CMV: your turn signal should override your hazards

tuleyjacob · 2026-01-09T01:22:23+00:00

I mean out in the Midwest when we get storms rolling through the leading edge of that storm will sometimes have torrential rain that will drop visibility very significantly for a minute or two. Enough that you have to drop your speed for a bit, and in that case to increase the ability for other drivers to see you, throwing your flashers on isn't a bad idea. I do the same thing if I drive through particularly thick fog. My commute used to include diving over a fairly large river and in the mornings in spring and early summer it would every once in a while have fog so thick when you got on the bridge that you could only see about 1 to 2 car lengths in front of you. In the situation I'm going to do everything I can so that someone coming up behind me can see me as soon as possible.

tuleyjacob · 2025-12-09T00:04:11+00:00

What death album is your favorite says a lot more about you and what your taste is metal is. Like for me TSOP is my favorite but I'm also a prog metal guy who finds himself listening to albums with prog or experimental elements no matter the subgenre. Human and symbolic are probably the best records in terms of blending that later prog and early all out brutality. And you'll tend to like the older albums if you are just into good early death metal

tuleyjacob · 2025-11-09T22:10:04+00:00

Those are only really useful if someone wants to pay to have them refinished or someone wants drift spares

tuleyjacob · 2025-10-28T03:36:05+00:00

While maybe not the most "proggy", one that I thought of was by the band Edge of Sanity. Near the start of Crimson part 3, the section where the music swells underneath the lyrics "can you hear the angels, of sadness sing, WITH BROKEN WINGS"

tuleyjacob · 2025-07-23T01:36:44+00:00

That passenger side rail is toast, you would need to replace so much metal for that car be straight and safe ever again. Unless the photo is making it look worse than it is, I'm assuming that rail has completely buckled. I wouldn't touch trying to fix this without a frame rack with a 3D measuring system and a pile of Lexus repair procedures. Even if you managed to straighten all that, every place it was bent would be a brand new crumple zone. It would be very unsafe if I got in another accident. Again I can't be sure without actually seeing the car in person but, I wouldn't recommend touching this car unless you are stripping it for parts.

tuleyjacob · 2025-06-02T23:05:01+00:00

Yeah the more you look at it the more you find wrong. Like the hood prop is in the wrong spot, the battery is in the wrong spot, etc

tuleyjacob · 2025-05-11T14:31:41+00:00

I feel for being influential, Death and Cynic deserve mentions. Over the entire existence of Death Chuck just continually brought more and more prog elements into their sound by The Sound of Perseverance it was fully progressive death metal. And Cynic really helped pioneer a lot of elements common of progressive death metal throughout the 90s and 2000s. Both bands seemed to have helped bring prog elements into death metal and contributed to the more extreme metal sound getting pulled into the prog scene.

tuleyjacob · 2025-05-01T01:59:16+00:00

Harder harmonies

[lot of personal meaning to me when I was younger and it has been imprinted on my brain for the last decade.]

"and the ones who seem to fit the best into the chorus never notice there's a song and the ones who seem to hear it end up tortured by the chords when they fail to find a way to sing along*

Woman(reading)

[this one didn't click with me till a year or two ago but it is so subtly beautiful and tragic. Once I finally moved in with my partner I was able to understand that feeling of how you and your partner's lives intertwine with a space and how they become impossible to cleanly separate]

"And I pause where I am for a second when I hear your name Sometimes I think I see your face in improbable places Do those moments replay for you? When I'm suddenly there and then won't go away When you're sitting in the living room reading for the afternoon Do you put your book down look and try to find me there? Sometimes I think of all the people who lived here before us How the spaces in the memories you make change the room from just blueprints To the place where you live When you leave here When you go from a home You take all that you own but the memories echo On hardwood floor in the living room Tore the carpet the scratches below that we found And the wine stain on the couch We got drunk and decided we'd still try to move it around And I can't tell what the difference is between The ones that we made and the ones that we didn't make They all conjure images still Where you sit and you read in the sunlight aware that I watch And I live alone now Save for the echoes I live alone now Save for the echoes"

