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We were once a real country, a serious country, where there was truly bounty to be had...

Well frugal me is winning out. So I ended up throwing almost 1/3 of them in my vibratory tumbler today to try to clean and de-rust some of them a bit..... Guess I have a weekend project for tomorrow or Sunday now.

I actually already have a few from Harbor Freight. Plus I have STL files to actually 3d print rails for it as well...

Procrastine AND get time with him by saying "While I'm figuring out how to arrange for it all, how about I come over and you run me through how to work with it all". I'll be sentimentally honest, I have a ton of my grandfathers tools I salvaged/saved from being pawned after he died...

OK, since this I think is the closest place to any here to have "tool talk" here we go... I have a dilemma and conflict between the part of me that wants an efficient workshop/garage, the part of me that hates throwing things away feeling it's a waste, and the part of me that's too lazy to do...

Fair enough... so a tiny moment of Caddy history.... That car that looks so horrible is Cadillac's attempt to rekindle a weird fandom that happened earlier on in the V and V-sport lines. The V and V-sport lines are basically making Cadillacs into new age muscle cars. The V did this...

Yeah, that thing is a painful thing to look at... OTOH, I can firmly attest that the fastest I've ever gone in a car is in my CTS V-sport. And one of the key factors that I won't officially admit was a draw, but was, was that unlike it's competitors in the "luxury sedan" arena it has no...

my dudes..... https://www.harborfreight.com/10mm-metric-essential-socket-set-10-piece-58957.html?_br_psugg_q=10+mm+metric+socket+set $15, and call the problem solved. ;)

I'm sure that's exactly what the dealer is probably putting in those monthly letters they send me offering me an exclusive trade in upgrade offer.... Maybe they'd throw in new mats with the new car payment.... [laughs in "has no car payments"]

OK. I'm getting one of these just to right a review on it... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CZ6DXVCW "I was looking for a stand out light fixture and this was just Reich! After a lot of looking this is definitely my final solution. Although I wonder if it comes in a version that supports gas...

I've been debating something like this for in my caddy as well. Tuxmats doesn't carry for a CTS as old as mine (2017) (only the newer CT4/CT5) though.... Apparently the drawback to my tendency to take care of cars and hold on to them is that now I can't find accessories I want. heh

Looks like I wouldn't need to fight you as obviously only a reptile can be comfortable and survive at those temps. I just have to sneak in and lower the thermostat and wait for the temp to drive your cold blooded metabolism into hibernation.... Checkmate lizard person! Unrelated : I'm about...

And today's entry from "Things the state thinks sane people will do if they're just nudged towards it... "

Yeah, gotta give the German's credit... They do things thoroughly....

(Google fu failed me to find the "I just did the work... hung out with a lot of retards.. did retarded things" gif....)

Have you somehow forgotten about the "Mustang" Mach-e? heh

Minor rustle here but.... Over the spring Coca Cola was doing some kind of cross promotion with Marvel and the MCU. Cans with pictures of apparently all the different MCU heroes. Cool, one would think over a few months maybe you get a little collection or something. Nothing huge, and not...

https://babylonbee.com/news/nation-unsure-why-buffalo-bills-starting-gay-football-team-when-dallas-cowboys-already-exist

Oldman is on a tier where I honestly think there's a real chance that at some point in the future.. I'll be on my deathbed, letting the last bit of life trickle out of me. Tell my wife I love her one last time as I pass.. then just as I close my eyes for the last time I'll hear someone yell...

I also use a spreadsheet to track all this stuff. For me it automatically keeps track of stocks, crypto, metals holdings..(makes daily entries on a time tracking sheet) I have to manually update (usually 3 times a week) 401k values, cash on hand, property values. I've posted graphs and other...

It's a Gin company he owns (Aviator) and he also owns/owned Mint mobile. He seems to invest in a company, use his endorsement/fame to pump it, then in some cases sell it off. (I think he sold Mint mobile, but still owns Aviator gin). Same can be said for a lot of actors we really like, like...

But outside being a specifically famous actor, there's another more important bottom line.... That being that unlike many of his acting compatriots he's managed to actually accumulate enough net worth that now his acting is done on a "What he wants to do, when he wants to do it" level. (I think...

I can confirm from personal experience pretty much every single thing said here... In the cities I rarely see speeding actively being enforced unless you're in the 15-20+ over range. At the advice of my ficticious legal counsel I am going to choose not to talk about exactly how fast i've gone...

Had a talk this weekend with a friend who is a life long Texan, got a job offer down in the Austin area and started shopping for houses. I had to send him this to crystalize his hatred...

Nothing will top the Johnny Cash cover IMHO, but this is at least some entertaining presentation...

The age of man is over.. the age of the orcs has begun! Unrelated :

Lesbian Space Witches... get it right!

These assholes have rustled the jimmies of the Haus.. I give not a single shit about inconveniencing them to have to know extra parking skills. Not to mention a huge number of cars now can literally park themselves. Just pull up and learn to hit the button instead of trying to manually park a...

Dealt with almost 10 minutes of watching hopless vehicular flailing today while shopping, so you can file this under "Salty ass middle aged white guy" problems... But when I seize power and implement this it will be the Haus Mandate. Before buying ANY motor vehicle you must, at the dealership...

That's why I said they'd have to retrofit existing fabs. As opposed to Nvidia (and I THINK AMD, but not sure) who would have to build fabs from the ground up. I've literally done work in a bunny suit in a TI fab in the past. They're set up much like assembly lines and pretty modular. But...

I think there are other chip manufacturers who would be in better positions. Texas Instruments for instance, they still have fabs in a lot of places (including here in Dallas). But IIRC they would have to massively upgrade/retrofit them to do modern density chip manufacture. That was what I...

I wholly agree, but I think it should be a contingency consideration in there somewhere so that if it goes to hell, you're hedged in a way you don't have to think about other than sell the NVDA and cry over that loss. Just like I invested in URNM because I still believe that for the next 20-30...

Here's a question I've been trying to hammer out an answer to. The NVDA play is obviously around the AI chip play, and it makes complete sense. But with the political situation involving Taiwan (where NVDA makes it's chips), what is the play if chip manufacture there is no longer viable...

I think the larger flaw in all of this is that the BLS openly states that they change what is in the "basket of goods", but don't disclose what the "basket of goods" is. And over time there have been substantial changes in how the calculation was done, almost all politically motivated. It...