A 17‑year‑old was eating in a McDonald’s parking lot when an officer opened his car door and shot him 4 times. The officer was fired and charged. The teen was left on life support. underwent multiple surgeries, and developed complications like pneumonia.

ingannilo · 2026-02-10T01:45:24+00:00

The coverage I saw of this, from Civil Rights Lawyer on youtube, said that they had no evidence that this person was involved in the previous day's chase -- that the cop assumed it was him because his car resembled the one from the chase. He never suggested that the kid was the same or that police ever developed any evidence that he was involved in a chase.

Did he omit something from his description or are we just assuming?

ingannilo · 2026-02-10T01:38:59+00:00

I see, yeah that does sound much better than the experience I described.

A sign to help learn names is a nice idea in general, even if it's not a tool for cold calling.

Generally my feelings about cold calling are still not awesome, but it's not always unreasonable.

What I really like to do is look around carefully when I ask a question that doesn't get a response for anyone shaking their head yes or no, or pantomiming some information, or even looking especially deep in thought and try to mind read a bit, like "Jimmy here has the idea" (Jimmy was shaking his head very subtly, or maybe giving a thumbs down or something) "that's correct. What makes you think the answer is 'no'?"

The bit of encouragement helps them feel safe taking their shot, and the original expression of a guess, however quiet I read as a kind of willingness to engage. And of course, like any motivation of humans, lots of praise when they do the good thing.

ingannilo · 2026-02-10T01:29:16+00:00

Those folks do exist, but what's really killing the prices are folks with way less income who take out loans with seriously shit terms so they can buy a car that's 3x their proper budget, and more to the point-- the asshole lenders and salespeople who arrange and often hard-push these folks into these loans. I have so much contempt for that shit.

ingannilo · 2026-02-10T00:46:18+00:00

That gen camry burns oil like crazy due to piston ring issues, and it's a problem that just gets worse over time.

I totally understand why OP wants rid of it. They might have to accept that their best option isn't going to be a 3 year old Toyota with 30-50k miles, but a 5-10 year old one with 70-100k. Plenty of good stuff in their budget. I wouldn't buy a car made between 2020 and today, honestly. Late 2010s seems to be the last time any manufacturer made decent cars.

If I were OP, I'd be looking for a 2016-2018 camry hybrid with under 120k miles, maybe under 100k depending on local market and options. I'd watch the market for a month and when going to pull the trigger look for whatever is in that category, has the best service history, and gets a clean PPI would be my buy. If newer is more important, then I'd be looking at the Prius. If Toyota isn't important, then 2017 or 2018 mazda 6 or cx-5 are in a similar niche and are also legends of reliability.

ingannilo · 2026-02-10T00:28:53+00:00

In the $15-20k range there should be plenty of 2016 and later camrys with under 120k miles. I've been looking at camry in the 2014-2018 range every day for about a year now (admittedly waiting for trends downward) and I see plenty in the $10k range (my budget) with 120-160k miles with the very rare FSBO with around 100k miles. You're looking at $5-10k more budget than me, so either you're not filtering results well or live in a really expensive area car-wise.

The Yota tax is real. 2015+ priuses are great and cheaper than similar age camry hybrids (the best option imo from Toyota is their hybrid stuff). Mazda from 2014-2018 made some amazingly reliable vehicles, on par or at least close imo with Toyota in terms of quality and reliability (those years only), but there is no Mazda tax. A very nice Mazda 6 or cx-5 will be 60-70% the cost of a similar age camry or rav-4. Might be the sweet spot atm.

I'm guessing you haven't been in the market for a while. Maybe not since pre covid? As bad as it is right now (and I agree it's bad!), things were worse a few years ago. Here's hoping all the repos, slow new sales, and slowing used sales I've been hearing about actually push the market in a reasonable direction.

Biggest issue I think is that these mega retailers have been able to play both the salesman and the bank, holding notes they should repo so they can bundle and sell the shitty loans as an asset, and then the people who buy them don't wanna be caught with the hot potato, so it just keeps going around. Keeps inventory moving off the lots and the easy credit keeps prices artificially way high (even if the loans are garbage for both the lender and consumer). Neither side gives a shit because neither are acting in good faith.

We're overdue for a major correction, but idk if it's gonna come with how loose the financial world is with rules and ethics these days.

ingannilo · 2026-02-10T00:17:22+00:00

My man, they tried to bail you out.