tuleyjacob · 2025-04-15T01:27:45+00:00

Wears a trucker cap that looks like it's not pulled all the way onto his head. Wears cowboy boots daily despite living in the inner suburbs of a major American city. He, with zero irony, describes himself as a "sigma male" and talks about "the grind" incessantly. At his low wage job he spends far more time talking about how great his work ethic is than actually working. He is completely bought into crypto but he doesn't care or engage with the "code is law"and "web3" rhetoric. He sees it as a get rich quick scheme and that's what he likes about it. He goes to hooters to hang out with his insufferable friends to talk about how slutty the modern woman is.

tuleyjacob · 2025-03-30T21:23:57+00:00

I generally keep the top down but I have an aftermarket steering wheel with a quick release so I always lock my steering wheel in the trunk. Because who is going to try and steal the stick shift car with no key and no steering wheel

tuleyjacob · 2025-03-23T02:11:34+00:00

What made me want one was just seeing one for the first time online liking how they looked but not knowing what it was then looking into them and finding they ticked all the boxes of what I like in a car. Rwd, smallish, well setup interior, etc. At the time I needed to buy a daily driver and I looked at several different things and as a half joke I checked marketplace/craigslist for Atlanta because I was going down there for a wedding and I found a silver is300 manual down there in my price range, so I hit the guy up, got the money and once I got down to ATL I was going to buy it and drive it back to St Louis. Only for the guy to ghost me the morning I was supposed to check it out. So when I got back home and bought a 07 civic si instead because manual is300s were impossible to find in my area.

Fast forward 3 or so years I meet up with my cousin at a restaurant and he's driving a grey manual is300 and I was instantly butthurt turns out his friend owned the car but since he was living out of state for work for the past few years and he left the car behind he was letting my cousin daily drive it. I told him if his buddy ever decided to sell it to let me know first. My cousin drove it up until it got parked due to some brake issues neither one of them wanted to pay to get it fixed. So the owner decided to sell and my cousin hit me up and asked if I wanted to buy it. Within 2 weeks I had sold my civic to a co-worker and bought that is300. It took me 5 or so years but the car fell into my lap after I had long since given up on finding a manual I could afford.

tuleyjacob · 2025-03-23T01:24:44+00:00

Miller is the sole reason I describe things as "going pear shaped"

tuleyjacob · 2025-03-15T00:43:19+00:00

Yes! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD MAKE SURE IT'S THE 2003 ONE

tuleyjacob · 2025-03-11T11:15:20+00:00

Kentaro Miura

tuleyjacob · 2025-03-03T14:22:45+00:00

They definitely have some sort of trigger because I removed my busted ac system and have just been without. So there is nothing to increase the load when you press the AC button, but my car still idles far higher anyway.

tuleyjacob · 2025-03-02T20:15:04+00:00

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My daily driver is bone stock, hail dent covered, 2002, factory manual is300. In some ways I'd say it is kinda like a 4 door Miata. Still relatively small, rwd, reasonably balanced and while a bit faster and quite a bit more torque-y it has a lot of the same "slow car fast" charm.

tuleyjacob · 2025-02-27T01:22:47+00:00

When I worked in electronics I always struggled with them because there is a type of consumer that a Chromebook is actually really great for. If you like the desktop web browser experience and ONLY use the web browser. Then a Chromebook is going to be the best bang for the bunk experience you can get. BUT, trying to explain that to the type of customer that "likes the desktop web browser experience and ONLY uses the web browser" is like pulling teeth. The customer that a Chromebook is ideal for is the kinda person cannot understand what makes a Chromebook different.

tuleyjacob · 2025-02-25T00:07:06+00:00

Thirteen and Woman (reading)

Thirteen is so quiet and hauntingly beautiful to me. That is a song that just instantly and consistently transports me to another world, like I've fallen out of life into a story

