Whats rustling your jimmies?

Izo · Mar 20, 2026

RobXIII said:
Yes, a fellow QQ user, it's never out of style! I had those on my license plate before it was banned (for the non QQ part)

But in all seriousness, aren't like 95% of the new cars sold there EV?

Yes. Because no taxation on EVs, like Norway - and we tax ICE heavy now. The only 2 countries in europe doing this dumb experiment.
Elections coming up in 10d time, and we expect to be screwed over yet again by new road, weight and inner city taxing schemes for EVs too. It's like our politicians want us to ride a bike or the bus 100s of clicks every day. Silly.

Hatorade · Mar 20, 2026

Sludig said:
FIL is too young to be this stupid. Almost early on set like angry dementia. Having issues with road raging about nothing thinking people are out to fuck w/ him just because they are in his way.

Wife admits earlier this year he fell for a cold call investing scam, lost $500 where they gave him an app claiming he'd like doubled his money, was getting ready to put more into it. Basically has ODD (oppositional defiant disorder) so when his wife/daughters telling him he's a retard he has to double down. Shit was so sketch like he'd constantly get locked out and have to call them. I'm shocked it didnt get to the point of somehow also just straight ganking money out of his accounts.

Currently plan is if he croaks we moving the mom in. She's mostly with it, just herself was a Q tard and believes a bunch of really zany conspiracy theories like we are secretly still on the gold standard etc.

Maaan this must work all the time, my step dad fell for the your computer has a virus scam… like how? Lucky his is so offline he didn’t have a zelle or cashapp etc so they couldn’t empty his bank account. They did get all his passwords and who knows what else he wouldn’t admit to after I told him he fucked up. Only answered the phone because I thought someone died as he never calls me.

RobXIII · Mar 20, 2026

Izo said:
Yes. Because no taxation on EVs, like Norway - and we tax ICE heavy now. The only 2 countries in europe doing this dumb experiment.
Elections coming up in 10d time, and we expect to be screwed over yet again by new road, weight and inner city taxing schemes for EVs too. It's like our politicians want us to ride a bike or the bus 100s of clicks every day. Silly.

I feel that, I'm against taxing to remove choice (Gas car tax, soda tax), sorry you have to deal with that. In my state, it'll cost me 500$ to register my 2 EVs for a year, on top of the ludicrous Property Tax for cars (probably 2500 total for both).

But I won't switch back to gas.

Goatface · Mar 20, 2026

long story short, over year ago, went to see foot doctor, he didn't seem to know what was causing my issue. he was rushed and i didn't like him. still have the issue, but been living with it. messaged my pcp, wanted to see a different doctor about it.
couple days later, get a call from the same doctor's office with a new appointment.

Burren · Mar 20, 2026

Droigan said:
Gas cost in Norway is based in liters, but going from our currency to USD and for a gallon it is now around $11. The current socialist govt is "talking about" perhaps lowering the taxes (which are stupid high) on gas temporarily since the cost has gone up around 1-2 dollars in the past week.

Some of the cost of gas per $11 gallon = $1,426 "road tax". $1,438 "CO2 tax". Then of course a 25% VAT on top of everything.

Combined, a quick google search lists that around 60%ish of the cost of gas is extra taxation here. Sounds about right for the around 12-15th ish most oil producing nation in the world (Nr 1 in Europe)

Hahahahahaha.

Cad · Mar 20, 2026

RobXIII said:
I feel that, I'm against taxing to remove choice (Gas car tax, soda tax), sorry you have to deal with that. In my state, it'll cost me 500$ to register my 2 EVs for a year, on top of the ludicrous Property Tax for cars (probably 2500 total for both).

But I won't switch back to gas.

For me I think 90% of the reason I can't switch back is transmissions. I have one of my law partners GLE63 AMG in my driveway as he is out of the country, and I drove it a few times. It's fast, very cool interior, great build quality. But the transmission is so jerky its insane... want to squirt by someone? Give it 3/4 throttle and it jerks the whole car downshifting then jerks the car again when it finds boost and surges forward. Like least elegant thing ever. In my M3P I'd silently be 1/4 mile ahead of them at 1/3rd throttle and never felt more than the 0.2g acceleration forward.

The smooth as glass instantly available torque is like fucking crack, and no gas car replaces it.

Burren · Mar 20, 2026

Void · Mar 20, 2026

Fuck Microsoft. I know that everyone knows this already, but this is even more fucking stupid. And I just recently complained about even trying to log into a Microsoft account too.

