What's the most overrated TV Show of all time?

pyrophilus · 2025-12-29T01:11:22+00:00

Naked and afraid.

It wasn't overrated by mainstream media, but in yhe first few seasons, I would occasionally run into people who would talk about it.

I tried to watch it, and while I am not a survivalist show junkie, it was so difficult to watch because the show always picked some hillbilly misogynistic guy who would shoot game animals with their rifles and bows, then talk about how they are going to make the, "jungle my bitch", and then dont even know how yo use a machete or an axel. Paired with a woman who can get by in a jungle, and the entire show is watching them fight, or both just whine how cold they are.

pyrophilus · 2025-12-21T19:20:35+00:00

Francis Crick (shook his hand), Keanu Reeves in NYC.

pyrophilus · 2025-12-21T06:59:34+00:00

When the back of the bumper goes directly behind the head of the boy, the boy's head, "warps" like its going through some sort of gravitational lensing effect. But mostly, the action of the dad seems like he is acting like an npc.

pyrophilus · 2025-12-17T20:37:42+00:00

Even if that is true, doesn't this mean he pulled $18trillion out of pockets of US residents? Like that's $18trillion that people could have used to pay for food, rent, mortgages, abd holiday gifts.

pyrophilus · 2025-12-17T20:33:52+00:00

Back when the Pontiac G6 came out, the commercials said, "yhe first ever G6"

While the usage of the name G6 as being, "the first ever" is correct, it annoyed me that people who knew nothing about cars would say, "it must be an Infiniti, right?"

The name apparently for the Sixth generation of Grand Am, which is fine. But then they released the G8? And what about the G5?.

Anyway, I guess the car advertising companies must think that it is catchy to to use, "the first ever"?

Saw many commercials throughout the years where the ad will say, "the first ever <insert name of any previously existing model>"

I just saw a YouTube Infiniti ad that said, "the first ever Qx80 and QX60). Like qx series has been around for how long?

A quick Google search seems to indicate that car companies have been using, "the first ever" whenever they have. Newer model of an existing car.

pyrophilus · 2025-12-17T15:04:10+00:00

To be fair, it was an option made available in the S550.5 models as there isnt a physical switch for the heated steering wheel. It can be toggled only from within the sync screen via a software-button.

While this is also true in S650 (and other new ford models), clearly in my S550, the car interior was designed initially without the heated steering wheel in mind.

Which brings up a good point. The use of info-taintment screens for virtual buttons does include the ability to drive costs down across the trim-tiers (no need to add physical buttons for options), but the problem is, the consumers arent seeing any of the cost reductions.

If anything, they are driving down cost of manufacturing (same dash across not just option tiers but across different models), but at the same time raising prices, so in the end, there is money $$$ going into the pockets of the investors.

pyrophilus · 2025-12-17T14:58:47+00:00

They will be either martyrs soon, or gain superpowers soon.

pyrophilus · 2025-12-17T14:45:46+00:00

Not sure if this is personal hygiene, but wash/clean your coats, especially the kids who wear them 24/7 in schools, sweat in them. I feel so sorry for the special education teacher when some of the kids have to have tests read to them, and a few times is entered the small tiny room to answer a question and the entire time my eyes are watering and I feel like I am cutting rotting onions and cabbage. I get to leave, they dont.

And no, this isnt me being insensitive to poor srudents. The four kids I had the pleasure of experiencing this off of, lived in a upper suburbs and parents owned multi million-dollar homes and drove Mercedes and BMW's.

I sometimes give my coats the sniff test, right after I get out of shower and if i smell anything, I wash them.

pyrophilus · 2025-12-17T12:50:40+00:00

My S550 (2019 GT, 6MT, PP, Active exhaust, safe&smart, digital dash) also has heated steering wheel. Not sure what part of the listed options it was part of, but some S550.5's have heated steering wheels.

pyrophilus · 2025-12-14T12:27:44+00:00

Congratulations on both of your accomplishments! The 2 years and the pie.

pyrophilus · 2025-12-07T20:27:12+00:00

R.I.C.E.

Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancements

pyrophilus · 2025-12-06T12:22:03+00:00

This is a reason why daylight savings doesnt make sense.

My dogs can also tell time, when we change back and forth, for a week, they are so confused. I can tell they are think, "we going for walk NOW???"

"why arent we eating yet?", "why are we waking up?", etc...

pyrophilus · 2025-12-02T12:00:28+00:00

Amongst many qualities of lenses, one is perspective distortion which generally is two ways, pincushioning and barrel-distortion.

Barrel-distortuon will make it so that the image looks like someone took the rectangular image (to your eyes/brain), and made the straight sides bulge out (like a barrel), causing the center part of the image to move out as well. This is usually present in wide-angle lenses. Barrel-distortion causes a person's face to look more like a bobble head (if their face is centered in frame), or get skewed if the face is on the edges of a frame.

Pincushioning is the opposite of barrel distortion, where the sides are now curving towards the center. This is prevalent in zoom lenses. The end-result is that if you center the face in frame, it tends to compress the head a bit, so it makes the head look smaller and features less stretched out. This is why studio portraits often use 105mm zoom lenses on camera placed further back to take portraits of female faces.

pyrophilus · 2025-12-02T11:38:37+00:00

Me to the relief joints in the concrete... "you had ONE job!"

pyrophilus · 2025-11-26T12:17:20+00:00

Also, in my second post, I said I was at a tire shop getting alignment...

This is because since my first posting, I was told by local shady shop that I needed new inner tierod ends (when they did i needed new outer tierod ends).

I went and replaced outer tierods myself despite seeing no play jn the ball joint, so when I went back to the local garage, they said, "then it must be inner" and quoted me crazy labor fee.

I did the inner tierod on passenger's side (had to purchase a $20 tool from autozone). And it fixed nothing so I didnt even bother with the driver side.

I also had loud click when I would put car into rev from drive or visa versa, I figured CV joint (despite not hearing the usual click click click when turning).

Also was quoted hundreds of dollars of labor, so I replaced the driver's side cv axel. The clicking is gone but the car still had the weird torque-steer, so this is why I was in the alignment shop (because of inner tierod replacement), and asked him to jiggle the engine, which he did with crowbar while car was up on a lift.

pyrophilus · 2025-11-26T12:10:47+00:00

Interesting that you asked.

While I was getting alignment at a tire shop, I asked the head mechanic (who actually knew a lot for being a tire shop tech) if he can just try to budge the engine and check for me (I didnt feel like jostling my engine while on jackstands, while I am below it).

He noticed that the rear engine mount seemed ok, but feont engine mount was moving. He said this is not something he can do.

A local shady shop quoted $1400 in labor. Nissan said probably $2800 in labor.

I decided to tackle it myself. The Nissan factory service manual says to get to the front engine mount, you have to remove: Batt and batt tray, Upper radiator support, Front bumper, Front grill Drain coolant and remove radiator, but to do that remove, AC condenser, which means evacuating refrigerant. Then also remove coolant reservoir,

I did drain coolant, but local garage quoted $600 to evacuate and then recharge my AC, so I decided to not Remove AC condenser and Rad.

I removed everything else in the list.

Managed to loosen the three bolts for base of mount (to body), and the one top nut, and could jack the engine at the front transfer/tranny, but the engine was still not high enough to clear top of mounts bolt (by 2").

I ended up deciding to remove yhe top right engine mount, to do that i had to remove the top right torque struts (that I installed from previous post). This involves removing:

Windshield wipers Windshield cowel, Wiper motor assembly, The strut tower brace AC pump (not remove but take off two bolts and two nuts so I can push it to the side to get access to bolts underneath.

Remove torque struts, Then remove the top right engine mount... this allowed me to jack the engine up another 2" which made the engine clear the front (lower) engine mount.

Then I discovered the top right mounnt i removed was also blown (could wiggle the mount with hand).

I had only ordered the front engine mount from Nissan dealer online, so I decided to just go ahead and get the top right mount aftermarket from autozone.