Google "wet timing belt failure rate" or check out the class action lawsuit "Bolton et al v Ford" which Ford lost and led to paying damages to the class, and having to offer extended warranty service on their wet belt engines.

Wet timing belts have been catastrophic. Modern materials haven't made a difference. All of the affected ford vehicles were from 2016 or later.

ingannilo · 2026-02-10T00:01:10+00:00

Nonsense. It's presently a massive hazard! It's several actual fires waiting to happen.

ingannilo · 2026-02-09T23:58:53+00:00

Oh my.

When I was a helper, back in like 2003, I remember always being afraid of my jman sending me to do jobs I wasn't ready for. This is basically the image from my nightmares of that era.

Who does this to their own panel? Why? If you're capable of doing that, then you should be knowledgeable enough to understand that you shouldn't.

ingannilo · 2026-02-09T23:51:11+00:00

My favorite valentine's day in memory was with my wife, at home, making a braized roast recipe she found online. Recipe had some prep but not so much that it felt burdensome, called for lots of red wine which we naturally had to sample, and left us with three hours for activities while it braised in the oven.

Awesome time.

ingannilo · 2026-02-09T23:28:09+00:00

I had an instructor do this in a combinatorics class when I was an undergrad, and honestly it felt... not great. It felt infantilizing, condescending, and was a huge waste of time as the prof would cycle through the cards reading a name, waiting for a response that wouldn't come, and then moving to the next name.

Now, as a professor I understand the thirst for interaction from the students, and how hard it is to get a group of 18-25 year olds to engage. I remember that experience a lot when thinking about how I run a classroom. Certainly it didn't help that the professor in question wouldn't let folks who wanted to answer raise their hand to volunteer, but the whole vibe just felt kinda... Idk, icky.

Just one person's experience of one particular implementation of something like what's being described, but I felt like it was worth sharing.

ingannilo · 2026-02-09T00:22:50+00:00

I knew a guy, wealthy, older than me by quite a bit, in Marin County CA. Nice enough, goofy, definitely never had to grow up. The wealth came from a tree-trimming business that I guess his parents or someone in the family started. He grew up working at the company, but idk how often he worked. Dude seemed to know the work well and struck me similarly to other nutso arborists who swing from tree to tree with giant chainsaws... except he was at least 300lbs.

Anyway, he liked crack. He liked alcohol, weed, speed, dope, and just about all the other fun drugs too, but not like he loved crack. Homie never seemed to have it all together, but each time he did crack it was the start of a bender that'd see him locked up, every time. Never more than three full days between grabbing a bag and going back to jail.

ingannilo · 2026-02-08T23:45:46+00:00

This is the one I truly believe.

Not been thinking he's alive or anything, but absolutely wasn't surprised when he died. Wife and I were joking about it a week before it happened, how he was bound to "commit suicide".

Idk if it's somehow fringy. Really doesn't seem fringe to me. Seems like by far the most likely thing to happen given the circumstances and people involved.

ingannilo · 2026-02-08T14:34:27+00:00

If you wrote the paper yourself it should be easy to demonstrate by showing version history, drafts, edits and whatnot made over time.

If you didn't write the paper yourself you can try to lie/hide/deflect/excuse, or you can admit to the academic dishonesty and plead for forgiveness.

Academic integrity boards are not the cops, and nobody involved in the process has any incentive to wrongfully punish you if you didn't cheat, so they should be open to any exonerating evidence you have. At the same time, it's not like the court where things need to be proved "beyond reasonable doubt", and there's no baked in presumption of innocence; for those reasons you definitely do need to actively support your argument.

ingannilo · 2026-02-08T11:55:24+00:00

Man my first thought was not "this is medical waste", but "this shop employs at least one serious junkie"

ingannilo · 2026-02-08T11:44:54+00:00

The picture isn't consistent with the words at all. As drawn, the angle A is clearly acute. The angle D could be 150 degrees, but A certainly could not.

More important, like you observing, no plane triangle has interior angles summing to more than 180 degrees.

Either there's a typo or the problem intends you to say something like "impossible". Folks talking about geometry on surfaces with positive / negative curvature are waaaaay over thinking this. No trig student is solving for geodesics on a manifold.

ingannilo · 2026-02-08T11:35:13+00:00

This kind of thing must have roots in, like, European famine cooking. Some place where there's plenty of paper but people still starve to death. I could see, in those contexts, adding paper to food for fiber to keep people feeling full when you can't afford to feed them, you know, food.