Part of the rustle is just having to help people with computer shit, but let's ignore that. Let's also ignore the multiple "that account doesn't exist" errors that logging into a Microsoft account entails. That's enough for a rant right there.

Friend has a Microsoft 365 subscription (Excel, Word, etc.). His dad also has one that just expired. They realized they could just combine and use one instead of paying for both, since you get something like 5 or 6 total installs out of a subscription.

Long story short, no matter what I do, whether it be deleting credentials, modifying the registry, completely uninstalling Office 365, even reinstalling fucking Windows itself, the minute the dad accepts the invite to join his son's subscription and signs in with his Microsoft account, it pops up and says that his (old) subscription has expired and he needs to re-up. It will not validate his install with the son's subscription, it just says his shit is expired. It will not allow me to get rid of the expired subscription no matter what I try. I did everything the internet suggested except just making him an entirely new Microsoft account, because apparently he has other shit tied to the existing one (no idea what), and you can't have two different accounts operating at the same time on the same computer. Once you sign in as one, it flips ALL of your Microsoft logins to that one.

Perhaps it is due to the subscription expiring less than a month ago and we just have to wait, but I kind of doubt it. I told them they can deal with Microsoft customer support and try to get it fixed, I'll fucking explode if I talk to them.

I almost just used the MAS activation script, but that would likely backfire on me at some point and I don't want to deal with explaining to them what that is all about.

Fucking Microsoft. I'd press a button to kill them all, right now.

RobXIII · Mar 20, 2026

Cad said:
For me I think 90% of the reason I can't switch back is transmissions. I have one of my law partners GLE63 AMG in my driveway as he is out of the country, and I drove it a few times. It's fast, very cool interior, great build quality. But the transmission is so jerky its insane... want to squirt by someone? Give it 3/4 throttle and it jerks the whole car downshifting then jerks the car again when it finds boost and surges forward. Like least elegant thing ever. In my M3P I'd silently be 1/4 mile ahead of them at 1/3rd throttle and never felt more than the 0.2g acceleration forward.

The smooth as glass instantly available torque is like fucking crack, and no gas car replaces it.

Yep! The insta acceleration has saved me HOURS of time stuck at red lights. I know the timings for the work commute, and can get to the speed limit in 1 second. The rest of the cars are way behind me, and get stuck at the next light, and it's a good 6 minutes if there's a pedestrian. Do that twice a day, 5 days a week, those 6 minutes add up

I'm not an EV evangelist douche though. They work for me, I live in a climate that is kind to them (ie not super cold). Yet I still love riding in well designed ICE cars. My neighbor has like 4 corvettes, so much fun.

TBT-TheBigToe · Mar 22, 2026

Several things rolled into one thing;

Trump, on a social media platform almost nobody uses, threatening to use Weapons of Mass Destruction in a war being fought on behalf of a country and people committing a genocide on my skin colour through engineered attrition.
A country and people I used to not have any issue with are so out of control that I am actually embracing, for the first time in my life, racism and a genuine dislike for them, their ways, their practices, and their hubristic arrogance.
That everyone in power is just going along with that group's activities, crimes, and their sheer perversion of language, law, right, morality, and global order.
That in spite of that I still believe "Not all <whatever except pedophiles>" but my patience is wearing thin
And, of course, the sheer powerless in the face of it that I exist in, we exist in. We can't do anything about me, me less so for being Canadian. It's just going to happen because we bred out the killer/animal instinct in favour of being Civilized.
The whole world feels out of control and insane, we are all lead by some combination of inept, stupid, corrupt, evil, useless, narcissistic, pieces of shit and there is nothing we can do about it. Whole world is going fucking topsy turvy and we just get to ride the coaster and wait for the whole thing to derail. WEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
That any of the above rustles my jimmies at all. I used to be unplugged, I miss that ignorance, I miss when my family, video games, and our dogs were all I cared about.

Not impressed with the world right now.

Also, it is really starting to seem like the diamond polishing compounds I am using have all had a contamination issue at the diamond powder, pre-compound, stage and it's making polishing a fucking chore and that just makes everything worse.
I am mostly rustled over the compound thing because it's fucking with my zen.

Global fucking epidemic of incompetence.

