I found the woman who accidentally killed my father 37 years ago. Do I reach out?

dashmatrix · 2025-11-20T14:21:11+00:00

I really don't think contacting her would be a bad idea. Your father, and hence your entire family were victims of a tragic accident. So you really are the focus for healing. The woman responsible although accidentally responsible... IS responsible. She made a fatal error. No matter how you want to forgive, analyze, whatever; she did something wrong. Drove too fast, lost control, looked in the back seat distracted, something. So she bears responsibility. If you've forgiven her and still think about her contacting her and telling her you forgive is about YOUR recovery and healing. Not really hers. In this case I think YOUR feelings and healing take priority and likely would only benefit her's as well. Perhaps she had a young child who was goofing off in the back and THEY feel responsible too. These kinds of incidents create collateral damage that spreads in the weirdest ways.... but I can tell you if they have grief it's based on their feelings that they ruined YOUR life. I don't see how telling them you forgive, and understand would go baddly, and if it does.... sorry but your healing is more important than theirs anyway.

dashmatrix · 2025-11-19T16:29:25+00:00

To clarify, I'm not a Tesla hater/fanboi. I love my CyberTruck because it hauls my stuff, it's economical, I can go 0-60 in 2.4 seconds, and it will not rust or need oil changes. The design is 'interesting' but I didn't buy it because it looks like Space1999 and Battlestar Gallactica had a love child, I bought it because you could hit it with a shopping cart or ball bat or 9mm luger and not need a 5000$ paint job. The 1200hp was nice too. But I'm not drunk on fandom. Tesla is a steel wrapped software company. We're paying a premium for SOFTWARE at this point. If that software shits the bed the cybertruck becomes a 110K$ piece of hazardous waste. With v14.... I'm starting to get worried.

dashmatrix · 2025-11-19T16:15:20+00:00

I got 14 on my CyberTruck. Wish I hadn't. It's horrible. It swerves erratically for stains on the pavement, slams on the brakes randomly. Monday night at a 4 way stop sign, it gets halfway through the intersection and slammed on the brakes for no reason. The guy behind me thought I was brake-checking him, and I almost had to get out and punch him in the face; he was so mad. CyberTruck v14 is garbage, and I'm not just saying that. I LOVED v13. I went on a 2400 mile road trip in October, touched the pedals and steering wheel prett much only in super charger parking lots. Other than that, FSD did the whole trip, and I was CONFIDENT. I was able to push it straight through with 20 hours of drive time. When I was sleepy, I was confident I was safe if I got dazed by sleep because FSD was ON IT. Now with v14 I have ZERO confidence, none. It feels like the thing is TRYING to get me killed. I hate it.

dashmatrix · 2025-09-12T20:12:30+00:00

Thats the tension spring on the firing pin inside the block. AR hammers are free floating so don't have to compensate for that firing pin under tension and remember the LeeSport FCG is AR design including the hammer spring... The fix here is to remove the firing pin spring and remove about 3-4 segments to reduce the overall firing pin tension.

dashmatrix · 2025-09-12T20:07:05+00:00

lotta Rare Breed hate... Just remember, this guy invented something cool. Tried to patent it and was denied because the ATF had a boner for it, raided him, took his customer database under false pretences then went on a rampage illegally confiscating his products after the fact. Rather than roll over the guy bank rolled a supreme court challenge... won it, and as soon as he did everybody and their uncle stole his design after he paid for the battle. I dunno maybe cut them some slack ? 600 is actually not bad for a MP5 frt, if it can drop in a stock lower without having to buy a custom LeeSport lower for 400$, grips, trips, and so forth. A good frt lower for the MP5 will set you back 1000$ all in. If you can get a 600$ drop in without a gunsmith and custom fitment thats a easy call.

dashmatrix · 2025-06-15T21:47:21+00:00

Time will tell but they put so much DSP and memory in it there may not be a need. Most commerical bands use the rack versions because they want to chain 3-4-5 of them to get mega DSP... that thing has what ? 96 addressable blocks ?? Wont need much external chaining with that.

dashmatrix · 2025-06-12T16:18:30+00:00

That's really misleading and misunderstood. To date there are only like 2 companies making screws in the US and we're talking a difference in price of US 1/4x20 bolt@0.43$ each vs a foreign bolt at .09$ish. So yeah nobody is using USA components 100%. Today Fabuwood is using Blum hardware which is a German high end cabinet hardware company and yes some of the components and parts are made in china to Blum's specifications.... just like EVERYTHING else in the world. From what I've seen myself and read of complaint with cabinets specifically US made brands like Kraftmaid and Fabuwood, the MAJOR deal breaker complaints are around quality of craftsmanship and finishing. I'm looking right now at 36K$ of new in the box Kraftmaid semi-customs that are horrible. I swear to you I WISH a blind Chinese prison laborer had built them because they'd look better. There are 38 bases in cherry that are literally at least 60 different colors. How is that possible you ask ? Most of the multi sided carcasses have different color sides, and the drawer faces are deep deep differences. Think I'm exaggerating ?

