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  1. Kobayashi

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Received a spam Venmo request from some scammer. Gotta love fumbling my way through some shit interface I use once a year to pay my fantasy football dues to block/decline the transaction, being careful to not accidentally accept. I thought I had all the privacy settings maxed out, but it looks...
  2. Kobayashi

    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    This is a very Jets article. "We've embraced AI!" "The AI we've embraced is Microsoft Copilot." It wouldn't surprise me if their organization exclusively used Bing in Internet Explorer up to this point as well.
  3. Kobayashi

    Aquarists unite: fish are friends, and food

    That's interesting, my water sprite got completely wiped out by the duckweed that hitched a ride at some point. I let that stuff filter the water for a while, but eventually got fed up with dealing with it getting everywhere and purged it.
  4. Kobayashi

    What vehicle do you drive?

    Ferrari has been spun off from FCA (pre-Stellantis) for over a decade now. They own all their own shitty decisions at this point. They make some great cars (albeit of questionable reliability). This is not one of them.
  5. Kobayashi

    What vehicle do you drive?

    If you took all the Ferrari badges off the thing, I'd have thought it was the latest Kia EV. I don't think that color is doing it any favors either. Back end is equally a mess. They kept some of the Ferrari design language, but it just looks off. I don't really see why they bothered with...
  6. Kobayashi

    What vehicle do you drive?

    Not saying this guy is wrong, but what you're describing as the Toyota way is pretty much how all traditional OEMs operate (my limited experience with Ford included). They have a book of specifications that they release to a tier 1 for a part when it's being developed. The problem with this...
  7. Kobayashi

    What vehicle do you drive?

    I promise you it's not. This has been going around, but it's a bunch of clickbait bullshit. If you look, they cite a rider to one of these omnibus bills that requested NHTSA work on a standard for drunk driver monitoring/interlock targeting implementation in 2027. Problem is, the technology...
  8. Kobayashi

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Just got an email from my local shitbag utility asking to complete a survey. As compensation for my time, they'll donate $10 to a charity of their choice in their name. How about you guys pay me and I decide where that money goes. Also, while you're at it, stop paying for advertising and pay...
  9. Kobayashi

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    More like happy nub season. Fucking asshole deer...
  10. Kobayashi

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    I've had two procedures on my knee, the first was just a scope and the second a full ligament reconstruction. The scope I was given the option to stay awake and just have a local. I opted to get knocked out, but I sort of regretted it later on. Second time around, for the reconstruction, I told...
  11. Kobayashi

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Dumb 19 year old me drove into Canada to drink and my first thought was: "Holy shit, gas is cheap here!" I proceeded to pull into a gas station and promptly remembered they were on the metric system when the amount in liters quickly rocketed past my tank's capacity in gallons. Probably a good...
  12. Kobayashi

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    It's good to see he's all grown up now. Added the missing caption.
  13. Kobayashi

    Job Hunting

    It's hard for me to offer advice there - I didn't have any coursework, was just sort of thrown to the wolves and forced to figure it out. I know of some people that used The Learning Pit — LadderLab Temporary Sales Pause but it's currently down while they update the courses or something. I'd...
  14. Kobayashi

    Job Hunting

    Have you considered something like industrial controls? I'm sure you could easily pick up something like Logix on an Allen Bradley PLC with your background. You honestly wouldn't be taking much of a pay cut if you got good at it.
  15. Kobayashi

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Yeah, one. Try dozens. Women put out some of the dumbest possible signs. I went on a first date with a girl, she rebuffed any advances I made, but it went well (so I thought), ended with a pretty g rated kiss. She texts me and says it's not going to work out. I ask why, she says "after that...
  16. Kobayashi

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    My son is suddenly really into Curious George. I found an episode compilation on YouTube from the official Curious George channel. Turns out it's an edited compilation that only has the set up of George causing some issue, but never shows the resolution. The fuck is this bullshit? What kind of...
  17. Kobayashi

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    I googled this and was severely disappointed it wasn't an arm wrestling simulator set in the 80s. No sale for me!
  18. Kobayashi

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    That's definitely supposed to be a dick those people are dancing around, right? Oblig: GIS for dumbest outfit
  19. Kobayashi

    Home Improvement

    I think those whole home arresters are a good additional step for most houses. That's probably as far as I'd reasonably go (whole home at service entrance, surge protection power strips for sensitive electronics). For convenience, your utility can even install them in the meter if they're not...
  20. Kobayashi

    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    I get that, was more talking about stuff I've read about it like the submarine garage, the hospital with hyperbaric chambers, and the whole research wing that allegedly is on the ship. The stuff they focused on just seemed like generic yacht stuff - oh wow, they have a nice kitchen, who would...
  21. Kobayashi