Burren · Mar 22, 2026

TBT-TheBigToe said:
Several things rolled into one thing;

Trump, on a social media platform almost nobody uses, threatening to use Weapons of Mass Destruction in a war being fought on behalf of a country and people committing a genocide on my skin colour through engineered attrition.

A country and people I used to not have any issue with are so out of control that I am actually embracing, for the first time in my life, racism and a genuine dislike for them, their ways, their practices, and their hubristic arrogance.

That everyone in power is just going along with that group's activities, crimes, and their sheer perversion of language, law, right, morality, and global order.

That in spite of that I still believe "Not all <whatever except pedophiles>" but my patience is wearing thin

And, of course, the sheer powerless in the face of it that I exist in, we exist in. We can't do anything about me, me less so for being Canadian. It's just going to happen because we bred out the killer/animal instinct in favour of being Civilized.

The whole world feels out of control and insane, we are all lead by some combination of inept, stupid, corrupt, evil, useless, narcissistic, pieces of shit and there is nothing we can do about it. Whole world is going fucking topsy turvy and we just get to ride the coaster and wait for the whole thing to derail. WEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

That any of the above rustles my jimmies at all. I used to be unplugged, I miss that ignorance, I miss when my family, video games, and our dogs were all I cared about.

Not impressed with the world right now.

Also, it is really starting to seem like the diamond polishing compounds I am using have all had a contamination issue at the diamond powder, pre-compound, stage and it's making polishing a fucking chore and that just makes everything worse.
I am mostly rustled over the compound thing because it's fucking with my zen.

Global fucking epidemic of incompetence.

Welcome

Hoss · Mar 22, 2026

Void said:
Friend has a Microsoft 365 subscription (Excel, Word, etc.). His dad also has one that just expired. They realized they could just combine and use one instead of paying for both, since you get something like 5 or 6 total installs out of a subscription.

Long story short, no matter what I do, whether it be deleting credentials, modifying the registry, completely uninstalling Office 365, even reinstalling fucking Windows itself, the minute the dad accepts the invite to join his son's subscription and signs in with his Microsoft account, it pops up and says that his (old) subscription has expired and he needs to re-up.

LibreOffice works great for me. I have to use that 365 bullshit at work so I know first hand LibreOffice is better.

Kajiimagi · Mar 22, 2026

Hoss said:
LibreOffice works great for me. I have to use that 365 bullshit at work so I know first hand LibreOffice is better.

LibreOffice for the win!

Sludig · Tuesday at 11:48 AM

Twitter links won't open have to open, close, click again and it will work. They work fine from discord etc

Hoss · Friday at 8:18 AM

I bought a set of metal ear buds because I think they looked neat. It's also the only ear buds I have with a usb c connection.

Lemme tell you, as neat as metal earbuds sound, they are fucking cold when you first put them in. One of these days I'll get a replacement, but I use them so infrequently that I always forget.

Goatface · Saturday at 5:22 PM

amazon, missing package

"we might have just made up the report that your package being in your mailbox"
they also asked to give it 48 hours but at the time i clicked on it 5pm pdt was just over 55 hours away.

Hoss · 2026-03-29T14:58:27-0400

Goatface said:
asked to give it 48 hours but at the time i clicked on it 5pm pdt was just over 55 hours away.

That's 48 business hours, sir.

My packages are almost always marked delivered before they are actually delivered. It's typically there within the hour. I forget where I heard this, but I think it's getting marked as delivered when the driver marks that you're his next stop or something. At least amazon takes pictures and I know if there's no pic, it's not really delivered.

Rajaah · 2026-03-30T11:57:49-0400

Goatface said:
amazon, missing package
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"we might have just made up the report that your package being in your mailbox"
they also asked to give it 48 hours but at the time i clicked on it 5pm pdt was just over 55 hours away.

I've had this happen multiple times. Something is marked as delivered, it isn't there, I file a complaint, it shows up days later.

They need to stop doing this and get a better system going.

Rajaah · 2026-03-30T12:16:02-0400

What's rustling my jimmies: Was parked and getting out of my Tesla on the side of a residential street (25 MPH speed limit). As I was walking around to the back of the car (to get out of the street) someone in a particularly filthy Subaru hybrid coming from the opposite direction (so in the other lane) sped up and veered over towards me (from behind), missing me by inches while going approximately 60 MPH if I had to guess. They also honked just as they did it, so it was basically ambush from behind. I don't think they were trying to hit or clip me, it was more like a Renee Good style "I'm gonna intimidate this guy by veering towards him sharply lol". If I had stuck my right elbow out to the side even six inches I would have had it get whacked by their driver's side mirror.

