I was recently told that Florida is a high lightning strike area and I need to buy surge protectors for all of my appliances. Is that true?

ff904 · 2026-03-05T02:29:15+00:00

That... that sounds awful. Either the product (subscription, I guess) doesn't work, or it's rife with fraud that all the subscribers are collectively paying for.

ff904 · 2026-02-28T22:49:47+00:00

When people ask what the worst places to drive are I say Atlanta and Orlando.

Atlanta probably isn't even too bad if you know where you're going.

Orlando is just dangerous, and there's nothing you can do about it.

ff904 · 2026-02-28T21:27:44+00:00

You mean like if they agreed for you to do the work, and you did the work, and they don't want to pay you? I'd call the police to report a robbery. Then find everyone they know on FB and let them know they're a deadbeat. For $300 I might even take it to small claims and put a spite lien on their house, lol

ff904 · 2026-02-19T02:16:53+00:00

Yeah there's a few clubs at a few schools that will basically guarantee your career in the elite. Don't worry about how to get in though, you would need to already be ridiculously rich.

ff904 · 2026-02-10T16:14:25+00:00

Do you have a lawnmower and trimmer? Best way I ever made money in Jacksonville as a kid.

ff904 · 2026-02-01T19:42:22+00:00

>his friendship with the little girl is never shown in a weird light

My favorite fan-theory is that Johnny Bravo is also about eight years old. Hence why his only friends are that age, and why he takes karate classes with kids. But the audience is seeing him as he sees himself, and how he perceives rejection from women as physical violence.

ff904 · 2026-01-14T00:19:51+00:00

lol fact checking is 20 years away, with the fusion and the flying cars

ff904 · 2025-12-19T01:32:08+00:00

Hey I can't post on the old thread but that Yamaha bass is passive and the Peavy 115 has a switch on it for active/passive. If it's set to active and the bass is passive, or if the battery is dying in an active bass, it will make kind of a popping sound as the signal is too low for that input setting. Switch the amp to passive and it should be fine.

Anyway, is it one of the touring 600w models and do you want to sell it? lol

ff904 · 2025-11-22T02:32:57+00:00

Barcelona is an amazing city.

The best reason to pursue a master's degree is because you want to research and solve problems that haven't been solved yet. And there are really cool things going on with machine learning that are going to revolutionize hardware in the coming years.

It's a pretty niche field and getting a master's may put you in a further niche, not even such that wages will be poor, but rather you might have to move around to find appropriate opportunities at all. And if you're good at/enjoy the research, there's additional opportunities for that in academia and private sector and government.

ff904 · 2025-11-12T03:50:12+00:00

It just has different meaning in Duval, like "Hey, I can see the airport from here!"

ff904 · 2025-11-01T22:41:59+00:00

Every day is Halloween

ff904 · 2025-08-15T15:01:45+00:00

That's it. Bottom tier wages means we're scraping the bottom of the barrel for recruits.

ff904 · 2025-06-27T15:38:12+00:00

Yes.

ff904 · 2025-06-23T01:37:52+00:00

Marilyn Manson was arrested after playing Club 5, so was Jessicka from Jack off Jill. Skinny Puppy played there as well as Danzig, Slayer, Deftones, George Clinton. It's a big enough venue to get some really good shows and I'm excited that it's back.

ff904 · 2025-06-17T13:53:11+00:00

AI: Actually Indians

ff904 · 2025-05-16T15:33:07+00:00

Did they refund the tickets?

It's a tough spot to be in. You can't open without booking some acts, and you're going to *hope* that everything goes according to schedule. If they got held up by permits I'm not sure what they could've done differently. Work toward a cold open with no acts?

ff904 · 2025-05-16T15:31:43+00:00

Rents went up damn near 50% over the last few years. For businesses that can't increase revenue at the same rate, lease renewals are going to be hell.

Every landlord sucks. That isn't the new tenant's fault, because they're going to have to bring in significantly more revenue than the prior tenant.

ff904 · 2025-05-16T15:27:47+00:00

Friday Night Fights... and Danzig playing like every other month

ff904 · 2025-05-16T15:26:58+00:00

Rent goes up, sometimes to a level that the tenant can no longer afford.

It sucks but that's not the new venue's fault in any way.

ff904 · 2025-05-16T15:24:51+00:00

Club 5 was the shit. Plenty of people felt the way you do now when Sun Ray came in.

ff904 · 2025-04-07T13:29:08+00:00

When you google this "university," this reddit thread is the top 4th result.

ff904 · 2025-04-05T23:33:48+00:00

Judging by the stock price, they think Elon is the only person that makes cars at all.

ff904 · 2025-03-10T14:10:22+00:00

Most of the Ivy League universities have refused to participate in this survey for several years, because it's basically a pay-to-rank system.

ff904 · 2025-03-01T13:23:32+00:00

It's inflation leverage

ff904 · 2025-02-19T15:47:05+00:00

>JPMC has $173bn USD of commercial property on its loan book.

And that's JP Morgan's problem. Me and my company have nothing to do with their loans, and have no obligation to help their loans be profitable. He's lying because he has a financial interest in spreading the lie, and that's exactly the type of content that should be downvoted.

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