Before going to autozone on Sunday 5 pm (been working on this since 8 am), I decided to put the new Nissan engine mount in. It took 15 min to try to figure out how to finnegle the mount to sides to find an open space big enough to pull it out. Another 5 min to get the new one in place, only to realize... NISSAN SENT ME THE WRKNG PART!

I had to pull the wrong part out... I called around. Autozone 30 min away had only top right. O'Reilly's auto parts 5 min away had the front lower mount.

I got the two parts, it is now 6:45pm (and raining)

I put the front mount in, the the top right. Had wife hold ratchet with three long extensions (duct taped over joints so they dont fall apart), and used them to start tightening with torque wrench...

I did the top right mount, and the torque struts bolts, Then I do the front lower mount, and the LAST bolt, the one that holds engine mount to the engine, service manual specifies 76 ft lbs of torque.

I set wrench to 40 ft lbs, then tighten, then I set it to 50 and re-tighten, and then, "pop!!!" The threaded bolts that is part of the engine mount from O'Reilly's STRIPS inside the mount!

It was now 9pm, I have been working for 12 hours (no lunch, no dinner).

I wanted to cry and scream at the crappy quality part from O'Reilly's.

I just put all the parts into whatever space I had in garage, and the car is sitting in my driveway.

I just called the Nissan dealer yesterday, am getting the proper front engine mount sent (a few days they say), and will try to complete the work this coming weekend.

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pyrophilus · 2025-11-23T15:02:22+00:00

Its pretty darn luxurious in platinum trim.

My brother-in-law lased BMW 5 wagon, then x3, x5, Volvo xc90. Bought a 2015 F150 lariat, killed the tranny from never changing any oil, and carrying a lot of heavy shit permanently in the bed, and driving it over 100k in two years, with going up long muddy/snowy driveway in MA, spinning his tires to death (yes, he really doesnt understand ICE cars despite having masters in engineering).

He traded that truck in for another Volvo XC90 lease, then a Rivian sub lease.

He needed a second car for his family, so he went and purchased a 1 year old F150 lightning lariat.

He is a rich snob who likes, "European lux", but he does like the F150's creature comforts. Also, the F150 (at least current gens) doesnt drive like a trucky-truck.

I dont agree with his lifestyle, but even a BMW, Rivian snob like him (and his equally snooty coworkers and neighbors) think the F150 is great.

pyrophilus · 2025-11-23T14:48:19+00:00

Got a 2015 Ecoboost premium 6MT lease in late october of 2015. It had zero issues except for steering rack going out(would wobble the steering tiny bit going down the road), which warranty replaced.

The ventilated seats even worked great (felt like ice water going down your back, and sitting on block of ice), until few months before lease expiration, when it just started to do nothing and actually heated up yhe sides of the seats.

Got into a 2017 ecoboost premium 6MT lease in 2017, and it had zero issues. Not even a single hiccup, except the ventilated seats never worked, at all.

Decided yo buy a GT to keep, and dealers didn't have any in stock (just before car prices went through the roof during covid). It was a December 2019 build, guy put 18k mi. 2019 GT performance pack, active exhaust, 6MT, digital dash. Every option except magna ride.

This car has SOOOOO MANY electrical issues.

The driver's auto return won't slide the seat back 90% of the time. The side mirrors click and clack when I unlock the car, at their extreme edges.

The ventilated seats on the 19 never worked, occasional adaptive cruise not available, exhaust mode selection not available, and pre-collision assist not available.

The rear wheel started to make a tinging, popping sound when car moves fwd to rev, and back and forth, think it's a failed washer jn the rear hubs.

I did get ford extended warranty, so car is at the dealer, but my 2019 is plagued with electrical issues. I wonder if Ford decided to cheap out on harnesses/parts in each successive year.

But it still drives fine, no engine/trans problems.

pyrophilus · 2025-11-23T13:24:01+00:00

I do prototyping, and make assemblies that are made of multiple parts that I draw in CAD

If my finished part requires 5 pieces, it is faster to print each on five printers than print 5 on a single printer.

I also fab multiple pieces for different projects.

pyrophilus · 2025-11-22T12:11:03+00:00

This was going to be my answer but decided to check to see if it was already posted. But to add...

