Does the “double tap the back” thing work with a case? I can’t imagine how it would, but almost everyone uses a case, so it seems kinda useless if it doesn’t.

The police report and insurance claim should do a fine job of that.

If it’s a competition for the most fucked up planet, I think we’re all winning.

You can turn your phone off?

It wasn’t on my list before these pictures, but that later model S-10 is looking pretty damn good. I have a soft spot for Volvo wagons, so the V-70 isn’t bad, although that’s maybe one of the poorer years of Volvos (though by no means bad).

The oil filter one isn’t really wrong, so much as a difference of opinion. Even the manufacturers recommend similar intervals, and they’re usually not one to shy away from extra maintenance money. Honda, as of 2020 at least, still has an interval for just oil, and then oil and filter. I’m guessing they know something…

Fine. Uses brakes and is less fuel efficient, but fine.

I was waiting on an S21 to come back in stock. I’m kinda glad it didn’t come in stock, because I can get a 6 Pro for basically the same money.

The size does bother me, but I still ordered a 6 Pro. Longtime Galaxy user, making the change, it just seems like a really nice phone.

Yeah, Verizon is giving me a full $350 for an S9 as part of the deal for getting the Pixel 6 Pro. I think the regular Pixel 6 applies as well.  Normally the S9 is worth about $50 in trade-in value, so that was a pretty damn good deal.

For me it was the telephoto that did it, but it was worth the $300. I think it’ll get a lot of use at the kid’s sports. I haven’t felt one yet though, I pre-ordered today but I need to go to Best Buy and touch them both, make sure I’m ok with a big phone.

Yeah, it’s a good thing it’s not actually a plane, because it doesn’t even carry enough flight time to be remotely safe. Normal planes, it’s considered pretty damn bad if you only have 45 minutes of fuel left, you’re into emergency territory at that point. If you’re flying IFR (instrument rules, most commercial stuff…

$2800 or so for 4 new tires. Yikes. And they probably don’t even last that long. You’ll be lucky to get 28000 miles probably. 10 cents a mile just in the tires.

Since someone (or your other account) already brought this trash out of the greys, allow me to retort:

It wasn’t caused by bad policy or bad procedure, but by a lack of knowledge? The fuck does that even mean (nothing, I know). The policies and procedures were correct, we just didn’t know what the policies or procedures were and we didn’t follow them? Is that somehow better?

Yeah, I don’t really know why concrete breaks our brains, but steel doesn’t. I’m not sure if you’ve picked up a thick piece of steel lately, but it’s also quite dense. Steel is about 3 times as dense as concrete (obviously there’s different types of steel and concrete).

Yeah, ferrocement is definitely a thing people still use to build yachts. Weird people, but people nonetheless.

We bought a new car for my wife summer of ‘20. Much better than the disaster of today. 

A co-worker went to India for her wedding. I think it was basically the entire two weeks. It sounded intense.

The Jeep getting rocked was epic. It just left the whole trailer behind and chilled where it was. Fuck the straps.