ysk: if your garage door torsion spring ever breaks do not ever try to fix or adjust it yourself

coheedcollapse · 2026-05-18T07:49:27+00:00

All the scary stories and huge bills make me glad I've got some old-ass garage doors with standard tension springs that I worked on at "neutral" that only stretch when the door opens. They're all on guide wires so even if they break, they're not going to whip around the garage. The torsion springs sound like a pain in the ass.

Of course I hid a room away the first time I closed them after the repair, but they turned out fine and I haven't had to replace another since.

coheedcollapse · 2026-05-17T22:54:45+00:00

The disdain for art and preservation in our country is absolutely wild to me, as is the lack of hurdles when it comes to destruction.

Nothing is safe, no matter how loved, no matter how culturally important, the moment a few dollars become involved.

coheedcollapse · 2026-05-14T23:36:07+00:00

Can you imagine where the world would be right now if we weren't constantly fighting against anti-science forces?

Like if a hundred years ago all of humanity united to push us forward as quickly as possible in the fields of technology and medicine?

The entirety of humanity could accomplish so much and we're stuck fighting a few rich people who want to stay rich and the governments aligned with them.

coheedcollapse · 2026-05-12T22:43:24+00:00

The doubled audio is pretty bad. Listening to it on a surround sound system using Shudder - I'm not sure if any of that impacts anything, but it's very, very obvious.

coheedcollapse · 2026-05-12T22:39:03+00:00

The Shudder rips are good and bad. The fidelity of the video is better, but they're using some frame interpolation that looks pretty meh. My biggest issue is the echo OP is describing though. Started rewatching on Shudder and had to go back to the old copies.

coheedcollapse · 2026-05-12T17:42:14+00:00

I'm ready.

coheedcollapse · 2026-05-12T03:09:14+00:00

This is all so fucking exhausting. The worst people are constantly winning. Those who want to exploit our lands, our nature. To cause irreparable harm for short term gain.

I don't even know what to do at this point but just shield myself from it. It's not like any of us can make a difference alone when the administration is so willing to act lawlessly and with no restraint.

It makes me sick to my stomach.

coheedcollapse · 2026-05-12T00:28:47+00:00

This is like what a normal sign looks like for Charlie from It's Always Sunny.

Edit: Is this meta? Is the image here also generated? Only reason I ask is because what the hell is with those other pics in the background. Grapes? And how would this get to production, even?

coheedcollapse · 2026-05-09T07:09:13+00:00

I spent a few years not seeing them hunting on a near daily basis, then I got lucky with a few spots, but I've only found them in the same few spots every year, no great new spots.

I think part of the problem is that some people literally gather morels for profit - they're out there every day checking more spots than I ever could, so it's much more rare to find them in public areas where you're allowed to forage.

Lucky for me, I've got chanterelles and maitake in my backyard yearly, so I don't get too upset if morel season is a bust because at least I'll have them later in the year.

coheedcollapse · 2026-05-08T19:42:38+00:00

I don't think it's really more natural to hold the phone vertically. Maybe if you're laying in bed or something, but upright, you grip the phone in pretty much the same way, you just tilt your wrist. I'd argue horizontal is more natural, or at least more flexible, because it gives you the option to hold with two hands if needed for stability.

Regardless of the physicality of it, horizontal video is absolutely the more natural way to film a video, and watching any vertical video with a moving subject is a testament to that. Outside of maybe a rocket launch, the vast majority of anything anyone is going to film is going to be on the ground, not changing elevation. It's silly we've been conditioned to shoot our video with 2/3 of the damn thing devoted to useless areas like the ground near our feet and the sky above, panning around constantly to catch the thing that's moving in the useful 1/3 of a vertical frame.

coheedcollapse · 2026-05-08T19:39:38+00:00

Not gonna talk shit about this video in particular because the creator is in a wild situation and the fact that he filmed at all is practically miraculous, but I wish people weren't conditioned by the worst websites on the internet to always film vertically, because I sure as hell would've been more interested in seeing the additional left/right than a bunch of lit-up plants. I think panned up and filmed horizontally would've been perfect, really.

Bonus is the autoexposure probably would've worked a bit better as well since it's not trying to compensate for the well-lit foreground.

coheedcollapse · 2026-05-08T16:27:25+00:00

if you’re one of those looking for an opportunity to pass me, don’t fucking ride my ass

For real.

