A) I applaud you for your masterful continuation of the pelagic theme of this discussion about Elon porpoisely allowing this project to flounder into Davy Jone's locker.
B) TIL that an anglerfish lure is called an esca and that a sufficiently literate person can seamlessly weave such an unusual word into this net of fishy discourse.. Bravo!
Agreed. I'm a car guy, have been working on them for decades, owned a shop at one point and worked at a racing component manufacturer for a good bit.
Car enthusiasts come in a lot of stripes and a super broad community may not gain as much focus right away as communities around a single topic, such as weird cars, etc. I'm subscribed to a weird car community here and there's a bunch of cool stuff being posted.
I'd say just keep the faith and keep posting great content and car subs on Lemmy will evolve to a point that attracts plenty of subscribers. I'm personally subscribing to every such community I come across...
This is the way. Win is already activated, no need to pirate anything. Just get a >= 8gb flash drive, download the installer creator app from Microsoft, and reinstall Windows. It will activate based on the licensing level the machine came with, minus the crapware, which is from the manufacturer's OS image, not Microsoft's.
Same. I love my Plex server - I rip all of my physical media audio and video to it and can watch/listen on all of my devices. Music is especially fun on Plex, as it pulls in great bio info for most of the artists, which makes organizing my decent sized music library a fun bit of zen..
Back in the day I used to love many of the fantasy novels by David Eddings (e.g. Belgariad, Mallorean) but after learning about the terrible child abuse he and his wife were prosecuted for, I can't look at them the same way.
Personally, unless you really love the house or location I'd walk away. I'd also be super surprised if issues found by a structural engineer can be fixed, particularly if you have to hire someone for a significant amount of that work, for just 15k, as after the structure is correct there's a bunch of other aspects of the building's construction that will have been disrupted and need fixing. If you need to hire a contractor for repairs it'd probably be more realistic to budget 50-80k for repairs.
If nearby homes exist in turnkey condition for 100k that's your better bet. Not being willing to turn the electricity on in order to help a prospective buyer check out the place is a huge red flag with sirens attached as well. Structural problems can be very bad, electrical problems can burn the place down and kill everyone inside.
Walk away would be my suggestion.
Can also add filters for Trump and Vance in your user settings (I'm on Connect) and stop most related posts from coming up in your feed. Was able to rescue myself from a tidal wave of Sailor Moon Ai posts in my feed that way 😁.
Same. I am a huge fan of curb-alerting large items that I can no longer use. Always a huge relief when a broken table saw that's not worth fixing or some other large item disappears from my garage into the trunk of someone's car.
Me too please! Would love the highest res image you're willing to part with. This is amazing!
There are a handful of gardening sites that sell the egg cases, called ooths. I got mine from Hirt's Gardens - needed to get a native mantis type so as not to introduce a non-native species to my area.
Got them specifically for natural pest control. Hopefully they come back next year like the sunflowers did - guess we'll see!
Hey hey! There it is. Good bot! Will use this as an example going forward.
Nah, prolific not-spam posting of good content would just make me want to follow your account if there is such a thing on Lemmy. Post away!
Not unless he died in a sea battle in that thing.
Meh, it was a good rant. No worries!
Looks great! What kind of paint and equipment did you use?
Used ppg single stage black the last time I painted a car (72' Jag XJ6 w/a SBC conversion).
I had a bad experience with basecoat/clearcoat on the 69' mustang I did before that one - folks kept opening their car doors on it in parking lots and the clear chipped white 😐.
I sure do love a freshly self-painted car!
Thanks so much!
That is actually a Sunflower! My wife has been planting them over the last 3 years or so and this year they're upwards of 15 feet tall.
All of the neighborhood small animals are converging to eat the flowers, and the dogs are eating whatever the squirrels happen to drop.
Meant to mention those and forgot! As long as it's got some kind of decent guarantee that's a great way to go. Should be plenty of them out there, as I'd imagine most of those vehicles end up getting totaled in accidents of varying severities rather than dying from engine problems. I do believe the Japanese engines are available as a result of their having stricter emissions requirements, BTW..
What an incredible image! Love it!
Haven't linked to another community before so I'll probably get this wrong, but it's here:
https://lemmy.world/c/weirdwheels
Hopefully there's a bot or helpful admin that can reply with the correct way to do this. The link should get you there though.
And don't be shy! Start a community for classic cars yourself and add some build posts or show coverage! I've probably got some content I can toss in there...!
One of my favorites too!
Maybe he's trying to trigger the Canadian Air Force into bombing the Baldwins..?
Awesome, thanks for the deets! That's a great looking color - with that inspiration I may have to take the plunge and do my RDX..!
Yeah, you don't want to know more 😐.
Could be - tbh it's been a minute since I looked into those. Either way, a low mileage pull is an excellent option and will last the life of the car if well maintained..
Yup, if you use mods, it's a good idea to set the game to update on launch through the game's properties menu in its steam library listing.
Since a F4SE nodded game is going to launch through the script extender's launcher, that keeps the game from updating automatically when starting a play session.
I also like to make a copy of my game folder and save it off in another drive so I have a backup.
Thanks! I love them too!
As someone who is seemingly constantly working on computers and has done a ton of engine building and other deep car stuff, in addition to the garage mentioned previously, I'd recommend buying a buildable engine core for your subaru, getting that built (either do it yourself - recommended, or by a machine shop - will probably work well, but will cost a lot of $$) and having it ready to install rather than trying to pull the existing engine out and rebuilding it - especially if the current engine still runs.
Unless your plan is to make a hobby of having exploded cars in the yard, this'll go a long way towards putting an end in sight for an engine rebuilding venture.
Also fuck all car subscriptions - that's some gross profiteering right there...
Sounds like your car did not defeat you, and like you kicked a lot of ass. Serpentine belts are a giant pain in the ass - fought with one myself today. Just gotta have the right tool, which in this case is one of those that gets used once every 5 years unless you work on a lot of cars. You did great, and should be proud of what you accomplished!