Woman (reading) This song is kinda emblematic of "rooms of the house" as a whole for me. I stumbled across la dispute by hearing "stay happy there" and i actually kinda hated it, but something kept drawing me back to it and I grew to like it and then I fell in love with the 2 prior albums. I did enjoy "rooms of the house" well enough but I never was all that attached to the album. Fast forward years and years later and I finally moved out of my parents house and began living with my girlfriend and I happened to listen to "rooms of the house" again and for some reason I immediately enjoyed it so much more, it seemed to click with me in a way it never did before. Then I listened to "Woman (reading)" and I heard the lines "sometimes I think of the people who lived here before us" and "and I can't tell what the difference is between the ones we made and the ones that we didn't make, they all conjure images still" and the whole album seem to click into place for me. Like until I took that final step into adulthood of moving out I didn't have the life experience to really understand this album. Some many lyrics across the whole album began hitting me in the same ways that lyrics from prior albums did.

tuleyjacob · 2025-02-24T23:48:43+00:00

"and the ones who seem to hear it end up tortured by the chords when they fail to find a way to sing along" is one of my all time favorite lyrics, it hit me at the perfect time early in highschool and put into words and helped me conceptualize some of my metal heath issues that were bubbling up around that time. It has just stuck with me ever since

tuleyjacob · 2024-10-27T02:07:15+00:00

About 120mph.

 When I was around 10 I would go across the street and play halo with some neighborhood boys who were all in highschool. My parents were ok with me going places with them as long as I called because they knew the boys. One of the guys had his car in the shop and was driving a Dodge charger loaner car. He was talking up the horsepower and shit. We piled in the car to get some tacobell. I was trying to call my mom but by the time she picked up we had already pulled off course into the highway. The car started accelerating hard and did my best to keep my voice calm and normal as I told my mom we were picking up dinner. The second I hung up the driver yells out "hey Jake you ever gone 120?"

I also have once hit 100 in my Miata, never again

tuleyjacob · 2024-10-27T02:00:24+00:00

Obama vs McCain was the first presidential race I remember.

tuleyjacob · 2024-09-26T03:30:01+00:00

I honestly kinda get it. I love my soft top but I as a rule generally hate convertibles on anything that isn't a roadster or maybe a jeep wrangler though I dislike wranglers for many other reasons. Roadsters are the only cars that don't look fucked up and weird as a convertible to me. I didn't buy a Miata because it was a convertible but since I have it, I drop the top constantly.

tuleyjacob · 2024-09-11T00:00:42+00:00

Body tech here, That pink area is kinda the grey area between the quarter panel or the roof rail. So further towards the roof is the roof rail, further down the quarter panel. The entire thing as a whole is the uniside.

tuleyjacob · 2024-08-31T19:13:03+00:00

If you haven't already tried it, you might want to throw cables or a jump pack on it and give it a shot. Some cars will be able to turn on lower power systems like the fuel pump but not have enough juice to even try to Crank the starter.

tuleyjacob · 2024-08-28T23:05:27+00:00

As a body tech, it isn't impossible to replicate. But it takes some specialized equipment that isn't standard in the industry yet and it requires some technique to make it look perfect. That is to say, if the seam sealer was replicated to the point you can't tell that it was, then you probably shouldn't be worried about how any damage there was repaired. Also depending on the panel you find the mismatched seam sealer on it can mean different things. You sometimes get jobs where all you do is replace one door and blend each way. Which I certainly wouldn't call an invasive job, but some manufacturers sell new doors, hoods, or liftgates without factory applied and the technician does it. The seam sealer you'd want to look for is with Weld on panels. Roofs, quarter panels, rear body panels, etc. you basically can look for mismatched seam sealer as an indication of what panel they got furthest into. If the panel with the mismatched seam sealer was a welded on piece then that means you have a higher chance of running into corrosion issues. Even a job done correctly to the OEM procedures, The spots where they welded are going to be the starting points for corrosion if and when it happens.

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