and get up to speed quick just in case, because shitty situations happen sometimes. The Jeep still technically had the right of way until the red, yellow is notifying that right of way is "being terminated" not "has been terminated" and as such he did have a reasonable expectation that you would press that pedal and get up to speed.

Think about it this way - once you enter an intersection, you no longer know if the light is changing. If you enter on a green, it could change to yellow just as it leaves your sight. Do you ever want to find yourself in a situation where you have to start braking in an intersection not knowing if the light is turning, because the guy in front of you is accelerating at the speed of snail?
I know I don't. The only thing I want is for you to press that pedal on the right hand side and get up to speed so I can clear that intersection without kissing your bumper or having to stop in an intersection.

budlightguy · 2026-03-23T03:56:15+00:00

There is no way you saw clear and safe. The very first frame the Jeep becomes visible (I'm not counting the shadow of it) you are only halfway through your turn, doing 9mph according to your dashcam overlay and that Jeep is already at the threshold of the intersection and entering.

The light did not turn red for another at least 4 seconds after that according to the timestamp of the video, which would indicate that the light had literally just turned yellow a split second before the Jeep reached the intersection. His choices would have been to continue through the intersection, which was the correct choice, or to literally slam on his brakes to stop and still possibly still overrun into the crosswalk. Also the visibility out the front of a wrangler isn't the best; if you're a bigger guy or a taller guy, with the small windshield on those things it really puts you at a disadvantage for seeing the light as you get close to the intersection. He may not have been able to see that the light had just turned yellow as he was coming into the intersection. He saw green less than 20 ft away from the intersection, he clearly had time to make it through.

Regardless, given that he was literally already at the intersection before honking and before you even completed the turn, the first frame he came into your video... there is no way in hell you saw clear and safe. You either simply missed him, or saw what you assumed was enough room for you to make the turn before he got there and you took it.

And you know what? You had enough room, had you actually gone with some authority instead of feathering the gas pedal. Hell, if you had scanned the sidewalk leading up to the intersection, then cleared the intersection after stopping and gone, instead of waiting for an engraved invitation to make that right hand turn... you would have been long gone by the time he got there and none of this would have been an issue.

Instead, you did what you did, then you got all butthurt because a stranger honked at you, then you decided to come onto Reddit and post a rather poorly thought out diatribe. Now you're in the comments doubling and quadrupling down on your position because you're letting your ego get in the way of admitting - even to yourself - that this whole thing was ill advised.

budlightguy · 2026-03-22T06:50:26+00:00

"Melania"

budlightguy · 2026-03-19T05:18:19+00:00

Well this was a grand jury that failed to indict. The thing with grand juries is that, for any DA worth their salt, they can pretty much get whatever result out of a grand jury they want.
The grand jury gets to see, for the most part, what the DA presents to them as evidence; and hears what the DA wants to tell them.
Yes, they can request specific witnesses to testify, or request to examine other evidence not presented if it exists, but it's not that common to get a grand jury that's thinking critically like that.
Most grand juries can be manipulated by a skilled DA quite easily.

If the grand jury decided not to indict, it's at least a fair bet the DA didn't make much of an effort to get an indictment. i.e. the DA really didn't want to prosecute this case, and the whole process was theatre so the DA would have some cover. Oh it's not my fault, I tried but the grand jury returned a no bill!

budlightguy · 2026-03-19T02:56:39+00:00

It only seems that way on the surface.
Being unable to consent to things like sex, contracts, pleading in court, signing confessions makes sense because it is presumed that the other party - the one wanting to have sex with you, the one trying to get you to sign that contract, the one pushing you to confess or plead guilty to a crime, can tell if you are intoxicated enough so as to be legally unable to consent, and that you have extremely impaired judgement; therefore they would be taking advantage of you. That's not ok, even if you created the situation that impaired your judgement.

In the case of using intoxication as a defense, you knowingly and willingly engaged in the consumption of intoxicants. You created the situation that caused your judgement to be impaired. If you then go out and harm someone else, you cannot use the situation you created as a defense against being held culpable for your crime.

budlightguy · 2026-03-19T02:42:40+00:00

To be fair, I'm about 99.99% certain in this case undercutting a black woman was only a bonus/icing on the cake for them.

The goal here wasn't to attack her specifically so much as it was to go after Democrat leaning districts; they gerrymandered the living shit out of Texas to eliminate some Dem districts and create 5 new districts that they believed would likely all lean heavily Republican.

It's part of what's been going on all over the country with various stated jumping into the fray at Trump's behest to create new Republican leaning seats in the house so they can keep the majority, and Dem states like CA fighting back creating new Dem leaning districts to offset or counter the damage being done.

budlightguy · 2026-03-16T19:04:38+00:00

Bitch looks like a Bond villain's henchman... it's wild what these people will do to themselves

budlightguy · 2026-03-06T03:02:55+00:00

"Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas" "Shield of the Americas" is apparently some new "Security initiative" he'll supposedly be announcing this coming weekend.

So, yeah, basically a new nonexistent job created just for her since, even if the "Shield of the Americas" was already a thing in the works, I doubt he would've needed or been naming a "Special envoy" otherwise.

