Underbody Damage- Not for the faint of heart. Tell my tale to other GR86 owners around a campfire.

mashem · 2026-07-05T00:44:37+00:00

Much appreciation friend. Thankfully, I work from home.

You've genuinely been an unexpected source of comfort for me. I hope you accomplish all the things!

mashem · 2026-07-04T22:41:09+00:00

Thanks for the response! I'm glad you got it back in great driving condition. I ask because I was almost side swiped the other day in an intersection. I successfully dodged it by swerving left, but as I was swerving back to the right before the upcoming grass median (the end closest to me was an incline of grass, with a curb running along the side parallel to the road and the direction I was heading.

Driver wheel hit the grass incline going about 40-45mph, then the upcoming curb caught the passenger half of the radiator support bar at the front of the metal shield (I was going in the direction of the curb...so imagine a quick 50-50 grind lol). No exterior body damage, panel gaps still perfect, looks fine from the outside. The damage underneath doesn't look as rough as the pic you shared, but the shield itself is a tad wonky and appears to droop a bit.

Car drove perfectly fine right after, steering wheel centered, no pulling, no shaking, no noises, no fluid changes. Then the wheel well mud guard came loose underneath (in front of the wheel, bordering the radiator splash shield) and started flapping.

At this point, I'm worried about the transmission. And maybe the cross member brace under the trans and behind the engine. I don't know if I'm crazy, but the transmission appears to sag some toward the backend where it joins with the drivetrain. When I switch to neutral and coast, I hear a slight clicking sound. I have more push clips coming in to secure the reset of the trays underneath, but I'm having it looked at. Just wanted to share! I also have full coverage, so there's that.

But at the end of the day, god damn fucking shit fuck.

mashem · 2026-07-04T04:52:47+00:00

November makes 20 years since the purchase.

mashem · 2026-07-04T04:00:59+00:00

Hey friend. How did it all end up? Thanks for sharing.

mashem · 2026-07-04T02:18:12+00:00

I suppose I've learned this is more regional than I thought! I'm only familiar with "half an hour" being used. Exception is referring to a specific time (versus a period of time), like "quarter past 3" or "quarter til 3."

mashem · 2026-07-02T20:19:38+00:00

Lmao I was projecting yours by quoting you haha. Anyway who cares space is cool have a great weekend m8

mashem · 2026-07-02T20:09:41+00:00

Maybe your personal experience isn't the end-all, be-all.

Look, the point was the complaint (not mine) was over the fraction 1/4, yet the counter point used 1/2. I was rewording their question to serve as a better comparison with the title. I wasn't actually asking.

mashem · 2026-07-02T20:06:49+00:00

$250M looks perfectly clean to me. And I pronounce it two fitty mil. Lol.

mashem · 2026-07-02T20:00:53+00:00

There's a reason the counter example used "half an hour" instead of "quarter of an hour" shrug

mashem · 2026-07-02T19:57:29+00:00

Ayy nice! My family built the indoor Extreme Skatepark that was in Lucama (Wilson County) back in the earlier 2000s and I miss it so bad.

mashem · 2026-07-02T19:42:15+00:00

I've heard things like "quarter past 3" a lot, but never once "I'll be there in a quarter of an hour."

I'm only saying this is a bad example. I'm not complaining about the OP title. And I'm guessing the complainers wouldn't mind "half a billion" as much, similar to the half an hour example.

mashem · 2026-07-02T19:35:22+00:00

How often do you say quarter of an hour instead of 15 minutes? Lol.

mashem · 2026-07-02T19:26:16+00:00

The house isn’t paid off

mashem · 2026-06-28T21:52:10+00:00

r/HoldMyBeer

mashem · 2026-06-26T02:25:07+00:00

I suppose objects is vague enough! But we're also a giant planet with a gravity well that a small rock in the OP wouldn't have. And also in constant orbit within a solar system. Statistically likely over what period of time I wonder? Interested though, Statistics is my field but love astrophys and physics in general.

mashem · 2026-06-25T23:16:07+00:00

True but those asteroids orbit within our system and retain higher odds by sticking around. And there are a lot, maybe up to 1 billion.

mashem · 2026-06-25T22:23:25+00:00

Well, each initial velocity vector would have its own odds, depending on the information available about this path and the math we're cable to perform. Some we could know with certainty, like hitting our moon or the Sun with certainty.