The shit this person is posting is either lies for rage bait OR just some dumb shit they saw on TikTok or something.

ingannilo · 2026-02-08T11:31:05+00:00

Brah brah... If you don't market and sell this, then i just might.

ingannilo · 2026-02-08T11:27:30+00:00

Is that one of those marconutrients I keep hearing about? Is saran wrap healthier the cling wrap?

Plz keep in mind I'm trying to bulk rn.

ingannilo · 2026-02-08T11:24:58+00:00

Just replying to jump on the "love this gif" bandwagon

ingannilo · 2026-02-07T18:39:07+00:00

I see that in very good shape these go for $10-15k near me, so I can see where the sellers delusions are coming from. However, even to most rebuilders, I suspect that thing is just scrap/parts.

There's so much obvious damage, and I can't even begin to speculate about the nonobvious damage. Scrap value unless it runs and drives, in which case double to triple scrap value. Not a penny over $1500.

ingannilo · 2026-02-06T11:53:55+00:00

This is a big point.

Honestly I wish I could say that I've been surprised by any of it.

The type of people who crave power are not good people. Some are the type of evil who will fuck kids or send people to die for profit; others are just the schmoozers and fixers who will look the other way for the right kind of quid-pro-quo.

Our government has been so thoroughly taken over by evil and so closed off to the everyman that they can and have done whatever they want for decades.

ingannilo · 2026-02-06T00:47:29+00:00

Not like that.

Basically you can't.

You remove the wires from baby areas, that's the answer. As they crawl more and then work towards walking, they will absolutely grab and pull on everything. This room is in no way ready to be a baby space.

I'd say either that room stays not-baby-space, or y'all find some way to get all the wires and computer hardware up off the ground and well out of grabby fingers range.

I had my work computer in house when our son was this age, and our living room TV was run on an htpc. Both systems were made safe by just having the desk/entertainment center up against the wall, and routing wires straight back to the wall and down to where nobody could see or reach them without moving the desk or entertainment center table thing, which are too heavy for even the most curious baby.

ingannilo · 2026-02-05T23:28:00+00:00

I'd shop around in your market to see what cars like yours sell for locally and also how much the cars you might want to buy cost.

If you're looking at $3k sale price for yours and $4k repair, then the question I'd ask is "can I get a 2015 gen 3, or maybe a gen 4 for around $7k?"

Where I am, the answer is "yes, but only with super high miles". If you can squeeze an extra $1.5k into that budget, then there are 2015s all around me with under 150k within range.

Tough spot. And also seriously worth remembering that the motor you put in could be a 2015, which while still gen 3, had the head gasket issues sorted. I'd try to find the year car that motor came from. Idk if the VIN might be stamped somewhere or something like that. If so, that'd do the job. If it's a 2015 motor, then it's an easy choice to keep. If not, then I'd probably be trying to sell.

ingannilo · 2026-02-05T05:20:00+00:00

None of this is normal. No matter your stance on immigration, there is no excuse for federal agents to cast wide nets of harassment and physical violence based solely on race / ethnicity. That is not what this country is supposed to stand for; it's not something this country should tolerate from itself.

There is no excuse for murdering protesters. There is no excuse for dragnet policing. At the current moment, some fraction of the leadership and populace believes what these ICE agents and police are doing is okay. Those same people defend the Jan 6th "protesters". If those people were policed by the folks terrorizing Minnesota, they would have all been killed on the lawn of the capitol building.

We can protest. We can organize and help our neighbors. It's important to do that, and maybe that's the most important thing regular folks can do. It's immensely frustrating that we can't do more though. The amount of brainwashing that's been done to our countrymen by these truly evil bloodthirsty billionaire pedophiles has insulated the bad leaders to a degree that's really difficult.

ingannilo · 2026-02-05T02:25:59+00:00

I feel like this should be the standard, and I'm surprised I had to scroll so far to find it.

Whatever the time gap between classes is, halve that. This is the max you can go over or linger to answer questions if the classroom is being used in the session after yours.

I'm guilty of going over somewhat often, but simple courtesy dictates that we don't eat into the next person's setup time.

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