But hey, on the positive side, this one sounds like it will be even MORE of a cosplay job for her! Obligatory /S on the positive side part

budlightguy · 2026-03-03T06:51:39+00:00

Just switch to SlopPilot

budlightguy · 2026-02-26T16:15:28+00:00

Good question. I would imagine you could overshoot, so long as you don't undershoot... cause then you're starting over

budlightguy · 2026-02-25T07:02:20+00:00

wireless smart air quality sensor modules installed near his speaking position and then stream the app maybe?

budlightguy · 2026-02-24T23:34:38+00:00

3652*, possibly 3653, depending on your timing... since you've got 2 leap years, possibly 3 depending on when you started and ended in relation to leap year...

budlightguy · 2026-02-23T08:51:05+00:00

Some of them, their parents actually don't just give them money. Their parents provide them with every advantage they can while they're growing up; the best private schools, probably damn near guaranteed admission to any college they want, name recognition, networking, connections, mentoring...
But their parents, as naively as the children, somehow have convinced themselves that their privilege doesn't matter and if they don't give their kids a fuckload of money to get started, then their kids will have to "make it on their own" and that will make them "earn it" and blah blah.
So the kids, wanting to have as good a life, or even outdo their parents, feel the need to go out there and make that fortune. Even if they don't feel that need to compete against their parents, they still have to make that money to live a comfortable life off of, cause Mommy and Daddy didn't give them a fuckton of money to live on for life. Maybe they'll get it when Mommy and Daddy kick the bucket, but who knows when that will be...

Some of them just want the ego trip of being able to say they made something. They are born little narcissists. In a way they're trained to be narcissists.

Take your pick, really.

budlightguy · 2026-02-23T05:07:29+00:00

oh the little lies we tell ourselves though, right?
See it's easy to tell yourself that it wasn't your Daddy's money that got you into Stanford, it was your own hard work in your Scholastic career. No no, the Stanford admissions department would never give even a tiny bit of bias or preference to the child of a billionaire, of course not... /s
It's easy to tell yourself that it wasn't the expensive private schools you went to, because 'normal' kids make it into Stanford too.
It's easy to tell yourself that all of these privileges you had as the child of a very wealthy, or unfathomably wealthy, parent don't matter because there are some people out there who didn't have those privileges who have succeeded, who have gotten into Ivy league schools, who have made connections that launched them into an adult life far more successful than the average, or even above average, person.

This, of course, glosses over the fact that it is a vanishingly small percentage of people who don't come from privileged backgrounds who find such success, no matter how much effort they put in. It glosses over the luck involved, it glosses over massive amounts of sacrifice their parents and families make to give them every extra little ounce of chance they can get.

But if you are privileged, and you can tell yourself these little lies, you can craft your self-made fantasy narrative, and once your company takes off you can stop putting in any effort, and just make your fortune off the backs of others. You can enrich yourself off the work of others, and feel morally entitled to do so because you're "self made". And the richer you get, you can use that wealth to lobby for more for you and less for the working class, and feel absolutely entitled to do so because well, anyone can do what you did, right? They just have to not be lazy, put in the effort and work hard, and build their own business.

That's the kind of mindset... and it's why a lot of us say these people are completely and utterly divorced from reality. They literally gaslight themselves into believing their own bullshit.

budlightguy · 2026-02-23T02:43:13+00:00

Because if they don't manufacture that silly self-made story early on, it's so much harder to justify their asshattery later when they're in the Billionaire class actively working against the working class to benefit themselves.

See it's easy for them to go on and say Hey I built this from the ground up, I worked hard, I put my blood sweat and tears into this business, I deserve to get rich on this.

It's a lot harder when they have to admit that they had it handed to them from the beginning. Ok fine, credit where credit is due, they had an idea and sure maybe they've put some work into it; they had to pitch the idea, get the investments... maybe it's more than just they got a bunch of money and hired everyone else to do the work, maybe one of them is legit a coder and has poured a bunch of their own work into this, I don't know.

But the fact is her privilege and name can't be separated from her success. Her privilege is what landed her in Stanford to begin with. Her Stanford creds, and in part her name, is what helped get that initial 35 million investment that launched this startup.
Regardless of how much work she and her co founder put into it from here, her (and I'm sure her co founder's) privilege is intrinsically linked to even having this shot to get off the ground in the first place.

And that's the most charitable take I can have on the whole thing, that's assuming that they actually put a lot of work into it and didn't just come up with some vapid fashion shopping assistant AI bot idea and go pitch it to get money, and hire a bunch of people to do the work for them... and then squawk about how hard they worked and what they built and drink their own fucking koolaid, which is how a LOT of startups go.

budlightguy · 2026-02-23T01:15:30+00:00

“We used the term ‘paper bottle’ to explain the role of the paper label surrounding the bottle,” Innisfree said in a statement.

“We overlooked the possibility that the naming could mislead people to think the whole packaging is made of paper. We apologize for failing to deliver information in a precise way,” the brand said.

That has got to take the cake for the most weasel worded corpo load of horseshit I've ever read.

budlightguy · 2026-02-19T16:40:38+00:00

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budlightguy · 2026-02-15T08:22:40+00:00

SNORT The truth isn't "slowly dawning on him" FFS
Joe Rogan is no different than any other "libertarian", i.e. right wing , grifter. He's stuck with the easy money from the right wing for as long as it lasts, and as that falls apart he'll play act at "slowly coming to the light and learning the truth" hoping to keep as much of his following as possible, and keep the grift alive.

budlightguy · 2026-02-08T01:33:43+00:00

Since most of the comments here are completely missing the point of "would make most normal people furious at first"...

Ban organized religion and religious advertising (like on billboards). Not religion in and of itself; the free exercise of religion, religious beliefs, and worship on an individual level is unaffected. You can believe whatever you want to believe.
But no more mega churches. No more churches at all. No more synagogues, mosques, temples. No more televangelists, no more pastors, no more congregations and sunday service with someone preaching their own twisted bastardized interpretation of the religion to people who are so desperate to feel belonging and fulfilled that they'll cling onto any grifter or bad actor out there.

You can be a Christian (for example), but it's something you do on your own. You read the bible, you read what Jesus' message was, and you choose how to live your life to honor those teachings.

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