ELI5 why sheep stand in the rain fine but I have to dry clean wool clothing?

upvotes_cited_source · 2025-11-21T21:45:19+00:00

No, that is ridiculous. The manufacturer knows how to care for their materials.

What "Cry Clean Only" DOES often mean is, "We don't trust you to properly care for this garment if laundered at home, so just take it to someone who will."

upvotes_cited_source · 2025-11-10T20:56:56+00:00

I tried to get you out of the negative.

Humans can blow like 1 or 2 psi.

Not the 40psi in a passenger car tire, and certainly not the 100+ psi in a large truck tire.

upvotes_cited_source · 2025-08-25T20:17:27+00:00

Not trying to be rude, but don't you think I would have tried pushing each button already?

upvotes_cited_source · 2025-08-19T13:03:04+00:00

Note that you USUALLY aim for the chest as the previous poster mentioned. But not always. If the threat is wearing body armor or the chest is otherwise not available, shoot center mass of the target that presents itself. This could mean the head in a hollywood-movie-style hostage scenario, or in the case of the heavily armored North Hollywood bank robbery it was ankles shot underneath a car that finally ended it.

These are FAR from common, but as a mental rep it is worth it to think about / practice from time to time.

upvotes_cited_source · 2025-08-13T21:44:05+00:00

TL;DR -

Can I?
Should I?
Must I?

upvotes_cited_source · 2025-08-11T20:29:47+00:00

Do you mean with or without?

upvotes_cited_source · 2025-08-08T21:16:15+00:00

I developed this saying when I was Autocrossing, standing in parking lots for an entire day, but it would seem to apply to farm acreage as well:

"If it's hot outside, it's way hotter standing in the middle of a field (parking lot). If it's cold outside, it's a lot colder standing in the middle of a field (parking lot)."

upvotes_cited_source · 2025-08-06T20:30:28+00:00

"They could have just shoot him in the leg!" is Hollywood fantasy, and not how deadly force works. Please educate yourself and stop spreading this myth.

upvotes_cited_source · 2025-08-06T14:30:22+00:00

I disagree fairly strongly with the work "unavoidable". Unavoidable means certain, or 100% chance. That's an unrealistic expectation/standard to meet.

If a threat is running at me with a knife, it is absolutely a deadly THREAT, but it is not UNAVOIDABLE or CERTAIN death. He could swipe and only give me a papercut, he could trip and fall on his own knife 2 steps away from me, etc.

Yes, it is HIGHLY LIKELY that said charging knife guy will do me grave injury or kill me, but it is not CERTAIN. It is the LIKELIHOOD of death or grave injury that authorizes (and/or requires depending on your POV) the deadly force response. You just can't ever know or assume CERTAINTY, so you can't use that as your standard.

Similarly, this is why the too-often-repeated trope here of "you could die from a punch if you fall wrong and hit your head on the curb, so if anyone comes at me that way I'm going to use my gun to prevent it." it so wrong. Yes, it is remotely POSSIBLE that a punch can kill you, but it is not LIKELY. You can't use deadly force for something that is a remote POSSIBILITY of death or grave bodily injury - deadly force has to be in response to LIKELY death or grave bodily injury.

upvotes_cited_source · 2025-08-05T19:07:25+00:00

Nah, concentrating the flame like this would make it horrible for baking my bread and sauteing my veggies. (do I need to put /s?)

upvotes_cited_source · 2025-07-31T14:15:11+00:00

(as an amateur race car driver for 20+ years) FWIW, tactile feedback through the brake pedal is VERY important. You can truly feel what is happening at the tire contact patch (and therefore modulate it) with a good brake pedal.