    Home Improvement

    Service entrance is where the power comes into the house - it's installed at the meter or in your main electrical panel on a dedicated breaker. If it's old, I wouldn't necessarily count on it to protect things and it might be worth replacing even if a status light is still on.
  22. Kobayashi

    Home Improvement

    The metal oxide varistors in there degrade as they soak up overvoltage events. They typically have a thermal fuse in front to protect from bursting in a high energy event or overheating as their leakage current gets too high. If the light is off, my assumption is the fuse tripped and there is no...
  23. Kobayashi

    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    Given how big he is into diving, I was disappointed how little they touched on that aspect of the ship. I hope that wall of names is the people who bought the most while playing the least hours.
  24. Kobayashi

    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    So I didn't know anything about that JP Morgan boss lady thing when I read this. I still laughed because I always thought he dressed like a finance douche.
  25. Kobayashi

    Home Improvement

    That stuff is great, I felt like such a sucker buying those tubs of spackle all those years before that. Don't forget to keep in mind the drying time is also affected by water temperature and hardness. My old place had pretty hard water, the first batch of 45 I mixed up was more like 10 or 15. I...
  26. Kobayashi

    Home Improvement

    I guess it's too late to talk you out of getting boxwoods. I actually did the opposite of you, I ripped out boxwoods and replaced them with azaleas (granted in my case my porch is south facing and full sun). I couldn't stand the fucking bugs that hang around the boxwoods (boxwood leaf miners). I...
  27. Kobayashi

    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    I think it was better unreadable.
  28. Kobayashi

    Turo, the airbnb of Car Rentals

    A guy I work with thought he was being pretty smart and built up a little rental fleet of vehicles for Turo. He ended up losing his ass on the whole thing - one car got totaled and the rest absolutely trashed. They'd always come back reeking of weed and dirty, somehow treated worse than a Hertz...
  29. Kobayashi

    Home buying thread

    Dumb thing to factor in for granite is it's typically very mildly radioactive. I don't think it's enough that it would ever matter, but for new construction, I'd avoid it. Reason being: in the age of alarmist Facebook bullshit, all it takes is one influencer dipshit to latch onto that fact and...
  30. Kobayashi

    What vehicle do you drive?

    I'd look into a 2nd Gen Nissan Leaf - they've depreciated to all hell, so, you could probably find one for about the same price as that Veloster if you try. A commute like that would be about the perfect use case for the vehicle - you could even charge exclusively at work (except maybe in the...
  31. Kobayashi

    Microtubules (responsible for your thoughts) spin faster then speed of light, they go back in time, they send light back to its original source faster

    John Stalvern waited. The lights above him blinked and sparked out of the air. There were demons in the base. He didn't see them, but had expected them now for years. His warnings to Cernel Joson were not listenend to and now it was too late. Far too late for now, anyway. John was a space...
  32. Kobayashi

    Push mowers

    I'd had a greenworks 40V mower since 2014, it gave up the ghost in 2024, but that was mostly due to my father in law smoking the bearings because he kept mowing early in the morning with dew still on the ground. Same experience, was maintenance free up to that point outside of sharpening. The...
  33. Kobayashi

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Where does The Simpsons land? Technically the shorts were firmly in the 80s and the debut of the actual show was just before 90, but all of the best seasons were in the 90s.
  34. Kobayashi

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    That looks like something designed by a person that thinks the d-pad should go on the right and the buttons on the left. Oblig: AI N64 controller
  35. Kobayashi

    Home Improvement

    You're probably OK leaving it, but if it was me, I'd probably get a bag of easy sand 90 and patch up the holes. If you follow this guy's instructions, and buy like 20 bucks worth of materials/tools he recommends, you'd have it done in under an hour and you'd never have to worry about it in the...
  36. Kobayashi

    2025-2026 NFL Season Thread - God hates the Chargers

    We'll know in the draft. If they don't overreach for skill players that put up big 40 times at the combine, maybe they've turned over a new leaf.
  37. Kobayashi

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Don't worry, I've got you covered. They're still selling helium balloons at the grocery store.
  38. Kobayashi

    Push mowers

    Not bad, it's although it looks like they're not selling the batteries along with it. I'm slightly leery of a solution that series's batteries together, but at least it's a big brand. If you already had a bunch of dewalt tools and 20v xr batteries, I'd say it's a no brainer. I wouldn't trust...
  39. Kobayashi

    Push mowers

    You're sort of out of the normal time range to get deals on mowers. Best I could come up with is this: https://slickdeals.net/f/19326288-89-99-lawnmaster-clm2413a-cordless-13-inch-lawn-mower-24v-max-with-2x4-0ah-battery-and-a-charger-at-woot This thing might be what the doctor ordered since...