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I'm in a CRV group and see people excited to "still" have the table (it's like an extra cargo area floor mat, for those wondering where the poker table lives). Things like that amaze me when I learn these things go missing. Owners manuals? I guess I cna understand maximizing the limited glove box space and pretending you'll take it in to read it in detail. But a whole 3x3 table??

Fun fact: those "C10" pins holding the knuckles are not stressed. For a time, they could be purchased in plastic. The assembly is called a coupler, the main part is a coupler body, and the little part resembling your fingers preparing for a thumb war is the knuckle. You only see about 60% of the knuckle. There is a shank and tailstock on the inner end of the knuckle that hooks into ledges inside the coupler body. All the pulling force (as long as it's not worn out too bad) is applied from knuckles to the body with zero force on the pin.

The plastic pins are now banned. Not from failure, but from being a nightmare to remove. When the knuckle wears and puts too much force on the pin, the metal pins crack. The plastic pins just bent and typically had to be torched out.

Couplers also can have 2 feet of travel. They usually have cushioning dampers behind them. It could be 8" of extension and 16" of compression from rest. This protects cargo from jolts and the coupler from damage, especially when braking. Trains are not a friendly place to be near when slowing.

The Thargoid war seemed pretty exciting. I did some ground-based ship battles and was decent at it, but I couldn't commit the time for a space battle, for a titan battle, or for a foot battle. I can't say I want to walk around my ship, but I'd take it if it meant a more realistic transition between ship and foot, though. I still pop in for quick pirate hunting at nav beacons. I'm always getting fomo about the latest credit farms but have given up on owning a carrier. I appreciate the bio exploration as an expansion on long distance exploration since the payout is comparable to casual combat, at least.

But yeah, ultimately, it's a fairly empty game. Lots of space, little variation. Obviously I enjoyed it enough to put 1000 hours into. No regrets there. But I was very into the lore and community stuff so it was as much roleplay as it was gameplay

From someone who made the screen trippier and trippier as a kid until he Icarus'd it, strong magnets taped to a drill bit and spun at high speed around the screen can degauss it. But this type of information basically has no application anymore

Speaking of Icarus, the Parker Solar probe has made its closest approach to the sun this morning. It cut contact (as planned) on Monday and it's probably reconnecting on Friday. That little guy is great. 3.8 million miles from the surface at 430,000mph.

I'm guilty of this. So many times, I'll see something at full price and say I'll wait to buy it on sale. Then it goes on sale and I don't feel like spending the money at all. Granted, I'm not trying to sway the market and screaming my bid, this is just my internal monologue. I have a backlog of games and a busy adult life, so it's not like I'm game-poor. Just regular poor.

About 1000 hours in Elite:Dangerous, my most-played Steam game. Kinda bums me out that it was all 2020-2022 gameplay for the first 900 hours but I haven't had time to get back into.

Valheim continues it's slow burn at about 400 hours since 2020.

No times on Xbox games, at least not from the OS. Fortnite has probably become my top game there. Whatever. It's not just for my entertainment. Assassin's Creed Odyssey I think had somewhere over 200 hours in the save file time. I'd love to know how many hours I put into Forza Motorsports 4 when custom paint schemes was a technological feat. Ace Combat 4/5/7 also have a ton of replays for me since the bonus medals are so tangible. Far Cry 2 doesn't have a ton of hours, but I was definitely infatuated with it circa 2010. That night time desert still calls to me

2nd Gen CRVs (02-06?) have some kind of camp mode feature. Remove the front seat headrest and it folds flat to the rear seats. I forget if the rear seat back goes back or forward for this move

What are you seeing that I'm not seeing to the same degree? We're talking about subconscious biases here. I am aware the one city I visited does not represent a whole country, but being a large city, likely has significant representation in extranational communities. I do not assume a particular vehicle has a particular driver. All I assume is when someone drives unpredictably in sight (in comparison to the rest of the driving culture present), they'll be just as unpredictable when I'm near them. Like, I'm trying to keep growing here and try to talk about why racial stereotypes often "feel" correct. I don't see it as any different than judging your own race from a different region - for me, that'd be rude NYC people vs slow southerners or optimistic coastal Californians. I'm only talking about mannerisms that unintentionally get construed as racial.

Yeah, but you've got the sickest pineapple house under the sea. It has Tardis-grade volume inside

It sounds like one of the items you're getting at may be separating nationality/ethnicity stereotypes from race stereotypes. Immigrants or children born in another country will have varying degrees of that cultural as part of their personality. Bartering comes to mind with Indians.

One I experienced recently was Hispanic drivers. We have a fairly large Mexican population here but I obviously can't tell by appearance. There's a certain combo of vehicle, modifications, and asshole driving style that would indicate to me the driver was probably hispanic. I took a trip a manufacturing Mexican city (read:non-Resort) and was shocked by the drivers. I saw the wildest maneuvers to get 2 cars ahead, every peice of pavement was valid for driving, and speeding is only avoided at checkpoints. Yet, I didn't see any accidents, I didn't hear any horns, I didn't see any road rage. It was aggressive driving, but everyone just existed and cooperated. Obviously, if you're the only one doing it, it makes you unpredictable and therefore it's reckless, but damn, that adjusted my opinion so fast

The name tag is flipped but the text overlay isn't. It's probably only flipped from the selfie camera.

Edit: top left of the skeletons, you can read the price tag is 45.00. So it's left arms

What I've learned with 15 years in the DIY repair sphere is that (obviously to me) the codes don't tell you what's at fault, only what's not reading correctly and (to my surprise) the general public will just replace what the code says is off. A MAF code doesn't tell you if it's the sensor, the wiring, or the PCM.

While I'd certainly appreciate a simple code readout because I'm pretty knowledgeable about which are actually concerning this moment vs this year vs never, diagnosis typically takes more equipment and time. The cost and hassle of the reader is negligible in the repair. I use a Bluetooth dongle and Torque app to read all kinds of stats when diagnosing. An integrated interface would be convenient in some ways, but the portability of a phone/tablet probably has an equal amount of convenience once hard diag is needed