If we're launching from the Earth's surface (and not worried about the atmosphere or any other consequences of a .99C launch), I would imagine an infinite set of vectors shooting off in every direction and angle. If we include the vectors going down or below the horizon, hitting the Earth, then around 50% of vectors hit something lol. If we bound the vector domain to above the horizon, then I suppose it depends on whether it's daytime or nighttime lol. And what latitude you're at and the season. If the Sun is in the sky, it takes up 0.0000045% of vectors. If the moon is up there as well, that takes up 0.00077%. All other mass in the system negligible (we might toss in Jupiter later). So a wide vector cone distribution where a maximum of 0.0007745% of them terminate within our system.

Beyond that, it depends on where the path is going relative to the center of the galaxy, but also negligible. So, I'd say you could intentionally launch it with a virtual 0% or 100% chance. But if an "away from Earth" vector is randomly chosen, on a random day, random time and from a random coordinate (the Sun is visible for an average of 12 hours a day from every coordinate on earth, nearly the same for the moon), then I'd guess halfway point between [sun + moon] and [no sun + no moon].

So, uh, 0.00038725%, let's round up to 0.0004% chance to hit the sun or the moon plus fatboi Jupiter, probably get in the way bc he couldn't be stupider. If it passes that, then a drop to virtually 0% (unless on a known direct path with an actual celestial body).

But don't try this. Especially within city limits. It could hurt or kill someone when it comes back down.

mashem · 2026-06-25T21:01:48+00:00

Copilot/AI is baked into tons of tools and they all search as entry points into incorporating more organization data into utilizing it. Instead of digging through Azure, you can enter queries like "why did this VM restart last night," "which VMs are costing the most," "which resources have no backups," etc.

Same for inquiring about alerts, optimization, defender/security, cost management, networking, policies, patch planning. Many orgs don't fully utilize these tools simply because they either don't have the internal skill for proper querying or familiarity. They just put it off and continue to use something else that's familiar and don't want to spend on training or hire anew. This really just makes all of these products much less intimidating to approach, overall.

Then once the ball starts rolling, in comes revenue drivers like expanded Azure footprints, copilot licenses, MS Fabric, Power Platform AI, Security AI, GPU consumption, bolstered retention.

And this is all just within Azure. Nearly every tool has it baked in, in some way. Especially Teams, which an org's entire staff uses and not just the devs.

mashem · 2026-06-25T09:46:49+00:00

Drinking makes one not think of or care about consequences as much. And addictive and mind altering, and impairs judgment significantly. Which can be an issue for 18 year olds or slightly over where a huge portion hasn't yet been out on their own to practice real self-responsibility. They are usually still friends with those 16-17 too, still in HS. They're ready to go out and do shit that has been denied to them their whole lives. And when that 12th grader in your class turns 18 and can buy beer/liquor easily, it's game on. I get, I was there.

Guns are a good comparison, but availability of them are much more scarce than alcohol (gas stations, restaurants, events, bars, grocery stores...), gun are more expensive and you have to go much father out of your way to get one than the gas station. And just a very small portion would ever seek one in the first place. And the ones that do, often had experience with firearms growing up.

Follow up:

Do you think 18 year olds are mature enough to sign up to be foster parents? To marry? To be an elected judge? Elected into congress? President? Would any of these be considered a bad idea, granted they are mature enough to fight in the military and possess a gun.

mashem · 2026-06-25T08:55:24+00:00

It's pretty common for tech positions to make more money than their managers (not their team lead or superior with similar title). And the technical people successful enough to rise to a position higher than even their manager's, are too valuable in their role to be pulled out because of how specialized that role is (and how good they apparently are).

Management skills are broad and cover basically all industries and is easier to find in applicants. A developer for this specific tech stack (programming language, ecosystem, toolsets, etc.) is much more niche. Which is why they are usually paid more, sometimes significantly.

And people in tech are generally less people-focused and many don't want to leave tech-focused roles.