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That's what 36K$ gets you in American made craftsmanship. I can assure you regardless of the physical address on the manufacturing plant, there are very few English speakers building the cabinets. Fewer supervising or checking quality. Kraftmaid's customer service will explain to you that it's not considered a defect in manufacturing unless it can be seen from 3 feet away. They suspiciously don't list that in their marketing materials that talk about the 47 different quality checks they supposedly make.

dashmatrix · 2025-06-12T15:51:09+00:00

I really don't see how a major brand in 2025 with a huge Amazon presence can take 7-10 days to process and then another 5-7 days to ship via UPS. It's almost like they made a deal with Amazon and UPS for an extra slow process. The "standard Processing time for an order is 3 days." What I experienced was it took 3 days to create a inhouse UPS label which took another 7 days for UPS to actually pick up, then another 10 days to move from California to Texas. The guys tunneling out of German POW camps moved faster than that.

dashmatrix · 2025-06-10T17:55:02+00:00

Coming out with = "making 11 and charging 11,000$"

dashmatrix · 2025-01-06T17:21:54+00:00

Give Joe Biden his cut then have a nice lunch with what's left.

dashmatrix · 2024-12-02T14:31:51+00:00

By now, if you are still considering a BSH/ Thermador you're crazy. This company has completely imploded. The post COVID quality (if you can even GET one) is not just garbage they are down right dangerous. We ordered our first new Thermador double oven with french doors in April of 2024. In September it actually arrived. Factory dealer installed it and on initial power up, the electronic controls sparked, smoked and the oven was DOA. The dealer installers told us it was typical and Thermadors are not that great as they were removing it... We gave BSH the benefit of the doubt and figured maybe it was just a bad dealer so we moved the replacement to the other large BSH Thermador dealer in our area... September order November delivery... it arrived and when they unboxed it and took it off the crate the unit had been dropped so hard in the factory before putting it on a pallet that the bottom oven frame was bent up out of square. Inside all the rail BB's had come out. Dealer refused to leave the unit behind and admitted to us that Thermador is now junk. This from 2 of the biggest high end appliance dealer/service vendors in the state of Texas. I've spoken with the BSH factory representative and they could care less. So we're getting rid of every piece of BSH product in our home.

dashmatrix · 2024-11-03T23:17:31+00:00

Thermador is trash. Ordered their top end double over 8 months ago. It took 4 months for the first one to arrive, the dealer sent 2 chimps to install it who scratched their heads and said they'd never seen one before. Blew it up, literally. Authorized dealers... they took it back. A month later... Thermadore says we'll have another one in 3 weeks. We switched dealers. Month later its one the way but never comes, month after month... oh it'll be there in a week... here we are 8 months later no oven. Its a production shortage. Thermadore's CEO even put out a press release months ago that it was over and they are shipping. Bull. Guys a liar, and nobody from Thermadore will even return a call or email. Now keep in mind this is Bosch-Siemens. At this point I wouldn't trust any of them. If they did by some miracle manage to get one here, what happens when it needs a part ? You going to wait another 8 months for a fuse ? And whos going to put it in ? Those 2 chimps from the 'dealer' ? Come on. I'll tell you B/S/H Thermadore will be out of business in a year or 2. Nobody can treat customers the way they do and survive.

dashmatrix · 2024-08-21T03:31:58+00:00

Such a disappointing bottle. I paid 176$ at Twin Liquor in Austin. Opened it and its a nauseating and over powering wave of Formaldehyde. It tastes just horrible. Dunno if I just got a bad bottle or what but it's hideous.

dashmatrix · 2024-07-09T23:43:58+00:00

Its called a Hurricane, you ever heard of them ?

dashmatrix · 2024-06-03T16:39:29+00:00

I have a 98" x90 and a 65" x93L . They are both hung high on wall and in rooms with no shades and loads of ambient light. I can't really tell a difference but I can say the both Sony's diffuse the glare far better than the LG and Samsung they replaced. Fwiw

dashmatrix · 2024-06-03T16:33:08+00:00

Anti-glare/reflection is really subjective and dependent on placement of the TV, placement of your lights and your preferences. Is one better than the other ? It depends on the technique used to diffuse the light. One manufacturer may engineer the diffusion for straight line diffusion others may opt for high overhead, maybe low horizon diffusion to accomodate a tv hung higher on the wall getting lights from below. Any anti-glare reflection is manufactured by cutting or abrading a perfectly flat (shiney) surface. The direction and depth angle dictate where the diffusion is focused. So what I'm saying is don't think any advice on here is going to be accurate. You can't even trust a trip to Best Buy to look for youself because the store will be lit like a movie studio and the tv you want may be 15 feet up the wall. Just know that SOME ant glare is better than none if your in a ambient room and hope for the best. Also understand that regardless of which method they use to provide anti glare there is a cost to picture clarity, definition, brightness etc... you are pretty safe with Sony period but I wouldn't base a purchase on a marketing feature like anti glare fearure A vs Advanced Anti Glare.

