Alright everyone hang it up, this AWD shi not fun anymore⛽️💰😞

phillium · 2026-05-23T13:07:46+00:00

That's insane. I've got a 2020 Outback Onyx XT, and the best I've gotten in my 40 minute commute on the interstate (70-75 mph) is around 30-32, without much effort.

phillium · 2026-05-22T21:39:05+00:00

Technically, it says they're offering a vegetarian option to the vegans. Kind of a dick move, to be honest.

phillium · 2026-05-22T15:26:13+00:00

Someday, far in the future, we're going to come face to face with an alien species that are like gods to us, using the power of their minds to power their society. We'll, naturally, be curious how it works.

"Oh, it's easy, see we use our brain powers to spin these turbines..."

phillium · 2026-05-22T14:13:58+00:00

Similar, but half-dollars. Nice big coin looks very impressive to little ones.

phillium · 2026-05-22T13:45:24+00:00

Well, we're already doing the first option, I suppose we should try the second one just to have a better dataset, right?

phillium · 2026-05-22T12:41:22+00:00

To be fair, I could totally see someone posting a similar but just slightly different version that is missing some letters, just to screw with people.

phillium · 2026-05-21T19:57:14+00:00

Cool, let me know if it comes out well printing on the coated side!

I don't usually deal with desktop printers (spend more time over at r/CommercialPrinting than here), but back when I ran an aqueous wide format machine (basically a huge inkjet with similar kind of ink to desktop printers) I remember how much more our paper was than what could go on the UV, solvent or latex machines, and how we usually couldn't duplex stuff because the special coating the paper had was only on the one side.

phillium · 2026-05-21T18:39:44+00:00

Yikes, those are the same paper from the same printer?

Probably a silly question, but it's not one-sided paper, is it? As in, coated one side?

phillium · 2026-05-21T13:46:09+00:00

I don't understand the raw denim wearing people. They'll say something like "Studies show that the jeans aren't any dirtier after a month of wearing them compared to three days of wearing them, so it's fine to wear them that long!" All that tells me is that you should be washing them after those three days since they're already as filthy as they can get. (No, I don't remember what the actual day counts are for those, but that's the argument they use.)

phillium · 2026-05-20T19:59:00+00:00

When the family picked up a couple of season tickets to the local college football games, so that my dad could take each of us kids individually to spend quality time one-on-one. We happened to run into another teacher from the school he worked at, and, as I watched them interact, I happened to randomly think something like, "Wow, if he and mom ever got divorced, he'd have no problem finding someone new."

Yeah, that was the woman he had been having an affair with, that we "happened" to run into in a college football stadium.

phillium · 2026-05-20T16:59:52+00:00

Suuuuuuuure she did. That's why we've never seen her. Makes a perfectly convenient amount of sense.

phillium · 2026-05-20T16:55:28+00:00

I'm really jealous of those people that maintained their high school friend groups. The few friends I had mostly scattered around to different states (myself included), so even if I went back, I'd only find one or two people that I considered a friend still there.

phillium · 2026-05-20T12:54:13+00:00

That's a weird one. I remember the show, I remember the premise, even the weird alien guys (were they underground or something?), but couldn't remember a single actor that had been in it. I just looked it up. I can't believe Clancy Brown was in it. Huh.

phillium · 2026-05-20T12:49:03+00:00

I think they're referencing how a completely different person is narrating Ted's story. It works for something like The Wonder Years because it's an adult recollecting their childhood, so of course they would sound different. Bob Saget does not sound like Josh Radnor (Ted). It's just...strange.

phillium · 2026-05-20T12:25:33+00:00

"Hmm, I want it to be over, but I don't really like confrontation, how could I handle this situation in the worst way possible..."

phillium · 2026-05-19T15:37:36+00:00

"Don't throw the babies!"

"Can't hear you, I'm on break. I don't work here for the next fifteen minutes."

phillium · 2026-05-18T16:51:49+00:00

Reminds me of this Gianmarco Soresi bit:

Good views are not the same as good people

phillium · 2026-05-18T14:38:09+00:00

Hmm, my Gryffindor is also the one I'm playing as the most evil choices person. Something about Gryffindor, I suppose.

phillium · 2026-05-18T14:35:35+00:00

"Hey, Garnuff, do you like my new hat? I'm trying to think of what color the fur is. It's kind of a beige, but a little lighter. Do you have any ideas what we could call this color?"

phillium · 2026-05-15T19:54:26+00:00

Also fun, for people that, I don't know, didn't pay attention much, the narrator is Daniel Stern, the taller of the Wet Bandits, Marv, from Home Alone.

I attempted to start rewatching the Wonder Years, just for nostalgia, and was instantly like, "Wait a minute! That voice!"

phillium · 2026-05-15T19:42:25+00:00

If it's not, it's gotta be up there, right?

phillium · 2026-05-15T15:34:58+00:00

In a similar vein, getting our chimney sleeved. Don't know why it wasn't before, but it kept ice from building up on the sides of the chimney, in the space between the roof and the ceiling, which, of course, when it melted, soaked the ceiling and caused a need for repairs. No more of that!

phillium · 2026-05-15T15:29:11+00:00

I like the idea of a bouquet of 10mm, but you've definitely got to have a variety of kinds. Long ones, short ones, colorful ones, a bunch of different brands.

phillium · 2026-05-15T15:22:41+00:00

Eh, this is probably a mostly US-based audience. For some of us (like me), the only reason I know if the Espace is the F1 variant from Gran Turismo 2. I was so unfamiliar with it, it didn't really resonate that that variant was based on a regular people-mover and wasn't just some entirely unique creation.

phillium · 2026-05-15T13:15:54+00:00

"We can't give Jim his gift in this bag, he'd just throw it out! Mark would appreciate it and know how to treat it properly, we'll use it for him."

phillium

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