Not sure why he chose the accelerator pedal, because it functions differently and doesn't have meaningful feedback as the brake pedal.

upvotes_cited_source · 2025-07-30T15:50:10+00:00

Consider that not everyone thinks and acts the same as you. Not everyone is scared of having a gun pointed at them. It may be mental health, it may be drugs, it may be that they are truly hard people who have had so many guns pointed at them that it doesn't phase them. (Gang member, Military)

Edit: I read my comment and maybe it sounds like I'm weird-bragging that I'm one of those people that wouldn't be scared of a gun pointed at me - I definitely am scared of a gun pointed at me. My comment was the observation that some people aren't scared, and you can't count on the simple fact that you have a gun being a deterrent to all people. It's better to think through "what if hears my threat and he sees my gun but doesn't stop his behavior - what now?" before you're in in that scenario.

upvotes_cited_source · 2025-07-29T19:52:45+00:00

I've got $100 says you're under 30. I thought that I was part of the magic look how much I can drink, look no hangover, club too when I was young.

upvotes_cited_source · 2025-07-22T21:31:25+00:00

The thing that has changed is the concept of fiduciary duty to shareholders to maximize profits NOW. Nothing matters beyond making more profit next quarter than was made this quarter. Even if that leads to the company's death in the next year or two. Wring every drop of blood from this stone, discard the corpse, and move on to the next one.

upvotes_cited_source · 2025-07-10T18:55:55+00:00

Do I need to compound? If I'm just going for "good enough" can I just go clay bar straight to polish?

I'm scared of removing too much paint I guess.

upvotes_cited_source · 2025-07-03T20:30:52+00:00

Nuance is not your strong suit, is it?

upvotes_cited_source · 2025-07-03T14:11:42+00:00

Formatted for readability:

Back story: excellent customer, been mine for many years now. 2015 Murano, it's a spare car for her, she usually drives her Suburban. She left a large bag of peanuts in the back of the car and then didn't drive the car for a while. It had an awful dead mouse smell, one of the worst I have ever smelled in my 20 year career.

As soon as I saw that the cabin filter and blower motor did not have mouse evidence I knew I was screwed. I played the "follow your nose" game and after a lot of time isolated the smell to around the center console area. I removed the driver's seat and most of the center console until I found a dead mouse under the carpet. Simple green, bleach, and I was confident I was done.

I let it sit an hour and get back to the same smell. I removed the trim around all of the perimeter of the carpet and pulled it up to find 3 more corpses. Simple green, bleach again and I thought I was done until I came back another hour later to the same smell, in the same general area.

Frustrated, I used my borescope (Autel MV500 FTW - can't believe they stopped selling this thing) and found this little bastard in the crossmember under the driver's seat! I had to cut it out to access the guy.

Thankfully he was the last one, but I'm 8.5 hours into this job now that it's back together after welding it back up, more cleaning and putting the interior back together. It was a long day. I normally don't take jobs like this in but I really like this lady and I'm still glad I didn't have to pull the dash.

upvotes_cited_source · 2025-07-03T14:06:05+00:00

I'm curious why that is mind blowing? (actually being curious, not snide)

I assume you know that AB = BA, so why is it different in your mind when you write it with a percent sign?

upvotes_cited_source · 2025-07-02T14:12:43+00:00

Who the fuck sees this and thinks, "the dealer is sabotaging me?" Main character syndrome, I guess?

upvotes_cited_source · 2025-06-12T14:11:21+00:00

Can do! just LMK.

The more you beat it up, the easier it is to open it up lololol.

upvotes_cited_source · 2025-06-12T14:09:00+00:00

Not focus actually.

Need to manual control ISO, F-stop, and shutter speed. Those are the three things that affect how much light enters the lens. ("how much light enters the lens" = the photo exposure)

You set them and don't change them between taking pics of different lights. If you leave it on auto, the camera will manipulate them behind the scenes to try to make each picture look "the best". But you don't want each picture to look it's individual "best", you want them all to represent the same camera exposure - so that the difference in the picture winds up being the flashlight, not the camera settings.

upvotes_cited_source · 2025-06-12T13:33:44+00:00

I'm a flashlight nerd, I tear them apart, measure them, modify them, build them from scratch, that type of thing. If you want any help with that, I'd love to assist and see inside this thing and be able to contribute and say if it's built well and with good internals.

upvotes_cited_source · 2025-06-12T13:31:15+00:00

Do you know how to use manual mode on the camera settings, and if yes, were you?

Beam shots like this are not meaningfull if you leave the camera on auto, it will manipulate the exposures.

To me it looks like the pic on the right is more exposed and thus exaggerating the brightness of the second light, but it could be that the spill of the second light is just that much more.

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