I nearly jumped in the car and chased after them to get their plate, and I wish I had, but my mom was in the car and I didn't want to spook her. Instead I pulled up the Tesla cameras and saved a recording of the whole thing. Later I brought it over to the police station and a guy I know there reviewed the videos with me.

He said there was very little they could do since this piece of shit didn't actually strike me. At best he could call them and give them a verbal warning that they were on camera driving recklessly and nearly hitting someone. If they'd even lightly bumped me, their shitty Subaru hybrid could have been my shitty Subaru hybrid. So that's rustle number one.

At the very least I could probably sue them in small claims court for "causing PTSD" or something. I'm not litigious but this person needed to have some sort of ramification for acting like that. I called my doctor up after it happened and he immediately drafted a "this caused mental distress" letter and sent it over, just in case it would help me stick it to this prick.

Rustle number two is that with them going so fast, their plate was heavily blurred in all of the Tesla external camera footage. My cop friend worked on it for a little while, but he called me later and said he wasn't able to get anything usable out of any of the frames.

What is the point of having external cameras if they can't reliably catch license plates if the target is going fast? Instead of constantly back-recording 90 minutes of low-res, low-FPS footage, it should be constantly back-recording 15 minutes of high-res, high-FPS footage. Or at least that should be an option. If something happens you don't generally need the past 90 minutes of footage, but you DO need something that is freaking readable.

So in any case we couldn't even get the plate down for him to track the person. I'm over here with a doctor's letter ready to take a swing at fucking this person up in court, and can't. The footage shows them dead to rights moving over and speeding (way) up.

Just rustles the fuck out of me that this hybrid-driving piece of shit can act like that, nearly kill me, and get away with it.

Void · 2026-03-30T13:16:37-0400

Rajaah said:
What's rustling my jimmies: Was parked and getting out of my Tesla on the side of a residential street (25 MPH speed limit). As I was walking around to the back of the car (to get out of the street) someone in a particularly filthy Subaru hybrid coming from the opposite direction (so in the other lane) sped up and veered over towards me (from behind), missing me by inches while going approximately 60 MPH if I had to guess. They also honked just as they did it, so it was basically ambush from behind. I don't think they were trying to hit or clip me, it was more like a Renee Good style "I'm gonna intimidate this guy by veering towards him sharply lol". If I had stuck my right elbow out to the side even six inches I would have had it get whacked by their driver's side mirror.

I nearly jumped in the car and chased after them to get their plate, and I wish I had, but my mom was in the car and I didn't want to spook her. Instead I pulled up the Tesla cameras and saved a recording of the whole thing. Later I brought it over to the police station and a guy I know there reviewed the videos with me.

He said there was very little they could do since this piece of shit didn't actually strike me. At best he could call them and give them a verbal warning that they were on camera driving recklessly and nearly hitting someone. If they'd even lightly bumped me, their shitty Subaru hybrid could have been my shitty Subaru hybrid. So that's rustle number one.

At the very least I could probably sue them in small claims court for "causing PTSD" or something. I'm not litigious but this person needed to have some sort of ramification for acting like that. I called my doctor up after it happened and he immediately drafted a "this caused mental distress" letter and sent it over, just in case it would help me stick it to this prick.

Rustle number two is that with them going so fast, their plate was heavily blurred in all of the Tesla external camera footage. My cop friend worked on it for a little while, but he called me later and said he wasn't able to get anything usable out of any of the frames.

What is the point of having external cameras if they can't reliably catch license plates if the target is going fast? Instead of constantly back-recording 90 minutes of low-res, low-FPS footage, it should be constantly back-recording 15 minutes of high-res, high-FPS footage. Or at least that should be an option. If something happens you don't generally need the past 90 minutes of footage, but you DO need something that is freaking readable.

So in any case we couldn't even get the plate down for him to track the person. I'm over here with a doctor's letter ready to take a swing at fucking this person up in court, and can't. The footage shows them dead to rights moving over and speeding (way) up.

Just rustles the fuck out of me that this hybrid-driving piece of shit can act like that, nearly kill me, and get away with it.

Probably stolen and being driven by underaged joyriding joggers anyway. Ain't nothin' gonna happen even if you do get a plate.

Whats rustling your jimmies?

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