“Devitio”

I expect no less from AI garbage, haha

Right?

$450 and a toaster to use something like the external batteries I’ve used for a decade.

Nope.

Just watched them all a few weeks ago, still very funny, see nothing wrong with any of it. The movies are all about absurdity.

Have you seen the books?

I know someone in a place like this, and to move there they essentially sell any property they have to buy their space in the facility.

It’s not cheap, but these places also provide on-site medical facilities with trained staff so someone 65 having a stroke has a decent chance of being OK.

62 is first year of social security eligibility.

Exactly.

Someone older than a teen understands we have a responsibility to bring people together, create a trusting environment, focused on the job at hand.

So even when someone brings up politics, I simply don’t respond, or just ask a work question. Because I know most people doing this want to have their viewpoint validated, and I probably don’t agree in some way. This situation helps no one, and just promotes divisiveness.

Work is for work, not for political bullshit.

Political bullshit is alway divisive, and we all work too damn hard to build cohesive teams.

I’ve seen it many times - if you’re one of those that is compelled to bring outside bullshit to work, where we have enough actual related issues to contend with, you’ll be left behind. People won’t want to work with you, I because you’re not a team player and more interested in discussing political crap (or reality TV crap, or whatever) than discussing the very real issues in front of us.

We already don’t have enough time for the tasks at hand, last thing we need is such juvenile nonsense.

You want to talk politics, do it on your break, away from me.

And your freedom of speech bullshit argument is nothing more than a sophistry tactic known as a strawman. This reveals you to be a sophist, not interested in discovering truth, but rather in winning an argument.

You even led with castigating me, and continued on with denigrating.

You should probably revisit your intentions and ethics.

Wow, I never made that connection

You’d be surprised how hard it is to find manuals these days.

Manufacturers have taken to:

1. Not printing them at all

2. Hiding them behind paywalls with exorbitant prices

I’ve never met an engine that doesn’t need valve adjustments, even with hydraulic lifters.

Now the adjustment period is far longer today, like in the 100k miles range.

Just be glad you rarely see shim/bucket adjustment these days. Boy was that a bitch.

Agreed

https://www.euronews.com/business/2025/01/03/the-poorest-us-state-rivals-germany-gdp-per-capita-in-the-us-and-europe

Maybe just keep politics out of work?

I can’t stand anyone bringing up anything political at work - regardless of which “side”. It’s irrelevant and a distraction - I got shit to do.

So if you got shitcanned for it, you’ll get zero sympathy from me.

Exactly

But I’m not the one coming on here telling everyone weed eases pain.

Notice what I said: “I’ve found”. I didn’t tell other people what would work for them.

Except I’ve had experiences that aren’t explainable by alm this:

Discussing a random, never-thought-of-before idea with a friend, in the car. Neither of us had ever thought of this thing before (honestly don’t recall now what it was). Discussed it for 2 minutes, then moved on.

Later we’re both seeing related ads, yet neither of us searched for anything.

And it was something way out of left field for both of us, that neither of us had ever thought of before. The related ads were so jarring that we both told each other about it.

Oh, and my phone was rooted, de-googled (lineage), with heavy restrictions for the apps, no social media (I still don’t have any accounts with any of them, except here), etc. The other phone was an iPhone.

I’ve had a very similar experience.

Once discussed something, out of the blue, something I’ve never been curious about in my life, in the car, with a friend who also has never thought about the same thing.

Hours later we’re both seeing related ads.

Now, I get that the amount of data required for such analysis is supposedly outside the bounds of what phones can do. But I can’t see any other explanation. Neither of us ever searched anything in this subject, we talked about doe a couple minutes and moved on, never doing anything about it. We have very different interests, too.

Since they’re on a garage door opener, they’re probably designed to be very simple to operate. Not to malign electricians or general contractors, but they don’t have the time to deal with fussy mechanisms - they’ll deal with it once, then never use that brand again.

Since the hole is at an angle I’d guess they’re spring loaded but manually operated. That little slot on the top of the orange buttons looks designed for a flat screwdriver to push it down, opening the clamping mechanism, and it’s spring loaded to come back up and clamp the wire.

Also, looking at the shape of the body and orange parts, they can only move in/out.

Just my guess. Can you shine a light into the hole and see the mechanism at all?

Try pushing an orange piece in with a small screwdriver and little pressure.

Weed sucks for pain.

Opiates are the only thing I’ve found that makes any difference at all.

Not everyone is you.