OT: Thread About Nothing (part # who cares)

[njdevils1982]

Karl Jobst (think what you will about him) made a really good video about the retro game market:

f***ing scammers

 

[thebeernerd]

Karl Jobst (think what you will about him) made a really good video about the retro game market:

I think the video I got that info from used this one as a source. Everything is credit default swap levels of con artistry at this point.

 

[TheUnseenHand]

This is not ok...

 

[The 29th Pick]

This is not ok...

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What???? You got a full tank??? (I know, 109 degrees lol)
Wait till tomorrow, even HOTTER

 

[TheUnseenHand]

What???? You got a full tank??? (I know, 109 degrees lol)
Wait till tomorrow, even HOTTER

My poor car at 75k already. I remember when it was at 3

 

[The 29th Pick]

75k is the new 50k, trust me I'm a mechanic, just dont forget those oil changes!

 

[Bleedred]

I’m at 169k on a 2010 RAV4. 75k is like a brand new car lol.

I think I had 75k back in like 2016. I’ve been putting fewer and fewer miles on it every year since 2021. I did have to drive across the street for the hurricane last year and when the Devils play in Sunrise.

 

[TheUnseenHand]

75k is the new 50k, trust me I'm a mechanic, just dont forget those oil changes!

I'm pretty on the ball with that. This car has done right by me, gotta do right by it.

 

[njdevils1982]

im sitting at 141,000km..... for a 2007

 

[The 29th Pick]

im sitting at 141,000km..... for a 2007

whats that about 88k in miles? thats not even 5k a year lol

 

[thebeernerd]

If I had a car and had to drive around everywhere, I probably would have died from a road rage incident about a decade ago. I know I’d be the type of person who mouths off to the wrong guy and instantly gets a face full of lead. Living in NYC is expensive as hell, but it has its perks.

 

[My3Sons]

75k is the new 50k, trust me I'm a mechanic, just dont forget those oil changes!

You want to fly down to fix my convertible top control arms?

 

[njdevils1982]

idiocy...it's everywhere

WARMINGTON: Only in Toronto would swimming pools be closed because it's too hot

This time, the City of Toronto dove into the deep end.

torontosun.com

 

[JimEIV]

idiocy...it's everywhere

WARMINGTON: Only in Toronto would swimming pools be closed because it's too hot

This time, the City of Toronto dove into the deep end.

torontosun.com

I saw a crew of 5 guys laying asphalt yesterday afternoon. The temps were hovering right around 100....man those poor dudes

 

[The 29th Pick]

You want to fly down to fix my convertible top control arms?

I'm afraid of flying, I hangout with airplane mechanics, they tell me horror stories!

 

[njdevils1982]

I saw a crew of 5 guys laying asphalt yesterday afternoon. The temps were hovering right around 100....man those poor dudes

yikes. they need to get their priorities straight...

 

[TheUnseenHand]

The low temperature tonight is higher than my high end tolerance

 

[The 29th Pick]

I saw a crew of 5 guys laying asphalt yesterday afternoon. The temps were hovering right around 100....man those poor dudes

Watch this video, the heat makes the road buckle just before the car got there and it's like a ramp!

 

[The 29th Pick]

yikes. they need to get their priorities straight...

wait a minute is that Josh Harris signing? and that looks like the bass player from Kajagoogoo, oh and on drums Dave Grohl? lol

 

[MartyOwns]

this humidity is disgusting. i miss colorado so bad

 

[thebeernerd]

The dry heat of the Southwest can't be worse than the humid hellscape of the East Coast, can it?

 

[Mr Bojanglez]

I feel like the last 2 years I remember saying.... "I don't remember the summer being this hot". And I say that again.

Or maybe it's just shifting. Of course we've had these kinds of temperatures, but I feel like they were usually in July and August.

but hey, don't look up.

EDIT: I'm also timing my errands to try and only leave once today. I'm actually going to the gym just to walk on the treadmill, since i'll die from sun blisters if i try to do 30 minutes around my neighborhood.

 

[thebeernerd]

Update: office AC is out of commission for about an hour, effective at a quarter to noon. I’m posting this from the grocery store around the corner, with working AC and a cold brew coffee.

I feel like ever since they moved my department to Queens, HQ has been jerking us around. Even though my team gained two members (one of which was an old team member who came back from bereavement leave) to offset the two that left, I still need at least one more and I see no evidence that seat is getting filled. We transferred from one software system to another, which we did need, but the new system wasn’t ready from the start and I’d argue there are more problems now. I don’t think the engineering team takes us seriously since we aren’t in the same building anymore. And there are other problems that were there before the move, like a month-end period where it gets hard to request time off, and how I have to request vacation time a month in advance because of asshole team members who took advantage of the previous two-week window.

Honestly, money isn’t the issue here, but I’m not being paid enough to deal with this. Oh, and they also haven’t given us word on our annual pay bump, so that’s another issue. Might as well start checking around, because I don’t see this disconnect getting better.

 

[njdevils1982]

gonna give this a shot for 2.50$

 

[The Wumpus]

My car has 45k miles, but has been to 44 states, which is a remarkably low miles/state ratio