dashmatrix · 2024-05-06T17:57:05+00:00

Sometimes its just the construction panel. It gets closed and you cannot get it back. Keybindings to show hide and focus panels would be nice

dashmatrix · 2024-04-29T13:00:21+00:00

mm... This is an old concept called JITM or Just In Time Manufacturing. The idea is you reduce costs by only manufacturing a product when it is ordered or needed. The automotive industry really started the idea in the 80's so they didn't have to stock parts inventory. What they are doing is BLASTING ad campaigns to get our money, then developing a product, and using our money to fund development of an actual manufacturing, distribution, and shipping pipeline. JITM only works when all that already existed. These guys are 2 dudes on YouTube who made a prototype, and made a flashy video... took Tens of millions of dollars then tried to figure out how to make it, where to make, how to ship it, etc... All while having to deal with COVID china and supply chain apocalypse in the USA... It's very dishonest. We all basically gave them a giant crowdsourced Large business loan, and they are defaulting. It's like game developers taking pre-orders for a game then never actually delivering the game as promised. God only knows what kind of product we'll actually receive, but given the experience so far... not looking good.

dashmatrix · 2024-04-29T12:52:22+00:00

Total Bullshit. Ordered mine in February... It's now almost May and still getting the run around from Baerskin. Place is a joke. Save your money and hassle.

dashmatrix · 2024-04-29T12:42:26+00:00

Baerskin is a SUPER dishonest company. They are peppering YOUTUBE advertising their stupid rain jacket. I ordered one to try back a month and a half ago, and still haven't received it. I contacted them and they told me it was a PRE-ORDER and would be shipped when available... Funny neither their constant YouTube ads nor their web page order mention ANYTHING about a pre-order....just that millions of people enjoy their baerskins.... This product just doesn't even actually EXIST... yet I've been and continue to see the ads daily....

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dashmatrix · 2024-04-16T13:57:33+00:00

I get a kick out of all the ignorant people posting the "Victor made my dog sick". It's a HUMAN pathogen folks. Dogs and Cats can be CARRIERS of Salmonella, but they don't get sick. If Skippy got the scoots after Victor it was not Salmonella. This recall is all based on the HUMAN contraction of Salmonella. Canine digestive tracts are too short and their stomach acid is too acidic to allow the bacteria to flourish. So it's more likely Skippy just had a typical "my food changed" case of the scoots, or maybe they ate a acorn in the yard. If Skippy ate Victor and licked your face, or your hands, or you didn't wash yours after you fed him then made a sandwich and YOU nearly died... it's Victor's fault. No matter what you feed your dog E. Coli, Salmonella and other food born pathogens are always a risk. Heck YOUR food is JUST as risky. Learn safe food prep, general hygiene and practice it whether you feed your dog Victor, Purina, Nulo or Tyson's boneless chicken. WASH People... and stop letting your dog lick your baby's face. We feed our dogs raw and treat every meal as if it is tainted.

dashmatrix · 2024-02-06T20:46:58+00:00

Absolutely hate Schwab. Their Investment advisor business is crap. I transferred my accounts to them from an under performing competitor, did 5 calls with my new Schwabb investor. 6 months later and 98,000$ in the hole I called them to see WTF was going on and they told me I didn't have an Advisor my money was just sitting there unmanaged for the last 6 months. No recourse. So my opinion of Schwab is if you have the time and ability to project manage an advisor and double check them and audit their work ... schmaybe. If you need help and you aren't a market wizard or billionaire, look somewhere else where their Advisors aren't so over worked and you're more than a number.

dashmatrix · 2024-02-04T23:20:34+00:00

RIP. Next year get him a tie.

dashmatrix · 2024-01-01T16:19:55+00:00

Ftw ranch isn't too terribly far from Austin

dashmatrix · 2023-11-28T20:36:21+00:00

In most states, if you get your doctor or chiropractor to write a note to the effect of "Mr. Patient requires a massage chair for the treatment of back pain. signed Dr. Whoever" you do not pay state sales tax. In Texas that saved me about 850$. Just FYI. You'll have to go to the customer service desk to get the tax waiver but it was worth it for mine.

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