LanyrdSkynrd

My best friend as a teen ate burgers by eating the meat and cheese with his bare hands, then eating the bun with ketchup(no other toppings because he and his whole family didn't eat any vegetables). He ate pizza the same way.

I did home renovation work for like 8 months. Some of the people in the crew practically destroyed their bodies doing that work for 20+ years. One of the drywall guys would have to use his left hand to loosen his right's grip on the knife because it would get locked up. There was another guy that was maybe 45-55 that walked hunched over like a 90 year old man.

I actually liked the work compared to other jobs I'd had, but the "work through the pain" culture was so toxic. Everyone would act like working hurt was both mandatory and something to be admired.

It's fine to be proud of being a hard worker, but being proud of destroying your body for a boss that wouldn't give a shit if you died is sad.

If the buildings vent stack is operating properly smells shouldn't be coming out of the drains, no matter how much they pour down it.

If the vent stack is clogged or insufficiently sized, air could be forced up through the traps, but you'd be smelling sewer gas too. It's a really rank smell you'd notice, so I think the polysytrene smell is probably coming in some other way.

I'm kind of in the same boat. I haven't worked in over 10 years, but my disability benefits were taken away. I've applied for reconsideration and then appealed when that was denied because I can keep the benefits going while I wait for that to play out.

My current plan is to get a shit job just to have something to put on a resume. Places like fast food and convenience stores will hire anyone who has a pulse and can make change. Maybe you can try something like that? I'm trying to stay positive about it by telling myself it'll be temporary.

Every 20 minutes isn't really that surprising, especially when you've got the money to buy it. You're already coming down from the peak about 5 minutes after a hit. There's a bit of a tail, but I've seen plenty of people hitting the pipe the second they start coming down, and those people didn't have millions of dollars to buy more.

I think it's more about a fear of the DEA. They've started going after doctors for over prescribing stimulants.

The DEA is really just going after the doctors running pill mills and the ones rubber stamping scripts for those online prescribers that guarantee a script(or your money back). That doesn't stop your local doctor, who's livelihood rests on writing scripts, from thinking they need to create a paper trail that shows they're using stimulants as a last resort.

I blame this on the tech bros who created shit like cerebral that is just a pill mill with VC funding.

I saw a Benn Jordan video where he mentioned buying a $1000+ comma.ai device(hardware to add driving assist features to cars). He couldn't get it to work so the company told him to join their discord, where he was immediately flamed for being too stupid to make it work.

Discord is a terrible platform for support, especially the way it's used. It sucks for searching and the people most likely to respond to questions are terminally online know-it-alls who'd rather feel superior by insulting you than helping. It's like stackoverflow with memes.

Can you draw Clippy 69'ing with Ariana Grande Please????

I'm pretty skeptical of the value of these LLMs, but Google's isn't even good enough to call it half baked..

These models are ultimately crap in my opinion. They're not optimizing for intelligence or correct answers, they're optimizing for seeming correct and intelligent. All the feedback they get from users is uninformed, you only ask an LLM what you don't know.

I used to think these tech companies knew what they were doing, at least somewhat. It's just a bunch of business dipshits running from fad to fad burning tons of money until they fall backwards into a business. Then they monopolize it and enshittify it.

"I have 3 DUI's and drive a truck that could run over an entire elementary school class without ever noticing. I'm busy because it's my weekend with the kids"

As others have said, most of the braking power comes from the front. You can drive safely without rear brakes in 99% of situations. Of course, that 1% is when you need to make an emergency stop and you can't really predict when that will happen.

That said, 2mm isn't 0. If you haven't been ignoring horrible grinding noises, those brakes are still doing something. You only really need to worry when the friction material is almost completely gone, and you'll know because it sounds terrible. After that you run the risk of overheating and seizing the calipers, which can easily triple the repair cost.