I’ve had many micro cables get broken, requiring the perfect angle, but never the ports themselves as far as I could tell. I’ve never had a C port fail either and rarely have cable issues. However, any time the C ports require a specific angle to work, I have found they’re packed with lint. It goes with the “click” getting weak as well. Paperclip, Sim card pick, compressed air, a good cheek puff, usually all good after.
Is he gonna smoke the kids in his Hokas or is he gonna smoke with the other kids behind the bleachers with his hookah?
I don’t have any stat points left to git gud :( automotive has fallen from beloved hobby to strictly necessity
Small screws, unsure c-clip nuts, plastic/plastic panels that flex away, mystery grime, and too many screws. I’d have no qualms if the nuts were rigid in the body and used machine threads.
I did at least eventually have an epiphany and realize that it’s not a 5.5mm hex on my strictly-metric Fords, but rather a 7/32in or some bullshit.
You make good points. Truthfully, I only got back into doing it myself within the last 2 years. I haven’t done any vehicle more than twice. Somehow I always think I’m too good for the gloves and today will be the day I do it cleanly - only to use the same value in paper towels. Unfortunately, I know at least 3 filters are bottom-mount vertical. They have oil sitting in the galleys above it and spill more as they wobble off. I’ll have to check the drain plug sizes and see. I’m sure there’s repeat sizes, all being metric. I do use brake clean for the final spray since I’m not aware of any other nogrinse degreasers (also haven’t looked)
I do kind of enjoy my 300cc motorcycle. The drain plug is on the kickstand side (good with the lean) and the filter is a cartridge type that lives high on the block and on the not-kickstand side. Basically all the drip is from playing operation with the cartridge on the way out. And it only takes 1.4qt.
My driveway is uphill to the garage. I point up hill, use ramps, chock the rear tires, and only slide in from the front.
But I do hate doing oil changes. Oil gets everywhere on the tools, everywhere on my hand when I get the filter, everywhere on the ground when it splashes, and everywhere on the outside of the containers. Then it lightly oils everything between my garage on the disposal site. But, once I stopped getting $45 employee pricing on dealership synth blend changes and started getting $120+ normie pricing, I got fed up. I liked having a professional, trusted mechanic have eyes under a lifted car rather than my casual eyes laying under ramps, but shit, prices are absurd. Hello Kirkland oil.
I also hate splash shields. They’re mildly infuriating. I got the harbor freight Maddox oil filter socket set and now can generally avoid removing splash shields on my fleet
The part where you effectively quoted Trump? Is that where you’re not sure if it’s satire?
Just gotta have reading hormones. Everything smells better that way
Here, I’ll do metric for you on your theory of muscle being equivalent perfect vacuum. I have some similar corelle dishes. The flat measures 10cm across. That’s 78. 5cm^2 area. Assuming OP lives at sea level, 1atm is 1.033kg/cm^2 which puts the total force at over 81kg. This bowl offers no horizontal surfaces to hook fingers under to utilize geometric advantages and is instead entirely dependent on friciton. If your fingertips can squeeze sideways with enough force to pull a smooth, tapered 81kg object without glue, there’s a gold bar in a Dubai mall with your name on it.
4 inches diameter, 12.6in^2, 180lbs for the Americans.
At some point between 0 and 81kg of force, I’d start worrying about breaking the plate with such little support around the rim. And, as for the impossibility of a perfect vacuum, I’d be easily convinced the bowl could have more than half of the maximum possible pressure differential. A large portion of the interior volume is probably ravioli, minimizing the gas volume. Ravioli are full of water, which means the remainder of gaseous volume in the bowl was probably mostly steam, pushing out the standard air. Steam has an insane compression ratio as it cools and condenses back into water, at about 1700:1. Go watch the video of a tank car imploding from steam condensation.
I cover my bowls the same way. I always cock the plate to the side for this exact reason. My 1L (4 cup) pyrex bowls with silicone lids can cave 1" if they’re allowed to cool for a minute. Steam easily vents from the rim as it’s produced but once it starts cooling, the weight of the lid or plate is plenty to get the initial seal
How do you figure suction is very limited? You’ve never tried to pull a suction cup straight off, have you? I’m not talking about when suction cups have bad sealing surfaces and slowly leak to the point of popping off or peeling suction cups off from a corner, I’m talking applying it to a good surface and then yanking it.
A shoddy 4.5" suction cup from Harbor Freight is rated at 80lbs carrying capacity for glass, which happens to likely be the same material as the dish (corelle), judging form the thinness. The bowl is probably plastic and had weight on it while these were hot and wet after washing. Please, let me know if you can lift an 80lb dumbell from the end with a single hand with ease.
3-point Seat belts go back to the 60s, disc brakes even earlier, anti lock was the 80s along with crumple zones, wishbone suspension goes back decades (including original Mustang) while being less commonplace now than the peak (90s?) where even BMW has gone with McPherson today. The biggest change in hybrid tech was the switch to lithium cells for appropriate power density, while there’s not much else new about electric motors and generators. See: diesel trains actually being diesel-electric. Maybe solid state components making DC voltage stepping feasible. There’s not anything actually wrong with drum brakes at this point. Modern pad material is the big thing, being able to withstand much more heat.
I do not see how you consider those things major changes but not what has developed beyond that.
What massive safety revolutions occurred in 2004 that can’t be as easily dismissed as you’ve dismissed those since then?
Being highly equipped and rated for 2004 standards does not make it highly equipped or rated by 2025 standards. Standards and expectations are constantly changing. That’s being disengenius to the fact that all 3 of your perks were not typical in the market at all, not even with options. In 2004, the corvette still had popup headlights, ABS was not required, the IIHS had just introduced the side crash test, the rollover roof crush test did not exist, there was only the 40% frontal overlap test and not the 25% overlap test, the test was not performed on the passenger side at all, the Mustang had not entered the retro phase yet, neither the Challenger nor the Camaro were active nameplates, the 2nd gen Prius, the one everyone knows, was an infant. Just because you witnessed the slow evolution of technology doesn’t mean 21 years isn’t a massive jump - especially if it’s any kind of SUV/crossover since they were just seething into the general public’s preference, making rollover a much more serious threat, statistically.
It’s a setting you may not realize is off until “the event”. Presumably, it’ll fix itself on new content, but enabling limited thumbnail height in Connect has made this post a small square in a huge blank space and now I’m mildly amused
I’m mildly infuriated for having to scroll pass this. Twice. Once in my feed, hoping it was c/mildylinfuriating, and a second time to come down here and tell you about it.
It’s the same as Wendy’s having a department just to write sarcastic tweets. It’s makes you think of them as Corporation the Person instead of Corporation the Corporation. It’s brand imaging. It makes you form a sentimental attachment to a corporation so you choose them over competitors, alternatives, or not buying anything at all.
This isn’t cursive so much as it’s dragged manuscript. Keep in mind there’s no single group of characters in cursive. There’s variations. Capital F is the whole reason I quit cursive. Some do a backwards print F, some do it like the Friendly’s restaraunt chain.
Regardless, here’s what I couldn’t read accurately that buried the message: fasting, that, climbing, mountain.
Micro was weak and largely people’s first experience with frequent-use plugging. Cheap cables don’t last long. Car use is abusive, even using the phone while charging is harsh. Moving the phone by the wire. Hard cable angles to keep the phone upright in stands, cup holders, cups, whatever. Rolling the cable tight for storage or travel. Pulling by the cable to unplug instead of by the head. Accidentally tripping on cables or otherwise yanking them. It’s death by 1,000 papercuts for the cable. Shit happens.