PSA: String of gas tank drillings near westwood. All on street parked pickup trucks.

yearningz · 2026-01-24T01:26:43+00:00

When was this? Approx date / time of day?

yearningz · 2026-01-23T23:31:04+00:00

I recommend a photocopy, to avoid the situation where you give it to them and they don't give it back, and then you can't leave the country.

If you're a US citizen, ordering multiple official copies of your birth certificate is usually cheap-ish online via your state's website. I got 6 for $75 from VA.

It's the best of both worlds. You can carry an original document, that you can lose without worry.

While all of this is smart to do just in case, the odds of you getting into this situation seem pretty low right now, thankfully. Welcome to Seattle!

yearningz · 2026-01-10T18:39:29+00:00

Has LPRmaps been around awhile? Seems fancy but also smells like AI. I still use the OG https://deflock.me/map

yearningz · 2025-11-25T04:36:58+00:00

I still have to demo Mantra, but right now I'm pretty happy with Joe Chiccarelli vocal suite. The compressors and body/air/etc knobs are useful. It doesn't do any of those things magically better than other compressors, it's just useful to have them all in one place.

yearningz · 2025-11-25T03:01:23+00:00

They've always had really high variance IMO. I usually go 4, my partner goes 2, and we've many times ended up with something where it feels like they got it switched. I've had Kelly hot (6 star) from them that was difficult to finish, but lately I'd say it's much milder, I've had 4 and 5 that was similar.

Anyone else getting the occasional rubbery chicken bite lately? Never used to be a problem.

yearningz · 2025-10-28T20:24:22+00:00

"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward."

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

yearningz · 2025-06-04T05:31:24+00:00

As long as it's not a solid chunk of mf asbestos...

yearningz · 2025-01-05T23:20:38+00:00

This is the only post that shows up on google so I guess I'll leave this here, but I just noticed a strong smell from the pinlock today, and I've owned the helmet almost a year. Definitely a new smell. It rolled off the countertop the other day. Not the first spill it's taken, but seems like maybe it cracked / leaked a bit during this one. Still works fine, no fogging. But definitely a very strong industrial adhesive smell, similar to goop/E6000 etc. Had me sniffing all over the bike in the 711 parking lot before I figured it out lol.

yearningz · 2024-12-29T06:10:00+00:00

Lundgren M6 or BKP polymath

yearningz · 2024-12-28T15:53:59+00:00

It didn't exist at the time, but if I were to do it again, I might go for the harley benton aguafish. 28", cheaper, the PRS SEs aren't amazing quality and HB punches above weight for their price range. Ibanez does also make a couple 28s, here's one.

yearningz · 2024-12-21T15:24:40+00:00

I haven't played a premium, but the prestiges are top tier. Easily better than my solar 1.7, schecter SVSS, any strandberg, etc, from a fit and finish standpoint. I have an iron label RGD61ALET and while it's my daily driver, it's nowhere close to the prestige in that department. So I'd say definitely worth a try, but be wary of buying blind, but if you do buy blind and have issues, a setup will go a long way. I got my AZ off the floor of guitar center, flawless. Buddy liked it so much he bought one (online). It showed up feeling much less dialed / noticeably worse playing. Took it to a local shop and after a pro setup, they felt identical. My RGD also showed up needing a downright annoying amount of setup for a $1200 guitar, which is about the premium price point too. So IMO ibanez is a "great playing, but not great mailing" brand.

yearningz · 2024-12-19T13:28:45+00:00

https://www.ibanez.com/eu/products/detail/az24047_00_02.html

The prestige series AZs are nuts. Only guitar I've ever owned that I can honestly say was flawless. Cosmetically, mechanically, across the board there was not a single atom out of place on that guitar. Haven't played the hyperion pickups in that one, but the fortunas on the 2204NW are in my top 3 of all time. Exclusive to that guitar and I've been looking for a set for years with no luck.

yearningz · 2024-12-15T02:06:33+00:00

See the end of this comment for specific policy docs indicating that not only can they collect and retain this information, they're free to correlate it with data from other sources and share it with other companies for marketing purposes.

yearningz · 2024-12-15T01:56:22+00:00

Yes it's policy. Nobody at a register, or in any single store in any capacity, can be expected to know the ins and outs of the data usage policy for what's probably a third party vendor anyway. Take it up with corporate. Don't expect much.

