How is life like being a lawful good little paladin? I break rules that don’t apply to me. This guy seems to have broken rules that apply to no one.

You’re the guy saying the victim should have complied with the cop that murdered him.

Bruh, I’m digging in my wire drawer or going to the thrift. I cannot imagine how people pay money for new cables of almost any sort.

Same bullshit with guns.

“Hi-tech polymer slide, boolshit, boolshit, boolshit…”

It’s fair-quality plastic, painted silver. My Smith & Wesson EZ is wearing off. :(

Been 15-years ago, but I bet an audiophile coworker, who had a physics degree, he couldn’t tell the difference in a coat hanger and proper wires.

“Well, yeah, but, bla, bla, bla…”

Now I wish I could shove that article up his butt! 😈

Installing cable TV at a man’s house, ripped his Monster coax connector off. He was appalled! (I was appalled!) Showed him what I was replacing it with. Parts guide.

“The shield is quad-woven steel. Yours was 1x of angel hair copper. The dielectric is solid, not a noodle. See? (bendy, bendy) Foil shield? Uh, did yours have one? Oh, I see the shredded bit right there!”

Bent the center conductor on his Monster cable with my pinky. “Try that with mine.” Stopped him before he hypodermic-needled himself.

tl;dr: Whatever the cable guy cuts for you is miles above Monster grade.

It’s like Yeti gear. “So you paid $35 for a cup that’s simply a vacuum sealed canister? I got a 6-pack off Amazon for $25. Cute colors too!”

Been loving the new colors! Yeah, they’re toned down, not Hot Wheels colors, but I’m into the new grey-blues and grey-greens, never seen those before.

Only one I’m not into is the green-yellow, uh, things, I’ve seen. We have a tiny Florida spider that exact color and it makes me think of an arachnid. (I’m fine with spiders, just not cars colored like the freaky ones.)

I’m white and OP has hella privilege if they’ve never been concerned about cops targeting them. They were all over my ass in the 90s for having long hair and driving beaters. They’d lock on and follow until they had an excuse.

Curious how old you are, because until this century, a car with 100,000 on the odometer was considered a piece of crap no one in their right mind would buy. Powertrain warranties of 50,000 were pretty nice in the 90s and when 100,000 came out people were astounded. 3 years/36K was standard warranty for everything else.

SOURCE: Worked Nissan consumer affairs, late 90s.

I live in America and paid $0 to have both our children. No idea how that worked at the time, but it’s true.

It belonged to my ex and I and King Soloman gave us a custody choice. 🤷🏻‍♂️

IIT: People who think they’re oh so smart.

Also ITT: Those same people thinking Trump personally hired the people redacting the files.

AI code is great for getting over a hump, something you’re stuck on. Used ChatGPT (not the best for coding, I know) to help on a PowerShell script. There was exactly two references on the internet for what I wanted to do (Google Calendar/Sheets integration). Spent hours on the problem.

ChatGPT gave me two things: One solution I didn’t know was a thing, another was a twist I hadn’t thought of. For giggles, I plugged the whole script in. Guess what? Failed instantly. Because of course it did.

No. LLMs don’t write working code. Yes. They can help you, assuming you know what you’re doing in the first place. But here’s the crux of using AI:

It does not, and cannot, give a shit about edge cases, user error and security.

I wrote a simple PS script to swap my TV screens around for work, play and movies. Rolled it out in 30 minutes. Took me 2 more hours to stupid proof it, test it, wrap it an exe, make an icon, deploy it, all that. AI can’t do any of that.

You gotta have some special looks to pull of the midpart. This guy got it. I don’t. Do you?

Kids got no imagination these days.

Here’s me, carrying the key to the white castle, while Grundle tries to eat my ass. Thank god it wasn’t Rhindle. That mf was a heat seeking missle. See that hole is his gut? That’s my hole. It was made for me!

Granddad watching me circa 1979:

“I can’t tell what’s happening.”

My thoughts as well! Also, I can’t get over how ridiculously handsome this kid was at 15. That shouldn’t be allowed. Nerd him up or something.

Fact: The 2A exists.

Fact: American courts have always upheld it as a right to individual firearm ownership.

Fact: Changing the Constitution is difficult.

Opinion: We’re not going to change it anytime soon, even to allow Chocolate Chip Cookie Day.

You’re pissing into the wind arguing against the 2A. We need other approaches.

Changing one’s face enough to fool biometrics is so rare as to be discounted. Those bastard Tleilaxu Face Dancers though!

That’s a small group and composed mainly of younger people who don’t vote. I built my own PCs from 1994 to around 2019. Now few people even own PCs, let alone build and upgrade.

Not for long. In either case you’re going to be bear 💩 soon enough.

Whenever these stories come out I think I’d be that guy. But once you’re given a description of yourself and your clothing?!