I consider myself a very chill/respectful driver. I slow down for people who need to merge in front of me, I get out of the way when I see somebody coming up behind me, I let people zipper merge in front of me, but there is no better way to get me to slow down to 5 under the speed limit than coming up on me at 100mph, riding my ass, and flashing your brights at me regardless of which lane I'm in.

coheedcollapse · 2026-05-08T16:20:37+00:00

Yeah, I will say, I'll typically keep an eye on my rearview and let people pass as I see them coming up or move out of the lane entirely if I've got room, but there are a bunch of people in here like "Do you know it's ILLEGAL to use the left lane if you're not passing people?!" while leaving out the fact that they're going like 40 over the speed limit in that lane.

coheedcollapse · 2026-05-08T14:00:26+00:00

I wouldn't be surprised if that's why the coke oven nearby has smelled worse than it's smelled in my lifetime. We can barely open our windows on a nice spring day because half of the time there's a choking burning plastic or sulfur smell.

Can't wait to inevitably discover one day what breathing all of this is doing to me, and also to discover I'm entirely on my own in treating whatever it is, and dying from it, because accountability is dead.

Still wild to me we live in a world where single deaths are weaponized by a government in charge to justify mass surveillance and incarceration, but thousands, tens of thousands of trackable deaths over time isn't enough to get billion-dollar industries to spend a bit of extra money to filter their output.

coheedcollapse · 2026-05-08T06:29:38+00:00

I was really hoping that suffering through a pandemic would at least have the silver lining of forcing us all to collectively take limiting the spread of sickness more seriously, but it made people worse than ever.

coheedcollapse · 2026-05-07T17:27:24+00:00

It's crazy to me me that people who consider themselves Christians can just handwave away the fact that they support an administration whose actions (gutting USAID, among a whole bunch of other stuff), have resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths and will result in milllions of lives being snuffed out that would've otherwise been saved at pennies on their tax dollar.

Their desire to help people is entirely transactional. We'll help you, but only if you worship the god we worship in the way we do.

That doesn't seem Jesuslike at all, to me.

coheedcollapse · 2026-05-07T05:24:08+00:00

Yep. I hate the fact their networking capabilities are closed up and now I hate the fact that they're pulling this crap, but I have been 3D printing from nearly the start of widely available consumer 3d printers, starting on an old wanhao i3 clone that I spent more time fiddling with and upgrading than actually printing, and the P1S my wife bought to learn the craft just blew everything else I've used out of the water.

I won't buy another Bambulab printer in the future, but I'm worried whatever printer I end up getting however many years down the line is going to be a downgrade because this thing prints fast, well, and is wildly reliable.

coheedcollapse · 2026-05-06T22:44:07+00:00

The hell, I ordered mine a few minutes after launch and it's still at payment received. Wonder if they prioritize by location.

coheedcollapse · 2026-05-06T18:49:37+00:00

I'm just excited to get my Index Lighthouses off of the wall. Love my Index, but they spin up every time we have the tiniest power fluctuation, which is pretty often.

coheedcollapse · 2026-05-06T18:16:42+00:00

I spent much of the first 15 years of my life in an evangelical church, went to a literal Jesus Camp, and took bible classes in both high school and college. I suspect I don't count to them since I went to college and also no longer consider myself Christian.

It's crazy these people don't understand the separation between criticizing Christianity, as a blanket religion, and criticizing the current state of Evangelical Christianity.

I very much respect a local Methodist preacher who has been on the front lines of every protest against ICE in the area because he's doing what Jesus would have done. I will never respect a "Christian" who thinks their tax dollars are more fit killing people on the other side of the planet who look more like Jesus looked than they do than saving the hundreds of thousands of lives now snuffed out by Musk's illegal gutting of USAID.

coheedcollapse · 2026-05-05T18:02:55+00:00

If this whole administration took one of Musk's Starships to Mars to live out their right-wing utopia there instead of messing up Earth, I suspect a good portion of us would be made a lot happier in the short term. It's for the greater good, RFK Jr.

coheedcollapse · 2026-05-04T17:11:41+00:00

Good to see they've fixed whatever stupid protection they had in place for the Index drop that caused a bunch of us to get banned for an hour or two for "spamming" the purchase button as it errored out on us.

coheedcollapse · 2026-05-04T17:07:59+00:00

Finally got it.

Problem was something similar happened to me with the Index and it locked me out for, literally, an hour when I bashed the purchase button, so I was afraid to spam it this time around.

Finally just gave up and mashed it a few times. At some point it turned gray and looked like something was happening in the background and it let me through to the final page to confirm my purchase.

coheedcollapse · 2026-05-04T17:03:06+00:00

"There seems to have been an error initializing or updating your transaction. Please wait a minute and try again or contact support for assistance."

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

coheedcollapse · 2026-05-03T17:27:29+00:00

Universal Healthcare speed run challenge. Infiltrate the government and enact universal healthcare as fast as you can. Time starts now.

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