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Cake day: February 29th, 2024

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  • I feel you. Back when I was a police officer, after I was stabbed in the left eye socket with a broken beer bottle, I grabbed the ‘suspect’ by the neck and belt, used his head as a battering ram into the solid wood bar, causing temporary paralysis. Nerve compaction I’m told. Apparently I placed the cuffs on one of his arms and the barstool, but to be fair, I couldn’t fucking see. Fight or flight is no joke. Never been to that level since but I do wear glasses now. Luckily both of us are okay long term although, one of us has a criminal record for assaulting a peace officer and one wears glasses. I should mention it was serving an arrest warrant for child abuse so I don’t feel the least bit bad, but I shortly thereafter realized I couldn’t do that job anymore because I was likely to kill someone. Cataloging child abuse does something to you.





  • For sure. Idc what anybody else’s opinion about that show was, it was so wholesome and amazing. And the ending was so good. Hiding that relationship between two female characters you’d already learned to love for who they are, understanding why bubblegum wouldn’t accept finns absences suddenly making sense, huntress wizard, Jake and his family growth. What happened to humanity, finns struggle with honor, loyalty, and then finding out humans still exist? they really should make a movie. It was a little past my time, but once I watched it, I could see how its target audience could see that love is love, that nobody is wrong for being who they are, the actual important things to judge a person by isn’t who they love, it’s why they love and care about the people in their lives. So many subtle things about that show, as outrageous as it was, really showed that togetherness is what is so important.






  • I think the bigger concern nobody is addressing is the physics. Yes, while able to throw whatever into space, the initial thrust would place any object under stresses that they are currently not able to withstand. Nothing alive would likely survive the amount of G’s from the thrust. The amount of acceleration placed into a stationary object would likely liquify anything solid. I don’t think they would use his powers for this as it would likely kill anyone and destroy anything else. If he himself is flying it up at a reasonable rate if acceleration, he would likely be able to charge millions, even if cutting the budget in half it’s probably the best thing anybody could hope for, so millions of dollars per event isn’t unreasonable. But him being a superhero, he’d likely donate his earnings to charities or something. Which is noble but also tragic that he has to sacrifice his physical strength for a society that doesn’t praise selflessness. But I think that’s going beyond the scope of the original question



  • Crostro@lemmy.worldtome_irl@lemmy.world•me irl
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    5 months ago

    I mean, accepting you’re aging with grace is way better than publicly displaying you’re actively fighting a losing battle. We have not made strides so great with medical procedures that you can’t tell you’ve had alterations done. Get enough of them and you look like a lizard person. She absolutely owned her beauty when it was external, now is the time to show the character behind the skin is worth knowing. She’s doing that with statements like this imo. But I don’t know if that’s worth anything.




  • I remember seeing stuff like this on somethingawful decades ago. Another one was removing the teeth from mouths of people laughing like the people in this image. It was also funny and slightly horrifying. Maybe someday somebody will try it again. I miss the old Internet





  • It is and it isn’t. To use the onboard control to actuate the parking brake, yes, you have to use the paywalled software. But it’s a simple motor. Positive and negative. If you disconnect the connector at the parking brake and use fused jumper leads to a 12v battery, you can cause the actuator to go forward or backwards. Make sure the parking brake isn’t applied before doing anything, disconnect the cars battery, disconnect the p brake connector, jump the terminals once you figure out which polarity causes the retraction. Manually compress the caliper piston, replace the pads (and hopefully the rotors too). Pump the brake pedal as you would normally once everything is replaced, reconnect everything, and you’re good to go. in my experience this doesn’t work on ford but there’s a service procedure that doesn’t use a scanner to force the park brake into service mode. There’s always a way around dumb stuff like this