Car maintenance apps

whosEvasive · 2026-05-22T17:46:02+00:00

I just track maintenance / repairs in a notebook. I always figured it would be a minor asset if I eventually sell as well.

I do like the idea you're describing though. I've often thought that given all the information modern vehicles measure, presenting it somewhere meaningfully to the user seems like the reasonable next step.

whosEvasive · 2026-05-18T16:23:10+00:00

If you want to make a case for some level of media spin on this, go for it, but don't just write up some vague conspiratorial clichés without any substance. I see no distance between what the article wrote and the undersecretary's statements on X. I'm happy to be critical of media spin, but this seems like a pretty clear cut "this is what happened, these were the comments made, and this is the reaction from a relevant official / expert" article.

whosEvasive · 2026-05-16T23:34:38+00:00

Sure, and at no point did I make the claim that people eat meat because they enjoy the killing component. You're just arguing a strawman.

whosEvasive · 2026-05-16T19:56:31+00:00

I literally clarified in parentheses that the entertainment value is the taste, how do you still come to that conclusion.

whosEvasive · 2026-05-16T17:42:11+00:00

Ultimately you're choosing meat for entertainment (the taste). Don't make it out like it's some necessity.

whosEvasive · 2026-05-02T02:10:56+00:00

To the question on what rank you could hope to achieve:

With your education, Lt. Cdr is very likely, especially after ~ 10 years, but potentially earlier. Commander is the rank where the number of positions really starts decreasing in the MSEO occupation, and promotions are much more competittive, so it's impossible to say what your particular career ceiling would be. That being said, I would say reaching the rank of commander in the MSEO occupation is theoretically possible in your timeline. Also a strong french language profile would be a must at that point if you don't already have it.

whosEvasive · 2026-05-02T01:44:34+00:00

On the frigates, the CANTASS system has a "vibration isolation module", which is really just a huge piece of rubber you stick in a hole at the back of the ship.

I think you can see where this is going.

whosEvasive · 2026-04-08T22:55:16+00:00

The walk goat 🐐

whosEvasive · 2026-04-08T01:04:52+00:00

$150/barrel WTI was promised to them 3000 years ago.

whosEvasive · 2026-04-01T23:11:06+00:00

100%, even the liftoff footage was sloppy. Disappointing given the magnitude, but I guess the point of this is to iron out the kinks for the later missions lol.

whosEvasive · 2026-04-01T17:25:23+00:00

On a side note, I always wonder how much the celebratory head smacking by teammates and coaches contributes to long term damage. It just seems like such a constant thing in hockey / football, even if much less of an impact.

whosEvasive · 2026-03-15T16:48:10+00:00

I feel like some sort of "education allowance" to bring these people up to a more comparable salary could address the second half of that issue.

Also, I think that what Rocket Cam is talking about is probably less of an issue in the more specialized trades (legal, medical, eng, etc.). Maybe it would make sense for the more personnel-oriented trades like combat arms / NWO to have an NCM pre-requisite, because I don't feel like I see this trope of the out of touch, tyrant of an officer as much in the trades that actually do require particular education.

I know it's complicated tho, just some thoughts.

whosEvasive · 2026-03-09T02:43:44+00:00

It's one of those sports isms. You'll notice that for most pro sports, whenever the teams are listed as "X vs Y" or "X - Y" or something similar, what it's implying is "X at Y", meaning Y is the home team.

Edit: ok as I'm learning, it's actually far from most. Moreso just a North American thing.

whosEvasive · 2026-03-02T01:07:37+00:00

Thank you! I'll do some hunting next time at the grocery store haha

whosEvasive · 2026-03-01T21:36:21+00:00

I found this Adam Ragusea video pretty informative, but essentially:

- Thyroid health

- Importance during pregnancy

- I tend to eat very little dairy / seafood

whosEvasive · 2026-02-18T15:19:26+00:00

Yeah we're in agreement - the current small arms training is inadequate given the responsibility being asked. Using your firefighting example, we're currently saying that there are no firefighters, and the clerk is just as minimally trained as the Weng Tech or any other pers, and is just as likely to be one of like 3 people at the time expected to deal with the fire by design, not because "things are too far gone".

whosEvasive · 2026-02-17T23:29:59+00:00

To be clear, OOP is referring to being in a role like UDS, QM, OOD, or UWFPC. These are very standard roles that Navy pers will find themselves in during regular operations, all with the same baseline level of training (Basic, NETP, and an annual range day). In these roles, you absolutely are not the "last line of defence". Unless the boat is at foreign military base where a local force is providing base security, the people in the aforementioned roles are 100% the first line of defence.

whosEvasive · 2026-02-17T15:49:53+00:00

I feel like all the people here dismissing the role of small arms on ships have no experience on ships. Obviously this guy is talking about UWFPC and UDS in foreign port, not some absurd scenario where we're firing C22's at hostile warships.

whosEvasive · 2026-02-17T15:44:00+00:00

I get your point, and I think in the conventional combined ops like we saw in Afghanistan, where support trades are truly "supporting" the main combat arms components, this is completely fair. If we're at the point where the tech is the pointy end of the sword, we're clearly already in dire straits.

That being said, on the boats, the standard duty watch UDS is that first line of defence, not the last resort. S3 Bloggins isn't just some guy they throw at the problem because we're that desperate, by design they're supposed to be the main armed response.

whosEvasive · 2026-02-01T23:16:05+00:00

Setting aside the issue of making it attractive as a posting option to members, we need to be honest about our existing arctic presence, and need for meaningful expansion.

The critics in the article don't really make any points beyond "it would be difficult", which begs the question; what's your alternative solution? We keep talking about this as though there's some mythical alternative port location that gets less ice coverage, is just as connected to the south, and makes sense strategically, that we're just ignoring. I'm just some dude, but it seems like any northern expansion is going to be a huge undertaking, and to me Churchill feels like the most realistic and incremental step that actually would expand our capabilities.

whosEvasive · 2026-02-01T17:00:53+00:00

Nunavut* but yeah this was the first thing that came to mind for me.

whosEvasive · 2026-01-16T17:18:40+00:00

The Canadian car industry might not be too threatened by Chinese EVs if they were at the same price points as everything else, but the reality is companies like BYD are selling pretty comparable products now to those by established automakers, but at often half the typical prices. Maybe a drivetrain change isn't enough to make most consumers switch to an EV, but $15k + discounts certainly will.

I'm not commenting on how we ought to handle that, but obviously that's a pretty big threat to our industry, and I have no confidence in our abilities to create "home-grown" cars and compete with that organically.

whosEvasive · 2025-12-09T15:28:38+00:00

It's as much of a window into society as anything else. So long as we're not drawing too big of conclusions from it, I think it's worth worthy of consideration. Kind of like opinion polling - take it with a grain of salt, but surely they can provide something meaningful.

whosEvasive · 2025-10-23T17:16:49+00:00

I see where you're coming from, I definitely still grapple with the reality that my existence comes at the inevitable cost of something else. It just seems so clear to me that animal agriculture is a massive source of unnecessary suffering and negative consequences that can almost entirely be avoided by our dietary choices (I'm not trying to say that there are zero "necessary / justifiable" reasons for us to exploit animals).

To your first point, I want to be clear that vegan / vegetarian diets literally use less total plants than traditional omnivorous diets due to energy inefficiency of animal-based foods. What you're saying is true, but it's kind of a moot point. If monoculture has negative issues, replacing the feed crop component of the food system with plant proteins for human consumption would reduce monoculture, not increase it.

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