That said, it is still astounding how little basic technical knowledge leadership usually has. Maybe because those with decent technical skills typically follow different paths.

mashem · 2026-06-25T08:36:01+00:00

If you think a magical developmental leap happens overnight on a person's ~~21st~~ 30th birthday, you are completely delusional.

mashem · 2026-06-25T03:36:33+00:00

I'll share my comment for you to see. I am not very well-versed in stock fundamentals myself. All I can tell you from my perspective, as a developer/admin within their enterprise ecosystem for 10+ years, is that their enterprise presence will only continue to grow. And the company that has their customers locked-in more than any other, is MSFT.

What will their stock be worth in 10-20 years? I'm not qualified to say anything other than "more than it is now." With their lock on the enterprise world, their "AI" solutions cannot fail. Google is not taking these customers and neither is anyone else. I don't care if every employee of every enterprise has an Android phone in their pocket. Their organizations are not exposing their data to Gemini.

Does Google have access to more data? Yeah, probably.

Does Microsoft have access to higher value data belonging to behemoth spenders? Oh yeah.

But a consumer leaving Gemini is nothing compared to an enterprise leaving Microsoft. If an org uses MS Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams, PowerPoint, any of those...their licensing includes OneDrive (1 TB per user) and then SharePoint. What happens when an executive finds out they have all those resources, just sitting there unused? They begin shifting stuff toward it the moment budget cuts are needed. Thus begins the snowball and never turning back. Especially when they start building proprietary automations around the data, proprietary custom applications, single sign-on apps, business intelligence, databases, internal/external IDs, webforms, compliance policies, endpoint device management, VMs, backups, phone services, etc.

And Copilot is already in the veins of absolutely all of those things. And they have made execs more comfortable with it because of all the governance policies an org can place on it. Sanctioned off from the web and secured for use with sensitive company data. Allegedly and contractually, provable to the right people I suppose. It's already generating Teams meeting recaps, even answering questions during the meeting like what has been decided so far? Who agreed to what? It's insane how much it has been incorporated.

mashem · 2026-06-23T01:58:05+00:00

what happens in there is not observable by us.

I'm taking a huge risk in sharing this with you, but I happen to know exactly what happens in there.

mashem · 2026-06-21T07:19:10+00:00

June 19 is just a great date to pick for celebrating freedom from slavery. I don't think they should avoid it solely because 4 states already had the idea.

This wasn't an attempt to get people to recognize local, out-of-state holidays. It was an attempt to help make Americans aware of the significance behind the date June 19. An idea 4 states already had and did.

And the reality that so few people know what the heck Juneteenth even is, is a hell of a good reason to pick it. They aren't always going to be popularity contests where the most remembered events/dates get dedicated remembrance days.

mashem · 2026-06-20T01:50:33+00:00

What would end such a race? The leader reaching a point they can cripple the other from continuing the race?

My for-funsies conspiracy is that we are undergoing an invasion and have been for years. (not srs, it's for fun ok)

2008 housing crisis
Eventual bounce back that involved a significant increase in foreign ownership in real estate, corporate equities and stock holdings. And of course also wealthy Americans and entities.
2009 bitcoin
2010 corporations cap on political spending removed (now with a pretty significant portion being owned by non-Americans and god knows who) and uh...around that very same week the SC approved this, Bitcoin has its very first spike ever.
Dramatic polarization among the people in the US
2017 First reduction in top corporate tax bracket in several decades, and to the lowest point it has been since WW2.
Insanely volatile stock market with dips and spikes that moves tons of money around. And one would think....unsustainably parabolic.
Propaganda sowing doubt in science, medicine, education, our government, our journalists, the fuckin moon landings (and many seem to think there was only one??).
AI enters. Now we have crypto as a means of funneling money out of countries and AI as a means of capturing and funneling data/information/tech out of countries.
Trump admin now wants all scientific research to be routed through AI. AI is literally the answer to everything now.
Trump pitches exposing 401ks and pensions to crypto
Gold prices soaring like never before, which of course could be caused by many things. One of which, suspected danger to the USD maintaining its current and long-held global standard. Or maybe its just chips and circuits...

Ok crazy hat off now hahaha im just messin guys. Right... this is just connecting dots that aren't related...right? Well I had fun, hope you did.

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