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How to Deal With Cyclists
  • Also cyclists. If there is a person behind traveling faster than you, Get over when it is safe and allow them to pass. If that's an inconvenience, you should have "left the house a few minutes earlier".

    I've raced motorcycles 2 decades now and this is brought up in every safety meeting. If the rider behind you is faster, let them pass, regardless of how important you think your run is. It's safer for everybody.

  • how's your week going, Beehaw
  • Thought of going with a shirt only at work and I could not made a worse choice. I will have to look for a new job soon.

    May should have went with a shirt and pants :)

  • Re-sealing shower surround
  • Brass brush on a drill would probably melt into plastic fast. But a handheld one would work ok, or steel if you need more persuasion and aren't worried about scratches.

  • Re-sealing shower surround
  • What's under the caulk? If it's ceramic tile, you can probably get away with a brass cup brush in a drill. Test in an inconspicuous area first obviously, but it should be less likely to scuff up the surface as something like scotchbrite.

  • It’s Time for a Four-Day Workweek
  • Worked well for me. Altho I'm just a small example. I run a mechanic shop where pay is directly tied to productivity, not time. About 6 months ago as an experiment, I started giving the techs off on fridays, making it mon-thurs. Turns out overall productivity didn't change; they got more done per day on the 4 day work week. So it ended up being an extra day off with no change in pay. They're happy with the longer weekend, and I'm happy with a day of peace and quiet to get paperwork done. I don't plan on changing it back anytime soon.

  • Electric scooter company Bird files for bankruptcy
  • I can't believe people were buying into their "franchise". They approached me in 2020 when they were trying to expand into the town I live and I had a downtown warehouse to operate out of. After they got done explaining everything, I laughed until they hung up.

    You had to buy the scooters from them at around $600 each, you were responsible for all the recovery/batteries/maintenance/damage/theft caused by customers, warranty was non-existent ("call our chinese supplier and they will totally hook you up"), and after that they took 20% off the top. Some quick math put it at over 6 months before each scooter became profitable IF nothing happened to it in that time. Someone throws it in the canal just to be a dick? Sucks to be you, you're out $600 + whatever else you've put into it every time it happens.

    Really came off to me that they were making their money selling to suckers who thought they were going to be entrepreneurs.

    Edit: They did apparently did get someone here into it because I saw them around for a few months before disappearing completely.

  • Asteroid will pass in front of bright star Betelgeuse to produce a rare eclipse visible to millions
  • Monday, 8:17 p.m. EST in case anyone is wandering. Couldn't find it in the article.

  • Kyle Rittenhouse Is Broke & Sad With No Future
  • After referencing actress-comedienne and Trump supporter Roseanne Barr earlier in the interview, Grammer was asked by host Justin Webb if he was still a supporter of the former president.

    “I am,” Grammer said. “And I’ll let that be the end of it.”

    🤮

  • Would OZZY OSBOURNE Be Open To Making A New Song With AI-Generated RANDY RHOADS? He Responds [Open-minded]
  • Looking at what Ozzys put out in the last few years; I would have sworn his singing was already AI-generated. And Sharon's just puppeting him around à la Weekend at Bernies.

  • Any guesses on the age of this kitten?
  • Just as an update, everything went swimmingly. He came back from the vet neutered, vaxed, and a clean bill of health. Awesome pal to have at work. Doesn't mind noises (air tools, loud engines), or water (loves wading around in puddles; that's odd but cute), and has never met a stranger; customers love him.

  • DETHKLOK - BURN THE EARTH
  • https://piped.video/watch?v=DmVkkkuZLeU The music video makes it even better. But may trigger epilepsy.

  • Are patented seeds of sweet seedless peppers from breedx.com GMO?
  • According to their website, no.

    All our varieties are bred using classic and traditional seed breeding techniques without any genetic modification (non-GMO).

    "is it legal to use biological waste after consuming those peppers?"
    I do not understand this question.

    "is is healthy?"
    To quote Bill Clinton: "it depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is"

  • Palestinian girl filming Israeli soldiers gets shot at in the West Bank
  • Suppressors do exist. And are commonly used in close quarters combat. Especially by well funded combatants like the IDF.

  • Any guesses on the age of this kitten?
  • Thank you! I'm probably overthinking it as usual. The vets here are hard to get into, so I wanted to make sure all my ducks were in a row.

  • Any guesses on the age of this kitten?
  • Thank you. Love the username.

  • Any guesses on the age of this kitten?
  • Thank you. The age is more for getting him fixed and the flea medicine I have (Frontline) says at least 4 months. I had a bad experience with Hartz flea & tick on a kitten years ago so now I'm super careful.

  • Any guesses on the age of this kitten?

    https://imgur.com/a/tG4Ze1Y

    This is Mo. He wandered into my work last month and just stuck around. He needs flea meds, shots, and to get fixed but I'm not sure how old he is. I'd ask the vet but it's a 2-3 week wait to get in; I don't want to finally get an appointment and then have him be too young or something.

    I'm guessing 4ish months? Looks like a Holstein. Thanks for your help.

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    X runs ‘timeline takeover’ ad promoting anti-trans film
  • I doubt he's broke. Far more likely that he's just a bigot.

  • how's your week going, Beehaw
  • Not too shabby. Weather is cooling off, days getting shorter, I love it. Work is good. Hired some random cat off the street a couple weeks ago, and while he may not be the most productive member of the team, he's fitting right in.

  • WIP dryer repair part 2: swapping out the heating coil.
  • Getting all the old grease off isn't super important. You mainly just want to get it clean enough to make sure the bearing surface on it and the ball on the back of the drum are smooth and not getting scratched/galled up.

  • "Test for Ricardo" Notification?

    Any other Motorola phone users get this notification pop-up? I found a post on the forum that shall not be named and it seems like a worldwide Motorola glitch but no official word yet.

    Just wanted to repost here in case anyone else was weirded out by what Ricardo is doing on your phone.

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    "blur nsfw", "auto expand" and "open in a new tab" settings won't stay.

    If I check any of those selections, click save, and then refresh the page, they are unchecked again. But all the other settings retain their status.

    Firefox 116.0.2

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    Any tips/tricks for cloning an existing operating system (Win10) to run in a VM?

    I have a laptop with obsolete, licensed diagnostic software that I use on old equipment still in service. I've kept it alive longer than it should have been, but it's only a matter time before a disk or mobo failure puts me in a bad spot.

    I'd like to make a clone of the current OS (Windows 10) as-is that could be run in VirtualBox or some other VM as a backup. Is it as simple as making a disk image with DD and then loading that up in VirtualBox? I'm sure it's not, but what am I overlooking? Or what other software would be better to use?

    I'm fairly computer literate, but a mechanic by trade; So, not an expert.

    Thanks for any help.

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    Check out the chompers on this fish.
    www.wypr.org An 11-year-old boy caught a fish with 'human-like teeth' in an Oklahoma pond

    A boy in Oklahoma reeled in an alarmingly weird catch this past weekend: a pacu, the South American fish that's a cousin of the piranha — and whose humanlike teeth have long struck fear in swimmers.

    An 11-year-old boy caught a fish with 'human-like teeth' in an Oklahoma pond

    Don't flush your pets, people. That's how we get toilet gaters.

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