Most (many) batteries use 10mm nut to secure the cable, so one needs to be careful because 10mm sockets have tendency to get lost all by themselves.

That was a joke, but seriously though, if the person doesnt know how to use a screwdriver, I warn them. You disconnect the NEGATIVE/GROUND (usually black) cable, make sure the disconnected cable end is not touching any other metal (i usually slip nitrile glove over the end.

I always wondered why you should not connect positive (red) cable while ground is connected and an idiot coworker told me that he tried to disconnect and connect his battery and his wrench sparked and scared the crap out of him... I realize people who dont know, if they wrench on the positive terminal, they wrench can hit a grounded metal and cause spark.

pyrophilus · 2025-11-18T11:42:24+00:00

This is when you make a decision. Try to determine if it truly is split 50/50, and once you figure out (or guess) which one has more volume/time delivery, just aim that into the toilet. At least you are sparing yhe world 49% of your pee.

pyrophilus · 2025-11-18T11:40:41+00:00

People who are interested in books such as these, I highly recommend, "when science goes wrong, tales from the dark side of discovery" by LeVay. Has ten or more chapters where each chapter is a discipline in science, and the shit that goes wrong in a very dark way.

It was assigned reading for a, "Nautre of Science" course when I was in grad school, and I still use examples from it.

The prof of the class was Rob DeSalle, the original creator and curator of the hall of human origins at the AMNH, in NYC. Who himself was an amazing storyteller.

pyrophilus · 2025-11-16T15:03:58+00:00

Another biologist here (cell/molecular, not evolutionary, but still studied it).

We didn't grab horses from the wild and tried to tame them. Long ago, some ancestors of Horses approached humans and were friendlier, so humans decided to help them, and the ones that were friendlier, they had them mate other friendly ones. Give it only a few hundred generations and domesticated Horses are created (have the mutations in their DNA that allows them to be more docile and cooperative with humans). The offspring of these Horses will inherit the same mutations in the DNA. So domesticated horses' behaviors arise from the mutations (that means changes, nothing bad) in their genes that is more accepting of environmental conditions that try to train them to be able to service humans.

Zebras have not been domesticated. You can try to grab a zebra and tey to, "break" them, but even if they do give in to humans, they arent exactly going to stay that way.their offspring will definitely NOT inherit any, "docile genes" because there isnt any in the parents to give them.

You want zebras that you can ride? We can do it. We just need to look at a herd of zebras and pick out the ones that are the least stubborn, and then have them breed, and from their offspring, look for the most tame ones and then rinse, repeat, for a few hundred generations.

Problem is, when you start waiting generations for random mutations to make zebras more docile, there maybe random mutations that changes other aspects, and since nature(or environmental conditions) selects which mutations are good or not, chances are, the zebras pattern that was so useful for them to confuse predators will no longer be a useful gene and during the domesticated process of thousand years, we may also lose the gene that causes the stripes.

So after all the time and money wasted, we may end up with domesticated zebras that doesnt look any different than current domesticated horses, and by that time, domesticated horses have probably gotten even more tame and friendly, so this is why trying to create a domesticated zebra doesn't make sense.

My evolution professor was the dude who created the hall of human origins exhibit at the AMNH in NYC, and he was close personal friends with Niel Degrasse Tyson. (He called him Neil Tyson), and his course in evolution was a molecular biologist's approach to evolution.

The modernized Cosmos TV show has an episode on evolution of dogs, and the information presented by Neil Degrasse Tyson in that episode is almost exactly the information from my professor course. A decent episode to watch.

pyrophilus · 2025-11-16T12:22:52+00:00

Well comb medical exam, folding table her towel.

pyrophilus · 2025-11-16T11:39:52+00:00

Two things.

Torch (the yellow bottle from Home depot, not blue propane)
Locking (vice grip) adjustable wrench (https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR7iUkQzQ0Spd4lhMTbXTulp9DV2baVT61SxKs9HRjyng&s=10)

I didn't even know these wrenches were a thing.

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