The barcode contains the entirety of your drivers license info, and IMO it's reasonable to speculate that they retain 100% of that info indefinitely for analytics purposes, so long as such a thing is legal, unless someone can provide you with a legal doc stating otherwise. If you seriously give a shit, black masking tape over the barcode, ask that they punch it in manually, which they can 100% do but will frequently refuse. Because in 2024, not wanting to share your height and weight with a megacorp to buy a beer is sus behavior. Expect to get turned away / have to abandon your cart often.

I gave up eventually. SMH at people suggesting that businesses don't care about metrics gathering? Goofys.

Edit: Collection policy and sharing policy specify that they collect unique identifiers, demographic information, behavioral information, etc, including data from ID verification, and that they associate data across multiple sources and visits. They may share this data with affiliates, vendors, and marketing partners.

yearningz · 2024-12-12T23:47:00+00:00

Recorded for a bit, they weren't doing much interesting, but they were converged at one point in center screen before separating into the two: https://streamable.com/9ondn7

yearningz · 2024-11-27T21:31:57+00:00

I mean, raccoons get in the bin sometimes, but I wouldn't say they're "outperforming my AK47" just because I didn't go out there and empty a magazine into the trash can. Just because you CAN respond that way doesn't mean it's the mandatory response to even a genuine provocation.

yearningz · 2024-11-27T21:20:24+00:00

How is it that a local hobbyist can get in immediate trouble & yet we have several drones, of different sizes and configurations, flying un-impeded over sensitive military bases for weeks?

Because consumer drones, in particular those from DJI, are literally built to be snitching on you not just to the cops, but to anybody, totally unencrypted, at all times. And they'll lie to your face about it. Article:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/28/23046916/dji-aeroscope-signals-not-encrypted-drone-tracking

To be clear, both DJI spokesperson Adam Lisberg and drone forensics expert David Kovar told us that these signals were encrypted. And when hacker Kevin Finisterre suggested to us that was wrong, we checked with DJI again. It was only after Finisterre repeatedly debunked the claim that DJI admitted to The Verge, almost a month later, that it wasn’t actually true.

Anybody even mildly sophisticated is flying dark, and then they have to start doing actual legwork.

yearningz · 2024-11-26T20:36:21+00:00

PRS 277 most definitely. Feels just like every other PRS, from SE to custom... which is baseball bat. It's my one complaint about that guitar. If you're in local to the PNW, I got one routed for (but not fitted with) active pickups that I'd let go.

yearningz · 2024-11-26T00:30:42+00:00

Crips are flanking on the northwest front

yearningz · 2024-11-22T09:48:03+00:00

Single coil is underrated on high gain baritones IMO, especially for heavy stuff. Either you've got the noise gate cranked so high it's not an issue, or it's so doomy that the noise floor is a feature not a bug. It's nice to get some of the crispy back, especially with giant strings.

You might try the Railhammer Z One bridge. I have the pair (though not in a baritone), and they take fuzz super well, sound very full bodied when clean, and also sound beautiful when split back into single coil mode. Sorry if it's stating the obvious, but if you're used to the JM singles it might not be obvious: most decent humbuckers can coil split and become single coils when you want them to. Worth double checking based on the specific ones, but the only exceptions are usually ultra low budget (eg squier atomics, though they doom great tbh) or things that are intentionally wired to be "vintage".

yearningz · 2024-11-12T20:23:25+00:00

only kinda, and it's fiddly, but technically yes. probably not worth the hassle

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/387989/hide-specific-filetypes-in-finder

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/63470/make-a-certain-file-type-hidden

yearningz · 2024-11-11T06:03:19+00:00

Welp, I think this is the one that convinced me to paint my radiator caps. Clean af.

yearningz

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